Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-07-25
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Joseph Schwan is down fir ON st. Paul
visiting parents and friends.
Miss Lulu Richardson is visiting at
Wells, with Miss Jessie Smout.
Mrs. r. I. Smith, of Minneapolis,
is here visiting and recuperating.
&C. NJ. Fernald and daughter Lou re-
turned to St. Paul Saturday night.
Lower prices than ever for soft coal
this year in Car lots of D. NJ. Thompson.
-Odilon Beaudry, having closed his
business in Austin, went to st. Paul Mon
day.
We are sorry to learn that Mr.. Sher
wood, Mrs. Rankin's father, is still very
low.
(which way will the cholera reach this
country, via the Golden Gate or He'll
Gate?
j. A. Walters and wife, of Minneapolis,
are now the guests of her mother, Mrs.
Conger.
Buy your hard coal early of D. NJ.
Thompson, and save from 30 cents to 81
per ton.
Maud, Sheriff Corey's daughter, and
Efe Doan, are visiting in frankfort and
Spring Valley.
w. ]. Schwan after few days Of
pleasure at home, returned to st. Paul
Monday morning.
| Austin has again been Stunned by
the cyclone. No city in our state has
thus far been more fortunate.
! e. B. Crane and his familiar grip
sack were seen last Thursday, vending
their way towards his home.
MIR. and Mrs. F. King have gone to
St. Paul to spend week. They will take
in the Mahtomedi convention.
! Mrs. N. NJ. Holbrook went to St.
Paul Thursday last, to join her husband,
who is in business in that place.
Miss Maud Lathrop, niece of Rev.
E. r. Lathrop, came home with her uncle
last week to make visit to her friends.
DO not fail to get prices of D. NJ.
| Thompson, on hard coal before buying.
The best quality and lowest prices this
year.
One week to night Mrs. Webb enter
tanned small party of friends in honor
of her niece, Miss Katie Ross, of Ken
lucky.
Miss Jennie Ellis is now at home TAX
ing the rest so we'll earned and enjoying
the calls and greetings of her many
friends.
"A fine Chester White" pig passed
through Austin last week en- route to r.
E. Brown, Cresco, Iowa. 1t is from Bon
aparte, Iowa.
Billy Witham went to Mankato last
Tuesday week and underwent a medical
examination. Mr.. Witham is an applicant
for pension.
The County Commissioners met on
| nd Vvi1 in in
sion most of the week. We shall publish
the proceedings next week.
Work on the court-h house is progress
ing, despite the unfavorable weather.
The roof is nearly finished, and the tower
has taken on the last upward addition.
Mrs. w. L. Austin, formerly of CAL,
their son and brother, Henry Austin, at
Kasson last week. They were en- route
for Boston.
Like the spies sent out to view the
promised land. the Austin editors went
up north for the same purpose. They
spent most of the time looking over
Devils Lake.
The Ladies' Church Aid Society of
the Congregational church will hold a
sociable at the residence of Mrs. Andrew
Knox, on Friday evening, July 9th. All
are cordially invited.
A number of little boys are learning
to smoke cigarettes in our CITY, Mothers,
are you aware of it? An old building on
the square is quite rendezvous for them.
Better be at home with mother.
The next thing to the Fourth of July
is fine melon patch. We know where
the patches are, and unless we are bounti-
fully remembered we shall tell the small
boys and 90 in with them on shares.
Mrs. James Webb went down to Ma
son City last Friday to meet her husband
and to accompany him to Clear Lake,
where they now are, enjoying all the
pleasures of that famous summer resort.
Last Saturday being the anniversary
of the birthday of Miss Ida Lathrop a
number of young friends surprised her in
the evening with a call at the parsonage.
A pleasant time was enjoyed by all pres
ent.
The salaries of teachers in Albert Lea
have been fixed as follows: Principal,
81 900; Assistant Principal, $500; Second
Grammar, $50 per month; First Grammar,
$45 per month; all other teachers $40 per
month
The claims against the estate of the
late S. G. Hand aggregated something
over $4,000 The administrator hopes
to be able to save ut least the Grand
Meadow farm for the heirs.-Albert Lea
Standard.
Mrs. W. s. Kimball, of Jackson, while
on her way to Nora Springs, Iowa, tar
ried in Austin one nj ght last week with
her old friend, Mrs. G. J. Short. Mrs.
Kimball promises her friends here visit
at an early day.
GREAT REDUCTION IN HARDWARE
J. F. Andrews & Son are selling milk
cans, first. class in every respect, for only
fifty cents. Other goods as cheap in pro-
portion. We will not be undersold, and
don't you forget it.
Another story is being built to the
depot at Ramsey, and other permanent
improvements are being made. 1t looks
to us, as if Austin will be compelled to
wait for the removal of the s. NJ. r. r.
until these improvements wear out and
decay.
Rev. E. r. Lathrop addressed the
people at the Union service Sunday eve
ming on Prohibition, taking a very hope
people that more work would be done the
coming year than ever before in this
country.
-UlISS N1dLC1C ClllS UIOuHuG ucE 1lISL
term of school, taught in district near
Dexter, to pleasant and successful close
last Saturday. A good rest for her studies
in our high school next term is now in
order, and may it be q happy and COM
plete one.
Prof. Rankin reports himself as devel-
oping powerful muscle in fishing and
rowing. We mention this now in order
to Dut anV miSchicVOuS]V inclined DuDils
on their guard, and also to please his many
friends with the news of his returning Wig
orous health.
Miss Carrie Schwan invited number
if her friends to tea Saturday evening in
order that they might meet her brother
Joseph once more before his return to St.
Paul, where he went Monday morning
A very pleasant time was had, made so in
part by nice ride on the river after tea.
The Austin editors showed up In their
sanotums on Tuesdav mOrninp after a