Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-02-14
PIatteville Items.

from the dalena Gazette.
we MADE Drief VISIT to Piatteville last
week, but not sufficient to take notes very fully.
During the early part of the winter Platte
vile, like the other cities and villages of this
neighborhood, suffered stagnation of trade
on account of the bad condition of the roads.
but since pork, grain and other products COM
menced to move, business has been lively.
n. Fl. Virgin & Son bought 1000 bushels of
grain in one week. J. 3. Mccoy has shipped
100 car loads of live hogs this season. q.
Hawley g. Son are handling large quantity
of dressed hogs.
w. Meyers, the well known harness maker
has sold out his shop to w. Meyers jr and
Peter Pitts. Both of these young men have
been employed in the shop for some years and
| are good workmen.
d. Wilson, the fruit dealer, has taken out
| the partition between his store and restaurant,
| throwing both rooms into one, making light
| cheerful store. He has abandoned the res
taurant business, except to dish up oysters in
their season. He deals in staple and fancy
groceries, fruits of all kinds. confectioneries
ETC., at wholesale and retail and does a gen.
eral commission business;
Moellar & Gartmann have a roomv pleas
ant cigar store, where they deal in smokers
articles generally, and in the rear of the
! store is the mandatory, whore they turn out
large quantities of the best Havana and do
nestle cigars.
The Methodist people Of Platteville are
erecting a beautiful church ediace which will
cost about twelve thousand dollars.
The services of G.. d. Streeter, as auction
| eer, are in almost constant demand, and he
has sale nearly every day. They say up
| that way that Streeter can get away with
| more goods in given time than any other
| man in the business.
S. w. Huntington and A. w. Kemer have
| formed partnership IN the mercantile bust
| ness, to succeed S. w. Huntington & Co.
Our excellent friend, Charles Henderson, of
| the firm of Henderson g. Gribble, has quit the
| road temporarily, and is in Platteville making
the acquaintance of his family.
| 1t is greatly to the credit of the people of
| Pla.teviile that they manifest lively interest
| in the State Normal School, located at that
place; an institution of which they may well
| be proud. Through the politeness of Hon.
| Hammer Robbins, whose influence contributed
| much towards locating this prosperous school
in that village, we were invited to visit the in
stitution. Edwin A. Charlton, A. NJ, a
| graduate of Dartmouth College, and gentle
man of fine scholastic attachments, is at the
head of the Faculty, and is assisted by eleven
teachers. The building is large and roomy,
the rooms light and cheerful. There is a fine
cabinet of minerals, fossils, birds and curiosi
| ties. The institution is literally supplied with
musical instruments, there being piano and
| some five or six organs. The building is heated
with furnaces from the basement, which keeps
an even, pleasant temperature, and in many of
| the rooms growing vines Irvine themselves
around the pillars, and pots of green plants
lend an air of cheerfulness and refinement to
the surroundings. Music and drawing are
among the branches taught in all the depart
ments. We noticed, even in the primary de-
partment, scholars from eight to elt ven years
old who could read music with readiness
that was astonishing for children of that age.
This school has turned out many educators
who stand high in their profession. The pres
ent number of students is $50.