Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1888-01-26

our Company. Free citizens of Grant
county, what do you think of that? In
regard to the number of your Company,
we have no evidence that would make us
believe YET; have dozen of members,
but we care not. In case of fire, we will
be glad to see you there, and we have no
objections to your holding meetings. If
you meet in a brotherly spirit, you
can do good for yourselves and your
neighbors.
In answer to your tenth paragraph,
we will answer that by giving our names,
although the public knows our names. at
least the people of Fennimore and the
readers of The Teller, as the Board meet
ings of this village are reported in that
paper. When you said we were afraid to
sign our names you must have thought
that the readers of the Herald would
swallow any dose you might prescribe
for them. We are not afraid to sign our
names. John Schneider, Jacob Miller,
John Griffith, John Brechler and Frank
Filbrick are members of the Board, and
John j. Seaman, ''the one you called the
attache'' Village Attorney. We are not
ashamed of our names. We would like
to know why your Secretary and that
prominent member did not sign their
names. You said you We're not afraid
to sign your names. The only reason
we can see is that you knew that it would
not do for such prominent men as you
think yourselves to be, to let the people
know you would be guilty of such ac-
tons, and by using the names of others
you would accomplish your object with
out exposing yourselves. We did not do
such cowardly act as you did. When
we sent our statement to the Herald,
we signed our names so that the
editor would know who was responsible.
When you sent your first article, you did
not sign it, ''if we are credibly in
formed, and we believe we are" And
when you were informed that they would
not publish it without being signed, you
signed it, but took care your name
wasn't published. Do you call that Il
brave actP In our opinion it looks more
like the acts of thief that would steal
the reputation of whole community ''if
they couldn't comply with his wishes
regardless of the feelings of the people
thus injured.
Your p. S. is more like the acts of chill
dren than men. We have control of the
trucks now; but, as we said before, we
ask no odds of you in any way. We are
not all members of our Fire Company,
but the Company is composed of as good
men, at least, as yours We organized
the Fennimore Hook and Ladder Com
pany, Number /, for the protection Of
the people and their property in case Of
fire, and for no other purpose. In your
challenge, we presume you want us to
pull against spiritual men. saloon.
keepers five in number" and one light.
weight saloon-keeper, which you could
not have known by his outward appear
ance that he ever kept saloon, as spirit;
seem to have no more effect on him thar
it would to pour it into rat-hole, as fai
as outward appearance is concerned, but
spirits will effect the brain, and you
might have been possessed of bad spirits
when you exposed yourself to the public,
at least your articles indicate you were
not possessed of the good spirit.
When you write again, show some oil
that bravery you talked about. Let
those interested sign their names, as we
may want to write a history of some OF
your prominent men. They may want
itplaced before the people of this county.
Some of said prominent men may be-
come candidates for county offices. Ii
might look well for you to write your
own history, and we believe we can do ii
in way it would surprise you, and make
it very interesting for you, also.
VILLAGE OFFICERS.