The Haug Store at Spillville kept records of their retail prices for the early years. We assume that they were much the same at the establishments of Erick Anderson, Barnard Hakenson and Henry White.

RETAIL PRICES IN 1859

By the year I860, the town boasted, a blacksmith, Peter Alward; a millwright, Winfield Owens; a tailor, Henry Merrick; a hotel keeper, Oscar Gruin; a grocery score proprietor, Barnard Hakenson; a carpenter, Hans Hanson; a merchant, Henry White; a clergyman, Peter Wedgewood; and the following school teachers: Anna Limbeck, Rachel Reed, Charlotte Wedgewood, Inez Porter and Emma Sawyer.

The total tax collected in Military Township for the three years—1858, 1859 and 1860—was $467.72.

The township war committee in 1861 was composed of M. J. Woolsey, Hosea Bullard and Mr. Sawyer. Captain C. E. Brooks and C. E. Sanger were the delegates to the county war meeting. The township's quota of volunteers to service was set at five.

The members of Capt. Cleghorn's company with an Ossian address were: Eugene Tubbs, drummer; Charles Ames, Pvt.; Abner Bloomfield, Pvt.; Silas Baldwin, Pvt.; and Patrick McClusher, Pvt.

The pay for military service in 186l was; Major General, $469 a month; 2nd. Lt. $103.50; sgt. major, $21; private, $11. By August of that year , the pay of a common soldier was raised to $13, and a bonus of $100 in gold promised at the end :f the war.

The produce markets this year, as listed in the Decorah Republican, were: flour, $l.75 to $2 a sack; wheat, 40 to 55¢ a bu.; corn, 20 to 25¢ oats, 15 to 18¢;