Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-09-16
Weriey Politics and Rel1gion-Busi.
ness Notes-Trip IN Iowa.

wtriey. September 1, 1880.
-Unless something is said or done soon
the readers Of the HETALD will think our
quiet Essle city is gone where the woodbine
t"ineth. But | arise in behalf Of the little
city to brush such thoughts away The idea
suddenly struck me Que day (ii didn't hurt
me much though What was the reasen Wer-
ley couldn't get up either a Garfield and
Arthur or Hancock and English Club p
There is quite a batch Of old hardheads of
both parties here. We could rent the town
hall very reasonable nd-well-but-I don't
know what we would do for seats. Well, we
could on pinch sit down on the floor and
let our legs hang oyer-if the Greenbaekers
didn't nibblo our toes on the under side.
am no politician don's belong to either
party; but do like to see business before
play. Let me say this 20 every voter in the
county, whether he be Democrat, Republican
or 6reenbacker. Vote to your own interest.
Do not sell yourselves to either party. Stick
to your own ticket. Walk boldly up to the
polls, and if the candidates of your party are
men capable Of filing their offices vote
straight ticket, do not scratch Or (bite) but
roll your ticket up saugly, as though it was
hundred dollar bill. Slip it into the ballot
box and heaye sigh as you repeat one of
the ten commandments" blessed is he that
doeth right for he shall inherit the kingdom
OF heaven" / did not intend to turn my ar.
ticle into political or religious matters, but it
is done, 50 apologies are unnecessary. will
now proceed to business where left off:
The farmers of this section are all busy
threshing which makes business rather dull
at present Not much grain coming IN to
market. The recent wet spell las put thresh-
ing back two weeks later than usual.
Mrs. Elliot has added one more building
to the town in the way of q neat little barn
opposite her store room.
Mr.. LOOMS has also erected barn ioin-
ing the lumber yard building. Farmers com,
ing to town now with produce can have their
teams put in barns and fed, and accommoda-
tions for themselves in the way of meals at
reasonable rates.
-Messrs. Haze & Kephart contractors aud
builders are having rush of business as
much as they can do. Their equal in fne
work is hard to be found.
Mr.. Tenants saloon is not patronized
very much now on account of the plentiful.
ness of the apple and cider crop Mr.. Tenant
te nds the ware house now believe
i must not forget to mcnt ion the rev
lime kiln recently erected here by Mr.. Lance
1t has capacity of 60 barrels. Mr.. Lance
has already burnt three kilns He has no
trouble in selling as his lime is No /. He
expects soon to enlarge his kiln to near
double its present size. Mr.. lance says it Is
his intention to keep fresh lime on hand in
the future and will sell reasonably.
The fruit crop in this section was never
larger trees breaking down with their bur-
den, The acorn crop is immense. If swine
were free commoners corn would be useless
for fattening at present The grain crop is
an average yield. Fall blowing has COM
menced among some Of our farmers.
i made flying trip to Iowa the 10th of
August Passing through Dubuque and Jack
son counties. ! found everything in a aour-
ishing condition 1t was very wet. 1t rained
for six days. Candidates there are plenty:
they are thicker than Minnesota mosquitoes
in swamp on wet day. In the town of
Maquoketa (the county seat of Jackson coun
ty) there was Hancock and English club or
ganized with five hundred members. A Gar-
field ard Arthur club with about six hundred
members. Dubuque and Jackson counties
are two of the wealthiest counties in the
State. Maquoketa, sabula, Andrew and Bel
levue, are the principal towns in jackson Co.
Tho harvesting and threshing was over when
left there, September 6th) and farmers
we're busy blowing and cutting up corn. The
wheat crop was tolerably fair, averaging from
eish: to thirty>fve bushels per acre. incud-
ing spring and winter wheat. Corn was dam.
aged a great deal by the drouth during July
and August. The corn leaves were dried up
so they ratified like paper There had been
no frost when l left but some very cool nights |
which made one think of the future.
G. HAw