The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-08-30
LOCAL.
woRrH1xerox. MIMI, AUGUST 80, 1858.
OFFICIAL PAPER.
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Mobiles County,
Village of Worthington.
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Parties desiring TO keep posted In any public
matter relating to MOBILES county must have tho
ADVANCE.
Minor arrival few days since at the
residence Of VIM. Norman. a girl.
G. W. Slaytcn, of St. Paul, was in
town yesterday posting up as to the
prospects Of Albert Scheffer.
the Worthington Creamery closed a
few days ago for the season.
Double minor arrival q few days ago
at Mr.. Olmsted's, pair Of fine twins,
brother and sister.
Chas. Peterson, manager OF the
Swedish Mercantile store, in the AD-
VANCE block. has gone to Chicago to
lay III new supply of goods.
Mr.. Aagaard was out yesterday with
16 land hunters showing our beautiful
lands in harvest time.
The worthington Cemetery now has
a wire fence around it, but it is dill.
cult to see 1t on account Of the weeds
and grass. It would pay some one to
NOW the Cemetery.
Mr.. c. ]. Smallwood Sundayed with
Mr.. MOulton. Mrs. Smallwood and
son returned to Omaha with him At
ter spending the summer with Mr.
Moulton.
VIM. Brown, who took his brother
and Miss Hendy, the runaway couple,
to Sibley to get married. has DISAPPEAR,
ed to avoid arrest. He is charged with
making oath that the parties were Of
legal age.
Freight traffic is beginning to increase
very rapidly and cars are getting scarce
again. Mostly fuel and lumber NOV.
ing west and grain moving east.
Mrs. S. +. Thorpe, of Pipestone, has
been spendinga week in Worthington
visiting among her numerous friends.
Mrs. L. came to attend the funeral of
Lieut.. Plotts' child.
Mrs. II. Davis has recently put up q
fine monument to the memory of hel
late husband, which together with the
improvement Of the grounds, cost $1,000,
w. 9. Geswender is visiting among
his friends here. He has been employ.
rs brakeman on passenger train run.
ming between Sioux City and Hawar.
den. lie intends to resume his duties
soon.
There is considerable sickness pre-
v"iling at this time, mostly typhoid
fever of mild type. This is the
''sickly" season of the year and a good
deal is to he expected. Boil you,
drinking water before drinking it and
don't lover do"
The mating in the court room hat
been taken up and some sixteen or less
buhels Of dust taken out preparatory tC
-- the coming county c0nven
ton.
DR.. Barber has been called to Murray
county three times within the past few
days to attend patients. One of the
cases is most distressing one, boy
named Swan having been gored
by an OK in such manner as to teal
open the urethra and destroy it fol
life.
On account of delay in finishing the
building Mrs. Ware will have &c
postpone the opening of the higher de-
Partment in her school until Sept. Is
The Kindergarten, ut the earnest
solicitation of patrons, will he cOntin
ued until December. Mrs. Ware will
haye three assistants so that girls OF
any age may become pupils of the
school.
We learn that during the past weeh
the town has been full of rumors that
"Nliller has sold the ADVANCE
The ADVANCE detractors have beer
running to and fro and 'grinning like
q dog" as David says, trying to tint
out whether or not the rumor is true.
and fearing that it is not.
kOCS0
We couldn't think of it till this cam
paign is over. There is fun ahead and
work to do. Afte: tie campaign come
you. On, no. We're here yet.
Mr. Aagaard agent of Frederiksen
& Co., has taken the sale of the rail-
road Or Slayton lands in Murray coun
ty, end if he is as successful in selling
Murray county lands rs he is in thi.
county. the lands will soon he sold of
The company he represents has tn,
machinery to secure settlers and all thu
facilities for showing them around
| and Mr.. Aagaard is having marked sue
| cess in selling the wild lands and thus
| securing their improvement.
Messrs. T. A. LETTERS and J. B. Bah
cock, are holding Musical Convention
at the Cong. Church. They have a
| class of about so members. On Satur
day evening they close with a Choru.
Concert, admission Csc. They arr
having remarkable success, we hea,
and have already drilled our voca
talent into good concert shape.
The regular meeting of the W. r G
will he omitted this week. A full
attendance is requested for the third
! Friday in September at 7:3O p. m.
By order, of
D. W. Garlick s. V. p.
Acting President
CAN MEYER BE EsfIMA TED.
The Worthington Advance enters or
its seventeenth year this week. Bro
Miller has seen much very hard service
in that time, yet he comes to the from
az fresh and lively as a boy. What h,
has done for Worthington and Noble,
county can never be Standardization.
ray Co. Pioneer.
F. F. Davis, of Minneapolis, addressed
the people last night in the park on tn
issues Of the present campaign. Iii!
speech was mainly devoted to the tar