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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-09-27
GRAND MEADOW.

Mr.. J. Lawrence is very sick.
IS. Y. Paddock sold load of wheat
last week for Coo.
"A car load of hogs were shipped from
here on Wednesday last.
j. Kenyon of Spring Valley was in
Grand Meadow one day last week.
Father and mother of DR.. Jackson
returned from Iowa on Friday last.
Tommy Grimes, mother and sister, are
living in the dwelling owned by J. Lyon.
Miss Mary Powers and niece are &C.
cupying rooms in the northwing of the
Bell House.
The fire originated in building own
ed by F. NJ. Pierson; the name Benson,
was misprint.
&C. w. Robinson, former resident of
share of insurance.
Station agent Criswell is occupying
a building opposite the Brown House
owned by the Lacrosse Lumber Company
-Messrs. Moore and Weston have the
repairs on Hon. G. F. Greetings dwelling
completed, and as we predicted it would
bet is one of the most comfortable
residences on the south side.
The calumniator has assailed the
reputation of Deputy Sheriff McClosky
regarding some official business, but those
croakings fall harmless on him, as he is
80 well known in Grand Meadow, people
do not give credence to such slanderous
reports.
Mrs. NJ. o. Whsle, who has sojourned
for the past five weeks in Dover Center,
returned to her home in Grand Meadow
yesterday Sunday accompanied by her
son Orville.
Mrs. J. H. Monroe showed US a Gu
cumber that was grown in her garden
that we had the curiosity to measure; we
found it to measure 164 inches in length
and II inches in circumference. James
McCloskey has large pumpkin in his
garden that we will give some astonishing
figures on next week.
Our people all bear witness to the
promptness and fairness of the adjust
ment of the losses by the late fire here
We do not believe there is one who COM
plains of unfairness on the part of the
adjusters in many cases they even al
lowed more than the insured asked,
and showed that they were men of honor
and represented honorable corporations.
Hon. G. F. Greening has, as one re-
suit of the late fire, closed a contract with
H. J. Anderson, esq, of Spring Valley, for
the erection of brick store building, the
dimensions of which as yet are undecided,
but of one thing we are assured that when
completed it will be the best one in town.
Messrs. L. g. Moore and Brainard Wes-
ton are at work clearing the ground for it
we will give further particulars next
week.
The insurance adjusters have the
loss tha in the late sd fire nearly all adjusted
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-09-27
Woman's True Friend,

A Friend in need is a friend indeed.
This none can deny, especially when assis-
lance is rendered when one is soreiy af1lict-s
ed with disease, more particularly those
complaints and weaknesses so common to
our female population. Every woman
mans true friend, and will positively re-
store her to health, even when all other
remedies fail. Asingle trial always proves
our assertion. They are pleasant to the
taste, and only cost fifty cents q bottle:
Sold by. Clemmer q Pooler, 2
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-09-27
d. NJ. Thompson's Price List.

Best Illinois coal, car lots, on track,
$3.50 per ton; best Iowa coal, car lots, on
track, $5.25 per ton; Milwaukee cement,
to close out stock, $3.50 per barrel; hard
coal, wood and lime as low as can be
bought in the city. These prices are
good until Oct. 9th. Be sure and order
before that time, as coal will advance af-
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-09-27

M1RAB1LE D1cTu.-"Y Spring Bios
som is success. I certainly think it's
effects are wonderful; all the dyspepsia
symptoms I complained of have vanished;
my wife is also enthusiastic IN praise Of
it; she was disfigured by blotches and
pimples on her face, and had q continuous
headache. She is all right now and. all
unsightly eruptions have gone. You
may refer any doubling parties to me.
'R. M. WILLIAMSON, ::
Elk Street, Buffalo"
Price so cents, trial bottle 10 cents.
Sold by Dorr & Void. ss 81
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-09-27

