The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-05-15

-"Uncle jake returned from the land of the
free to make us short but pleasant visit Satur-
day afternoon. He says that it is good to be Free
and we believe he is right.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Lawrence and daughter
Ella, of Hudson, Wis, visitors at the chapel
Sunday and took in the sights of the celroom in
the afternoon in company with Mrs. Alexander.
Mr.. c. ]. johnson, of the Boyer Portrait Co.,
of Kansas City. Mo-, visited this Institution last
week and will be remembered by THE MIRROR
force for his cheering words of encouragement.
THE MIRROR reached most of its outside
| readers day late last week owing to the fact
that the expressman attending funeral and
did not get the papers back from the press until
afternoon.
Mr.. Paul A. Johnson the great mind reader
who has been astonishing the natives
of saltwater with his wonderful feats. visited
this institution Tuesday. accompanied by Mr.. L.
w. Walker. of st. Paul.
Major F. Howe and wife, of South Dakota,
visited the prison one day last week in company
with Mrs. L. c. Proctor with whom they spend
| ing few days before starting to England where
| they go on an extended visit.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. c. Hening started east to
Saratoga Monday evening. whittier Mr.. Hening
goes as delegate to the general assembly of the
Presbyterian church of the United States. They
will be absent about two weeks.
-Rumor has it that Guard Andrew M eehan has
welded st. Paul lady and that the happy pair
are now at Dubuque, Iowa, enjoying the honey
moon. If such is not the case we are prepared to
divulge the name of the person who started the
rum
While gazing up at the bluff beyond the west
wall of the prison number of trees were to
start toward the prison, then old stairway and
about 4Ox1OO feet of somebody's city lot slid down
upon the newly excavated roadway called North
Second street.
Mrs. Augusta Lippert dropped dead Monday
| noon on the hull of the old steamboat that lies
nearly opposite the prison. She had just finished
her dinner in the rafting shanty, where her hus-
band is engaged cook, and stepped on the deck
of the old hull that lays alongside.
The n-cushion-slipper makers are doing
large manufacturing business of late. 1t but
a few months ago that cane making all the 60,
and two or three years previous everybody that
could handle tool was engaged in making fancy
work boxes. inlad tables and toy chairs. What
next?
Deputy Warden Langum will join the excur.
sion of the Minnesota Editors and Publishers
Association that will leave st. Paul on June 18th
on a special train for Washington. d. c. They
will take in other points of interest the route
going and coming, and will return to st. Paul on
the 18th.
Mr.. S. E. Olson, the banker and merchant king
of Minneapolis. around through the prison
with Deputy Warden Langum yesterday after
noon. They called at Office. and Mr.. Olson
was favorably impressed with the idea of adver-
Using his immense dry goods house through the
columns of THE PRISON MIRROR.
Work on the new wall was begun in earnest
Tuesday morning. The temporary board fence
running along the top of the unfinished portion
of the wall was knocked down and the way made
clear for the masons. 1t will keep the boys rush.
ing to complete the wall before snow flies again.
We received letter from Mr. Lee Harrison,
one of the members of the Bluebeard Co.. that
took part in the recent entertainment, thanking
tor the complimentary account of their per-
Torrance here. The company disbanded in
Chicago fer the summer yesterday. their season
being over.
We were little previous last week with our
wall over the departing prospects for bath
house. We had been informed that the partly
arranged bath room to be abandoned; but
rumor was mistaken this time, for the work has
since been pushed to partial completion and we
now have room with five good spray baths.
The saltwater Messenger and the saltwater
Democrat are in a squabble over the city printing.
The Democrat has the promise of it, but the Mes
senger says it shall not have it, and the Democrat
says that it will pay the city for the job before the
Messenger shall have it. If they are not careful
the Gazette will slip in and take it away from
both of them, then they will wish they had di-
vded the spoil.
THE MIRROR Office received its spring clean