The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-12-23
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SHALL WEH.4VE 4 MILL?
At the meeting of the Board Of
Trade on Friday last, the general SEN
timent was in favor of Offering a bonus
Of several thousand dollars to some
practical miller who would agree to
build and operate a custom mill at this
place. A committee of one was ap
pointed to correspond with certain
parties and ascertain their views.
One thing IS settled in the minds Of
our business men, viz: that if the
Okabena Mill cannot be operated as
custom mill, another mill must be
built. The Okabena is commercial
mill with capacity beyond the town
and is shut down most of the time. 1t
must be doing custom grinding or an
other mill must be forthcoming.
IMPORTANT JO COUNTY SfA7S
The county seat contest in Traverse
county came very near resulting in a
pitched battle. The facts in this case
are of great interest to all counties
having county-seat questions up.
A majority Of the people voted to re-
move the county-seat from Browns
Valley to Wheaton. Notice was served
on the governor that contest would
be made, and Gordon E. Cole and 9TH
ers appeared before the governor and
argued that three.ffths' majority
was necessary. The governor, how
ever, issued 4 proclamation declaring
the county. seat changed to Wheaton.
This was done upon the claim that the
constitution provides that county seats
may be changed upon majority vote.
The Wheaton people went to take
the county records, ETC., by force, and
were driven off by the Browns Valley
people after hard fight.
THE OLD RELIAKLE
Our Leota correspondent recently
said:
The ADVANCE can be counted on
every time. 1t gets around regularly
in spite of bslzZ.rds, cyclones or block
ades. Long may it wave.
It is now nearly thirteen years since
we took the ADVANCE and we have
never missed an issue. Thirteen years
requires G7G issues. once a week, and
the number Of papers we haye circulat.
ed is over 400, 900, or nearly half Il mil
lion. This mass of paper i: laid in one
pile would be nearly $40 feet high, or
81 feet higher than Trinity Steeple,
New York.
During the forty days. blockade of
1SSO1, when nearly all supplies gave
out except the bare necesslries Of life,
the ADVANCE came out regularly. new
er less than Il seven column folio, and
many said it was fuller and better
than usual. 1t stuck, and kept up a
breezy, cheerful spirit for the encour-
agement and help Of all. Many other
papers suspended regular issues, or
came out on wall paper, or issued cir
circulars to explain, but the AD-
VANCE went on all the same.'
The last issue of the New Thought.
now published at Desmoines, by Moses
Hull, gives al account of the arrest OF
Mr.. Hull ut the instance of one DR..
Hale, alias Hall, alias Hill, of Chicago,
who was spoken of in the New Thought
as fraud. This must be the same
man who published Health and Home
at Washington, and who was exposed
as fraud by. l.. Lum Smith Of the
Agents Herald, of Philadelphia. Then
he was sailing under the name of
DR.. Hale. Whenever a party claims
such enormous circulation as this Dr.
does for his paper, and offers to give
away $50 to $40 worth of books for one
subscription to his paper, and fills it
with those snide stereotype plates in
fine, eye destroying type, you may de-
pend upon it there is something wrong.
We wish Mr.. Hull had the means to
push this matter through and show
this DIR. up rs he is.
The PipestOne Star says of the origin
of the fire which destroyed the hotel
at that place:
It is stated that one of the cooks
says that it was not unusual to leave 4
red hot fire in the range every night so
that it would be warm to begin work
in the morning. This may and may
not account for the origin of the fire,
but it rather looks that way.
~of the fire comes from Mr.. Berke,i-
newer, employed by Mr.. Ehman as
travelling agent. Mr.. B. was at the
hotel between and 10 O'Clock in the
evening intending to stay there over
night. While chatting with Harry
Mccullough. the clerk, in the office OF
the hotel, he told Harry that there
must be some pine burning. The mat
ter was passed off with some light re-
mark, but short time after Mr.. B
again said that he smelled pine burning
With this Harry and Mr.. b. went
around to investigate but could find
nothing. However, Mr.. B. took hi:
grip and went down to the warehouse
to sleep. From this circumstance it j!
thought by some that fire was thel
somewhere in the partition of th'
kitchen burning unobserved.
The American Publishing Associa
tion, No. 7 Central Mfg. Block, Chica
20, Ill.,, send us their circnlar agaiI
wanting to exchange cuts for advertis
ing. No, thank you. We bit the 9th
er time and your cuts were not at al
up to the specimens shown in you
sheet sent out at first. They wer