Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-10-07
CITY AND VICINITY BRIEFS.

VII AMI tACINA4t BRIEFS.
Hon r. M. La Toilette will pro badly
speak here in week or two.
The auction store is closed and has
been transferred to Shullsburg.
The weather the last few days has
been all that the lovers of autumn could
desire.
Last Tuesday seven carloads of salt
peter came to Plattevllle, over the
Northwestern Road.
The inside of the cooper shop has
been newly arranged, making the store
larger and the shop smaller.
Mr. Brodbeck, has painted his barn
in fine style and now has one of the
neatest looking barns in the city.
There is now an excellent chance for
a good photographer to establish him.
self here in Robertson's old stand. We
have one good photographer, but need
another.
Station Agent Woodward, of the
Northwestern Railroad, sold $120 worth
of tickets over his road Monday.
Brother Smith, of the Milwaukee, can
you beat thisp
Chas. Loveland had two carloads of
baled hay shipped here from one of his
Iowa farms few days ago. This is
the first baled hay that we have ever
seen in this city.
Painters in the employment of the
Northwestern Railroad Company have
been at work in the historic city of Ips-
witch the last few days, decorating some
of the most important structures in that
municipality.
There will be several political speeches
in the City Hall yet this fall, and if the
parents of some of the trundle-bed
population of the city will keep their
children at home instead of letting
them disturb public meetings, they will
receive the heartfelt thanks of all par
ties who attend the meetings.
The city council at their last meeting
passed a resolution to the effect that
the political parties may have the use
of the City Hall during the campaign
for S. per meeting. They also decided
to build railing from the creamery
south to the Virgin Mill along the edge
of the ditch on that road, to prevent
accidents with teams.
Capt. j. B. Mccoy is out in Nebraska
on stock business. His opponent, Mr..
Arthur Doyle, was in town few days
ago interviewing the Democracy. We
suggest to the Captain that he make
his stay in the West of not too long
duration, lest in his absence the gallant
Arthur and his Democratic brethren
lay some deep-seated scheme to bag the
game.
We present in this issue of the HER
AID cuts and short sketches of some of
the most prominent business houses in
Plattevlle. The cuts were gotten up for
the HERALD by Alex. Slmplot, of Du-
buque, some time ago and should have
appeared long before this time. Mr.
SImplot was for number of years con-
nccted with Harper's Weekly as their
artist.
1t may be of interest to some of our
IN hn ~ff l.
here. Persons taken to or from the
depots with all baggage 25 cents Pas
sengers for the hotels on payment of
quarter receive return trip ticket.
Those who wish to see their friends off
will be transferred to and from the
depot free of charge, provided the bus
is not already full of paying passengers
The bus man requests that all pas
sengers be ready thirty minutes before
train time.
Last Saturday II. II. Beebe, the tray
cling salesman and expert for the VIM
Deering Harvester Company, returned
from weeks campaigning at the fairs
The good people of Elk Grove are all
"broken up over the laying out of a
new road just south of their corpora
ton. Not long ago the citizens of
Gabelville and some others living on
the section line south of Elk Grove
petitioned the town board of the latter
village to lay them out road from the
Darlington road straight through to the
road which comes into the Mineral
Point road from Big Patch. This the
town board refused to do. The petit
TONERS then appealed to the commits
sioners, who granted the road. Now,
the people of Elk Grove are very wrathy
and give out ominous threats of appeal
ing the matter still higher. They claim
that to build the desired road will cost
large sum of money, while the friends
of the road claim that it will not cost
so very much. Some of the good citi-
zens are so terribly worked up about it
that we would not be surprised to hear
OF their organizing a crusade to expel
the commissioners from the classic land.
We have waited long and patiently to
see poem on this road business from
the facile pen of o. X, the felictitous
correspondent of the Galena Gazette
from Elk Grove, but have thus far been
disappointed. Rise. we beseech thee,
0. K, and give rs some verse on this
theme. Put it off not too long, for who
knows but that before all the road is
LAID out, you also may be.
Personal.
Mrs. Jap. Shipton went to Lancaster