The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-07-31

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Friday.
Clara e. Parker. Deadwood, s. D., Florence
Humbird. Hudson Wis. and Helen M. Lovatt.
city. were shown through the prison Saturday by
H. C. Drawer and F. W. Densmore of the Thresher
company's Office.
Editor V. C. Seward is home from California.
whittier he went some three weeks ago to be pres
ent at the golden wedding of his parents. Mr..
Seward visited several points OF interest in the
far west during his absence.
"A irst-class lime house has been constructed
within the past week. and it is lime house is
lime house. 1t is about l2x16 feet and is
nearly air tight possible. the floor and sides be-
ing four thickness of boards.
Mrs. s. j. Blythe. A. d. Blythe Jr., and Mrs.
Eugene Luke. of Platte. Mo-. Miss M. L. Donahue.
| Columbia, Mo-, Miss Allen. Miss Minnie Allen and
Edgar Hopkins Jr., of st. Paul. visitors at
this industrial community during the week.
Martin Mower. one of the earliest pioneers of
the st. Croix valley, died at his home at Arcola,
this county, Monday morning. Mr.. Mower came
to the st. Croix valley in 1S43. engaged in the
numbering business and amassed large fortune.
Tho ground crew of the wall builders were
hot in body and mind on the sultry afternoons of
the past few days as they gazed upward and be.
held the trees on the bluffs bowling to the wind
that would not descend to cool their fevered
| brows.
The prison library is indebted to the kindness
of Mother Jerome Of st. Mary 'sAcademy, Independ-
ence. Mo, for the following valuable books: 'Twice
Told Tales. "by Hawthorne. VOL; "Grandfather's
| Chair" Hawthorne; "Cloister and Hearth and
IA Perilous Secret" by Reade.
| In giving credit last week to those who did
the artistic work the sofa cushion presented to
Bishop Vincent. we neglected to thank Matron
Walker for her valuable services in procuring the
material and putting the cushion together Her
pardon is asked for the seeming slight
Mr. B. e. Hockert. of Minneapolis cores.
pondent of several of the leading newspapers in
Sweden, visitor to this institution Tuesday.
He took away with him several copies of THE
MIRROR and notes of his own from which to pre-
pare an article for his foreign customers.
-Messrs. W. c. Williston. C. Amundson, Geo.
A. Bracket. John w. Willis. and H. H. Hart,
| members of the state board of corrections and
charities, spent the greater part Of Monday in
specting this institution. not forgetting to honor
THE MIRROR Office with a visit. We understand
that the board is making its annual tour of inspec-
tion of all the state institutions.
Owing to the fact of the Chautauqua class fail
ing to get out last Sunday for its regular meeting
have been asked fifty times more if the class
| had not "busted up.' So we will state for the
benefit of those who anxious to know and have
no opportunity to make personal inquiry, that the
prison G. l.. s. c. is in healthy condition NOR
ally, Intellectually and physically, and may
add. financially. for it owes no man a cent. Chau-
| tauqua never ''busts."
Charlie Lilljigren. q boy employed in the
| Thresher company's pattern shop, yesterday lost
the ends of the toes on his left foot. He was CO.
| ing up the elevator in the machine shop and
just it to the second floor he thoughtlessly
showed his foot out where it caught between
| the shop floor and the edge of the elevator. He
was carried to the prison hospital where DR.. Mer-
rl dressed the foot. after which the patrol wagon
called and took him to his home. The boy bore it
| all with a smiling countenance.
| Have you seen Asst Deputy Glennon's
pup? If you have not and are free
| agent you should 60 and see it, for
| probably in the course of your whole life
you will not have another chance to behold such
| a wonder. The rush to see it was great that he
was obliged to bring the pup down to the prison
| for few days of rest from the worry of re-
cevng the admiring populace of saltwater;
and it was this circumstance that afforded the
pleasure of seeing his puppyship. To attempt an
ineligible description Of the animal is useless
furthermore, description might detract from the
pleasure and surprise of a personal inspection
However. it will not be out of place to state that
the only way of telling which is the bark end of
the pup is to notice which end it sticks in the
| milk
| Last Wednesday evening nearly all the guards
and several of the officers grouped themselves
about the stone steps of the outer portal of the
prison and permitted themselves to become inn
| mortalized by the Photographic process. Yes, i'm.