Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-11-06
OUR FIELD.

~-Dlphther1a at Leroy.
-Diphtheria at Pennington. Care for the
little ones.
Major White is holding Gospel meetings
at St. Paul.
They have a temperance ''billiard parlor"
at lie Roy.
We hope now for a few months OF rest
from political strife.
Capt. Nc Knight, Of lie Roy, has been
stumping the county for Page.
The field" is hardly worth harvesting
this week. Politics have blighted the kernels.
The Rushford Wagon Co. have decided
to rebuild their shops (recently destroyed by
fire) at Winona.
If every person would be half as good az
he expects his neighbor to be, what 4 HEAVIER
this world would be.-Er.
Bishop ireland, of St. Paul, of1ciated at
the dedication of the Catholic Church at LIE
Roy on Tuesday of last week.
Pages printed speech. on account Of its
many votes for Farmer in Houston county
HOkGh Herald.
Tho body of Burr, companion to Prof.
Wise in his balloon, the Pathfinder, has been
found on the shore of Lake Michigan, near
Miller's Station.
The Blue Earth City branch was completed
last week, and the Blue Earth people celebra-
ted the event on Thursday. Many "big bugs"
from st. Paul we're present.
"A new arrival at Fon du Lac is a Canadian
Frenchman with his wife and nineteen child
rem, who have come to stay and will figure In
the next census. They occupied a whole car
by Observation-Disclosures.
The Fargo land Office last year did one
tenth of all the land business in the United
in the country covered 100000 acres, and
l ,O0O,O 600 was credited to the Fargo ofice.-Er.
The firm Of Usher & Howard, publishers
of the Lacrosse Chronicle, was dissolved Nov
LIST, Mr.. Howard retiring. Mr.. Ellis B. Usher
will continue the business and publish a good
paper as usual.
Mr.. R. B. Basford of Winona-brother OF
H.. O. of Austin-was the unanimous choice OF
the Republicans of Winona county for re-elec'
ton for the third term as Treasurer. We shall
hope to hear that "Till'' was successful.
-Afute's Companion is the name of a semi
monthly paper printed and published during
the school year, at the Faribault Institute TO,
the Deaf, Dumb and Blind. 1t is neatly print
ed, and a credit to the mutes who edit and
conduct it.
Gen. ]. II. Baker has bought out and con
solidated the two Republican papers ut Man
i KITE; sna 81 III liz h s~e oassalSs. Gon. Saher L
q very able writer and will be welcome to the
editorial ranks.-Ezchange.
We haven't had time till now to speak OF
the change of editors of the lie Roy Independ'
ent, which took place two or three weeks ago,
Jim Henderson giving way to J. s, Bishop.
Henderson was very good writer, and Bishop
gives promise of making q good paper.
Henry Shaber, and old resident and most
respected citizen Of st. Paul, met with a hor-
rible death on Thursday of last week. In
crossing the railroad track to come up OWL
from his residence a wild engine on the St. P.
and Pacific r. r. ran over aud crushed his
body out OF all semblance of recognition
EIchange.
Says the Sandwich (Ill.) Free Press: We do
not object to our business men sending their
many occasions they can get it lone q few
cents cheaper there, and The salvation of q
dime is often a greater incentive to a parsi-
mOniOus spirit than the salvation of q soul
or the building up of a city's prosperity; but
we do kick" when business men, who pa
trOnize foreign printers with their cash, com
to us with their business favOrs, such as pufs,
mentions of the arrivals and departures of
relatives, marriages, deaths, births, and the
so lavish with because they cost them nothing.