The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1889-01-03
LOCAL PICKINGS.
INSPECTORS.

"A happy New Year to all
The Thresher company's shops inside the yard
suspended work Monday and Tuesday
"A beautiful picture OF the Ice Palace to be
erected in st. Paul soon helps to adorn our sane
4um.
From our contributor from over the sea- we
have very kind letter with best wishes for the
future Of THE MIRROR.
1T is rumored that the contract system of en-
ployng the inmates will be recommended by the
Inspectors. We hope not.
Many of the inmates have reason to remem-
Der the holiday season on &C. cunt of baskets and
bt xes of delicacies received from friends.
New Years day passed off very quietly at the
prison, the inmates spending the day in their
cells. A chicken dinner relieved the monotony to
some extent.
-One of our number desires to thank his friend
living at Freeport, ILL.,, for books and papers re-
eeived another to thank his fir end over the sea
for like favors.
An early visit by the members of the Legisla-
:ture is expected. They can't come too soon if
information relative to the employment of the
inmates is desired
Those who are continually sending worthless
old papers out joke will, if the practice is con-
tinued, get the biggest end, for 1 will stop taking
papers from their doors. P. Nj.
AN aged and highly respected member of our
community was pardoned by Gov McGil on Mon
day. He had served six years of life sentence and
is sixty.fve years of age. His was happy New
Year.
-Stillwaters correspondent to the Pioneer Press
is little previous in stating that the New Years
festivities at the prison were on par with other
holidays. There no part of the program of
other holidays carried out except a good
dinner.
Uncle Heber Chase May be said to have been
in the soup on New y ears day as there was tray
tilted and shower of chicken soup and the
genial old gentlemen got the beneft-on his bran
new suit. He spent the remainder of the day
over the radiator
Philip Sheridan Sullivan. sentenced in waba-
sha county to one year imprisonment for seduc-
ton, was pardcned Monday after serving three or
four weeks, the prosecuting attorney asking for
the pardon. If Mr.. Philip Sher dan Sullivan was
worthy of pardon he should never have been SEN
fenced Probably he would not have been sent
here had the law allowed the judge to suspend
sentence on persons convicted of crime during
their good acknowledgements.
We aim to give satisfaction in prices and in
quality of goods. in all departments of our busi-
ness and can. with pride, refer all strangers to
our customers since 1856. We desire, through the
columns of THE MIRROR to call the public's atten-
hon to our stock, at all times new, modern, and
by far the largest in the ST. Croix Valley of drugs
family medicines. lumbermens drug supplies,
paints, varnishes, brushes and beautiful parlor
and hanging lamps. Crandall & Barclay.
Strange as it may seem to those not acquain-
ted with the climate of Minnesota the weather is
mild and there has been no cold weather On
Christmas day the residents of Winona INDUCED
in q steamboat excursion the NJ ssissippi river
and to give the affair proper tone many of the
.sterner sex wore linen busters The exchange