Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-07-25

lutulUCIS "ANA luCA A0"AA0S, eAA -
friends of the club, are cordially invited.
S.. L. DAVIDSON, Secretary.
PERsONAL.-Rev. G. E. Wright will
leave tomorrow for vacation of three or
four weeks duration. He has be en- in
vited to preach in the Union Park Con
gregational church of Chicago during
his absence.
Capt. Stanley, Of Lyle, was in town
Monday The Captain entered the reg
ular army as a private and left it with his
present rank and title. He gave an arm
for our sake in the late rebellion.
MIR. A. c. Hamilton, the dwellel
among the tombs, left our city Monday
for Ames, Iowa. He will return shortly
and complete his contracts with Austin
citizens. Read his communication on
cemeteries.
Mrs. S. D. Tallmadge returned from
Paramount last week, to recover from in
disposition caused by the extreme heat.
She expects soon to return. Mr.. H. E
Anderson returned with h er, and will re-
main during the summer for the superln-
tendence of his Brownsville wheat farms.
PARTIES desiring job.work should call
at the TRANSCRIPT Office. We have a
job-printer Of twenty-five years. expert
ence who can do anything that can be
by any one in his line. Parties desiring
to double double" as Shakespeare says,
need no longer cruelty themselves; bust
ness cards-no further necessity for past
ing your name in your hat; milk tickets
that any COW would be proud Of; sheet
posters that are just A. ineligible mile
away US rod of.
Parties anxious to mortgage their
farms may, In few daye, get the papers
at this Office, for we propose to keep all
forms OF legal blanks from cutthroat
marriage certificate 10 death warrant
that will leave the corpse with SMILE
of resignation.
And speaking about newspapers.
There's difference between printing a
bill of fare and setting up a square meal.
There's difference between programme
and having the entertainment reproduce ed.
There's difference between telling that
there were certain occurrences and telling
what those occurrences really were, and a
of these pregnant truths is what
led so many to subscribe for the TRANS
CRYPT during the past week.
And word to advertisers. Suppose q
paper-iu order to save postage you know
has only l50 subscribers, but that 15,
000 borrow aud read it. And another
paper has 1900 subscribers but only
1,5C0 read it. Moral: which paper will
introduce advertisers to the greatest mum.
Der of custoaerse
"MAN drowned over at Craae's mill!
mo! Jones, is that 500" Fact" and
Smith passes on until he meets Brown
when "Sad news, Mr.. Brown, couple oi
men went over the dam and were drown
ed just now" "Don't say!" On they 60
and Brown to Robinson ioquitur-"Won
der if they've found their bodies p
"Whose bodies:" "Why, havnt yos
heard? Four men, one of them Joe
Warner, trying to stretch rope acros
the creek, dam broke, mill fell, and the.
were all drowned!" "What, Cranes mil
gomez Shortly after, Robinson me
Green-Green lives just back. of til
TRANSCRIPT ofice-"There's an item 70
you, Mr.. Green"-Grcen respondit-
"Heyr "Why, man alive, what are you
immense ears for! Five men, Joe. Wa
ner one of 'em, were in 4 boat, boa
swamped, dam went out, bridge gone
Warner & Cranes mill gone to smash
and everybody in 1t drowned. Dobbin
is still rising, and the railroad bridge i
gone, and no end to destruction" Gree,
answered that he always allowed . stor
would double itself every quarter of
mile, and so concluded to wait for futur
developments. This is the way the n
port came to US In its stages of growth
In response 10 the call of Rumor, witt
her hundred tongues, we fastened to th
scene, and found, AZ we anticipated, tt
tridge gone, the dam gone, but the mil
standing, firm as ever. Mr.: Warner wa
perfectly dry, and several bare.legged g
bare.backed tramps had seized the OF
portunity Of getting new pieces Of "a
|ment BY letting their dude float dow
stream, depending upon the charity of
cold world to replenish their wardrob'
And since that time not tramp ha
called on US, who had not lost somethin
"when the dam went out" I'll
The facts are these. The wood an
iron combination bridge over Dobbin
creek, which was finished last spring 1t
cost Of about 81 600, was struck by Ii
dam as it was swept sway, and carrie
down; and the accumulated drift ftol
j dam and bridge, striking one of the su]
ports of the railroad bridge, knocked TIL
out aud pushed one end of the brida
proper, about three feet down stream, an
tipped the rails little. Mails and ba
gage were transferred. 4 Some small,
i bridges were swept awsy In various part
Of the county. Soma fears were felt Il
the permanence Of the city bridges, bl
Tho fsazs were not we'll groulded and Ii
bridges were, 20 they stayed, and q
fears went down with the rushing vaterl