Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-02-21
JAMESTOWN.
Past and Prcsent--rhe Squire Hotel Meeting
Housc-Jimtown Girls Grand Cimacsric'
Observation-Disclosures and Pancakes.

nowned in the historic annals of our
country's old colonial days, lies in
the extreme northeast corner of the
township. 1t is neighbored by Hazel
Green and Paris, borders the State
line OF Illinois, and has it's rugged
western limits defined by the Mlssis-
sippi river. The surrounding lead
mines of the past were questionless
the cause of its local habitation but
concerning the important fact that
its name is jamestown we are as vet
in the dim state Of our primal and
native ignorance. 1t is an old, old
place, and dates its first settlement
many and many moon anterior to
the time when it was still q matter
of profound uncertainty whether or
no we were really to become free
born, enlightened citizen of this great
and glorious Republic. AS far back as
we can recollect, it has always been
a common thing for the rural folk to
talk about "going to Jimtown" them
selves or about sending their off
spring thither and even to-day the
children of those who were children
then go to the village with as little
care or concern as did their worthy
ancestors of more than five-and-
twenty years ago. During ell this
time few changes have taken place
in the material aspect of the village.
The same houses that formed the
component parts of the hamlet in it's
infancy give the place it's size aud
general confguration in its waning
adolescence. A few of the old town
marks, however, have uccumbed to
''the tooth of time and razure of OBJ
livion," and several new houses have
been erected in places where never
buildings were before.
Right in the very heart of James
town village Mr.. Warden Anderson.
of whose Fairplay business we had
something in our last, conducts a
store, keeps the p O, practices law,
is Justice of the Peace, believes in
temperance, and is withal a man
whose name would be held as the
synonyme of reliability at tie great
Bank of England itself He deals in
more things than we can enumerate
or name. May his custom never
grow less. The jamestown Hotel,
Mr.. Sisson proprietor, is well known
as a house where q good stomach
filling meal can always be had, and
where everything is conducted in an
essentially proper way. Mr.. gives
parties now and then, and nobody,
we'll be sworn, has ever regretted
attending one of them. Mr.. VIVA.
Holman is the jamestown shoemaker
He is one of the successful institu-
tions of the place, and a good law
abiding citizen.
The jamestown meeting house
tops conspicuous hill 1t is a fair
sized structure, and has some old as
sociatlons that might have given the
poet INSPIRATION To sing:
There comes time when manhood's prime
Is shrouded in the mist of years,
And beauty, fading like a dream,
Is washed away in silent tears.
Let him who attended this church
about the time that he late Rebel
lion began, go there to-day, and
mark how different this congregation
is from that of one decade ago.
Where are now the girls that used to
sing so sweetly in the choir, and
whose bright eyes and winning
smiles still haunt divers youths of
the present day, making them feel so
very sad and 20 mournfully melan-
choly .? Aud where are the beautiful
Iassles that used to go to the grave
yard of Sunday afternoon, with all
the youngsters from the country
round trOoping at their heels What
has become of the gentle Armies, the
artfuI Marys, and the demurely-
charming Letties ? They are gone,
all, all gone-have vanished away as
dewdrops vanish in the calm of a
summer morning. Barring two or
three charming exceptions, there
would hardly be a sufficient number
of "Jimtown girls" left to-day to give
even the remotest hint that there
ever was so numerous body of fe-
male loneliness within the limits of
the quiet old town. But now, feel
ing like one who treads alone some
banquet-hall deserted, whose lights
are fled, whose garlands dead, and
all but-departed," we will take a
slow walk up to Mr.. J. d. Sadder's
store.
This newly opened place for NOR
chandise has plenty of custom, which
keeps Mr. S. from flying kites, play
ing knucks, and sundry other juve-
nile sports that might exert demor-
alizing influence on a bachelor near
ing the 9th or grand climacteric"
period of life. Here we find it nee
essary to HE US straight back to
jamestown and give you an intro
duction to Mr.. Todd, the village
blacksmith. We must do this, you
understand, lest the worthy gentle
man be much offended, and take it
into his level head TO order his paper
discontinued Immediately, thereby
making the Herald establishment
hang up its fiddle off hand, and retire
from business tomorrow. And what
a state of things that would bring
about. just imagine it, if you can
Well Mr.. Todd is a humorous NOR
tai and a good mechanic, and our
wish is that his bellows may not
cease to roar and his anvil TO ring
for many years to come.
Westward from Saddler's store.
Frank Lyster keeps his every-klnd-
of-wood-work shop, wherein every
variety of useful and ornamental
things is mechanically manufac .ur-
ed. When the people down that
way are called upon to cross the
melancholy flood" that poets sing
of, unto the kingdom of perpetual
night" it will be to their interest to
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