The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-09-09

MIR. Gibson, nephew to J. p. Moulton,
and who has been on one Of Mr.. MS.
farms. has purchased the II acre lot
of L. Canres, on the diagonal road just
east of the Forbes place, and is digging
a we'll and preparing to build.
To those who came to my relief with
such kind thoughtfulness in the hour
of sorrow, l tender sincere thanks, and
especially to the members of the G. A.
Il. MRS. A. Nj. FORBES.
Some of the Republicans favorable
to the ante saloon movement met Sat.
urday night at the audtors office and
selected DR.. Barber and Elder Lathrop
delegates to attend the conference at
Minneapolis tomorrow.
The ADVANCE has been so crowded
with Premium Lists and Law Briefs
and other job work for several weeks.
keeping three hands and the ''old MANI
busy, that it has neglected the papar
somewhat. A good many important
matters, political and otherwise, which
we would like to treat, have had to lay
over.
Ever since Geo. johnson laid that
big egg on our table, John Saxson has
been trying what he could do. The re-
snlt is an egg laid on our table on
Tuesday which measures three and a
half inches around and is about the
size of California grape.
A gentle, all-night, vertical rain'set
in last Monday evening and continued,
more or less, until Tuesday noon. One
man says it soaked the ground eight
inches, It comes just right to save us.
1t the drouth had continued we should
have had uncomfortable fires, consider
able sickness and a heavy snowfall in
the winter. Give us more rain.
AS Engineer Post was pulling out
yesterday morning with the Burlington
train, he ran into an open switch at the
upper Y ditched the engine and pull
led one flat car off the track. These
open switches about town are becom-
ing little numerous, it seems.
A track was built around the wreck
and the train was sent on it's way. En-
gineer Post received a blow on the head
and some bruises which laid him up for
a time.
Postmaster Bennett has plumb tree
In his lot which is covered with plums,
thicker than flies on dogs ear. lie
has number of trees, but this one
seems to have acted the ''pork" and
absorbed nearly all the plums itself
this year. The seeds were sent from
Germany by Mr.. Goldschmidt to Gov.
Miller from whom Mr.. B. obtained
them and planted them in his lot.
W. Aagard, agent for. Friedrich.
sen & Co., has sold since our last re-
port $50 acres as follows:
J: W. Springer, Rockford, ILL.,, sw+
~, Jersey.
Lars Rasmussen, Prophettown, III,
ut nw4 ~, Round Lake township.
N. j: johnson, same place, nw} %,
Round Lake.
Cr:st Jenson, Sheffield, ILL.,. 81 sci "a,
Round Lake.
II. Nelson, Prophettown, ILL.,, sw3
II, Round Lake.
Is. Rainwa aid, Peru. Ill.,. 81 of %, De.
wald, bedford farm.) So per acre.
II. Palmer, ILL.,, nj net Sec 80,
Elk.
F.Jammer. Keystone, Iowa, 81 nw3
and sw4 sec s.. in Seward.
a. Peters, Keyst one, Iowa, nj nwa
Sec 81, Seward.
The Worthington schools opened on
Monday with the following corps CT
teachers:
Principal-Prof. L. Wright.
Grammar-MissM NJ, Hall.
Upper intermediate Miss Mary
Twitchell.
Lower Intermediate-Miss G. No
ben.
Upper Primary-Miss Martin.
Lower Primary-Miss NJ. Lynch.
The school opened with about 24(
scholars, unusually full.