The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1877-06-13
BENTON.

f. + BENTON.
Whooping cough prevails among the
children at Sank Rapids. >. The Pine River
and Hillman Brook log drives, consisting Of
reached Sank Rapids =: j. c. Pattcn Of Sank
Rapids had the middle finger of his left hand
SO badly smashed with sledge hammer that
| he will lose it,. The hopper war in the
neighborhood of Sank Centre has been at
| tended with the most gratifying rcsulst
| wAsECA.
Martin Krassin, aged 81, who first came
| to the county in 1854 and settled the following
year, died on the LIST inst. .Waseca village
has many attractions in the way of fishing,
boating and driving. The Sunday school
convention held its annual meeting at Waseca
recently, and was well attended.
WABAsHAW.
The Mississippi, with the aid of the re-
cent rains, rose AZ inches and then went into
decline. "A man named Bill Hines has been
| arrested and lodged in Jail, charged with at
tempting to rape Norwegian girl. Peter
stoll, of Kellogg, was recently kicked by
stallion and badly injured.
DAKOTA.
The reunion of Co. F., 9Th Volunteer In
fantry occurred at the Fair Grounds, Farming
ton on the 9Th inst Considerable building
improvement is going on at Farminston -.
The half dem entcd young man who accident
ally shot the BOhema tgirl at ROsemOunt .
| few days since, has been discharged from ar
rest. "A young man named Fred Bear stole
5000 from his employer living in Eureka,
livery team and left for St. Paul.
lie sUEUR.
A severe wind and ram storm passed
over LIE Sueur recently, but did no damage
Decoration day was observed in LIE Sueur-
Hon NJ. J. Severance, of Mankato, delivering
the address, and about 50 ex-soldiers and
large number of citizens joining in the process
| sion.
NICoLLET.
! The St. Peter public schools have been
closed for the summer. Fifteen persons we're
confirmed by Bishop Whipple in the Church Of
the Holy Communion at st. Peter, on the 3lst
| ult. Mrs. Bode, of Swan Lake, was recently
struck by railroad car, which passed over her
leg, injuring it so badly that amputation was
necessary.
The railroad company is building 1000
feet of new side track ut Delano. :. Green gin
scng is worth twenty cents per pound. An
| OK belonging to Mrs. O'Leary near Delano, was
killed by lightning recently. The stone foun-
dation and basement walls of the new court
house at Buffalo are nearly completed. 30.
During the past week, the tax receipts at the
county Treasurer's office averaged over 81 600
per day Monticello has voted 1900 to be
used against the hoppers.
| MEEKER.
One thousand land-locked salmon fry
have been placed in Lake Ripley. Minnebelle
| and Round Lakes have also been stocked.
! E. A. Campbell, of Litchtield will attend the
! general convention of the Catholic Total Alb
| stinence Society at Rochester as a delegate
from Forest City. .Grasshopper depreda-
tons are confined mostly to new breaking,
while old land is comparatively exempt.
Crop reports are generally favorable.
w1NoNA.
Grain never looked better at this season
| of the year.. . Lewiston boasts of having the
| champion gopher catchers, one boy having
| gobbled an even hundred. j. c. Woodland
has purchased the bank of st. Charles. >. On
the evening Of the S1st ult., whirlwind struck
the village Of Saratoga, and demolished sew
eral buildings. Martin johnson, aged "a,
and Emma Steiby, aged II years, W ere recent
| ly married in the town of Lewiston by justice
Jonah Peterman.
Some malicious person recently tore
away the gates of the dam of W. H. Grants
| cranberry patch, whereby the water was let
out and twenty acres of his best marsh, catch
ing from the fire in the woods, was burned
over and utterly ruined. A man named Fish
| er was found one day last week, lying near the
railroad track south of Pine City, bleeding pro-
| fusely and almost insensble disappearance
DTuGdl IICHluCul, ;tG WuuSC Hiliu NJ
was unable to state.
One hundred and fifty barrels of tar
| and Sc bundles of sheet iron have been ordered
for this county, and will be distributed by the
supervisors OF the several districts =. Glen
| wood is to have steam grist mill driven by an
en- CINE of IS horss power. Large numbers Of
cattle are being collected for shipmentto the
Black Hills. The grasshopper report is fav-
Orable.
Work is being pushed upon the Nor
wesian college at Northfeld.. An eastern
gentleman lately shipped from Mortified four
barrels and three large boxes of pigeons which
he had secured from the rOosts near there.
So far Dundas has only sent one representa-
| tive to the Black Hills
wATONwAN.
No tar has been ordered from the Gov
ernor, a supply from the stores being already
on hand. The war against the hoppers IL
being vigorously prosecuted. Wood instead
of iron, is being used at st. James for machines
to kill the hoppcrs with
| YELLOW MEDICINE.
The crops are showing finely and thus
| far the hoppcrs have done but little damage
. The black-birds are by no means incthci-
ent factors in the solution Of the grasshopper
problem. They are destroying the pests by
| thousands and hundreds Of thousands.
Base ball fourishes here-thc Cascades, Of
| Granite Falls, having recently waxed the Mon
evideo club by a score Of 81 to -.