Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1895-08-15
Around Us.
NOTES FROM OTHER TOWNS.
Beetown.

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The copious rains If the last ten
days hav made a great change in our
crop prospects. and therefore in .our
hopes for mor general prosperity in
this section the coming fall. The
pastures are getting green again:
King Corn Is getting to the front. and
even oats in the shock jumped from
five 20 ten bushel per acre beyond
their owners estimafes.al ON account
OF the rain. While towns a dioining
have been less fortunate. our fall Of
rain was accompanied By no hoods,
devastating winds. or hail storms. 50
let Us be a ready to acknowledge
blessings. as we are To grumble and
fret when everything i not running
just to our liking.
Threshing is being done up early
this season and oats are Welding from
twenty TO forty bushels per acre.
though the latteristhe exception.
Another change in mail carriers.
Al. Elledge now having the contract
for the Lancaster and Bloomington
route.
Mr.. aud Mrs Riley Mcconnell and
little boy from Brush Greek. Iowa. are
visiting friends and relatives in their
former home.
j. Fl. McElhannon. a former resi-
dent and an old timer. made his adj
vent among us last week and we are
all glad to welcome him. Although
in his Seth year he is active and
cheerful. spending his winters in
Georgia and coming north with the
birds in the spring. Fifteen minutes
N his company IS a sure cure for the
blues.
Miss Mary Bonham is attending the
Review school at P~latteyille this week.
On her return she will teach the full
term of school in the upper village
schoolhouse. The lower district school
will not commence until the first Of
October. when it will be taught for
five months by a male teacher.
Miss Emma Morse. having taught
four consecutive years in the Rogers
district near Fennimore. is now TAX
ing a rest visiting relatives in Oar
lington and other towns. and Is now
back to old Beetown. Ii her health
permits she will teaching in
the Plum Hollow district, in Fenni-
more, this fall.
Miss Nina Mcdonald passed to her
rest last Saturday and her funeral
held at the village church Thurs
day afternoon. from whence she was
bourne by her former classmates and
life companions to her resting place
in the village cemetery. She was in
the prime Of life: by her own ener-
tions she had fitted herself for the
profession OF teaching; in which she
successful. but disease fastened
upon her. She had to drop her work.
and after two years Of patient suffer-
ing. she mas at last obtained her re-
lease from the Ills and pains that we
that are left call life.
Thomas Cook has a bran new boy.
the first one, eome to stay with him.
and there is also a Young lady lately
arrived at the house Of Mr.. Spanlee.
Mr.. John Schemerhorn has started
out selling sewing machines. organs
and pianos. He Is meeting with sue
cess.
A week ago last sunday two Of
Charley Thorpe's sons killed a snake
measuring 3 feet, 5 inches in length.
At least they pounded it until they
believed it very dead, and having
me-; sured it with one Of the poles
used in killing it. they wound it
around the pole and started home
with it. Passing a sucker hole it
chopped off into it and a minute
after a ground hog came out of the
hole in great haste, and the boys CON
cluded not to 60 down. The next
day Mr.. Thorpe with two of his
neighbors visited the spot and des-
cended into the hole and found a
small drift into which the reptile had
no doubt retreated. The boys insist
on the truth of their story, have the
hole and pole in evidence and think
they will dig the sucker out yet.
Next Where is snake hollow?
81. Peck has added two scalps to
his rattle snake string since my last
writing.
Enumeration Joe Birch comes to the
front with another little girl and a
box OF cigars. The cigars are 'in the
future" as yet; but as Jimmy Thomp-
son sometimes remarks. ''its a sure
thing" R. v. W.
Mr.. Chas. Bonham keeps constanfIy