Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-04-30
Beetown.

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none OF them contributed to your column.
last week. Tax Payer has performed his
mission; that IS. helped knock ont the bond
'arce and has no occasion for further ex-
/ ertlon- Night Hawk" IS no doubt soaring
around the river at classic Shutdown. swoop-
ing down occasionally to see if he can find
I any stray timbers of the lofty sixtv-foot
trestle that went down in the special town
meeting cyclone of March 18th. taking with
i hopes and ambitions. from old frost-bitten
booms Of many years growth incipient
boomlets, just sprouting but ali frantically
reaching out their tenGrils 20 parish on
the rail road from Boomer to the Hub or
| better yet. a coy place fn-the court house.
or.even the jail Something dropped and
their hopes we're blasted
.Gilhooley is no doubt studying whether
or no he Is in the hole with the ponds ana
II SO considering the most feasible way
Of getting out of said hole before caucus
time.
The watermelon poet has gone ont Of
literature taxing to himself a much better
malt. and wandered off into a foreign coun-
.ry Where father-in-laws cease from troub-
ling and the weary benedicts get a rest
And last but by no means the least Polly
was interviewed but she was TOO busy
cleaning house which was to be regretted
as her communication was very interesting
and as the champion of us women" she
could do much good. She was little ..off,
about the card playing but that Lyme mot
Lime-spell i with ~. Polly spell it with a
teD does sometimes allow Us men Is smile
quite loudly and constantly in his lunch
room provided they have the stuff. is an
lndlsputable fact But as to those gossips
VINO congregate in the corner room in the
other side, known as the Central Telling
phone office, you were perfectly correct and
you can hit them a lick amiss. They are a
tough lot and you was on the verge OF. great
scoNefies II You had pursued Your inves-
legations little farther stick to them
PONY Tor they can get more scandal out of
paper Of Bonhams free Sweet Puff thar
all Of us women can out of pound Of
Bakers beet Oolong
Lastly I sought out Van Wrinkle and he
was perfectly impractabIe Nary write
he said. II am OUT of the game There was
a time in the far distant past when writing
for the papers was pleasure and a credit
to one, but now it is neither If I had an
enemy was afraid To face and wished to
SUR behind non de plume or a friend
wished To fiatter for the sake Of getting some
"taffyH back. if was engaged in some bust
sss Of which / could work in free al. in
no es from week to week ana thus
ate printer, if | was an ONCE seeker
and wis sled the free aid OF the public Jour
nals II | thought that every little private
matter belonged to the public and should
crowd out matter that was instructive and
edifying. why. I might write but don't ana
therefore won't. Then 1 might incur the
displeasure OF that great sun of Grant
M ~, 81
of snake Hollow and have the condition of
my brain again diagnosed by that venerable
Casby and that would be very bad. for
might in answering back become prot,r. not
know where to stop any more than he docs.
and then God help the readers of the HER
AID and Teller both. Now l won't write:
am out of the hurley-burley; come down
and smoke pipe with me and look at my
books and flowers and then go off envying
me-" And that settled it. Rip has turned
a cvnic and reoluse.
So l must perforce, write mine ownself.
After the storm the calm For the past two
months the town has been stirred from CEN
ter to circumference by the bond question.
and the issues Ringing upon the town cleo
ton. Two elections within ten DAYS is
rather exhausting and we have not fully re-
covered our nervous energy yet and that
probably explains the recusancy of your
regular correspondent. The result of the |
rail road bond farce is well known: ii was !
entirely one-sided and even the victors are |
almost ashamed to mention it; how the
"other fellow feels we don't know and do |
not desire to. but we would respectfully call !
the attention of the callow edition of the
Boomer Pictorial that the Rip Van Wrinkle |
family is very numerous in this neck of the |
timber, and that when they get walked up !
they come pretty near knowing what to do |
and how to do IT,
Nolfcense carrying by even three major
ity was surprise all around. Tor several |
days after election great chunks and hunks |
Of gloom hung over the village. but since |
they have learned that there is a "sightless |
pig with three or four years experience for |
sale at Poker Point nee Slabtowm that Pat
Bartley's celebrated COO that took Boomer |
through double-ended drought some few |
years ago is still in existence and for sale |
or rent At two per cent per month. those |
interested in thesale of wet goods are feel
ing better II the agent viii also throw in |
one of his old cavalry ''boot-legs' Ihave no
doubt we will be able to worry along. but |
still this behind the door business is rather
the pure cool water Of which we have plenty |
on every hand
In the centennial year every bridge in this |
village was washed out and now they will |
most of them have to be rebuilt. Would not
iron BRIDGES DC the cheapest in the end
We also need town hail and safe. For |
these purposes a few hundred dollars worth |
Of bonds even might be judicially issued
Mr. Henry Thomas with nine loads I f
household goods and one load Of family |
moved ~ to Lancaster today. We dislike |
very much to have him leave Us and his |
old partner Unrle Bill is disconsolate and in
some ut of desperation is liable to move to
Cassville.
VIII Ftekner has entered into the employ |
Of Landlord Ishmael at Cassville.
Lyme Mcconnell is absent on a short visit