Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-15
OUR HARVEST FIELD.

Hon. Schuyler Colfax at Hastings Feb. 4th.
Ann Eliza Young lectures in Rochester
on the 18th.
lie Roy elected the full temperance ticket
on Tuesday of last week.
$50 marriage licenses we're issued in Ohm
sted county during the year 1879.
"A dreadful man says a telephone was talk
ed to death in just ten minutes by woman.
Red Wing merchants will close their
stores at TX O'Clock during the rest of the
winter.
-OwatOnna Common Council refused the
Telephone Co. exclusive right to erect poles
and sell telephones in that city.
The little narrow gauge was completed to
Preston over week ago, but the Republican
doesn't publish the timetable.
&C. Shields, station agent at Fairmont, has
been promoted to the position OF Assistant
Train Dispatcher Of the 8. NJ. R. R.
We see several of our exchanges are uti-
LIKING their dead stock Of Grange blanks-us-
ing them for newspaper wrappers.
Judge Farmers first term of court opened
at Albert Lea, on Tuesday of this week, with
over one hundred cases on the docket.
Major Whittle and McGranahan open
their series of revival meetings at Mankato
January Goth. Austin win come next in order
An exchange says every one of the forty
saloon keepers of Mankato are democrats.
Give US little Wise-dom on this point, MIR.
Review.
The merchants Of Rushford say they
have not had in three years a three months
business equal in magnitude to that of tho
last three months.
Gently took six revolvers from the little boys
in his department.. Must be small school,
only six pistols In 1t.
Deaths from diphtheria in Minneapolis
now average three per week. The disease
| takes the liberated rather than the usual
membraneous form.
If Edison's light will burn as well unde,
water as anywhere else, the Detroit Free Pres4
| hopes there will be no longer any necessity K
feel around in the dark for fish.
Says the gentle Joshua Billings: "Younf
| man. don't be afrade to bio yure own horn
But don't DO it in front Of the proceshun. G.
behind and do it." Don't try to hurry tn,
procession, either.
! Probably the oldest woman in Minnesota
died at Winnebago Agency December 2th
She was an Indian woman aged one hundred
and twenty-five years, the mother-in law Of ]
s. Alexander, Of that place.-Er.
The Southern Minnesota r. R. was com.
pleted to Flandreau, Dakota. on the 1st., not
withdrawing the severe winter, and an exten
sion of the mail service to that point has beer
authorized by the post-oflce department..
Rev. VIM. Nc Kinley, P. &. of the NJ. E.
church. Winona district, has received call
to take charge of Methodist church in Brook
Ign. n. Y. He has accepted, and left TO,
his new home last week. Salary, IS 600 year
| The General Land Office Department ha,
decided that II an unmarried man 3nd an I'M
married woman each enter q homestead ad.
Joining, and afterwards marry and build q
house on the line dividing the two claims and
live therein, each will be entitled to q patent
for his or her homestead.-E1.
Gen. ]. H. Baker, of the Mankato Ere
Prey, was married on the ed 6lt., to Mie!
Lula Bartlett, lately teacher in the Mankats
schools. No wonder the old gent was hunt
ing for the honeymoon in the Dispatch alma
mac He seems to have a corner on honey.
| moons, this being bis third find.