a pleasant home for the new wife. The
alliance seems most fitting one, and
promises to be the source of much hap
piness. Mary Brown was young lady
admired for her genial disposition and
social qualities. and Mrs. DAILY is respect
ed, and will be wherever she goes, for
her womanly nature and domestic tastes.
She deserves true husband, and true
one she has, if one may judge by reputa-
ton. Mr.. DAILY is an insurance and real
estate agent doing business in St. Paul;
he is gentleman Of sterling worth and
reputable business habits, taking place
among the first in his vocation. We be-
lieve him worthy the woman he takes
from US, and in so speaking we pay him
our finest compliments. Mr.. and Mrs.
DAILY will soon settle in Minneapolis
We can, and do, attach list of the
gifts presented, but we cannot write list
of the fervent expressions of friendship
and hearty desires of prosperity which
accompanied the articles
Sisters Of Providence, st. Mary's Of the
Woods, 1nd.-Water color painting aud silk
Mrs. 6'Leary, Lafayette, Ind. log cabin
Mr.. and Mrs. J. B. Revord-set silver knives.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. l. BrOwn-Set silver forks.
Miss Maggie Gallagher, Minneapolis-Set
Mrs. Frank Revord-sllver butter knife.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. J. Furlong-Pair silver nap
kin rings.
Miss Laura Graves-Pair vases.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Keenan-Lace tidy, lin-
en- thread collar and pair linen towels.
{; Messrs James and NJ. Keenan, and J. D.
Miss Frances Smith-Mirror and card.
Mrs. Observation-Disclosures stand.
Miss Mary Kenney-Cake stand.
Oscar Cummings. China cup and saucer.
Robert Swartout-Chin cup and saucer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kent-Ground glass vase.
In response to a kind invitation we
went to the Episcopal church last Wednes-
day morning at half past ten o'clock, and
witnessed the impressive ceremony which
changed the name of one of Austin's most
esteemed young ladies. Miss Clara Van
degrift, the youngest daughter of J. NJ.
Vandegrift, deceased, was made the wife
of B. Odekirk, of Baraboo, Wis. by Rev.
ocdullCu, TIC IcCLOT. uS CuuTCu was
handsomely decorated with flowers, both
as mapk of affection for the bride. and
as token of the appreciation entertained
for her long service as organist and as a
member of the choir. Subsequent to the
ceremony the bridal party repaired to the
residence of VIM. Vandegrift, the brides
brother, and there, with her relatives,
among whom were a number of brothers
and sisters, Mrs. Odekirk partook of the
wedding dinner, her last dinner in Austin
for the present The afternoon train
bore away the happy couple to Baraboo,
their future home. Mrs. Odekirk has
many friends here who regret her de-
parture, but their regrets are robbed of
their poignancy by the fact that she goes
to the home of gentleman admired for
his good qualities Of mind and heart.
We wish the happy pair God speed, and
thank them for the box of wedding cake
left on our comfortable.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-09-27

THE REV. GEO. H. THAYER, of Bourbon,
Ind, says: .Both myself and wife owe our
lives to SHILOH'S CONSUMPTION CURE"
ARE YOU MADE miserable by Indigestion,
Constipation, Dizziness. Loss of appetite,
cure. - =: g.. -:
WHY WILL YOU cough when Shiloh's Cure
will give immediate relief. Price 10 cts. 20
cts. and 81.
sHlLOH's CATARRH REMEnY-a positive
cure for Catarrh, QiphtheAa and CaRker
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-09-27
Money to Loan.

At very lov rate of interest, on real
estate security. One of our firm will be
at the Davidson House on Saturday of
each week. SANBoRN & Son,
. Brownsville. MINI.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-09-27
Itching PiIes-sympt oms ana cure.

The symptoms are moisture, like perspira.
ton, intenae itohing. increased by scratching,
Aery distressing, particularly at night, a. II
pin worms were crawling in and about the rec
ed; ii allowed to continue very serious
results may follow. ''Dr. Swayne's AN-Heal-
ing Ointment" Is q pleasant sure cure. Also
for letter, itoh. salt rheum. scald head. Fry
crusty, cutaneous eruptions. Price 80 cts. 3
boxes for $1.25. Sent by mail to any address
on receipt of price in currency, or three cent
l. Son, $50 n. sixth street, Philadelphia, Pa,
to whom letters should be addressed. Sold by
all prominent druggists. july6-1y
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-09-27

Nor particle Of quinine in Carter's
Liver Bitters, but they are particularly
recommended to those who have long
used quinine and felt its injurious effects.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-09-27

