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Mower County transcript., 1897-05-19
THE White HOUSE IN 1900.
Mrs. Adams Made q Drying Room For He1
Clothes of the East Room.

Mrs. Adams Made Drying Room For Her
Clothes of the East Room.
"Congress first assembled in the new
capitol on Nov. II, 1900, and John Adams,
then president, took up his abode in the
executive mansion" writes ex-President
Harrison of "The Domestic Side of the
White House, in the May Ladies' Home
Journal. "Neither the capitol nor the ex-
ecutive mansion was fully completed. The
proportions of the house seemed to Mrs.
Adams as grand and superb. The plan
was taken from the palace Of the Duke Of
Leinster in Dublin. If they will put me
up some bells and let me have wood enough
to keep fires, wrote Mrs. Adams, Il de-
sign to be pleased But, though literally
in the woods, no one could be found to
out and cart frewood. The few cords Of
wood that had been provided had been ex
pended to dry the plastering. A Pennsyl-
vania wagon, secured through treasury
clerk, delivered cord and q half of wood,
(which is, wrote Mrs. Adams, all we have
ly required, and we arc told the roads will
soon be so bad that 1t cannot be drawn. !"
"The society ladies were impatient for
a drawing room in the executive mansion,
and this when Mrs. Adams had mo look
ing glasses but dwarfs,' and mot twen-
tieth part lamps enough to light the house.
There was no Enclosure, and she made a
drying room for her clothes Of the great
east room. The original cost Of the White
House Is said to have been little more
than $500, 900, and something more than
that amount was expended in restoring 1t,
after It's destruction by fire in 1914, and
in the building Of the north and south por-
ticoes." -
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come. Funeral services we're con-
Quoted Friday, May II, and the body
laid to rest 10 the Cemetery at the old
town Of Leroy. v:
The union meetings conducted by
Evangelist G. n. Hunt closed Sunday
evening after doing an incalculable
amount Of good in this community.
The three meetings on Sunday were
crowded. Mr.. Hunts plain and incl
sive style Of presenting the truth Is
very effective and there is good pros
pect OF substantial additions to our
churches as result Of these meet
ings. Mr.. Hunt took the train at
Taopi Monday morning and returned
to his home at Minneapolis: He will
rest this week and will hold meetings
at Chaska next week. He is one Of
the speakers at the national Y. P.S.
G. E. convention held at San Francisco
in June. h.
Died at his residence in Leroy,
Tuesday, May II, 1897, of dropsy Of
the heart, Ole o. Share, aged 72 years,
two weeks and six days. He leaves a
wife, four sons and two daughters.
Mr.. Share. was an old and much es-
teemed citizens, having settled in
this country from Norway in 1862 and
lived three years in Union county, S.
D., then settling in Leroy. He was
a great sufferer, being confined to his
bed one year and eleven months. His
children from abroad who attended
the funeral were Jens 0. Share and
wife of Owatonna, Mr.. and Mrs. An
drew Torgerson Of Adams and, Henry
O. Share of Sergeant. Funeral SER
vices were conducted by Rev. 0. A.
Blu, Thursday, May IL, at 2 o'clock.
The sorrowing friends have our
sympathies.
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.UDOLPHO.
No Better Building.

William Frazier is stopping at Mr.,
Kings. 5s3, !, ..5.. =.$
r. "a. CARL will build a large barn
this summer. .5$ j 5ss
The farmers are nearly all through
planting corn. .S
w. ". Stimson is blasting stone for
III. B. Roe Of Lansing. ..,@ .## S.= >..1,@ ..,.s
Nick dwelling of Lansing visited
atsA. NJ. Neller's Sunday. 3
Ray Enney was laid up few days
last week. being kicked by horse.
Emil Domman is building stone
wall for barn foundation for R. A.
CARL. y .*-
Miss Virginia BARTLETT, who is teach
ing in Dist. No. go, went to Austin
Saturday. >'
Lizzie Gritzmacher, who has been
working in Austin, came home last
week to take rest, having a felon on
one Of her fingers. -.
B. L. Stimson came home from
Rochester Thursday on his wheel,
returning Monday. He reports his
wife as about the same. g..
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BLOOMING PRAIRIE

