The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-10-30

Mrs. C. A. whittier and daughters, Bessie and
Beryl, of st. Paul. Miss Emily w. Butman, of
Lowell. Mass; Mrs. T. L. Walker were shown
through the prison Monday by the matron.
Hon. o. c. Peterson, of DesMoines, Iowa. who
of late has been laboring to instill republican
principles into the people of saltwater vicinity.
was in the prison Friday with Deputy Langum.
Commercial" alley is all torn up The old
paving blocks are being taken up and burned in
the furnaces near at hand We did not learn
what kind of paving would take the place of the
old.
IN. A. Nelson succeeds P. E. Bennett as Still
water reporter for the st. Paul Globe. Plim will
hereafter devote his labors to the Gazette ex-
clusively. Nelson will do good work for the
Globe.
Misses A. Weidlch and Katherine Landers,
of White Bear Lake. Miss Wilma Porter and Mrs.
Nellie Porter. of DEBORAH, Iowa, were in the
prison Sunday evening with the matron, Mrs.
Walker.
Six prisoners received from Ramsey
county within the past week for terms varying
from eighteen months to five years: two from Akin
county, two and five years; one from Todd county
for two years.
Frank, the boss of the steam kitchen has been
in the hospital for several days. and the butcher
has been doing his work, so if you have found
prunes in your soup detected garlic in the hash
you will know how to account for it.
Judge j. F. Norrish of the Board of Managers
was one of the speakers who addressed large
audience at the Peoples church in ST. Paul Sun
day on "Prison Reform" His remarks were
principally upon the prison labor question.
himself just below the knee with a draw-k knife
the other day. and he is now laid up in the hos.
pital The cut nearly severed one of the tendons
of his leg, and, came near making himself Grip.
pie for life.
The bricklayers will about complete their
work on the new building to-day. and the floors
will be finished by the end of the week. The
Company has begun already to move their ma.
chnery into the lower story which will be used as
hardwood shop.
Guard Mcintyre is without the comforts and
protection of doghouse these days, and he
has to tramp around with gun shoulder among
the teams and workmen the Second street
dump. The old doghouse removed to the
other side of the street Tuesday.
The Company's shops are lonesome places
these days Guard Rowe was heard to say the
other day that it was very tiresome work to stand
around the shop watching four or five men that
needed no watching. Idleness becomes monoto-
nousness sometimes to prison guard.
Jimmy, our soap maker has been troubled for
about year with obstinate sore on one of his
arms that no salvs would heal the other day
he submitted his to the surgeons knife. The
doctor removed a large quantity of diseased flesh
nd oil cd no with Sfit Il
the operation without the of aRaesthetics.
Warden J. J. Randall made business trip to
Chicago last week. Hsspent one day ip,the city.
In the evening he visited ths ttnioh heakaehopms
where he met and was Introduced to that some
what pertinacious gentleman, Speaker Reed
The Wardenlreasiiled ii hsafMfa aaeed's speech
and started for home at eleven o'clock that night.
-Tlee tub and pal lfaotory ,geitnel under full
Roadway again and the tubs and pals are being
tHpnea out-b dozens of dozens very day. ssupt
Covell is talking of putting in another lathe for
doing jobbing work. A gentleman engaged in the
handling of tubs and pals visited the factory al
few daysggo, ard hegpfpns9r eed the goods man
ufaeturea aeresStaashSerist %aak3
Foreman Emerson and his bookeeper are la
borinorp deytne DIFFUSION mat they 9ayeYs Stake
in astub Il ws1srshAt stsf s-sheR oaical 9lSey say
it is horse hair turned serpent-others say in
their minds, They wtitpqint at 1.-THE imaginary
and say. ugh! see it riggle-ugh! ugh! ugh!
gosheRsm.. ~ Visitors tbs snake to hupor them
shRthehga a9ai boxing troubled They say
the Boys nav Sem II Very mia Torn: '' = Fly 9
MIR Otto B. Sqhosf1lsFsl agent of the Pabst
Brewing Co.. Milwaukee, visited our benighted
community one day last week. Mr.. Schoefler was
here last April, and on that occasion SUBJ
scribed1errHE MIRROR s~Eeexpfesyed himsef
as so well pasSsed-with ths paper that AeAwanted
some of his Milwaukee friends to have it also
Two new names oursnbscripton book and two
big dollars in our treasury attest to the sincerity
of his,expxessed appreoiation.f = ~>~4rrml ,