The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-07-28

Mr.. No One was received this week.
Two of our number were discharged this week.
A neat fence has been placed around Fourth
of July Park
The matron's family is dwindling away. Only
three female inmates to-day.
The wall builders have got the first section of
the retaining wall nearly finished.
The Warden was down in the southern part
of the state the fore part of the week.
Guard Anderson is expecting his mother.in.
law who is on her way here from Norway.
The health of the prison is good. There has
not been patient confined to his bed for many
weeks.
Engineer Jones' posy garden is the rankest
thing about the prison. We mean the ''rankest''
in growth.
M. j. c. Mullin, of Montevdeo, Mimi. was
visitor Tuesday. He will be MIRROR reader
hereafter.
Guard McIntire is learning the painters trade
that is. he has been assigned to duty in the
paint shop.
Andrew Mackey, the oldest inhabitant in this
county of Washington. died Tuesday in his ninety.
seventh year.
front wall is being removed and macadamzed
road made in its place.
Manager Temple was here Tuesday. He says
the growing grain in his section has been badly
damaged by the late storms.
THE MIRROR addressed to Mrs. H. Young,
general delivery Minneapolis. is not taken out.
and remains dead in that office.
Statement of population July 81: Working
for Thresher Co.. 146; working for state l7S sick
and infrm. 10. Total population. 329.
There will be song service in the chapel
next Sunday. The choir has been practicing all
the week and some good singing is promised.
The boys did some lively work loading car
of Irvine Monday. 1t took them just thirty min.
utes to get the Irvine out of the warehouse and
into the car.
Assistant Deputy Glennon came on duty last
Wednesday morning with beaming countenance.
lofty step and a box Of cigars under his arm.
lit is boy.]
Foreman Sutton has received an order to
construct fifty more traction engines. This will
make eighty engines more than it was planned to
build this season.
over $4,000 pounds of binding Irvine have
been disposed of already. Judging from present
appearances the stock on hand will not be suffi.
cient to supply the demand.
The state machine shop has not been without
work for minute since it started up. 1t is per.
haps one of the best paying departments belong.
ing to the state inside Of the walls.
Persons who visit this Office must not read the
proofsheets or the copy the hooks. 1t is
against the law, and the penalty-it is about 80
feet from the door to the stone floor below
who brought here sometime ago from the
St. Cloud reformatory. was returned to that insti-
tuition Tuesday. Deputy Lemon returned the
prisoner.
The steam filters struck our Office last week
and RECALLED us for a couple of days with the
dulcet sounds that only they make with pipes.
hammers. tongs and wrenches. But thank good.
ness! we don't have to foot the bill.
Mr.. Edward Barrett. of saltwater, has been
appointed guard vice VIM. McCracken. resigned.
MI. Barrett has taken Guard O'Mara's place on
the wall, and O'Mara takes the place in the Irvine
factory vacated by Mr. McCracken.
Three hundred and sxty.fve porcelain enam-
eled cups have been received for use in the din.
ing room. They white within and blue with
out, have handles and about the shape and
size of the ordinary teacup. Very nice!
Send in your dollars for next years MIRROR.
We would be very much pleased if our friends
who have not settled up for the past year would
settle up and save from the uncongenial work
of writing duns this hot weather. Come now do