New t-Office-Funeral.
Mrs. Sullivan and son are doing we'll.
Mr.. and Mrs. Brooks went to Owa-
tonna Monday.
Mrs. Jim Guthrie and the two Miss
Feehans were in Owatonna Monday.
The new postoftice is a beauty. 1t
is in the brick block Of Cooley &
Hughes.
John Boyle of Aurora was buried
last Monday. He died with the dread
disease consumption.
Ernest Ingersoll and two sons were
visiting their mother and grand
mother, Mrs. Ingersoll. :.
Mrs. Colquhoun will have Baptist
social at her home Friday, May %, in
the afternoon and evening.
John Adsit and his brother Charley
of Owatonna came down Monday to
attend Mr.. Boyle's funeral.
Saturday evening there will be a
donation party at the residence of Mr..
Hannibal Noble, for the benefit Of
Rev. Alfred Cressey. The residence
is three miles south of Blooming
Prairie. Preaching at Blooming
at 1890 a. M, next Sunday; at Wash
burn school house, 2:30 p. m. All are
invited to attend. At Mr.. Cressey's
last round he took in one by letter
and baptised another.
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addition built to his house. The Inn
provements will cost 5000. Mr.. Bus
sell has one Of the finest and pret
premises in the village. 1. !. .,..
We, the members OF the Grand
Meadow second base ball nine, will
challenge any second nine in Mower
county or IN the state, on our home
ground. E.G. ScHLE1aER, Capt.
!, { To show how fast some Of the trees
grow In Grand Meadow, 9. T. Bussell
recently showed us a tree near his
house that hetset out as stake in a
hole made with a acrobar some eight
years ago that now measures foot in
diameter at the base and is twenty
five feet in height. |.s 81. = r.
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RENEWING STEEL RAILS.

4 ~ sS + HFs "F"
A Mill to Operate ON tho McKenna Method
VIII Be Ready june 1. s
= Mr.. E.%W. MoKenna became convinced
years ago that the cost Of rail renewals on
railroads was much too high, and his nat
ural bent toward investigation and depar-
ture from accepted "ruts' led him toward
his rail renewing invention. 7
Research showed that several patents
had been issued for rolling down steel
rails, and in actual practice steel rails of
given sections had been cut to compare
lively short lengths, which were heated,
and then rolled down into new rails Of
much lighter weight per yard. "
His idea was to heat the worn rail in It's
entirety and cause as little reduction in
weight Of section as possible, in fact,
seek to restore 1t to the original form
or else to one which should be oonsid-
cred more desirable, and also restore
1t to perfect section, and thus make 1T
suitable for its original main track use.
It is very desirable in track maintenance
to have as little variation az possible in
standards used-that is, as few different
sections Of rails splice bars, etc., as posi-
BILE. Therefore in restoring or renewing
the rails 1t was very important that the
fishing or splice bar angles and distances
should not be altered, thus permitting the
same standard splices to be used on the re-
newed as on the original rails.
Mr.. McKenna made some experiments
ina small way, was satisfied that his ideas
were practical and succeeded in obtaining
United States and foreign letters patent.
In 1896 he succeeded in forming a COM
pany, which leased from the Illinois Steel
company of Chicago it's old North Chi
cago rail mill. 1t was altered to conform
to the requirements of his process, and the
works were started.
1t is somewhat remarkable historical
instance that in this same mill were rolled
the first steel rails made in America. Later
it became one of the most prominent steel
rail mills, but in the march Of progress 1T
fell out of the ranks, and had been aban-
doned as q rail mill for several years, only
to be once more put in service to prove the
value of this new idea.
After having fully demonstrated the
practicability of his process, Mr.. McKenna
ceased experimental operations and organ
lied company to build q mill specially
designed for the process. This company Is
known as the McKenna Steel Rail Renew
ing company, and has contracted with the
Lewis Foundry and Machine company of
Pittsburg to build a complete mill, to be
located at Joliet, Ills. The contract re-
quires the mill to be completed by June l,
1897
The company will begin operations with
quite large orders Oh it's books, all Of
them being from the railroad companies
for which it made rollings in the EXPERT
mental mill-Captain Robert W. Hunt in
Casters For May.
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A New Serial which will Soon Begin
Publication Exclusively In
These Columns.
LOOK OUT FOR THE
FIRST NSTALLMENT.
PRACTICAL. HOUSEKEEPING.

