Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-12-14
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According to the Green Lake Breeze
the Hub creamery company Is bring
ing suit against several parties who,
the company claims, subscribed for
stock Ia the creamery and neglected
to pay for it. -.
The business men of Raymond have
decided to discount all Canadian mo-
ney 20 per cent. This was deemed sad:
visable, inasmuch as neighboring
towns have already adopted the plan.
Furthermore no Canadian bills will
be accepted.
After having been at work at the
New 10 2don gravel pit for five months
the steam shovel has now disbanded
and gone into winter quarters. Dur ny
its operations 1900 carioa Is of gravel
were distributed along the road bed
OF the Great Northern between Mime
apolis and Breckenridge.
The Minnesota c. ntral Telephone
company has installed local ex
change at Kerkhoven. S me It the
citizens were against admitting the
company, as they thought it would be
more profitable for the town to own
and operate its own exchange. To
this tho company replies that they do
not want to make any profits cut OF
the exchange and say that it is for
sale to the people OF Kerkhoven at just
what it cost, only if they do buy it
they must agree to that no other long
distance line shall be admitted.
Over at Spicer, the laying out of
lots along the lake shore and the street
back from the lake ia going on at
such rapid rate that unless some
thing is dore to prevent it the village
will soon find itself without an inch
of public property and visitors will
have absolutely no right to come near
the lake without asking permission
from some private property owner.
We do hope, however, that the citi.
zens of Spicer will Wake up in time
to save some Of thu lake front for the
public. They must know that it is
not only in the visitcrs' ioterest bu
also In their own that they do so.
In the last issue OF the New London
Times The editor tells of the boom that
TIE vi!lvge has 81 joyed during the
past year. After having stated that
the total improvements at conserva.
tive figures aggregate over 5000 Re
goes on solilcqu:z'ng as fol ows {:
New London is pushing itself f. rward
in good shape. Ana the beauty OF /.
Is that the prosperity is general.
many years a pauper on the city.
Ne thcr ia there ruined drunka"d il
the town. Our markets are good and
trade is brisk. Four ne = farmer lines
haze b. en- butt into town this sum-
in all directions in the twinkling of
olO NCAV' ol CySs ~ JICS Vi
happy and beautiful homes stand
.l0:g our SIT Gets. Our school is pros
p'ri g and our school ma Jams are
pretty. We have II brick buildings
md we are going to have more cement
Condemned and our doctors grumble.
The birds sing in our tree tops, and
-kating on the pond is glorious. The
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newspaper; but why should we conceal
% truth? New London is the pref.
ciest, cleanest and the livelisst little
city in the grandest. state in the
Union.
Atwater seems to be having much
trouble with it's new village we'll. tt 9
co 1ncil made contract with J. F..
Mccarthy of Minneapolis in August
whereby he was to furnish the village
with we'll capable of supplying such
q quantity of water as would b. needed
for the waterwo,ks and the gas plant.
The council reserved the right to stop
the work whenever they ehould come
to the conclusion that satisfactory
vein had been struck and If request
ing the we'll men to test such a vein
with pump capable of pumping l0v
gal ous OF water per m mute. 1t now
appears that several veins, among
woich was one 18 feet deep, were
passed by without tha 'uocil know.
ing anything about It, Finally at a
depth of 453 feet another vein was
struck and without CONFIRMING with
the council the crew CONNER ced pump
ing, and kept 1t up night and day fol
u p ,riod of two weeks when Mccarthy
intima ed til At the village W uld have
to pay for the pumping. This, how
ever, they we're unwilling to DO ant
80 far the contending parties hav'
reached no satisfactory agreement
L. has been decided, though, that tn
Is feet vein, found at q depth of 80
feet, shall be te-ted.
TIL use who attended dances given a
Spicer the early part of the past sum
mer no doubt remt mber MIR. Floo,
who at times furnished the music
The following Is a special fron
Bemidji to the Minneapolis Journal
which shows how his career ended
Crank j. Food, bachelor of ant
OF Trinity College, Dublin, Was to
day committed to the asylum at Fer
gus Falls from this city. Flood, who
formerly stood high in the world %
4 Art and lottars haeE fcr tho noe< -,