Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1893-07-28

/ EROM SATURDAYS DAILY.
j. West Day has bought some @
Arthur GibsOH's stock for his new
farm. .--... .-s..
A marriage license was toda.
granted to Albert Buseman an,
Alvina Axle.
Rev. A. A. Joss and family have re
turned from Birch lake. Mr.. JOSS il
profuse in his praise OF the beauty O
the lake and it's environments.
Iron brackets have been put on tn,
front Of the Buchanan. A balcony
will be constructed which will greatly
improve he appearance of the build
ing.
Fl. II. Tanner has returned from
Birch lake. He says there are al
least seventy-five people camped or
the lake. Sank Centre is we'll rep
resented.
A saw mill Is soon to be built at
Round lake, III Clough township, by
q man by the name OF Weber OF
Rich Prairie. It will located about
sixteen miles from this city.
The Ladies Society of the Swedish
! Lutheran church meets next Thurs
day afternoon at 2 O'Clock at the
/ home Of Mrs. j. A. Anderson near the
school house ON the west side.
/ The Royalton Banner is quite cor.
rect when III regard to the base ball
club it SAYS: '"fhe Little Falls boys
have been very successful and stand
! ready to meet any club in the state.''
There will be It special meeting oil
the city council tonight to consider
the question Of granting Il liquor Ii
cense. This is all the business that
will be done anu the session will he
| very short.
The Brilgeman mill of st. Cloud
will be run ON the half cash basis ii
at all. The other half Of their wages
will be paid next November. II the
men agree to this the mill will run.
otherwise it Will shut down.
1.-The Base Ball club has just received
dispatch from Brainerd not to
come up tomorrow, as the club has
lisbantled. The notice was late
one. They have now no time to
make another engagement else
where. And some Of the boys are
hot about it.
Anton Neu died this morning aged
Ga years. He had been sick many
years, having been great sufferer
For fifteen years he had resided in
Morrison county, having lived at
Green Prairie before coming to this
city His funeral will take place to-
morrow at 3p. III. f.'om the German
Catholic church.
A Saltwater special says the sale
of logs there this week has exceeded
any sale Uf the season. 1t is esti-
mated that there are fully 100, 0O0, 900
feet in the drives hung up, but no ef-
fort will be made to bring them in
unless conditions change. The raft
ing season on the st. Croix is pro-
crossing very fuvorably and a. large
number OF log RATS are being taken
out. Up to last evening the number
taken out for the season had reached
1873. Few tow boats are idle, there
being an abundance OF work for all.
The police report that Maple island
was the scene IF a pugiiist!c combat
last night between two married
women. They were both heavy
weights ranging from $50 to
200 pounds. One OF them, however,
had been slightly overturned and
was vunQuishcd in short order
by her opponent, otherwise it would
not have been all unequal contest.
No arrests were made as the pal ties
soon retired. The rnsus belli is not
definitely known. It is rumorcd,
however, that there is IL man in the
case.
The game uf base bah at Rnyalton
yesterday between the kids OF Little
Falls and the kids Of RcFalton is
said by those who witnessed it to
have been Il very exciting one and
the closest that has been played
lately. The score at the end Of the
ninth inning was 20 to 10 in favor OF
Little Falls, but ON the last half OF
that inning the two clubs were tied
when Little Falls had two Mcn out
and it seemed that the game would
end in Il lie, but just at the close a
score was made which gave the
victory to Little Falls.
The Swedish Lutheran church at Il
special business meeting last Mon
day evening, resolved unanimously
to buy the church property OF the
Scandinavian Mission church for the
SUN of $780, a subscription list is
out asking for aid. In the state
ment ON it's first page we read: "Only
after much elaboration did we ven
ture to resolve ON such purchase
during these hard times. The relig.
ious wants of our people call i'm.
| Deratively for a house Of WORSHIP,
| Trusting in God and the generosity
of our friends, we have now taken q
step to answer that cal! and humbly
ask You to aid us in the good work. ,
Our Sunday school has in q few
months increased from 10 to 4OpuH;ls
The purOch;ul school shows an Gil
rollment Of ~ and our services are
we'll attended. But our people are
mostly poor laborers, and we neet
the aid Of our friends who are finan
cially better off.
KB uarting Il Son sells all kinds O
furniture on the installment plan,