Keeping Up Table For . Family Of
Eight on go Week.
In the May Ladies' Home journal Mrs.
s. r. Rorer shows that q family Of two,
with one servant, can live we'll on an ex-
pendtture of SO week for food in Phila-
delphia and the east, $6 in the south and
go in New England. These figures, she
says, cover milk flour, meat and market
ing, as we'll as groceries, and are based
upon the presumption that the woman Of
the family is q practical housekeeper.
"Last summer" Mrs. Rorer writes, ~
was experimenting very closely and care
fully my own household, which numbered
at the time eight persons, and without the
slightest difficulty arranged an exceeding
ly attractive table with an expenditure of
only $40 per week, and this covered every
thing used on the table, three meals day.
To do this I purchased beef by the loin,
taking out the f1llet, using it as a roast
one day for dinner; made stock from the
bones and rough pieces, quite enough to
last for half the week. The back was TAX
en- off and cut into steaks and the tough,
lean end divided, one portion being used
for Hamburg steaks and the other for
brown stew with vegetables. From this
one loin,' which cost $1.75, I had sufficient
stock for three days and meat for four
dinners, freshly cooked for each meal,
making an average cost of A cents a
NEAL ~.
Mrs. Rorer also states that q family of
six, with two servants, ''can live quite
we'll with an expenditure for the table of
$14 a week. Where people have sufficient
means to live as the world call well, but
which, from q hygienio standpoint, is
really bad, $500 year is very liberal al
lowance. On this in winter you may have
an occasional dish of terrapin, providing
you use the fresh water;' poultry at least
twice week, an entree now and then,
oysters ard the more dainty varieties of
fish. The dinner may be served in three
or four courses. Breakfast may consist of
a fruit, cereal, eggs or chop, mullins
and coffee; luncheon, a little entree, some
well cooked vegetables and perhaps wa
ter muffin toasted or little fruit with
light cake; the dinner, soup, meat,
with two vegetables, a salad, with waters
and cheese, q light dessert and coffee. Now
and then you may put in a little entrees
following the SOUP" &c.,. .~.~
Mower County transcript., 1897-05-19
ROSE CREEK.
Woodman'sD Dance-SchoOl Picnics

Woodman'sD sDance-School Picnics.
It is rumored-
That small grain is booming.
That corn is rotting in the ground
very badly.
That this is the most beautiful time
in all the year.
Barber Brown took in the Queen
City yesterday.
That for general merchandise Varco
beats them all.
That oats are III cents per bushel
at our market.
That G. R. Varco drove over to Hay
field the first of the week.
That O'Malley & Skahan shipped
two cars of stock Saturday.
That R. Thompson is talking Of
going west to invest in real estate.
That Mrs. Perry Holster and a lady
friend are visiting friends in the vii
lage.
That Alva Wheelock and family are
home from" Lake City, where he spent
the winter.
That c. R. Varco handles every
thing from a darning needle to a
threshing machine.
That the county commissioners
came down Tuesday to Investigate
the R. Thompson BRIDGE.
That c. R. Varco is receiving daily
large consignments of goods, which
he is selling at way down prices.
That our village teachers, the Misses
Gordon and O'Malley, held picnic in
the grove nearly every week, which is
greatly enjoyed by the little folks.
That D. Blyton is beautifying his
village residence with paint, paper and
whitewash, preparatory to being occu-
pied by newly married couple.
That the Woodman dance comes off
Friday evening, with Tische's full
orchestra and everything else first.
class. Turn out and have good time.
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Jenny Lind's Last Public Appearance

