Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-02-26
, GRAND MEADOW II

VOC tAo AAtucT Ol N.ES. ueuJy ID. COTey.
This IL the kind Of sleighing 70,
horned horses and wood -shod bob.sleigha
Get them out, boys. ..- ..-
Last week the types made me say
! mr." instead of Mrs. Byron Carey; she
Is improving rapidly. -
Sam. Cosel, AL. Hess and Tom
Grimes, three jolly boys, attended dance
At Wykoff last Friday night.
&C. p. GLADDEN., secretary of the lay
conference, and Scott Keefer, attend the
quarterly conference meeting at Taopi
Saturday and Sunday.
Friday evening several Of our towns.
folk attended party at the residence OF
Mr.. Marcus Wing, of Rock Dell, Olmsted
county, and report good time.
On Sunday evening, at Pat. McEli-
got's, three miles west of town, = little
boy was severely injured in one eye. A
hot poker was accidentally thrust into il
while at play. A physician was called
and perhaps the eye may be saved.
: Il. e. Moore sells his house and lot
to Ole Jorgens, and will soon 1T up his
shop on south side Tor q residence. MIR.
Glow, who occupied q part of Moore's
house. will move into F. E. Miners
house. Mr.. Geo. Allen is about to move
on this side the track also. Come on,
gentlemen; this is the boss side.
Emma Barnard, May smith and Car
RE Wheeler closed their schools last Fri
day. George Chatwood and Florence
Wood will close theirs next Friday.
While Dora Requa and William Forkner
have several weeks yet. Emma, George,
Dora and William arc Grand Meadow
pupils, and are acquitting themselves
very creditably.
The old saying, ''the shoemaker's wife
and the blacksmith's horse always 70
unshod," does not hold good in Grand
Meadow, neither does the aphorism ap-
ply in case Of our harness makers. For
about the neatest, best aud nobbiest har-
ness yet seen on our streets, keep a look.
out for the ono just made by Conner 4
Rawson. That need not hinder you from
examining their large stock of hrst-class
durable harnesses.
Newspaper rumor in Grand Meadow
is rapidly changing to newspaper reality
double reality IN fact-as two outfits
are already ordered for this place. Mr..
B. F. Langworthy, of Lacrosse, who, it
10 said, will furnish very coed one for
q place of this size, and N. V. B. Scribner,
whose outfit will be about equal to the
one used by the Dunlevy Bros. in tho
Office Of the Grand Meadow News. Come
one and all, both great and small. Hip,
hip, hip and tiger.
Saturday morning team-not tied
ran from one of the elevators, north past
the Brown house, west on Second Street,
and south on Main Street. On Main
Street they swerved to the sidewalk, leav.
ing the sleds at the frst hitching post,
smashing the tongue and whippletrees :;
they ran on the walk about ten rods, de-
melishing awning posts, and seattle ring
pedestrians with more haste than dignity.
They were caught and securely tied, just
Is they should have been in tho nrst
place.
The evening before. one Of Baldwin's
teams from Spring Valley, ran on our
streets damaging the carriage considers
bly,; and Warren Bush's mule team left
him at dance and were invisible 10 him
for two days.
DIR. Tanner delivered his" celebrated
lecture, "Physlcal Effects Of Alcohol" to
an attentive audience, at Colman's: HALL
last Wednesday evening. The old theory
that alcohol contains nutriment, was
shown to be false by reasoning SO undsr
niable and by the testimony of 90 many
of the ablest scientists Of the present.
time, that no further doubt should remain
upon that point. A stimulant that Is
. whip or spur, does not add force
but draws more rapidly upon that. which
already exists, and, with every applies
ton, leaves the victim weaker. L,kexap.
plying the whip to- z horse for long
drive, and at tho end applying it again,
and so ON. Alcohol does not produce
heat, it only disturbs the equilibrium.
Truly it may be said swine Is q mocker,
strong drink is raging, and whososver is
deceived thereby is not wise" At close
Of the lecture DR.. Tanner made an earn
est appeal 10 mothers. You hold the
world in your arms. Then train well
those entrusted to your care. And ~ vo~
tiers: Prohibition is the watchword for
temperance men. Christians, vote as you
pray, and let those prayers control your
political acts.
AN OLD RESIDENT GONE-Samuel
Scribner, of frankfort, died on Friday
night last, after a lingering illness of
about year. He was first attacked with
disease of the kidneys, which grew worse
until he was confined to his bed. After
months of terrible suffering. he was par
italy relieved Of the disease, when con-
sumption set in and bore him gradually
away. The funeral took place Monday,
conducted by the Patrons of Hnsbandry,
of which order he was devoted mem:
Der. 1t may not be amiss to give brief
history of his life here. Samuel scrib-
uer was born in Otsego County, New
York, in November, 1902. His ancestors
we're Of Scotch and Irish lineage, having
emigrated to this country from Scotland
IN an early day. He was farmer by
profession, and, with the help of his older
sons, cleared up several heavy timbered
farms in Livingston Go, N. Y, from which
place he smigratsd 10 Iowa in 1854, and
TO Minnesota in 1850, having been : res-
ident of this state "a years. He had met
with numerous heavy losses during his
life, but with patient fortitude withstoo1
them oil. -E. r.. .,..~.f..' -,
Out Of his family OF twelve children
be lived to see SIX of them bur
led. Six remain e. mourn his loss and
to cheer tho widowed neither through
thn ra~ain1ap nfshnr 1AO1in,n~ va>rn