Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-09-05


acre. Some of this grain, We believe, he
harvest i, and would have to be burned of
the ground.
Albert Lea (Freeborn county, i>!ua,7u1N.
Aug. 29: The most Of the wheat already
marketed in this county graded No. 3. and
we think that will be about the average
grade for the whole crop. A considerable
amount will go No. =. and quite quantity
will be No. and rejected.
Westward boz seems to be the watchword
of the great squirrel host. 10 accomplish
numbers yield up their lives to the treacher-
shores. lilo, the poor INDIAN predicts
from this strange emigration a hard winter.
St. Cloud J"uruu-Prr<x: While Charles
Jewell was at work in Tufts camp, making
ties for the extension of the st. Cloud IL St.
Vincent railroad. his AK slipped, splitting mis-
DOT from the great toe to the instep. lie
was brought to this city and had the in iuries
dressed by DR.. Gilman, after which he started
for Minneapolis.
brave, intelligent, enterprising wife is
of value inestimable. Such an ono is the
wife Of Major L. L. Toole, advertising agent
Of Forepaugh' show. The ma jor being tenn
porarily confined by sickness, she took up
his work and passed through the towns as
the forerunner of the great show, duly ad-
vertising the advent of tue same-and she
did the work we'll.
The dead body of man was found on the
roadside in clump of bushes, between Rose
mount and Mendoza. The body was much
decayed, but was supposed to be that of
John Shannon, who had been missing for
some time He is supposed to have been
murdered, as he was known to have had $50
in money in his pockets. Two bullet holes
were found in his breast.
Rochester Rrcord uuM {'u!V~: Chas.
Fosdick, of Salem, had the needle of Chap
man binder run through one Of his hands,
recently, making a terrible wound. He cut
the flesh from around the wound himself,
and did not call physician to attend him
until this week. His hand is in Il bad COLI
dition. John Bint. who lives north of Farm
Hill. had the needle Of Chapman binder
run through the 1eshy part OF his arm, tear
ing the flesh badly. It is getting we'll, how
ever.
In Buffalo, Wright county, the harvest is
over and farmers feel the need of rest. They
say it has been the most tlresome and linger-
ing harvest ever experienced in the county,
owing to the immense growth of straw,
much OF which was badly lodged, excessive
heat and the scarcity of help. They feel
quite we'll satisfied with their crop. 1t is
| not No. in quality, but the quantity is
| good. What wheat has been threshed in
that vicinity yields from twenty to twenty
| five bushels per acre, oats. forty to fifty.
| lie Sueur Sentinel, Aug 20: We learn that
a bushel of rejected wheat, weighing from
fifty to ffty-two pound; to the pushel,
ground by Chas. Haverland, at the old Paul
mill, near town, produced twenty five
pounds of flour after having been tolled,
which, with the toll, would require
| about 6 1-2 bushels OF wheat for a
barrel Of flour, and we learn that at
| some other mills it is claimed that seven
! bushels are consumed in making a barrel.
The relative prices are about So cents pei
bushcl for No. /, and As cents for rejected,
which leaves the millers over 81 III favor OF
the rejected wheat in making a barrel OF
| of flour.
Caledonia (Houston county, Courier, Aug.
%: Wheat is turning out much better than
| was expected. Mr.. Ed. Stewart threshed
| last week, and it is said his wheat turned out
we'll, much of it grading No. 9 and No. 8