Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1888-02-09

In order to accommodate some of the
Lafayette county lawyers, who had to
be in attendance at the Supreme court
in Madison on the 9TH inst, Judge Glenn
entson consented to a further postpone
ment of the adjourned term of court in
that county till the 18th. He leaves for
Darlington next Monday and will be alb
sent until the opening of our own term
Of court.
Mr.. John Sitter, who lives one mile
this side of Mt Ida on the Lancaster
road, called at the HERALD office the
other day. He desired us to express
his thanks in the columns of our paper
for the kindness of his friends durino
his wifes recent illness AMI death.
Three of his children are now ill with
measles. and his neighbors give him
the kindest assistance.
We are pleased to hear that Berne
Baxter, who has been in Omaha abont
six months, is making good wages and
saving money. This is his first venture
IN the world and upon its success or
failur2 may depend the success or fail.
ure Of life. He boards with Mr. Morse
who takes much interest in him. The
other boys are doing well, but we men
ton Berne because the youngest, and
because he deserves special commend
alton.
We publish in this issue a letter from
Walter Marks and Lou Stippich who
left us not many months ago to try
their fortunes in Kansas A card en-
closed with the letter shows w. l..
Marks, Barber, 80S East Oak Street
Wichita is a thriving place. From a
population Of so in 1870 it has risen 10
q population of nearly 10000 in 1887.
In such q place there seems to be every
chance Of success and we wish the
boys good luck
The measles is spreading through the
town and there is some talk of suspend
ing the schoo. for a time. The infec-
lion'has been carried about by the school
children, as they have not known in a
good many cases that they were coming
down till fairly broken OUT with the
unmistakable blotches. So far the eases
have been light and it seems to be
ilrSt class opportunity for getting
through with necessary evil.
Mr. VIM Bateman of North Andover
has purchased land in Nebraska and
will 60 there the last of this month TO
settle in Gordon, Sheridan County.
Mr.. Bateman is an old resident of Grant
County and his friends will regret his
departure. He takes with him his stock
and household effects, leaving his family
to follow after he has gotten things well
under way Mr.. Bateman goes west to
get more land for his boys and we wish
him success.
Mr.. John Ralph arrived in this city
Friday evening from Lake Linden.
Mich, for a visit Of some weeks with
Grant County friends. Mr.. Ralph was
q resident Of this county for seventeen
years, during which time he was en-
gagged in mining at Beetown and in
farming near the Miles school house.
Mrs. Richard Barkell, of Little Grant.
is his daughter. Mr. Ralph left on our
table several fine specimens of copper
and silver from the Calumet mines.
It seems that some of our readers
thought the verses in last weeksHERALD
about wolves, were intended as a renec-
ton upon the evangelist Mr.. Wolfe. As
a matter of fact there was no allusion
either direct or remote to that gentle
man. Ii we cared to enter into any
discussion or crihsm his work here. OF
his methods, we should endeayor to
make our language 50 plain that its
meaning could not be mistaken. The
origin Of those mysterious lines is ex-
planned in the Omnibus column.
Amos f. Morse arrived in Lancaster
Saturday for a short visit at home.
business took him to Chicago and he
took in Lancaster on his way back to
o.. 4ha, where he is, with II. H. Opper-
man, engaged in the butter and ego
business. They buy both from com
mission dealers and from producers and
sell to grocers, hotels, restaurants, otc.,
ard also ship to eastern cities. They
have found the business as profitable
as they expected it would be, but have
never contemplated remaining longer
than spring when they win return and
run the Cold Spring Creamery here.
Mr.. Morse gives good reports of our
Lancaster boys who are in Omaha.
They all have lucrative employment
and are doing well.
The thermometer has dropped again
and our spirits with it. Twenty-eight
degrees below zero seems pretty cold
after two weeks of mild weather in
which the blue Jay made continual
noisy predictions Of the near approach
of spring. Didn't you hear him talking
about it? Well, he chartered Of moth
ing else from morning till night, but
for once his Yankee shrewdness was at
fault, and here we have again plunged
into midwiuter when we are really. by
the calendar, on the spring side of the
year. But we take our spring when we
can get it and even our May, is accord
ing TO Lowell, SO nightly like Mayn't,
that we get used to disappointment.
Howeyer,this is probably the last attack