The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-08-14

DIR. w. ii. Pratt. accompanied by his little
daughter, and Mrs. Geo. Huggtt and Miss Vera
E. Huggitt, of Charlotte, Mich. was in Monday
We were glad to have the opportunity to shake
the genial doctors hand again.
The petrified owls have been a drawing card
during the past week. Last weeks paper, an.
nouncing their arrival. was scarcely out before
the sight-seers began to drop in. They are really
the greatest curosities seen in this place inmany
day.
Steward Bonner has shipped two men within
the past week. We wish to call special attention to
these two men as we have a theory that they are
built on the fat.man plan, and will. with their
present opportunities, prove our predictions.
Watch 'em.
Jones, who had been second cook for a long
time. shook the dust of saltwater from his feet
early yesterday morning. Jones was one of the
squarest boys ever about this institution, and
there are many here who wish him success in his
new undertakings
ALI the stuff stored in the old prison office
has been removed preparatory to tearing the old
structure down. The stone will be used in the
retaining wall and the hole occupied by the build
ing will be filled up and the space become a part
of the Warden's yard.
Miss Bessie paid us a visit one day last week
with Douglas shoe box under her arm. She de-
posted the box the editorial desk and then
flew away. On opening the box it was found to be
full of the choicest flowers which made several
boquets to beautify the Office.
jesse Alcorn finished his work for the
Thresher company last Friday. and he and Mrs
Alcorn started back to their old home in Penn
sylvania Saturday. Jesse said that he thought
that he and his wife would stick to old Pennsyl
vania the remainder of their days.
Gate Keeper Hans Erickson is voted dis.
courteous man by the members of this community
for having refused exit to one of our number who
had gone to the trouble of procuring suit of
clothes for the occasion However, our friend has
been compensated for his disappointment by being
presented with a "watch, chain and charm.
The McGibeny folks spent most of Sunday
afternoon in the cellroom. library and printing
office. and they drove the gloom from wherever
they went. They never fail to visit the prisoners
whenever in the vicinity of prison. They have
recently entertained the inmates Of the prison at
Auburn. N. Y, and the one at Jackson. Mich.
Warden Randall and family returned Thurs
day from their camp at Bass Lake. The Warden
reports the fishing to have been all that could be
desired and that they we're able. on several occa-
sions. to furnish ambitious, though less successful
fishermen with handsome strings of fish with
which to delight their friends and relatives at
home.
"A gang of young Stillwaterites held up a car
load of watermelons one day last week and got
away with large part of the load. The officers
of the law the trail of the robbers. If
Chief Shortall had been up to snuff he would have
watched the drug stores and doctors shops and
put shadow on the trail of the doctors the night
following the robbery. No offense to the M. DIS.
The boss of the messroom dropped in on us
one day last week to see the owls. No one was
injured, and when his eye discovered, by our
Waterbury. that it time to ''dish-up," he
picked himself up and took his departure in
very graceful manner. careful inventory of
our stock satisfied us that we had lost nothing
otherwise it would have detracted considerably
from the pleasure of his visit.
The subject of Father Murphy's discourse last
Sunday was well chosen, and is worthy of our
deepest consideration. For if there ever was any.
thing in this world that disheartens one it is
this very evil he spoke of so eloquently. And
situated as we are, it behooves u.s. each and ey.
cry one. to exercise efforts in smothering
whatever sentiments may arise that would have
tendency to lower one Of our fellows in the eyes
of the community.
considerable excitement was created in the
internal regions of the kitchen one day last week
by the presence of a turtle Some of the imps
claimed that as 1t was "hard-shell' it should be
baptised in scalding water before cooking, and
after much wrangling over many suggestions his
majesty the chief cook. came down from above and
decided the dispute in favor of hot water INNER.
sion before cooking, and then there was rush of
the mps to the seathing caldrons with his turtle.
ship. and here the curtain dropped.
The Thresher company has about finished its
| seasons work, and great many of the citizen