The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1879-07-17

An interesting communication from Leaf
River is unavoidably onmittcr in this issue :;
it will appear next week.
A match game Of base ball will be played
here Saturday afternoon. .....,.
! The new grist mill which is being erected
in this place by the Wadcna Mill Co., is be-
ing pushed forward as rapidly as possible.
1t is now nearly enclosed and the probabili-
lies are that We shall soon have a grist mill
! Of our own, and one which will be an honor
to the rising city Of Wadena.
Mr.. E. B. Mcdowell has lost Il fine three
rear old mare, light bay with black main and
tail and star i'll forehead. The circumstance
! connected with its disappearance, together
with the disappearance Of certain other stock
around here, has given rise to 'asssuspicion
that the animal has been stolen.
Through the kindness of our friends we
have been THE happy recipients Of pie plant
enough to last us the rest of our natural
days. Now, we are dear lovers Of rhubarb,
and, like ministers, don't like to kick" on
! the diet question, ,-but-bu can't you just
! bring US few potatoes, and bean or two?
| Now is the time when the tramp peddlcr
invades the rural districts with all kinds of
humbugs. Our farmers will do we'll not to
have anything to do with this class of trav-
cling dead beats. Buy your goods Of your
substantial merchants, and thus do your duty
by those who help develop the country, to
say nothing of the financial advantages to
! yourselves.
We are proud Of our neighborhood corren,
pondents Their letters are always new
and interesting, brief, yet complete, and each
week represent the condition of the crops
! and weather in their various localities which,
while it gives to those localities a represen-
|. tation in the onward march of this great
northwest, is especially valuable to our cast
ern readers who contemplate joining our
ranks.
We are in receipt of the Manton Tribune,
Michigan paper which we started in the fall
OF III. AS we glance over the columns OF
our once loved and cherished offspring, We
are pleased to note SO many indications Of its
prosperity. 1t all goes to show that Bro.
Cooper, who is its present publisher, under
stands his business. How are my old friends
the Greenbackcrs, getting along, Ed?
We mentioned a few weeks since, that the
first man who would bring us 4 load of wood
should have puff: On Saturday last, two
briyht-eyed little fellows, driving pair OF
bouncing cattle, drove up to the FARMER Of
flee with q load of nice stove wood which
they unloaded and corded up in good shape.
They we're sons of our wel-to-do farmer
Xavier Batc!ie, >ol-W:: gktstow,, who owns
fine farm and thrifty looking crops
We are delighted to find on our desk this
evening copy Of the Lake City journal, a
Michigan paper, published by our old friend
Rem. Barker, with whom We have cnioyed
many pleasant shakes, in a professional way.
during our journalistic career in Michigan.
We heartily welcome the Juournal to our
list, Rem. 1t does us good to glance over
lts bright and newsy columns, and think, as
one is wont to think, when in strange land
of the days that were.
Detroit Record: We are informed that o
young man, Scandinavian, about nineteen
years age, whose name we have not been
able to learn, committed suicide on Thursday
morning, by blowing his brains out with a
shot gun. We understand he was promted to
perform the rash act through difficulty will,
his father. Before firing the fatal shot he
wrote note aud addressed to his father, stat
ing his reasons for taking his own life and
expressing the hope that the father would be
less severe with the remaining children, and
that he would be more lenient in his dealiue
with them The note, when found, is said to
have been despatched with blood and shatter-
ed brains of the young man.