The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1883-05-31

The engineer corps of the Burlington
railroad are expected in 4 day or so.-
Look out for lively times soon north of
town.
Mr.. Firth has purchased Il three
fourth Ilolstein bull calf at the Sunny
side Farm, near Sheldon, and has sent
him to his fathers farm in Lorain.
Henry Johnson, TEos. Stennorson,
NJ. Bernow and q. 3erhaw, from rs.
t!erville, Iowa, friends Of Judge Mel
son, are here looking for lands. They
express themselves rs better pleased
with our lands than any they have seen.
Il Scandinavian from jackson c0un-
| ty came over to the land Office on bust
ness last week and stopped at the Sean
dinavian Hotel on 2d-av. On his re-
turn home he discovered that he was
short $50 and thinks he was robbed
while asleep.
n. \. Call, while in St. Paul the eth
er day, called ut Il butter house and ask
ed to see samples Of their best butter
They set out samples made by himself
and DR. Clippenger and informed him
| that this was their best. Put another
feather in Mobiles county's hat.
| Geo. II. Flu no, the grocer, started
up his delivery wagon on Friday last,
the first one in Worthington. Mr..
Crane was the first one to whom an
order for groceries was delivered. He
came up with q wheelbarrow, but side
tracked it ut once and paid boy Il
nickel to wheel it home.
| Examinations in our High School
haye been in progress during the week.
rs follows: Monday, in Latin; Tues
day, Elementary Astronomy: Wednes-
day, Elementary Algebra; Thursday,
Geography. To- morrow, Friday, will
be in Arithmetic.
The term will close Friday. June Sth,
with appropriate exercises. The schools
have been we'll attended and Prof.
Wright informs us that the scholars
have wo,kcd this Spring with quite an
interest. The High School feature acts
! as Il stimulus to the whole school,, and
! especially to those in that department.
Our Westside correspondent writes
us again that the ADVANCE does not
come and says:
The ADVANCE has failed to come to
time. There is fault SOMEWHERE
Those that are taking the ADVANCE
are finding fault.
We can only repeat that the package
for NestslIe is put in the postot!ice ev-
cry Thursday evening. It is sent from
the Wo,tlin.ton Office on Friday, and
if there is any one at the Westside sta.
ton to receive it. it should b: put off.
a transformation is going on around
the McManus House. The former
Chase blacksmith shop has been moved
up to the house and converted into an
ice house and woodshed. The outbuil-
dings have been removed to new l0ca-
tions. the barn is to be moved to the al
ley near where the shop stood and the
grounds are to be remodeled. Dr.. War
rem has rented the dwelling Ola the for
mer Chase lot, and Mack is rich with
one CT the best Is in town.
Under the new postal arrangements
which went into effect Il few days ago
on the s.. Paul & Omaha and the
Worthington & Sioux Falls roads, mails
will he carried as fellows:
The night trains both ways on the
st. Paul 4 Omaha carry way mail and
have route agents aboard.
The day train from St. Paul carries
way mail rs far as Worthingten but
not from Wortl!ington TO Sioux City.
The day train from Sioux City does not
curry way mail between Sioux City and
Worthington.
From Worthington to St. Paul all
trains carry way mail.
The route agents on day trains run
through f.om st. Paul to Sioux Falls
| and from Sioux Falls to St. Paul.
Following are the agents on the day
trains: Pililo 1Iawe;. J. W. Sprague,
! Mr.. Dornblrg and G.. l.. Lewis.
We do not keep the largest stock in
| town. Large stocks of Groceries, ma
ny times. become old and stale.
! n we'll assorted stock of fresh Gro
ceries is what we keep and we deliver
them to parties in town.
Remember we order often and keep
our goods fresh and warrant them I'M
surpassed. II. II. ANDERSON.
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A folding circular, issued Ivy Close
Bros. & Co., has come to our hands. 1t
contains two maps showing what they
Call the great Pipestone Country and
lands are advertised for sale in Pipe
stone, Rock, Mobiles and Murray. One
Of the maps shows the Burlington
road extended to Pipestone.
A gentlemen informs us that he in
terviewed one Of their agents recently
who said that they would probably be
gin the development Of their lands in
this county, taking 4 strip between
! WortliEgton and RushmOre and ex-
tending from south to north. We
hope this is true for they are host
to boom a county when they set in.
Christ said "swear not at ALL" yet
the so-called Christians of England,
who profess to be followers Of Christ
and who have stolen the livery of hea.
ven to serve the devil in, refuse to al
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