The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1879-09-25
NOTICE TO SCRTREPS

NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS
The newspaper publishers of WORTH
ington have agreed on the following:
That hereafter they will carry no
dead-Deat names on their substitution
lists.
That ill persons who are in arrears
for subscription, must settle their &C.
counts on or before December l, 1879.
either by cash or note.
That the names of persons
who neglect to attend to this will lie e.
rased from the books, and their accounts
given to an attorney for collection.
That after that date, unless in the
case of persons with whom they have
open advertising accounts, the publish
ers will send their publications only to
such us have payed their subscriptions
in advance.
That they will a. some time III the
near future, prepare and publish i, list
of all delinquent subscribers who do
not arrange to settle their accounts in
some manner, together with the
amounts out of which they have swln-
died the printer.
A. +. MILLER,
Publisher Worthington ADVANCE.
A.. S. LINDSAY,
Publisher Worthington Journal.
AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY AEETING.
Society met on the 10th at the Court
House.
The Committee appointed to secure
grounds for holding Il FAIR, reported
that they had secured the tract of land
lying between the railroad and West
Okabena Lake near the residence of I.
n. Safer.
The Executive Board reported what
progress had been made and that every
thing WAS shaping for fine Fair.
1t was then voted that all further III.
engagements for the Fair be left for the
Executive Board to complete. Adjourn.
ed to meet Oh the last Saturday of DC.
tobrr. &. Z. PORE, Sec.
TIE FAIR.
Tile Executive Board of the Agricul.
tural Society met ut the Court House
on Friday, the 10Th, AID proceeded to
make up Il Premium List and make up
all necessary arrangements for the Fail
to he held On Oct. 9th and 10th.
Adjourned from time to time until
the work was completed and ready fol
the printer.
Premium lists Ill pamphlet form will
soon be in readiness for distribution
and it is the intention Of the Board Il
place IL copy Of the same in each family
in the county. G. II. PORE, Sec.
EXpoSE.-prof. Cecil is advertised t.
expose the tricks of fraudulent metli
ums on Monday evening next ut Ben
nett Hall. This will be more entertaiu
ing than the hackneyed legerdemail
and will be drvoting his skill to Il good
purpose. We hope to see the whole
spiritnalistic show business broken u,
and every medium who resorts IT, fruul
thoroughly exposed. OF course. Prof
Cecil does not pretend to show how gen
uine spirit manifestations are prnducet
for that has batlle.l the skill Of expert:
in I'LL ages. The conjuror of the Empe
ror Ut Germany, once OF the most skillfu
cnhjurorS in the world. came out nut
long since in Il card and acknuwl. llgtt
that III" wonders produced through the
M dunn, DR.. Slade. We're utterly bevol.t
his skill and unknown to his art.
Any one go'l, to see SpiritnaliSm OK
posed on next Monday evening will g
on u FOOLS errand ana come away uupe,i
We Will give Prof. Cecil 500 if he vii
account for the communications which
We received through such mediums Il
Mrs. Hollis, Mrs. Blade and May Shaw
Oh any other theory than that of mani
festatiOnS produced by disemb0uie
spirits.
One Of our subscribers wants us t.
tell linn about the telephone. We new
er tell Il phone. Never told Il phone il
our life. We may say, however, tia
the telephone was Invented by Edison
lie did it with his little Ratchet.
transmits sound Il distance of severa
hundred miles through Il solid wire al
not through Il hollow tube. There ar
varieties Of the apparatus. Wekeep on
about the ADVANCE office called til
Telllfact which gathers reliable new
from all parts of the county for the LEI,
eft of our subscribers. Other office
have the Telatib. One Of the improv.
ments will probably be all attacllmen
called the >mellaphone. All you wi
have to do then will he to put your ca
to the telephone and your nose to til
Smel]aphone and you can tell whethe
or not the man at the other end hi
been drinking. The Smellaphone wi
be of great service in temperance town
like Worthington.
The Wortl'ington friends Of our neic
Miss Irene Neff, will lie interested );
the following extract from Il letter IT
ceiyed from her father:
write to-day to tell you the Sad rev
of my dear 1rene's death. She died O
Sunday morning. the 18th, 1T ten mil
utes past three, and was buried the 1911
She died calmly, peaceful, resigned an
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