The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-10-08

about $50 feet.
NV. Bangs is building a portable
photograph gallery.
: A medicine man is holding forth
On the street corners this week.
Neil Norman is home again help
ing out S. A. Hid redth in the shop.
In, another column will be found
the announcement of Miss Maud
Graves for Go. Supt. - .-,~-~
Mr.Hudson and wife of South River
Side, California, arrived Thursday on
visit with friends here.
Information was received from
Colorado yesterday that John Darby
was not expected to live.
Sam Swanson has purchased Nels
Leafs residence and will occupy the
same next week. Mr.. Leaf moves to
Pillager, Cass Co., about the same
time.
Sheriff j. E. Black and deputy NJ.
Council, of Rock county, passed
through here Tuesday with four con-
victs, handcuffed in couples. for the
state prison. The prisoners were
Geo. Smith, sentence of one year;
Will Smith, nine months; Geo. Wood
eight months; James Gaylord, one
year. The Smith Bros. and Wood
were convicted of melting riot ut
Magnolia last summer and Gaylord
for disposiug of mortgaged property.
Maurice Maxwell, son of j. H.
Maxwell, suffered a serious injury
last Friday afternoon. While driving
a team for John Rose who was press
ing hay on John Cunningham's farm
in Graham Lake township, the whiffle
tree broke, allowing the sweep to fly
back striking Maurice on the leg just
below the knee. breaking the bone.
He was Immediately brought home.
The injury will lay him up for some
time.
The pension rolls have probably
touched their highest mark. as there
port of Commissioner Murphy would
indicate. There were added to the
list last year 4O,374 new names and
1878 names reinstated, making tot
al addition of 49, 47 pensioners. The
losses were 1893 by death, 1.14l by
the remarriage of widows, 1854
by minors arriving at age, and 1852
for other causes; total of, 4,O83.The
net gain to the pension rolls was:
therefore l57 names. The amount dis
bursed for pensions was 1924, 761,
a decrease of 81 :582, 575 from the pre-
vious year.
John Sykes, former resident of
this county, writes an interesting let
ter regarding his trip from Beverly,
ILL.,, to Colorado Springs, Colo. This
trip covering over 800 miles taking
him through Missouri and Kansas.
He says 1.-THE crops with few ex-
captions were not of the best and in
many cases very poor. as whole no
comparison whatever to what I seen
ig Mobiles Co. during the seasons of
'94-5 aud SO far as I can judge, no
section of the country west of the
Father of Waters had that thrifty,
prosperous goa. head appearance that
S; W. Minnesota had when we left
your beautiful city one year back"
Closing with a request to be remem-
bered to their many friends.
Rem Mccartney is taking a short
lay off to investigate his fences
through the country. Matt Bryan
will do police duty during McCartn.
I ey's absence. Rem was a successful
opponent of Bryan's for this Office and
nomination of the one for which he is
seeking election. This success de-
monstrates his popularity in this vii
lage as we'll as in the nominating
convention. This should be consid-
cred as an item in the the question of
his election this fall as he stands on
his own merits and asks the vote of
the people purely On his fitness, abili-
ty and upright character which any
man with these excellent qualifica-
tons can make canvass without
fears of any attacks being made as to
the propriety of electing him to the
office of sheriff. We take pleasure
in supporting man of this stamp
ane he has received the endorsement
of every republican in this vicinity
and elsewhere throughout the county
where known personally.
JIG. Murphy is announced as an
independent candidate for sheriff,
and filed his petition with the county
auditor this week. Mr.. Murphy's de-
sire to be sheriff is certainly laudable
and there is no question but that he
would make a competent official.
But there are good and sufficient rea-
sons why he should not antagonize
the regular nominee of the Democrat
ic party. When man goes into a
convention as candidate for office
he is morally obligated to support the
nominees of the convention, even
though his own candidacy is unsuc-
cessful. Mr.. Murphy was fairly
beaten. and the Democrats OF this
part of the county cannot now be
asked to support him after the con