Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-03-09
Letter from Muscoda- Business I'm,
provcments.

Mr. CovER-Though items from
this remote corner of old Grant will
be far from local to the majority of
your readers, trust they will not be
devoid of interest to all of them. On
the strength of that trust, | shall
proceed to give you short account
| Of the business establishments which
have sprung up, during the present
winter and past fall, at Muscoda Sta
ton.
This locality is on the railroad,
half or three fourths of mile from
the old town upon the river, and is
known to the people hereahouts as
the Depot" as that railroad institu-
ton is the nucleus Of the new village
w. w. McKitrick has erected new
and commodius building and put in
to it fine stock of general uierchan-
disc. In the second story is a public
ball. J. Neff has removed large
building from the old.town and has in
1t good ,hotol and public hall. This
MOTEL with the SmalIey House, which
is both "nonpareil' and paragon"
offers accommodation to the increas>
ing travel through this place. In c
Miller's store building. moved from
the old town, Mdeller & Zintz have
large assortment of general merchan-
disc. VIM. Roushe has added a store
building to his tinshop and filed it
with every variety of hardware and
tin ware. This "wooden country"
and growing village require great
deal Of iron, and Capt. Roushe is able
and willing to meet this requirement
in perfectly satisfactory manner
In another new buildiding, adjoining
Roushs's, is III. Wilsey's boot and
shoe shop and M. A. Cornwall's es-
Enlistment for the repair Of watches
and the sale of clocks, &c. Occupy
ing the lower story of fine building
lately erected, belonging to John
Kohlman, is the drug store of jane
son & Holford, whose stock has been
lately removed from the old town
and heavily increased to meet the de-
mands of their growing trade. Dir.
Jameson's office is ia the drug store.
He has : strongly fortified position
from which to fight disease. Over
the drug store, Friedrich Brahse has
just established merchant tailor
shop. Here in the most improved
and approved mode our young and
old can row be arrayed. In the same
building, Mr.. Holman. an experienced1
artist, will soon open photograph
gallery. Mr.. K. is a leading man
among the pumerous countrymen of
John Huss and Jerome Of Prague
who settled in our vicinity and devel
oped the resources of our rugged bills
and arid valley in manner to aston
ish jewellers on the prairies.
We have here the advantages of
two annual harvests; the summer
harvest from the grain fields and the
winter harvest from the forests.
The latter comes in the shape of rail-
road ties. cord wood, lumber, hoop
poles, ,&c, in which heavy business is
done here. All our merchants at the
Station buy all kinds OF produce
They have paid I24c for pork this
winter. Though sleighing has been
good, the bridge presided over by
Dame Nature has not at all times
been trustworthy, and is not now,
but that Of our friend Gen. Moore is
always to be relied on for conveni-
ence, safety and low rates, which is
very fortunate for the business of the
village,
| shall give you the details of no
exciting incidents this time, for |
have not space, and our last fire hap
pered some time ago, but | may here
after, for we do have exciting Incl
dents here, since Muscoda awoke
from her Rip Van Wrinkle sleep, and
Muscoda Station arose to be a power
among villages. QUID NUNc.