Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-12-17
THE SEAT OF JUSTICE
OF GRANT COUNTY.
A City of 1000 Thrifty PeO-
pie, Elegant Churches and
Excellent Schools.
The Home of the Kelley Institute.
A State Institution that Accom-
DfSheS a Great Good Work
Our Manufacturing and Business IN
tereStS. together with Sketches of
Our Leading, Progressive People.

OuF LeddIng, PF0gFeSSIUe PeOpie.
The phenomenal wealth of many of
the smaller cities of this state together
with the prosperity that obtains through
out them, evidence of which is manifest
on every hand is a marvel to all outsid-
ers. Lancaster is no exception to this
rule unless it is that prosperity is even
more general in our city than in others.
The secret of the success which has
come to our people is due partly to the
character of the men who compose our
population, who. by years of sturdy and
well directed efforts, now lind their re-
ward in q full fruition of their hopes.
While, it is true, the same efforts put
forth in almost any locality would have
been productive of good returns, yet
when expended in a region So highly
favored by nature as is our portion OF
the state, nothing short OF wealth and
competency could result. Lancaster, the
seat of Justice of Grant County, is stu
ated on the line of the Chicago and
Northwestern railway, in almost the
exact center of the county. The city has
a population of a little over 1000 people
and is in the very heart of the richest
and finest farming land in the United
States. 1t is from the occupants of the
fruitful acres of this region that comes
the BIG trade of our merchants, and to
our farmer friends is due the fact that
our stores are so large and we'll stocked,
affording our people advantages in buy
ing equally as good as enjoyed by dem
liens of large cities. To fully realize
the beauty and wealth of the agricul-
tural portion of this big county, one
must take q journey on the great North
western railway or the Chicago
Milwaukee and St. Paul route, both
of which traverse a large part of the
county. From the car windows along
these lines is beheld the most embracing
scenes of pastoral life afforded the
traveller anywhere. The country is
rolling prairie land, dotted with the
farms of our prosperous husband
men, whose fields bear crops un-
equaled IN amount by any portion of
the globe Much of the land is dotted
with valuable timber whose foliage pre-
sents pleasing picture contrasting
with the fields of grain. The farms of
Grant County are all valuable and are
all nicely kept and we'll stocked. The
homes of the farmers are costly brick
or frame edifices, not surpassed in any
agricultural region in this or any other
country. The yield of the farms in this
region, where a failure of crops is un-
known, has resulted in placing the
farmers in position of independence.
and in most cases that of wealth and
affiuence. The prolific and constant
Yields of the farms of Grant County
has Justly earned for this region the I'M
disputed title of 1.-The Garden of the
West" 1t is in the very midst of such
a favored region that our prosperous
city of Lancaster is located lying like
sparkling jewel in rich setting. The
County Court house is the center of the
city and occupies an entire square filled
with handsome shade trees, and sur
rounded by beautiful lawn, which has
been the scene of many interesting and
eventful meeting, On the north side of
the Court house and facing Monroe
street is seen the handsome monument
erected by patriotic people, directly
after the close of the war, TO commence
rate the names of the brave boys who
wore the blue in the late civil war, and
fought and died that the stars and
stripes might long wave and that our
country should be free to all regardless
of race or color. The monument is
handsome white marble obelisk, twenty
four feet high, the top of which is sur
mounted with the American Eagle hold
ing in its beak a laurel crown. The
monument is fianked on four sides by
smaller white marble pillars six feet
high on the sides of which are engraved
the names of the heroic dead, each of
the six pillars is surmounted with can
non carved in marble, all going to
make a tribute to heroism of which our
city is justly proud. The Court house
is in the exact center of the city, the
principal business houses. offices and
hotels occupying buildings facing the
county building In this respect it is
purely western, though of late years the
business portion has shown an inclina-
ton to branch off in diverging streets.
The Business Portion
Of Lancaster is housed in substantial
brick buildings, many of which are four
stories in height with plate glass
fronts, and carrying stocks of goods
which for size and variety is not looked
for outside the larger cities. Every
business man in Lancaster is in the en-
ioyment of satisfactory trade which is
not to be wondered at, in view Of the
prevailing prosperity.
Rents
are not exorbitant in our city, though