Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-08-14
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OUR HARVEST FIELD.
Lake Minnetonka is the Long Branch of
Minnesota.
The Walters Dramatic Troupe is coming
to Albert Lea.
S. Batcnclder, of Freeborn county. raises
80 bushels Of apples this year.
Houston county Republican Judicial con-
at Caledonia, on the 18th.
lin 1885 Caledonia will have 5000 popula-
ton" says tho Journal. We hope so.
Mortgage foreclosure advertisements III
the Worthington papers arc numerous.
Tho Hastings h Dakota road has its track
laid to within 30 miles of Big Stone Lake.
mona St. Peter Il. r. will be completed by
January LIST next.
Two new locomotives and 200 freight cars
have been purchased recently for the South
ern Minnesota Il. Il.
Miss Jessie Couthoui, the very popular
dramatic reader, is expected in Minneapolis
the latter part of September.
The Lake City Leader says reaper builders
should be compelled to throw in dozen or
two collins with each machine.
As we understand It, the Hokah Blade is
dead. However, the Lanesboro Journal cred
tied an item to that name last week.
The wykon Dollar Weekly is disguised,
and has hauled down the Greenback State
ticket from the head Of its columns.
The Enterprise says Mr.. W. p. Sergeant is
contemplating building a steam grist mill in
that city, having ten run of stone.
The Fillmore County Republican Conven-
ton, to elect delegates to the Judicial conven-
ton, will be held ut Preston, August 10Th.
j. c. Easton, of Chatticld, and VIM. Mel
CHEN, of Forestville, got raised about 81, 1000
worth on their assessments BY the board OF
equalization.-Spring Valley Tidette.
-Dalrymple shipped six carloads of new
wheat to Duluth last Thursday. 1t graded
No. hard, and the inspector reported not q
grain Of cookie in the whole lot.
The high schools will have to wait till af-
ter the October appointments for their 800
drafts on the State treasury-as there will be
no money to pay them till then.
The Caledonia Journal favors first the
nomination Of James O'Brien for District
Judge, and second. Page, but promises to
support the regular nominee who ever he
may be.
The board of directors of the Milwaukee
Co., last week, passed Il resolution in favor OF
extending the Davenport & Northern line
nOrthwnrd next year, to intersect the 5. N. at
or east Of Observation-Disclosures Journal.
A six-year old boy saved the life of a little
miss who fell overheard from a sailboat on
Lake Minnetonka last week. The heroic lit
tie fellow plunged into the water and held her
up till help came.
Howard county, Iowa, is to have new
courthouse. 1t will be two stories high and
a basement, built of brick, size on the ground
5Ox55 feet. It is rather a small courthouse,
but is to be built for IS, 1850.
-Lanesboro heads the list with the highest
grade Of scholarship of any competing school
in the State, in the examinations as required
by law to secure the 800 State aid for the en-
couragement of higher education.
Rochester is owing school bonds of $1,000,
and railroad bonds of $4,000, and the City
Treasurer had over $1,000 cash on hand Aug.
LIST. The Council have voted to appropriate
$500 toward payment of the railroad bonds.
Thomas Cavanaugh is Road Inspector of
the S. NJ. II. r., and Mr.. Paulson, of Lanes
bor,,, Roadmaster of the Eastern Division,
from Ramsey to LaCrescent; and west Of
Ramsey, Mr.. Rafferty, fills the same position.
GGq2afv 9laXe2Essa eli e1ss r.
Goth and 2lst of this month, and all the GRO
quet players in the State are invited to meet
at that time and participate in the games.
Gilbert acknowledgements to US we've
heard that name before-is threatening to
whip the editor of the Albert Lea Enterprise.
If we are not mistaken, he fought for Page
during the impeachment trial. But he won't
hurt any body.
The neighbors of a poor widow in Stearns
county went to her premises on a recent Sum
day and harvested her forty acres of wheat.
It was certainly a christian deed, but was it
right, from christian standpoint, to do the
deed on Sunday?
Asa B. Hutchinson, he of the "Tribe of
Asa" who sings songs for the slave, for the
drunkard, and for universal suffrage, and is
Minnesota man, recently invested in Color
ado mines, which have turned out richer than
anything ever before discovered in Colorado.
Good luck for Asa.
There is now no good reason for the nu-
merous tramps in Minnesota to be out of
work. The large amount Of railroad building
going on in this State and Dakota will give
employment to them all at liberal wages
$50 per day. Our advice is to deal sternly
with all begging tramps who will not work.
That portion of the Missouri division of
the Northern Pacific Railway extending from
the Missouri to the Yellowstone river, about
rs miles, is now all under contract, and is
being rapidly constructed; and the construc-
ton of the Pend Oreille division, which ex-
tends from the Columbia river to Lake Pend
Oreille, 200 miles, more or less, is about to be
commenced.
The low price of wheat prevailing at the
lake markets indicate either that the grain
operators do not fully believe the stories of
the immense European deficiency, or else
have exaggerated notions of the magnitude
OF our own crop. 1t Is, however, the Euro
the
price of this crop is bound to be much higher
than that of the last crOp.-MinneGpOlis 1ri-
bune.
"A harvester who had been working near
Austin, and had a little cash, last week Mon
day, while on his way from Blooming Prairie
to Owatonna, was attacked by three tramps,
who, with the threatening use of razors and
clubs, made him disgorge, and they returned.
Thanks, however, to the vigalence of the
Steele county officers, they were caught, and
are now safely housed in jail.
Tho Cresco (Iows) Plain Dealer has . column of
Items headed ''Greenback Coupons" We did not
suppose Greenbackers had any use for coupons.-Aus
tin 1tdnscyipt.
Then you bondholders are becoming so ava
r1cious as to deny us newspaper clippings, are
yOu?-Crese0 Fdtndcdlcr.
No; we "bondholders' good-do not
wish to deny you newspaper clippings or any,
thing else which it is right for you to have,
but We were surprised that you should give
anything name which is so repulsive to your
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