Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-10-04
LETTER FROM HAZEL GREEN.
Autumn Days-Business Matters-A Notable
Lack-The Fair-"iiuskisg ProIIcsn

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1t is autumn now, and all sweet
things are no longer sweetly bios
soming. "The melancholy DAYS"
will soon begin. Haze already fills
the air, dimming the far off hills,
giving sad, sad glory to the autumn
woods, and lending an air of sombre
drearlness to stubblc fields and
meadow lands, where the shy quail
pipes and the cricket shrills 1t is
the season Of the "sear and yellow
leaf" Of mellow fruit and cheering
cider, of dropping nuts and wood
land berries, Of ripening corn and
golden pumpkins, of calm content
and generous plenty. We sit as in
a dream and gaze musingly around
US. Things seam hardly real, and
we would fam pirate about "the ideal"
and all that transcendental sort Of
thing With Hawthorne, we feel
that the season, hwithstanding
the gorgeous glory Of its woodland
foliage aud the wonderous splendcr
Of It's sunset leaves, "has mist in
its balmiest sunshine, and decay and
death in its grandest delight"
Concerning matters in the village
much that is favorable can be writ
ten. improvements are made every
day thrift and prosperity are seen
on every hand. Business affairs of
u mercantile character are proms-
ing and prosperous, although a wise
poet has said that "now IA bubble
bursts, and now a world" RumOr
has it that all is about up with one
Of the leading store firms Of the viii
lage. But such, you know, is the
state OF man.
We have q good drug store, kept
by men who understand the bust
ness, and who have "the virtue not
to sell drugs that have mono" There
are several variety and general gro
Gerry stores, and all do a deal of viii
lage as well rs country trading
The wagon, harness and other shops
have work in plenty. The beer ven
ders are not making fortunes. The
Empire House is a good place to
eat and to read the Herald. The
meat men, and there are some three
or tour, are sometimes unable to
supply the demand tor beef, veal
and mutton, so fond are our people
of these particular wanities," as
Sam. Weller might call them
schools and churches are well attend
ed everybody minds his own BUSH
ness, and war news from abroad are
speedily devoured
Of ono thing Hazel Green has
notable lack, namely Groups of
sleepy looking chaps, splendid spec
imeLs of our native raw material,
sir," who sit on sidewalks, in front
OF stores, and other public places,
doing nothing the livelong day, save
manufacturing tobacco juice, looking
at the ladies, and staring
with hideous, brazen and idiotic
stare at cvery passer-by, 1t is even
80, and what source of consolation |
to all who contemplate visiting our
village.
The fall fair will be held here
Oct. 9th, 9th and eth. Let every
body come to it, and bring every
body and everything with him. A
good place to meet old friends, to
sec and to learn new things, to have
q general good time.
This being near the corn husking
season, ! will venture the question,
Why don't the farmers Of Grant
county have "shucking bees ?" Thoy
have quilting parties and apple par
Ings without number, but seldom or
never a good, genuine, old-fashioned
"husking frolic." Why, even the
Indians manage these things better
than we do. Says LongfeIlow in the
"Song OF Hiawatha,"
Aud they called the women round them,
Called the young mon aud the naidenr
To tic harvest Of the corRhelds,
To the husking Of the maize-oar."
Let Us have husking parties, then,
with plenty to cat, an occasional
cred ear, and jolly cotillion in the
evening Yours,
Hazel Green Sept. &C. 1870. GUS