Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-10
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OUR HARVEST FIELD.
-Diptheria at Mantorville.
"A Norwegian paper at Red Wing.
DIR. Connor at Pine Island Oct. IA.
Look out for colds and keep your feet dry.
Pine Island wants a money order Office.
Tho Bulletin, a new democratic paper at
Wabashaw.
Pat Childs believes in woman suffrage and
temperance.
"A grange still alive in Albert Lea. Who'ld
have thought 1t?
Yes We sincerely hope they will. You need
help.
Tho rails are being put down rapidly to-
wards Zumorota, on the Rochester and North
ern line.
The Faribault Republican with regard to
financial legislation advises us to let we'll
enough alone.
Matt Miles and his partner, Lee, have dis
olved and Miles will run the business alone.
So says the Albert Lea Standard.
The square which was burned over in June
is almost covered over again with new and
finer buildings than those that were Destroy
ed.-Fdtibauk Republican.
-Diphtheria at Mankato. Four children in
one family in five days died with it. Schools
arc closed. P.S. That's mistake. Only one
department of the school is closed.
If the Owatonna Journal would put finan-
cial talk, as sound as he had it last week, in
place of 1.-The Earth's Place in Nature" he
would be big help to the honest money party.
"A prominent Grecnbacker, while in town
5%dse % % Smith made % Of % It in the % late % co%nty unity
convention, in having HOtchkiss and Page en-
dorsed. He said the Judge was 4 good man,
but not a safe leader.-PrestOn Republican.
The Chatfeld Democrat pleads for fresh
air at political meetings. Says the fumes Of
whiskey, tobacco, sour breaths and half ex-
tinguished kerosene lanterns is enough to
kill. This strikes all parties.
The Presbyterian society Is making an ad-
ditiOn to its church edihce in the shape OF
parlOrs. Shades OF our ancestors! what would
an old style orthodox belieXec think if he
modern church parlort- Wta.0na Herald.
We understand that parties from this vii
lage wrote Hotchkiss not to publish his en-
dOrsement as it was given at the convention
here, but he has, all the same. He couldn't
fssgo that dstns1ished to
Now that the information that 1.-THE mel
On-choly days have come" has gone the rounds
of the local items In the newspapers, the other
stereOtyped information that 1.-The political
pot is beginning to boil'' comes with pecul-
iarly refreshing signihcance.-O O,UGtOnnG Re-
CielU.
Another one of those ever-recurring tur-
ties with-"A. D. 1s0O' O'-scraped-on-his-back
stories is now going around. Next in order is
the l20 year old darkey who danced with
Washington, and who can remember John A.
Logan.
johnson wrote his "Rasselas" to earn
money to send to a dying mOther.-White
StCan.
johnson wrote his ''Rasselas'' with the body
of his dead mother in the room beside him
to earn money to bury her with.
The grand jury of Mower county, when
Page had ''loaded to the muzzle'' in order to
convict the sheriff and one more county COM
missioner who die not agree with him, Page,
asked to be discharged and after considerable
buii-dozimg the tyrant complied with their re-
1T seems passing strange that no capital
lists can be found to build large grist mill at
this county of thousands Of dollars.-Albert
Lea EnteTprise.
Nothing strange in that. The Enterprise
printed on its first page greenback platform.
AT last the Dodge Center Press has come out
with column headed 'Stolen Paragraphs"
stood at the head Of the first column, or else
you should begin and end your paper with
quotation marks. But then your re doing well.
No fault to find. and we always read the Press
Hon Geo. W. Buflum informs US that he
does not desire to have his name presented
Republican nomination Of Senator. II He is is
thankful for past favOrs bestowed upon him,
but prefers to work in the ranks, where he
umph Of the Republican ticket.-Oeratonna
Journal.
Two weeks ago. in Albert Lea, one F.
Niles enquired the way to the Winslow House
of two men, who replied that they were going
down that way and would point out the house
to him. He passed along pleasantly, chatting
with them, when suddenly seizing him, they
robbed him of $50 and gold watch and fed
down the s. NJ. r. R. track. They have been
secured, identified, and await the penalty.
After man gets to be thirty-elght years
old he kant form any new habits much. The
best he kan do Is to steer his old ones, SAYS
Josh Binings.-Dodoe Center Press.
Well, you'd better. We had occasion to
fall upon the Press for stealing, and when
we read the above squib we began to get mad,
but that little ''says Josh Billing,'' makes it
all right. Phillips and Patrick, you're inn
proving. Shake.
The man who has the temerity to sleep
with his room window open these nights, gen.
orally wakes up the next morning with q
severe cold.-Sprfn0 Valley Vtdette.
ho hoo %oo,n <o -
closed. But man that is ignorant enough
to be afraid Of sky full of fresh air, ought
to die with the epizootic. Fresh air and clean
liness never hurts any one If the change from
poisoned air and filth be not to sudden.
The Window Repoyter on the greenback
platform Of this district convention says: 1t
is one of the weakest political documents ever
originated by q discontented rabble, and it will
not stand before the people. A few may go
hs
great deal for nothing, but among the men
who look upon the national credit as solemn
and honest debt, and believe in good faith and
integrity in private and public obligations,
this platform will seem but an embodiment of
dishonesty and insincerity.
themselves the National Working Men and La
pressfve title Of the tramp party, they would
present, besides saving vast amount of un-
necessary wear and tear upon the type
Hastings Gdzette. Il
While it may be true that every tramp is a
greenbacker, it is not true that every green
hacker Is q tramp. We believe in fairness.
Let US treat our greenback friends with fair
ness. We lose nothing by it.
.
Rome Sessttvsel Who ever saw horse hy?-
Albany Argus: Who ever saw cat fish, fOs,,
ke10 Gdzettc. Who ever heard mill dam?-
Boston Commercial Who ever saw q tree tOedl
I-Hacho'esdck Republican. Who ever saw
milk made1-N. Y. Herald. Who ever saw 9
buck SaW2-KeOtak COssstitut5On. Who ever
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