The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1877-05-03

here is IL SllSllnS VIM ABOUT Miller
that | admire, though / might get
knocked down myself by it.
". B. AKINs.
AN" OPEN LETTER" FROM AlR. AuEs.
In a communication from Mrs Lucia
G. Bell, published in the Worthington
Journal of April 26, entitled can Open
Letter to Mr.. and Mrs. r. F. ULmis-
ton,'' the writer has made such a pre-
sentation of herself us exhibited in the
spirit and style Of the communication
that the reading, intelligent people Of
this community will have no difficulty
in understanding and approaching: In
regard to the subject matter of said
communication, there appear certain
statements which, if true, indicate that
we have been laboring under great mis-
apprehension.
|. She says "the members of this
Committee were Mrs. Lucia G. Bell,
}. Alncs, Mrs. Il. +. uumiSton II. l..
Lackor and Major Bell.'' Is this cor
rect statement OF the members OF this
committee? Was not Prof. r. +. Hum
lston made u member Of this Commit
tee by the same motion and vote by
which Major Bell became member?
=. She says I" the Committee was ur-
ged to meet and devise some plan of
systematic work." Is this true? Did
Mrs. Bell, us Chairman of this Commit
tee, ever call a meeting of this Commit
tee to consult upon this or any other
subject? Ii she did, we have no kn0Wl-
edge of it.
3. She says, sit became necessary
for Major Bell and myself to visit each
one personally in order to get any deli
mite expression from them ut all. A
plan WAS finally adopted with the cor
dial consent Of each member Of the
Conn.,, since it ShOuldereu all the work
upon somebody else } and was embod-
ied 10y them III Il report which was pub
llsheu i'll the Worthington ADVANCE
OF March 80" Can it he possible that
Major Bell and myself are the only
two Individuals on this Committee WHO
take any interest in and are willing to
20 anything to encourage tree planting
and forest culture in this county?-
What motive could have actuated the
Chairman Of this Committee in not call
ing the Committee together for consul
tHtlcn and mutual cooperation, but in
place OF this gets up 4 plan of her OWN
Oy which she takes upon herself all the
responsibility and then goes around and
visits each member of the Committee
and secures their signatures to her pro-
ject and report? Now, in the light of
all the circumstances transpiring in
connection with this history, what are
we to think when the community is full
OF reports OF prizes and medals being d.
warded for trees planted when only dry
sticks were stuck in the ground, and
when a majority Of the members of this
Committee unite in q request to the
Chairman that meeting of the Com
mlttee be called to make report of their
doings, and after having been invited
to meet at her house for this purpose,
and are then received with such ex-
presslons as these, You are sticking
your noses into what is none your bust
hess " 1.-The Committee has washed
it's hands of the whole work and placed
it in my charge +" Il will not make Il
report to amy self-constituted Commit
tee whose motives, am fully convinc-
ed, are neither generous, public spirited
OK honorable :" Let the most cllarita-
Ole construction be placed upon this
whole affair. j. AMEs,
Member of EX. Com.
On Tuesday last, the State of Mime
sofa, which held Methodist Block for
delinquent taxes, assigned its title to
II. D. Winters, the amount paid being
$506,51. We hope MI. Winters will
not follow q conspicuous example and
eject anybody.
Mrs. Secretary Sherman wears pearl
silk, with white lace, her corsage, open
to the waist, being filled with foamy
illusion.-Toledo Blade.
The last tine we saw Mrs. Sherman
she wore a satin octoroon, pompadored
with blue tapioca and fluted all a.
round with tloating farina. She wore
her hair scrambled and trimmed with
blanc-mange. We are not in the dry
goods business, but we know clothes
when we see them.
j. G. G. George, of Window, has been
selling off his stock of goods 1T auction
preparatory to leaving for California
we have printed several posters for
him, as he prefers to have his printing
done at first class office. OF course
they have :; printing office up there, but
then little provincial offices can't ex-
pect to do work with a city office.