The Grange advance., 1877-05-30
Minnesota News Items.
CHIPPEWA

49,. lnFcc cnufcn organizations, Il large ana
thriving Temperance socicty,a IL first class school
and an empty jail, speak volumes for Monte
vidco.". .. The Valley Ventilator is the name
OF Il handsome scvcn-cOlumn newspaper Just
established at Montcvidco by C. w. Wheaton,
wABAsHAw.
The grocery store of G.. +. Frost, in
Lake City, was entered by burglars on Tues
some sixty dollars in silver and bills, and
large number of valuable papers taken. Ten
dollars in silver and a five dollar bill were
found on the floor near the safe; also num-
bcr of hammers, chiscls, etc No clue to the
perpetrators. The Y. NJ. c. A. of Lake City
has fine reading room, which will hereafter
be kept open daily The new Catholic church
edifcc in Lake City is to be an imposing struc
ture. 1t will be 53xl2O in size; the first or
basement story will be of stone, the second of
brick. The tower will be Ii feet square on
ground, will be built of brick IS feet and of
wood 100 feet higher, to the cross by which it
will be surmountcd The corner stone will be
laid July 4th the brick work will be com
plcted by September LIST, and the entire struc-
turc by the first of December.
MOWER.
S. Swenlngson has been appointed post
master at Adams. . "A PRESBYTERIAN church
was organized ut Taopi last week The pros
poets for a grasshOppcr crop are not so great
as has been anticipated.
COTTONWOOD.
The Window Reporter says there is evi-
IDENTIFY better feeling among the farmers than
we have noticed for a long time They seem
to have comparatively no fear of damage from
'hoppers that hatch here. Many places where
in the fall the eggs were very numerous
scarcely any 'hoppers are Matching, and many
OF those are said to be weakly and lacking in
vitality. In Blue Earth county they are said
to be of "measley" charactcr-thick in spots
and in other places scarcely any. So far as we
can learn the same applies to most of the in
tested region. A better spirit seems to pre-
vail, and general belief exists that something
can be raised.
STEELE.
The county commissioners are hunting
up a site for the proposed new Jail The
prospects fora large wheat crop in the county
never looked better. "A lodge of Knights of
Honor has been organized in OwatOnna. =.
Sam Aldrich forged a note in Rochester last
week, sought refuge in Owatonna. his former
residence, and now languishes in Jail in that
city.
Owatonna Congregationalists have pur-
chased an $500 church-bell . . Building oper-
ations are lively. >. The Repieap has been des-
ignated as the official city paper for the en-
suing year. Charles H. Randall has been
appointed Chief Engineer of the fire depart
ment, vice NJ. l.. Strong resigned.
TREEBORN.
On Sunday afternoon last, the stable of
Ole I. Ellingson, living few miles south of
Albert Lea, took fire, and the wind blowing
hard enveloped the building in flames before
even an animal could be released from their
stalls. Four work horses, together with har-
ness and in fact everything connected with
the stable, was consumed by the dcvOuring
element. .. The District Convention tof Good
Tcmplars will be held at Albert Lea the 9TH
and fth Of .Tunn .JOhu Farrn11 of Gnnavo
recently killed nine grey wolves, for which.
lie drew Il bounty offered by the State of $27
RICE.
The frame of the Methodist Church in
Mortified was raised on Friday. On Tues
day Mr.. Gregg, of Northticld, suffered 5000
loss by the Burning of his barn and contents
Insured for $500. Elias Stacey lost valuable
OLMsTED.
bessie, the little daughter Of H. A. Eek
haldt, of Rochester, ate parsnips of the second
years. growth, which She found in the yard,
and died the next day James Jones, of Kali
mar, lost his house and barn, together with
COW, calf and pig, by fire few days ago..
Rochester voted "no license" under the State
law, and now an agreed case has been made
to test the constitutionality Of the law.
LIE sUEUR.
A young man offered a span of horses
for sale at LIE Sueur last week nnder circum-
stances so suspicious that it led to his arrest
Whcreupon he confessed that he stole them
from German near Madelia -. The annual
meeting of the LIE Sueur County Soldiers Un-
31st.. The Methodists will erect fine
church cditcc in Lc Sueur this summer ::
The little red parasitc' has made his appear
ance among the grasshoppers. ....M. j. Sever
ance of Mankato has been engaged to deliver
the Grafton on Decoration Day.
DAKOTA.
A barn belonging to James Keatley, of
large quantity of grain, farming utensils,
etc. Loss, 1900. Insured for $780,. On
Tuesday afternoon Mr.. Dcnsmorc, one of the
proprietors of the tanning mill and safe man.
ufactory at Hastings, was working at cir
cular saw, which was geared at great speed,
tact with the saw which forced it with the
velocity Of shot into his face, fracturing both
jaws, knocking out teeth and splinters of bone,
and lacerating and lay ying open fearful cash
at the side of his face. His physicians think
he will recover, but his improvement will be
slow and painful. Crop prospects arc prom
ising.
F. E. Benson is the patentee of a hop
per-dozer for which great merit is claimed. It
was tried at Spirit Lake the other day and in
hours caught young 'hoppers enough to make
forty bushels when full grown. 1t is simple in
construction and can be made for four or five
dollars. Farm rights are sold for S.. wv.
Withers, of Middletown, met with a severe loss
last week by the burning of his barn and
quantity of hay. -. The town of Silver Lake has
voted bonus to aid in building the Martin
County Railroad, on which work will soon be
commenced. Simon Avery has invented
corn n-planter, which marks, drops and covers
his corn, and rolls his land at the same time
Official prairie burning commenced on
Monday, 21st
ISANTI
A county agricultural society is about
to be organized. Farmers arc rejoicing over
the late opportune rains. =. "A couple who were
married in Stanchfeld last week passed their
first night in the woods to avoid a chayuuu,1