The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-04-06
MINNESOTA NEWS ITEMS.

- lAANN1UVAA NhVO llE@E,
WnoHA has got the spelling school
mania.
ANoKA Union In view of the coming
food hadn't you better learn to swim
IRIS mumps that arc troubling the ay-
erage St. Peterite at the present time.
TIMBER is being hauled on the ground
for the new steam Touring mill at Fergus
Falls.
Mr.. >. H. STANTON has Commanded
work on his new Touring mill at Sank
Rapids.
A FIRE at Duluth on Monday DESTROYED
half dozen unoccupied buildings, inciud-
ing the old Globe hotel.
| Rev. Mr.. GARDNER of Faribault. has
received and accepted a call to the Con
gregational church of Monroe, Wis.
Mr.. j. H. STEWART of 'Vinona, formerly
Superintendent of the Winona & St. Peter
railroad, is about to remove to Chicago.
IMMIGRATION in Lyon county has already
commenced for this season, four or five
families having moved in during the past
week.
A POST of the G. A. r. was organized
at Saltwater Thursday evening, with B.
G. Merry commander and r. Siebold
quartermastcr.
Mr.. NE1s. JOHNSON Of Rushford was
stricken with paralysis while breakfasting
with his family Friday, the 10Th, dying
the following Friday.
A PIECE Of Sank Rapids granite, re-
curing six pair of horses to haul, is be-
ing dressed for shipment to Chicago, where
it is to form the base of monument.
A HOUSE owned by Mr.. NJ. Emery, of
Lake City, was struck by lightning, Tues
day night, but no damage was done be.
yond frightening TIE inmates.
c. H. BERRY, Conrad Bohn. C. c.
Beck, H. D. Perkins, G. W. Bennett and
Mark Wilson have been elected directors
OF the new National Bank at Winona.
Mr.. GEO. G CHAMBERLAIN has once
more become proprietor and editor of the
jackson Republic. Mr.. Chamberlain is
welcomed back to the newspaper frater-
nifty.
Rev. WV. B. CHAMBERLAIN, pastor of
the Presbyterian Church at Redwood
Falls, has received call TO Colorado.
and will leave for his new field of labor.
April 5th.
The Sank Rapids Sentinel commenced
volume three with its issue of Tuesday.
The Sentinel is one Of the neatest papers,
geographically, in the State, as it is one
of the best.
The logs cut on the Upper Mississippi
and ST. Croix and Rum rivers the past
winter will aggregate about l50,O0O,0OO
feet, very large shortage as compared
with the winter of 1874.
The father and mother of Judge Abner
Lewis of Winena, both died on the same
day, the 28th Of March, at their home in
Jamestown, N. Y. The father was aged
03 years and the mother 90 years.
NOTWITHSTANDING the large amount of
grasshopper suffering in our State, J.
Picket of Fergus Falls, has made up and
forwarded large box of clothing to the
same class Of unfortunates in Nebraska.
MISS ANNA K. OLEsoS, charged with the
murder Of the infant found at Rushford,
some two weeks ago, was discharged after
AL examination lasting three days, the
testimony not warranting her detention.
! The Fergus Falls Journal wants to pit
Mr.. 5. A. Wolcott against Benham, the
St. Peter weather man. Mr.. Wolcott
predicts prevailing south and southeast
winds during the approaching spring and
summer. New for Benham.
A ''TREE PLANTERS Uk1oN'' has been
organized in White Bear Lake township,
Otter Tail county. The object is to buy
and gather in company young trees, cut
tings and seeds of trees. and obtain infor-
nation Of the best method of planting,
etc.
The Lake City Sentinel complains that
the thieves of that city are so ''low down.
mean that they will hang around fires for
the sole purpose of stealing the buckets
! volunteered by merchants and neighbors
for use in quenching the fire.
The Liberty Blade, the new temper
Isance paper published at St. Paul, is soon
10 be issued weekly. instead of once
month. as now.
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