The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1879-12-11
i RAILROAD ITElES.

3. :,z. RAILROAD ITEM
II Pipestone is happy over the arrival
Of the ears at that place. Tie track
will soon he laid to Flandreau and the
grading from there to Sioux Falls is:
nearly finished. Next Spring they in
tend to buihl to the James River.
It is rumored that Mr.. J. II. Drake.
assistant manager of the St. Paul s.
Sioux City railroad, having little leis-
IRE, is inquiring into the official con-
duct of the conductors on the west end.
they have all been invited to pay him a
visit at St. Paul, and several ut least
have been given their walking papers.
Causes not stated.-Mahkato Review.
Harvey Shepard came down from lis
new home III Worthington on Thurs
day to enjoy a Thanksgiving dinner
But the train being late he did not ar
rive until four O'Clock and didn't even
get 4 wisl-bone Harry. is confirmed
Democrat, who fought four years for
the preservation of our government,
but although Mobiles county has Il large
Republican majority lie was elected
treasurer thereof at the late election,
all the same. saltwater Messenger.
You see that's what he got for going
in with the Plebeans, and A. P. Miller
and the ''hybirds," etc. If lie had gone
in with the "aristocracy" he wouldn't
have been elected. He'll know better
next time than to mix in with the Peo-
PIE.
Fair Day last Monday was the &C.
casion Of a large attendance of farmers
| and others and a brisk trade in cattle
and COWS was the result. Bu,ineSs a
mong the mercantile community was
| also booming. Many persons came o.
yer the bridge from Carver aud llene-
pin counties just as we expected would
lie the case. Nothing like it. Shake
pee is on the "boom. '-Shakopee Cour-
III this county we call 1t Market Day
THIS item from the Courier shows that
these market days can lie made sue
cess and we hope our farmers will make
it point to be on hand and establish
the feature permanently.
Hay as a fuel for mill ergil es is CON-
ing into use in Dakota. Several mills
are now using hay with satisfaction
an profit and the gristmili 1T Centre
vile on the Vermillion, heretofore run
by water power is putting in IN engine
that will use hay for fuel. A stock
firm inVermillion had several hundred
tons of hay delivered to them this fall
OIL contract, for SLIGO per ton and the
contractor after hiring every thing
done, had thirty cents per ton profit
Hay for fuel in Dakota would not cost
so much us for feeding aud could prob
ably be delivered 1T the mills for less
than 81 per ton. 1t is claimed that a
ton Of hay will give rs much heat as a
cord of cottonwood. And in PARTS of
the territory remote from wood it IS
now the common fuel.-Sioux City
Journal
We believe the Okabena Mills in
Warrington were the first to use Lay
for fuel. 1t has been successfully use,l
here for several years a..d has been Il
saving to the mill and q profit to the
farmers amounting to thousands of
dollars.
Rev Richard 8. Edes, OF Bolton, Mass, was
for years great sufferer from boils 50 that his
life became wearisomc from their frequent and
persistent recurrence. The use Of 1iy. b tiles
of the Peruvian Syrup entirely cured him, and
since then he has had nothing OF the kind
What is the matter down in Lake
City, anyway? We. lived there four
years and-they didn't have Il fire. We
have been gone from there four weeks,
and they have had three big 'uns. The
folks down there will soon he mighty
sorry that their "uncle" left-our
presence, 1t seems. was better than a
young Niagara.-Duluth Tribune
Maybe you ''threw cold water on
them" while you We're there. By-the-
way, we judge you lave gone TO Du-
l"th to help Mitchell put out that other
big fire which has been burning for ages
in the imagination of the world and
which the clergy keep ''blowing" and
flaming into a continual flame. It's il
"big job," as Lincoln said, but we hope
to take pull ut the engine also.
Mr.. George = Sickles, father of Gen
eral Sickles, is remarkably like an ELL
largement of the late William Cullen
Bryant, being fully once and Il half the,
size of the deceased poet. n harder
person Of 81 years, mentally aln; pl1ysic-
ally could not be found in IL days
search.-lioneer Press.
How can that be when he commune
Gates with ghosts and has II spirit band
come and serenade him Of mornings be-
fore he is out of bed. lie ought to lie
pale, cadaverots, crazy, long-l,aired
and jerky to come up to the orthodox
idea OF il Spiritualist.
Last weeks Wortbington ADVANCE
does up that city in IL we'll written ar
ticle.-Sibley Gazette.
S. S. Hewitt has just received an H.
Illustrated Catalogue of Silyerware from
a appointment manufacturing company,
of goods which will he sold ut Chicago
prices. Parties wishing to purchase
anything in that line will do well to
place their orders with him rs he fur.
nishes any kind of goods desired. Call
and order early. 14-3w.
SELECT SCHOOL At ADRIAN
| have now engaged the Adrian
School House for this winter for the
purpose Of teaching a Select School
and will open school on the sth day
of Dec. 1879. Parents in Adrian and
vicinity who intend sending their chill.
| flron tn cohoo1 ot A n rim will ,>l,..,