The Grange advance., 1874-03-04

ed. In this store Mr. Bartsau has sold
$50, 600 worth Of goods since be commenced
business late in the season. Over the store
is Masonic Hall, the inside in which We
we're permitted to see. The hall was fn-
ished expressly for the society and it was
tastefully done. The hall is elegantly and
beautifully furnished, from the carpet COW
cred with masonic emblems to the celestial
and terrestrial spheres, mounted on marble
pillars. The hall is furnished with oil the
implements and psrapbanalia Of the order,
and seated with arm chairs bearing upon
the backs the square and compass. 1t is in
every respect model hall and reflects cred
it upon the taste and enterprise of the
members Of the lodge.
Zumbrota has three churches, the Con-
gregationalist, the Baptist and the Method
ist. The Methodists have raised funds and
will erect neat church the coming sum-
mer. The Congregstionalist church was
built in 1861 and the Baptist Church in
1864. We looked in upon the schools
and found Mr.. NJ. B. Green, the present
Principal, in charge, from whom we learned
that there are now one hundred and fifty
pupils enrolled in the three departments.
The primary and intermediate under the
direction Of Misses Nellie Shattuck and
Emma Barrett, and the high school presid-
ed over by Mr.. Green.
Zumbrota has two Touring mills, and I'M
derneath their wheels sweeps the tireless
Zumbro. The upper mill is owned and op-
Grated by E. T. Halbert, and to it the farm
ers bring their grists Of golden grain from
beyond Kenyon and even from Steele coun-
ty; the mill doing, principally, custom
work and receiving as high as four hundred
bushels of wheat per day, Of farmers grists
to be made into -four, besides grain to he
ground into feed. The mill has a capacity
for grinding IS barrels Of -four per day,
and is to be enlarged and improved the
coming season. Below the town are the
Forest Mills, owned and operated by Hub
bard, Wells & Co., and which we have here
tofore described. Here we found Messrs.
Allen & Leadstrand, the presiding geniuses
of the grind stones, and learned tha: the
mill had turned out, the present season, be-
tween q and 80 hundred barrels of the cel-
ebrated Minnesota patent fancy -four. The
mill is building up about it little village
of its own of Industrious workmen and their
families.
From the village we drove out to the farm
of J. A. Thacher, and from his place OBJ
tained beautiful view of the town nesting
in the valley and the prairie stretching off
in every direction as far as the eye could
reach. Mr.. Thacher was one of the early
settlers in this region, and now lives on the
claim which he made in 1856 and afterwards
pre-empted. He is worthy Patron and a
practical tiller Of the soil, and showed his
good judgment and taste in the choice of
his home, in the midst of and overlooking
the richest and most beautiful portion Of
the greatest wheat producing county Of
the State.
On the opposite side of the village and
in the valley, stands the Zumbro Cheese
Factory. This factory was built in 1870
by stock company, of which T. P. Kellet
was President and I. C. Stearns Secretary.
1t has cost 1900, is two stories high, 28x-
38 feet, and is furnished with an Oneida,
N. T., vat with capacity Of 125 COWS, and
with five presses. The factory has turned
off between seven and eight tons Of cheese
the past year. This has all been disposed
Of in the county, and Mr.. B. C. Grover, who
now owns the most of the stock Of the COM
pany, and has the factory under the man.
agement, informed US that five tons more
could be sold at once. Ten pounds or pints
of milk to one pound Of cheese has been the
average in this factory.
In our next issue we shall have some-
thing to say Of Pine Island and the regions
round about; of an editor lost in the woods
and his reflections. All of which is crowd
ed out of the present issue.)
For the Advance.
The Coming Council.
Mn. EDITOR II hope that you and the
:'rest of mankind" Patrons in particular,
will remember that every Grange in Good.