Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-06-12
OUR HARVEST FIELD.
-Owatonna has had a baby show.


-Owatonna has had a baby show.
Saltwater will "enthuse' on the Fourth.
Mason City has the artesian we'll mania.
The drill is down 700 feet
The Kasson people pay their taxes ut
Mantorville by telephone.
The American Eagle will flap its$wings at
Worthington on the glorious Fourth.
The Preston Republican says Fillmore
county has population of 900.
jackson is to celebrate the 4th this year
with fire works in the evening"" extra.
Estimated from her school census recently
taken. Sioux Falls has population of 1924.
The Pennington Press says the only way
to be truly good is to have it Sunday all the
time.
Frank Hall is to run both Of the first-class
hotels in Albert Lea-the "Railway'' and the
Hail.
Albert Lea will never be satisfied until a
steam Touring mill has been started there
and failed.
Mrs. Anna NJ. Thyng has been lecturing
at temperance revival at Minneapolis during
the past week.
They have q steamboat on Fountain Lake,
at Albert Lea. No passes issued. What will
we poor editors do?
-Hokah has a steamboat -"rhe Silver
Lake'-which runs daily from Hokah to La
Crosse and return.
"A monument was lately taken from: a
grave at Pennington for debt contracted in
its purchase.-Erchan0e.
"A special term Of court for Fillmore coun-
ty will be held at Lanesboro July 18th, for the
trial Of seventeen court cases.
The officials of the Milwaukee company
were pulled over the S. NJ. r. r., on the 9th
ult., at the rate of SO miles per hour.
break up that telegraphic marriage. He says
you can't do it legally in that wav-
M ontevideo, the terminus of the Hastings
s. Dakota road, is said to have increased in
two months from 200 to 1000 Inhabitants.
Minneapolis has fourteen school buildings,
and employs one hundred and nineteen
teachers at cost of $4,000 per year.-Ec-
change.
Hon. Anthony Huyck is the Oldest settler
now living in Caledonia. He erected the first
residence in Houston county ~ years ago last
Saturday.
-Forty-nine Of the old settlers of St. Paul
who settled there in 1S49 or earlier, attended
the Old-Settlers' Association in st. Paul the
other day.
The annual session Of the Lutheran Synod
for the Iowa district will commence it's session
in Albert Lea, on Friday, 18th inst, holding
during one week.
Spring Valley has concluded not to cele-
brate July 4th, having no money to throw
away. Burning powder ''for the fun of it" is
senseless anyway.
Col. 1ngersol has again disappointed Min
nesota skeptics, and cancelled all his lecture
engagements in this state. Didn't we tell you
he made more mistakes than Moses?
Doc. Leonard, of the Rochester Post,
thanks his ''friend Schuster'' for key of
beer. The good temperance people need
doubt no longer as to his sentiments.
Bishop Ireland, of st. Paul, is deserving
of much praise for his subscription of $500 IN
annual installments during S years, for relief
of the unfortunate Archbishop Purcell.
1.-THE Ancient Order of United Workmen"
is the title of a monthly journal recently es-
tablished at St. Paul, devoted to the interests
of that order In Minnesota and Wisconsin.
1t is quite currently rumored in railroad
circles that the Milwaukee and St. Paul COM
pany are buying up the stock of the Sioux City
and st. Paul road. 1t is said that in a similar
attempt last fall they came near getting a con-
trolling interest.-Mankato Rerielv.
The c., NJ. & St. P. and C. & N. W. each
run two trains both ways between Chicago
and st. Paul, every day in the week except
Sunday, and they have Just put on one Sunday
train, and shortened the time between the two
cities one hour.
"A woman who will carry a twenty pound
baby around all day in the boiling sun and
never utter murmur of complaint will make
zig f6g d
run freight train forty miles up grade
Chatfeld Democrat.
The Rev. Geo. Williams, Presbyterian
clergyman, of Lanesboro, has been indicted
by the grand jury of Fillmore county, ''for an
adulterous assault committed last February
upon the 15-year old daughter of Mr.. Hutton,
Of Scotland township
Chicago & Northwestern and the Milwaukee
l. St. Paul railroad companies will own or con-
troll every mile of railway in Minnesota except
perhaps the Northern Pacific. Their present
certainly look like crowding all
the smaller concerns into their net-work.-St.
Peter Tribune.
The Worthington ADVANCE has number
of friends who declare the paper lis not fit for
any Christian to read,' but they are always
sure to borrow it from some subscriber as
soon as possible after it is issued and read it
on the sly. Miller calls them free lunchers."
AT rough guess we should say that from
40 to 100 prairie schooners file down Tenth
street every day, bound mostly for Dakota.
That's right. Fiji up the country west of us,
and soon Wen have no more grasshoppers:
Worthington is no longer on the frontier, and
is getting to be pretty ''thick" around here
for man who likes plenty of room.-WOlth-