The Worthington advance., 1895-08-22

Gay Allen is on the sick list.
I. go cent tea at Peterson's for Soc.
Il. Eastwood is back from Ellis
worth. &. .s..@
The school board had meeting
last evening. @5 k@
Miss Isabel Shanks of Seward
was in town Monday. @.. Z.
Mrs. S. N. Rose has been quite
sick the past few days.
4 The Epworth League gave So
cial at Grand Army hall last evening.
JAS. Ramage has an ad. in this
paper. He tells something about
coal.
Prof. Porter has moved into the
house recently occupied by Mr.. NJ. L.
Elias. '~
| Treasurer Peterson made
trip to Adrian yesterday afternoon,
returning on the midnight train.
There were no services at the NJ.
E. church last Sunday night on ac-
count of the illness of the pastor.
There will be meeting at the
home of Mr.. Fink next Sunday
night. conducted by G. F. Edwards.
During the electrical storm on
Wednesday a bolt of tightening
struck tree in L. H. Beckley's door
yard, tearing half the tree away.
Maurice Maxwell is attending
two typhoid fever patients at Mr.
Tryan's residence. They are two
men who were employed on Fred Ma
sons hay crew.
Rev. Mr. McCollom and family in
company with Mr.. Hedberg and fam
lily went out to the Swedish Baptist
church Sunday. Mr.. McCollom is
enjoying his vacation very much.
Rev. Mr.. Edwards made trip to
Sibley and back on his bicycle Tues
day. Mr.. Edwards thinks that if all
preachers would make trip like that
once week they wouldn't need any
vacation.
| The Swenish Methodists have
given up Lewis hall and will here
after hold meetings at the residences
of the members. The reason for the
change is that this charge will be
connected with the Mankato charge
after the 18th of September and will
be served from that point every other
week.
'---Ye Young Peoples of ye Chris
tian Endeavor willie give social in
ye Puritan Style atte ye Create
White Meeting House, known as ye
Congregational church on ye even
inge of Wednesday, ye XVIII daye
of August atte earle candle light wh
ye same is eight by ye clocke. Ye
price to paye for eatinge willie be
One York Smiling and Three Pen.
neyes VIII ye same is Fifteen cents.
According to the census of 1880
more than one half of the men of this
country are engaged in agricultural
pursuits. The number SO engaged
was 100000. The number in all
other lines of business reached {, ,22O,-
600. Agriculture is the leading pur-
suit in all the states except New
Hampshire, Massachusetts,, Rhode
Island, Connecticut and New Jersey,
where manufacturing and the me-
chanical arts take the lead. This
shows that intelligent farming yields
fair returns.
| -Zenas Hazard had his leg broken
in the ankle while working on a hay
press near his fathers farm in Ran
som. It seems that Zenas was tieing
and the horses getting a little slow
he jumped on the sweep to hurry
them up little when his foot slipped
and caught in the machinery in such
a manner as to break both bones in
the leg just above the ankle. It is a
very bad break and a very painful
one. bruising the flesh as well as
breaking the bone. At the present
writing he is doing as we'll as could
be expected. Ms
"A trip from Worthington to
Sioux Falls over the Burlington will
convince anyone that the farmers over
this stretch of country are in a pros
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