The Grange advance., 1874-04-01

TANS. BIXBY, Local.
Next Sunday is Easter.
- March went out like lion.'
1t will soon be time for new maple SUI
gar.
The weather has been "marching
along
-Gustave Berg has sold his photograph
gallery.
$500 was collected on freig received
at this station last week
There is young lady in this town who
is anxious to shoot somebody.
Field & Royce, the new proprietors Of
the National Hotel, take possession to-day
-Workmen are busily engaged on the
cellar Of A. L. Clum's new block, Plumb
Street.
Mr.. Lawrence advertises his new book
store this week on Main street with W.
Sherman
Hans Harmon, the man who was so &C.
riously hurt by windlass falling upon him,
is expected to live.
-Cogel & Betcher have begun e1cavating
for their new brick block, corner of Main
and Broad Streets.
Two street Arabs engaged in prize
fight on one Of our stree,s last week. Only
ore round was fought.
Fairbanks & Carney, the Manitobisns,
have removed their Office for the present to
River Falls, Pierce Co.
See among our new advertisements the
seed store of L. B. Wait, St. Paul, and pat
1enize home institutions.
Webster, Purdy g. Co. have sold their
bowling alley and billiard hall, on Main
street, to Mr.. Fritz Diepenbrook.
One week from yesterday the annual
city election takes place a Mayor, one
Councilman and one Recorder are to be
chosen.
The Presbyterian sociable At Mr.. Peter
Daniels last Friday evening was largely at
tended and was undoubtedly the most socia-
BILE sociable of the season.
The firm Of Vogt & Hill ere erecting,
on Plumb street, building twenty by thir-
ty-four feet and two stories high, for W. &
s. H. Haynes, harness makers.
The spring bonnet will be very large
and will turn up on side and down on the
other, something in the cavalry style. Of
course the girls will look killing in them.
The Republican says there were only
eleven marriages in this county last month,
and not twenty-five people married as stated
by THE GRANGE ADVANCE. Nothing like
being correct you know.
The Deacon objects to such local items
as Marry the man you love girls if he is
as rich as Croesus." He don't see the sense
in it, and says the following would be more
appropriate: Marry the man you love,
girls, if he is as poor as the d.
A young man who wanted to show his
great courage, ventured out on the ice near
the pier, one day last week and came near
being drowned. Next time he enters upon
such foolhardy exhibition Of daring his
friends should let him alone until he is
about "done for.''
"A number Of our sportsmen INDUCED
their propensities for sport last Thursday
and Friday by shooting large numbers of
those domestic pigeons. They infest the
city to such an extent that the City Council
have passed an ordinance permitting their
destruction.
"A party Of young scandinavians few
evenings ago went out to serenade lady
friend. They exerted themselves for about
half IN hour, when something white on the
door attracted their attention, which upon
investigation was found to be a card bearing
the inscription - House to Let''
The steamboat business promises to be
quite lively the coming season, as the COM
psting lines are making arrangements for
very low freight. The Diamond 10 Line is
determined to cary freight At the lowest
living rates. 1t is probable that the Keo-
kuA Northern Line will not be for behind
in the matter.
The Methodist sociable held last
Wednesday evening, at the residence Of Mr..
E. P. Lowster, CORNER Of Main and Bush
streets WAS Of peculiar interest. All who
attended enjoyed Themselves, especially the
young people Of whon there wss soodly
aunber. But what We want TO eall attsu-
lion TO 10 the 6aet thaa The leuss in which
th's social took p,sse is, psrAaps, the Old
ct building now standing in this city. Il
was built IN The fsll Of 1858 and 10 there
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