Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-04-22
BeetOWn Notes.

The week preceding election offer
too many opportunities to the tramp pro
fession to abstract free sustenance, boil
liquid and solid, to waste any tim,
writing notes, so no excuse can be ex
pected for missing last week. An,
there was really not much going on on
ly electioneering and growing al
the weather. The doctor was the onl,
busy one, as there is much sickness
Mr. j. Il. Wise buried little boy last
Saturday, after short sickness. Mr.
Wise himself was quite sick but is nov
around again. Mr.. Geo. G. Perkins il
seriously i'll and there are many moro
mostly adults, more or less under the
weather &
Rev. H. P. Bunce delivered accept
able Temperance addresses at the church
last Thursday and the Sunday following
Matt Walker paid the village a call
last Thursday, the first for four months
and we were all glad to see him out
again.
Mr.. Charles Rockefeller, formerly a
Beetown boy, and member of the goth
Wisconsin "endurin the war;, made a
short stop in town last Saturday. Your
correspondent did not get to see him but
would have been much pleased to do Sc
and recall old times, when we were both
tramps in the far South and often hard
up together, and Charley was occasion
ally famous for making military raise
as he called it.
A. G. Bonham was in town on cleo
ton day, but as he moved over the line
few years ago we couldn't let him vote.
Upon the first day of April Billy Cal
laway was six feet high weighed three
hundred and you couldn't ''fool" him a
bit. 1t was the first boy, eight pounds
and Mr.. Galloway Gas we now call HIM
has only been to town once since.
On the evening of March p, Mr.. A.
came home and informed his better
half that Mrs. b. and Mrs. G.. were
Coming visiting the next day. The
usual culinary preparations were made,
and good visit was anticipated, but
the day wore away and no visitors APP
peared. But Mr.. A. and the boys lived
high. The second day no visitors; pic
mic continued; third day Mrs. A. and b.
met in town and it was discovered that
Mr. A. had manufactured the supposed
intended visit out of whole cloth, and
he has been living on "cold yittles" ever
since.
DR.. II. W. Suttle, well known in the
west part of the county as teacher,
and lately practicing at Viroqua, has gone
to San Diego, Cal, for bride, and will
probably remain there. He and his
partner for life have the best wishes of
large circle of friends in this vicinity.
My brother tramp, "Chump,' thought
he would take in election in an ''incor-
porated village" and left a few days be-
fore election. He got back Saturday in
a very dillapidated condition, physical
ly and mentally. His first query was
"What makes them nominate just the
meanest kind of men for Officer"
"Why, they don't, | replied. 'What
makes you think SOP" "Well, up there
election day every man running for office
was declared to be incompetent, dishon-
est, bad habits, and "a bad lot generally,
and everybody said so, and yet they
voted for them, and down here it was
the same way before | left" | was
constrained to inform my friend that all
such talk was always taken in Pick
wickian sense; that those who talked
that way couldn be in earnest, for sens
ible men knew it was folly to try to
rise by OBTAINING your competitors,
and that mud so thrown defiled most the
hands of the one who cast it, and most
men pay little attention to electioneer-
ing of that description. But Chump
shakes his head and says that there is
something wrong somewhere, and that
the country is going to the everlasting
bow-wows, and that he would prefer a
papa government to these annual, BIZ
ennial, and quadrennial rackets. Well
| wouldn't Which is right? Election
here, however, passed off very quietly
and pleasantly, most of last years off
GERS being reelected.
There are some indications of APP
preaching spring; the arrival of few
of our feathered friends; the barnyard
denizens loudly cackling their protest
against the low price of their products;
the small boy marching proudly through
town with back-load of fish; the pa
ternal relative of the boy sneaking home
the next night with nary one; the de-
mands for lime, wall paper and garden
seeds; the growing of rheumatic folks;
the universal sneezing, all point to the
time when "gentle spring" will dump old
winter out of her lap, where he has
been lingering far too long to please the
majority.
My notehunting compeer, No. 10,
has been compelled to waive his jour
nalistic duties the last two weeks, his
better half having departed this (Bee-
town life and left him with large fam
lily of hungry carpenters and other art
isans on his hands. When he has re-
covered the first and got rid of the last,
he will again resume his pencil. Until
then he has the sympathy of
TRAMP.