Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-05-13
NEWS AND NOTIONS.
-Orton's circus at Usage May Is.

NEWS AND NOTIONS.
-Orton's circus at Usage May Is.
The Pennington Press has an attack of
spelling reform.
TEACHERS use the raw-hide in the Ovation
na public schools.
Albert Lea polled 4O6 votes at the charter
election on the Sd.
The Enterprise calls for reduction of the
city debt Of Albert Lea.
Five liquor licenses have been issued in
Owatonna at $3.50 EACH
PROF. o. S. Fowler, the ''boss' phrenolo-
gist, lectured at Owatonna last Sunday after
noon.
-Freeborn county convention to elect dele
gates to State convention meets in Albert Lea
on Saturday.
The Waseca Leader has been sold to the
Herald folks. So Waseca has but two papers
now-the Herald and Radical Enough.
Mrs. NJ. H. Dunnell and daughter, Fannie,
returned from Washington last week. to spend
the summer at their home in Owatonna.
The trustees of Plymouth church, Mime
apolis, are authorized to spend Sl,40o per
$1,000.
The future homes Of the orphan children
of the late Judge Samuel Lord, OF Man
torville, will be with relatives in New York
and Pennsylvania.
Tho Lansing Mirror says John G. Smith of
Lacrosse, has decided to close all his branch
stores ten in rumber), and maintain only the
main establishment at home
"A newspaper Ale is kept in the high school
at Owatonna which several Of the best
daily and weekly newspapers are kept for the
use of the pupils. Sensible idea.
The Wyko1 Veekly is no more. Stowe has
removed the outfit to Herman, Lake county,
Dakota. Wykoff can get along without q
paper, but Herman cannot. So it's all right.
The Agricultural Society have located the
State Fair at Rochester for this year. The
dates will probably be Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday, August 3lst and Sept.
1st, I'd and Sd.
An exchange says that barrel of beer
costs the retailer IS, who sells it out by the
glass for S2s, thus making q profit Of $40 on
each barrel. These ''retailers" can afford to
pay good round license fee.
The somewhat notorious Judge-of Mower
county, was in the city, Monday. He was
county who had another lunatic under his
charge.--StiUuater Gazette.
We omit the name for fear of libel suit.
David Stevens, of Madison, Wis, has been
awarded the contract for building the new
school house at Albert Lea. for sls,7225, being
the lowest bidder. Ten bids were received,
Won VI
figures.
"A boy can imagine almost everything; he
can lug an old shot gun about all day without
firing at a living thing, and be under the i'm
preston that he's having bowling good time.
But all attempts to induce boy to imagine
that he is killing Indians when he is saving
wood have proved futile.-Er.
Albert Drinkle, OF Spring Valley, put
charge of powder in his shotgun, dropped a
lighted match on it, and as it didn't ignite
readily put one eye to the muzzle to see what
was the matter. He saw. But he will see no
more with that eye, and his face looks like
boiled ham busted with black pepper. Mr..
Drinkle will not be quite so handsome with
one eye gone, but he will be wiser.-LaneSboro
Herald.
The Wells ADVOCATE is credibly informed
that the Milwaukee company will at once
commence putting the Southern Minnesota
road bed in number one condition, lay steel
rails in place of the present Fish bar, and
greatly improve tho rolling stock, and ulti-
mately make the old Southern Minnesota the
main thoroughfare from Milwaukee and
Chicago to the Black Hills. May that day
soon come.
Can any one tell why young men who are
always behindhand with their creditors, can
play billiards night and day, and always ready
for game of cards when money is at stake?
Can any one tell why four-ifths of the young
women prefer brainless fop under a plug
hat, with tight pants and short coat, to a
man with brains? Can any one tell why it is
that some mothers are ready to sew for the
heather, when their children at home are
ragged and dirty ?-CobleskiH IN. W Indc:r.
Mr.. Perry Morse informed us yesterday
that depth of 146 feet had been reached in
prospecting for coal at Freeborn, and that
they are now two feet in slate rock. This is
the first time that slate has been struck, and
the parties in interest feel a Quickened enthu-
siasm, as according to best coal experts, that
article always follows similar signs. Mr..
Clark, the indefatigable searcher after this
coal deposit, knows no such thing as fail, and
like Grant, intends to flight it out on that
line if it takes all summer We, in common
with hundreds Of others, hope Mr.. Clark's ex
pertinent and research after coal will ulti-
mately be crowned with success.-WeUs Adrc-
cate, Nays.