Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-05-23
OUR HARVEST FIELD.

-Rushford is arranging for big celebration
Decoration Day.
-Faribault is to be congratulated. She has
4Olicensed saloons.
South Minneapolis is to have fifty thous-
and dollar market building.
-Hamline University is to be rebuilt at a
cost of fifty. one thousand dollars.
Col. Allen purchased the Merchants Hotel
property, st. Paul, last week, for $275,0o0
Bishop Simpson will preside at the Metho-
dist conference to be held at st. Paul Oct. 8.
Seventy five young women over II years
of age, have taken claims near Alexandria,
Dakota.
the Austin end of the new road, created con-
siderable excitement at Alma City last week.
-Wdseca Radical.
Miss Mary BessiDger is another young
lady from Freedom county who has decided
to brave the hardships of frontier life and
gone to Dakota, Sphinx cOunty-where she has
settled upon quarter section of fine land, for
which she has been offered already $780,
Albert Leo Enterprise.
Judge Bassett has purchased the Preston
Republican, and it is said will have the valua-
bic assistance of his wife. We have known
newspaper men before who had the valuable
assistance of their wives.
The round trip rate by steamer down the
Mississippi river and back, from St. Paul to
st. Louis and return, has now been establish
ed at $2s. For delightful and enjoyable
teTpTise.
!"Round trip" "down the river and back"
from St. Paul to st. Louis and return" Yes,
we understand it.
"A subscriber of the Winona Herald write
to know the definition Of "dude.' The editor
answers: A dude is a pampered idiot, who
wears tight pants, short-tail coat, carries a
cane, and peers through q single eye-giass.
lackadaisical. He is Indigenous to cities.
Take a dude to Dakota and expose him to
one of those searching billiards aud he would
perish in sixteen seconds by silver watch.
An exchange says: Did any of our read
ers ever stop to think how many steps the far
mer takes In Year, Take the simple plant
ing of field of coma ive-acre field. To
break it up would require walking some 40
miles; narrowing it. 10 miles; furrowing it, 20
miles; planting. II miles, If with planter, and
If dropped by hand and then covered, 20 miles.
Thus it will be seen that it takes 100 miles of
travel to put in a nve-acre field of corn. to say
nothing of cultivating and harvesting, and the
going to and from the field while planting.
-McGregor city council have manfully
come to time and settled the old city in
debtedness by the issue Of 81, 900 in new
5per cent. bonds payable at the election
of the city, and 1000 in cash. The city
virtually came to the terms of the bond.
holders. The old bends, with interest
due, we believe represented about $780,
600.
Three years ago the license in Waseca
was 500 and there we're 10 saloons. Last
year the license was put up to $3.50 and
the saloons reduced to eight, and it is the
testimony of all candid observers thatthe
traffic is not nearly as much of curse to
the place and people under the present
regulation ($9OW as it was before the IL
cense was raised. Herald. @E @4l%
Hon. John ,McHugh of Cresco, and
Capt. Geo. 9. Gardner of Decorsh, have
purchased the entire Clyde Valley herd Of
Shord Horns, of Port Huron, St. Clair
Co, Mich, sixty-eight IN number, and
this shipment, the largest ever made BY
one man at one time into the. northern
half, or probably the state Of Iowa, ar
rived on Sunday. This magnificent col
lection of cattle was taken on Monday to
Capt. Gardeners Hesper stock farm, where
it will remain for the present. DecoraA
Journal, 9ta.