The Western advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1872-1874, 1874-06-13
CEMETERY MEETIN

CEMETERY MEETING.
The Trustees Of the Worthing Gene
terry met OH Monday last at the Colony
Office. The organization was complet-
! ell by electing DR.. r. d. Barber, Treas
urer, and A. p. Miller Actuary. It
WAS decided to apply to the railroad
company for fifteen acres, instead of
ten, on section % near the East Lake.
Also to have the ground plated and
surrounded with hedge as soon as
possible. Stock is to he issued imme-
diately in ten dollar shares, which
shares are to be received at their face
value on lots purchased.
COIL SIOUX FALLS
The Sioux Falls independent says
that coal has been discovered in two
places III the neighborhood Of Sioux
Falls. In Wayne township, a vein of
about two feet in thickness, mixed
with earth and water, was found while
digging we'll. The vein descends OBJ
liquely and improves in quantity as the
depth increases. at another place,
seven miles northwest of town, vein
was struck while digging we'll, at a
depth Of only 10 feet below the surface.
The farmer who made the discovery
brought large quantity Of samples to
town.
We have no doubt that coal will ul-
timately be found in large quantities
throughout this portion of the West.
Those who have given some attention
to the subject believe that there is an
extensive coal deposit in this county
in the neighborhood of Graham Lakes.
Nothing seems to afford the drinking
''drummcrs' who travel through this
country and their drinking friends, SO
much comfort as the petldling of sto-
ries calculated to injure the temper
ance people and the temperance hotels
in Worthington. First, it was story
that two of the most respectable ladies
Of Worthington had engaged in a regu-
lar hair-pulling fight at the Worthing-
ton Hotel. Then, runner reported
III Rock and Jackson counties that the
proprietor of a leading hotel had APP
pied to the relief committee for cloth
ing and was wearing an overcoat con-
triDuted by the runner himself And
the latest story is that clerk at a
leading Worthington hotel was recent.
~ seen i'll the parlor in q state Of help
less intoxication. The whole brood of
stories arc of course falschOOls of the
grossest kind, and the Rock County
He,T.|d and the Jackson Republic ought
to he ashamed Of themselves for open
ing their papers to every runner and
irresponsil III mixer who may choose
to invent falselood. They will soon
he as bad as Wootlhull's Weekly.
The lie Mars Sentinel, Of last week,
speaks of the busy aspect of the place,
and gives the following reasons for the
lively business which the merchants
are doing:
In the first place the town has a To-
cation which, considered from Il purely
commercial standpoint, is unsurpassed
in the State. Then our merchants are
enterprising to au,lacity. They keep
the largest and most varied stock of
goods in the Northwest, they advertise
literally in the SENTINEL which goes
everywhere, they treat customers with
the greatest urbanity, and give value
for the money they receive. There is
nothing the farmer raises that he can
not dispose Of here to advantage, and
there is nothing that he needs that he
cannot purchase on favorable terms.
And again, Ielnars is accessible from
every point, good roads and good bridg-
es leading to it from all directions.
After reading this, we counted the
advertisements in the Sentinel and
found nearly ten columns Of home adj
vertising. This, we should say, is pref.
ty we'll done for Il town but little, if
any, larger than Worthington, and it
shows what kind of business men are
making I4emars trading centre.
STORMS.
On the fourth, storm swept over OF.
tawa and Rockford, Illinois, uprooting
trees, unrooting houses, and terrifying
the people. This storm extended into
Wisconsin, doing some damage at Mad.
ison. On the 18th, another tornado
passed over Tampico, Illinois, totally
destroying twenty-one houses, and in
inrinu all tho hOnsps in town num.