Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-08-16
CITY AND VICINITY BRIEFS.

Congregational parsonage.
E. r. Frederick has let the contract
for building his new house to Ira
Smoker
DIR. Philip Kelley, who attended
school here for time, is in town visit
ing friends.
Mr.. King, the horse-buyer, was in
town last week. buying horses for the
Boston market.
Our police justice and confederate
made an unsuccessful attempt to rob a
man of his watermelon last week.
Most of our people who went to the
Monona Lake Assembly have returned.
All report having had good time.
John Thompson our great contractor,
had force of men out to Ipswich a
few days ago, moving barn for Hon.
@. Gill.
Jesse Z. Mcbride, of Elk Grove, left
last Monday for Minneapolis and st.
Paul, where he will spend few weeks,
looking up business opening.
George Blunt, of Strawberry, Wis,
left for Lemars, Iowa, few days ago.
He will spend week or SO examining
land in the vicinity of Lemars.
The Benton Cornet Band gave pic
mic aud dance in Coltman's grove, near
Benton, last Saturday. A large crowd
was in attendance and all had jolly
good time.
Schnitzler Bros. have an elegant dis
play of fruits before their store win
dows. They are enterprising young
men and always keep their customers
supplied with the very best that the
market affords.
j. w. Bashford, of Portland, Maine,
but formerly of Fayette, La Fayette
County, and graduate of the Univer-
sity of Wisconsin, will address the citi-
zens of his old home in Fayette, Satur-
day evening on Prohibition.
Newell France had his fine collection
of stuffed birds and animals on exhibi-
ton in A. w. Kemler's show windows
last week. He will give lessons in the
art of taxidermy, in Robertson's block,
August 10 and 20.
Barnes & Parnell sold to Chas. Cox,
the liveryman, an elegant new double
ph@ton few days ago. Mr.. Cox evil
IDENTITY believes that in order to have
good livery business it is necessary 60
have only tirst-class rigs.
Sly old Dame Rumor has it that there
will be a number of weddings in our
city in a very short time. She has given
us the names of the parties who will
take part in the foolish ceremonies, but
we prefer not to make them public just
yet.
Wednesday morning we were treated
with a little wee bit of shower 1t
was all right so far as it went. but il
did not 60 far enough. Anyway, we
do not care for rain here now. In fact,
we would not know how to appreciate
it if it did come in abundance.
Friday morning we had the heaviest
fall of rain since the Sth of May. 1t
began about 8 o'clock and continued
until about To- 1t was a sight worthy
of painters skill to see how some of
our citizens acted during the storm.
Many of them went out and stood in
the rain without hat or coat. They
wanted to see just how it would seem
to get wet once more. Every available
tub or bucket was put out to catch the
pearly drops, as most of the cisterns in
town were dry. One man even went
so far as to make a sneak on one of the
churches by catching number of
buckets full of water AS it ran off the
roof The rain came too late to do
much good for the corn crop. but the
benefit it will be to pastures is immense.
As place for fighting, having and
downright, concentrated devlltry, q
little portion of Elk Grove, known as
Gableville, takes the rag off the bush.
One day not long ago, a farmer named
Hner caught or claims that he caught a
young man named Sebolt. alias Black