The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-08-14
PERSONALS

PERSONALS
Charles Peterson. who has been With Shepard
Bros. for year or two past, haS gone TO Dell
Rapids to engage In the lumber .!e business He Is
Will Langdon is up from Pueblo. Csl., visiting
friends .Heis helping the band boys to render
some good music.
Fred Rnnyon's in town shaking hands wish
old friends.
,.2v ss' d.sn sS h; .as 1S Nth
Tor the annual chicken hunt.
c.. b. LOveless and wife loft Monday Tor sew.
eral months visit to New York tnd 1lctntty.-
win LOveless has charge Of the hesel IN their
absence.
W. H. Bigelow, the bus,aor ,S.putting up some
buildings on the Roche fasen. p.
Miss Ella and Belle Ash*oreh are visiting at
Woodstock.
VIM. ritter!ngton. Of nnndi. is in town look:
Ing to his land on the West Lake which he will
develop next year.
Grass IS KING.
Col. r. n. Matson, who owns the
former Howard place, north of town,
arrived Saturday from Peoria with 4
new portable hay press and Monday
went promptly to work pressing hay.
Will Buclian, who has charge Of tile
farm, has been putting up a large
quantity of hay, which will he put to
press" and shipped to the Peoria, Chi
cag0 and other markets.
Col. MatSOn was quick to see what
has been 80 often proclaimed through
our columns, viz: that our best crop
goes to waste every year. Hay will
command readily in the Chicago mar
ket from 50 to $l3 q ton and in Balti-
moro and Philadelphia markets from
$18 to SO. Toward spring it will com.
mand much higher prices. Retailed
out in cities like Peoria it sells readily
at 81 q bale, the bales weighing 100 to
l25 pounds.
The press used by Col. Matson is the
Corning Portable Four Bale press,
which presses four bales of 100 to 125
pounds at time. 'The size of the bales
is 2Ox31 inches and II inches thick.
From 100 to 228 bales car. be placed IN
an ordinary box car. The size of the
bales is 4 great point in their favor rs
they pack readily into cars and retail
more readily than larger ones to hack.
men and Others who buy small guam
titles at a time.
Hay can be put up at $3.50 per ton at
the outside figure and baled for about
81 per ton. From 8 to 10 tons can be
shipped in a car, and with our present
facilities for,slipping, there is no doubt
4 very handsome margin in the hay
business.
THE COMING MONSTER EXHIBITION
s. H. R44RRETT& CO.'S. NEW UNI TED
MONSTER RAILROAD SHOWS.
TO Worthington, August 2lst, is1the
date announced for this great amuse
ment enterprise, which has been re.
ceived with 80 :tiltfCh masked favor and
decided approval wherever its might
lest of canvascs have teen erected. A
contemporary tells us that from the
entrance of its vast geological garden
to the exit of its Rome-eclipsing arena
everything challenges attention and
admiration, while the elegance and
dpcorum with which every department
If the great confederation is conducted
secures the patronage and approval of
the most refined, and attracts numbers
who are not in the habit of attending
public entertainments Of any descrip-
ton.
The comprehensMeness and infinite
variety and rarity of its grand ZoolOg-
ical collection will delight the natural
list, and amaze, amuse and instruct all.
1t is creation-rrtlecting display OF the
mightiest and fercest beasts of the
tropics and 1junelps; the curious and
beautiful birds of \ thousand forests
and isles, and even the mysterious
depths of the ocean and tire marshy
beds of tropical rivers have been ex-
plored to sec,ne:gigantic amphibia and
rrptilian monsters.
III the superb 'circus colossal CON-
pany of the most eminent bareback
riders, gymnasts, athletes, speciality
notables, lannon's fools and astonish-
ingly educated a,Iimals present novel
and brilliant succession of wonderful;
feats and limitations, from the double
somersaults over the towering ele-
plants to the arenio antics of the brute
performers. while the great Electric
Eight is a whole>show alone. as indeed
is each Of - dezen other extraordinary
features named in the advertisements.