Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-12-03
INTERESTING ITEMS.

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with the work the corps is doing.
After the rainstorm came snug
winter weather that froze the roads
in this vicinity into such bumpy
condition that travel for the past few
days has been well nigh impossible,
and loaded wagons coming into town
are as scarce As new jokes.
"A good horse brings a good price
even in close times. Geo. Mccarthy
last week sold his brown horse last
week to buyer from Rochelle Iowa.
The price was 5000 and on gold ba-
SIS too, With dollar wheat and two
h undred dollar horses it would seem
that good times are ..inchin to the
FORE right along.
1t is suggested that on January
1st, 1900, a new division OF the wear
into thirteen months be instituted.
1t is claimed that it is not 50 prepos-
ferrous as most people would be likely
to consider it at first thought. If
such a division were made, the first
twelve months would have Just IS
days, or four weeks each, and the new
month 20 to make 500, and 80 DAYS in
leap years. After few DAYS there
would re little need for calendars as
the same day of the week would have
the same date through the year If
January l We're on Monday, every
Monday would be the 1st, Sth, 10th
and 22d; every Tuesday the 2nd, 9th,
10th and 23d throughout the year.
Advertising in the HERALD
brings prompt and sure returns. The
owner of the kid glove mentioned last
week has been found in the person OF
Mrs. |. n. McGraw Of Boscobel who
lost it some time ago while driving
to Platteville. Miss LAME Nye lost a
valuable pin few weeks ago and adj
vertised in the HERALD. The pin was
found and returned to her before the
paper had been out twenty minutes.
Mr.. Q. +. Belscamper advertised for a
stray horse in last weeks issue and
found him before the end of the week.
In fact just giving US an item for
publication often helps Not long
ago gentleman asked us TO advertise
for horse that had strayed away or
been stolen When he got home and
before the paper came out the horse
had returned to the pasture. The
animal seemed to realize that ii was
no use to try to get away when the
HERALD cot after him.
-McClure's Magazine announces
for publication in the December num-
Der paper circumstances of the boy
hood days of Grant. Mr. Hamlin Gar
land, the NOVELIST, who has long had
in mind the PROJECT of writing an init
mate personal life of Grant, has gone
down to Georgetown and Ripley, Ohio
and Maysyille, Kentucky, the towns
in which Grant passed his life until he
went to West Point, and by industri-
ously talking with every man and wo-
man there who had any personal
knowledge of Grant, and by delving
/
into the local records and newspapers
has gotten together rare store of IL
Illuminating fact and anecdotes; and out
OF this perfectly new material he has
written the paper which is t. appear
in the December McClure's. The
promise is that it will do what has
never been done before: exhibit the
youth Ulysses Grant exactly as he was
in his humble life and surroundings.
Platteville Witness. one Of the
institutions OF which PlattevilIe IS
justly proud is the Latin & Rand
Powder Mill. just now new hum
bred horse power boiler Is being put
IN and other Improvements are being
made looking 10 the supplying Of III
increased demand for its production.
f. + Newton. who ha, had charge Of
the wores for more than twenty
wears, continues 70 be the company
trusted superintendent he sew
ard Neb., Reporter brings us the
death Of OTeiton II. Archer. formerly
Ct Lancaster who died at Carbon
Wyoming, October y. aged - wears
Mr. Archer learned the printing bust
ness in the HERALD office, commenc-
ing in the year $50. III 1869 Die be-
came proprietor Of a paper at sew
ard. Neb-, afterwards At Columbus,
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