Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-05-27
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--Picnics are in order.
Shoe fly, you bodder ms, is the boss
tune now days.
Austin is seized with q genuine cpl
demic of amusements.
Bring out your fy.traps and skeeter
netting, or be out of fashion.
The assessor counts your chickens
and the enumerator your babies.
Salmon red and summer sunset are
the new shades of reddish yellow.
The circuses are coming. Those
without children are permitted to borrow.
Splendid growing weather. Abuud-
ant showers and warm sunshine follow
ing.
Sermon Sunday evening next At the
Baptist church by the pastor, on Amuse-
ments.
Mrs. F. A. Richardson il at North
field attending the State Sabbath School
Convention.
Quite q considerable Of amusement,
of one kind or another, IS for sale about
now in Austin.
Count over your babies that you may
b ALREADY, aud no mistake, when the
census man comes.
Miss Ida LaCors came down from
Mortified last Saturday for short visit
with Miss Ida Smith.
TO successfully keep hens from
scratching with their toes, "shoo" them
stockings are too much trouble.
Mrs. W. L. Austin, Mrs. F. J. May.
hew, and Charley smout, arrived at Wells
last week Tuesday from California.
Jack Frost winkcd At US as no was
passing by last Friday night. No partic-
ular damage done, however, by the wink.
The pastor of the Methodist church
of this city, Rev. Alfred Cressey, has re-
Gently moved into the P. O. French resi-
dence.
The voice Of the swearing blue jay
Is again heard in the land. He is said
to DO as proiane as any Thomas cat yet
discovered.
Mr.. and Mrs. Coloss Fentcn are on.
joying = visit from their daughter, Mrs.
Alice Fuller, who went out to Fargo
about year ago.
"A. D. Harris, station agent, has been
appointed postmaster Of Adams in this
county, vice A. Bertram, removed. A
good appointment.
The bossy COW mourns her infant
bovine new days, and will not be CON-
forted, and veal is very plenty and Of
extremely tender age.
Tho ladies, dear creatures, will have
to donate their ages, now, for 10! the Gen.
sus enumerator 10 in the land-and we
shall all know just how old they are.
"A human hand was found at Preston,
yes, a woman's hand too. If there is any.
thing dark and mysterious going on, you
know woman always has hand in it.
Mrs. Luther G. Wheeler and Miss
Ella Cook, were delegates to the Sabbath
School Convention to be held at North.
field. We understand they are in attend
ance.
HI. W. Page and little son, frankie,
we're en- route for Chicago on Monday Of
this week. Mr.. Page will take in the
Convention, and eat his chowder at the
Palmer.
Strawberries can now be fouEd Of
fair quality, and comfortable prices
'maist ony day" in our grocery houses,
and of all table luxuries we give the
strawberry the "top shelf"
Mise Jennie Ellis very plea sanity en-
the young people Of Austin, at
her fathers, last Saturday evening. The
Ellis farm with It's many attractions is
always pleasant place to go.
Austin expects to have a "bg old
time" on the Fourth. Races and sham
battle at the Driving Park. Everybody
invited. No neighboring towns should
think Of getting up celebrations.
Mrs. G. J. Short and Mics Jennie
Redrer gave the pupils of their depart
ments in the public school = pleasant
hour last Friday afternoon, by geing
with them for stroll to tho woods.
Prof: W. w. Keysor will 60 up to
Minneapolis to be in attendance at the
commencement exercises Of the State
Univerity Thursday, June Sd. Rev. G..
D. Belden will be left in charge of the
school.
Miss Maggie Shaw, and young
friend, Miss Edith Parker, spent las.
Sunday in Austin. We suppose Miss
Maggie wishes to keep up her acquaint-
ance with the family at the Shaw mansion,
hence these frequent visits.
"A little girl when parsing the word
angel stopped dismayed, when coming to
the gender, and enquiringly asked
her teacher "are any men angels?" How
could she have doubted that point? Her
education was certainly defective.
Major Van and W. W. Cargill were in
the city Wednesday evening aud a part
of Thursday. They seemed to have full
possession of the right of way in the city,
and many friends had the pleasure Of
extending to them the right hand of VEL
come.
Judge D. B. Johnson, Jr.. OF this city,
was honored by being selected a. an
alternate by the Republican State Con-
vention, held at St. Paul last week. He
will leave for Chicago Tuesday, ready to
take the place If any absent delegate
from Minnesota.