Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-05-18
NEWS and NOTIONS.

NEWS AND NOTIONS.
Albert Lea creamery in full blast.
The Spring Valley creamery is about
ready for business.
Albert Lea is behind the times. 1t
has no street sprinkler.
Outsiders may understand that Min
nesota can raise cane;
Trains on the S. NJ. now run through
to Madison and Dell Rapids.
Albert Lea is paying 10 per cent. in.
terest on $50, 600 of railroad bonds.
Rev. Potter commenced revival meet
ings in Dodge Center last Friday.
Hon. w. G. Wards candidate fol
Governor IS Gen. J. H. Baker You bet
The Vidette says Cal Taylor is the
possessor of "bonanza' mining claim
in Colorado.
"A scientific article SAYS "coffee carries
healing on its wings" We will take
another cup, if you please.
An Iowa farmer has sheep with
two mouths. We have seen sleeps
heads with two faces fore now ourselves
The Albert Lea Presbyterian college
will be opened about October Isl in rented
rooms. There will lie no attempt to erect
buildings this year.
The Albert Lea Enterprise has three
proprieters-M Halvorsen, F. D. Pierce
and Ashley E. Ellickson. We guess this
means consolidation of the new paper
with the Enterprise. Sensible.
MARY Barnes is to have some inter.
nal Improvements made. minneapolis
Journal.
Mary ought to resent these remarks az
lnuelicate and uncalled for.
The editor wrote San evening will
Saturn" and it came out in the pape
"An evening with Satan" twas mighty
rough, but the foreman sa; id 1t was thu
work of the devil. And it looked tina
way.-GGlosst0n Ners.
Secretary Window is about to erect
one of the handsomest residences in Wash
ington, with optional roof, stamped gable
and three per .cent-Convertible-in into legal
tender y-windows.-Kasson Republican,
Won't it be beauty?
The Lacrosse Chronicle says travel
ing people who go to sleep in Chicago
and wake up IN Lacrosse, compare the
change of climatic temperature to going
to sleep in January and waking up 10
June.
Miss Susie Russell is editor and pub.
Usher of sheet at Duluth. An exchange
says 1--WE abominate that pane edltress.'
So do we, and with no dlsrespect to Miss
Russell, we say editor, and extend to
hersel and paper the right hand Of fel.
lowship.
The New York Sun gives the follow
ing as the new and truly sincere form oil
invitation: "Mr. and Mrs. request
the favor of your presents at the wedding
of their daughter"
That's the honest English Of ninety nine
one hundredths of all wedding invita-
tons.
Under the new postal law, if oul
exchanges are correct 1--WE have not seen
the law a man who has been taking q
newspaper and "refuscs" the same while
in arrears, or refuses to pay his subscrip'
ton, is considered guilty Of a "theft' and
the guilty party is liable to "crlminal
prosecution" the same as if he had stolen
u horse, or anything else of the value OF
his subscription. Several of the eastern
papers, it is said have commenced prose-
c utions against delinquent subscribers,
under the act. The best way under the
circumstances, is to take western paper
and pay for it!-FSllmore County Radi
cal.
We guess no one ever saw the Law
above referred to, but it is good one,
nevertheless.
Notwithstanding the $4,000 bond!
which Albert Lea gave for "competin&
railroads." the citizens are complaining
bitterly Of the low prices paid for wheat
The Enterprise Of last week says:
1t is strange but nevertheless tru,
that nearly all the smaller station!
around here have been paying more fol
wheat all winter than our buyers have
No blame is attached to the buyers. a.
they are acting under instructions, and
DO not share in the plumber. What we as
a comm unity particularly deprccate-ls
the pooling of the freights of the various
railroads centering here, and ais 0 for per
hitting that gigantic fraud and swindle
upon the people of Minnesota, the Mime
apolis Millers' Association, to control the
market, thus keeping the price of wheat
down from five to ten cents lower than
what it ought to bring.
X Albert Lea is losing trade every
week, by virtue of not paying as much fol
wheat as other towns in this neighbor.
hood, and it is All outrage our business
men cannot tolerate always.