Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-10-16
Cassville Notes.

Cassvills. Oct. I, 1879.
Uncle Sam has finally begun mile or
so above the village the long prayed for riv-
er Improvement.
Some emigrants and with them a large
lot of stock crossed the river on yesterday.
About 100 head, mainly young stock. 1t is
strange that those people leaving from other
parts come and cross here in the day time
while great many of our townsmen leave
between two days, and yet, all are bound for
the promised land. $.
Our dealers are taking in good deal Of
grain and produce. Potatoes are all the 20
now. Prior 4 Son, Grimm, Klindt, Geiger &
Go. are competitors, and parties have for
choice lots received as high as 35 cents
bushel, while Dubuque gu rotations are from
25 to 80 cents. On good wheat they claim
to be equally ahead.
Now we are nearly at the head Of navi-
CATION. The steamer Schule,,5erg has been
laid up here for eight or ten days, unable to
get over the bar at the mouth of l2-mile, or
Glen Haven slough. This morning a steamer
of lighter draught brought her feet of logs
and she went on her way rejoicing. The
.Scaulen6erg carries very gentlemanly crew.
from the roustabout up to captain very I'M
like great many other boats, and between
all Of them seems to exist a sort of family
attachment.
Our brewers, Abrath & Schmtz have
come in for divorce, and were duly sepa.
rated on the ultimo. But on the first Of the
present month Wilhelm took another part
ner to his bosom in the person of Mr.. Hugo
GRIMM Mr.. Grimm is a person of acknowl-
edged business qualific atoms, who will look
especially more to the financial affairs OF the
business while Wilhelm will take social
smile with his friends; cheer him boys. OF
ore thing we are assured by the new firm, !.
e. that they will furnish henceforth as good
an article of beer as any other establishment
s'-''''~S '''S i'rouus WIN customary d6ey
ein Bierehen.
MIR. Montgomery Meigs, U. S. Civil En-.
gineer and Mr.. f. w. Scheibner, Inspector
Engineer, U. S. have struck camp on the
Richards island and with about GO to rs men
have begun to dam up the slough between
the island and the Wisconsin, shore. These
gentlemen with their aid are busy the whole
day long directing the work at every point.
Some men are cutting brush, poles, &c, 9TH
ers forming RATS of them and Others piling
on rock to sink them to the bottom of the
river, while large force of the men are on
the face OF the bluff quarrying rock, and it
makes the hills tremble when is to 20 blasts
are touched oil simultaneously. So far they
have boated the rock, such as they could
pick close to the shore, but now they are
hiring teams to haul those quarried closer to
the work. Some of the workmen are rather
complaining OF the severity of the gentlemen
~ charge OF the work. in exacting punctuali-
ty as to time, but when they consider that
only one minute late for each one of 60
hands makes one hour, and 10 minutes for
each makes day, we can not see that the
supervising men do any more than their duty.
AT all events it is no road work It's ex,
pected that when the dam is finished and
the whole of the water forced through the
other channel, enough water will mass
thro ugh the same to carry boats over that
troublesome bar. Selfishness had |, d some
OF us to hope U. S. would dam the slough
above Glen Haven but it ist nisc6t