~
On Tuesday, the 10th inst, at 9 o'clock
in the morning, Father Hurley united
John j. DAILY, Of st. Paul, and Miss Mary
Brown, the eldest daughter of VIM. l.
Brown, of Austin, in the holy bonds of
wedlock. The ceremony was performed
in the Catholic church in the presence of
alarge company of relatives and acquaint-
ances. In the evening many old settlers
and friends of the bride and family gath.
cred at the residence of the brides father,
who lives two miles west on the Kent
farm, and offered their congratulations
and contributions to the pleasure Of the
hour. a .bountiful repast was enjoyed
by all, and the we'll filled house resounded
with mirth and sallies Of wit, We return
ed home at q late hour, laden with de-
licious wedding cake. over which We
dreamed and wished Z life ct Joy and
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-09-27

mate will greatly improve her health. .
Two stacks of hay. containing about
ten tons, were burned during the storm
of Monday night, on ]. F. Cooks farm
in Window township. The fire was set
by the lightning. The loss falls upon
Samuel Requa, the lessee, and is consid-
cradle, as the hay was Of extra quality.
The cold gloomy weather of Sunday
last eliminated in heavy thunder shower
in the night. Morning saw the streets
and fields filed with pools of water, and
the air freed from the dry restless dust.
The rain came OPPORTUNITY, for the
ground was so dry and hard that blowing
was almost impossible. -
Mrs. Florence Holway, teacher in art,
is still giving the best of satisfaction to
her large class in oil painting. All who
wish to avail Themselves of this rare op-
portunity should at once arrange for a
term of lessons as Mrs. Holway has not
decided to remain in Austin longer than
the autumn months. ~
Miss Gertie Ellis was quite sick Satur-
day and Sunday on account Of a severe
cold contracted in the school room.
There were several cold days last week
and her room was unwarmed. Let the
furnaces be repaired and the heat turned
on, for the health of teachers and pupils
is of first Importance.
Z H. D.. Austin will commence the tin
and hardware business, in the A. Bayan
checkered store in the near future. Mr..
Austin is not only good workman, but
is possessed Of good business ability
Knsson Republican.
Henry Austin, who is well known as
9 former resident Of Austin, has our best
wishes for success in his business venture.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-09-27

Wilderness of howers-from two friends.
Statuary, "tetching the DoctOr"-Mr.
Beadle and family, Cresco. Iowa.
Embroidered handkerchfef-Mr. and Mrs.
James Baldwin, Fair Haven, Conn.
sugar spoOn-Mrs. H. =. Ball, Sterling, Ill.
One dozen silver knives--Mr. and Mrs. II. O.
Hall and Mr.. and Mrs. Lyman Baird.
Silver card receiver-Mr. and Mrs. VIM. c..
Allen, Racine, Wis.
Silver and gold card receiver-Mr. and Mrs.
G. E. Hall, Chicago.
Two silver salts, gold nned.-Mrs. Laura
Tanner, Albert Lea
Silver and decorated tea pot-Mr. and Mrs.
F. /. Crane.
Tidy-Mrs. A. T. Parish. Delavan, Wis.
Vase and boQuer-Mrs. r. u. Hail.
Perfumery set, plush case-Mrs. G. E. Hall,
Chicago.
Flower piece-Mrs F. Holway.
/ Elegant vase, silver standard-O. Hayes.
Statuary, crock of Ages''-Mr. and Mrs. e.
A. POoler.
Stereoscope and viewsI'arl Johnson.
Oil painting, Panel-Mr. and Mrs. Willis Ran
som, Albert Lea.
Feather fan-Emma Nelson.
White satin fan-Martha Human, Mt. Nor
ris, N. Y.
Blue silk hose-Hattie Human, Mt. Morris.
N. Y.
Wedding dress and veil-Mr. and Mrs. c, H.
Human. Chicago.
Cut glass vase, silver atandard-Mr. and Mrs,
COpger, and Mr.. and Mrs. Walters Minneapolis.
Four embroidered handkerchiefs-Mr
DOreMus, Chicago.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-09-27

