The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-05-03
MINNESOTA NEW ITEMS

MlNNEoUIA NEW ITEMS
Fergus Falls brags over it's brass band.
MantOrville has 1913 scholars enroll.
ed in it's schools.
Dodge county wolf killers must wait
a year for their bounties.
The musical mosquito has already
opened the campaign of '76.
Losses by prairie fires are more MI
merous this spring than usual.
The Washburn mills at Anoka have
been started up for the season.
Steel rails are being laid on the river
road between St. Paul and Winona.
A steam elevator will soon be rum
ming in the St. James hotel of Red
Wing.
Not single St. Cloud girl has taken
advantage of the leap year privilege Of
getting doubled.
len teams and thirty-three men late
ly arrived at Red Lake River, in Polk
county, to found colony from Mime
apolis.
The dwelling house and entire con-
tents belonging to John Everson. of
kandiyohi county were destroyed by
prairie fire last week.
The Hokah Blade, Lanesboro Jour-
nal and Preston Republican have all
gone to the Wall-that is to say, the
Wall family owns them all.
Peter johnson must support his ille-
Ultimate child in Wright county. or
Wright county must support Peter in
jail. Such is the decision of the ST.
preme court.
Two college students came very near
drowning at Northfeld, last week.
They approached too near the falling
water below the mill dam, and their
boat was capsized.
The editor Of the Saltwater Gazette
has been treated to mess of salmon
raised in lake near that city. There
are 900 left in the same pond, be-
longing to the State.
j. Watson, of Red Wing, has gone
to England where he has discov-
cred the missing link which enti-
ties him to 81, 90, 10000 in bank and g.
900 acres of land. Next.
P. Trump, of Taylors Falls, went
fishing, few days ago, and had re-
markable success. 1t is affirmed that
the last Trump sounded for six hun
dred of the finny tribe on that day.
Some of Litchfeld's Good Templars
are practicing s'Ten Nights in Bar
Room.' A number of them have got
as far as the seventh night, and others
having completed the ten have begun
over again.
Rev. G. W. L. Wright had a mar
row escape from drowning at Wells,
recently. His buggy was overturned
in a slough where the water was
beyond his depth. but by persistently
sticking to the floating vehicle, he f.
nally got ashore.
The claimant of the three-horse
clevis patent has put in all appearance
at Mantorville, prepared to give bond
for 800, 900 as a guaranty of good faith,
and wants his royalty from all Mime
sofa farmers using three eveners.
He has employed the ablest counsel in
the State.
Mr.. Turner, of Waseca county went
all the way to York State to find a
decent place to live, and on the same
errand returned all the way to Mime
sofa before he found the locality so
much desired. He was absent just
thirteen days. Moral: ''Better you let
well-enOuph Alone -
A little child, two years of age, wan
dered away from his home in Renville
county, last week, and was not found
until the day after his disappearance.
When found he was lying with his face
to the ground and his arm under his
head, not at all injured by his nights
exposure to the frosty air.
The Pennington Press contains a
prominent notice that the editor don't
want any new books of agents, nor
does he want life insurance. patent
lamp, fy-trap, or clothes line. Deal
ers in those commodities are notified to
keep away from the Press office, on
pain of receiving rigorous applica-
ton of the editors boot.
AN AUTOGRAPH LETTER OF LINCOLN.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, WAsH1NGroH,l
November IL, 1861. !
To the Hon. Secretary of War: