The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-04-15

John Carlson is now engaged il
putting the Wilson building, former
~ occupied by McCune's harness
shop, in condition for moving. Afte,
it has been moved, a new front will
be put on and it will be otherwise re-
paired The building now occupied
by Hubbard & Mitchell will be. made
wider and more commoaious for then
meat market. =.
Word has been received from
Michigan announcing the death OF
Fred Mosher, who worked at the
paintidg trade fer G. Synkerson here
last summer. He was going from
one town to another on through
freight and jumped from the moving
train in the yards. His head struck
on a tie and death resulted instantly
He was cousin of Harvey Shepard
The cantata, ''Queen Esther" was
rendered to a crowded house at Ma
della last week Friday and Saturday
evenings under the supervision OF
Prof. Watson and wife. OF them the
Messenger says: 1.-The work of Prof
and Mrs. Watson was excellent, but
being considered part of their pro.
fession, did not attract the comment
that was vouchsafed our own people,
A party living near Frank Lyons
place brought in three fox scalps
last week to Auditor Trip to secure
the bounty on wolves. Owing to the
close similarity of the foxes to wolves
he party was probably ignorant OF
what the animals really were, but
Auditor Trip was not. and the boun.
ties was not paid. The law now re-
quires the carcas of the animal in
stead of the scalp to secure bounty
While out hunting last Friday
John Lamb, who is employed at Bar
let's cigar factory, was the victim Of
Il serion, accident. 1t seems that
while plodding around he had care
]essly allowed the muzzle of his gun
to become full of mud. AS a result
the first time he fired the gun the
barrel bursted, cutting a cash across
his forehead and making d bad
wound on his cheek. Although be-
ing seriously hurt he was luckily to
get off as easy as he did.-Democrat,
Adrian.
A meeting will be held in Masonic
Hall, Friday evening to organize a
club for general out door amusements
The idea is to repair the Idlewild,
putting in electric lights and enclose
the building with screen, to be used
as Il club house by both ladies and
gentlemen, for place of recreation
and pleasure, such as cycling, boat
ing and fishing. A very liberal prop
osition has been made the promoters
of the club by the owner of the prop
erty and with very little expense the
project can be carried out.
Editor E. E. Beard, of the Wells
Forum, was visitor at this office
Tuesday. He informs US that the
summer meeting of the Southwestern
Minnesota Editorial Association will
be held at Wells if the invitation ex-
tended by that town is needed. As
an inducement he said that within
two block of the. depot there were
three, first class modern hotels,
splendid place for the meetings., and
five saloons. He thinks the attrac-
tons should capture the meeting
without question. Lake News.
The last county commissioners pro-
ceeding contains paragraph which
reads: "A large number of petitions
asking the commissioners to take
steps to procure poor farm were
presented and, on motion, June 23rd
at 2 o'clock p. m. was set for hearing
the same" The time is now ripe for
information on the subject and those
advocating the establishment of a
poor farm as we'll as those opposed
should lose no time in setting forth
their views containing enlightenment
on the question, as it will necessitate
a large outlay of money to put in op-
Grafton a poor farm.
Monday afternoon while Olaf Nor
en- and crew of men were taking a
large safe up the stairs of the bank of
Worthington building for w. E.
Deyoe's office, the rope that it was
being hauled up with broke when
the safe was about half way up, let
ting the safe slide down again. 1t
struck on the wagon on which it was
hauled there and tipped over onto
another wagon alongside, and finally
fell off into the ditch. Fortunately
no one was injured but it is said that
R. E. Covey, who was en- the wagon.
cut pigeon wing in getting out of
the way. E. G. Pannell put the safe
up Tuesday.
People in various parts of Minneso-
ia and Wisconsin are going wild over
seeing the air ship and Worthington
is not behind in discovering the phe
nomena. Tuesday evening as an AD-
VANCE reporter was going home about
eight o'clock, he saw an exceedingly
bright light in the far west, which
would increase and diminish in size
at sholt intervals. After watching