The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-05-11
RED WING AND VICINITY

1t didn't rain, it poured, in this city,
Friday morning.
S. j. Hasler is to inspect the explo-
sive qualities of benzine in our city.
Joseph and Albert Wilkinson are
running the hardware business at Still
water, MINI.
Beheng & Scherf have moved into
the corner store lately occupied by Sim
mons & Stradnes.
1t is luxury to just sit and breathe
the pure air furnished by the wonder
full alchemy of Heaven to dwellers in
this land Of pure waters and blue skies.
The Opera House Festival cleared the
neat little sum of $275; the gross re-
celpts having been $3l6- This is GER
tainly pretty good showing for these
times.
You will be attentisely waited upon
and Will find:as good an assortment of
goods as were ever Brought to this saar-
ket at the store Of Simmons, Allen g.
Co., on Main St.
There was never finer growing wealth
'er than the present. All nature seems
to rejoice. After the thorough washing
and cleansing that the face Of nature
got last week, she ought to rejoice.
Do not forget to visit Zikelback's
Philadelphia Marble Ice Cream Parlor,
where you caR get ice cream -dished up
in style that will bring the most deli
catepalate under everlastihg obligations.
Sir Knight, Andrew Allen, Recorder
Of Red Wing Commandry, No. 10. also
Of Red Wing Lodge, No. 8, A. F. & A.
NJ, has accepted a lucrative position in
an agricultucaleware house at DEBORAH,
Iowa.
Resident property is getting valuable
in our city. Sheriff Chandler paid, last
week, FIVE hundred dollars or at the rate
of fifty dollars foot for ten feet of land
adjoining his property, fronting on 5th
Street.
John Hart, Jr. was the lucky young
man that drew the .Zi-kelback Opera
at the Festival, Thursday night. The
House has found resting place for the
time being, on the top of Mr.. Zirkel-
backs line Soda Fountain.
Mr.. .Roath was up ct 3 O clock, AM.
Monday, arranging his new stock Of
Groceries Who can compete with a
man who opens up his store at three in
the morning? :"The early bird catches
the worm,7' but what advantage is it to
the bird to beup before the u orm, is
around
Simmons, Allen Is Co. have reftted,
swept and garnished and taken full
possession of the stere of Simmons o.
son & Bush, have the shelves loaded
with a splendid stock of goods and are
prepared to welcome and wait on. in a
perfectly satisfactory manner, all of the
customers of both the old firms to whose
business they succeed, as we'll as new
customers who are attracted to their
store by their large stock, low prices
and splendid business facilities.
The GoodAue County Republican
has given up the task Of criticising the
bad grammar of the GRANGE ADVANCE,
and gone to laying down grammar to
the editors of the British Quarterly Re-
viev and Blackwood's Magazine.
Stick to spelling and the English Gram
mar gentlemen, and you may be of a
little service to the rising generation, as
editors of a newspaper your chances
are poor.
The sociable at the residence of MIR.
J. S. Allyn, on Wednesday evening
was largely attended and muchly en-
joyed- In the promised spell for a
boquet, in which half a dozen, mostly
Of the older people, Joined, Master Will
lie Hobart carried off the boquet. For
For the young people the spell had lost
its spell, "Copenhagen" took all the
charm out Of it, and Knocked it highe-
than kite. Spelling is popular but
stands no show by the side of kissing.
How can this be other than thus, in the
full blaze of the light on the delights of
this old but popular pass-time that has
come in floods upon the people since the