Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-05-31
FenninOre.
DIRECTORY.


z. B. CHurch-Rev. d. C. Talbot. nastor Ser.
vices at 10 30 a. IN. Sunday, May 90 and every
two weeks thereafter.
German Lutheran C1urch-Rey. f. Mutchman.
pastor.
50. Mary's Catholic Ch,vch-Rev. Father Barth.
pastor. Services second Sunday of each month
at 10 a. m.
Meets in Earl's Hall the second and fourth Sat
urday evenings of each month
Sam A0Rtejth Post, No. 173, G. 4. R.-Meets in
Weayer's Hall first and third Saturday evenings
OF each month.
Fenaimore Lodge. l. o. g. T.-Meets every
Friday evening in Hildebrand's Hall.
The criticisms which have from time
to time appeared in these columns on
certain acts of our village board state
the facts of the case as nine-tenths of our
citizens believe them to be. Public
opinion has been thoroughly sounded,
among supporters Of the successful vii
lage ticket as well as their opponents,
and no different statement of facts is
given The attempt made by 'Prox-
linus Homo in your latest issue to de-
fend them is simply an absurd tumble Of
fact, verdant deduction, and i'll favored
reflection. If his aim is to draw from
us any expression derogatory to the
character or responsibility of the officials
referred to, he will get badly left. In
what has heretofore been said, all that
he claims for these gentlemen has been
voluntarily conceded But the fact of
their being among our heaviest tax
payers is no warrant whatever for the
expensive display Of favoritism that has
been shown. 2. II. asks the very peril
nent question ''should a position beopen
in his establishment for an employe,
would he choose the man thas would
serve the cheapest?" Yankee-like, we
might answer that question by asking
him one. If this were a personal instead
Of public matter and the gentlemen of
the board had to reach down in their
own pockets for the money, would they
have contracted as they did? consider
ing the character, qualifications and re-
sponsibility of all the applicants and es-
pecially that the appointee must give
bond for faithful performance of his du-
ties. We wager they would not. We
don't believe any employer would select
the highest priced applicant for a posi-
ton when he knew that the others were
in every respect as well fitted for it.
That covers the whole gist of the ques-
ton, that we walters and "groaners"
and 'dissenters" and 'tsoreheads" have
exercised our rights as citizens in ex-
pressing an opinion about P. II. casts
serious reflections on worthy citizens
when he asserts 'our village board
wanted good man and was willing to
pay what he was worth" They did ap-
point q good man. He is well quail
fed for the position, but not a whis bet
ter than the other applicants; and why
they thought best for the village to
appoint one good man at nearly double
the compensation of another equally as
good, and how the best interests of the
place are to be promoted thereby is the
conundrum to which taxpayers are
seeking an answer, but which ELUSIVE,
non-taX paying Z. II. contrives to wrig-
gle around. Now, come, ?. H., try to
weave a less gauzy cover for your con-
stituents around this sad, bad garing-
" bald fact as It now appears to stand
forth
A very sad event Of last week was the
death and burial OF little Ethel, daughter
of j. NJ. and Ollie Phelps. She was
stricken with the disease while on a
visit here and after three weeks of sui
fering, with the waning of last Tuesday
her little spirit weat out. The stricken
parents have the sympathy Of their
large circle of warm friends here and
elsewhere and every tender offer that
sympathy could suggest was rendered
to tighten the burden OF their aflliction.
The church in which the funeral SER
vices were held on Thursday was pro-
fusely and beautifully decorated with
the choicest flowers Of the village and
a large concourse OF people attended