Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-06-01
Minnesota Matters.
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WASHINGTON.


Saltwater has six temperance orga.
nizations with membership OF over 1000.
Log men unite in the opinion that
this has been the best driving season for
many years.
The Pioneer-P Press, etc., SAYS tho
friends of Ebenezer Ayers are thinking of re-
moving him to the insane asylum.
Thirty.four carloads was the daily
average Of -four and wheat shipped from
Saltwater to Duluth, last week.
Saltwater base ball batters bounce
balls on Sunday, when rain storms come up
which soak all hands, including J. N. Castle.
The Minnesota State Sunday school
association is to hold its eighteenth annual
convention at Saltwater, commencing June
18th.
Something like three hundred thou
sand salmon fry remain in possession of the
State fish commissioners, after all calls have
been attended to.
The Catholic total abstinence union
of Minnesota will meet in Saltwater Oh the
18th. There are sixty-ive societies in the
State, numbering over eight thousand meme
bers.
Another shotgun suicide, by care
Hart, near Saltwater, was cleaning loaded
gun when it was accidentally discharged,
killing the young Hart almost Instantly.
wINONA.
There are 10 paupers on the Winona
poor farm.
A telegraph line for the benefit of
mill owners has been built from Winona to
Beet Slough.
The mill-dam of Forbush & Smith
and of Mowbray, Winona county, were dam
aged-not sly-by the floods Of the
! A new urnva nf Dr,;lls -.'..a ;.,e+;t..+o1
in Winona Oh the 23d with charter men,
bership OF over ~, all Of whom were Scandi-
navians.
On Monday, at WinOna, two gam
Black and ". NJ. Major, were sent up for
ninety days for petty swindling.
FILLMORE.
An iron bridge is in process Of con-
struction over Root river at Spring Valley.
crackers for the Fourth. What will Inde-
pendence Day amount towi thout tre-crack-
ers
Some of the hailstones which re-
Gently fell III Fillmore county weighed one
pound and six ounces, and measured between
eleven and twelve inches in circumference.
Spring Valley boys go about with six
shooters in their pockets as if in momentary
expectation Of a Sioux raid from the Black
Hills. A bad practice for either boys or men.
Mr.. W. A. Carey. residing in Frank
ford was recently drowned in Deer Greek
| while attempting to cross with his team. The
water was high and his team got off the
bridge.
Preston Republican A New York
firm wants to sell us a machine called the
''llealth Lift" for part pay and part adver
tising. The old woman is "health litt''
enough for us. She raises us clear Of the
the ground sometimes. N. B.-We don't
need any Centennia! correspondent, either.
| FREEBORN.
Albert Lea has voted to give cattle
the freedom OF the town.
n great grange celebration is to be
held at the State line between FreebOrn and
Worth counties. Miss Julia Garretson, said
to he torcible and eloquent speaker and
State lecturer Of Iowa, will deliver an address.
1t is rumored that the Burlington,
Cedar Rapids and Minnesota railroad, having
withdrawn its trains to Austin, will soon
build upon the old line from Plymouth, Iowa,
via Northwood to Albert Lea, where connec-
ton can Ike made with Mankato over the $.
NJ and Central roads.
GENERAL.
The prospect for apples, crabs,
plums and other small fruits were never
more favorable in Rice county.