Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-08-02
POtOsi.


her many Potosi friends. Emma's good
qualities made her many admirers.
Dan. Needham passed through our
city, ON Tuesday last, the oath inst. his
objective point being jamestown. in the
land of the Dakotas. Should he meet
with favorable inducements. he will re-
main and expound Blackstone and
Gritty. or such parts of them as are APP
plicable to the action.
The creamery has taken vacation OF
two weeks, on account of bad roads.
Our new lumber yard, at Van Blu.
rem, is doing very satisfactory bust
ness. Messrs. Kendrick e. Wallenhorst
have had experience in the lumber
trade, and are well posted in the quail.
ties of lumber and the wants of this
community.
The Potosi mills are doing large
custom work, and turning out some ex.
cellent flour. Strobe is professional
and Kit. is an honest miller. 'Nough
said.
ssThree moves are as good rs fire.
Hunt, OHara and Il. r. Seaton all
moved last week. 1t makes the town
look lively TO see its citizens moving
round; besides, a change is often agree
able to the neighborhood. There is
nothing like moving on hot day or on
wet day in hot weather, to keep furni.
ture from mildewing.
Don't let your neighbors read youl
daily paper, if you are wise. In SO do.
ing, a frieno OF mine lost the sale of a
sack of flour and 10-cent margin.
Men who read borrowed papers note ev-
cry decline in the market, and take adj
vantage of it.
Joseph Doll. happy as usual, was in
town the other day, trading at Hunt &
Jackson's. From the pile of goods he
had laid out, we thought he was going
into the trade himself
Thanks to the Town Board They
have decided at last to make the Town
Office Il little more presentable by
squaring ID and repairing the APP
proach in front
That spick and span new creamery
wagon which Hunt & Co. have placed
on the road was formulated, built,
painted and gilded in the brains and
shops of Messrs Grogan & Sykes,
Potosi. These young men know how
to turn out good work.
Will Hurd after many wanderines to
and fro upon the earth has decided to
settle down at Hawkeye, Fayette Co.,
Iowa, and 60 into the hardware bust
ness. All he needs now lisa partner in the
culinary department. Money no OBJ
ject. Apply soon.
Picked pork is retailing at 12!cts. per
ID and the butchers look sheepish and
down-hearted.
Jack Plane" whose facile pencil
gets away with all your country cor
respondents, thinks travelled out of my
jurisdiction by even intimatiDg the
Hurricane had some bad boys. How
ever, he admits the charge made and
must admit ] was right when he re-
members the Hurricane proper is com
posed of parts of four towns, including
the northwest corner of Potosi, where
these bad boys live. In speaking of
these unruly fellows no oifense was
intended to that other large class who
honor their fathers and mothers and
behave themselves in meeting.
Messrs Miller & Campbell, of Boice
Creek, have purchased It new Oscella-
tor Threshing Machine. Its beauty
MIR. Archer, who some years since
conducted the old Briggs Ferry across
Platte river, was in town last week look
ing at our many improvements and con-
graduating old acquaintances, He was
pleased with Potosi enterprise.
Dan Greene is making decided i'm
provement in his end of the town. He
has doubled the size of his barn and
blacksmith shop, built new round
house for his woodpile, put a fence
around mis- door-yard and is finishing
up his house in Queen Ann style. Dan
thinks of staying awhile.
Henry Specht, opposite (same streeO
is luxuriating in his venetian blind, a
quadi angular pIcketfence. bay window,
gate inverted and round-house barn
Henry means to have pleasant home
when he retires from the rolling deep. =
Mrs. jacob Bouner. of Galena, an
old time resident of this burg, accom-
panied by her son-in-law, Mr.. thinner
man, who has charge of one Of the Mil
waukce Ward Schools, were the guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. John Walters, last
week.
Dan Swall who makes his home at
Grant County Mendicant Hotel, made
his constituents pleasant visit recent
~ and tried some of his favorite bey-
erage.
Prof T. e. Foster returned on the
early train from Beecher's lecture in
Dubuque and had to wade the crevasses
on the island road.
1t gladdened the eye of your cores
pondent last Sunday TO see two of THE
HERALD boys, .Goldie' and Cover in
their good clothes. occupying tipped.
back chairs in front of the Spauldne
House, observing the beauties of ON
village.
PotoSi has became noted Sunday
resort for Lancaster gentry. That
fine rig propelled by spanking black
team, contained Dan and Louis Stal
and win Shannon, three of your city
choicest young gallants.
III Is becoming daily more apparent
thai the time is near at hand when this
government will have to take the
Mexican greaser by the slack of his
pantaloons and shake a few grams OF
sense into his somboro covered head.
The acting American Counsel at Mon
terry was recently mobbed in his pri-