The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1882-01-12
BIG THING ON ICE

Order of Humility on Saturday night
last.
BIG THING on ICE.
The Iii annual ice excitement las
broken out in Worthington and is rag
ing worse than ever. The following
home companies have been organized
to put up the soliditied fluid:
d Shell, Capt Grinager, and l. E
k'mball led off with company and
have already contracted to till some
large ice houses down the river.
Wells Il PANEL and A Forbes follow
ed with i second company.
On Tuesday night third company
was organized with the following Off
GERS: President-Clas J Folger. Vice
President-A l. Rnnyon. Secretary
Il d Barber. Treasurer-Thos II Par.
sons. Directors-Folger & Peabody,
Runyon, Parsons and Barber. Capital
$4,000. They will build an ice house
on the east lake Hear the railroad COT
tage.
Mr. Currie, agent for Cummings &
Robertson, of st Paul and Kansas City,
is here preparing to take out ice'for his
company. \ car load Of tools is on
the way. n side track is to bA built
to the west lake. They propose to
ship as fast as cars can be procured to
do so.
The prospect for an ice crop below is
very limited and no doubt there will be
Il number Of other companies here in i.
few weeks. The ice in Okabena lake is
over Il foot thick and there's millions
in it. Parties who expect to pre-empt
quarter sections should be prompt or
the ''land" will all be taken.
TIE LYCEuM.
The Lyceum will meet at the School
house Oh next Friday evening at ~
o'clock and, after the usual readings,
recitations, etc., will discuss the fol-
lowing question:
Resolved, That men of Thought have
benefited the world more than men Of
Action.
y collection will be taken up to de-
fr"y expenses.
Here we wish to say word to the
community rs to the l.yceum. Two
years ago we had al excellent literary
association with III overlooking house
nearly every night, even Oil stormy
nights. Tie disorder caused 10y some
Of the attendants and the ultimate
combining of u number of the Young
people with the disorder|y element
broke up the meetings before the win
ter WAS over. This, of course, was il
shame, but the officers and older mem-
bers were to blame for not acting
promptly and eXpvlling the disovdcily
ter there has been 10 such disorder.
More over the IyCenm voted on last
Friday night to exclude all children
under twelve years Of age unless ac-
companied by their parents and then
the children viii b. required t. sit viii,
the parents.
We I,;ar of ladies who ar" remaining
away from the }.ycrum this winter be
cause they fear Il repetition Of the dis
order Of NV" Writers ago. THEY can
dismiss their fears. Ii the better class
ii people will attend and take part in
the exercises, We can have Iyceum
which, VIII be al honor to the town and
Of untold benefit to all. young and old,
who participate. Il friend tells Us Of Il
Lyccu,n III i Pennsylvania community
which has prece.lc.lca over every other
association, with Il library Of thousands
OF VOLUMES. and he assures us that
nearly every young man III the commit
nifty is ready SPEAKER.
A.NORHt;R LIQUOR CASE.
On Monday last Wm Pearson WAS ar
rested on complaint Of e. II |iambli.:.
charged with "stlling half Il pin, OF
whisky within the village limits.n He
was brought before Justice McManls
and Il jury emna,Ieled consisting of tile
following PERSONS:
G. Z Hewitt, G. p Shepard, \ $ Hid
reth, q L Pope, Ed Buc|lan. Ed PANEL,
e ~ Oltson, IL Torrance. J II John-
son, Herb Whitney, " 6 Rose and \
" Burnlaln.
Attorney Rohrcr appeared for the
prosecution and Attorney Clark for the
defense. Pearson was found guilty
and sentenced to 80 days in Jail. An
appeal WAS taken to the District Court
and Pearson gave bail il the sum of
500 for his appearance.
This case, it will be seen, was brought
under tn village charter, and no Of
fence was charged beyond ''selling half
Il pint Of whisky" 1t was not charged
us 4 sale ''without license'' nor las Il
beverage" Only the naked c'aege of
selling. We suppose this case will go
through the usual process and furnish
a test case to some extent.
THE LAST GRAB
The COINmiSS .OnerS WreStled some
time last week with Il bill presented by
the Publisher of the Journal for print
ing Il four-page law brief Tin the whis-
ky case certified to the Supreme Court.
The bill WAS $3.50. Our price for i
four-page brief is $500 and we put near
ly double the amount of matter con-
tanned in this brief on one page of ours.