Jenny Lind's Last Public Appearance.
"The last time Jenny Lind sang in pub
lio was onvJuly 2s, 1888, in the Spa, NAL
vern: Hills; England, !" writes. Mrs. Ray
mond Mande, daughter Of the Swedish
Nightingale, in the May Ladies' Home
journal. "The concert was in aid of the
Railway Servants Benevolent fund, and
indeed was red letter day to the country
folk, who came from all the country round
with the modest 1s pence which secured
them standing room. On one of my walks,
during the last sad week helped to nurse
her, I found an old woman in a remote
cottage who eagerly asked for the good
lady who was so Ill up there Upon find
ing who was she assured me that it
would have been worth even more stinting
and a further walk to have had such a
treat in her old age as that singing"
Mower County transcript., 1897-05-19
DEXTER.
Boy Injured-DilnitysBall

Boy Observation-Disclosures
Mr.. and Mrs. Pierce of Leroy arriv-
ed Friday and are visiting at the
homes Of their sons J. o. and W. H.
Pierce. +y.".J
Miss Lottie Erase returned from a
two months visit I'm Grand Meadow,
Wednesday. She has resumed her
duties at Carl Wagnesses' store.
Jesse Simmons of Grand Meadow
spent Saturday in this village.
Little Joe Gardener fell and injured
his eye while playing. 1t was feared
at first he would lose his sight,, but
fortunately the injury did not prove
fatal as was first supposed. -oO
Mr.. and Mrs. O. J. Dickens, Mr..
and Mrs. o. G. War rem and Mr.. and
Mrs. B. 3. Warn spent Sunday with
Joe Nelson's family near Brownsville.
Miss Thurston of Lansing, Iowa,
is visiting friends in Dexter for few
days.
Mr.. Brown of Waterloo, Iowa, who
has been sick at the Swan House, is
improving. =.
R. E. Crane of Grand Meadow was
in town Monday.
The Dimity BALL Friday evening was
success. s
Miss Sue Rahilly Of Adams spent
Saturday and Sunday at home.
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Pulmonary Consumption.

, My wife has been oubled with
weak lungs and was pronounced to
be in the last stage of pulmonary
consumption. She commenced TAX
ing White Wine of Tar and received
relief at once and is now using the
fourth bottle and her health is better
then for many years. We cheerfully
recommend it to all.
Brookline Station, Mo- ~.
=, %<r*> REV. J. R. FLY.
It T. SUSAN T.. Fly
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GRAND MEADOW,
New Creamery Building Martin


New Creamery Building Martin
- Hotel. 49,,
: The saloon opened last week. I
Mr.. Rowell is building north of w.
A. Nolan's. ~.l .. .~.-
Mr.. Sample has sold his house and
moved away. :, #a a2s=s
Or. and Mrs. 9 'Connor have adopted
a baby girl from Owatonna. ..., 1
+ Miss Dora Gladen has been hired to
take Alice Paddock's place as teacher.
p. T. Elliott has had bis house
greatly improved by being newly
painted. .I.. =S,J .@..=#S H..
The Martin hotel is nearly COM
pie ted and will be great improves
ment to the east side Of Main street.
The creamery association has de-
cided to build q new creamery and
work Is being pushed to3fnish it as
soon as possi Bile.
III e. ~. Bussell Is having q two story
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The Westfeld Ind.) News prints
the following in regard to all old
resident of that place: Frank
McAvoy, for many years in the en-
ploy of the L., n. A. & C. Ry. here,
says; II have used Chamberlain's
Collie, Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy
for ten years or longer--am never
without itin my family. L consider
it the best remedy Of the kind manu-
featured. I take pleasure in recon-
mending it," It is a specific for all
bowel disorders. For sale at Opera
House Pharmacy.
Mower County transcript., 1897-05-19

