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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-01-18
COMMON COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS.

Called meeting January II, 1885,
Present Hon. Mayor French, Aldermen
Betseker, Day. knox and Lowell.
The call for tho meeting and its service duly
attested was read.
Said meeting called for the purpose of con-
sidering a proposition to take tho 5000
Water Works bonds and for the purpose Of
transactin9 any other business that may come
before the meeting.
The First National Bank, Of Austin, Minn.,
respectfully submitted to the Council the fol-
lowing offer: TO take the whole issue and
pay therefor $4,000, as follows: $4,000 cash
on delivery to said Bank, SIS, 900 cash one ~
month from that date. This offer being based
on tho understanding that said bonds are
dated November l, 1887, and draw interest
from that date at 6 per cent. per annum, pay
able semt-annually, and that said bonds be
delivered to said bank Each payment of in
terest as it natures may be paid at this bank.
Resolved, by the Common Council Of the
City of Austin, that the proposition of the
First National Bank of the city of Austin to
take the bonds of the city issued November
l. 1887, for the purpose Of constructing a sys.
tenn of Water Works to the amount of $25 600
with accrued interest and pay therefor the
livery of said bonds and 5000 within 30 days
from the date of this delivery of SAID bonds,be
and the same is hereby accepted, and the Chair.
man of the Finance Committee is hereby in
structed to order said bonds returned and the
same delivered to said Bank in compliance
with the terms of said proposition. But said
proposition is accepted upon the following
conditions: That in case sale Of said bonds
Ohm IN o1a hrrt h1
fore January Is. 1888. the acceptance of the
| foregoing proposition shall be null and void.
On the call for Ayes and Nays Of said reso-
luton, those voting in the Affirmative we're
! Aldermen Beiseker. Day, Knox and Lowell.
| Ayes ~ votes, nays, none.
And the same was declared by the Mayor.
Carried.
On motion of Alderman Knox that a COPY
If this resolution be furnished the First Ma
tional Bank. Carried.
On motion that Aldermen Beiseker and
Knox be authorized and instructed to rent
| the building of DR.. Plummer, formerly the
Nelson building on the north side of Bridge
street, between Main and St. Paul streets, in
the city of Austin. Said building to be used
for hose carriages. hose, and all the fire ap-
paratus Of said city. Carried.
On motion Of Alderman Knox Alderman
Beiseker was appointed to cause to be con-
structed fire alarm from the City Water
Works building to engine house. Also to con-
strnct in Water Works building a suitable
place for tools, etc. Carried.
The following bill was allowed and ordered
paid:
Joseph Cota unloading car coal for Water
Works, 81, rs.
On motion the Council adjourned.
J. H. MAKEPEACE,
City Recorder.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-01-18
ADAMS.

Swimmers had to abandon gathering cream
last week.
One of our young men is acquiring consider
able interest in hotel at Taopi.
Jack Scanlon is learning telegraphy In the
Sfice of c. A. Ramsdill, who is station agent
at this place.
A party of surveyors are surveying a new
line for railroad, which if built. is to run
about four miles west of Adams. Our busi-
ness men seem to think that we have all the
railroads necessary.
No mail in the last three days. meanwhile
some of our citizens can be seen anxiousy
scanning the railroad track to ascertain
whether an approaching train can be seen,
yet some cronies will never cease lauding the
good old times, when they got their mail once
q week.
The quiet monotony of our village was
brought to sudden terminus Saturday night
when two fellows with not exactly coinciding
opinions as to their relative merits as pugilists
endeavored to convince each other in man.
ner admired by disciples Of John L. Sullivan,
only gentlemen in our humble judgment the
better part of this co immunity or the world at
large doesn't esteem you by the amount of
sand you show yourself possessed of for the
speciman universally conceded to possess the
largest amount of that Ingredient is COM
monty called bull dog.
c. E. Taylor has been slightly under the
weather the last couple of days. While we
do not know the nature of his sickness we
judge it to be nothing serious as we have met
~ Tor ia yvav
home after making call and all the medicine
or instrument we could notice was monkey
wrench KlDDER.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-01-18

