The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-10-11
RAILROAD NEWS.


Minnesota & Northern Railway, ac-
companied by Director Neil Currie, of
Currie, recently made a visit to Spen-
Ger, Iowa, to confer with parties there
with reference to a connection at that
place and with the coal fields beyond.
They found Spencer live town and
ready to do large share toward secur-
ing the northern connection which
they have been seeking so long.
THE CORN PALAcE
The editor Of the ADVANCE took in
the Corn Palace on Friday last. 9th
ers who took the train 1T Worthington
were Messrs. Moulton and Dayton, of
the Bank of fWorthington, accompanied
by Mr.. Parker, editor of the Geneva
IN. ~ Advertiser, who was visiting
Mr.. Dayton; Rev. Mr.. Fisk, of the
Congregational Church, and young Mr..
Saxson and sister. of Indian Lake.
Having business to transact. we did
not get square look at the Palace, un-
til about O'Clock in afternoon. We
then "walked around" this Sioux City
Zion and counted it's towers, and we
must say that there never was anything
like it except in Sioux City, neither on
the earth nor in the air nor in the
waters under the earth. We spent the
evening inside of this Temple where
Sioux City worshipped. Taking the
palace itself. with the map of Sioux
county; the map of O'Brien county; the
coat of arms of the State of Iowa; and
a number Of similar things, all wrought
ont of corn, or corn and other grain
combined, and Sioux City can claim to
have shown more original and unique
exhibits than were ever presented at
any exposition in the world.
The originals Of the Corn Palace were
no doubt. the Kansas and Nebraska
exhibits at the Cen tennlal, but theywere
only hints which reached a realization
in the Corn Palace.
The little Ilandbill issued by E. s.
Mills, late county Auditor, or Auditor
''for the present." deyotes one of its
little columns to showing how wickedly
Commissioners Melck and Town acted
when they voted to give the county
printing TO the ADVANCE. You see,
the ADVANCE had twice or three times
the circulation Of the Globe, and made
the lowest bid, so that the commission
ers we're required by law to give it to
the ADVANCE. Mills acted as special
attorney for the Globe, a paper which
last year beat the county out of it's
taxes to the amount of some $43. He
tried to bulldoze the board into giving
the printing 10 an illegitimate sheet,
which had not an established circula-
tion. and he offered to meet this diff
Guilty of no circulation by promising to
get out extra sheets. hand bills, ETC.,
and lay the county printing before the
tax payers in this way. He then went
to work to prove that the Globes bid,
which was considerably higher than
the ADVANCES bid,w actually low
er. Mills should have been a shyster
lawyer.
The case stands thus: Mills paper
last year beat the county out of $43
taxes, while the ADVANCE saved the
county several hundred dollars by it's
bid on printing.
This matter of the rival paper beat.
ing the county out of its taxes is true
and the people should see to it. This
thing of the 'high moral, ''religious,"
Temperance" church, - "thothiety,"
''dead beat" paper swindling the coun-
ty, and then having dead beat Mills
appear as its special champion is emin-
emily according to the fitness of things.
Mills should try again. Such articles
will make votes for Melick, for in this
matter he certainly did just what the
law required and the public welfare de-
manded.