The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-11-23

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Mr.. s. N. Thomas, ~ Marshall
town, Iowa, was doing business il I
this city the first Of the week. *
Some items published in the AD-
VANCE Of Sept. 10, 1874, are interest
ing reading now. One piece Of news
is that Encore and Smith are making
a success of their news depot" A. p.
Miller, as secretary Of the Mobiles
County Bible society, calls meeting
for the free distribution of Bibles.
Another item says the walls Of the
Presbyterian church are up. In the
next issue we note that "the hum of
the Okabena mills is heard from a.
M, to IL at night. us.
The ADVANCE is justly proud of
it's efficient corps of correspondents.
They are alert, and are makingit
a county paper in every respect. The
large number of new names that are
being added to our list assure us that
the paper is being we'll received.
Shortly we shall make improvements
in the paper We are pulling against
the tide at present but expect soon
to get out into the headwaters. Our
ambition is to make the ADVANCE a
credit and an honor to Worthington
and Mobiles county.
Reforms in funerals are being
proposed and the following changes
are advocated, says an exchanges:
The procession to the grave should
only consist of the preacher, the
hearse, and the pail bearers. This
would save much expense and give
the family needed rest. Dead bodies
should not be taken in churches, and
funeral sermons should be delivered
after the body has been consigned to
the grave. The family and friends
should take leave of the dead at the
home, and there should be no parade
or show.
New WHArcoM, Nov. 16, 1898.
FRIEND CARL: According to promise
I will give you little description of
the place I dropped down onto out
here on the Pacific coast. As stated in
my former letter I arrived here
July 18th. We found great change
in the climate between the east and
here. In fact the change takes place
just as you cross the Cascade noun
tains. The sea breeze and snow-cov-
cred mountains tempers the atmos-
phere,a and is cool and invigorating, in
fact too cool to suit some of the peo-
pie from Minnesota and the east;
little fire in the evenings, midsum-
mer, frequently feels comfortable. It
is about two months in the year they
have rain except, perhaps, little
sprinkling and that is in July and
August, after that it is liable to
rain any time. 1t begins with light
showers at intervals in September
and keeps increasing in volume
all fall and winter, at least
that is the record this season, thus far,
and I understand this is no exception
to the rule. It generally rains in the
night, presumably this is to please the
old woman who wanted it to rain
nights and Sundays so her boys
could get rest; of course, there are
intervals when it does not rain and
there is less wind than in a prairie
country, but sometimes it blows fear
fully here. But there are no
electric storms or cyclones. In
winter there is usually some
snow. But it does not lie
very long, hardly ever to exceed
week or ten days. The thermometer
usually ranges from 30 to SO above
zero in winter, and from SO to IS in
the summer. But last winter it went
down to Is below. But they say it
was an uncommonly severe winter.
AS to the location of New Whatcom,
presume most everyone knows it is
on the famous Bellingham Bay, sur
rounded with mountains to the east
and north and the straits of Lanzuers
and Georgia to the west and
the Puget sound southwark; it has a
beautiful location and fine harbor,
all modern Improvements such as
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