Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-07-08
Cassvllls Notes Tie Fourth The
High Water The Wool Story.

casssille. July 0, 80,
--FRIEsD PoiLocK Our Fourth OF Ju.y
is past. Our people, per force Of ire um-
sances, first, because on the fourth il rained
and secondly from an ever plast?) Of piety,
celebrated on the 9th, and why While the
9Th Of July is national holy day as well as
tie Sabbath, why can il not be kept in a
becoming manner en- its happening on the
Sabbath Our Liberty pole was ssdunderep,
into kindling wood month or so ago and
patriotism is considerably on he wane. The
old lag had 10 be suspended from bed. cord
across the streei between the post Office and
drug store as the only place where seeming
ly the article, patriotism, is yet sprouiing.
The Mississippi is receding almost as
fast as il came up, and is nov pretty much
within its banks. The water was here scant
i3i inches above high water mark of 1870.
though according to the Dubuque Daily
Times the water reached the mark of 1870 in
Dubuque several days before il came IN 10
il here, and must have been considerably
more above the mark Of 1870 at lis highest
than 1871 inches, but the difference lies here
in Dubuque has filled up sloughs, built
streets in the shape of entertainments across
the ISLAM up to the main channel and thus
forced the water into smaller compsss,
while at Cassville II feels no hindrance and
opposite CassVille, below Turkey river. Sic.
vens 4 Bartlett have cleared off large tract
of timber land and converted il into a corn
field and have thus, in removing the timber
and underbrush, given the water free Es'-
sage. Only for this il is believed the water
would have marked considerable higher here.
--Ou, enumeration shows some falling off
in population. Iowa has come in for good
share of our former residents. The total
population is 1902, or which Gil are in the
village and 69i in the country, the latter on
10 farms, large or small, the small being
the more numerous.
-Copious rains of late have pretty well
cleaned UP after the high water, washing the
sediment deposits back into the Mississippi
and thus giving us some assurance Of "a pretty
healthy season on the river.
Il see in last weeks HERALD (see Water.
loo notes) where TRAMP demurs to my state
ment that ]. Kuenster had received $500. 90
for one load Of wool. would merely hin,
TO TRAMP that he must be bogus-neyer
tramped beyond the realms of Waterloo, for
in Cassville, according TO our Enumer a.or Is
figures, the sheep average 81 pounds to the
fleece, while he (Tramp) allows only ST
pounds to the sheep. He further allows US
only IS cents per pound for our wool while
we got -, And lastly he both underesti,
mates the capacity of our horses and over.
estimates the bulk of our wool, for a sncL
containing 100 pounds of wool will hardly
accommodate 40 pounds Of hay. That fac,
at least ought to be patent TO any ten year
old tramp. He ought 10 have distracted
enough TO know better. To sum up, first.
sheep fed on first class tame grass and clover
pastures turn off better feeces than those fed
on dry hazel brush and rotten fence poles
Second, the wool raised on wen-fed and
pastured animals will command better
price in the market than your poor article
and the same is applicable 20 the capacity Of
horses. A well fed team on a good road
can comfortably draw tons while the Ger.
tifcate of Klindt, Geiger s. Co. shows this
load to have weighed only $500 pounds
consequently it was little more than Wat,
erloo load. As for the snake story, that i:
not properly Cassvile production. The
original was produced in POtosi -ther
Snake Hollow-in 1929, long before Tramp
and s. were on American soil and it has
undergone many changes. Tramp had bet.
ter try and find which is heaviest pound of
wool or pound of hay. S.
Cassvllls, Wis July 9, 1880.
This will certify that we bought May %
1880, of Jacob Kuenster, Esq, one load o
wool, $500 lbs, at 32ets. $500.
KLINDT, GEIGER & Co.