Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-07-29
NEWS AND NOTIONS.


Steele county has Garfield Dunnell
Club.
-255 men and only women in the
State prison.
Rochester is determined to have that
State fair yet.
ALBERT Lea counts up 1866 noses
$3.50 less than Austin.
The Adventists are holding tent
camp,meeting at Rochester.
-Freeborn county has population Of
16,075-730 less than Mower.
The st. Cloud Journal is twenty three
years old, and an excellent paper.
The state fair Is q sure thing. Com.
mences August 30th and ends Sept. 4th,
at Rochester.
-Ottertail county has 81 townships
about three times the size of Mower-and
a population of 1857.
The population of St. Ansgar town.
ship is 1921. This includes the village,
which has 607.
Census returns will take the conceit
out Of big feeling town the quickest Of
anything we know of.
Farmers will not pay more than 81
per day for harvest help this year, and
they can't afford to pay cent more
Albert Lea Enterprise.
minnesota gave R. B. Hayes $4,000
majority years ago. She will increase
that majority for Garfield. Make note
of it.
The water from nine wells in Owa-
tonna has recently been analysed by the
State Chemist. Only one we'll reported
"good."
Track laying commenced last Thurs.
day west of Flandreau, on the s. NJ. di.
vision, and will be pushed forward until
As miles are laid. .
An Owatonna merchant was arrested
few days ago, and fined 81 for keeping
his place of business open on Sunday, in
violation of State law.
Baker, of the Mankato Free Press,
enjoys the handle to his name muchly.
To call himself "General," in his own
paper, is no trick at all.
1t is thought the Democratic Con-
gresslonal convention will be held at
Rochester during the week of the Stale
fair. That would be fair.
1t is SAID that two new papers are to
be started at Mankato-one of them by
Woodland s Foss, of the Wells ADVOCATE,
aud the other by somebody else.
The census returns report that the
various municipalities Of Minnesota owe
about five and quarter millions of dol
lars, or about seven dollars per capita.
The Congregationalists of Albert Lea
are about to sell their church property to
Gov. Armstrong for $4,000, and the Gov.
is to donate it to the Episcopal society.
What is the reason A. DeLacey Wood
or any other Wooden editor cannot get
up Mississippi steamboat editorial ex-
cursion to St. Louis? 1t would be ten
times pleasanter than by rail.
The trotting at the Jockey Club course
in Chicago last Saturday was notable for
the splendid performance OF Mr.. Wander.
bilt's Maud S. which scored q mile IN
2:1a%, making, it is claimed, the fastest
time on record in an actual racing match
The rumor gains credence that ar
are being made to have Mr..
Dunnell succeed Horace Maynard, as
at Observation-Disclosures
Free Press.
We have no doubt Gen. Baker would
favor the appointment, just al this time.
Ole Mosness, lawyer of Albert Lea,
was hit square in the eye the other day
by Mrs. Fixen, the temperance lecturer.
The fact has not gained the light of day
through any Of the Albert Lea papers,
but is freely discussed by the outside peo-
ple.-Wells Adoocats.
The reports from the wheat crop are
more favorable than they were last week,
and the best judges agree that the average
yield in the county will not be less than
fifteen bushels per acre. Many pieces, it
Is claimed, will 60 twenty. five Bushels.
Some wheat will be cut the last of this
week, and the last of next wheat harvest
will be in full blast-Albert Lea Standard,
ED.
The reports from various sections of
the country west of US show that the
wheat crop will not average above seven
bushels TO the acre. From McGregor to
Mason City, along the line of the C., NJ.
& st. p. road there are some very fine
fields, but beyond that the crop is exceed.
inglY light An examination. Of q dozen
or fifteen samples gives proof of q much
lighter crop than anticlpated.-Meqregor
Times, ED. -
The double-headed convention at Wa.
SEGA, 10 not without precedent. A sim |
liar one, and the only one that ever took !
place in this State, was held in Paramount |
in 1870 when George w. Whallon and |
Col. Clark Thompson, were candidates |
for the Safe Senate, A double-headed |
was then held in the same ball,
side by side, with two chairmen and two
and the scenes enacted were
not dissimllar in character to those at
Wasecs.-Blus Earth CITY Post. !