Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-06-17

Thomas Finnegan, Of sitter, was
in Lancaster Monday on business.
Mr.. Finnegan was the youngest post
master in Wisconsin under the Cleve-
land administration and just recently
was relieved Is ,le republicans. his
successor being Thode sherman.
AT Mt. Hope last Saturday, Mas
ter Lyle Sheedy slipped and fell, while
elm hing about a stable, catching his
leg between the knee and ankle on a
spike and tearing il badly A SUR
geon sewed up the wound and the
unfortunate little fellow is enjoying a
quiet vacation.
-Drs. H Godfrey, OF Galena. and
j. Godfrey, OF Lancaster, operated on
Charley Stephens. station agent on
the Northwestern at Cuba City, last
Friday for appendicitis The opera
ton was successful and the young
man is recovering under the care OF
professional Nurse. Miss Bessie Kit
to, of Galena.
AT a recent meeting OF the village
board of Cassvlle it was voted to put
tax OF SI.o0 on all male dogs and on
females 81 SO. DR.. w P. Hartford
was elected physician and health Of
ficer to act in conjunction with the
whole board. Voted to erect five new
street lamps. On motion by Mr.
Hohenadel it was voted to purchase
steam boiler and duplex pump large
enough to do the work for water
works.
The Am rican Bell Telegraph and
Telephone Company is erecting a new
twenty-wire line from Chicago to st.
Paul via Madison. The post holes
are dug in a novel manner About
three feet of earth is removed when a
stick OF dynamite is placed in the
excavation and exploded and the
work Of clearing out the bottom OF
the hole is an easy matter, Farmers
along the route are making note Of
this easy manner of digging post
holes
A gang Of stove agents has been
doing up the country in some parts
Of Illinois, says an exchange. They
sell a cheap range at a fancy price
and allow big price for the old stove
takes note for the range and on back
of the note credit the amount allowed
for the old stove, only the credit is
not on the note but on another piece
of paper which is detached. They
never come after the old stove and
the note turns up at full face for col
lection.
"A man down in Kentucky was bit
by a mosquito and as a result of the
bite, died. He wife has just collected
$4,000 from an accident insurance
company in which he had a policy
Mosquito bites may be accidents In
Kentucky all right but if there isn't
as much malice aforethought and in
territorial, premeditated cussedness
in Wisconsin '.skeeter's" blood
taking operations as in any of the
events of life there is a wonderful
deception to her hum.
Newspapers in this vicinity con-
tain reports to the effect that the
army worm has again appeared IN
places. Last summer the army worm
developed in Grant county on July
%, and ravaged many corn and grain
fields in the two or three days that
followed their appearance; but a heavy
rain came on accompanied by a cold
spell that lasted upwards of a week
and when it came warm and the
ground was dry enough for them to
resume work the worms were dead.
Last week young farmer living
near Platteville tied a calf to the
frame Of his bicycle and tried to lead
the animal TO market in that fashion
The farmer was found in a ditch by
the roadside. but there wasn't enough
clothes on his person to make a
spring overcoat for canary bird
Pieces of the bicycle were picked ~
near Cuba City and the calf was
rounded up three miles west Of Gale
ma. Combining business with pleas,
ure may work in some cases, but in
this instance it was deplorable fail
ure.
At a Ynoatipr, ~ tho IEiconpciy