The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-06-03
PERSONALS.

week attending court.
Ex-senator A. NJ. Crosby was in
town Tuesday shaking hands. .' -
! Charley Hecox returned a few days
ago from big job Of painting. -....+.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse I.imbert. of I.e-
ota, were visiting in the city this week.
e. B. Loveless is still retained at
home owing to the illness OF his wife,
who we are pleased to learn is improy-
ing. .........:-..,.. - ......-....-.-> ..r
Mrs. Thos Griffin returned recently
from a several months visit to friends
in Michigan, and Mr.. G.. swings the
saw and hammer with renewed energy.
| Mr.. Greaves. of Rock Rapids, for
mer Worthington painter and decora-
| tor, was in town yesterday and made
the ADVANCE the usual friendly call.
B. H. Bennett has returned from a
several months visit to Michigan and
has taken 4 place in J.. BIS Office as
Deputy Clerk of Court. ..:, VS.. ~.
Editor Knapp. of the Beaver Creek
Graphic. came over to attend memoir
ial exercises, and gave US the editorial
grip. " ''. -. a.:
Mr.. Swartout, of Graham Lakes,
|
a good report of the friends up that
way. go. ''. -
Station Agent Young, formerly of
the Worthington depot, is in town
with his family visiting friends.
F. A. Stevens and b. o. Bevans. two
OF the ]iveliest men in I.eota town.
ship, were in town recently and made
us the usual ''retort courteous" They
came down to meet with their COM
rades of Stoddard Post. 49,
| c. w. W. Dow, who has been acting
as Deputy Clerk of Court for some
| time, returned to his home in Ransom
on Tuesday. Mr.. D. has many friends
who are suggesting him for the Clerks
Office.
G.. J. Day. Of Worthington, was in
town one day last wcek.-Currie Min
| nesotian.
Register Of Deeds johnson reports
| the arrival Of another daughter at his
house.-Slayton Gazette.
Mankato Free Press: Hon. G. Fl.
Smith, of Worthington, one of the nu-
merous Congressional candidates,
was in the city Thursday looking up re-
pairs on his political pickets. &. II. is 4
genial, warm-hearted gentleman, and
the district could go father and fare
| worse than to send him to Congress.
Fulda Republican: j. G.. Green of
Worthington, was in to see us this IN.
| and had his name put on our list.
B. 0. Bevins, commander of y. S.
Grant Post of Edgerton. in company
| with Stevens, was here Friday and Sat-
| urday OF last week.
VISIT TO ADRIAN.
On Saturday last the editor of. the
ADVANCE accompanied the procession
to Adrian to join in the observance of
Memorial day. This being our first
visit for several years, we were agreea-
bly, and sensibly impressed by the
growth of the place since our last visit.
1t is undoubtedly brisk, stirring,
business village, an honor to the west
end. Some Of the residences, notably
those of F. J. Porter, E. Cooper and
Mr.. Becker, are up to the standard in
towns of two or three times the size of
Adrian. Most Of the business houses,
the churches, public buildings. hotels,
ETC., are of course much behind those
of Worthington, but it would stretch
our residences considerably to equal
We are indebted to Editor Haislet,
of the Guardian, and his cordial fami-
ly, for a most oppOrtune dinner and
handsome treatment. We were pleased
to find him in his own house, recently
built and costly furnished. and to see
around him every evidence that he is
in the right place and that the people
encourage him instead Of trying to
run him out.''
We noticed another matter in which
Adrian is ahead Of Worthington. The
village cemetery has a fence around it,
as the ''herd law" was found made
quate to the protection of the graves.
The day being given mostly to the
memorial exercises, we did not have
the opportunity to look up the bust
ness men at their offices, and hope to
90 again and look them over.
We were much pleased with the
town, but we returned more than ever
satisfied that it is not as good a place
for a county seat as Worthington. The
Kanaranzi is not equal to the Okabenas
for beauty and fish and the general lay
of the town is not equal to ours for
beauty and business.
The human embryo is certainly null
tum in parvo. Mrs. E. L. Watson in
recent lecture says: ''Let US look on
every tadpole as a winged seraph. Vic
tor Hugo, at birth, was an immense
disappointment. He seemed to be
scarcely worth preserving, and his par
ents said, he is not what we prayed
for.'" So it was with Lyman Beech
er, the father of Henry Ward, Mrs.
Stowe, and the great Beecher family,
who have done more enduring work
than any family in America. When
Lyman Beecher was baby he was so
puny and sickly that nobody thought
he could live, or that if he did, he
could not amount to anything. Henry
Ward Beecher accounts for it by say
ing that God touched the weakling."
Moral-ltespect little things.
PREDICTIONS SINGULARLY VERI-
FLED. =.
Last November the Mercury pub.
lished an astrological article for the
present year, aud 4 correspondent
| writes to call attentio ion to the wonder
full manner in which the predictions
made it that time have been verified.
Death, riot and disaster were prophe-
cied for this country by the stars, and
a gloomy outlook for our city and
state. Discord in political circles was
to mark the year, and great at1nos-
plieric disturbance was set down for
last month, when the terrible cyclones
OF the northwest occurred. "Riot and
blo0dshed will be witnessed in some
parts Of the United States,", ran the
words for April and May. and labor,
business and financial troubles were
set down for the spring and summer.
1t the remainder Of these predictions
are to be as singularly fulfilled, trouble
and financial panics in New York and
Washington will mark the opening of
June, and shocks of earthquake. ex-
tending from Geneva, n. Y, to Rich
| mODt} Va will aftppI o1r,co xx,l,ilu