Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1901-02-21
Stories of the Town and County

Our friend, l.. BOYLE, of Patch
Grove, desires to enlighten us some
what in regard to the year in which
the ..big wind followed the little
Christmas in Ireland" and writes as
follows:
DEAR FRIEND; | noticed an article
III your paper recently about my poor
countryman at Ridgeway and his pen
sion. The manner in which he is
won't TO remember his age is perhaps
little curious, but all the same he
struck the point. | am quite sure you
VIII lind IN some statistics mention
made of the big wind he refers to. 1t
occurred some time in 1880, at least
that was my fathers memory of it.
am situated in something of the same
boat myself. My father kept no rec
ord of my birth but have often heard
him state that l was born close to
that storm. Respectfully.
L. BOYLE.
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The North Side School is lacking a
bell, and providing the districts ii
nances are in any way depleted, we
are willing to devote the net proceeds
of one week 5 issue of the Herald to-
wards the purchase of a bell for that
belfry.
! / I
The fact may not be very widely
known but our friend Chas. Roberts
used 10 deal in calves as a sort of side
issue to the piano and sewing ma
chine business. Barney Kerr, a
farmer from Hurricane, told us the
other day about one he purchased
from Mr.. Roberts. The calf was
guaranteed by Mr.. Roberts to be en-
tirely devoid of Jersey blood and Jer
sey characteristics, rs Mr.. Kerr is no
admirer Of the breed. Barney relates
that really the calf did not resemble a
Jersey III any way in the days of its
youth, but instead Of growing big
and broad as any good calf should Oh
nice sweet milk and oats, it began to
dwindle and became more and more
peaked and Jerseyiied each day until
hardly anything remained of it. Fl
nally it shuffied OF this mortal coil
and the owner had it embalmed and
now wears it as 4 watch fob.
/ !
County Treasurer Scheinpflug and
County Clerk Grillis played trick on
"Howdy" Rhodes the other day.
Left in charge Of his furniture store
for an hour these naughty county
officers ii,ed him up "A display vim
dow that fairly outclassed anything
seen there before. Some secondhand
furniture, a pair Of cuspidors, a deck
of cards scattered about aud trio Of
old clay pipss were the conspicuous
parts of the display with decidedly
burlesque background.
/ + +
The people of the east are becoming
acquainted with The west this winter
more than ever before. Bro. Roethe
OF the Fennimore Times was down to
Washington recently and he has been
telling his readers about his visit each
week i'm installments. He writes only
Of what he saw aud heard and says
nothing Of what lie did or said while
"A quest Of Uncle Samuel in his own
home But by the light OF his words
we can imagine at this minute how he
told them of our beautiful winter
Il . - IN
blooming in these parts, gracefully
nodding TO the breezcs of the warm
Chinook There's lot Of the fellows
down there who are not positive as to
Just where Wisconsin is located on the
map and when they heard ROethe was
from Wisconsin they at once sought
for information concerning a state
bordering on Alaska. Roethe wasn't
q bit short on information for EN-
either. He first passed out the fact
that all the Texas cattlemen drove
their cattle to Wisconsin in the win
ter time to fatten on the nutritious
grasses which grew all the year round
upon Wisconsin plains. Jersey cattle
were natives of Wisconsin and nothing
but the best brands of Jersey butter
were used there only when the cleo
margarine crop ran short. In Wis
consin cattle only had TO be housed in
the most severe weather When he
struck the tobacco crop he almost up
set his grazing story as ne told them
but a very few acres Of land were de-
voted 70 anything but tobacco raising.
He bad raised enough tobacco in mis-
doorvard to fill IA warehouse and all
the time il took was what hoeing he
did before breakfast and after supper.
One Of the younger men inquired if
the Indians troubled us mucE out here
and Henry answered that it was ex-
pected that every voter would XII.
seven or eight Indians every year bul
as this was done in connection wsh
prairie chicken hunting it took very
little time While visiting the treas
.urt- hufft1fury tho officials Dprtuitt led