The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1880-05-13

veMtion.
The representation IN said convention Is based
upon the average Republican vote On the State
ticket cast at last falls election.
Each county will be entitled to one delegate
and one for each four hundred Republican
votes. and one for each major fraction OF that
number cast at that election.
Signed by the Committee
MOBILES county Is entitled to two delegates1
REPUBLICAN, CONGRESSIONAL con.
VENTION.
A Rennblican delegate convention, for the
frat Coneressional District OF Minnesota, will
be held at Waseca, on the 18th day Of July. at
p. ln, for the purpose OF putting III n0nMnat!Oh
The basis Of representation will be one delegate
for each organized county and one for each 2o0
Republican votes cast at the last gubernat0rlaI
and cdny s1 esse %sof
The Greenback State Convention will
be held at Minneapolis, in working
mems Hall. on Thursday, May q at IL
O'Clock, for the election of delegates to
the National Greenback Convention to
be held in Chicago, on Wednesday,
June9.
The monument to Adam which is to
be erected at Elmira, N. Y, is progress
ing. 1t is to be mounted by statue Of
Mr.. Adam just as he looked when he
was created and got his eyes on Mrs.
Adam for the first time. Now let us
have a statue of Jonah and the whale
Just to enforce belief in the story.
The fight between the the Grant and
anti-Grant men is waxing hotter and
hotter. Grant and Blaine will proba-
bly, kill each other off and then the tus-
sic will probably be between Sherman,
Window and Washburn.
THE PROSPECT
Some Worthington correspondent of
the Pioneer Press reports business live
~ in Worthington and number of
houses going up. There must be some
inner, spiritual meaning to this, for lit
orally interpreted there is not word Of
truth in it. Perhaps he spoke ''ironi-
kali" as the lamenked Artemus would
say. Business is not lively in Worth
ington and no new buildings are going
up this spring. Worthington is laying
on her oars waiting for that ''good
crop" which is "forever coming and de-
laying" as the poet says.
The fact is, Worthington has got
down to bed rock, to hard pan, and by
this we mean to good basis. We have
come to depend upon ourselves and to
look to our own county for what bust
ness we get instead of looking to rush
of new settlers to furnish business and
tide us over. And we assert that ow-
ing to this fact, and to the fact that
our people have learned by rough expe-
rience just the capacity, the needs and
the methods of this new country,
Worthington and Mobiles county never
before stood upon such solid bottom
or had such clear prospect ahead. We
lave, in fact, got down to ''resump-
tion." We have touched bottom and
begun to rise. We went over the list
of our business houses the other day
with commercial agent and were
surprised to see how well our business
men stood, that is, how large 4 proper
ton of them are considered sound and
doing safe business. And while we
cannot claim anything like ''rush' OF
a''boom" this spring, we can claim
that Worthington is doing we'll, is on
good solid commercial ground, is not
now ''ahead of the country" is well-to.
do or in comfortable circumstances, and
has the foundation laid for good sub.
stantial growth into beautiful and
even wealthy county-seat. In spite OF
all the drawbacks, and most of them
have been of the sort common to ali
new towns and counties, Worthington
has had a steady and solid growth. We
admit that the "boom," the ''great ex
pectations. and all that, were knock
ed out of our people by the sternest OF
circumstances, bnt we have instead a
growth as steady and a root in the
ground as firm as the oak. The vote
polled last fall in the village showed q
population of 1000 and we are perfect
ly safe in saying that if we have now
two or three good crops Wortbingtor
will have a population of 1000 to 2,5O(
in five years.
AS to Mobiles county, the growth and
steady development is still more mark
ed. The vote of last fall showed pop
nlation of 5000 or more, indicating {
steady increase from year to year, ant
we are assured from all parts of the
county that larger acreage than eve,
is being cropped this year. An increase
of Is per cent over. any former year is q
safe estimate for the season of 1880
The several thousand acres of breaking
done last year in the Adrian colony
and as much more in the vicinity oil
ltushmore, will nearly all be cropped
this Year.
Within the past two years the village.
OF Adrian and Rushmore have grown
to he brisk towns and important bust
ness centres Of the county. The Adrian
colony has added some fifty famille.
this spring with prospect of fifty tt
one hundred more to come, and GU,
. Rushmore friends expect at least on,
hundred families from the vicinity O.
New York as soon as they can report
one good crop.
Altogether, the outlook for Noble.
county is good. The season has bee,
favorable for seeding, much larger /,
creage than ever before las been an.
will he sown, there are no grasshoppe
eggs this year, and few good shower
ofrain now will give the crops Il splen
did start. If we can report good cro1
this year, we are sure of another rush o
settlers-in tile fall and spring, and
steady increase i'll the value of our|ands