Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-05-06
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Miss Hand is quite sick.
Fee for druggists license, $25.

GRAND ;MEAD0w:2e,gz:,: =.
Miss Hand is quite sick.
Fee for druggists license, $25.
Mrs. Warner is slowly recovering.
Frank Clough Is with US once again.
Sorry to see our friend Bostwick
leaving.
Who does not enjoy this beautiful
weather?
-Judson thinks the leap.year party
splendid.
Our charts are here. Teachers pro-
nounce them fine.
Mr.. Mason, of Rochester, was seen on
our streets Monday.
MIR. Grover started for Rochester
Wednesday. Friend, adieu.
The leap-year party was grand sue
cess. Over 40 numbers were sold.
Honest John has just received q
large assortment Of millinery goods.
"A new bridge is to he built across
Bear Creek. in Grand Meadow town.
Drop in and see Greening if you
want to see a sober face and an honest
man.
-Supt. A. H. futile visited Us last
week.-Mrs.. Dudley aud Miss Barnard,
we mean.
Mr. Dudley adapts himself nicely to
his new employment. He says "where
there is will there's way"
Married, on the evening Of the I'd, at
the residence of the BRIDES father, Mr..
Nelson Greene and Miss Clara Cole.
-Hughart, the genial landlord of the
Bell house, has been cleaning, white
washing and papering his popular hotel.
Miss Paddock, Grand Meadow girl,
takes the place of Miss Swasey, in the
intermediate department of the Leroy
school.
The building boom starts IN with a
residence each for G. I. Bentson and John
Skyberg, and Norwegian Lutheran
church.
Tho Mercury wisely calls upon the
cemet terry association to improve and beau.
tify the burying ground, which is an eye.
sore TO all who look upon it.
The Nevs gives Langworthy not a
very flattering record. Wonder if it is
true that Dunnell was forced to remove
B. F. from the postal route-agency for in.
competency
Grand Meadow ahead yet Two
more boys? Yes. Would you believe it.
MIR. Goodwin has fine one, but Mr.
Root puts bis hands in his pockets and
says, 'Ha! but it don't beat mlne"
Il. A. Dudley has resigned his posi-
ton as principal of the school, and i:
now travelling for Chicago house. Miss
Emma Barnard takes his place, will
Mrs. Dudley in the intermediate depart.
ment. Dudley gave very good satisfac.
ton, We think.
| Mr.. Colman, of La Crosse, inform
the Mercury man that he is about trying
the experiment of shipping dry pine slab
for 81 INNER fuel to such stations as may
want that kind of wood. 1t can be de
livered in Grand Meadow at $2.75 PEI
cord by the car load, and Langworth,
considers one cord ofslabs better than tn
same amount of bass wood.
-CoAL-Mr. William Seaborn, farm
er living some three miles southwest o
Grand Meadow, sent to US a sample o
coal found by him on his farm while dig
ging we'll. He found it at about clever
feet below the surface; he also tells u
that at that distance below the surface h,
struck black streak of the nature Of til,
sample sent, and at another place IN dig
we'll for his barn the same vein wa
struck which has small chunks of Goa
Observation-Disclosures
"A LOST BABYLON Tuesday Their,
came to the wagon shop Of G. P. Gladdel
a little blue-eyed child not old enough t,
talk. Mr.. G. tried to learn in some way
to whom the child belonged, but was un
able to get clue of any kind. He calle<
in every man that passed to prove prop
erty and take it away, but all to no pur
pose. Many called in and finally, a
time passed by. the little waif grew
weary. It became necessary to find its
owner if it were possible, aud on taking
the child mp there was discovered news
paper closely folded and tightly held BY
the arms Of the little one. Upon look
ing at the paper it proved to be a copy
Of the Grand Meadow Mercury on tn
margin of which was the name Of GU
dry goods man on the corner, NJ. J. Fje]
stad. The problem was solved. tn,
flaxen-haired, blue.eyed little beaut
proved to belong to sister of Mrs F.
who is temporarily visiting in Crane
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