Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-16
OUR HARVEST FIELD.

The State Of Iowa was ~ years old on Doc.
g, 1873.
Frequent and constant advertising has
brought me where am.-A. 7. Stewart.
Well, 60 on, and advertise Where you am.
Lewis L. Wheelock, ESQ.,, of Owatonna,
has lost two little children recently from
diphtheria.
The Owatonna Journal SAYS half the trou-
bles of this world grow out Of imagined Of
fenses. How true.
Wood is low in Chattield. Green oak, in
10 cord lots, selling for $l.75: good dry oak,
$2.25 and $3.50 per cord.
The fifty and one-haf million dollars paid
for taxes on spirits the last fiscal year makes
an average OF more than a dollar for every
man, woman and child in the country.-Ex.
Capt. L. Rossiter, of Lacrosse, has the
contract for furnishing two or three hundred
r. r. next spring.
The weekly payroll of the Pioneer-Pres:
establishment is over $500 per week. And
that amount was disbursed In gold coin on the
4th inst, in honor Of resumption.
"A centennar1an died at Pine Island, in this
state, on the 25th ultimo. He was German,
Herman H. Ahnemann by name, and aged
one hundred and seven years and six months.
The editor who takes all the advertise
ments out in trade, will be gratitted to learn
that q new pill just patented, will keep man
whole week without teating.-Erctdnge.
We have ordered.
Swisshelm, and who is native Minnesota
girl, has distinguished herself in Chicago as q
pianist, and is to give instructions in her art
in that city -Minnedpohs Tribune.
Any person afflicted with warts may find
consolation in reading the following sure cure
for the same: Take a common Irish potato,
cutting it in two and applying the juice over
each wart two or three times each day.
The township Of Manchester, in Freedom
county, has a Farmers Mutual Insurance
Company. At the beginning of the year it
had $50 members, $3.50, 900 IN policies, and but
two losses during the year 1878, amounting
to $4l5.
The tables have been turned, and Green,
sued. He has been arrested and held to bail
for obtaining money under false pretenses in
collecting $40 royalty on driven well, and
parties have also begun civil actions to recover
money paid.-Erchange.
The Far1bault Rep1Oacdn says dOrdOn Il
Cole has a new law Office ce-comprising as hand
some and commodious a suite of rooms as any
lawyer can boast in the state. He occupies
the whole of second story Of the building, be-
.ng 80 feet in depth.
1T is boy. Weight 10H lbs., born to Mrs.
A. NJ. Hutchinson, Saturday morning, Jan
uary 4th, 1879. Mother and child doing wen.-
Pine Island Ne,cs.
Good for you, IT'LL" 1t is not everybody
who is presented with thousand dollars for
a New Years present.
Minnesota millers are now experimenting
with machinery for COMPRISING bran for the
purpose of facilitating shipments to Europe.
1t is believed that it can be 50 compressed as
to get as much weight into given package as
the same would hold of -four.
The State Auditor has sold during the past
year 10000 acres of land at an average Of
$6.03 per acre. OF this amount 10000 were
school lands, selling on an average at $631.
The internal improvement lands averaged
&5.75 per acre. This is the largest sale ever
made in single year.-St. Paul Globe.
"A lady named Mary Magui-ah
Had trouble in lighting her fi-ah;
The wood being green,