-"Ten people out of dozen are in
valids," says a recent medical author
ity. At least eight out of these ten,
it is safe to allow, are suffering from
some form of blood-disease which a
persistent use of Ayers Sarsaparilla
would be sure to cure. Then don't be
an invalid.
Mower County transcript., 1897-05-19
A Kansas Minister,

Rev. L. S. Coulton, Of Circleyille,
KS. says: "Dr. Warner-Your
White Wine Of Tar Syrup has been
in my family and found to be all and
even more than YOU claim for it. 1t
is, speedy cure for all throat and
lung diseases. y.
Mower County transcript., 1897-05-19
Modern Woodmen of America

Modern WOOdmen Of America
Will hold their great annual meeting
at Dubuque, Iowa, June Is next,
The railway fare for the round trip
will be a fare and ,one-third on the
certificate plan. From Austin the
shortest, best and most satisfactory
line in every way to Dubuque is. via
the Chicago Great Western, the
maple Leaf Route" Study the map
and the time tables and you will be
convinced Of this. Consult your own
comfort and be sure your ticket reads
via the Chicago Great Western Rail-
way. For further inform alton apply
to Arthur Cole, agent, Austin. I.
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The Annual Session

= IHS AI111ustI oeSs1OH
of the Grand Lodge 1. O.. O. F. Of
Minnesota will take place at Mime
apoAs June 9 and 10, and for this
meeting the Chicago Great Western
Railway has made a rate of fare and
the round trip. Apply to any ticket
agent on the Great Western Railway.
Mower County transcript., 1897-05-19
Your Boy Won't Live a Month.

1OUt oOy VVO0 A1VS q 0O11I1s
So Mr.. Gilman Brown, of "a Mill
St., South Gardner, Mass, was told
by the doctors. His son had lung
trouble, following typhoid malaria,
and he spent three hundred and sew
enty-five dollars with doctors, who
finally gave him up, saying: "Your
boy won't live month" He tried
DR.. Kings New. Discovery and few
bottles restored him to health and en-
abled him to 60 to work a perfectly
we'll man. He says he owes his pres
ent good health to use of DR.. Kings
New Discovery, and knows it to be
the best in the world for lung trouble
Trial bottles free at Dorr & WOld's
drug stOre.>
Mower County transcript., 1897-05-19

Three papers week for two dol
lars. These are the TRANSCRIPT
every "Wednesday and the Minneapo-
lis Tribune twice q week, every Tues
day and Friday, with the la test news
Of the world. a splendid offer for.
everyone Of our subscri bers. II 81
Mower County transcript., 1897-05-19
Free Pills.

IL Send your address to III. 3. Bucklen
& Co., Chicago, and get.a free sample
box of DR.. Kings New Life Pills. a
trial will convince you Of their merits.
These pills are easy in action and are
particularly effective in the cure OF
Constipation and sick headache. For
malaria and liver troubles they have
been proved inyaluabl They are
guaranteed to be perfectly free from
every deleterious su bstance and to be
purely yegeta BILE. They do not weak
en- BY their action, but by giving tone
to stomach and bowels greatly inyig-
:oraCe the system. Regular size 25e
per box. Sold by Dorr 8 Void, drug.
gists.
Mower County transcript., 1897-05-19
BROWNSDALE.

Epworth League - Teachers Re.
elected.
Charley Hoy arrived home Saturday.
Mrs. E. G. Quimby is painting her
house.
DR.. Gray has re-painted the front of
his drug store. -. D.
Arthur Palmer and Mrs. Mary Mil
Ter visited Austin Saturday.
Miss Hattie Beck came home last
week and will remain for awhile.
Mrs. Emery Thompson arrived here
Friday afternoon from Wisconsin.
Ned Hunt returned from his trip
'in Dakota last. Wednesday,. He in
tends to return in few weeks.
Mrs. George Phillips moved into
town last Friday. They have rented
the upper rooms in Andrew. Browns
house. z, Z. -..;. ..
The .Epworth League celebrated
their eighth anniversary Sunday even
ing. The exercises were very good
and everything passed off pleasantly.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tucker of Ripon,
Wis, visited at A. Z. Seth's last Tues
day, on their way to Freeborn county
to spend the summer. Mrs. Tucker
is sister OF Mr.. Seth. +. S.. s:#
We learned that the school board
have reelected Mr. Brown and Miss
Nellie Leslie for another year. They
have both given good satisfaction and
we think it a wise move. i
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Gayeties at Long Branch.
of The Evening Star.

