The Western advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1872-1874, 1874-05-09

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The Council Bluffs Nonpor;el, speak
ing of the new arrangement to run
through trains between St. Paul
and st. Louis by way of Wogthington,
Sioux City and Council Bluffs, says:
I'm order to accommodate the large
Southern health and location-seekinR
travel that is expected to follow the
new line, arrangements are being made
to issue special lay over tickets, entl-
thing the traveller to lay over at
Sioux City, Council Bluffs, St. Joseph
and Kansas City, from one to two days
at each place If they so desire. We
predict that this new artery of through
palace and sleeping car travel between
the North and South will develop an
amount of travel not heretofore calcu-
lated on"
This will undoubtedly be the case in
the Summer season, and the travel will
begin a month hence. Among the
points ut which ''lay over" tickets will
be needed is Worthington. We have
great confidence in Graham Lakes as
Summer resort, and feel sanguine that
some such institution as we announced
recently as being contemplated will
before very long be established at some
point in the Colony. This new ar
rangement places us in direct railroad
communication with the very regions
which annually send swarms of health
and rest-seekers, and we can present to
them the first point after entering the
great State Sanitarium, where they can
have all they seek at moderate rates.
AN"EARL Y SETTLER"
Mr.. Allen, who lives in Ransom town.
ship, was one of the ''early settlers" in
Mobiles county, and one of the first of
the colonists in. To show how pluck
will get through, we will state that he
| arrived here with a family of four, a
yoke of oxen, a horse and $25 in money.
Instead of laying that s25 out in cost
ly house, with all the modern improve
ments, and then complaining about the
difficulty of getting on, he built a sod
house, gathered his fuel from the
''slough," sold his horse aud bought 4
plow and some other implements and
went to work. Now he has Il farm we'll
started, is ready to pull down his
''barns and build greater" and will
soon be better off than many who came
here with much more capital. He has
never been in debt cent and has not
titus far employed any help.
We congratulate the neighboring
town of Window on the closing of the
liquor saloons in that place OH the first
day of May. The Reporter says it
"hopes they are closed forever" So
I've it. We have demonstrated here in
the National Colony the advantage and
beauty of banishing that curse Of
American towns. the liquor saloon, and
we hope more of our neighbors will
copy our example.
During recent visit to the peat-bed
we saw a great many dead frogs in a
variety Of attitudes. Many of them
were standing erect in the water, COW
erd with ooze which gave them very
much the appearance Of pigmy Esqua-
maux clad in fur. In some places two
stood face to face, as if talking, and
with hands touching. They were prob
ably caught in the stream last winter
and frozen into the ice, which, on thaw-
ing, left them, standing and sitting, in
the water i'll i variety Of ludicrous atti-
tudes.
The St. Paul Pioneer copies our no.
tice Of itself under the new manage
ment and gives credit to the Windon.
A.luonce. The only way we see now to
make the matter even is for the Pioneer
to copy an article from the Window
paper and credit it to the Worthington
Exporter.
II. D. Bookstaver is tearing up the
ground around his farm with Sulky
Plow preparatory to planting trees.
Trees to the right of us, trees to the
left of us, trees III front of us, trees ev-
erywherc. Our people have trees ON
the streets, trees on their farms, and
we had almost said trees ION the
BRAIN" No kind Of planting will pay