Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-03-11


passenger train informs us that Galena
was lighted up Sunday night with ell
ectrieity tor the first time in two
weeks. Two weeks before that time
the electric power house was badly
damaged by ire and was being repair
ed.
Some of the HERALD readers often
inquire of US where they can get work
Here may be chance for those who
want to dig. Exchanges say that
some time this month work will be-
gin on the Kickapoo railroad in Craw-
ford county. A tunnel is to be cut
between Viola and La Forge that will
require large force of workmen.
Particulars can probably be learned at
Wauzeka as the railroad intersects
with the st. Paul at that point and the
officers OF the road live there.
We see by our exchanges that
Avoca has no physician and the peo-
pie there want one. The town is four
or five miles east of Muscoda on the
st. Paul railroad and has four or five
hundred inhabitants. About one-half
the people are Irish, the remainder
mixed Bohemians, Germans and Amer
leans. All Of the people are prosper
Gus and the town is exceptionally
moral and religious and law-abiding.
The physician who goes there will
do well if he keeps out of the political
differences.
From statistics before us we gath
er the following interesting figures:
The Grand Army is dying at the rate
of 100 day. Every 10 minutes of
the q hours the final tap sounds for
some one who wore the blue. Each
year puts more old soldiers under the
sod than there are,enlisted men and off
GERS in the United States army. Time
is carrying them off faster in the nine
ties than bullets did in the sixties.
The war lasted four years, to a month.
In these four years 10000 men fell
in battle on the Union side. But now
between $4,000 and 40, 1000 die in the
course of nature each succeeding y
months
The press of the county gave good
pictures of Judge Carter in their last
issues. Grant county printers are the
greatest hustlers in the state-their
limited opportunities considered
and we are pleased to note that the
people of our county encourage news
papers by giving them liberal pat
ronage. 1t is often quoted that you
give a man an inch and he will take
foot. When you give Grant county
printers dollar and half they give
you back twenty dollars worth. That
is the reason you never meet rich
printer. 1t is good thing for you
that the printer takes more pride in
his paper than he does in his bank ac-
count.
Editor Fogo of the Richland Cen
ter Observer has bill before the leg-
islature to tax dogs. Better withdraw
the chestnut, brother Togo, and fix up
something that will tax the mind of
the delinquent subscriber so hard that
he can't sleep nights until he has paid
his subscription. Dogs should not be
taxed, anyway. They have as much
right on the free list" as cats and
canary birds and are no more of nui-
sance. Just introduce law that will
make it impossible to bring action
against man who shoots anybody s
dog and. you have covered the dog
nuisance; because dogs that bother
their neighbors can in this way be got
rid of, and good dogs that mind only
their masters affairs will escape.
One good observation of Lent
would be to carry back the things YOU
have borrowed during the year The
Herald reporter will have leadpencils
to burn if people take his advice in
this matter. Also while in this moraliz-
ing humor the fair sex will forgive US
exhorting them to humility mo re be
fitting the season. The girl with her
nose curled up isn't half as pretty as
the girl with curls down her back
Then, too, this would be an appropri-
ate time for the Lancaster young man
who owns the earth to stop and count
up his pile and see what he really
does own. Perhaps it is the dirt in the
bottom of his pockets that has brought
about the hallucination that causes