The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1876-12-21

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We had tliep pleasure, 81, dond last,
Ola tending : birthday party It the
residence Of our friend John Hansber.--
Eger, il :I!.oiaid.s Nj. Fl. having reached
tie .tllirtyeighth round in: the ladder,
Mrs. H.arranged. a little surprise for
him nm, and i wasl hard to ell;whicll had
the best Of it, isy,,rprise Of his graft
fication, as his:.friends came dropping
in upoli:l,im. There were present Nj.
A. lIaners and daughter, Mr.: "A. A.
Burton and lady, MI. D: Fego and IA
dy and Mr.. i. q. Camp and lady, be-
sides a lot of us children, Misses; M. G.,
V.hN., Oracle, aid Masters Geo. F: and
J. B. Togo; Miss Flora and Master Roy
Camp, and Misses Lizzie and Luella
and Master Willie Hansberger. Mrs:
Hansberger prepared a capital dinner
and everybody realized how much en-
joyment could be GRO xded into small
quarters on these bleak pr:liries. If
Mrs. II. will give two birthday dinners
a year, We'll promise to be there.
Christ. Nelson was brought before
Justice Bennett, on Tuesday, Oh a
charge Of stealing from the railroad
company. 1t seems that the company
had been missing candy, raisins, cigars
and tobacco from the cars since Octo-
ber last and they finally sent an agent
down to look the matter up: Nelson
claimed that some six other boys were
engaged in tile pilfering with him, and
it was thought best to compromise the
matter by the parents paying for the
stolen goods, and Nelson was dis
charged. -"-s 49,,
II this matter shall lead the parents
of boys to keep their children in at
night, and keep closer watch On them
it will have done some good at least.
The plea has been set up in Worthing!
ton that as We have no liquor saloons,
boys are not in much danger and may
therefore he allowed to. roam at large
ut night. But we see thai there are
other. evils besides drinking into which
boys may fall. For over two years
young Nelson has been almost i con-
slant loafer, running about the streets
until midnight, or train time, and often
raising ':old. Ned" He has never
lacked for associates to join him in his
mischief. Last winter we referred to
him and the set Of boys who ''made
night lideous,' in half serious, half
humorous squib, saying that the boys
up this way were: turning into dogs.
Every sensible man looked upon it as
a joke, but one having good point to
it. Our enemies at once seized upon it
and proclaimed that we had called all
the Worthington boys dogs. And tile
Worthington Journal, in Il recent num-
Der, charged us with referring to the
boys: ''witlout any qualification, as
dogs, bull pups and tistes.'' This i'll
famous lie, deliberately printed by the
Journal, was. intended to set the boys
on and stir up more mischief. Now
this constant defence of mischief and
wrong Ivy the Journal set is bearing its
legitimate fruit.
| Considering the age Of the boys, most
of them being under IS, and the fact
that this is the first offence of some OF
| them, we have no doubt that it was
best, all things considered, to settle
the matter us it was settled. And ".
refer to it only to enforce the lessor
which we have often tried to enforc<
through our columns, of the danger Of
allowing boys to keep bad company ant
proWl about TIE streets at night.
Little Mat Hyland had Il toy pisto
for which he paid 25 cents. He filled
it with powder and fired it off, and TIN
Journal paraded the matter before tin
public. But it denied that there wa
any shooting about the town OF an,
whistling of bullets, shot from revol
vers in the hands of grown people,
: This is cminently characteristic of tn
: Journal. Cover up the wrong doing O
the rowdy element but attack children
p who do not have strong friends to de
fend them, is the Journal policy. =.
Joseph Stone, of Graham Lakes, re
e Gently killed six hogs. He has som
nine head of cattle and is milking fou
8 COWS. lie saved his wheat over an
J. thus cheated the grasshopper, so tina
lie has bread for the winter, and Iii
stock to fall back upon. The farmer
= generally are learning how to head Of
. the grasshopper, and they will be til
: richer for it, i'll the end, if they wor
= into stock.
il B. F. Camp and family, recently G
: Minneapolis, have taken up their res
= dence with Mrs. Camps father, Mr.: A
t Haner, of Loraim, and Mr.. c. think
y of going into stock raising in til
4 spring. He comes at a time when h
t can profit by the experience of our frs
settlers, and begin at once an oper:
tin, Which &c ,1tnrotIar t1,a auraet an