The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1861-09-25
A Trim in Northern lnxua.

A Trip in Northern Iowa.
Our account Of trip in Iowa broke of
two weeks ago at New Hampton as abrupt
| ly as some of the to-be- continued stories
| of eastern flash hebdomadals:
Here we found little village of "thret
or four several houses Identifying itscl
with the title Of Shiretown of ChickasaN
county, county which proudly admits o
no superiority. However, it has Groom tc
grow and will, being centrally located arc
| having in it such men as Messrs. Beach &
Young of the Courier, Case, Taylor, Bald
win, Cotant & McCullum and others. The
prospect is also favorable for the pcrman
ent location Of the county seat at this
| place. Ten miles farther on we ran into
CHIcKAsAw, situated on the Cedar, where
the enterprising Mcssrs. Tucker, Albertson
and other co-!ab0rcrs, seeing the advantage
of an extensive body Of good timber and
the best of water power have built up
thriving village which has every facility for
becoming a solid town.
a< BRADFORD,
five miles below Chickasaw, is certainly a
place equal in its natural advantages and
beauty to any it was our fortune to visit.
Here VIC observed unmistakable evidences
of the absence Of A. j. Felt, Esq, and his
brave companions who with him are to-
day engaged in the struggle for our coun-
try's honor. Business in this town from
some cause apcars to be much depressed
j,s+ WV, t',e"s,, tho tifno is not far away
when Bradford will renew if not excel
her former business activity.
We called on friend Reynolds of the
Neacs and found him printing better pa
per than the business of the place seemed
to warrant. Only an hours stay here and
we passed on through Nashua where we
conclude preparations were being made to
"knock out the rocks" (when completed if
that mill don't succeed no other need try }
The water power here is excellent A short
distance from this point we came upon two
equally plain roads missing the wrong
one" Of course ignorant of our error In
a short time we knew we didn't know
where we were and our friend and travelling
companion cspying party of ladies near
by learned of them that we were on the
wrong road. After this we found no diff
Guilty until we neared very neatly con-
'structed school house when all at once
"lost again" was the conclusion which
could not be resisted. Sitting alone, it
seemed to us that our friend was using an
unnecessary amount of time in getting the
directions Of the fair schoolmistress for
our further progress, but we understand
this is the ''custom of the country" In
less time than it took to build the old Ro-
man Capital our friend returned and the
journey was resumed, this time in the right
direction.
The next halt we made was il,
ST. CHARLES,
W HISh ID, III every SetlSc u i've western
town beautifully laid out with wide streets,
handsome dwellings, good looking bust
ness houses, very neatly finished court
house, good and substantial mills, hand.
some men, and handsomer ladies'. Called
OH Hildreth Of the Intelligencer, and must
say that his Office like the MteHigencey
looks the very picture of neatncss and
thrift. We wish him success in every
thing except that strong opposition to the
Union movement which in every other To-
cality seemed to have the united support of
all and especially in
Usage,
our next point, where the first person we
met said 'if you are for the Union we are
with you, and if not, we don't want any
thing to do with you The people of
Mitchell Co., are certainly fully up to the
times in the way of improvement. Here
in Usage, where the eye is unobstructed
for distance of twenty miles except by a
succession Of grain stacks, the people have
built court house at the cost of $685.
900, churches and other public buildings
far superior to those in most towns thus
far in the interior Three miles from Usage
brought us to Mitchell and West Mitchell,
the county seat of Mitchell county, the
citizens of which points have at their own
70 hn tol
of stone situated at point midway be-
tween the two villages. At West Mitchell
We observed one of the largest and best
appointed Touring mills which we have
ever seen in the western country, owned
and run by j. D. Chambers, an interesting,
affable gentleman whose acquaintance we
were glad to make. We also shook the
hands of c. w. Dunlap, of the Mitchell
Gazette, and Mr.. Atherton, attorney at
law, for the first though we trust not for
the last time. From Mitchell our road
passed over one Of the finest prairies-a
perfect flower garden with nary school
house but one" which was only little
this way from our stopping point and. of
course we didn't get "lost again." though
we probably should if there had been a
school 'maam' in sight-till we arrived in
MASON City, and seated ourselves at the table
of the Thompson House well spread and
conspicuous for rare dish of nicely pre-
pared prairie chickes and every thing else
necessary to satisfy the appetite. The
Journal man being absent we sought ont
Il. B. Gray, Esq, and had a pleasant hours