The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-06-02

) a party in Murray county wa
found guilty last week Of setting
prairie. fire, BY q jury, before the iur
returned the verdict, il was ascel
tanned that the jury had not bee
sworn and on thisaaccount q suspen
sion Of sentence was requested, bu
the case cost the county forty or fit,
dollars just the same. 4 % s5.
Improved farms, Prairie and tim
Der land, Stevens, Traverse, Gran,
and Wilkin / counties, Minnesota
! Prices low. Termeeas Free rail.
=! road fare. I NJ. r. LAwToN, Agt. :.
It is reported that another change
will be made soon in the time ol
trains on the Omaha road. There
ought to be some Encouragement as
the way trains run now, it would con
sumo two days to get from the Sioux
Falls line to any small station east of
here on account OF connecting trains
not stopping ut small towns. Some
better time could be made, by using
the night train from the branch, but
not on the day train. $500
The following item from. the
Searchlight will be of interest to the
numerous friends of Rev. Bull: mo
higher compliment than was paid
Rev. j. M. Bull, our pastor at Worth
ington, by one of the pupils of the
public schools recently. The men,
bers of class were requested by
their teacher to select some we'll
known citizen and describe him in
such a way that his name might be
guessed. The particular pupil, above
mentioned, selected Rev. Bull for his
subject and gave the following la
comic description of him: "A jolly
man who loves the children and gets
after the saloons"
Miss Richie MAXWELL held the
closing exercises of a four months
school in District %, last Friday
evening the rendering of the pro-
gram and choice of the selections
were credit to teachers and pupils.
After the program was given, ice
cream and cake were served by sew
eral of the misses of the school, the
proceeds, about eight dollars. will be
will be taken to furnish more books
for the school library which throuk b
the efforts at Miss Maxwell was be-
gun year ago. Miss Maxwell has
done excellent work in this district
as she always does and takes with
her the best wishes of the commun-
ity.
John Saxon has received word
from Uncle Sam in regard to the To-
cation of a postoffce at this place,
and as soon as bonds and mail car
rier are secured. which will take
about three weeks, a postotice will
be located there. We have often
heard the expression, "coming down
like thousand of brick" but never
saw an illustration of it until yester-
day forenoon. Nels Dahlberg was
engaged at laying the north wall
of the saloon when all of a sudden
the scaffolding gave way, letting him
drop distance of about ten feet, to-
gether with something less than
thousand brick. Fortunately no
bones were broken.-Round Lake
Graphic.
Sunday forenoon about l1::O
o'clock the Catholic church steeple
was struck by lightning and the front
end Of the building was badly dam:
aged. The electric current passed
down the steeple into the building
tearing out the walls, and some Of
the windows on the north side of the
building. Had services been going
on at the time there is no doubt that
the choir and large number of peo-
pie in the rear would have been Kill
led. It is thought that the building
was damaged to the amount of $500.
1t is covered with insurance. A
small lire was started by the electric
current and the fire department went
out in the rain like heroes to battle
with it but George Senenfelder was
there in time to put it out with a
bucketful of water.-Ellswo b
News.
Last Thursday, W. F: Lane pur-
chased the restaurant business of j.
G. Christie and took immediate pos.
session. Mr.. Lane will continue to
operate the business at the old stand
and also put in a lunch counter and
keep the confectionery, fruit. meals
at-all'ho and boardby- the week
departments up to their former
standard and probably excel.
He is genial and accommodating in
character and his wife being an ex-
cellent cook, will without doubt
please all of their patrons, ensuring
success in their undertaking. Mr..
Christie will assume charge of the
hotel he recently purchased at Lake.
field and our citizens can heartily
and with pleasure highly Recommend
himself and family to the people Of
Laketield as a desirable citizen in
business and social life.