The Western advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1872-1874, 1874-04-11
MATE NEWS.

VI DUO
The Southern Minnesota Railroad
Company have issued meal checks, pay
able at the car, which does away with
all swindling of landlords by brakes
men, or of brakesmen by landlords.
NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS.
Dell Rapids is to have ferry-boat.
Considerable building is to be done
in Spirit Lake this season.
The junior editor of the Spirit Lake
Beucon is building a residence, and this
if ground for suspecting him of matri-
monial designs.
The Heron Lake correspondent of the
Jackson Republic says 5000 bushels of
wheat have arrived there for distribu-
ton III Jackson County. Also that the
creeks in that vicinity are high.
The Rock County Herald Says that
DR.. Vary is preparing to erect a mill at
Lu Verne, and expects to be ready to
grind by the first Of August.
The Spirit Lake Beacon says: "The
county contains at present over 2,OWl
inhabitants, nearly all of whom are Ma.
! tive born. We have within IF borders
over twenty neat and comfortable
school houses, and there is not com.
nlunity in the State where more lively
; interest is manifested in education.'
! The St. Charles Herald says: We
learn that about three hundred fami.
lies OF Men lonities are expected to To-
cate in the western part of this and the
eastern part Of Cottonwood County III
Il few W; eks. We also hear the rumo1
: that barracks are to he erected ut Noun.
tain Lake for the accommodation IF said
families until they can become located
comfortably upon their farms.
The Matlelia Times learns that Mr..
J. G. Butterteld, will farm his large
farm in that county this year.
Baskerville, Iowa, has Il case Of in.
fanticide. \ Norwegian girl gave
birth to child on the prairie and left
it to perish.
! Sioux Falls expects the Southern
Minnesota; Railroad along that way il,
1875.
! 1t is said that a good quality of Goa
has been found Is miles from Dell Rap
ids.
The Commissioners Of Murray Coun
ty preferred charges against :. r. liar
ris, County Attorney. Governor Davis
dismissed the charges, as Mr.. Harris
Olli1fv np,1v nc - Il -
: If this is casse for removal, every office,
in the country may he removed at once
! L. NJ. Wilson, formerly Of Window
and now of st. Paul, has been held t.
appear before the United States District
Court in June: charged with forging
the name Of Mrs. Inman, of Cotton
wood County. o. u pension draft.
The ladies of LuVerne have organic
ell a temperance crusade and have in
tervieWed one saloon keeper.
THE TEMPERANCE CRUSADE.
! The Woman's Temperance Crusade
is said to he the most remarka: |,
event of the kind since the days of Pen
tecost.
At Toledo, some one asked the pray
ing ladies rs they came into saloo
whether the "women were sWarming.
\ lady promptly replied that "the
were tired Of being arones in the wor
Of the Lord"
The Toledo Commercial says tn
songs of the praying women can b
heard throughout the city. One saloo
keeper said he could not stand "Roc]
of Ages" 1t kept ''singing itself al
the time"
! A temperance revival is going on a
Austin, MINI. All classes are engage
and eight saloon keepers have bee
prosecuted.
i The n. Y. Christian Adrocatc says
"a friend. who has carefully counte
up the results of the Woman's temper
ance movement thus far, gives us til
following figures: Thirty-seven cite
and towns entirely freed from the liquo
. traffic; 1871 liquor saloons in Ohio
Indiana, and Illinois closed; and 81
liquor sellers not only reformed, b.,
hopefully converted to Christ! Con
: ment is unnecessary.