Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-01-27
OUR HARVEST II ED.
-Anl1reeor wants Z glass factory. z==5
Faribault IS being electric lighted.
-Owatonna reports 81 births and ii deaths

-MnGre1or wants q glass factory.
-Faribault Is being electric lighted.
-Owatonna reports o. births and ii deaths
during 1885. ri
at Owatonna snow Is over feet on the
level in the brush. .s,
. The great miller Of Dundee, Scotland,
W. r. Morrison was in St. Pau. last week.
The owners Of the I'VE barber shops Of
Faribault have resolved to close their shops
on Sundays.
-Zumbrota has fixed the Hc=ase Of liquor
sellers at $500. No curtains or screens. and
closing hour 10 o'clock.
Evangelist H. w. Brown has left Ovation
ma, and last Sunday commenced series of
revival meetings at Farfbault.
The Milwaukee Co. have been making sur.
veys at Owatonna for a new depot. Austin
would like to see those same surveyors
The Kasson Republican is authority for the
statement that one dozen winter eggs will
buy more goods than two dozen summer eggs.
God pity the poor dumb brutes this cold
weather. The Journal says a carload of IS
head of cattle went through Owatonna on
the 10th inst, frozen.
The reported leprosv case near Spring
Grove, Houston county, 1s now positively de-
MED. and the Lacrosse Star declared the
originator Of the hoax.
Evangelist Brown has been doing a great
work for the Christian religion in Owatonna.
Over zoo converts are reported since the COM
mencement OF his iabors.
j. G. Day, Of Jackson. father Of the three
Day editors, claims to be the founder Of the
word "blizzard, }" the popular name nowadays
for a cold cyclontc snow-storm.
Hon. Ignatius Donnelly 10 lecturing. His
towns being Blue Earth City, New Ulm, Sleepy
Eye, and Winnebago City, and his subjects.
atlantis and wit and Humor.''
The canning factories at wayerly, Cedar
Falls, VintoD and Austin, MIMI, have proved
profitable investments to their stockholders,
and have given the farmers cash market for
observation-disclosures Times.
Why is it that Charles City, waverly.
Cresco, DEBORAH, Cedar Falls, Waterloo, Mason
City and Austin are going forward, increasing
in population and wealth, while Usage fs at
standstill? Answer this question: Usage Press.
We give 1t up. Answer you.
What do the muskrats, that built such
little, thin houses last fall, think abont it now7
Guess they wish they had their storm windows
on.-FdrtballN Democrat.
We should say three feet Of snow would fix
them up pretty well for storm windows.
Graham, Of the. Radical, is overcome.
The ladies of the Congregational church of
Waseca have extended him a vote of thanks
for publishing their notices gratuitously the
past year. The first attention of the kind he
ever received-or ever heard of any other
editor receiving. The world do move.
-Stilson Hutchins, who ran the first Demo-
cratic paper, as well as the first one published
in Usage, and who is now editor Of the WASH
ingtOn Port, is to be married to his third wife,
| rich and accomplished Washington widow.
The Prep Once 1 nov has material AL in it which
| here. He haa grown rich, and is one Of the
| ablest editors in the United States.-Osa0e
Press.
The Farmers Insurance Company of Free
born County makes a very favorable report
for 1885. They have 1876 members. with total
insurance Of 1856, 43l, and doing business in
| only IL towns of said county. Receipts during
the year, $1,3S7.50. Losses paid, $37075; all
| other expenses, $l66.60. Leaving cash ON hand
Jan. LIST, SS50.15. It was resolved, at the an
nual meeting, not to insure against losses by
hail, storm and cyclones.
The National Fair association of Washing
| ton member OF the National Trotting as
ISOLATION, has given its proxy to Minnesota
| man. MIR. M. T. Grattan, of Preston. Ho is to
represent the association at the forthcoming
| congress to be held at Chicago. Some of the
we'll known hofsemen and breeders of Wash
| ington rendered Mr.. Grattan, while he was
| in the capitol city, dinner and cordial re-
ceptfon as testimonial to his services to
| equine literature.
Mrs. J. J. Hill of St. Paul, is the possessor
| of 900 worth of jewels, and on Christmas
! her stock was increased by the presentation
of some rare stones of great value. A lady
who saw them remarked: MRS. Hill, /
| should think you would be extremely happy
| in the possession of such Jewels" Mrs. Hill
! said not word, but marshaling her nine
children, she pointed to them and exclaimed:
| 'There are my jewels. the ones that make me
| the happiest.
! THE Regtster and TRANSCRIPT families with a
few friends dined upon oyster scallop, chicken pe
mnce pie and hosts Of other goodies the pleasant
hospitable home of Oscar Ayers, lastssFriday-and
New Years day was happy and pleasant one. -
| AUSTIN TRANSCRIPT.
How much better and more sensible these
Austin editors than those of other rival
papers who are striving to Guido each other
| in meanness. And we can truthfully say Of
| them:
"Behold how good thing it is,
And how becoming well
Together such as brethren are,
In unity to dWell'
-Rushford Star.
| When We cannot live in peace and harmony
| with brother editor. the Quarreling will be