The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-03-11

! 6So VnOt1 Ju1 LII OAuiu O1uOA, ~ WILL
save you%iots OF extra words in the
spring time. .4 . ~. ! 81
One Of the last acts of President
Cleveland's administration was to re-
fuse pardon to A%C Roberts of
jackson, convicted OF mailing obscens
matter. The President pertinnently
remarked that he was amazed that
decent citizens should sign petition
asking him to pardon such black
guard.-Lakefield Standard.
j. D. Humiston now occupies his
new and commodious office and ware
rooms. The building greatly i'm
proves that corner; it being two stor-
les provides him with ample space for
displaying farm implements and with
the extensive veranda the machinery
remaining outside will receive some
protection from the weather..
The Shoe Store is prepared for the
spring trade-with all kinds of Boots,
Calf skin boots, Oil grain boots, Rub
Der boots that come way up high, I
mean way up high on your legs.Rub
Der boots for children and nice feeced
lined Rubber boots for the School
mam'ms, inst what they will need.
AUG FALK, the Shoe Man.
A surprise party was rendered Mr..
and Mrs. Aug. Wass at Sioux Falls
junction last week Thursday even
| ing, by a large number of their
friends. of which. were number
from this village. The spacious
rooms in their large house permitted
the company to enjoy games, singing
aud conversation with great amount
Of pleasure to themselves and host
esses. Refreshments were served.
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= Probably no comedian. with the
possible exception of Joseph
jefferson, has been 40 long be-
fore the public and appeared in such
a great variety of parts as John Dill.
on. When young man he won his
lanrels in the old fashioned English
farces and comedies, while of late
years his best work has been in the
bright bubbling skits of the present
day. WANTED, the Earth" is a hap
py combination of farce and drama,
just suited to his best line of work.
Mr.. Dillon will be here tomorrow ev
ening.
John Dillon opened an engagement
at the Haymarket last evening pre-
senting comedy entitled, "Wanted,
the Earth" to large and enthusiast
tic audience. The play, as might be
inferred from the title. is wide
sweep in extravaganza, but it appears
fashioned with view to display Mr.
billions powers as an eccentric CO.
median, and he won the audience for
his own, as he used to do when he
was Chicago's favorite in ante-fre
days.-Chicago InterOcean. Mr..
Dillon will be here tomorrow (Fri-
day. evening, and the sale of tickets
indicates an overfowing house.
A woman hsiling from Estherville
was calling on the authorities in town
| Monday for money to pay freight on
her goods from Estherville to this
place. As the city authorities or
township trustees could find no law
authorizing them to pay bonus to
get new residents. she was dismissed
with cash enough to pay her fare to
| Worthington.-Spirit Lake Beacon.
The above mentioned party was here,
claiming to be looking for location
for opening dressmaking parlors, be-
ing without means of subsistence she
was provided fora few days by
couple of our citizens and then
furnished with transportation to
Wells.
We have, just received a copy of
the Encyclopaedia OF Farm Knowl-
edge and Statistics issued by the
Northwestern Agriculturist, of Min
neapolis, MINI. It is book of over
500 pages Of condensed and accurate
information of general interest and
practical use to farmers. It contains
tables of great value to stock raisers:
statistics of the late national and
state elections, and also of historical
events, census: etc. It's topics in
clude agriculture. live stock, forestry,
horticulture, law business and the
monetary system of the world, church
matters, etc. The preparation of the
work involves great expense and can
be recompensed only by great in
crease in circulation of the North
western Agriculturalist. See our Of
fer in another column of this issue.
J. B. Beeston, engineer for the
Northwestern Telephone Co., came
down from St.. Paul Thursday even