The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1881-06-23
RAILROAD NEWS.
THE B. c. r. 3 N.


THE B. G. II. l. N. !
Cedar Rapids Times: The B. G. r. &
n. railroad company is quietly going
forward; to conquer new territory, hay
ing definitely determined to extend its
line from Clarion to Spirit Lake.
Humboldt. independent: The B. C. r.
& N. is moving west from Clarion live
ly. Over four hundred hands are at
work between Clarion and Goldfeld.
Spirit Lake Beacon: Chief Engineer
Clark arrived in town last evening
He gives positive assurance that grad
ing on the Il. G. II. & N. survey in this
county will begin before many days If
right Of way matters are arranged &C.
.coyding to previous agreement OF our
people, and his assertions are entirely
good enough for those of us who know
the man.
A Humboldt, Iowa, despatch says:
Tie elections in Lake and Waucous-
ia townships last week, on the question
Of the Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Nor
them by per cent. tax, were lost.
The rosd will be built, just the same,
but those townships will be some way
from the depots.
ALL COMING TO SPIRIT LAKE.
Esprit Lake Correspondence Jackson
Republic.
The engineers of the Des Moines &
Northwestern Marrow Gauge Railroad
are working this way, and are expected
to reach town this week.
The B. q. r.. & N. railroad is certain
to he run to Spirit lake. The grading
contracts are let for the entire distance,
save as below stated, from Clarion to
Spirit Lake. Mr.. Brandon, proprietor
OF tho Mime Waukon House, takes four
miles. running east from the depot
grounds here. 1t is undecided which
of various parties have the next two
miles east. Work is being pushed as
rapidly as possible and in July the in
tentiOn is to commence putting down
the iron. Mr.. Brandon is to commence
work in one week and is required to
push it as fast as possible. Spirit Lake
people feel like asking somebody to hold
their hats on for them. This town has
had to raise about $500 to pay for right
of way through the two townships of
Spirit Lake and Centre Grove-in all
some seven or eight miles.
We hear very strong and reasonable
rulnols that the Toledo Il Northwest
ern railroad, which talked of coming
last year is bound to be here first now.
The ADVANCE said recently in sey-
eral issues that the revision of the BIZ
Die would go far toward doing away
with the Bibliolatry Of the Professionals.
A recent issue of Unity, the leading
Unitarian paper, comes to the same
conclusion and says:
The frank recognition Of the fact that
| corrections were necessary, and the i'm
plication that other corrections are
still possible. will do much toward re-
buking the Bibliolatry that is so preva-
lent.
And we repeat what the ADVANCE
said months ago, viz: that we shall new
er have a reliable bible until it is revls-
| ed by commission of scholars, simply
as scholars, without any creedal predi!-
tctions and church prejudices to con-
troll them.
The St. Peter Tribune says that pat
emit medicine advertisements are the
| curse of country newspapers, and has
! decided that hereafter that class known
rs reading notices will be practically
excluded. After present contracts are
| complied with the Review will do the
same thing, being fully satisfied that it
is all imposition upon the reading pub
lic.-Mankato Review.
Give it trial, gentleman, if you have
plenty Of home advertisements and 9TH
er business. For our own part, we
cannot see why patent medicines should
hctS;,asWerf IFS 1nG business Dr. home
! advertisers. Many Of these advertisers
pay promptly III cash, and the people
! who complain most are usually those
who patronize the newspapers least.
We have known merchants who are al
! ways very solicitious about the thigh
tone" of the newspaper, and yet who
d. no advertising beyond handing in a
two line reading notice, worth 20 cents,
when they get OH their new goods, say
twice a year. Our experience here in
Worthington is that those who are
the loudeSt and the most unreasonable
in trying to regulate the newspaper,
| "AO WIG w. VnC0 wiz IL
least.
Some of our enterprising citizens are
urging the necessity Of u local organi-
zation modelled somewhat after the
| fashion Of a board of trade. The id. =
| is 4 very good one. Concentration 10
very essential in all matters affecting
public interests, and from the lack of It
| the material interests Of Spirit Lake
have suffered great d. al. by all means
let this idea be materialized.-Spirit
Lake Beacon.
The ADVANCE has frequently urged
the same thing for Worthington. An
association organized for purely bust
nes purposes, to encourage manufac.
lures, develop stock growing among
farmers, circulate immigration docu-
ments, ETC., was the plan outlined sew
veal L,