Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-10-01
Gil Hooley's Corner.


The farmers are all wrapped up in scr
ghum molasses preparing for the sweet bye
and bye and the syrup nianufac tured at the
corner taxes the cake as usual. especial ~
the breakfast cake because it IS pure ana
unadulterated. not mixed with clay and
angle worms. or the larva Of the army
worms nor is'it auy thing like the cheap
jack stuff bought and sold by the cheap Jack
merchants from the nth. which contains
too much wool for syrup and scarcely
enough for plastering purposes. We have
| tried great many clarifying processes and
| have finally settled down to the fact that
the skinner as Prof Henry saws lis the
lest of all" So try our syrup. none genuine
without our trademark. .-GilhooIyt stamped
n bold relief on every gallon. A gallon free
to all disappointed candidates who have
spent their Doodle and gone home believing
and disguised and beside we will guaran-
tee every gallon to keep until after Bryan is
elected president of q s.
/ The Bryan club organized in Shutdown we
| hear is great success. So far as heard
/ from they have the name of one Republican
and several Democrats and Prohibitions.
/ The one at Beetown is in scarcely as -four
ishing condition and If Lancaster persists
in sending to Beetown such financial feath-
er weights as silver proselytes. before Nov.
elections Bryen man viii be curiosity
We are about to organize a new party at
the corners and call il the National Hoodoo
| Party and We invite all to join us who think
the Republican party to honest, or who
think BRYAN not big enough an anarchist or
socialist and especially those who are sure
the Democratic party is dead; and Palmer
is only trihng with their conscienecs. We
propose to labor only four hours day and
all money snail be divided up equally every
Saturday evening. so every one shall have
his per capita to spend the following week.
Then the cry of capital against labor will be
a thing Of past. We also propose to have
free coinage of horse shoe nails as 4 circu-
l2ting medium instead of gold :and silver
for you see this is the" science os money.
Then every well shod old crow-bait will be
worth at least thirty dollars
Weattended the Assembly Convention in
Potosi last Monday as an unboodled dele
gate and as twas our first attempt at manip-
ulating in the new district we should have
felt moIe like cat in strange CARAT had
It not been on our pleasure grounds of
earlier days. We met men there from sew
eral different towns of the first district and
it seemed perfectly natural to ask them if
the were delegates, that because Beetown is
other towns want to follow us. Iremem-
Der shaking hands with the Imnipotent
Jack Lane; don't know what he was there
for but guess he wanted to learn something
new in politics. Some one said he voted in
in the convention. but don't believe word
of it. should not be surprised to see Tom
Mc.electioneering in Beetown this fall for it
seems that since the new apportionment
Beetown has been made a part of Lancaster
lin politics)
Also had the honor and pleasure of enjoy |
ing short interview with my old friend |
Col S. the sage of Snake Hollow, and the
celebrated autor of Potosi's accompaniment
to the Teller, who moved to Potosi when
those bluffs were holes inthe ground.I found |
him sound mentally physically and morally |
for one of his age and seemingly as agile as
a kitten said he thought Mckinley was sure |
to be elected and that the rabble was follow |
ing Bryan.
Mr.John clagg is lying very sick at pre-
sent.
Mrs f. Chapman win start tomorrow to |
meet heI husband, a miner in South Africa |
and grandma Chapman will accompany |
them as far as California.
The women in this vicinity are saving up |
all their empty -four sacks to put free silver
in
J. II. Stanley an old timer from Beetown |
who now resides in Kansas. made short
call via the StPaul encampment says: Me-
braska is sure to go for Mckinley and Kan
sas is in doubt but thinks it will also go for
Nc Kinley, DRY we're