Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-01-19
TRAN9CRIPTIONS.
The sleddin' is very fine.

The sleddin' is very fine.
Wrap the bits of your horses brides
with cloth this cold weather.
Friday morning. at ~ o'clock, the
mercury indicated $50 below zero.
We see sun.dogs now and then which
nearly out.dazzle Old Sol himself.
Gold weather still continues, with no
llet up save in the middle Of the day.
We think the veracity Of the differ.
ent thermometers in this town is below
par.
| The days are becoming perceptibly
LONGER, and summer has once more start
ed toward US.
Rev. A. Morse attended the meeting
OF the State Horticultural Society at Min
neapolis last week.
Mrs. Leach has returned from WIS.,
it to her sister in Saltwater, who is very
i'll with typhoid fever.
The house plants that did not get nip.
ped in the recent cold weather must have
been on the "sunny side"
M. A. Slocum did the painting for
Mason's new store now occupied by H.
Sprague. 1t is we'll done.
| Judge Cameron has sold his build.
ing and lot east Of the post.of1ce, on
Bridge street, to Henry Roberts.
| Three "dead" engines were hauled
down 10 the round house yesterday morn
ing from off the Southern Minnesota road.
Mrs. ]. w. Eldridge, who has been
east visiting since last October, - expect
ed to arrive at her home In this city next
Friday.
MIR. and Mrs. Grout, the father and
mother Of Mrs. E. H. Gerard Of this city,
left for their Wisconsin home last week
Wednesday.
Bright moonlight nights, but whea
the mercury runs down into the thlrties,
| it is rather too cold to linger long al the
garden gate.
y. s. Shuck, editor of the Mantorville
Express, looked about Austin little last
Thursday. He was held here by the
snow blockade.
Last week Tuesday, at the Catholic
church, Miss Maria Mccormick Of this
city, was married to John Burns, Of Ma
son City, Iowa.
The Mason City branch was 'snowed
under" from Thursday of last week un
It'll Monday of this when >be first mail
train came through.
Mrs. N. z. Noble has been quite sick
for some weeks. We are glad to learn
she is not DANCE rously i'll, and hope soon
to hear of her recovery.
"A good many of the cellars in this
part OF the country have been little
frosty of late. The TRANSCRIPT vegeta-
bles are all right yet, however.
Miss Jennie Crandall, the successful
teacher Of the third ward school, 10 board
ing with Mrs. F. A. Engle, and not with
Mrs. Peter Haley, as we stated last week.
From the 18th INST, into February, We
are to have more mild weather, 30 says
Vennor We could take it a little more
mild without murmur-and be fully a.
comfortable.
MIR. and Mrs. Will. Richards, and lit.
lie daughter, are housekeeping in the
pleasant rooms over J. A. Walters music
store. We are glad to have them come
back to Austin again.
w. A. Ransom We understand has se.
cured position as baggagemau at the
depot Of the c., NJ. & St. P. II. r., Owatsn.
na. Will is good boy, and we are glad
10 hear of his success.
We understand our old friend, II. N.
Allen, has accepted a position in Super.
intendent Prior's Office, Minneapolis
The C., NJ. s. St. P. could not spare so
good man as Harvey.
w. A. Richardson, after two months
tussle with typhoid fever, is now able to
set up part of the day. His daughter
Lenna, who has also been quite i'll with
the same fever, is convalescing.
The first election of the incorporated
village of Ta"pi was held January 4th.
Twenty majority against licensing the
sale of intoxicating liquors, and the
entire non.license board elected.
CHURCH SERVICES. The n. E..
church will hold meetings every evening
this week except Saturday.
AT the Baptist church, prayer meetings
Wednesday and Thursday evenings.
Jesse Makepcsce, son Of Mrs. Amos
Hill, has been spending the holidays
with his parents in this city. He return
soon to st. Paul, where he is employed
in the St. Paul City Foundry.
AT a meeting of tue First Congrega.
tional society of Minneapolis held last
Thursday evening, the resignation of Rev.
E. NJ. Williams was not accepted, and
friend Williams is asked to reconsider.
When the old folks get up ''candy
pull" and then can't wait for the molasses
to get billed, we think they better send
ont tor q few of the wise-heads TO tell
them that cold molasses does not "pull
WE'LL"
This 10 "squarlng up" time, friends.
Settle up with everybody at the begin.
ming of the year, and know just how you
stand with the world. BY so doing, you
can better know what your expenditures
may be for the year 1881.
The many friends of Mr.. and Mrs
George White will find them costly and
comfortably settled for the winter in tho
very pleasant second story rooms in E.
P. VanValkenburgh's brick building,
south Of the public square.
We understand Judge A. A. Har:
wood, of this city, has been appointed 10
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