The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-05-10
minnesota Matters,
OI.MSTED.


found guilty of selling liquor to Peter
Nancy, an incorporate person. Col.
George imposed fine of SIS and costs.
One william Smith who lives in Ohm
sted Co., took his team and dragged in
wheat all day Sunday. Squire Morrow.
seeing him, Smith had the little sum
of five dollars to pay for his Sunday
work. He is noted for working SIM
days.
Every quarter section in the town of
Pennington, available for agricultural
purposes, has now been brought into
requlsitiOn, and the town for real
wealth and financial prosperity ranks
foremost with any in the county or
State.
Last week Mr.. j. o. Morris sold his
farm of $50 acres, lying in Cascade
township, to Mr.. J. &. Gillespie for
$4,000. Mr.. Morris has, since the sale
purchased section of land in Mower
county near Grand Meadow.
A citizen of Rochester, writing from
Iloga county, n. Y. May LIST, says:
This May Day we find about two inches
OF snow on the ground which is frozen
hard, and no prospect Of its thawing
out to day, as the wind is still bowling
In the north. trust our Olmsted
county farmers will remember that
Minnesota is not the worst place in the
world nor has it the latest spring
Seeding is about half done here. It
has rained every day except two since
the 18th of April.
DODGE.
The Centennial will be celebrated at
Dodge Center and Philadelphia. There
will probably be some small gather
lngs at intermediate points.
We understand that the three-horse
evener men have secured the services
of Ex-Governor Davis. to defend their
rights in the approaching infringement
suits.
There will be a meeting of an exec
utive committee of the Old Settlers
association at Mantoryille, May the
10th, to consider propriety of holding
the next meeting of the association on
the 4th of July, either in connection
with or separate from other celebra-
tons.
There are three settlers on the St.
Paul & Pacific road who will each
break one thousand acres of land this
season. while there are some who will
break in the neighborhood of one hun
dred and fifty acres.
\ correspondent of the Litchfield
News Ledger, writing from Medford,
Mass, says: minnesota is, to-day,
better off than Massachusetts. In Min
nesota about everyone inclined to be
industrious can earn his living; in
thousands are living on
the earnings Of the past, and thous-
ands of others on hopes that may new
eI be realiZed.''
FARIBAuLT.
The Winnebago City, (Minn.) Press,
speaking of the transfer Of the Min
nesota Central railroad to the st. P.
l. S. G. company says: ':From our
stand point we cannot regard the
Sioux City railroad and Southern Min
nesota railroad in any other light than
that of being rival interests, (espec-
tally it the latter is extended to Wor-
striving largely to control
the through business Of this section.
We hope the approval of the transfer
will be defeated, and if 4 change is
made the Southern Minnesota will con-
troll the Central.' 1t strikes us that
ga rival and Independent line east
and south would be just the thing
which the people of Wells need. Com
petition is the life o. business.
The editor of the Waseca Leader
paid visit last week to GAINESVILLE and
to c. A. DeGraff's 1900 acre farm,
| 800 of which are in high state of cul,
tiyation. The Leader says:-::There
is now on the farm sixteen head of
horses and colts; five
pure-bred bulls; forty fine breeding
5ows; seventy head OF sheep; large
number of blooded COWS, etc. Among
the novelties to be seen, we may men
ton that four elk, two deer, and a
number of wild geese roam at will
over the fields, seemingly contented.'
STEARNS.
A carelessly and unlawfully started
prairie fire burned the grainary stable,
fanning-mill, reaper, harvester, sundry
tools, 400 bushels of grain and other
OF John Joyce, of Orange.
His loss is heavy. No insurance. He
has refused to accept as sufficient in
1emnity 100 bushels of wheat offered
by the party who set the fire.
WASHINGTON.
Awaiting shipment at the Saltwater
depot are l ,250 barrels of flour, $4,000