Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-12-13
GLEN HAVEN.
situation-ROmantic Approach Village
Merchants-News saw Miil-Lumber Dealers
-Tradesmen-Men Useful 10 the Nation
EARLY Days-iunting and Fishing
Wolves and Wildcats-Topogra.
ply Like Hazel Green-Farm-
ers from 'sdns Vaterland.n
ers from "das vaterland.n

1t IS one OF our river towns, situated
about midway between Wyalusing
and Cassville, and is nearly opposite
to Guttenburg in Iowa. The name
IS rather poetical. 1t suggests evel
so much that IS calm, quiet and com.
fortable-the place whore Tennyson's
King Arthur keeps house in cold
weather, "the island valley of Avill.
ION, where falls not hail or rain OF
any snow, or ever wind blows loud
~ The road leading to the village
from the cast winds down deem
snady dell, or rather glen, lying be-
tween high hills with trees upon
them, and made musical with the
sound of u singing ril. This delight
iul dingle is uncommonly umbra-
geous la summer, warm and wind
sheltered in winter. You can hardly
sec the sun at midday, and seldom
feel the refreshing breath OF those
bluff and clustering blasts that come
ravlng down the frozen river, roar
among the leafess forests, and drift
the snow on upland prairies. The
scenery all along this road is roman
tlcaliy picturesque in the extreme,
at least it was whom we saw it, about
the beginning of the present Decom-
Der. The sun shone very brightly
on the high places, the air was pure.
and. as the blue-stockings who write
milk-and-water novels would say.
"invigorating," or "bracing," if YOU
like that word better the sky was
cloudless, and the wind was still
Rocks there were, green with the
moss OF age, and as old, no doubt. or
Older than the sun himself; oaks and
elms and naples mingled at once
all their bare tops" high in heaven,
and hid their feet under the fallen
leaves that lay so thick apon the
ground, and told such silent tales of
summers departed glory. No more
foliage on the clinging vines, none on
the hazel bushes and the brambles.
We look up at the free sky through
network of limbs, twigs and
branches, and behold
But just now we have tramped IN
sight OF the village, and have our at
tentlon attracted to some quiet look
ing houses, few busy shops. o
church with Gothic windows, and a
cross on it, stone school house. u
new saw-milI Of vast proportions and
tho Mississippi.
Proceeding some distance, we come
to a corner and turn to the left.
Bleidung q Co.'s store-large room
well OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES stock-good
wares-gentlemanly propriotors with
excellent business qualifications. A.
j. Very is in business a little fur
Their down the street, but is anxious
to sell out. A man Of the right met
al might carry on a profitable trade
IN this building. Agricultural pur-
suits and mercantile differ somewhat
In character, and man that succeeds
well at one generally fails at the
other.
Down there by tho river stand a
number Of ware houses, where the
farmers unload their produce, and
whence it is taken on board of steam
boats, for transportation elsewhere
hight up thore, Ramsey & Kidd are
building u big saw-mill. This will
be finished by spring, and will prob
ably be the largest lumber manulac-
tory in this part of the State. Long
and wide IS the well-built edifco
and two stories high, besides spa
cious loft wherein some machine. for
holdings and such matters
are to whirr and whizz as soon rs
the saving, planning and shinglc-
making departments are once in sue
cesstul and paying operation. Work
men are now putting in the boilers.
which are capable OF generating as
much steam as 80 or 100 horses can
draw.
Dave Stewart deals ia lumber J.
ltis il stoves and tin-ware Kaiser
makes wagons and sleighs Chandler
is the blacksmith Schumacher and
somebody else, the shoemakers and
we've forgotten the tailor's name.
The several saloons here have the
paying patronage Of that indispensa-
BILE class Of men without whom the
world would be very shabby con
Germ, indeed but with whom it keeps
the even tenor Of its way, rotates
regularly on its axis, and will surely
not be hurled "away into die ECi6-
tett' for sometime to come. This in
tercsting class of intellectual human
lty discuss national affairs; know
just how many shades President
Grant Is blacker than he ought to be
can set France and Prussia right in
regard to that little wallopping affair;
will not subscribe for q paper as long
as they can borrow it to read from
the neighbors, you know )" are init
mately acquainted with every editor
from Horace Greeley down, and were
raised right there together, sir"
with all the prominent public men
that anybody over heard of. What
lovely and entertaining fellows they |
are, to be sure, and how pitiful |
would be the moral and mental
status Of tho rest Of the race had |
they not been placed here to guile
and TO admonish it
But now it is high time to tell |
your readers something about the |
township, that tract Of fine, well-im-
proved farming country lying east
ward from the river Only twenty |
years ago this was all prairie, with |
hardly human hRbitation Owe mean |
a house, anywhere as far as the eye |
could reach. When the earlier set
tiers talk about those primevaI days, |
they do 1t with kindling eyes and |
flushing faces, and with feelings of |
the most enthusiastic nature. They |
will tell you how the prairies looked |
" hon fhptr 10 mo- I,