Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-06-22

The Quaint Old Village Awakened
by Projections Prosperity
Wave.

During a few days stop-oyer ii
Beetown the succeeding items came 10
my notice, which you may consider
worthy of printing.
There has been quite a boom this
spring in the usually quiet town and
considerable building going on or in
contemplation
| Nj. c. Edwards has purchased the
nice village residence of Sam Birch
and moved in some two weeks ago.
Mr.. Birch has purchased thirty acres
of land off the south end of the Burns
farm adjoining the land previously
owned by him, and has now farm OF
using 4 hundred acres in one body,
and is now hauling the material for a
good two-story farm house, which he
will rush the construction of to enable
him to be convenient to his work. W.
G. Beers has building on Main street
nearing completion which he will use
for a shop and dwelling house. viii
Birch having purchased the Mccoy
building, has repaired and renovated
the upper story and will do the same
by the lower story when vacated by
Mr.. Beers. Joe Gerard is building 4
new barn. Win Bum will make an
addition to his residence and Clint
will build a new carriage house in the
near future. The NJ. f. church have
started the foundation for a new
church edilice.
The Parks cheese factory operating
here is an assured success, the supply
of milk increasing from week to week
and the product of excellent quality;
the demand for it being so urgent that
some of it has to be 'picked before it
is ripe" The company have had
much opposition to contend with but
have ''stuck to their job and arc pay
ing the farmers the highest prices for
their milk, and it is to be hoped that
their enterprise will net the owners
fair profit.
Would like to compliment our town
officials on the new sidewalks they
have built in the village recently, but
it is impossible as they haven't done
it, and pedestrians are forced to take
the "middle of the road rather than
put life and limb in jeopardy on those
blamed old series of traps that line
our village streets. Those in the near
vicinity of the church are especially
dangerous and execrable. Somebody
or something will have to be .'re-
moved" before long or there will be
broken limbs and a broken town
treasury,
M. c. Edwards during the week
ending June Sd bought and shipped
nine hundred dozens of eggs which
goes to show that the strike is off and
the biddies are attending strictly to
business, ignoring the attempts Of
Slimpkins and Jimpkins of the Bee
town board of trade or Rob, the curb
stone egg broker, to get a corner,
bull the market and raise the deuce
generally with all interested. But
Rob retired with hundred per cent
profit and the others with the same
per cent loss. The deal is over and
the market is steady and quiet and so
are Slimpkins and Jimpkins, only
more so.
Wreckage from the Colesburg cy-
clone was scattered in profusion over
the west and north part of Beetown,
consisting of shingles, lumber, books
and papers and clothing in fragments
of all sizes. Mr.. Ben Myers picked
up eight yards of new calico twisted
like rope with knot neatly tied in
the middle. The high winds have not
done any great damage in this vicin-
ity, only to timber, sheds and wind
mills. Rit Stephens lost part of the
roof of his dwelling. Henry Hudson
came near losing his building used for
a saloon, one end being blown out,
but Tom stepped in and took hand
i'll the matter and choked Mr.. Cyclone
off, leaving the remainder of the
building moved few feet on the
foundation.
The continuous wet weather renders
the prospect for good corn crop