Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-11-27
OUR HARVEST FIELD.

-''The Duluth Iron Co." is a new corpora
lion at Duluth.
The. S. N. R. R. will be completed to Flan'
dreau Dec. list. N 7
Won't the A. Lea Standard please give us ]
4 rest on "Tom Armstrong; and ''O'Morin?"
The Ha,uk- Eye describes single wedding
as occurring when the first child Is old enough
to spank.
Little fops Of buckwheat, golden Jumps to
match, makes mighty itching and constant
scratch.-Er. !
An exchange says Mrs. Matte A. Bridgeis
going to San Francisco, and thence to the Sand
Wich Islands.
Chris Narvason, whom VIC had dead In this
column last week. the Albert Lea Standard
says is not dead.
An exchange says D. Colleran, of Frank
ford, In this county, has received $4O5, his Ar
rears Of pension.
Chicken show at St. Paul Dec 18th. The
poultry show which is general throughout the
U. s., comes earlier-Nov. 9Th.
Edward s. Stokes is but the shadow of his |
former self. And it Is tho same way with jim
Fisk, whom he sent to the shades.-E1.'
The Usage Lecture Association are to have |
Benz. F. Taylor and others.
The Hokah Herald has mission. 1t Is to
combat against two giant evils-intemperance
and dishonesty in office. Big field for combat,
Nc.
On Tuesday of last week Cargill T. Vans
elevator at Sherburne was totally destroyed
by fire, including $500 bushels of wheat. 1nsu-
red.
Tho Chatfield Timcs--a Page campaign
sheet-no longer has mission. 1t succumb-
ed to the inevitable the second week after
election.
j. E. Chamberlin, managing editor of the
!, Chicago Times, is but Is years of age-and the
youngest brother of Geo. c. Chamberlin, OF
| the Jackson Republic.
Dr. Schmoele says ladies over forty and
under fifty years OF age that would be their
of all the ages must "assimilate'' at least
three lemons per day.
| Though not exactly local news, yet 1t may
| be proper to state that the word khedive IS
not in Webster's dictionary. You arc there
fore at liberty to pronounce 1t as you khan.
The Radicals Fillmore county Greenback
Page campaign orean-has been removed
from Preston to Fountain, the home Of its ed
itor Dad" Powers, and will try to live while
longer.
On Saturday last, Mr. Foote, of Pomeroy's
Democrat and Mr.. Finch, editor of the Repub-
ltcan and Leader, had little street fight, the
former using his cane and the latter his
pistol. No deaths.
. "A pair Of rats produce as rule, thirteen
litters Of eight young ones each in three years,
and the young ones do the same after becom-
ing six months old. The grand total from a
single pair ut the end Of three years is 056'ote'
-EIchGngc.
, State Line post Office, in the town OF Nun
da, has been discontinued: hon 1he ~ aa,rs @i
the Office for 16 years. Mai! matter addressed
to said office will be opened and distributed at
| the Nunda oface.-FFeeborn County Stondard.
-McKenney, Of the Hokah Herald, was brasil
enough to wager s. hat With Ed. Thompson
of Hokah, a prominent Pageite, that Page
wouldn't get 1000 majority in Houston coun
Z ty!" Nc complains because Thompson refuses
! to 'ante."
J, "A Scott county star.gazer in the town o.
Jackson while out looking for stars on tn
night Of the 18Th with head fh c9nt S;n
. under the chin. For about I'VE SECONDS n
J saw more shooting stars than all the rest O
: the state cOmbined.-EE.
!: | WIN. Allen (Winnebagoit call him "Col.
has purchased the winnebago City Press, an
has merged it with his paper, The Sun. Mr.. Al
e len was once resident of Austin. Mr. Christi
|, OF the Press, has removed to Mankato and tax
!. en- AN interest in the Free Press.
n Every well-conducted theatre ought <
have that room" for ladies, and they shOnl
e be obliged to leave their hats there during tn
y, performance. No gentleman would De so I'M
Is polite as to obstruct the view ofeothers &C
2. theatre by any head.gear 80 "top-lottical
the fashionable lady's 'hat' of to-day.-N'
Some firm has invented machine for cut
j. ting straw and spreading it on the field for
b covering for winter wheat. The Red Win
! Republican quite pertinently says: I'VE fea
=, another invention will be wanted to hold tn
u covering Of cut straw on the plants when tn
II stormy winds do blow"
e An old settler who is statistically accurate
It is authority for an assertion in the Pionee
Press. that just thirty.seven years ago yestel
Gslene, v and Bound for st. Paul, was frozen i
on Pigs Eye, and remained there during tn
winter. A snow storm also set in that day
which deposited eighteeninches Of snow.-Ea
An exchange contains the following item
1t Is rumored that certain man In this city
who has never advertised, has been lying dca
under the counter for two days. He was acc
,. dentally discovered by q small boy who went Il
to get nickle changed. AS he never advel
l. tised, people had forgotten where his stor
j.. was, and hence nobody happened to discove
y the corpse until decomposition set In.
The Rochester Post was q years old Nov
21st. This is the establishment which was re
I moved from Austin just that many years az
BY Dave Blakely. It was the Mirror when Il
. Austin, and Mower county's first paper.
y was a good paper then, both at Austin an
Rochester, aud is good paper now. Doc,
n Is our sincere wish that you and your Post ma,
never decay.
e As TRIBUTE TO the memory of below