LONG BRANCH, N. j., August s, 1897
Everybody summering this part of the
New Jersey coast is much elated over the
gratifying prospects Of the third annual
exhibition of the Monmouth County Horse
Show Association, which is to take place
| next Thursday, Friday and Saturday after
| Moons. The show promises to surpass far
| both its predecessors not only in attend
| ance, but also In the number of events and
in the number Of horses shown.
There are about fifty more horses en-
| tered than there were last year; and in the
championship classes there will be a dozen
of the most famous thoroughbreds in the
country The only class in which there are
fewer entries than last year is the jumpers.
There will be seven four-in- hands, thirty
saddle horses, sixteen tandems and forty
six high steppers.
On the first evening of the horse show
Walter E. Hildreth will give fete cham
petre on the lawns east of the West End
Hotel and cottages. which will take the
full Seventh Regiment Band of New York.
consisting of seventy pieces, and under the
leadership Of Prof Ernest Meyer, will be
in attendance, and several thousand invita-
tons are being issued
The guests of the United States Hotel
will enjoy the second dress ball of the sea-
son Saturday evening. The big house will
be handsomely Illuminated for the occasion
On the second night of the horse show
the crowd will flock to the Hollywood Hotel
to attend the lawn party and the ball.
which is to be given to large number of
invited guests. The grounds of the hotel
and cottages are to be gorgeously decorat-
ed for the occasion. On the third night of
to show there will be full dress hops at ali
of the hotels.
The guests of the Scarboro' will have a
ball poudre Saturday night and at the
Ocean the annual proprietor's ball will be
neld. Fuli-dress hops will also occupy the
attention Of the summarizes at the Elberon
West End, Rowland and Hotel Brighton.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. H. Hammond are Wash
1ngton people who are spending August
at the Ocean.
Among the guests at the West End are
Miss Nora Clifford, Miss leila Clifford and
Miss Clifford, trio of young ladies from
WASHINGTON
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GUESTS AT VIRGINIA REACH
Many Washington People Make II
Their Place of Recreation


Their Place of Recreation.
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star
VIRGINIA BEACH, August 3. 1897
Owing to the great facility with which
virginia Beach may be reached at present
and especially owing to the clever manage
ment of Prof. Du Shane Coward i'm his
careful supervision of the trip the excur-
sion party which came to the Princess
Anne last Sunday from Washington was
a great deal larger than it has been pre-
viously.
Since the LIST of the month the hotel has
filled rapidly, and, notwithstanding the fact
that August is considered the month to 20
to the mountains, large numbers have
taken another view. as is daily proven by
the register of the Princess Anne.
Among the Washingtonians who were
here Sunday were DIR. VIM. p. NJ. King.
Miss j. M. Lewis. ]. s. Rosburn and wife.
w. H. Linger, Mrs. Raeburn Miss Rae
burn. Miss Hollidge, Mr.. Sibley, NJ Shay
and wife, John G. keene, Robert NJ Blair
A. Weyl, Mr.. and Mrs. johnson. Mr. and
Mrs. Chandlee, Mr.. Talbot, w. Meyer, A.
F. Jones, E. r. Ford. W. Lehman, J. Ber-
ger. w. Berger. S. Desio. F. Harwold, Tony
Mcknew, F. Behrens, George Burdine, c.
Wedmier, E. c. Reid and wife G. Compton
and wife, Mrs. Watts, Miss Crawford, Mr..
Emery. Mr.. Roe. DIR. r. H. Graham, ].
Hendricks and wife, Mrs. p. F. Boag and
Frank Medham.