Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-03-04
GRAND MEADOW.

Mrs. Frank Warner is sick in Mime
apolis, and unable to return.
Mr.. Geo. Allen now occupies the
home lately vacated by DR.. jerks.
Geo. Robinson says he has already
done work enough to pay for his job
press.
just as I was ready to sing "Come
gentle spring, ETHEREAL mildness come"
this blizzard came and the song will be
postponed.
-Whooping cough still atflicts our
little folks. Attendance IN the primary
school has been interfered with consider
ably for the last three weeks.
Simon McCanna has gone into Iowa
for some fast stock. Get out your fllers
and lightfoots, boys, and If Simon takes
the belt, let great glory 60 with it.
In Bloomfield, Fillmore county, last
Sunday, Mr.. Nels Englestadt was mar
ried to Miss Karn Tande. Several of our
citizens were over and report happy
time.
All who did not pay personal proper.
ty tax before last Saturday night, will
have five per cent. penalty added. The
early bird catches the worm, and the late
one the (E) rub.
u. J. Gilbertson started last Saturday
to Northern Wisconsin, in search of a
team on which he held a mortgage. He
returned Thursday. The horses now
lunch at his expense.
Bob Woodwork has moved from tho
Lyon house into Mr.. loves. If Bob
has been apt and industrious in learning
telegraphy, he must be nearly ready to
take charge of an Office.
The man who has paid for fourteen
cords Of dry hardwood during the year,
is made supremacy sad when his neigh.
Dor tells him, exultlngly, that he has only
bought one cord of wood, and two loads
of old rails, during the same time.
Some OF the resident teachers, whose
schools have just closed, will attend the
Grand Meadow school the remainder Of
the winter. In.the A classes work will
b. arranged to accommodate them ard
the members of the school who contem-
plate teaching next summer.
Family moving in across street. Lit.
tie one, looking out the window-"Ob,
mamma, may go over there?" Man,
ma-"No, no, child; wait till they get
settled" As load after load came and
article after article is carried in, little
one runs to the window every few minutes
and says: "Now they're settled. mamma
now they're settled
If what is saucy for the goose is saucy
for the gander, then those who have been
disgracing themselves and the village
during the winter and still trying to move
in decent society, should all be put into
the same stew-pan and treated to the same
dressing. Whipping posts and ducking
ponds would not be out Of place in some
of our towns.
Almost tragedy occurred few days
ago at the house Of John Dodge in the
Schofeld district, about i've miles north
OF town. MISS May Smith, who teaches
there, was handling loaded pistol, when
1t accidentally discharged one chamber,
the contents passing very close to Mrs.
Dodge. A big scare, nobody hurt, and
all thankful, were tho immediate results
Mr. NJ. A. Tolan, from Lime Springs,
Iowa, the printer for scribner's paper,
has moved MIDTOWN, and occupies the
house lately vacated by Dell Ferris. Mr.
DeForest Langworthy came TO town Fri
day with the job press and a large stock
OF material and appurtenances. Monday
Geo. Allen vacated the several rooms to
be used by Mr.. Langworthy as an Office.
Such an appetite for news is being work.
ed up in Grand Meadow, that If those
organs do not begin to operate soon,
am not sure but that the people will turn
out, in mass. and devour one or both
Offices, pie aud att. In that case, lucky
will it be for the editors if they escape
with their lives, and the devils by the
skin of their teeth.