The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1895-12-26

show in a practical way that you are
possessed of desire to have the world
know that Worthington is a bright,
wide awake, 10Th century town; give
your neighbors the benefit of your
knowledge Of current local events;
all push in the same direction-to
place the gait Of Worthington at a
lively pace toward city OF 5,WNpeo-
pie. Our coat is off to help in the
good work, now let all do their share
and the result will soon be plainly
manifest. ~ |
Now who is to decide whether that
message of Cleveland's was the prop
er thing or not' Every man has his
own, individual idea in the matter,
but that don convince the other fell !
low. We rather think, to tell the
truth, that Grover is a pretty good
duck hunter. for that part of the
country, but, take him at his best,
Hank Twitchell can give him three
shots to his one and show a ring of
ducks at the end of days hunting
that would cause old fatty to lay his 1
head in the arms of Queen Lii and
weep tears of the size of an average
weinewurst. 4
Mankato has something of sensa-
ton on her hands. A short time ago
a grand display of toys was made by
the "Glass Block" in that city, in the
midst of the store being large ever
green tree, trimmed in an up-to-date
manner with toys and other Christ
mas fumadiddles. It now transpires
that the tree was cut from cemetery
near Mankato by four of the clerks of
the store. The four clerks were ar
rested Saturday and arraigned in the
municipal court, pleaded not guilty
and the trial of their case was set for
Friday, January 3rd. ''See that my
grave is kept green"
. 1t is usually an easy matter to
judge as to who are and who are not
the winners in competition of almost
any kind or character, simply by the
actions of the interested parties. The
successful ones, as rule, are usually
those who keep quiet and :'laugh in
their sleeve" while those who have
met with defeat raise hue and cry
in an effort to detract from the honor
won by their competitor. Worthing-
ton "aint sayin' a word'-Luv erne is
doing the naughty baby act. Shame
on you, neighbor! : Why don't you
grit your teeth, dry your tears and
resol?e to put in every moment in
preparing to do better, if possible, at
the next trial? Go to work, for your
case is not hopeless by any means;
and by hard work you may yet win.
Saturday afternoon an unusually
large number of farmers teams were
hitched about the court house square
while their owners were busily en-
gagged with various errands about
town, but, although the day was a
mild and pleasant one, every team,
with butt very few exceptions, was
we'll and carefully blanketed. The
sight of over a hundred farmers teams
all standing in one continuous row,
well blanketed and cared for, was
sight to please the eye and cheer. the
heart of a stranger in the city and
spoke more in praise of the town and
tributary country than could be writ
ten in an age. Worthington is all
right as trading center and the peo-
pie who trade here manifest every evil
dence of being prudent, careful and
thrifty farmers.
The Mankato Free Press comes to
US this week accompanied by &C.
page Especial edition." and such edi-
ton can truthfully be spoken of only
as the handsomest and most complete
of it's kind ever issued by any news
in the state. The edition is printed
on fine calendered book paper, the
pages are illuminated by not, less
than 100 elegant half tone engravings
while the subject matter, which deals
with the business and growth of Man
kato, is exceptionally good, and,
above all. the whole is neatly and ar
tistically printed. Those cookbook
ing fellows on the Free Press appear
to be on the Hunt continually for
some way in which to push their
town and give vent to their energy,
and this time, for certainty, they
have In GOOD their game and made a