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

Several cases of diphtheria at Hast
ings.
Rochester is to have married folks
dance on the 21st.
-Owatonna reports $61 900 in building
improvements for 1882.
Farmers State Alliance of Minnesota
meets at Mankato, February 4.
The Cannon Valley Road is now COM
pleted from Waterville to Red Wing.
Extra freight trains on the s. NJ. Di-
vision are not allowed to carry passengers
"A pamphlet just issued gives the total
mileage of the G. NJ. & St. P. R. r., at
4, 4063 miles.
-Zumbrota has public library of over
700 volumes, which will soon be increased
to thousand.
One firm in Rochester has paid out
$4,000 for butter and eggs during the
present season.
"A fresh company of homeless chill
dren from New York will arrive in Albert
Lea January I'd.
Usage merchants believe in advertis-
ing. Last weeks Press had two full
page advertisements, both of dry goods
houses.
Archibald Forbes-the Oldest man in
Minnesota-died recently in Sherburne
county. He was 104 years old and a
native of Scotland.
The Hastings g. Dakota Division Of
the Milwaukee road is blocked with snow
west of Milbank, and it is not probable the
road will be opened until spring.
The St. Paul Dispatch is opposed to
the caucus; the Caledonia argus is op-
posed to the caucus; the Albert Lea Stand.
ard and the Austin TRANSCRIPT ditto.
So the caucus must CO."
William Graham. who lives near the
Star cheese factory has cleared, in seven
months of the past year in the sale OF
milk from thirty COWS, about $40 each
COW. Besides, he has raised twenty five
calves, worth $40 per head, and is now
selling his butter at twenty-seven cents
per pound. Rochester Post.
The Minneapolis Tribune (Windom)
has we learn, been getting the Senatorial
opinion of members Of the legislature
elect. We have looked in vain in its COL
umns for the jubilant demonstrations of
WINDOWS success it would have INDUCED
in had its investigations shown "at least
eighty for Window" We are sorry for
it, but the writing is on the wall.-Cofe-
donia argus.
DIR. Virgins, who predicts great
lives in the province of New Brunswick.
His previous prophecies have been full
filled. People south of the forty-fifth
parallel may wish that the doctors idea
is incorrect, but we are assured that his
neighbors regard him as a level headed
man and anything but crank. He is
the author of work on astronomy and
of one on grammar.-Dsspatch.
Elmer Kelley the hump-back news
boy, so we'll known by the travelling pub
lie, died in Owatonna a week ago last
Saturday in the 23d year of his age. The
Journal says '"The deceased was general
~ known and liked, he has been engaged
for some years in selling fruit, candies
and newspapers on the St. Paul and Owa-
tonna accommodation train, in which
position he rendered himself very popular
by his obliging manners and cheerful dis
position"
Thirty one years ago there we're just
six white residents on the prairie where
the beautiful city Of Winona now stands
In the spring of 1852 there were not a half
dozen settlers living on the west side of
the Mississippi river in what was then
held by the Sioux Indians in their own
original right, and had come down with
them from fermer generations. There
was one or two white settlers at what is
now the city of Wabasha, at the foot of
Lake Pepin. At this point there were q
few settlers in government employ.
There was no Lake City, Hastings, Red
Wing or Minneapolis thought of.