Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-09-17

the disaster, every trace OF the burnt
district has vanished, and Platteville
is better looking and certainly far.
more wholesome town than it was be-
fore. In the place of those architectu-
raj eye.sores of the past have arisen
stately edifices, bearing about them
every outward indication of "business"
in the true sense of that much abused
part of language. The idea of har-
mony in the appearance of the town
strikes the observer rather torcibly at
present, particularly if he happens to
remember how hard it was for people
with even the most rudimentory no
tions of the fitness of things to recon.
cile Grocery street with Main, or any
portion of the burnt district with the
rest of the town. We may be censur-
ed for saying so, but our conviction is
that PIatteville has been fully as much
benefited by the fire as by the rail-
road. What is known as
THE BURNT DISTRICT
of Platteville borders Mineral street
on the north, Third street on the east,
Main on the south, and Fourth on the
west. Robertson's new two.story
brick block is on the corner OF Fourth
and Main, and presents, like most of
the new buildings in this region, a
handsome and substantial appearance.
The builders are DEMO 81 Dyer, the
former OF whom is said to be one of
the best brick layers in Galena, while
the latter, one of the old citizens of
Platteville, is toe well known profess
sionally to need any recommendation
whatever. A marble slab bearing the
inscription
"RoRERTsoN's BLocK-1s74."
has been worked into the Main street
facade of these buildings. The di-
mansions, in the clear, are 75x46, and
the cost will be not far from $4,000. -
The block is owned by Mr.. John
Robertson, we'll known to the Platte
vile public as a photographer and
jeweler of first-rate attainments He
will make of the first or corner room
of this building sort of
JEwELRY PALACE,
and will aim to keep on hand as full
and varied a stock of goods as the
town and the times may warrant or
demand. On the floor directly over
this department Mr.. r will have his
photograph gallery, which is to be
conducted by himself assisted by his
sons. He will be ready to begin oper-
ations by the coming holidays.
Next door will be found the business
place of Mr.. VIM. Laughton, a name
almost as we'll known in the north
west as that Of Platteville itself. He
deals in dry goods mostly and tries
very hard, so his best customers say
to keep only first-class fabrics on his
shelves. Mr.. D. Wilson's
RESTAURANT, GROCERY FRUIT STORE
comes next. This will be rather al
inviting looking place, and will b.
ready for business in about thirty
days. The room is large, and seems
specially adapted to the peculiar ma
ture Of oysters raw, oysters steweG
and oysters Oh the half-skell.
MR.. T. o. DRINKALL's STORE
will neighbor Mr.. Wilson's on The
east, and will be filed to bursting al
most with dry goods, groceries, anC
such things generally. In month h'
too will have his scales and yard sticl
ready for action. This building i
should be stated, has no connection
with the Robertson block, but is /;
separate structure, 6lx25, and mid
way between Third street on the cas-
and Fourth street on the west.
On the corner of Third and Main
will be found
THE KETTLER BLOCK,
fine structure in all respects, anG
worthy to stand shoulder to shoulde
with the buildings already described
On the ground floor of this block ar
two apartments of equal dimensions
one of which will be used by q. Ket
tier 81 Co. as meat market and th
other by Mr.. A. Ketter as a Dir,
goods and grocery establishment.
Going around the corner, we ente
Third, better known, perhaps, as Gro
Gerry street-Grocery street of the pre-
cremation epoch, if you willard ;
fit place for the retreat of Bacchus i
seems, a place where tankards of The
foamy 60 round and round, and where
the voice of the crusader has never
been heard.
sIEMERs THIELE
have erected new building on tht
site of their old one, and will tap the
first fresh one in their nice fresh quar-
tiers early next week. They have g
most elegant bar-room, as sumptuous
in fact, as that in the Southern Hote
at St. Louis, or Charpiot's Delmonicc
of the West in Denver City. On the
second floor Messrs. S. g. T. will have
a billiard hall, where the game of the
period can be played as quietly and
scientifically as may be. Whitelaw
Reid and Bret Harte play billiards
therefore, ETC., etc.
A. s. LoTTMAN's
wine and liquor hall adioins the con
vivial premises of Messrs. Seimers &
Thiele, and coy, comfortable look
ing place it is. Mr.. L. is a "goodIy
portly man, "a faith," and were he ever
to enter the lists as a regularly consti.
tuted Boniface the epicurian portion
of the human race would award him
the blue ribbon without a moments
hesitation.
After Lottman's one story structure
comes the magnificent two-story edi-
fee of
MIR. WIN. MEYER,
in which he now does a thriving
trade in saddlery and harness making,
OTHER IMPROVEMENTS.
in various nartS of the town are nrO-