Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-07-22
cry AND VICINITY BRIEFS.
Horseshoe pitching and fishing seen

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to be the great amusements for Platte
Williams.
Rev. Bunce, the temperance adyo-
cate, lectured to small crowd here
Monday evening.
Miss Agnes Smith, one of the late
graduates of the Normal, has been en-,
gagged to teach IN the Brick school, in
place of Miss Kolb, who has resigned.
Pete Baker received whele dray-
load of fish poles Tuesday morning.
What he is going to do with them no
body knows.
Judge d. S. Rose, of Darlington,
win shortly open law Office in Mil
waukee. He will not give up his Office
in Darlington.
j. S. Blocks new addition is rapidly
nearing completion. When completed
it will makes great improvement to the
establishment.
Messrs. Dawson, Murphy, Henry,
Barnes, Parnell and Robinson went
down on Platte fishing, and came back
with a nice lot of experience, but no fish.
Last Sunday Rev. j. Nj. Phelps, bap-
tised a number of converts to the Meth
odist faith. in stream near George
town. There was quite large crowd
present and the ceremony is said to
have been very impressive.
Mr.. j. Albert Williams, graduate
of the State University, and lately a
law student in Madison, has gone to
Omaha, Neb., to engage in the law
business. He is young man of cor
rect habits and of fine ability, and will
we doubt not, be very successful in the
practice of law
Since Perry Durley took possession
of the Plattevlle Hotel, he has been
steadily building up a good trade. He
has thoroughly renovated the house,
cleared up the yards and greatly inn
proved the looks of the place. He has
already begun to draw good share of
the travelling custom.
A. r. Mills, agent for the Champion
Self-Binder, has been rustling around
considerably of late, and as a result of
| SO doing, has sold number of those
famous Champion machines. The new
light Champion is a daisy and no
mistake. For taking up down or
short grain she can't be beaten.
Monday morning If it had not been
for a pucky woman, there would have
been a serious fire on Main Street. A
chimney caught fire and wonld have set
fire to whole row of wooden buildings
if she had not been prompt and rushed
out on the roof with bucket of water
and put out the fire.
Peterorzi Diavolo Baker, the great
caterer and Snowman, has recently
has made even the Indian before Kar-
mann's tobacco store feel like life was
l NV WYNN 1tNii II 10 lOHl iANS
monkey fresh from the weeping willows
of Brazil. 1t is one of the most hand
some, and Mt the same time, intellec-
tual monkeys ever placed on exhibition.
Crowds of people are watching it from
early morn until late at eve, admiring
its lovely features and novel actions
The funniest thing about it is its Won
derful musical abilities. 1t is said that
it can sing the Carnival De Venice clear
through, variations and all. 1t is worth
almost small farm to see it chow
gum. 1t has not been long practicing
on this accomplishment, but it gives
great promise of being soon able to
compete with the .'toniest' of the lady
gum chewers. When it has become
finished in this art its owner will then
| direct its talents toward proficiency in
the use of slang. Platteville is glad to
welcome SO enterprising a citizen. Its
naturalization papers have not been all
m2de out. but will be in time to allow
it to vote at the next city election.