The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1883-02-08

ana Cne WOIk on the stone wall Will De-
gin as soon us the stone arrives from
Kasota.
For SALE Or TO TRADE for some
sheep. q three year old pony colt, at the
Knips fam, town of Leeta. 24-3w
We have made arrangements to pub.
lish full reports of the Dairymen s Con-
vention to be held at Mankato Feb. IL
Is. 1t will be issued in the form of an
extra and will be a valuable document
for farmers. This will he the most i'm
portant convention Of the kind ever
held in the Northwest.
Round Lake. the new station on the
Burlington road, in Indian Lake town
ship, is the best point we know of in
tins section for a general store. Here
is an excellent opening for country
merchant who can put in good
stock.
Following is the blockade record so
far Of the Omaha main line. 1t is the
best record of amy road we know Of this
winter:
Trains delayed Saturday, Jan. 18th.
Trains delayed 92d but all right on
the 23d.
Tuesday, 3Oth, blizzard, and no trains
till Thursday night.
Friday. Feb. I'd, blizzard, trains stop
ped till Sunday night. Since then run
ming regularly.
Valentines day mex! Wednesday,
Washington's birthday two weeks
from to-day. Ground Hog day last
Friday. St. Patti ck's Day in the morn
ing five weeks from next Saturday,
Fourth of July on Wednesday. July 4th
This year the 4th don It come Oh the 81,
nor the 5th. Ash Wednesday yester-
day and Easter comes March 25tL.-
Early Easter early spring.
A Delightful Novelty.-Ladies prefer
Floreston Cologne because they find
this lasting combination OF exquisite
perfumes u delightful novelty.
Jersey, wake III! Adrian is talking
county seat and now IS your oppoltun-
ity. Cause why? You are even neal
to tie county line than Adrian, you
are on the main line While Adrian is
oily or the branch, You are rs near to
Grand psrairie and Leota as Adrian is
to Graham Lakes and Indian Lake and
you are seven miles nearer to Worth
ington than Adrian. Adrian is alto
getl'er too far from Worthington.
BAKERY.-Haying purchased the Ba.
kerry of Mr.. Heron, am prepared to
furnish bread, cakes, etc., on short no.
tice. either at my house or at 1Ierro, s.
43w Mrs. CHASE.
Ona Of our fuel dealers recently re-
ceived two cars of wood over the st
Paul & Omaha road. One car contain
ed II and the other cords. The regu.
lar freight on 4 car of wood is $19, but
the rate on these cars was $27 81 anG
SIS so. The dealer wrote TO know why
this excess was charged and requesting
to have it righted. The office at st
Paul answered that no change could bt
made AS this excess was no5 sufficient
to cover under charges on former cars
No dates or facts were given, only thu
general staten nt that there had bee,
under charges on former cars and tina
this heavy jump of over SO on two car.
Of wood Was made to cover seine sup
posed shortage Oh former freights.
We are not we'll versed in tho mys
teries Of railroad business, but thi
looks like very loose and arbitrar,
way Of accommodating the public.
In the legislative reports for Satur
day last We notice that bill intro,luc
ed by Senator Crosby has passed tn
Senate, bearing the following title:
Relating to ba! ia d. and comprom
Uses.
We are not Informed AS to the natur,
Of the bill.
| A letter from II. J. Ludlow appear,
in a New Jersey paper, saying tina
Worthington is good place to star
another paper as the only one here il
run by ''cranky old bachelor" If th
folks down in "Jarsey' know Ludlov
AS we'll as the people do here, they won'
bite. Ludlow would patronizc the new
paper to the amount of III cents
year.
Ed. Miner, freight conductor, wa
badly bruised and hurt Oh Tuesday af
ternoon, near Valley Springs. The ca
boose and one freight car jumped TIL
track and Ed. fell under tho freigl!
car, which turned on its side and S|l,
over him crushing him into the s,ow
DIR. Craft went over ON a special an,
found that Ed. was BADLY bruised b,.
no bones broken.
See the advertisement of the st. Pau
Globe in another column. The Glol
is the leading Democratic paper of IL.
Northwest, and the weekly should b
| in tile hands Of the 800 TO 400 Demo
Gratis Of this county.
The meeting Of the Mobiles Count
Agricultural Society was adjourned 0
the 1st inst. to the 18th. on which da
it will be held 1T one O'Clock p. m.
About 80 ladies and gentlemen a:
sembled last evening at the residenc
of Mrs. Thorpe and Mr.. and Mrs. MAJ
tine and had the choicest surprise
party of the season.