Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-01-02
Waterloo Wadding.

The dictionary says wadding lie "a
kind of soft stuff of loose texture,
need for sluffing garments. That.
what this correspondence is--a kinc
of soft stuff OF loose texture. The
use is not the ssuffing OF garments
though, but the filling of newspaper
columns But who will pretend to
say that waddiog is not good thing,
in newspapers as we'll as in winter
garments
The ice on Grant river is from
eight to twelve inches in thickness,
and will bear heavy load any where
between this point and The Missis-
sippi. Travel by the river route to
Dubuque and other places below is
becoming general. Do you know
that the source of Grant river has
been traced all the way to the town
ship OF Mt Ida ? IT'S local geo.
graphical fact. Hereafter, in time
of back. water, Waterloo people can
go to Lancaster by river and rail,
making their way to the streams
source in canoes and taking the G.
d /. narrow gauge at or near Weir.
ly Station. Some forty years ago,
the men by whom Waterloo was
frat settled Burt, Ashley. and 9TH
ers--came down the river in boats
aud landed at this point one lovely
evening in June. They pitched their
tents. tarried over night, and were
so we'll pleased with the locality that
they made up their minds to return
before many days and begin q sys-
:ematic subjugatlon Of the wilder>
mess. They returned, and for many
years thereafter this was one Of the
busiest and m oct noted places 10 the
country. Farms were "opened,"
houses built, sawmill and q grist-
mill erected, and material concerns
of various kinds conducted. Nearly
all the timber used in the manufac.
ture Of the we'll known Burt reapers,
made at Dunleitb, came from the
then interminable and apparently
inexhaustible forests of Waterloo.
But of this enough for this time.
Two mills were inaugurated
here the past week-a windmill by
Mr.. A. Mink and a stove.wood saw
mill by Messrs. Klarman & vReed.
The duty eff the former is pumping
water for Mr.. Ms stock, but there
doesn't seem to DO wind enough to
make it 60. At any rate there is
seldom northwest wind enough to
make the water come, and ii the
thing doesn't do better when the
wind is in different quarter, / I'm
afraid friend Mink will have TO drive
his stock to the river and continue
cutting holes in the ice all winter, as
at present-which is not e pleasant
job, say what you will, ard must
have the same effect on some con-
stitutions that pumping water out of
Peruvian silver mines had on the
heart of the lamen.ed husband of
Mrs. Pipchin. the cgress and child
quellsr in Dombey and Son." Mr..
M. thinks it's the hill behind his
hose that breaks the wind and
keeps it from getting fair chance
at his mill. 1t that is SO, the only
remedy will be deep cut or a tun-
mel through The hill The aforesaid
sawmill goes by horsepower, and it
goes, too,-goodness, how it does gol
Almost any hour Of the day you can
hear it hummiDg awsy among the
bills and woods of Waterloo. The
proprietors are Jake Reed and Char
ley Klarman, and Schulter helps
me to state that should their horses
ever give out Charley will be bund-
antly able to run the machine with
wind Of HE own manufacture From
which one may infer that G X. likes
to talk-to give the boys wind, as it
were.
Down with the dog tax says every
body in this neighborhood. The
men who made that law, say some,
must have been horse thieves or
were addicted to the piife:iDg of
poultry. For, look you, the noisy
presence Of demolition bow-wow
does interfere, in q measure, with the
surreptitious midnight pursuit of
horse-fe SD or the peaceful entrance
Of ye granger's hen house. Here's
fine chance for Judge Mills to
make himself solid with the masses
in this par. of bis district
A new blocksmi'h shop has just
been opened in this village, with Mr..
Walter Groom at the forge. Two
blacksmith shops is pretty good for
a place like this Hope both Mr..
Graham and Mr.. Groom will have all
the work they can manage, and
more too. But the coming of snoth-
er blacksmith saw the departure of
one of our shoemakers, Mr.. Ben
Reed, who has gone to drive pegs
and pull threads at Osterdock. Iowa,
. brisk town on the Volga Valley
railway. some miles inland from
Turkey RIVER Station on the G. c.
D. & NJ. r r.
Mr.. 10 Doll, | am sorry to record,
is not quite as "peart" az he might
be this winter. Don't know what
ails him, but have been confidentlaIIy
informed that his indisposition arises
from that thin "fiat" physic which
he and many another good Demo-
crat were compelled to swallow with
their sustaining Democratic Bour
bon, last fall. Mr.. ID. would Just
like to see himself taking some more
of that stuff.
Two more fine deer were killed by
the Reed Brothers last week. If
they Eeep on as they have begun, it
will not be long before all the veni.
son in these woods is consigned to
the frying pan. Was it Hamlet or
Ophelia that sang
Let the stricken deer 60 weep,
Tho hart unyalad MAY: