The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1881-03-24


are owing us from So to IS each on sub.
scription. III some eases their is Il good
excuse for this delinquency. In most
of them, the only excuse is that they are
putting it off till they have paid other
debts or fitted up to suit themselves. In
a few weeks. if the accounts are not set.
tied or arranged for in some way, we
| Shall strike their names off and endeav-
or to collect in some other way.
The result of the village election is
rather "imical'' to III" Crissyites.
Jim McRoberts left Tuesday morn
ing with the mail for St. James and
expects to bring back mail and express
matter.
Barber's efforts on election day were
too ''sp~ sdomic' to win Suppress
Barber, if you want anymore village
offices.
The engine began Tuesday morning
to buck eastward The road is open
between Window and Heron Lake
and will soon be cleaned out to this
place.
This issue is only 4 half sheet and is
No. 80 Of Vol. 8. Can't afford but Il
half sheet when we issue on such costly
colored paper.
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IS. w. Lyon is the first to stop his
subscription to the ADVANCE and or
der his advertisement out because we
did not vote his ticket at the recent
election. Adieu! "Ot-yca::" Ta-ta!
Next!
Jonas Bedford, Of Rushmore, came
to town Tuesday to see about car
lo:;d OF wood which had been showed
up here. lie concluded to sell and
that carload was gone before fellow
could get there
That story about Sisyplus rolling
the stone up hill and having it always
roll back on him before it reached the
top, has come true again. 1t was pro-
phctic Of the railroad shovelng out
snow Just when they have got the cuts
! cleaned. along comes another storm
and spells it all. Once they shovelcel
out seven times between here and the
summit before tram got out.
Men on runners are quite common
! 1,l,.
from six to eight feet long, and strap.
ped to the feet. The Scandinavians
have the advantage lis they are already
trained to skating on the SHOW. Tie
American, however, makes from three
to four miles All hour, after t,mbline
around until he gets the light flop.
70 see an. engine hucking snow is a
sight worth gong a long way to see
That meteor which passed here a few
years ago is the only thing we think
of now which resembles it. When the
engineer opens out the engine flashes
by at the rate Of sixty miles an hour,
leaving a trail ofsmokc along the sky,
metcor-like, and when it strikes it bur
rows into the cut ab ,ut hundred
feet and burics itself in snow. It's
exhilarating
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Stock LOST Besides the sheep lost
by Mcssrs. Murphy & Golell, we
learn that Mr.. Sowles, of Seward, has
lost about 80 head Of sheep. A. How
ey was III town few days ago with
the hides from seven head Of cattle.
We hear also that in the southwest
corner Of the county one man has lost
IS head and another 20 head. D. 4.
Reynolds, Of Bigelow, has also lost
several head.
| The Journal represents enough to
make the ADVANCE nervous.-Jour-
nal.
We told you so. We said so before.
hand. The Lord always uses the weak
things of this world to confound the
mighty.
The early bird catches the mirage.
On some of these clear mornings one
who is up earl V and up high can see
Fulela, Heron Lake, orthington and
the surrounding country for score
or more Of miles. Occasionally one
Of the church-temperance fanatics can
be seen sticking his head above
ground and peering around out Of his
hole.
The ADVANCE of last week stands
below and looking up says I'm Il tenn
pprance man. ''-Journal.
The Journal, since the election last
week, stands below and says, IL was
a temperance man; but amt so much
of a one as I was.''
MINOR ARRIF"ALS
At the residence Of Thos. Yates, in
Bigelow, last week, girl
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! Our kind hearted and bOisterOus old
friend. Boreas. III lis efforts to bank I'D
around our office overdid the business.
lie banked up the front door and the
gable end over the awning. so that the
weight of the SNOW came very near