The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-06-07
Minnesota Gossip.
YELLOW MEDICINE.

YELLOW MEDICINE.
The Sentinel sensibly remarks that
the expenditure of a few hundreds in WING
daming the Minnesota River instead of spend.
ing thousands in surveys every wear. Womld
make good navigation for three months each
| season.
VIM. Dodge, of Minnesota Falls has
planted over q, 600 trees this season,
Eli Broughton does not aspire to the
fame Of Weston, o. Leary nor any of the noted
made the distance from Minnesota Falls to
| Redwood Falls and returned inside of eight
cen hours, and gets credit for over seventy
i've miles over rough, crooked prairie road.
STEELE.
The second examination of candi-
dates tor the naval cadetship, in the first dis
drict, is to be held in Owatonna, on the 8th
Sixty days in jail and one hundred
dollars tne was what q gang of three card
monte fellows got at Owatonna, for playing
their little game OH . greene from Brown
county.
The stable and granary of Geo. Nay
lor OF Merton, was destroyed by FIRE, last week,
caused by lightning. A spanof horses, three
OF grain were burned. Insured for $780,
At the time of the fire at Mr.. Nav
lor's in Merton, he sent his little girl to a
neighbours for help, when large dog attack
ed the child, tearing her flesh 50 badly that
| it was only by the Lest of care that her life
was saved.
FREEBORN.
Albert Lea has voted to give cattle
the freedom of the town.
A great grange celebration is to be
held at the State line between Freebern and
Worth counties. Miss Julia Garretson, said
N Id a 0r,1 o11
State lecturer Iowa, will deliver an address
It 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Withdrawn its trains to Austin, will soon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 he made with Mankato over the S.
NJ. and Central roads.
DODGE.
Several thousand cattle are being
herded on the low p1airies south of Kasson.
Dodge county was organized twenty
one years ago, and in consequence is now ttof
age"
Twenty-Five buildings are in course
of construction in Ka3son, besides those COM
menced several years ago.
The damage in Mantorville caused
by the recent storms have been mostly re-
paired by voluntary vork-all hands turning
out.
Several men who went from Dodge
Center to- Texas, several weeks ago, have re-
turned, satisfied that times are no better there
than here
1t is Mrs. Langley who is visiting at
Claremont station, and according to the Press
she ''dresses in the latest style and moves
with an easy grace that fairly lacerates the
hearts of local bellies" o, my!
FARaBAULr.
A dissection of COW which died un-
der strange circumstances, in Wells, revealed
a needle i'm her heart
The Central railroad has been leased
by the Southern Minnesota company, and
trains will he run from HOkah direct to Man.
kato, leaving Winnebago City to be supplied
by mixed train. So says the Gazette of
Wells.
Work on the branch road from
Worthington to Sioux Falls is progressing
finely. Tiss are going down lively.
The Advance man absented himself
from prayes-meeting last week and jawea one
Of his neighbors for reported attack On his
paper.
The first Indians yet seen by the
good people of Wosthington since the settle
ment of that place, camped near there few
days ago, on their way back to the Wisconsin
AuAAsAAA5 SuVuASAS.
G. Z. Sutton denies that Prof. Hum
iston invested money in the Northampton
mill. Mr. Sutton wants the credit for fur
nishing WorthiDgton with the best steam
Touring mill in the State, and he should have
BLUE EARTH.
Alf. Griffith. of Mankato has no need
to complain Of lack of attention on the part
Of the grand jury. Five indictments for
"raisingH wheat checks are filed against him.
House-breakers keep quiet citizens
of Mankato on the serrated edge from night
till morn.
Geo. r. Boynton, Mankato boy,
has been awarded the first prize by the New
York Academy of Design, and has entered
upon the study of portrait painting.
An encampment of ex-soldiers will
be held at Mankato ON the Sd, 4th and 9Th of
for all veterans of the war who attend, and
all are invited. Those who accept the invita-
ton are requested to advise Maj. Geo. Clarke.
The Central Railroad has been sold
at Sherif's sale for $l3, 500, but no transfer of
the property can take place until a question
of appeal is settled.
wABAsHAW.
A party of hunters armed to the
teeth with revolvers, Henry rifles and cheese
knives, made raid upon "den'' of wolves,
at Elgin, and after much labor unearthed
three of the ferocious animals which they at
tackled, each man with a brace of six shooters
in each hand. The doughty hunters tri-
umphed and returned to the village with three
pairs Of very small ears.
A man living in lakewood recently
found chunk Of copper which some iceberg
in the "dritt" period had taken from the
Lake Superior region and deposited there.
He thong Int he had struck Cent ennial wealth,
but will surely be disappointed.