The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-03-18
LOCAL..
WoRrHIN0roN. MIMI, MARCH IS. 1886
OFFICIAL PAPER.
SHORT LOCALS.

OuAy Ou0 AOVAo WON Va 0SoVoA ssASo~
this week.
Be sure and read H. E. Torrance's
advertisement this week.
Large quantities of lumber are Oh
served going out into the country daily.
The Worthington String Band will
give u dance Friday night at Masonic
hall.
S.V. Wyckoff has removed his store
from Masonic block to his property on
Ninth street.
D. Shell and II. e. Shepard, with E.
White as clerk composed the election
board last Tuesday.
The board Of county commissioners
have been in session this week. Re-
port of proceedings next week.
| Our country correspondents will
please accept our thanks for large
batch Of county news this week.
Rev. E. r. Lathrop held quarterly
meeting services at Adrian last Sun
day, Presiding Elder Liscomb supply
ing his pulpit at this place.
Last Friday night burglars broke
open the back door of McDowell's sa.
loon and distracted the contents of
the cash drawer, amounting to about
So. No clue to the perpetrators.
Among the postmasters recently ap.
pointed in this vicinity are G. B. Pad
dock, Loon Lake, Jackson county; J.
Barber, Prairie Junction, Jackson
county; c.. Crippen. Edgerton, Pipe
stone county.
The county treasurer has sent out
notices 70 delinquent personal property
tax pay srs, informing them that un-
less their taxes are paid before April
they will be turned over to the sher
if for collection.
L. B. Benefits bonds as postmas.
ter, in the sum of So 600, together with
his oath OF Office, and also the oath of
Chas. A. Afford, who il to be chief
clerk. have been forwarded to Wash
ington. Mr.. Afford is son-in-law of
b. F. Johnson.
The following settlers have recently
arrived or are now on the way with
stock and household goods: w. Shin
kee, Reinbeck, Iowa; Geo. Baker. Chi
cago; Peter Williams, Illinois; H.
Fiske, Irving, Illinois. In addition
to the above some five carloads of
stock and household goods have been
shipped to this station for points west.
There was a lively little runaway
last Saturday. A team started from
Forbes lumber yard and dashed north.
east on Second avenue until they come
in collision with some of G. W. Hill
dreth's patent chimneys in front of his
house, and then turned and run across
lots till they come in contact with Joe
loves house when they stopped. No
particular damage was done.
Among the unclaimed express pack
ages to be sold at auction on April 6
at Minneapolis, are packages addressed
to the following parties at the stations
in this county below mentioned:
Worthington w. r. Dean, E. II.
Huntington, L. NJ. LANCE, D. Mott, T.
!. Simpson, w. E. Wilson, j. W.
Green. Adrian-A. NJ. Becker, Fl.
Faragher, NJ. Calvin, Rev. w.
SchmitZ, J. A. Smith.
The Salem Register comes to its
readers this week enlarged to a seven
column quarto. The publishers were
induced to make the change owing to
the pressing demands made upon their
space for home and original matter,
and also by their rapidly increasing
advertising patronage. The Register
is now one of the largest papers pub
lisl,ed in the territory, there being not
more than half a dozen papers in Da-
kota with 50 much space for original
| matter.
A few days since one of the teachers
in our school told the scholars the def
milton of a rectangle in terms likely to
be understood by the young children
in her charge, as "a plain figure hav-
ing two long sides and two short
Sides" A short time after some visit
ors were in attendance, and the teach
er, to exhibit the forwardness of her
pupils, asked one of them, a small boy,
to give the definition of rectangle.
lie replied that it was "a pale niger
with two long sides and two short
Sides"
VIM. McManus was taken to Still
water on Monday by Sheriff Miller to
serve his sentence of two years in the
penitentiary, that being the l,ghtest
sentence the judge could impose.
Many think the punishment imposed
on criminals by the new code is unnec-
essarily severe, but if it shall deter any
one from the commission Of q crime,
the end will justify the means. In
sentencing the prisoner Judge Perkins
told him that if. after being a reasona-
bic length of time in the penitentiary,
he showed any indication of desiring
to become good citizen, and had by
industry and good conduct gained the
respect and good will of the prison of.
ficers, an effort would be made to get
him pardoned out.
LOST
Some time during last week I lost or
left case containg my spectacles.
Finder please return to me or leave at
| postot1ice. S. Nj. SMITH.