The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1875-01-22
THE ADYA.vCE-TRB RELIEF

! THE ADYANCE-17B.R ELIEE. III
The following letter is one more of
many which we have received, all hear
thy endorsing the tone and character Of
the ADVANCE. Had we yielded to the
foolish clamor Of illjudged men, en-
co,raged by politicians, we should not
now have had these emphatic express
sions Of approval, and, what is infinite
~ worse, we should have incurred that
self-contempt which neither gods nor
men can endure. We can assure Mr..
! Shafer that we shall continue to pub
lisll an outsl'oken, straightforward,
honest newspaper.
AS to relief for the destitute, We say
to MIR. 5. and to all our readers abroad,
SEMI all you can. Our people need both
food and clothing, but clothing and bed
ding especially. There was no doubt
some suffering during the recent cold
snap from lack of sufficient clothing
and bedding. In some instances, the
little children are barefooted and rag
ged. If every reader of this article
would do rs Mr.. Shafer did, viz: send
out the children to solicit for the desti-
tute little ones of this region, there
| would soon he enough clothing here to
make lie more destitute children COM
Portable for the winter. Boots and
shoes, socks, stockings and yarn will he
especially acceptable. Send contribu-
tons to 1. r. Durfee, Chairman Board
of County Commissioners, Worthing-
ton, Mobiles County, Minnesota. All
contributions delivered at the office of
the American Express Company, Nos.
-, n and rs, Monroe street, Chicago,
directed as above, will I've sent free of
charge:
MoRGANrowN, w. w.
Dec. 80, 1874.
! EDITOR ADVANCE: Enclosed find Or
der on Il. F. uumistOn for 81, which
amount please place 10 MY credit on
! subscription. lcannot t. ink Of having
the ADVANCE stop it's weekly visits to
my house. We are more interested in
it than in any other paper take, and I
am taking several. like yo,t, independ-
ent style Of speaking oet and keeping
nothing beck. Let us have the facts all
the time. Ne live ut great distance
from you and we want to know lust
how things are going along. I am in
terested i'll your Colony and expect by
and by to be one of your citizens. I
own property in your town. BY all
means stick to the truth.
also inclose to I. p. Durfee, Chair
man Of your Relief Committee, a Post
Office order for $40 IS. You will please
! hand it to him. A few days since I
started my two little children, i'll COM
pany with two OF my neiglbor's children
Of about equal size and age, two and
two, to solicit aid for the grasshopper
sufferers. They brought in over $4O.-
So we have divided it equally between
Minnesota, Kansas, Nebraska and Ar
kansas. The contribution is not large
but you will receive it as the children s
holiday offering, and if more is needed
| will start them around again. If sec
ond hand clothing, is needed, direct
what kind and how to send.
j. r. SHAFER.
HOUSE b URNED.
On Tuesday last, about II O'Clock,
the house of Hiram Toms, who lives
on Section in Ransom Township, was
burned, with nearly all the contents.
Mr.. T. had made larger fire than u.s.
ual and was heating water for the pur-
pose of scalding 4 pig. lie left Mr..
Belknap in charge while he went to
the house of Mr.. Chas. W. Dow, about
one-fourth of mile distant. Mr.. Bel
KNAPP went to the stable to do some
work, and while there, the house caught
and the fire was so far under way when
he discovered 1t that he saved only a
trunk and few smaller articles. Mr..
Toms and MIR. Dow saw the fire break
through the roof, and the latter mount
ed a horse and rode at full speed, but
arrived to late too be of any service.
How the fire caught is not known.
The stove-pipe hole was covered with
tin which kept the pipe three or four
inches from the roof Mr.. Toms loss
is between 500 and $500. He had just
got out of debt and comfortably loca-
ted, and the loss falls heavily upon
him. A subscription paper is being
circulated and sufficient will be raised
to start Mr.. I. with another house.
SEED GRAIN.
Mr.. Soule informs us that during his
recent visit to St. Paul he conversed
with members Of the Legislature colt
corning the grasshopper victims, and
founda very decided conviction among
them that the people ought to he sup
pied with seed grain for the coming
season. Some of the members had al
ready partly matured plans, one of
which is to give each suffererer who
has sufficient ground prepared at least
twenty-fiv bushels as a gift and loan
as much more as will I've needed, taking
the obligation of the farmers.
We feel sure that some such aid from
the Legislature can be confidently
counted upon. The members feel that
the men who have lost two crops and
are still plucky enough to stick to their
claims are too valuable to be lost to the
State and that every encouragement
should be extended to them. The
State can do nothing better for its