Richland Republican and Observer

Richland Republican and Observer
Thursday, February 21, 1884.
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HOME MATTERS.

--Prepare for the flood.
--It proved rather a tame season for valentines.
--H. B. Allen is in Chicago this week on business.
--Baraboo has formed a business man’s association. Good idea.
--Miss Becka Carson, of Port Andrew, is in town visiting friends.
--Dr. Bickford has placed us under obligations for late California papers.
--F. P. Bowen shipped two carloads of cattle to Chicago on Tuesday evening.
--There will be no winter meeting of the Richland County Agricultural Society this season.
--Frank Sanford, the liveryman, lost a horse by having its leg broken in the stall one night last week.
--The programme for the 22nd, at Bailey’s Opera Hall, will consist of historical sketches, songs and patriotic music.
--Mrs. D. E. Pease, of Wilton, is in the village visiting relatives and friends from whom she parted on removing from here.
--Miss Hattie Joslin returned home Saturday last from a several months’ sojourn in Nebraska with her sister, Miss Abbie Bowen.

-Jonah Butman, who worked in this village last summer, was recently seriously scalded in a railroad accident on the Chicago & Northwestern railroad near La Valle.
--A number of our carpenters clubbed together last Saturday and surprised their brother mechanic, Geo. L. Brockway, by assisting him in raising the frame to his new residence.
--J. M. Adams, of Mitchell, Dakota, sends us a statistical pamphlet lately issued concerning Mitchell and Davison county. From this we learn of the wonderful development of that country in the past few years.
-A Boscobel man recently sold three thousand pounds of tobacco of his own raising at twenty-two cents a pound, netting him the handsome sum of $660. Tobacco is a better paying crop than either wheat or corn, but many farmers do not like to engage in its culture.
--Remember the patriotic entertainment given by the Womans’ Club at Bailey’s opera hall to-morrow (Friday) evening. The entertainment will doubtless be a fine one as the best musical talent in the village will participate in it, and there should be a crowded house.
--Our esteemed young friend and physician, Dr. John C. Wright, of Excelsior, has gone to Rush Medical college, Chicago, to take private instruction, and to attend the Cook county Hospital and Rush Medical college clinics. He will be gone about four or five weeks.

--Through the labors of the Catholic priests in Iowa and LaFayette counties as well as in many other counties of the state, much good and efficient work has been done in the temperance cause. The work done by these priests is always earnest and permanent, and their influence throughout the membership of their church is much more potent than that of many others. As a rule, their converts to temperance are faithful and consistent..--Dodgeville Star.
--The new hardware firm at Lone Rock, Messrs. A. Ray & Co. makes its bow to the public through THE REPUBLICAN AND OBSERVER to-day in a prominent advertisemen, to which we call the attention of farmers and dairymen who do their trading at Lone Rock. Messrs. Ray & Co. have recently opened up a bright, clean new stock of hardware and dairy supplies of every description, and are ready to supply the needs and fill orders of the public in this particular line of trade. They will doubtless do a large business, and take rank among the prominent firms of the village.