Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-30
OWATONNA.
One of the Thriving Interior Towns OF the
State.

One of the Thriving Inter'or Towns Of the
State.
While there have been none. or con-
paratively few at least, of those radical
changes which characterize the newer
towns of the northwest during the past
year, Owatonna has not by any means
been at e stand still, and few substantial
business improvements and host of resi-
dences erected by its thrifty tradesmen,
attest its prosperity.
This city has always enjoyed the benefit
of being a competing point, having line
of each of the two great railway systems
Of the northwest, the Chicago & North
western and the Milwaukee & st. Paul, but
its people are ell the more alive to the
advantages of being railroad
center and will try their
best to secure the contemplated Austin &
St. Cloud line. Steele county, of which
Owatonna is the county seat, is an ex
tremely nice district for agricultural pur-
poses and has less waste land than any
other tract of equal area. Stock farming
and breeding of thoroughbreds is bscom
ing leading industry. Quite number
of wealthy farmers are making stock rails
ing and the dairy very prominent and
quite profitable features in their opera
tions.
tage to this entire section where exclusive
wheat farming has become unproftabls)
of change in the system of farm
ing one cannot help noticing the
difference in such town as Owa-
tonna. You see first greater di-
versity of products offered for sale by the
farmers. Instead of nothing but wheat.
the farmers offer beef, pork, corn, poultry,
butter and cheese and other articles which
under the old acheat regime, they did not
produce to sell, if they indeed provided
enough for home use without purchase.
Bat of the merchants and business men
one can learn mere fully the advantages of
the marked ckange. One and all agree
that bills are more promptly met and less
bad accounts are made than when farmers
only sold wheat, and that as natural con-
sequence goods are sold to-day in Ovation
IA IT less prices than they have been for
twenty years.
10 record such evidence of the prosper
lily of Il city and It's adjacent country is in
oeed pleasant task. Owatonna with the
beautiful and convenient location which
she enjoys ought to become very desir-
able location for any one. Take her
schools, churches and remarkably fine state
of society into consideration, the fine ia
cilities for reaching any part of the coun-
try by her two great lines of railway and
the steady and constantly advancing value
of real estate, and for pleasant home and
safe investment, it may we'll be said to be
grand point. Of the changes stranger
or occasional visitor would become con-
scious the moment he enters town
is the advent of Col. Try
on to the proprietorship of the
Arnold house. The colonel is not quite so
good Democrat as Charley Hastings but
no doubt he will improve in time. As a
landlord he is success, however. Speak
ing of Democrats. am reminded of the
pleasant chat had the other day while in
the city with Col. b. 81. Johnson, formerly
of Ashland, Ohio. Over eighteen years
ago he came to Owatonna from his Ohio
home, where he had for q number of terms
represented his district in congress. Col.
johnson has been identified with very many
of our most Important state improve
ments and institutions. He
was the first president of
the Winona & st. Peter Railroad company,
and has been at tho front in many public
enterprises since. He is and always hos
been an uncomprising Democrat of the
Andrew Jackson stripe, and while sharing
for the past taCenty-taoo years in the defeats
and disappointments of his party has never
lost faith in their ultimate triumph, and
now that the dawn of new era is begin
ing to be clearly foreshadowed the colonel
joins his calm congratulations with those
of his younger Democratic friends. May
the desire for purer form of government
rs expressed by the voice of the people at
The late election be verified two years
:lchcu.
The people of Owatonna will, with the
advent of the new year, have the DAILY
GLOBE delivered to them at the several
places of business promptly upon the
arrival of the II 40 a. M, train, and should
any regular subscriber fail to receive his
paper, Mr.. A. Y. Honeywell on Bridge
street will, if notified, see the error cor
rected. Any person desinng to become a
subscriber can do SO by applaing to him
or the delivery boy.
An argument for Prohibition.