Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-12-20

The preparations for the art exhibit
are prospecting finely. Mrs. Holway's
large class, numbering nearly fifty pupils,
will place upon the walls of her studio
some very tasteful and meritorious pro-
ductions, and we hope this class, Austin's
first class in Art, will receive from our
citizens the encouragement justly their
due, and full appreciation of their first
efforts. The exhibition will open We'd
nesday evening, Dec. 9th. continuing
through Friday. The proceeds will be
given to the Natural History Society of
the Austin public school.
Prof. Rankin will spend part of his
holiday vacation at his home in St. Peter,
another part at the State Teachers Asso-
citation which convenes in St. Paul next
Wednesday, continuing through Friday,
and the remainder, somewhere else: Our
teachers will ''vacate" as follows: Miss
Jessie Rankin will be happy at her home
in St. Peter; Miss Pickard contemplates
being both merry and happy with friends
at Waseca; Miss Knox hopes to enjoy
her vacation with her brother at Jackson;
Miss Drake anticipates spending next
week at the State Teachers Association in
st. Paul, and as the homes of our other
teachers are among us, we suppose they
will remain in Austin.
NEW MASONIC HALL.-The Masonic
orders of this city have closed contract
with G. Schleuder to build hall over the
two stores which he is to erect next sea-
son. 1t will be 5Ox9O, with probably an
18-foot ceiling; divided up into several
convenient compartments, including q
fine banquet or dining room. 1t will
make probably as handsome and conven-
lent Lodge room as there is in Southern
Minnesota. When entirely finished and
furnished, it is expected SIS, 500 to $4,000
will have been expended. 1t is thought
81, 500 will enclose the hall, and the Blue
Lodge, Chapter and Commandery expect
to have sufficient funds to do this much
next season. They will probably not
finish it until the year following, as it is
very wisely proposed not to incur any in
debtedness.
The holidays are again upon US, and
as we realize that Christmas is almost
here, we wonder when the days come and
where they go-and the older we get,
how much shorter the time seems between
the beginning and the end of the years.
When child, the calendar year dragged
its slow length along, and the march of
time was tedious, and from one Christ
mas festival to another there seemed an
age to lie between, but now we look back
upon the months of the past years, and
they seem only like short dream.
Christmas will have come and gone, dear
readers of the TRANSCRIPT, before we
come to your homes agair, and let us
put aside our cares, so far as possible,
and give the day up to good will and
good deeds, renewing and Strengthening
friendships, and making the closing days
of 1882 the happiest days of all the year.
May ''peace on earth, good will to ALL"
be written upon our hearts; all bitter
ness and unkind feelings, be buried out
of sight, and we, with hearts full Of
thankfulness for blessings received and
in prospect, look forward to the coming
days of the new year with new hopes
and high resolves that the year 1888 shall
find us firmer'in the right and stronger to
battle wrong.
The following is the latest informa-
ton in regard to new railroad which is
to pass through the east side of Mower
county, crossing the I. and l. Division at
Leroy or Taopi and the s. NJ. at Dexter:
The Riceville correspondent of the
Cresco Times says: '"The same party of
surveyors which few weeks ago ran a
line along the divide from the south line
of Alton to Dexter, Mower county, Min
nesota, is encamped near by, and setting
stakes up the valley of the Little Wapsie:
This second line connects with the first
just north of Mr.. Jacobus' place in this
township. believe the next survey is to
be from Riceville west piece, thence
north to meet the other at Taopi. 1t
seems that medium grade is sought of
Is feet to the mile going north and of 10
| feet to the mile going south, which means,
of course, that the iron horse is expected
to draw the heaviest load going south
notice an item in the Buchanan county
Journal which reads thus: "A letter re-
| ceived from the Wapsie surveying party
states that at that point they have one of
the best lines in the country, almost an
air line, northwest from Independence.
At Quasqueton, on the river below 1nde-
pendence, there is said to be large
quantity of supplies and a working force
| of men and teams, a fact which may or
may not have some relation to this pro-
ject. Well, after 50 many surveys and SO
| much hope deferred, will only venture a
guess that the iron track will sometime
span these waiting prairies, somewhere
between Cresco and Usage" We under
stand that the line now being surveyed
near Riceville is in the interest of what is
known as the Judge Williams Wapsie
Valley road. Instead of branching oil,
striking Usage, as in the old survey made
last year, it leaves it out, and the survey
ors are striving to find more direct line
up the Wapsie valley, with St. Paul and
the Red river country as the objective
points.
| Death From Diseased Pork.
The family of August Mast. living on
Dr. Clemmer's farm north of Cresco. have
been suffering from the effects of eating