Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-04-30

Our farmers all look blue on account
of the lateness of the season still we
find few uncomfortable, restless fell
lows who are mudding in their crop
whether seed time comes or not.
We are having some little excitement
in our vicinity on account of lead ore.
There is one very fine lode now open
about one mile southwest of Elmo, the
property of Mr.. John Byrne. They
have been raising mineral more or less
for the past year or eighteen months,
and now have on hand | think some
thing over 100000 lbs. of excellent min
eral ore.
There are two other firms expecting
to soon sound the tocsn that they have
big mineral on the following ranges:
The Crawiish and Washout diggings,
taking their names from being first
discovered by the works of crawfish
in the first case, in 1862 or '63, and the
latter was discovered by seeing mineral
in the hillside after a rain storm in 1888
Cabanis & Jones are doing good
business in the way of trade. l heard
them ordering goods from r. Barrett,
Galena, the other day, by word of
| mouth, distance of twenty-six miles
by telephone.
Our blacksmith, Bro. Saltzman, is
wide awake and is ready to either tack
on a shoe or furnish any party as good
flour as can be found in these parts at
low figures.
Mr.. VIM. Cook has been quite sick
suffering from severe attack of infiam-
matory rheumatism, but we are thankful
to say is some better.
Mrs. Eplett who has been severely
sick for some time we are glad to re-
port is some better.
We are looking for the well known
hotel-keeper of Elmo, A. Brewer, to To-
cate in our village and run the Arcade
Hotel for the coming season. Art
Brewer is well known by all travelling
meG, who have tried his hash at Elmo.
to be a first-class hotel keeper
Jas. Jeffery is ready to sell !. bill of
goods to any party wishing goods in
his line; also, being county official, he
is ready to draw up legal papers for all
parties unless it should be upon matri-
monial matters, in which case age
might make difference.
We are looking for shoemaker in
our town who we expect will set up in
business in the course of few days in
the stand known as Lory's harness shop.
Mr.. Funk, formerly of Platteyille,
comes to us highly recommended as a
shoemaker
DIR. Terrall appears to be happy and
we think is doing his share of the pre-
scribing in our midst, though the gen.
eral health of our people is fair
DR.. j. Q. Luce is again to be seen
among us; back from taking course
of medical lectures. understand, and
from the best information can get, he
anticipates after another course of med
ical lectures to come out full flegged
physician and ready for the title M. ID.
Our school teachers are now in the
field distributed as follows: Mrs. H.
Thomas, Lone School Dist. 6; Miss
Julia Williams, the HER School; Miss
Ella Brandon, Big Patch Dist. and
Miss Lulu Saltzman, Mcbride School in
Lafayette county; Mr.. r. Luce is at
Georgetown. We wish them all success
in teaching.
We are very glad to say to her many
friends in the temperance and school
work in which she was always alive
and wide awake. that Miss Annie NJ.
Brandon, who has been for the past
four months at Mendoza for medical
treatment for temporary insanity. is
very much improved in her mind and
general health and we hope for total re-
covery from her sad situation in the
near future. CORRESPONDENT.