Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-05-29
OUR HARVEST FIELD.


month for liquor licenses.
The first strawberry festival was held 4
Rochester on the I'd of May.
Walter DcMers has left the stage, and
giving music lessons at Wascca.
-Diphthcria in Albert Lea again. Judg
Parker has lost another little one.
The wife of Hon. r. a. Jones, Of Rochcs
ter, died on the 25th, and was buried on th
27th.
M. II. Avery, of Joliet, Illinois, has lease
Frank Halls gr:s. mill, ut Albert Lea, for tw
years.
Miles Sanford of Fillmore, has drawn $57
from the pension agent ut Milwaukee, TO
back pension.
The Rochester people lovc the $500 aske
for his two hours talk better than they Low
Bob Ingersol.
No school land sale in Mobiles county thi
year. Cuuse-no bidders. Homesteads ant
tree claims arc the cheapest.
Mrs. Gunder Sjoelie, of Ottcrtail county
recently gave birth to a child weighing 24fbs
How high ish dot for heavy?
The Owatonna Conference Of the Congre
gational churches will, he hold at Spring V'''o:
OH the Sd and 4th days Of June.
Charles Kittelson, of Albert Lea, is a can
| didate for State Treasurer. The Albert Les
newspapers are unit i'll his support.
Minneapolis has another Chicago train
via the Minneapolis and st. Louis railway
running through to Chicago, via Cedar Rapids
in about twenty hours.
1T is rumorcd that Norwegian anti-Page
and Lovely paper will soon be started here in
Albert Lea. 1t would make things lively in
case it shOuld.-EnterpriSc.
The Pioneer-Press says ''Mrs. H. NJ. Thyng,
Of Austin" our Anna is meant, we suppose
-lectured on Temperance at the First NJ. E.
church. Minneapolis, on Sunday evening last
"A man in Iowa, who read that dry copper:
as put in bed of ants would cause them tC
leave, put some in his mother-in-law's bed tc
see if she wouldn't go. He says she was Still
there at last accounts.
Tho Chicago & N. W. Railway Co. have
closed a contract with D. L. Wells & Co., OF
Milwaukee, to build a line from Tracy west
seventy miles toward tho Black Hills, and
work will be commenced Immediately.
-Grasshoppers are quite numerous at and
is closely shaved to the ground by the little
pests. In some localities over there they are
using the usual means to capture and dc strOy
the WoythinOton Journal.
The possessors Of that meteor which fell
just over the line in Emmet, Iowa, the other
day, keep the specimens scarce, as they are
afraid the owner of the land where the @rolite
fell may serve rcplcvin papers for it's pos
session.
DIR. Clcmmer, who has been of toward
northern Dakota, with a drove of horses and
outfits for farm work returned on Wednesday,
as hearty and robust as a farm hand. He re-
ports the times harder the farther west he
went.-Cresco (Iowa) Plaindealcr.
The editor of the Pine Island Ne,rs devotes
two columns of space to an ''explanation' Of
his reasons for publishing uer batim a copy Of
the inevitable notice ''handed in for publi-
cation you know, by a woman-about the
Foreign Missionary Society.
There are 76 cities and towns in Illinois
which have recently voted against license and
for the prohibition Of the liquor traffic by law,
varying in population from 500 to 1900. A
half dozen of the largest towns are: Rock
ford, Decatur, Sterling, Lincoln, Champaign
and Mattoon.
Russell, of the Lake City Leader, is af1lict-
ed with "a severe case Of gout in the of hind
leg," and he is going over into the Wisconsin
woods to sit around week or two and rest,
and think about nothing. Just the treatment
for gout, true enough; and he will probably be
seized in 'tother leg before his return.
Bob 1ngcrsoll makes more mistakes than
Moses. He has been appointing dates in this
State all winter and spring to lecture on the
mistakes of Noses" but he has been mis-
taken every time thus far. The last date is
for Lake City, June Sd, and if he fails this
time we shall insist that he drop Moses and
score somebody who deserves it-nearer home.
"A Miss Sue Langdon, of Worthington,
was last week convicted OF selling cider in
Of a aprohibitory clause in the village
She was fined $25 and costs, which
the same was paid by the father of the cider
girl, and s. more which was assessed against
him by the Justice for the privilege of calling
the gentlemen of the jury "a set of id
asses.'
AT the Freeborn County Old Settlers
meeting in June, Col. Albert NJ. Lea, of Texas,
present. He made his first trip through Free
born county II years ago. Also David Blake
" and ALT P. Swineford, the pioneer editors
of the county. The Albert Lea city council
has appropriated 500 to spend in "feastin:"
Col. Lea.
The Austin Republican says that "Uncle
Hotch" has got back from his western trip,
and endorses the big drunk the foreman got
onto. An awful state of decentralization, this.
Preston Republican.
And thereby hangs a tale. The foreman
couldn't get his pay, and he felt so bad he got
so bad because he couldn't pay him, that he
the drunk.
1T is reported that Frank James, the cele-
brated train robber, notorious in connection
with the Northtield raid, is encamped in the
the Union Pacific Railroad, and has, BESIDES
his own force, large number of deserters
from the United States army and q lot of cow
boys. What their intentions are is not def
der Captain Lawson, has been sent out to
Fort Steele to arrest the deserters if possible.
-Erch0n0c.
The editor of the Worthington Adpance is longing
for circus-AusT1N TRANsoR1PT.
1t is the menagerie part that we banker af-
ter: Circuses are sinful, but wild beasts,
ments and 10 Complimentary tickets are NOR
Adudnce.
Yes, yes, brother; these latter contingencies
are always taken in, in ''strictly moral way"
you know.
Mrs. Van Cott, the revivalist, while preach
ing at Ithaca; recently, remarked that she
believed her deceased parents were doomed
to hell fire as just punishment for their mis-
deeds while in this life. At this point Cor
nell sophomore, shocked by her utterances,
rose in the front part of the church and quiet
" attempted to leave it. When about half
way down the aisle the widows eye fell upon
him and she pounced upon him with the terri
BILE exclamation, ''that young man is going to
hell!' at which he retorted: "Don't you
want to send some word to your father and
and march ed out.-E1chan0e.
The editor Of the Republican, criticised Mrs.
rhyng and her lecture at Kasson last week
rather severely, saying she was "a lady Of
shrill voice and super-gabby pr0clivities,"
that her theme was livery intemperately
trooto6 vvitI, nondoro,,a doooa NJ oo0tienn and