Jacksonville Qn) Journal: Bishop
Foss (Methodisr was being twitted by a
young preacher as to his theory of con.
trolling the LIQUOR traffic by hedging it
in, The young man said: ''Why, Bish.
OPP, if there was a mad dog running up
and down that street would you shoot 1t
or hedge it in?" The Bishop quickly re
Piled: If that mad dog had been run
ming up and down the street for thirty
years and had been shooting at it all
that time in vain, guess I'd be willing
to hedge it in"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-01-18

Boston Courier: How do you get
along without watermelon in winter,
Uncle Joe?" ''Sah, dar am chickens in
wlntah."
Town Topics: Foreigner-Ahl cher
monsieur. forget re you're name, eet
IL so queer and strange. He-My name
is Smith.
"A fellow feeling makes US so wond.
rous kind" Oh, it does! Well, suppose
it is fellow feeling for your pocket
book IN q crowd?
Detroit Free Press: "Took long steps.
my child" said Solomon Isaacs; you
Won't vear oud your shoes nearlyso quick"
N. o. Plcayune: When invited to din
ner Nature wonders what she will get to
eat Culture wants to know what she
shall wear.
Exchange: Fitz-Brown with indigna.
tion)-slr, you have broken your promise.
Robinson (complacently)- Oh, never mind;
I can make another
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-01-18
"A WoInan's Discovery.

:" Another wonderful discovery has been
made and that too by lady in this county.
Disease fastened its clutches upon her
and for seven years she withstood it's
severest tests, but her vital organs were
undermined and death seemed imminent,
For three months she coughed necessarily
and could not sleep. She bought of us
bottle Of DR.. Kings New Discovery
tor Consumption and was so much re-
lieved on taking first dose that she slept
oil night and with one bottle has been
miraculously cured. Her name is Mrs.
Luther Lutz." Thus write w. g. Ham
rick & TO-. Of Shelby, n C.-Get free
trial bottle at Dorr s. Wold's Drug Store.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-01-18

published his arithmetic. The following
is an extract from the preface to the first
edition. 1tsounds amazingly as If written
in the present day:
The following are some of the prlnci.
pal difficulties which child has to en-
counter in learning arithmetic, in the
usual way, and which are seldom over.
come. First, the examples are so large
that the pupil can form no conception of
the numbers themselves; therefore it is
impossible for him to comprehend the
reasoning upon them. Secondly, the first
examples are usually abstract numbers.
This increases the difficulty very much;
for even If the numbers were so small
that the pupil could comprehend them,
he would discover but very little connec-
ton between them and practical examples.
Abstract numbers, and the operations
upon them, must be learned from practi-
cal examples; there is no such thing as
deriving practical examples from those
which are abstract, unless the abstract
have been first derived from those which
are practical. Thirdly, the numbers are
expressed by figures, which, if they were
used only as contracted way of writing
numbers, would be much more difficult to
be understood at first than the numbers
written at length in words. But they are
not used merely as words, they require
operations peculiar to themselves. They
are, in fact, new language, which the
pupil has to learn. The pupil, therefore,
when he commences arithmetic, is pre-
sented with set of abstract numbers,
written with figures. and 50 large that he
has not the least conception OF them even
when expressed in words. From these he
is expected to learn what the figures sig
nifty. and what is meant by addition, sub
traction, multiplication, and division;
and at the same time how to perform
these operations with figures. The conse-
quence is, that he learns only one of all
these things, and that is how to perform
these operations on figures. He can per-
haps translate the figures into words, but
this is useless, since he does not under
stand the words themselves. OF the effect
produced bY the four fundamental opera
tions he has not the least conception"
The abuses which he wrote against are
almost as prevalent to-day as they were
then. In the study of numbers our pri.
mary children rarely get hold of anything
but symbols.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-01-18
NEVADA.
Hurrahl for tho beautiful snow.

Hurrah! for tho beautiful snow.
X. Ashleson, an old and we'll known New.
adian, died Monday.
Mrs. o. Peterson is on the sick list, though
we trust nothing dangerous.
Geo. Bisbee contemplates change of clt-
mate soon. Nebraska is his location.
Stena Anstenson. who has been suffering
for 80 long from consumption, died last Tues
day, aged IL years.
Schools should take holiday until the
weather moderates, as youthful education
easily congeals when the mercury is down In
the thirties.
Following is tho report Of School District
No. 8, for the month ending January II: The
following obtained an average Of above 80:
Minnie Christensen and Lille Amundson, 90
each; Emma Volstad 81, Julia Larson 8696
Henry Volstad and Henrietta Amundson 90
each, Mollie Volstad 9l, Steven Johnson and
Melissa Larson SOY each. Theodore Richard.
son 80. Whole number of pupils enrolled, S6;
average attendance %. Jimmie Christensen
was neither absent or tardy.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-01-18
SUTTON.