we are unable 10 say, yet recent develop
ments would indicate that there was.
For several years past the company have
made no improvements ON the road-bed
only what was absolutely necessary to
keep the track in proper condition for
the running of trains. Last week, how
ever, gang of two hundred men and
several gravel trains commenced gravel
ing at Independence, and another large
crew are engaged in laying steel rails
westward. An old engineer on the
branch is quoted as saying that next fall
will find the northern terminus of this
branch one hundred miles north of Mona.
St. Ansgar Enterprise, Sept. 20.
On the morning of the 23d of this
month we awakened bright and early
that is. we were bright when we awoke,
and it was early for us,-and beheld the
first frost of the season. The frost was
heavy ore, and it did its work wellA
The greater part of the corn was ripe
and uninjured, Still, the damage to the
corn crop is of little moment compared
with the loss of Towering plants which
were forgotten or insuficiently covered.
Men can live without hoe-cake and corn
whiskey, but what would life be in q
home where there were no plants to feign
admiration for, or to dig fresh dirt for
every little while3 But the frost has
been very kind to all parties this fall,
and delayed his coming far beyond all
hope and expectation.
Coop health is maintained and nourish-
ed by proper attention to the requirements
of the body, and the avoidances of ex-
cesses. It's wasted or destroyed by over
taxing the mind with study, anxiety, evil
habits, intemperance, or vicious indul-
gences. Keep the body and brain well
balanced by freely using that friend of
temperance and good health, Browns
Iron Bitters; thus will you live to a good
old age, free from all diseaseSa and, suffer
ing.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-03-23
CITY EXPENDITURES.

1t has been recognized for some time
that there is sad lack of anything like
business order about the manner in which
many things relating to the expenditure of
city funds are transacted. This is not SO
much the fault of the city officials, for
many of them-netably Captain Keohler-
take precautions not demanded of them by
law, but the Council is to be blamed that
they have not insisted upon more stringent
rules. Take it in the matter of bills pre-
sented against the city; they are made out
in any manner that seems fit or proper to
the maker, do not, except in rare in
stances, state what service is rendered and
from their varied shapes and sizes are diff
cult of suitable filing. When brought be-
fore the Council are loosely examined and
on account of the. looseness allowed in their
drawing are incapable of suitable examina-
ton without going into details and taking
up time not then vacant. The remedy is
so simple that it is inexcusable that it has
not been adopted before. Let suitable
blanks be prepared, that if properly filed
out will show the entire history for the bin,
the work done and under what authority
ordered and then make it compulsory upon
all persons having claims upon the city
that they make out their bills upon these
blanks. Here at once would be full and
complete knowledge upon all claims pre-
sented; and our present loose system would
develope into one with some order in it.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-03-23
Thursday. March 23, 1882.
GOOD MEN.

Men are judged by their deeds, and po-
litical parties must furnish more than
empty professions in order to entitle them
to trust and confidence 1t is well enough
to make promises, but it is better to carry
them out and, especially in local elections
where the candidates are so well known
is it a prime necessity for success that
the men nominated be those in whom the
people trust. The carrying on of the
city's business differs in no particular from
any private interest, and we should as
soon take into our employ, as manager of
the public interests, man who is not COM
petent or whom we do not trust as we
would have similar employee in our pri-
waite business. Our city affairs are now in
such state that it will require men who
are both honest and capable to successfully
manage them-and it is necessary that no
motives of selfinterest shall operate in any
officials mind against the public good
and it is incumbent upon the democrats of
this city to show, by their actions tonight,
that they fully intend, if it is intrusted to
them, to give to the city an honest, wise
and patriotic council
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-03-23
FREE TRADE PROFESSORS.

The protectionists are now raising a
great clamor because all the professors of
political economy in our colleges, regard
less of political opinions are teaching free
trade doctrines. What should they expects
You cannot find text book on political
economy that does not teach free trade;
YOU cannot find a professor, who is not in
auenced by political opinions. that does
not advocate it. Political economists
through all generations have advocated
free trade because it was right. not because
one party advocated it or another depreca-
ted; po,itics had nothing to do with it.
But pretectionists- having discovered
since the question has been agitated,
althonghthey never thought Of IL before
that all our leading teachers were incul-
eating free trade principles, baye become
very wrath thereat and propose that the
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-03-23
AN INTERVIEW.

