The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-04-08
LOCAL.
WoRrulN0rON. MIMI, APRIL 8. 1886
OFFICIAL PAPER.
SHORT LOCALS.

There was minor arrival at C. s.
Bond 8 in Lorain, Tuesday morning
fine girl.
The consideration for real estate
transfers for the month of Marcel,
amounts to $3s,158.
Erick Peterson, Frederiksen & Co. g
agent here, goes to Rushmore today
with a party Of land hunters.
The ladies of the Congregational so.
ciety will give an ice cream social in
the basement 81 the church tomorrow
(Friday} evening.
The brass band are rehearsinga play
called AN Afflicted Family" which
they hope to present at Masonic hall
on Friday, April Is.
A blacksmith shop has been erected
on Third avenue near D. Shells barn
on the lot owned by Peter Thompson.
The Ladies of the Woman's Relief
Corps gave a social at G. A. r. hall
Tuesday evening. n large crowd was
in attendance.
During the absence of Mr.. Shell,
Howard Durfee is employed as night
clerk Of the Worthington hotel and
jim Crandall is manager.
A. E. futile has been on the sick
list but had so far recovered as to
come to town Tuesday. Institute
work did not agree with him.
The foundation of the NJ. E. church
has settled so that the floor sagged in
the center. Workmen with jack
screws have remedied the difficulty.
The receipts of the Worthingtcn
postoffice for the year ending March
81, 1856, were: From sales OF stamps,
etc.. $2,172.9o; box rent, $l9235 total
$2,365.25.
The spring term of school will CON-
mence next Monday with the same
corps of teachers as the winter term,
their time not expiring until after the
next term.
Nicholas Miller, who has been postal
clerk on the route between Worthing-
ton and Sioux Falls on probation, has
secured permanent appointment, and
is correspondingly happy.
!r. G. II. Peasp, of Bigelow town
ship, has returned from Wisconsin
with two carloads of stock, etc. lie
intends to break fifty acres this sum-
mer on his fine 400 acre farm.
The patrons of the postottice are re-
minded that the mail from the east ar
rives ten minutes later than during
the winter, consequently they have
that much longer to wait for their
mail.
A stranger has made nuisance of
himself by calling at peoples houses
at a late hour of the night, rapping at
their doors and rousing them up with
out any apparent cause. 1t is possible
that he may be insane.
The teachers institute closed it's la
bors last Friday. It has been Il very
successful one and much interest was
developed in those present. On Fri
day afternoon and Saturday Superin-
tendent Campbell held an examination
of those desiring certificates to teach.
The telegraph brings news of great
storm in the east. Buffalo. N. Y, b.
ing the center, on Tuesday morning.
Here in southwestern Minnesota the
weather has been spring like, and all
that could be desired. Farmers are
busy putting in their crops, the boom
of the prairie chicken is heard in the
land, and everything indicates that
spring has come to stay.
Last week Justice Durfee issued a
commitment to take Warren Muck, Il
youth of about 13 years, to the state
reform school. Sheriff Miller took tue
boy in charge and proposed to put him
in Jail for safe keeping until Monday
morning, but the parents of the lad
begged so hard to let him remain at
home and promising that he should be
forthcoming when wanted, that tie
sheriff did not lock him up. Some
time between Saturday night and Mon
day morning he skipped. and at latest
accounts had not been recaptured.
The reform school is the proper place
for the boy, us there lie will be taught
to be industrious and how to make al
honest living, something he is not
likely to learn otherwise.
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