Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1874-11-18

ing out into the deep" ard on which there
is an opportunity for investment OF ones
surplus currency in lighthouses. Strange
to say. none thus far have been built !
But stranger still, not a tree. beyond what
has been planted by the hand of man with
in few years. is to be found on its shore.
Not anything that could conveniently be
designated shrub, exceptou pcninsular
which almost forms two separate lakes OF
the one end would quite do so but for
channel that connects the two and has
been bridged for highway purposes. There
is perhaps an acre or more on this tongue
of land which is covered with sapings
very much resembling the brook Willows
of Vermont Being securely sheltered
from prairie fires thew have grown undis-
turbed until man settled here, and our
opinion is that now as fast as any one of
them becomes fit for any use it will grow
no longer. The main body of water is
about five miles long by two wide-the
smaller less than one mile either way.
Except IN time of heavy rains there is no
visible outlet. yet the water is fresh and
palatable, and in wiuter the ice, clear and
solid, is cropped in large quantities for
summer use. The lake is, during the sea-
SOD, extensively "navigated," severe par
ties owning sai-boats of varied style and
tonnage. A year ago. to meet the increas
ing demand, Navigation Company was
organized for the purpose Of operating on
a broader scale. An iron steamer was
built at Dubuque transported to this place,
equipped, mannedand successfully launched
a wharf constructed, and the shrill whistle
of a stcam-goiug vessel has since often re-
sounded over the waters and the broad
prairie beyond. We wonder if the feel.
ings OF Old Ink .pa-de-tah could be mag.
incd, it, while standing on the lake shore
some day, musing DER the silent past the
the remorscless tooth of time, and all that,
the steamer, with lurch and lunge,
puff and a scream, should suddenly round
from its anchorage in the ebay" and rush
toward him at the rate of ten miles an
hour? With what stately strides he would
retreat from such scene
Sioce ground was first broken this little
municipality has had healthy growth
Just the reverse Of the mushroom order so
prevalent in the West 1t has a popula.
ton of 600 or 700, and contains 100 dwell
ings and pretty near half as many busi-
ress houses The first sermon hereabouts'
was preached in 1868; now there art
threh church edi6ces Catholic, Presbytc-
rian and Baptist, while the Methodists
will build another season. and the Unita-
rians and Univcrsalists have gone so far
toward the same object as IN purchase a
lot and organize a mite society A splen-
did new brick two.story modern furnished
school building will be dedicated this
month. Its cost reaches up among the
thousands. in the vicinity of six. we be-
Iievc y live newspaper, The Pilot, has
been published since Oct. 2S, ls70-the
first number printed was formal and du-
" sold at at auction for sl06. One of
the editors first saw the light away down
in Maine, the other is Hoosier and dur.
ing the "late unpleasantness" was live
Colonel of the SD Indiana. They have
started museum of euriosities, their col
lection thus far consisting only of chunk
ofcopper from Superior, some specimen.
Of American antiquities in the shape of In.
dian pottery found near Lake Okoboji
and the end of a rattlesnske's tail-nine
rattles Three large grain elevators are
standing in row on the side track of the
l. G, R. r., aud in the busy season the
hum of their machinery, driven by horse
power, is heard night and day. Owing
TO the low price of wheat they haven
hummed so much as they did. Wheat al
SOC. per hushel dosent furnish very me!o
dious music to the producer, whatever i
may TO the consumer. Three hotels, ant
all apparently do a thriving business, ar,
located on the Avenue, Five general as
sortment stores keep their proprietor
) busy in supplying an extensive range o
custom. One hardware, one boot ant
shoe, two drug, two grocery, one tobacco
one confectionery, one music and jewelr,
and several other stores, not forgcttin,
two or three millinery tyou can't get GU
Of their range establishments. are locate,
) here. Two banks supply the demands o
the community, six attorney expouud til
law, three physicians look after the SAM
tary needs and necessities, aud four cler
gymeu attend to the spiritual welfare O
) all concerned. The other kind of spirit
uous matter can easily be proeured AZ sey