Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-11-14
OUR HARVEST FIELD.
Patent -four at Alexandria now.

"A case of scarlet fever in Dexter.
Cars. It's here.-AlerandriG Post.
Two deaths from diphtheria in Owatonna
last week.
-Four votes cast in Pine Island for Stearns,
temperance candidate for Congress.
What long names Minnesota papers gen.
orally have. Our own is five times too long.
Rochester Post, where do "Polanders''
come from? ''Poles'' come from Poland, but
Mr.. George c. Goodwin, lawyer from
Lacrosse, henceforth will practice in Grand
Meadow.
drin Post.
'Gills'' hover in it, we suppose, and the
''gulled'' on the shore.
In Somerset, Steele Co., one Frank Wan
jous was caught by tumbling rod and "tum-
bled'' senseless. Carried into the house he
revived, and though gashed and wounded will
survive.
When Corey, Goodsell and Allen returned
to their home last Thursday the Grand Mead
ow band met them at the train and earned
their gratitude and the cigars and apples from
the successful candidates.
Considerable venison coming in and selling
at and cents. They have commenced net
ting white fish in the lake. The fish are fat
and fine flavored.-AleEGndriG Post.
Yum, yum, wouldn't we like to be there!
"A fat hog rarely lives through the winter.
Turner's Falls Reporter.
Good bye, then.-St. Cloud J.-P.
It's astonishing how two men can so joke
each other right in the face of death as it were.
Now that Alexandria has a railroad we
would advise the Post to keep an obituary of
run over and killed." standing all the time,
for the benefit of the small boy corpse. We
have some beautiful railroad elegiacs we can
furnish cheap.
The People 's-Press says that the reason of
the rejoicing of the Owatonna spoils party, ap-
pears when we consider that they put into
their pockets three-fourths of the money paid
as taxes by the one thousand Democrats who
live in Steele county,"
The young men ~ Of Claremont, Dodge
county, have q pleasing habit of running
horses'' in the streets, hooting and yelling
like savages, making teams run away and Of
Tending respectable people. .Diphtheria is
coming this winter. We hope it will ''clare
'em out of Claremont.
-Buttonholing, personal importantly, trading
on candidates, going to church where they
were never seen before, and we venture
where they will never be seen again, d1strib-
fqee
of money, were some of the tricks and meth
DDS resOrted to by some Of the candidates to
induce the dear people to vote for them.-
Rochester Post.
--Pralrie wolves are getting numerous and
decidedly venturesOme In this vicinity. They
skulking into town, and their dismal mowline
can be heard nearly every bright moonlight
night. A vigorous raid upon them would
scatter them.-Ptne Island NelCs.
Judging from the Ne,us we had supposed
Pine Island was in a civilized country, but
are panied to learn that It is, instead, "mow
ling Wilderness"
The publisher Of the Mower county Re
publican, has recently been paid the compli
ment Of being expelled from the Congrega
ling among Mower county politicians: Judg
papers, We really thought ''O1d Hotch''-
treason r@s maj and T. murder; @ but come to ind out Se
has dressed his character in the political gart
| Of q common liar. The church Ct Austin Il
ssas.e9 ss11s xeay yRspa 0' a'e 50 II seems
THAT'S q tough one on churches. Nay b<
| that little Shaver" who edits that sheet hal
been church member and knows how til
himself. = a. f. -as@1 ~jS~z
| The Austin Transcript asks ''why do yot
suppose two Page men are nominated 40 14r tne tne
principal reason II, there are no other kind
Of men in this oounty.-Abest Lea STANDARD
We should hope the STANDARD man is mista
! ken in saying ''tbere are no other kinds q
men in his county but Page men," and We be
neve he IL. We well remember the time
years ago, when ''8ub'' Williams was m anti
Page man himself, and We could give Past