Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-03-06

DON CESAR
Writes an Istefestins and Spicy letter From
Boscobef.

were dead. and thereby lost as factor
to the community in general; assuring
every one that Boscobel still lives. gay
and happy, energetic and liberal, watch
ing out for her own interests, yet never
niggardly in anything she undertakes
for others. While we have railroads to
the south of us and railroads to the
west of us, Boscobel still stands the
same, full of business. not the least
danger of any extinguisher being placed
on our little city. No matter what
thoroughfares may be opened in the
future, our large business houses and
consequently heavy competition in bust
ness. guarantees prices and brings trade
long distance. You can go on our
streets any day and find people who
have come with their teams thirty or
forty miles to sell their produce and buy
their supplies, having passed other
points for the purpose of reaching a
market where competition is brisk and
stocks complete.
This has been an unusual busy winter.
Hundreds of thousands of hoop-poles,
ties, stave bolts. and wagon timber of all
kinds, have been brought to town and
found ready sale. We have had our
regular supply of amusements, too, this
winter. Lectures, dances, parties, soci-
ables, ETC., ETC., and now our brethren
of the M. f. Church are having great
revival, and no doubt much good is
being done. l have often noticed that
when the warm-hearted, energetic
brethren of the Nj. E. Church get their
grip on sinner, he will have to come
to time without any more fooling. At
the present writing the roller rink craze
is having run; married and unmarried
people, old and young, in one grand
conglomeration found. Stamping their
feet on icy pavements, waiting at the
hall door for the proprietor to open up.
can be found many people carried away
by this, to them, new attraction l tell
my sister-in-law that | am afraid on
many table, and in many an other
wise well ordered house, the breakfast
and dinner dishes remain too long I'M
cared for, but she, poor, deluded woman,
don't take it to herself. 1t is an old
saying, but none the less true. that
everything has its day. Let us hope it
may prove true of roller skating, and
that those who afford so much fun for
lockers on, may find some other more
sensible amusement.
The trains on the Chicago, Milwau-
kee and st. Paul railway have run all
winter without Interruption The facili-'
ties of this company are such that any
fall of snow cannot blockade their
roads.
The municipal affairs of 'the city are
in fine shape, and during the year now
drawing to close, less rowdyism has
been witnessed on our streets than ever
before. An efficient City Marshal.how-
ever, has something to do with the
latter.
Quite an excitement exists in the Vi
entity of Wauzeka, Crawford county,
over the finding of a copper mine. The
location is about eight miles from this
city. The sheet of copper is of the aver
age thickness of eighteen inches, and
lies about twenty feet from the surface
of the ground. Parties are prospecting
in same locality for the large body of
lead mineral which is supposed to be
located in that neighborhood, from the
lead found in small quantities there
abouts. 1t has been twenty wears, off
and on, that parties have been looking
for this copper mine, there being an
old tradition TO the effect, among old
settlers, that vast copper fields were
there concealed. The Indians also tell
of large quantities of copper being
found there at an early day. These
barren bluffs in old Grant and Crawford
must contain something of use. That
they are not agriculturalla lands, any one
can see; and as we all have been told
that nothing is made in vain, / do
not doubt but after while they will be
made to yield something of wondrous
value that now does not appear to the
human sight. Why not find diamonds
there as well as at Eagle or Waukesha?
If there is one thing more than another
that Boscobel has to be proud of, it is
her public schools. And while | do
not desire to be personal in this com
munication, justice compels me to say
that under the supervision of that able
educator and gentleman. Prof Will
loughby, than whom there are few, if
any, superior in our State, the Boscobel
schools, with their half a thousand
scholars, have rapidly advanced to the
front rank. Nor is the work entirely
his, for nowhere can be found a more
able corps of assistants than he has.
From the looks of the show windows
here, one would think that we were to
have the festival of the Mardi Gras.
Upon inquiry, have ascertained that
all this preparation, all these uncouth
costumes and curious shapes are for the
grand mask ball to be held on March 3.
Boscobel's fun loving people, her beauty
and her chivalry, will be there, and it
would be but slight stretch of the i'm
agination to fancy Old Rex the King
in their midst. If | do not have to
leave on the morning train, shall be
on hand with my sister-in-law.
One of these days | will give you an
account of that sister-in-law of mine.
but it will be when the weather is more
comfortable than at the present writing,
so if | am not permitted to stay at nv
boarding house, | will not freeze to
death camping out.
As | look out of my window this cold
winters night, Sunday, the air so full
of drifting snow that the moon casts no
light upon the earth, and listen to the
bowling winds, piling heaps on heaps
of snow, cannot help but feel that we,
of this northern country, have much to