Mower County transcript., 1903-09-09
OTHER EDITORS OPINIONS

Heron Lake News. The progressive
teachers want to get away from their
home town, as 9 general thing as they
feel they can do better work. z@33
Glenyille Progress: Amoung those
who are planning to. attend school at
Abbott, Miss Hattie Schutt, Mr.. James |
Cervenka and Mr.. Henning CRUDE.
Heron Lake News Tams Bixby can
date his political downfall from the
day he "took stock in the land CONF
panies, organized to fleece the Indians.
Too bad. Tams is a bright fellow, but
his appetite killed him. :. .s 3 +
4 Waseca Radical: Can anyone explain
what particular public good is consery|
ed by the maintaining %of two Buck ct
Shops or even one, in our midst? They
should be heavily licensed if not alto
gether prohibited. Money taken. from
+ the community in this way wholly
loses its productive function. Gam
bling is gambling no matter by what
nameit is called t~ Is tt y$. II. s5s
Dodge Centre Star; One young
couple learned Sunday night that it
wasn't just the proper: thing for young
people to go onto a mans porch at
about midnight for the. purpose Of
sparkling, or at least. they mnst have
had such thoughts when the B sman of
the house suddenly confronted them,
robed in his slamber gown and with: a
six shooter in his hand =55 55. .5Es.z
St.sPeter Free Press. The Austin
Transcript suggests tosettle the guber
material candidacy. at the severaE county
fairs upon the basis Of personal beauty.
I It seems that Gov..Van Sant has at
ready been acting in accord with that
theory, as he is missing but few public
gatherings and y county fairs and
generally is the principal attraction Of
the show aMda the ONLY candidate max
ing perceptible hit with the fair sex:
Albert Lea Tines: The death OF a
strong, able bodied man in Freebofn
county from hydrophobia three months
4 after being bitten by a mad dog gives
1. forcible warning to the vital import
ance Of destroying eveTy dog, no matter
how useful or valuable, the minute any
symptoms of madness or arrangement
appears. Also this sad affair should
warn any who may chance to be bitten
r by dog to at once proceed to the Pas
teur institution at Chicago to take
treatment to prevent possible fatal re.
suits. ~. s. ~
Hutchinson Independent. Times The
, telephone is a great invention and the
: farmer is finding it very handy. AfeN
, mornings ago farmer living some siz
miles out came to; town. After having
+ left home his wife happened to think
that she had forgotten to give him {
list of some articles she wanted. St
a she called up firm in town and gave
a the list so another trip to town was
= avoided. We hardly realize the tim,
y saver it is, but would find it out prett,
Il quick if thrown back on our own re
10 sources. ~s,. = .'2 - =. II II
70 Kenyon Signal: One Of the subscrib
o Eers Of the Kenyon rural telephone line
v appreciates that system. The Othe
- day a friend of ours walked une4pect
70 edly into q farm home near well nea
e some place and discovered a lady sit
st ting in a rocking chair busily SEWN,
with the telephone receiver tied t
the back Of her chair where she coul
!, hear all that was being said over tn
- line. She was provoked when censureC
y adding by way of defence that she pai
It., for what she got and was bound to Sge
d. her moneys worth. Say, but WOuldn
- she be an important member in lady
y sewing circle! ,S % ;5S N .s. @ s@
: Minneapolis Times: The popula
: plan for centrali ization Of rural school
le has been favored by many persons 3
in grounds of economy and conVenienc,
m but it its purpose and result is going
ho 40 Ho11
: provements'' 4 Of the city schools int
at the country schools, the less we have {
or it the better. # These seem to be- Sth
only places left where the solid fund.-
mentals Of elementary instruction al
as nationally taught. For heavens SAX
~ let us keep them as .theyl are, at leas
- until the city schools have run the
TO crazy course Of visionary reform.
y F Chicago Intero cean: In this sEcountIL
~ there are 4 800, 900 m ore men than won
te. en- and with the advantages Of #ou
he'll common school system extended to- ia]
"a and commercia and technical schoo
within the reach of the great smajorit
W the entering Of indnstr trial sors !busine,
to IemploYments is morea matter of choil
,re VI lth..A merican girls than with S33ttI
~, ~ sEmnglis m hey are better prepared f
4 work sof the higher grades than |al
~ Eng glish g. iris of the same class, and ii
to found as a rule, ID better places az
~ have e more tions open tos them.
Blue Earth r t: IrWenty five mil,
5S each day rain sor shine, blizzard. ],
rs sleet soon be- ONES mono tonous to bo1
II. man 1ls aInld and beast. $50 per month
a small pay for the rural M aiil & carrie
elEI y 81 man ia the county could think,
ST. hiring 8 'arlo ther to furnish team, Wago
nj harness, and board himseIf 4 and teal
a at that figure. The work is disarre
]. able more than halfs the time, and !,
49, times is dang gerous. os beesure.s RI Is
tG. stead ioh and sure pay, but our Rre,