The Grange advance., 1874-02-04
PLAlNv1EW, Jan. p. 1874
Editors Grunge 1drance:

sist from outside work. Thinking that
a few words from this most beautiful
and productive portion OF Minnesota
might be Of interest to your many read
ers, have gathered few items in regard
to this beautiful village, Plainvicw,
located $50 feet ab"vc and Is miles
west of the Mississippi; River. in the
exact center of one Of the finest wheat
growing prrti"ns "t. the State.
Plainyiew cpntaius two hotels. only
onr u'v open. the Diyhanl House.
owned and kept by John Biyham and
hi cstiu,a',, lady. who Were got up cx-
pr,s>y t"r hotel keeping; besides ,hc
best hotel in the county, John keeps
BY which travellers can be transported
to any point Of the coupass on railroad
time; Johns teams are noted for never
being behind time.
Also. contains three large stores Of
general merchandise. two drug stores,
two groceries and provisions, two butch
er shops twn boot and shoe stores. two
harness shops. two wa gon shops, two
photograph galleries (the one OF Mr.
Ferr;vu> doing as fine work as can be
seen in our laryeS, cities j. four black
smith shops, two paint shops. o"e beer
saloon, licensed, (no whisky. one steam
-four mill: one fine school building. and
an excellent school three churches.
three millinery aad dressmakiny estab-
lishmeuts, one Of them would d. credit
to IL large city, one large furniture store,
doing Il large business; one barber shop.
one jewelry establishment, one music
store. one justice Office, one lawyer. the
Hon H. ?. Wilson, and room for au-
other three doctors, one (Waste) scrv~
ing his county as Senator at St. Paul,
DR.. Tett having previously served his
in the same capacity, and DR.. Roberts,
whose turn comes next fall ; one hard
ware and tin shop; two agricultural es~
tablishments. one, j. K. McLaughlins. 5.
doing large business in sewing ma
chimes, pumps, lightning rods, &c., be-
sides his farm machinery. keeping
number OF teams travelling constantly
through the county.
0. Wilcox, the heaviest dealer in mcr-
chandise, will handle 10000 bushels of
the % crop Of wheat, besides "A great
amount Of barley. A. Y. FELTON,, drugs,
&C., will handle 100000, besides large
amount Of barley, and this is only
drop in the bucket to what is raised and
marketed from this prairie.
The citizens have all the stock sub
scribed for telegraph line to the river,
when Plainview will be in lightning
communication with all the world---and
the rest Of mankind. Her merchants
and mechanics are sound, financially,
and the stores and shops are we'll
stocked and doing lively trade; the
inhabitants, as class, are possessed Of
as much intelligence, take more first
class reading matter, and are as wide
awake and benevolent as any commune
ty of 700 inhabitants in the State. They
need and must have railroad, but
don't take much stock in the narrow
guage. Nearly every business man 1
have spoken to on the subject say they
want no transfers at the river-regular
guage or none. But then, perhaps,
they may change their opinion rather
than to have none.
will now spend some time with the
farmers. Yours, 3.
EDITORS GRANGE ADVANCE Our
success as patrons during the past year,
gives us great encouragement to perse-
we're. Our Grange has grown until we
have had to move out of the township
to find room large enough to accom-
modate US. But We intend building a
hall; we have the wind-work about com-
pleted. We also have a warehouse at