The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1875-07-30
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A brief visit to this lively town dur
ing the week enabled us to take in a few
sights of our neighboring colonial burg
and enjoy the hospitality of the good
people who make up. its enterprising in
llabitants. They lack only the beauti-
full groves, the attractive bluffs and
pure well water to have as nice 4 town
as Jackson. We will admit these are
very important oversights on the part
OF nature and losses that our neighbor
probably often has reason to regret,
still there are many features about their
town to be admired. They have NOR
al, intelligent and go-ahead class of
people who are alive to every interest
that rebounds to their advancement,
THEIR GRIsT MILL,
with lis five run of stones, is perhaps
the brag institution of the town and it
certainly is worthy to boast of. 1t is
turning out a superior quality of mid
dlings flour and furnishes work for a
number of hands and makes home
market for a large amount of wheat
from tile adjoining country. At pres
ent wheat is shipped III for grinding.
but when grasshopper days are over
what that mill will consume will be but
drop i'll the bucket compared with
what will find a market at that point.
We doubt whether it is so advantageous
TO a town as a custom mill, still it is a
good branch of industry to have in a
town and has Il tendency TO draw class
of business that woulu otherwise find a
different outlet.
THE WORrHINGTON HOTEL,
kept by our friend Daniel Shell, is an
other thing that our neighbor has rea-
son to rejoice that it has in it's midst.
Its capacions apartments, and it's popu-
lar landlord cannot fail to call hither
not only ordinary travel and patrons,
but pleasure seekers will find Il tempor-
AIRY resort that cannot fail to please
their most faStidiOus tastes Shell is
certainly keeping a first class house in
every articular-attentiyea and affable
to patrons and supplies his tables with
not only suDstantials, but delicacies are
abundant and his prices reasonable.
His patrons 60 away satisfied and inva-
riably recommend his house. This is
what we intended by this item, and our
conscience is easy when we say a good
word for Shell.
THE LAND OFFICE
is doing a fair business, and it was
pleasant to linger there brief season
among that familiar looking Office fur.
niture that once graced quarters in
Jackson. Messrs. Grinager and Moul.
ton are proving very popular officers,
and with Charley Goodnow for clerk
they are showing those WORKOUT plats
and explaining to grasshopper settlers
the rulings of the Department in regard
| to homesteads and pre-emptions and
timber claims with neatness and dis.
patch"
TWO NEAT CHURCHES
furnish their citizens Il pleasant place
to spend portion of the holy Sabbath
and we learn all the different denomin-
atiOns represented are well supported.
MILLER HALL
is one of the institutions of the town
and is where we listened to very cred.
| liable musical entertainment given by
the Methodist Choir, and which would
have been q credit to even a larger and
| older town.
OF course we called 1T the
ADVANCE OFFICE
| and had Chat with Miller and found
him grinding out items for the AID.
VANCE and apparently contented. He
is publishing good paper and we hope
lie can some day afford as good an office
in which to print his neat and lively
paper as the Republic occupies.-Jack.
son Republic.
| STA TTSTICS OF HERSEY TOWNSHIP