Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-09-25
OUR HARVEST FIELD.

-.OwatonnQ Is to have sugar MILL
Potatoes, Is cents per bushel, at Albert
Lea.
"A Norwegian paper is soon to be started
at Albert Lea.
State Conference of the NJ. E. church meets
at Winona October LIST.
Butter is lower in price in New York than
it has been before in 20 years.
Rev. X. A. Burnen held a series Of reli-
gious meetings at Rochester last week.
The Minnesota Baptist State convention
meets at Minneapolis, October 9TH to 9th.
The Owatonna Revte,c s9gpGe or oe .,o ~"
The Prohibitionists of Steele county have
nominated Miss Helen MCGOWAN for Superin-
tendent of Schools.
The Mitchell County Press is afflicted with
eleven columns of tax-list-an aff1iction to the
printer not hard to bear, however.
-Grange-Grange-tha name was once ia
miliar-the State Grange meets at Albert Lea
this year in the month of December.
Charlie Hastings, the hotel man Of Owa-
tonna, has recently purchased for his house,
500 bushels of potatoes at Is cents per bushel.
-Cargin s. Van. on the big farm near Sher-
burne, are putting up 100 tons of hay daily.
They propose to put up 1000 tons for ship
ment.-Erch0n0e.
The Blue Earth City Branch of the St.
Paul e. sioux City Railroad is completed to
Winnebago City. B. E. City will be reached
some time in October.
The probabilities are that neither the
Minnesota & Black Hills or Southern Mime
sofa will reach Flandreau this season. 1t is
impossible to procure railroad iron at present.
|-WOrthingtOn Journal.
MFR. A. w. Donaldson has been awarded
Rochester and High Forest, at three hundred
and ninety dollars, the old price. Hereafter
the mails will go regularly.-Rochester Post.
The Albert Lea Standard will support
Farmer for Judge, so will Charley Kittelson,
who was nominated for state treasurer.
Farmer will carry Freeborn COMMUNICATION
Republic.
You just bet Farmer will carry Frceborn
county.
Freedom county elects this year a Treas
urer, Sheriff, Judge of Probate, Register OF
Deeds, Superintendent of Schools and two
County Commissioners. The Republican
county convention will be held at Albert Lea,
October 9Th.
What is this world coming to. when man
cannot even steal water-melOns without being
hunted like theft In Havana, Steele county
last week, three persons were hauled up be-
fore Justice and fined 1896 for just depre'
dating on q melon patch.
The Milwaukee Chamber Of Commerce
has established a new grade Of wheat: mo.
hard spring wheat" must be sound, reasona
bly clean, com prised mostly of hard varieties
| of spring wheat; weight not less than fifty-sia
pounds per measured bushel.
The Austin TRANSCRIPT keeps feeling
around for Sherman Page. 1t shows that il
has cost Mower county between $6,O0 and
$4,000 in consequence of Pages malicious
prosecutions. If the people OF that Judicial
district do not bury this imp of hellish mean
ness out Of sight at the approaching election
| sacred duty orthingtOn Journal.
| p: +: Goodrich. Esq, Of Blue Earth CITY
He was accompanied by Miss Travis, one Of
the popular teachers in the St. Paul school,
FairmOnt Sentinel.
Any significance in these frequent eXcur
| sions?- 1Vinnebago City Sun.
1t looks that way. Mrs. Travis mot Miss
D. F. is goner, sure.
The Wells Advocate says Judge Page j!
growing gray. The editor met the sale
Judge the other day. and says five years ago
he had raven black hair, eyes and beard. and
now he has "sharp wrinkles across his face, .
be- suffering" Hobnobbins With "oid Hotch,'
| of the Republican, for three or four years
probably is what's the matter.-Jacks0n Re
public.
%. Dalrymple, Esq, the great wheat farm
er, arrived in the city yesterday from bis farH
nol& ko {s~R0 tkNk
immense crop of about half q million bushels
! of wheat was all threshed on Sunday last, and
by this time is on its way to the Eastern
markets via Duluth and the Lake route. His
20,OO0 acres gave an average yield of about
| twenty-three bushels to the acre, and all No
l.-St. Paul Dispatch, 18th.
Mr.. ]. ]. Mattcson, of the town of Hills.
dale, who threshed his grain the other day,
had an excellent yield of winter wheat. From
a9ses ne 5ad M 19snes OF winter
he realized one dollar per bushel. Adjoining
the land which produced the winter wheat he
had a piece of spring wheat which only pr0duc
score in favor of raising winter wheat.-Wi
mona Herald.
When Greenbackers fall out, spOVndrelt
get their due. At least. this is the way the
Wykon Dollar Weekly speaks of the veneer
able Hotchkiss: What does it mean7
The ''Major" talks about our rotten car
cass. We never paid S105O in Chicago to gel
cured of 1t. You know how it was, don't you
old man?
The Fort Dodge extension Of the Mime.
apolis & St. Louis railway is at standstill for
want Of iron, which is q very scarce commO-
dity. Most OF the grade and track men have
been discharged, The track 10 now ON section
10 in the township Of Nanda and the company
expects about seven miles of iron this month,
which will take it beyond the state line. There
is no doubt the road will be finished to Forest
City this year, but it will be late when 1t
reaches that point, as We are Informed by Mr..
GaylOrd.-ALbert Lea Standard.
The three daughters of L. N. Sheppard, who
lives Ave miles north Of LIE Roy, Mower couu'
ty. have box of strange pets -rattles9akes,
from California, Missouri and Minnesota,
moccasin snakes and cottonheads. All OF
them have their poison fangs In good order,
yet the girls, one of whom Is only five years
old, handle them freely and allow them to coil
about their arms and around their necks.
without fear or harm. The Leroy Independ-
srt says so.
"A married lady Of Delevap was slandered
by citizen while her husband was absent at