st. Louis reporters may be enterprising
but they are not always successful, as wit
ness the following attempt to extract in
formation from Phil. Sheridan, relative to
the Garfield Rosecran ms business:
'What do you think of the Garfield Rose
Grams letter?'
Nothing St. Louis is looking well
now"
Yes, barring the bad streets; but we are
making an effort to improve them"
The man who secures good streets for
a city is public benefactor. There is
nothing that attracts stranger to city SO
much as good streets
DO you suppose that General Garfield
really -"
81 suppose" interrupted the General,
THAT business is very good here, now; the
city appears to be lively"
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-03-23

colleges should employ men who shall
teach, not what they think is right but
what the protcctionist wants. They do
not seem to understand that the profes-
sors teach free trade doctrines for the
same reason that the teacher tells her
pupil that two and two makes four; it is
the simple truth.
A correspondent of the Ioaoa State Regis,
ter, writes in regard to placing his son at
college:
I had narrowed at the time to choice
between Yale and Harvard, but on being
told that both teach Free Trade ! gave
both up. then concluded to seek a school
in the west, and thought of Ann Arbor
University, but was told that it also taught
Free Trade Then, choosing what |
thought was best in Iowa, / was canvass
ing the State University and Iowa College,
when was told that the University was
strongly Free Trade, and L saw in your
paper that Free Trade Club had been
formed of the students of Iowa College
with the faculty in sympathy with it.
The Fairfield Tribune makes the follw-
ing appropriate comments upon the same
SUBJECT:
As our readers all know, Free Trade is
taught everywhere, in all the colleges and
schools of the country where political
economy is taught at all There is one ex-
ception, college located, as it properly
should be, somewhere among the iron mills
of Pennsylvania. But in all the rest, over
the whole broad expanse of the country,
Free Trade is taught in every college. 1t
is taught because it is true. Just as our
schools all teach that verb must agree
with its subject. If political economy is
taught at all it must naturally teach the
truths of free and unrestricted COM
mence. It is taught right here in Parsons
College. Fairfield, every day of the term,
the text book used being Wayland's.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-03-23
Mr.. oRERLY.

There has been, to our mind, great deal
of unnecessary talk about the reason and
motives that induced Mr. Oberly to retire
from the editorship of the Bloomington
BaIletin. So far as Mr.. oberly's connec-
ton with the Bulletin referred to third par
ties and the public, remarks and criticism
is allowable, but so far as those it solely
referred to his own private affairs. and in
reference is an impertinence. As an edi-
tor he was an able one, one whom it would
have been well to have retained, he is a
man we are sorry to lose from the profess
sion. That is point on which we are
free to remark; but as to his private bust
ness affairs, that is another matter, and
what the reasons were that led him to take
the step he did are not fair subjects for
comment.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-03-23

| George William Curtis, of Harper
Weekly. the warm friend of Garfield, and
an able supporter of the late President's
views of reforming the corrupt civil
service, thus speaks of editors as post
| masters:
'-One of the earliest forms of the abuse
of patronage was that of substituting the
country press by appointing the editor to
office Tie natural consequence was that
the weekly newspaper was always very
friendly to the administration. 1t was
not the impartial editor, but the office
holder, who spoke. Attention was called
to this evil more than forty years ago.
But there is recent illustration OF it in a
late letter from Ohio to the New York
Times
Speaking of the impression produced by
the nomination of Mr.. Conkling in the
congressional district which was so long
represented by Gen. Garfield, the cores
pondent says:
Mine out OF ten republicans were hurt
and indignant and such expressions of
favor as have been heard have come either
from the politicians or from such news
papers as have political ends TO serve. One
Ohio editor has postoffice, and approves
the nomination; another has just had
brother-in-law appointed to a large post
office, and he approves it; another has
son-in law connected with an important
legation, and an associate editor from his
paper in consulship. and he approves it.
The only republican newspaper in Gar
fields congressional district that has not
denounced it is edited by man engaged
at present in Washington as clerk of a
special committee"
Itis'in that way that patronage may be
used to bride even the press into betraya!
of its chief function by false expression
of public opinion. When an editor is APP
pointed to an office, it is inevitable that bis
comments upon the general conduct of the
appointing power should cease. to have any
value in the community which knows his
relation to it, It is another strong arg1-
ment for a careful reordering of the whole
system of such appointments.