Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-08-21
TRANSCRIRTION6.

amt afraid.
Teachers institute and examinations
at Austin, 25th to 3Oth. See notice.
We are not to be sighted after all.
The circus will be here next Wednesday
Charlie Vests Little 5-ycar old is i'll
with fever. Physicians and parents have
been anxious about him.
Miss Nellie Sterling has been quite
sick of nervous fever tor about two weeks.
We are glad she is improving.
"A ten pound boy found lodgings
with Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Palmer last
night They call HIM Samson.
AN exchange advertlses turkey red,
oil-bo,led." Well take ours a In brown
roast, with oysters, if you please.
No rain for six weeks, except cou
pie of light showers, until Monday T. NJ
when we had a slow rain for an hour OF
two.
School election Saturday, Sept. 9Th
for two members, for three years, in place
of Messrs. VanValkenburgh and Schleu
der.
Has any pensioncr Of Mower county
received his arrears Of pension? The
first case of payment has yet to reach oul
ears.
We'll, we're past the cutting and the
shocking, and this week will advance Us
in stacking, providing we have pleasant
weather.
May Willard, little daughter of l.
s. Willard, has been sick with a very
sudden anu severe attack Of pleurisy. I:
much better.
About all the sportsmen Of Austin
were armed last Friday, and out in the
country in pursuit of poor prairie
chicken.
MIR. Schleuder is grading the grounds
around his handsome residence and will
have beautiful lawn when all his plans
arc carried into execution.
Charley Boehmer is out Of business
Mr.. II. 0. Sweningsen is his successor
We hope we shall not long miss Charley
from among our business men.
Mower county is the fourth county
in the State in wheat acreage for 1879
the counties of Goodhue, Fillmore and
Olmsted only having larger acreage.
MIR. w. C. Brown and Miss Jennie
Jones, Of this city. were married this
Thursday morning, at the residence OF
the BRIDES parents. Congratulations.
Nights very cool now. We hope
Jack Frost will keep his distance "only
a little while longer" Our corn, the
most of it, will be safe in ten or twelve
days.
Tuesday was the busiest day on the
streets since harvest began. The rain OF
the day before suspended operations, and
gave the farmers chance to do little
trading.
Our corn and "tater" patches needed
the delightful rain which fell on Monday
and Wednesday, but our wheat in the
shock didn't. "Rain falls on the just and
unjust"
MIR. ". NJ. Leach has been confined
to his house for several days with rheu-
matism, and has suffered extremely for
the last two weeks. We hope he may be
better soon.
Miss Alice Andrew, daughter of Prof.
Andrew, now takes Miss Flora Fay's
place as organlst in the congregational
church. The choir are certainly fortunate
in securing her.
Hoops are coming into fashion again.
Wen be busted before we'll wear them
if they are. We may be persuaded into
the "Saratoga wavc," if our forehead
gets much farther behind our ears.
With all the boosted enterprise of
Albert Lea, she has no telephone between
the business portion Of the village and
the depots! Austin had such communi.
cation months ago-and she's a "duil
town." you know.
The Mccormick harvester and self
binder cut PAS acres on the D. J. Cameron
place near Ramsay. Mr.. n. Byrne, who
works tine farm, purchased the machine
Of Mr.. Oscar Ayers, and cut the first
70 acres IN 3119 days.
MIR. P. T. Mcintyre, ex-County Audi
tor, was yesterday appointed County
Treasurer by the Commissioners, to serve
out the uDexpired term of Mr. 1ngmudson
which terminates March LIST next. Nj
will make good officer.
The late l. Ingmundson was a mem
Der of the St. Paul, Minneapolis and lows
Masonic Relief Associations. Mrs. Ing
mundson will receive $4,000 from the St
Paul association, 81 600 from the Mime
apolis and about 81: $50 from the Iowa
over 81, 500 in all. Verify, we are glad.
"A young tramp arrived on Sabbath
night at the residence Of Mrs. H. E. An
derson; he gave his name as 8. D. Tall
madge, Jr., and wanted them to telegraph
to Shcrburne for his paternal immediate
~, which they did not fail to do. Mrs
Tallmadge and the young man anxiously
await the arrival of S. D. Tallmadge, Sen
The many friends Of Mrs. Col. II. B
Davis will read her excellent letter pub
!ishcd elsewhere with great deal o
interest and pleasure. 1t sounds just lik'
her, and 1t will be genuine treat to al
who knew Mrs. Davis, when she, with he
little family, were residents Of Austin
We hope she will write US again.
The Sheriff will sell Col. Mansfield
omnibus. which was taken on an execu
ton, at auction, next Monday, at / F. N
On Saturday, the Both, at 10 A. NJ, he vii
sell 16 stoves and appliances, and a larg
lot of bedsteads, mattresses and bedding
at the Davidson House. This propert
was taken from Col. Mansfield on an exc
cution in favor OF c. H. Davidson.