Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-11-21
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OUR HARVEST FIELD.
Tho poor little rag baby died Of wind In
tho StOmach.-Vide1e.
Some of our Spring Valley bellies fresco
their cheeks.-Videttc.
Mr.. G. G. Carvillc fell dead in tho street in
Faribault last Monday week. Apoplexy.
The worthington Advance has ''gift en-
terprise'' to induce people in arrears to pay
up.
Nj. T. Grattan, OF Preston, has been
nevea tu,Se' OF t9mor !ne SIZE OF hickory NUT
Tho Blue Earth City Post prints the name
Of men who left town and forgot their little
bills for subscription.
w. w. Ranney, of Grand Meadow, keeps a
circulating library for the benefit of the town.
4 commendable enterprise.
John Williams, OF Jordan township, drop
ped dead with heart disease while plOwing in
his fathers field on Tuesday last.-Chataeld
Democrat.
The Red River Independent has not reached
a dozen numbers, but it shows that it has
come to stay and bless the town, Fargo. 1t is
a success.
"A daring burglary at Dodge Center last
week. The meat shop of L. B. Weston was
entered during his absence Of few minutes,
and forty dollars taken from the till.
According to the Wells Advocate, the ed
itor of the Blue Earth City Post is big eater.
1t appears, however, that they fed him only
on fiat" food and it wasn't very film.
The Harvest Field" of the Austin TRANS
CRIPT yields a good crop of NO. l. items
every week.-St Cloud JOurnalPsess.
Thank you. Appreciation by tho Press is
indeed gratefully received.
Under the head, "A crazy freak-a man
attempts to burn his buildings'' the Kasson
Republican has something to say. Might not
have been SO crazy after all. How much was
1t insured?
Miller, Of the Worthington Advance, boasts
of owning a printing press and farm. Hear
that do you? farm! We always suspected
Brother Miller's spiritualism would make him
dishonest, and now we know it.
"A resident of Cook county, Texas, has a
set of furniture made from the tree on which
his father was hanged ten years ago. If that
sort of thing becomes fashionable, there will
soon be very few trees left standing in Texas.
st. Cloud JOur1l0t-tTeSS.
There hasn't been any ''Rocky Mountain
sheep" offered for sale by our butchers since
the first day of the month. but venison has
suddenly become plenty. The name is differ
ent but there is a remarkable sameness about
the meat.-St. Cloud J.-P.
AS one of the results of his observation
during his vacation tour, Mr.. Beecher says
allowing margin for exaggeration-th
there are more religious people who do not go
to church out West than there are people who
do go to church in the East.-Erchdn0e.
A couple of weeks ago two young men of
Rushford out on a coon hunt, becoming tired,
built a fire and laid down to sleep under a
shelving rock; the dirt began to fall and then
on one and crushed him. He is a gone coon.
"A Greenbacker in Monticello put pipe
IN his coat pocket and his coat in buggy.
His hard money came out all right, although
quite warm, but q $40 greenback and two or
three one dollar notes are not in condition
for redemption when specie payment Is re-
sumed next January.-EGchGnge.
of course Dunnen has his usual majority,
but We are expected to record the fact. Now
Meighen can call in Powers and settle of with
|him.7Jackson Republic.
May be Uncle VIM. will believe US next time.
But then he can stand heavy drain, for he 8
q bloated bond-h0lder.
On Tuesday last dandelion flowers, bright
end fresh as In June, were plucked on the
prairie. That plant has lost its reckoning
amid the pleasant Indian summer days.-kas'
Oh what are you giving us7 That's what
we call a m'd-e-lyin' story.
The Philadelphia Bulletin wishes to know
but we've heard the report of Comstoci
lOde.-N. 7. Herald. Did you leave without
ctal
No. It sang ''Silver Threads among the
Gold'' in a miner key.
You wouldn't. Kickapoo Indian, would
lyon?-Stamto!d Adgocete: r. Nor Chsyenn!
apahoe at him and then Sioux him2-N. r
Herald. Nor Digger q hole in him-A,Istt1
Register: Nor knock q Chippewa on his shoul
der?-St. Cloud JouT7solPTess.
Or Snake his Blackfeet out of his Sauks?
e. II. Bissell, agent of the American Ex
press, and jeweler, in Kasson, was caught ir
an attempt to fire his Office building. He had
spilled kerosene on the floor, and had a kind
ling and paper train all laid. when the odor o1
kerosene noticed by a passing watchman
| caused his detection.
In the whole state Of Minnesota, there II
probably not another depot ground so hand
somely situated as that Of Alexandria. Lake
beautiful sheets of water to be anywher'
found. The main track IL on the south shore
Overlooking the charming landscape and mir
rorfng water; Just south OF the depot grounds
which the village is built.-P0st.
An through the country the Greenbacl
vote has shown q remarkable increase-31h
Rural.
| Oh boshl now what's the use2 You know
we'll enough that you and your friends wer'
left out of the count, and the only place II
Minnesota where you amounted to anything
was where Uncle Billy spread his none.
among men poorer than rats.
"A promise to give present Of "Damol
Piano" for the simple sending to the mar
| ufacturers, a list of 20 names of persons IL
need of pianos, and $3.50, turns out to be no
a Damon and Pythias affair. stil anybod
sufficiently green to be 80 bitten, learns th
lesson so cheaply as to have no cause TO
grumbling when the little II inch sheet iro1
toy arrives.
Exchanges print a long extract from tn
''Science of Health, which says that the fact
of history attest the universal prevalence o
lplagues and epidemics when the large planet
are in perihelion. Jupiter, Venus, Satur
and Neptune in about 1880, for the first time i
1000 years, win be at their nearest point to tn
sun. and then look out for fun. OF cours
the nearer man obeys the laws of health
and the more completely he lets whiskey
tobacco and unhealthy food alone, the les
chance for dying. There's a good temperanc
argument.