Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-12-26

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| To OUR AGRICULTURAL READERS
The Americnn AgriculturSst is one of our
most valued exchanges. 1t has just en-
tered upon the Add year of its existence,
with varied improvements, and more
reading matter and engravings. 1t is in
valuable to those engaged in farming pur-
suits. We will send the Amersc"n Ayr1-
culturist and the TRANSCRIPT for one
year, to any address, on receipt of two
dollars and 60 cents.
You acknowledge the railroad shops are q
big thing. and being q big thing no small
yon have got them nicely running: drop us
postal that we may come down and see you.-
| Wells Advocate
The above remarks were addressed to
the editor of the Albert Lea Enterprise.
We advise the Albert Leaites not to waste
any postage on the shops, as, when those
shops are removed from Wells, we pro-
pose to have them at Austin, the only
proper and convenient place for them.
Each season of the year brings round
it's particular duties and pleasures. just
at present there are pleasurable duties to
be performed-the buying of New Years
presents. The mind gets bewlldered with
the variety of articles exhibited in the
various stores, but if you will just step
into the jewelry store of Hayes Brothers,
you may be sure you will make no mis-
take should you make your purchases
there; you will find silver ware. beautiful
designs, for table or toilet, articles Of
adjournment and beauty in every style and
design in the jewelry line. Go to Hayes
Brothers, and look over their entire stock.
Last years graduates of the Austin
high school are all engaged in school
teaching, except three. Our high school
is doing good work for the county in
furnishing educated teachers. Following
| referred to:
Cora Chadbourn, near Dexter.
Edith Short, teaching in Kansas.
/ Jennie Short, in Cowans district,
Gertrude Sherwood, in LaBar's district,
Udolpho.
Maggie Wilton, in Dea. Cooks dis
Charlie sqaires, Red Rock township.
Horace Wells, north part of county.
! -Woonsocket IS the new boom wonder
of Dakota. 1t is located at the junction
! of the S. NJ. Ry. division with the Jim
River line of C. NJ. & St. P. 1t was laid
out October IS, and now contains 100
good buildings, others are rapidly going
up, and the railroad company is putting
| in 12-stall, brick round house. The last
rail on the Southern Minnesota was laid
Monday, Nov. IL. Division superin-
tendent Underwood, chief engineer
! ter mechanic Amos were present at the
driving of the last spike. Trains now
run regularly through from Lacrosse 10
| Woonsocket-392 miles-arriving at 8
o'clock the following morning.
Moses Rolfe, of Austin, father-inlaw
of T. F. Gibson, is visiting friends in the
village. Twenty-eight years ago last
May he emigrated by way of this place
! to Austin, in a lumber wagon made his
toric in that it was the first of its kind
that had pressed the virgin oil, laden with
the sacred household AID sundry domes-
tic fixtures needful in the then prospective
domicilc He stayed over night with D.
Caswell and the only mark to indicate
his way beyond this place, WAS from will
lows cut and stuck into the prairie sod
by the Hayes brothers. who had come
across from Austin a few days previous,
and staked out Il route in that manner
LeR0y Independent.
| Ladies who wish some novel attrac
tions for sociables, might follow the ex-
ample of their sisters in Trenton, New
Jersey. They persuaded twelve bachel-
ors to piece Il quilt-it was a 'crazy quilt
| of cOurse-and then to quilt it in the pres
ence of the society, each one present to
paw ten cents to see the fun. The meet
ing gathered, the bachelors seated them
selves at the quilting frames, and the
work and fun began. The poor fellows
toiled away. The needles eye would
admit camel easier than the thread
some tried in vain to put through, and the
knots and long stitches, and the long,
emphatic words, and the short emphatic
Jerks followed, until finally, the ladies, to
save the poor fellows from becoming as
crazy as the quilt, took pity and helped
them out.
Thomas Hickok, living within or 5
miles of Evansville, Wis, has recently
sold his farm there, and purchased anoth-
er in the township of Lyle, in this cOun-
ty. He sold the old farm of so acres ut
$50 per acre, and paid for the new farm,
containing 24O acres, $4,000, thus giving
him much larger farm, one OF the finest
and best improved III Lyle township, and
Mr.. Hickok is son-in-law of John Bryan
who moved to Lyle last fall from the
same place in Wisconsin. These emigra-
tiols to Mower county are more than mere
straws, showing the tide is setting strong
w in oul direction, and we shall in time
receive large accessions of reliable and
thrifty farmers to our rural population.
We bid both of these gentlemen hear
ty welcome to Mower county, and hope
there are more like them to '.catch on" to
the rising prosperity of this unrivalled
and RAPIDLY developing dairy country.