Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-08-10

EARLIER days were passing sway.
Dur mail Facilities had greatly increased
and improved. Our population was in
creasing in numbers, farms we're being
more extensively cultivated, better and
more substantial buildings were being
erected. The necessaries and luxusies of
life were more readily obtainea The
markets for our surplus products vSreget.
ting nearer, and the bad effects ofthe war
are gradually disappearing. Many ofthc
younger members of the communitYs had
grown up to be men and women, and all
are now filing the various avenues oflife.
Some abroad, others uniting their hearts
and hands together are travelling on that
road of love and hope, filling the social
relations OF life that are so highly priced
in the adornmcnt of enlightened commune
ties. Others there are that the revolving
wheels Of time have carried beyond the
lights and shades Of earthly .oys and
mingled them among the immuabilities
Of time and eternity. i a.-
Let us emulate their virtues AMI remem-
Der them in hope. "'Tis sweet I, die and
never he forgot"
We come now to The last perbd, from
1870 to the present time, the hstory Of
which is familiar to you all, andnot nee.
cssary for me to rccite here. nylancing
over it however we are compelld to no.
tice some of the changes that haze occur.
ed among US. Such as the building of
churches, school houses, the enlrged fa-
cllities of trade, the extended agricultural
improvements, tue variea pruduct1 d the
busbandman, SC. Better ndnore com
Portable buildings have now been erected.
Places of business are now more mbstan-
tial and imposing. The high standard of
our religious, moral, benevolent md po-
liticsl societies; the graded school, the
circulating library; all these indi:ate the
moral thrift of the people, and slow the
bountcous returns to the hand of honest
labor. The prosperous outlook has at
times been marred by those sad social ca.
lamities incident to all the variet condi.
tons of human life; among which was the
loss of that gallant and esteemed friend
Col. Henry c. Rogers, stricken Gown in
the prime Of life by the wounds II had re-
ceivcd while fighting his count1s foes.
Loved in life, his death was deepfmourn.
ed by his relatives, and greatly lamented
by his hosts of sorrowing friends. The
high position which he had filed rough,
around his bier from various pal$ of tho
State, those high officials of Suite who
were his political companions anil broth
ers,-come to drop tear at his grave and
bid him the last farewell. Our dear de-
parted Henry, thy remembrance y sweet
We forget thee not.
Thehigh social privileges We occupy here
today can be traced back, and found that
we in a great measure are indebted fol
them to the sterling worth of the women
of those earlier times,-among whom )e
me mention Miss Eliza johnson, the first
young lady that had residence in TIL.
township. And from these teginnings
with their examples and influences t,
help, has radiatcd, like fthc ripples OF
the CLASSY lake, those moral principle:
that are the adorncment of lite and til.
hopes of humanity.
And now let me say in closing this re
view of days gone by. In this Ccntennia
year of our nations birth, standing her
erect in our manhood, beneath the fold
of freedoms flag, that of all tllos,
things We have which arc good, virtuou
and noble, and of those qualities and a,
tainnents which elevate the mind an,
render life agreeable,-in THIN We ma,
be cqualed by other rural settlements bu
we are cxcelled by none on the contincn
America.