The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1860-08-29
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DEAR TINES: While stopping for
short time in your busy city, have observ-
cd, with pleasure, the peculiarites which
in so marked degree characterize your
citizens, and rather incline to the opinion
that to merely state that it Is fast town
conveys but faint idea Of what McGregor
life really is. 1t is fleet, SWIFT; rapidity is
stamped upon everything appcrtaning to
the place. and extends through all the vari-
GUS ramiications of McGrcgor society.
Here, the most casual observer has an am
pie q I'D for the study of character which Is
cmphatically Western. The ready. off hand
style Of doing business is in striking con-
traSt with the slow, precise, plodding man.
ncr peculiar to the people of the old States.
Trades, involving sums of considerable
magnitude, are made in few minutes and
nothing is said about it or thought of it,
from the fact that Mc';regor people havn't
time to talk or think when action is rcquir-
ed. This accounts for the vast amount of
business done annually at this point, and
the unparalleled success Of the cntcrprising
citizens.
When the business Of the day is over
and the time for recreation arrives, rush
is made for the diff rent places of amusc-
ment to spend few necting hours as pleas
antly and as rapidly as possible. Even at
the various resorts of pleasure, this fast
principle manif SITS itself, for at the billiard
table the players will hardly spend time to
''spot the balls or ''chalk their cues as
too much precious time is thus taken from
the gamc-timc viii n can lily afford to be
lost in town OF such gc-ahead propensi-
ties. In social game of cuchre the cards
are often dealt" without "~hullling" in
order to expedite the game and thereby
give the players chance to play the great
est number of ''rubs' in the shortest pos
sible time
There is rumor ahoat, which I regard
as auth ntic, to the effect that, as grain
bu, ing is on the eve Of reviving, the bust
ness men are about to ignore juleps for the
very sage reason that it is fashionable to
''imbibe' them through the medium of
rather diminutivc straws and that being
a slow as well as decidedly tedious process,
too much time is required to 'inculcatc"
quaint M suJicn for the requisite stimulat-
ing Of an essentially fast business man. In
the event that they do not repudiate juleps
| would suggest that they sip them by
proxy; that is-gct printers, or some other
good fellows, whose time is of less conse-
lucuCc, u iuuulSc at theiI lc'Suie VIC
only drawback to an arrangement Of this
u>kind, would be the expense which said bus
mess men would incur.
cannot imagic how the people here
ever find time to be sick, or to die, and there
is no earthly doubt but the Grim Monster
is frequently cheated Of his prey by his
intended victims not having time to spare
from their business, to answer his summons.
Shaving off executions of this character, by
the people Of this fast town, is doubtless
the very thing which conceived the idea
that brought forth the peculiar legal enact
mcnts of Iowa-whcreby debts may be
STAYED off indefinitely, or till the creditor
forgets the amount due him.
One great advantage and inestimable ben
eft, however, accrues from the rapid, 60
ahead business habits Of McGregor, and
that is,-thc citizens have not the time to
spare, and arc not disposed, to be mean in
their dealings or cheat by unjust weights
and measures those with whom they deal
the Dubuque Times to the contrary not
withstanding. TRANSIENT.