Another party Of emigrants for Sutton In
the spring, from Germany. Mr.. Seebach has
Just sold six prepaid tickets.
1t is reported from Wisconsin that Lewis
Schultz got into the habit Of playing two-up
liz the evening. A very enjoyable past.time
for Lewis We would remark.
Little Anna Robson attended school during
last Thursday and Fridays blizzard, living
over q mile from school, and has neither been
absent or tardy this winter.
The boys of this neighborhood have to 60
through the painful ordeal Of picking beans
In the evening. A game of seven-up or crack
ing nuts would be more agreeable to the
boys.
Another railroad surveying party passed
through here from Rose Creek to Marion,
Olmsted county. There were six men In the
party, in the employ Of the Winona s South
western r, r.
William Miller just returned from Wlscon-
sin. HIS trip was that of business and pleas
ure. He intends to so again IN the spring,
and like most young men in this neighbour
hood. will return with a better half.
John Rode has been heard from. He Is
keeping bachelors hall near lakewood, Wis,
and 1t Is said delights in telling yarns and ex-
aggerating anything he hears Of his former
home In Minnesota. We wish to remind our
friend of Geo. Washington and the cherry
tree.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-01-18
GRAND MEADOW.

Mr.. Geo. Day is clerking at Carelrs.
Miss Adm spent Sunday with her parents
at Dexter.
Forty-three degrees below zero Sunday
morning.
Will Nolan spent few days in St. Paul on
business last week.
The young folks gave Miss MattieBentley
grand surprise last week.
Mr.. Van Hamert fell some days ago and
broke his shoulder blade.
Hans Skyberg and his sister Anna visited
Mrs. E. A. Powell at Preston.
Mr.. Hunt, of Hamilton. will give series of
singing lessons in this place.
DR.. jackson has not been able to get to his
Office for the past ten days or 80.
Mr.. Cassius Moore has taken trip to Wis
consin to spend the rest of the winter.
Mrs. Converse went to attend the wedding
of her niece, Miss Jennie Wright, of Lyle.
Mrs. Peck, who has been out in Dakota visit
ing her son for some weeks, returned home
Sunday.
Cranberries, oranges, apples, lemons, nuts,
and candies, can be found at DR.. F. M. John
sons drug store.
DR.. Johnson has just received large bill of
goods from Rochester, Minn., manufactured
by DR.. O. W. Anderson.
Mrs. sBarber our depot agents wife has
come to make her home amongst US. They
are boarding at Prof. Tibbets.
Last week the people of this place gave Mr..
and Mrs. Corell a grand old-fashioned surprise
party and good time was enjoyed by all. 1t
is grand place to go.
The gentlemen are to have Leap Year soci-
able at the Congregational church on Wednes.
day evening, January 18. Ladies are request
ed to bring their pocket books. good time
is anticipated.
A drama entitled "Through Snow and Sun
shine," by home talent, will be given at the
Palace Rink on Friday evening. January 10th
Rev. H. j. Colwell went to Spring Valley to
assist in protracted effort this week.
During the contest between the agents OF
the Northwestern Aid Association of Mime
apolis, from November Is to December 81, 1887
to see who should put in the largest amount OF
insurance, A. J. Johnson, of this place, took
the prize. He sent in something over $780,.
600. Our boys always get there.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-01-18
EDUCATIONAL.
c. d. BELDEN, EDITOR.

