Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-02-16
NEWS AND NOTIONS.

laSt year.
The Lanesboro oatmeal mill is do
ing fine business.
Albert Lea school district is to be Or
ganized under a special charter.
Preston Republican Wallis admiration
for raw onions for cold is very strong.
Albert Lea is tiding over her tempo
rary bankruptcy by paying SIX per cent.
interest on her orders.
"A second States Prison is to be locat-
ed in the State. Owatonna is working
for it. Why not Austin?
According to the Jackson Republic,
"Boreas is bigger man than odd Grant
and Supt. Egan put together"
William F. Dalrymple, of the famous
grain farm in Dakota, says that the clear
profit for 1880 was over $250,000.
--Strawberries have appeared in the
New York market-Er.
Ours lie buried-under the "beautiful
snow"
-Mankato is one vast woodward this
winter. One firm are getting out 1000
cords for shipment along the St. P. & 8.
G. road.
Albert Lea is talking of a "sinking
fund" to meet her bonds when due-a
sugar refnery-a board of trade-and
couoro1 Othor %hiurc
The bill increasing judges salaries
from $4,000 to $4,000 was amended in the
Senate on Tuesday of last week to make
the amount $500, aud passed.
! Our correspondence was all showed
up this week-but the Press must come
out "weather or no."-FarmSngto Press.
Our experience last week, but we
"weather" ed it through.
--s1.75 per day was offered by the R. R.
Co.'S at Owatonna last week for snow
shovelers-and many lazy, healthy pau
pers refused to work even for that. Such
people deserve to starve.
Mrs. G. H. Chadbourn, wife of the
President of the Rochester National Bank,
recently fell upon an icy step, the sharp
corner breaking the thigh bone. 1t Is
feared the accident will render her lame
for life.
Snow shovelers on the s. NJ. r. R.
are paid $1.25 per day and board. 1t is
said the R. R. Co. paid out at the rate Of
500 per day expenses attending the
clearing OF the road during the recent
blockade.
Rev. G. W. Merrill, of Waseca, ten.
dered his resignation, which was to take
effect last Monday. He accepts call to
the general supervision OF church work
in Dakota, extended to him by the Ame.
rican Home Missionary Society.
"A woman in Sandwich, ILL.,, attempt
ed to swallow PIN. After three days OF
suffering, Chicago physician unpinned
her. You see the pin tarried in the
aesophagus, and came near Fastening her
to her sarcophagus. Moral-don't take
pins for daily diet.
The Owatonna Reuieso has succumbed
to fate. The Peoples Press says "Mr
Bixby, the present proprietor, has
moved the dry bones of the concern
to Minneapolis, where it is intended to
put new life into the corpse, and make it
the State Prohibition organ"
"A Lanesboro chap was recently taken
with a charitable streak and got up a
dance tor the benefit of poor widow,
and now the liberal donors are out in a
card in the Journal asking the said char
liable chap, to account for the receipts
OF the dance, the widow not having re.
ceived one penny.-EE.
1t is ever thus.
We this week sent out a number of
circulars to our delinquent subscribers,
which we trust they will read carefully
and act upon at once.-Albert Lea Enter
prise.
"Read carefully" Yes. "And act upon
at once" Yes. They act very promptly
jim committing the slowing MESSAGE
to the tender mercles of the flames.
Miss Judson, daughter of Adino-
ram Judson, the first missionary ever
sent to heather lands from this country,
is coducting a private school in Mime.
apolls. She was born in Burmah, her
mother being the widow of the missionary
Boardman, and the second wife OF Judson.
The Rev. DR.. Geo. Dana Boardman, Of
Philadelphia, Pa, is her halfbrother.-
EE.
Senator Sam Beemar, Of Winona
county, is halfbrother of Richard Ia.
ney, of Mississippi. He is a thorough
Republican, an eloquent talker, and is
said to be the only match IN repartee that
Donnelly ever met. He has homely