The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-09-13
A WRITE UP.

WRITE UP.
A recent issue of a st. Paul paper
three column write-up or,
makeup. of Worthington and Mobiles
county. The column on Mobiles coun-
ty and part of the facts given about
Worthington are copied from the
ADVANCE, and from circulars made up
by the ADVANCE, all of which we fur
nished to the correspondent free
gratis for nothing" and for which he
does not give due credit.
In the main, the account given Of our
county is quite an advertisement for
our locality. There are some errors,
however, which ought to be corrected
81 that an astonished and delighted
world may not be misled. The AD-
VANCE articles and circulars which, 60
to make up this statement have thus
reached more than twice, yes more
than i've times. as many readers as we
could reacl. through our own columns.
Such IS merit!
But to some errors. The FIRST one
is All intimation that Worthington
was named after an ''honored resident
Of Maumee county, Ohio" The fact
is there is no such county in Ohio.
Maumee is a river, a swamp drainer,
which empties into Lake Erie several
miles below Toledo. Worthineton
was named after the Worthington fam
lily, one of whom was Governor of Ohio.
and none of them ever lived near the
Maumee.
The next error is in naming the
Sioux City & St. Paul road, "the
Sioux City Il Pacific" The latter
road can be found most any day be-
tween Sioux City and Missouri Valley
Junction.
Another little error which needs cor.
rection is this: "In summer the tenn
perature rarely rises above so deg, and
the winters are not inclement, as
stock raisers have long ago proved to
their satisfaction" To be sure, the
winters are not "inclement" on mild
day, but we have Que share of cold
weather, with an occasional blizzard
which, makes it little "inclement" tC
haul hay to stock while the blizzard is
on. Fact is, people who come to this
"glorious climate Of Minnesota" may
as well know the truth. They must
take their house plants in during the
winter and get their Strawberries
dug" by November, or they will be
nipped a little by the frost. OF course
Jack Frost is only in fun in this eli.
mate, only means to be playful, but
sometimes he does play trough" and
takes a 80 degrees below nip at a house
plant, when zero would do it just as
well.
Another slight error is in making some
of our brick blocks three stories high.
This mistake evidently refers to the
! ADVANCE brick block, ard the error
was natural. Anybody would suppose
that great newspaper like the ''big
ADVANCE" could not be published in
anything less than three story brick
But it can. Owing to the great will
power and condensing force of the ed
itor, the great newspaper is issued in a
two story brick. We may as well add
that is was built ont of the proceeds OF
| the newspaper and is paid for, and not
out of money left the proprietor by an
old Dutch uncle in Mexico. This brick
block is the pride of the editor and the
envy of all the little souls within a ra-
dius of 40 miles.
! Again the correspondent says, 1.-THE
streets are we'll graded and macadam-
ized." This must refer only to the
little strip between Third Avenue and
the depot, on Tenth st. On
this little strip the street force
will get out lively to get chip o,
a tumble-bug out of gutter, while the
rest of the street and streets have tC
take their chances and wait till a
change of administration.
The correspondent also says that
Mobiles county is ''dlstinctively un-
mortgaged.' Mobiles county is less tax
ed than most of the surrounding coun-
ties, and. less mortgaged than some
others, but there is a pretty heavy GOV.
ering in the form of mortgages holding
down good many farms.
Next he says that Worthington has
a Board of Trade and that Z. H. Smitf
is President. As G. H. is President ot
the Harrison & Morton club, the cor.
respondent took it for granted that hi
must be President Of everything else
but it is mistake. Charley Smith i.
President Of the Board of Trade ant
succeeds to the position filed for tw,
years with such blushing honor ant
formidable effect by the editor of thi.
'here'' article.
| The following taken partly from AID
VANCE sources. have appeared in ou1
columns from time to time. but it il
good to repeat them here, and to civ,
q few new facts which are interspersed
1.-The climate of the mountains ant
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describer of MOBILES county. This il
the best stock.raising country in tn,
world. There was never more luxuri
ant and nutritious grasses grown any
where, " was the testimony of Chairman
Burchard at the Mankato convention o
dairyman in April, 1882, while John N
Hall, at the same convention, said: "A
better dairy country than southern o
hio and Indiana, for they do not hav'
have" 1.-The man who settles herea
bouts does not have to 60 West ant
settle again. This is the best grass re
gion and is pre-eminently q stock an,
diary country" wrote Gen. J. H. Bak
er. ex-raiIroad commissioner. A con
census of similar or even more enthu
siastio testimony can easily be obtain
ed, especially now, since wheat is n
longer regarded as the staple. No
| that ynheat in aho ond0nad-fhaao noonl