Supt. Belden visited schools in Nevada
and Marshall last week.
The State Teachers Institute is fixed to
commence at Austin, April 16.
One of our successful teachers writes:
Il found my class in A spelling very far
from being perfect in the subject, although
they have been through their book several
times. To help them in their work, I
have adopted the following plan: Each
pupil, in town, brings in list of eight
words for one days lesson. These are
placed upon the blackboard and are used
by each pupil IN written sentences. Every
Friday, eight or ten of the words learned
during the week are used in making short
stories"
Our teachers of this county are care
fully following out the requirements of
the State law in regard 20 teaching tenn.
perance physiology regularly and syste-
matically. In an article in Scribner's
Monthly we find the following PLAIN
words which are we'll worthy careful per-
usal in this connections:
Nov. what we want to do in our
schools is to do away with the force of a
pernicious example, and long cherished
error. by making the children thoroughly
intelligent on this subject of alcohol.
They should be taught the natural effect
of alcohol upon the processes of animal
lief. Qst) They should be taught that
1t can add nothing whatever to the vital
forces or to the vital tissues-that 1t
never enters into the elements of structure
and that, in the healthy organizm, it is
always a burden or disturbing force.
(2d) They should be taught that it invari-
ably disturbs the operation of the brain,
and that the mind can get nothing from
alcohol of help that is to be relied upon.
(3d) They should be taught that alcohol
inflames the baser passions, blunts the
sensibilities, and debases the feelings.
(4th) They should be taught that an ap
petite for drink is certainly developed by
those who use it, which is dangerous to
life, destructive of health Of body and
peace of mind. and in millions of in
stances ruinous to fortune and to all the
high interests of the soul. (5th) They
should be taught that the crime and
pauperlsm of society flow as naturally
from alcohol as any effect whatever natur'
ally flows from its competent cause. (6th)
They should be taught that drink is the
responsible cause of most of the poverty
and want of the world. So long as six
hundred million dollars are annually spent
for drink in this country. every ounce OF
which was made by the destruction OF
| bread, and not one ounce of which has
! ever entered into the sum of national
wealth, having nothing to show for it:
cost but diseased stomachs, degraded
homes, destroyed industry, increased
pauperism, and aggravated crime, these
boys should understand the facts and b
able to act upon them in their first res
ponsible conduct"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-01-18

An Old and Popular Drama In Three Acts.
ACT I. SCENE
Yes, the woman and children want it
and do kinder seem to enjoy it; but I
must economize and 80 a year is great
deal to pay for newspaper. So you'll
have to stop it!
SCENE II.
Now, boys, I've stopped that newspa-
per expense and feel like setting EN-
up"-alwaYs like to "set EN- up" when
economlze. Come right IN, all of you,
and denominate your poison. How much
did you say, Joe? $2.1O, well, that's a
pretty heavy charge for light gun, but
I've stopped the paper and can afford It.
Wish the children hadn't cried about it
though. Guess they can read the old ones
over again for stories and things and
hear all the news at the store.
ACT II. SCENE l.
What did you say? That lost cow of
nine advertised in the paper a month
ago, and has finally been sold. Darn the
luck. but that was the next week after l
stopped the paper and Iye paid out $500
hunting for her.
SCENE II,
What Nancy can't teach school this
winter cause she didn't know about the
examinations. Seems as if everything
we want is in that paper lately.
ACT III. SCENE 1.
I declare, ma, hogs were up to 1926 in
town last week, and Tom Davis saw it in
the paper and took his in. I can't gel
but $50 for mine now; but I'm going ir
to get that paper again. That economi
cal streak of mine has cost me more thar
$50 in three months.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-01-18
4 GENTS WANTED to Canvass for Adve1

A GENTS WANTED to Canvass for Adver-
A. Using Patronage. A small amount of
work done with tact and Intelligence may pro-
duce considerable income. Agents earn
several hundred dollars in commissions in
bilttv. Enquire at the nearest newspaper
Office and learn that ours is the best known
and best equipped establishment for placing
advertisements In newspapers and conveying
quire in order to make their Investments
wisely and probably. Men of good address.
or women. If we'll informed and practical, may
obtain authority to solicit advertising patron
age for US: Apply by letter to GEO. P. Row.
ELL q Co., Newspaper Advertising Bureau, 10
Spruce St., New York, and full particulars
will be sent by return mail.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-01-18

Review as often as thoroughness and
interest demand it. DO not have set re-
view at the close of so many days or
weeks, but when you are through with a
subject Review little during each reci
tation. There is great danger that re
views will become tedious. Make them
means of finding out other facts, other
ways of doing. other modes of expression
and other materials for thought. In re-
view rise above the book, and make
another one for yourseJ: This remark is
an exaggeratien, but it contains the germ
of q great truth. MS
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-01-18
A Good Annette

