Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-09-13

at Herald office.
For want OF room two or three
columns of matter already set, had 10
be left out. Sorry.
Just look al those bill boards every
where about town.
Two whole weeks of solid fun,
Simply crowded into one.
Good roads snd moonlight nights.
Fix your mind to see the sights
Fair week.
Thos. Mcdonald, Jr., is a live can
didate and no mistake for the assem-
bly, this fall. Look out for Mac in the
convention.
1t will pay you to see the '.Six Little
Grand-mothers'' and the Chocolate
Drill at the NJ. f. Church Friday even
ing, September 14th. Admission Toe.
Refreshments 10 cents.
Clarence Edwards, Ray Walker and
Gene Whitmore are again at work in
the State University, at Madison,
where they have already put in one
creditable year They are all right.
Better young men are not readily
found.
Joe Edge, who lives near Alex.
Walkers out on Grant, was thrown off
from spring seat put on a hog-raek,
this morning. He was in Fennimore
with sheep at the time, and was Sc
yerely hurt by the fall, and when he
got back on the wagon he let the lines
fall on the double-trees. In trying to
get them the horses started on run,
and he was hurt again in trying to get
out. Physicians were called at once,
to find severe conclusion of the brain
and Other internal injuries. He suf-
fers intensely, and it is feared that fa-
tai results may come of the accident.
Mr.. Edge is a good, industrious citi-
zen, and has small family.
The management of Reeds Opera
House is to be congratulated upon hav-
ing booked for fair week so strong an
attraction as "Rowland's Stock Co."
This company number Is people in all
and carry brass band and orchestra
and special scenery for all their pro-
ductions They have just completed a
twelve weeks engagement at the
beautiful Stewards Pavilion Theatre in
Dubuque, Iowa, where they have play
ed TO 10000 and $4,000 people per
week. as is SHOWN by the Company
looks The opening bill will be 1.-The
French Spy During their stay here
Little DalKullen will De presented,
this being laughable Sweedi dialect
comedy drama in four acts, and was
written for Miss Green, the clever lead
ing ladyswith ''Rowland's Stock Co."
Hon. j. B. johnson of Montfort,
who has represented this district so
well in the state legislature the past
two years, will again be a candidate
and the Montfort delegation will work
for him in the convention at Fenni-
more on the 26th. Mr.. Johnson's
friends claim that he is entitled to
another term since it has been the
usual custom to so honor members of
the assembly, and also claim that no
man can do more than he did for his
constituents under the circumstances.
No republican members had The same
experience Mr. Johnson ;ord is
clear and can be determir by any.
one interested enough to look it up
and both he and his friends feel that
they have right to consideration and
Endorsement at the hands of the assem-
bly, convention and the voters of the
second district.
Our Potosi correspondent tells us
that Noah Cannon was bitten by a
mad dog last week, and that he is TAX
ing treatment with a maidstone,
owned by Mr.. Ellis, who lives on the
Potosi road just beyond the Dave UT
farm from here. OF course everyone
has heard of mad-stones, and many
discussions, learned and unlearned,
have been held regarding their pecu-
liar properties and their origin. The
story of mad-stones is that they are
found in the stomachs of deer, and
only of those deer that live in parts of
the United States where the Mountain
Laurel, Kalmia latifolia, grows abund-
antly, which is largely confined to the
Allegheny mountains and their branch
ranges. If other animals than the deer
eat this bush it is supposed to prove
fatal, but the deer feeds on it with inn
punity and good appetite. 1t is
given as a reason why the deer may do
this, that there IS 10 gall cyst on the