Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-05-22
Hard Times Busted Business
Lovely-City Airs and
City Deeds.
CAssyILLE, MAY IT, 1879.

CAssyILLE, MAY IT, 1879.
FnESp Pollock: Hard times-that is the
word you hear at almost every street corner.
And yet, in looking over our business house
one would be compelled TO disbelieye it. Our
merchants have all filled their shelves to
their utmost capacity and they must indeed
expect large trade. Prior & Son have filled
| up twice this spring so have Klindt, Geiger
4 Co. Otto Rsinke makes fine display of
all goods the farmer wants and so does John
Bernhard, F. Binkert and c. Knapp. These
all carry general stock Of merchandise.
Our mechanics have plenty to do. In the
blacksmith and wagon line, Scharfenstein l.
Son have their hands full of work, and they
| do indeed put up as fine carriages and from
that down toa cart as any shop in the west.
Frank has been travelling and this accounts
in great measure for their style of work.
F. Beilharz is the genius in the smithing line.
At his shop you can get anything done, from
the finest tinkering on gun to the repairing
OF any machinery in use, and the space be.
tween he Hills up with wagons, plows, horse
shoeing &c. A Daache is none the less a
genius, but tired of smithing, he has turned
granger 1. E. culiivator of the soil.
Our builders have full work to do. Hess
Elmer, ma ons, are putting up fine res
idence Of back on Main street, for VIM.
Wrieiz. Foehringer & Dinner are doing the
carpentering
M. Kuechenbers has built an addition to
his billiard hall and his building is making
quite respectable appearance, and thus you
see new buildings all over town.
F. Fuertscher, the painter, is nearly run
down. Everybody and his neighsor has q
Job of painting and paperlng for him, and all
want him rig hit now. Poor Ferd, in order to
accommodate all, has TO cut Sundays in two
and weekdays in three.
And besides thus identifying the houses,
number of our citizens have begun to plant
evergreens and other ornamental trees in
their yards. This is step in the right d.
rection, and should be encouraged.
We are, in fact, beginning 10 put on
primary city airs, and maybe some of these
days we may "shuck" our village jacket and
put on city cloak. At all events we have
considerable of the city element in our
midst. Only week ago the front window
OF Otto Reinke's store was broken in with a
club and several pistol shots fired into the
ceiling. This of course was not for theft as
tho rniscraanta n al fabian noth;o~ ,-:.b g..
which certainly they could have, done. Our
large boys generally make the night hdeous
with their yells ami cutting up, and for such
a city marshal and ity ordinance would
be wholesome medicine and is almost the
only remedy.
Mr.. E. Engler has lately bought the piece
of land above the village plat, Immediately
above Wyota street, Gladly cut up by the
furnace branch) and has put every available
man at clearing it, and is widening and
Strengthening the branch, giving il abundant
capacity TO carry off any ordinary flood, and
has already wrought remarkable change in
the topography of that portion of our future
city. This will make one of the best build
ing spots in the place in the uear future, and
besides that, the improvement of the branch
will in future prove great benefit TO the up
per portion of town subject to overflow from
that little stream.
The river has been exceedingly low all
this spring-in fact at as low ebb as ever it
has been during my acquaintance with it
he, for % years. But late rains up north
now promise to give us good, boatable
stage of water. Since last Friday morning,
the 10th, we have had nearly two feet rise,
and with this freshet the lumber and log
RATS are coming down in swarms, and grain
is beginning TO move OF more lively.
On last Friday the ARKANSAS, Diamond
Jee) took large cargo, 300 sacks of oats
for Prior & Son, besides aIot of barley; all
so about 500 bushels OF fax seed for Klindt,
Geiger & Co., besides lot Of potatoes and
other freight. -. A. Klindt of the firm OF
Klindt, Geiger & Co., started last Monday
for Europe on visit to his aged parents; left
New York on Saturday the 18th, and expects
to return about the middle of August, wish
could have gone along bur must be satisfied
to go along with him mentally TO view the
old trampng ground. 8,