Is essential to good health; but at thi s
season it is often lost, owing to the pov-
erty or impurity of the blood, derange.
ment of the digestive organs, and The
weakening effect of the changing season.
Hoods Sarsaparilla is wonderful medi-
cine for creating an appetite, toning the
digestion, and giving strength to the
whole system. Now is the time to take
it. Be sure TO get Hoods Sarsaparilla.
jan
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-01-18

Gov. Gordon of Georgia will deliver
the address at the unwilling of the Jasper
at Savannah on Feb. %.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-01-18
An Elegant Substitute .

An Elegant Substitute
For oils. salts, pills, and all kinds of bit.
ter, nauseous medicines is the very agree
able liquid fruit remedy, Syrup of Figs.
Recommended by leading Physicians.
Syrup Company, San Francisco Cal.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-01-18

Hints In Arithmetic.
Sixty-three years ago Warren Colburn
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-01-18
ECONOMY.

An Old and Popular Drama In Three Acts
The Delta independent., 1888-07-24
She Was Not Afraid of Butler.

When Butler was governor Of Mas
sachusetts he was retained as counsel
for the young man whose wife had
sued him for a divorce on grounds Of
cruelty. The wronged wife's sister, a
young girl of 20. was the principal
witness for the prosecution, and Gen.
Butler succeeded in robbing her story
of its desired effect by sharp and irri-
tating ross.examination. After many
interruptions the witness said that the
defendant had been seen to 'shy q
book at his wife's head"
"Shy? Shy bookp What do you
mean by thatP Will you explain to
the court what the word shy
means?"
The young girl leaned over the rail-
ing and asked her sisters counsel for
a copy of ''Cushing's Manual" which
lay on the desk before him. She
hurled tho volume at Gen. Butler s
head with all the force she could COM
mand. 1t was q good shot, and had
not the governor OWNED her purpose
in time it would undoubtedly have hit
the mark.
Il think the court now UNDER
stands the meaning of the word shy"
said the judge, and the girl was al
lowed to finish her testimony without
further Interruption York
The Delta independent., 1888-07-24
The Lawyer and His Son.

One of the funny sides of celobra-
ted case. in which is involved human
liberty or a heavy monetary penalty,
developed itself in the case Of tho poo
pie against Sylvester Fitzpatrick on
Tuesday. Tho eloquence OF Terry. tho
profundity of Goucher. or the inclsive-
ness of Grady could not impress the
jury. They had to have an ocular
demonstration Of the steer as specified
in tho charge against Fitzpatrick.
Accordingly. the Judge. jury and law
yers, accompanied by the usual ad-
junct OF small boys, went to soc the
steer. Among the boys was Mr.. Couch
cr's. and while the Judge looked wise.
the jury calm and placid and the law
yers knowing. one little follow said to
Mr.. Goucher's boz: Whose steer Is
tlntp" The bov. in his juvenile inno-
ccnce and candor. snid: That's the
steer the man stole who my father Is
.leTcnding." It WAS loud enough for
the Judge. jury and lawyers 10 hear.
Senator GoiicIior heard II. md he rose
morally and ply ysically rosc-and
said: "Al!is go lomc" Tho jury
smiled. = Fresno (CaL Democrat
The Delta independent., 1888-07-24
He Ran the Town.

Policemen are alike all the world
over. One of the members Of tho "iin-
est got on little '.time" In Louis
vile one night last week. and natural
ly imagined that lie owned the town.
First he arrested nine negroes and q
small boy for being in the street. Next
he issued an order that all dogs should
be locked up at ton o'clock sharp. and
proceeded to enforce it Then he went
to livery stable, ordered hearse for
a midnight funeral. and because tho
driver refused to let him ride in 1t he
placed tho owner under arrest, and on
ly released him on condition OF buying
a drink. How far the merry officer
might iiave gone is uncertain, but he
Glanced to meet two of his brother
policemen and ordered them at once to
take off their uniforms under pain of
death. This was too much. As long
us lie had confined his fun to molesting &
citizens it was all right but when he
turned against his brother officers the
majesty of the department was out
raged. and the great reformer was
quickly run in. n.-Rhiiadetphta Times.