The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1881-06-16
PERSONALS.

| WIS. outZs llOtlleE TO W.. -. SCOCK-
dale, arrived yesterday from Ohio On a
visit to her son.
l.: E. Kimball and lady, from Sioux
Falls, spent Sunday last at the Worth
ington.
Mr.. George, representing the paper
house of Averile, Russell & Co., spent
Sunday in Worthington.
Postmaster Soule returned Monday
night from Tennessee. He reports Mrs.
Soule as benefited by the change.
Attorney Rohrer returned Saturday
from weeks visit to St. Paul attend
ing court.
Attorney Clark left Wednesday, for a
weeks visit to st. Paul on legal bust
| ness.
A. NJ. Smith and lady have returned
from trip Of some weeks through 10.
wa.
H. J. Ludlow Las moved to his farm
and banker Smith will occupy his
dwelling house III town.
Rev. S. NJ. Smith has returned from
his tree claim where he set out about
$4,000 trees.
| Mrs. James G. Clark, wife of the ia
nous poet and balladist. has been spend
ing several days in Worthington, the
guest of Mrs. Dean.
Mr.. Meigs has left the depot and gone
to Sioux Falls, and J. b. Mclean, of
Macomb. ILL.,, has taken his place as
assistant agent.
John J. Johnson, from north of A.
drian, made us Il pleasant call yester-
| day, greenbacks included. Mr.. J. has
had $40 worth of ADVANCE 50 far.
| Mrs. Omberson, living in jackson
county, just east of l1ersey, died on
Saturday last and was buried on Tues
day.
B. N. Carrier and family returned
| from Minneapolis Saturday where they
had been furthering the work on their
residence
! Jas. McRoberts returned on Saturday
from where he had been attending at
the final illness and death of his broth
er.
Attorney Nelson, of Adrian, spent
Friday evening in town and was in
Quoted into the sublime and ha,r.raising
mysteries of the a. o. U. W.
Mr.. and Mrs. Smith Of Worthington
! have been i'll town some days. Mr.,
Smith is a brother of Miss Eta Smith,
| 50 we'll known to the music loving peo-
pie Of this city.-Sioux City Journal.
The family of F. W. McRavey, night
operator at the depot. have arrived
ED. J. McRavey, his brother. from Mil
waukee, is assisting Mr.. Bailey, as day
! operator.
Miss Nellie Clement, daughter of T.
Is. Clement. Senator from Rice county
and President Of First National Bank,
OF Faribault, is visiting her friend Mrs
N1ilt Smith.
| E. Mcintosh, of st. Paul, who does
! derson. is an agreeable Young man, H.
bout us ''milda hammered man as ever
cut throat" or skinned beef. lie
has seven years experience in the bust
ness.
Leroy Cole, of Minneapolis, came
down Monday night and spent Tuesday
with friends about Worthington. Nr.
| Cole informed us of several Worthing-
ton people living in Minneapolis whom
we did not get into the list recently
published. They are Rev. G. II. Dixon
now Il reporter on the Tribune and
Frank Dixon, Il compositor on the same
paper.
\. G: Robinson writes us to change
the address of his paper to ''1.5O6. 5!
lily are pow permanently located in a
il ne OF their own, where, says Mr.. K. :,
| 1--WE shall be glad to have amy Of Ouv
Wortl,ington friends call when they
are in the city," Ed. Chandler orders
his paper sent to 1873 2lSt street Our
! friend l.. Bowen is also there now but
we have not learned his No. yet.
EIPOSURE or REV. G. F. SHELDON
Elsewhere will be found an account
Of the trial and suspension Of Rev. &.
F. Sheldon, copied from the 1lornells-
vile, N. Y. Tribune Of June 7tl. Mr.
| Sheldon was pastor of the Inflated NJ.
E. Church Of Worthington for about
one year, leaving here last October
to engage in bethel work at lIornells-
vile as Secretary of the i. r. Y. NJ. e.
A. While here Mr.. Sheldon was dis
tingnished for his zeal among the Meth
odists, and was not liked by a 'numbcr
OF our people because Of his apparent
intolerance toward what they thought
| innocent alnusements and his seeming
determination to compel people to his
way OF doing and thinking. On one
occasion, we remember, a lady member
Of his congregation had attended sew
! era} dances with bachelor friends when
Mr.. $. wrote the young lady letter in
which he said, "they will lead you to
your ruin and gloat over your down.
fall" AS the editor of the ADVANCE
was one Of these bachelors, we thought
this pretty rough for 4 minister who
had not been in Worthington more
than 4 month or two, and who had re-
ceived his information from some of
the low white trash" who are especial
ly severe on the ADVANCE and especial
ly Jealous in their pretence of piety.-
But Mr. Sheldon was ten times the
man that any Of his lying informers
were. for he afterwards came to US and
assured us that he had been misinform-
ed and claimed that his remarks We're
more of a general than of personal ma
ture.
In publishing this account of Mr..
Sheldon's trouble, we do so with no
exultation whatever but with sorrow.
We liked the man for his zeal, though
mistaken, and for his manliness in ac-
knowledging a mistake when lie saw he
had made one. lie is not a whit worse
than many other ministers, and we do
not doubt in the least that stronger
case could lie made against ministers
right here at home than has been made
against him. lie has the misfortune
to he exposed, while they have the good
fortune to have their sins covered up.
The ADVANCE has got into the llab-
it of blowing about its prophecies and
predictions journal.
Singular, too, how accurately we hit
it. A dozen weather predictions made