Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-06-07
NEWS AND NOTIONS.

-$416,0 900 Of St. Paul 4-per cent, bonds
sold last week at a premium.
Fillmore county elects one Senator
and five representatives this fall.
The directory men figure out a popu-
lation for Minneapolis in 1882 of 1850.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
Railway will be completed to Council
Bluffs within 60 days.
Hon. J. D. Farmer and Col. Van
Leuven of Spring Valley. are to "say
something in behalf of the great American
Eagle" at Howard, D. r., July 4th.
Pounds pocket book belonging to q
boy. 1t is at this Office 1t contains but
tons and marb]es.-Albert Lea Standard
Where were the strings, fish-hooks, and
circus bills?
Arthur Day of Empire made sale of
over one hundred head of cattle to the St.
Paul market last week, at Z cents per
pound on the foot. This sale must have
amounted to about $4,000, and certainly
is large item for Dakota county farm
er in the stock line.-Farmington Press.
-Ammund Nelson and Mary Ammund-
son of Rock Dell were married short
time since. Ten days after their mar
riage Mrs. Nelson was delivered of a
bouncing pair of twins-a boy and girl.
Quick returns.-Farmington Press.
Yes, double quick" returns
The editor of the Austin Register
hasn't done anything for the past three
weeks but write sad political stories that
make him cry, and then he stands back
and wipes his eyes with his ear. Now.
we dislike to see him drown himself IN
this way.-Preston Republican.
I'm digging the cellar for the building
on the Hickman lot, the men exhumed
two barrels of pork and firkin of butter
that had been buried nineteen years be-
fore, when the Goliath store was burned.
The boys said the butter was as fresh as
some of that in the market at present.
Anoka Herald.
Should the s. NJ. R'y repair shops be
located here, the railroad company will
employ between one hundred and fifty
and two hundred persons who will get
monthly between ten and fifteen thous-
and dollars, as wages. It is to be hoped
that the shops may be located here with
in a short time.-Albert Lea Enterprise.
Don't you bet on the shops. Disap-
pointments are very trying to ones con-
stitution.
The dog law is not working we'll be-
cause not enforced. One man licenses,
and his neighbOr doesn't, and both dogs
live right along. At this rate no one will
take out license next year and the law
will become dead. letter.-Wdseca
Radical.
Take the privilege which the law allows
you of shooting off few of the worth
less unlicensed ours, and then the law
will work all right.
AN OLD MAsoN.-Horam Abb Lodge
No. 50, A. F. and A. NJ, of this city can
boast of the oldest mason in the state
We allude to the venerable Benjamin Van
Allen, one of the most exemplary and en-
thusiastic members of the lodge. He will
be eighty five years old in June; and fire.
quently walks to town, distance of three
miles, to attend lodge meetings. He was
initiated and made master mason in
Washington Lodge No. 234, in the state
of New York, in July, 1916, which will be
sixty-three years ago in July next. He
was twenty-five years and one month old
when he was initiated. He is hale and
hearty, and, judging from the brightness
Of his eye and elasticity Of his body. he
bids fair to continue in this life until that
rare spot for mortals to see, known as the
centenarian points, is approached and
passed by him. he is q man Of indus