The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-02-07
For the TELEGRAPH.
THEN AND NOW.

S1AOO WAY W11UO4 illn0 SVb LOU I'll Nv ID
J consin soil. To note some Of the chan
ges, the improvements and general adj
vancement since then in Bristol anG
!. the State, and the United States, is The
Iobject Of this paper From KeHoshs
westward in the month of June, the
road was one continuous mud hole
Much Of the way the road was wind
) ing over the prairie on the highest
lground. There was no s0orked high
way, no graded road and no bridges OF
Inote except to cross the river. Then
| Bristol did not have a, single good
school house. Now there are eight,
and all, with single exception or two
lc0mmodious and convenient. Then
There was not 3 single church, now
there are five within the town, and two
adjoining it's limits. Then there was
mot store, nor place to buy or sell
an article, except, such as farmers buy
and sell to and of each other. Now
there are four stores, one harness shop,
one meat market, tailor and shoe shop
and carriage painting, and general
manufacture and repair shops, without
number. Then there was not a cheese
factory or creamery, now there are
four. Then there was no house, except
q school house, for q public gathering,
now there are two large and well fin
ished halls, beside the churches.
| Then wheat was the crop and Keno
sha the only market, then called South
| port. Then the wheat was cut with
the cradle and the grass with the
scythe, and both raked by hand Now
the mower will cut it's eight and ten
acres day, and the reaper as much
and more, and deposit it nicely bound.
Then it required eight yoke Of oxen
and three men to plow two acres per
day with plow, turning furrow two
feet wide. Now with the celebrated
Chicago screw harrow, one person with
three horses will plow, SOW and finish
up fifteen acres of ground in one day,
leaving it in better condition than
'could be done with the old pillow and
harrow in ten days. Then the only
means Of conveyance was the OK team,
NOW we have good roads, horses and
carriages, and a rail road passing
through the town. At that time there
was not railroad in the State, and
only four thousand nine hundred and
thirty miles in the United States.
Now the State has q net work Of R'R.
while the United States has seventy
nine thousand five hundred and four
teen miles, whose earnings for the year
eighteen hundred and seventy-six, was
$497 ,257,959. Then the telegraph was
in it's infancy, now it's lines number the
hundred thousand miles, crossing the
ocean from continent to continent
Such is the Improvement in this re-
spect, that people can talk and sing by
| lightning.
Then the girls dressed in calico in
summer and flannel in the winter
while the boys wore hard times" and
went barefoot. Then the common
school was the college from which most
of the youth graduated. They main
tanned their lyceum and singing school ;
and generally attended the common
school until grown to man and woman
hood; strong, robust and healthy, pre-
pared to grapple with the realities of
life with success. Now, with all the
advance in the method of teaching
and conducting common school, the
youth graduate at tender age, with
less knowledge; their mode Of dress and
living fits them for early graves, while
too frequently, if spared to engage in
business or follow a vocation Of theil
choice, failure marks too many efforts
i Pofsibly the lesson that the pi2ac7ai7as
times Of to-day may teach, will not be
without it's physical, intellectual and
4 moral effect.
Then men and women were measured
4 by the sterling standard Of noble mar
and womanhood; now it is the czothe.
they wear, the social and financial pre-
/ tense they assume.
: Them shdms were estimated at Their
true value, now they are higher thar
gold on "Black Friday and command
/, a premium in both the social and finan