Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-08-22
Our Harvest Field.

Tho state Board of Equalization will meet
in St. Paul on September I'd.
The greenbackers are to hold State con-
vention at Minneapolis, ON September 9Th.
Last Sabbath was fine harvest day, and
many Of the farmers improved it.-Kasscn Re-
publican.
In Owatonnn there IRE seventeen drinking
saloons, but license only for the sale of beer
Is granted.
Minneapolis Exposition, and State Fair at
St. Paul, are both held on same days-2d to 9Th
of September, inclusive.
The Rev. John Jasper has had to leave his
house because he could not pay bis rent, and
gOne to live with his mother. DO son do
move."-New York Graphic.
When the Dollar Weekly gets tired Of the
word ''Sheriffship" it can try SherifdOm, Sher-
ifalty, or Sheriffwick. And then lay them all
on the shelf by the melodious word Shrievalty.
1T is very noticeable that the man who
hasn't been inside of a church since he was
boy, is the one who bowls the loudest beca use
an over-worked preacher goes away for two
weeks vacation in August.
The thirteen hundred acres of wheat, ON
the big Dalrymple farm was cut and shocked
in twelve days. 1t Is said the yield will GER
tainly be 100000 bushels and probably twenty
ve @ is to n me aHEG
j. H. Whipple, son of Bishop Whipple,
whose body was found in the river at Louis
vile, kentucky, was identified by certain
marks and trinkcts. The remains could not
be brought to Faribault, but were taken in a
metallic case to Chicago, where they were in
tered.
The last Austin (Minn) Transcript, con-
the OF about
Page to reslgn.-DecOTdh Bee.
Easy and decorous, Brother Bee. We could
easily have had II, 600 names had not the rain
prevented travel in the country; as it was we
had ], 800 out of possible 1884, and on short
notice too.
"A NEW DEPARrURE.-Our village council
last week passeda resolution requiring our sa-
loon keepers to wash the paint of their win
dOws, and to remove all screens and other OBJ
one passing on the streets can look in and see
who take their toddy. The compliance with
this order will be beneficial in two ways, keep
cate. WV
No matter what opinion may be enter
tanned of Judge Pages conduct either off or
on the bench, there is certainly no charge
dSu1uSC MS porStud1 Integrity WHICH Gun W
successfully Observation-Disclosures Gazette.
We say it, without fear of successful con-
tradiction, that Page is the biggest liar in all
Mower county; and when it is known that we
have Hotchkiss here, that is saying a great
deal.
-'BARK1s IS WILLING. "A young lady
walked into town last week, q distance of nine
miles, to get proper person to go with her to
unite her destiny with her ''Barkis," who she
said was too busy and altogether too bashful to
come himself. Who says the American race
is growing weaker and wiser. We say bully
for that girl If she don't keep the pumpkin
and squash seed apart we will lose our guess.
Wells Advocate.
Has that gal got sister?
Tho United Brethren of Wykotf have
nearly completed their church, are in fact to
dedicate the first of next month. The Dollar
Weekly says the seats are the finest things of
the kind he ever remembers SEEING" Does
Stowe speak from a standard of softness, Or
maybe he hasn't seen any church seats for so
long that he can't remember much about them.
COUNTY JAn.-Isn't it about time that our
county had a Jail sufficiently strong enough
rattle trap that exists at present, is disgrace
to any country that the grasshOppers had
eaten up for the last forty years. 1t appears
poor economy to pay an officer for pursuing
and capturing criminal, and then place him
in a jail that he can kick apart at his leisure,
mourning an extra expense to the tax
payers of the cOunty.-Weus Advocate.