Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-04-26

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mar between trains LAT saturd s. q
While there he listed his restsurant
property for sale with the Anderson
Land Co, OF that city \. /. About
forty men with teams and shovels com.
menced work on the Great Northern
gravel pit east Of the. yillsge last
Monday. They are taking OF the
surface dirt and preparing things in
general for the steam shovel which 10
expected to arrive here soon. !. ~ !. =; :.
New London still keeps up her boom
in the way Of business changes. This
week P. E Lindberg becomes owner
aud proprietor of the Edw. Ellefson
drsy line. The transaction took place
last week and Mr.. Ltndberg took
charge last Monday. We understand
that Mr.. Elle'son Intends going into
the nursery business -. Miss Olive
Mostue left Saturday for St. Paul.
1t ia reported that she will be Joined
in wedlock today Thursday at St.
Paul to Mr.. James Anderson, young
operator with, whom che became 90
Quainted during his stay here last
fall. Mr.. Anderson holds position
as operator in town east of St. Paul
and the young couple will undoubted-
ly make their home there 49, New Lon
don Times. -
The village council of Renville have
ordered all slot machines removed
from the different business houses in
that town.
Grove City has voted $4,000 bonds
tor the erection of a new school build.
ing. The new structure will be cree.
ted on the site the old building and
work will be commenced at once. :
Cottonwood not only went dry this
spring, but all pool rooms, bowling
alleys, slot machines and billiard
tables received solar plexus blow Ut
The same time.
A farmers wife on rural telephone
which had been In operation only q
few months, was asked how she liked
the telephone. She naively answered,
swell, we liked it lot at first, and
do yet, only spring work is coming on
so heavy that we don't have time to
listen now"
Acting under the provisions OF a
law passed expressly for that pur-
pose, the Louisburg tornado victims
are to be assisted from the county
treasury in an amount not exceeding
1900. The law referred to only
applies to the Louisberg case. 1t
would seem that q law permitting the
county commissioners of any county
to use funds for relief in such cases
as this would lot be out of place.
By subscriptions only few pay. By
the use of limited amount of county
funds all would pay.-Madison Free
Press!
An exchange says that while the
good housewife proceeds to sweep
down the cobwebs, tear up the carpets,
poison the bugs and kill the microbes
and cOckrOaches, let the husband SEE
that the filth and dirt which has accu'
mulated in the backyard during tbe
winter months is removed. The dolce
of these things prevents sickness and
disease, saves doctor bills and keeps
you in line with the old saying thai
cleanliness is next to Goodness.
MAYOR ISSUES SWEEPING" ORDER
John E Benson, the newly elected
mayor of St. Cloud, has issued q po
lice order which is liable to bankrupt
the saloonkeepers doing business IL
the ''cloudy" city. Up to the p essen
time the saloons have been kept ope1
every day in the week but the mayor
has now come to the conclusion tina
there ere some times during the q
hours when the dispensers OF the cul
that cheers should take Z rest. II,
has accordingly decreed that all 50
looms must remain closed every Sun
day from 10 O'Clock till noon, or i,
other words, during the hours of dt
vine service. Naturally this most alb
surd and ~hardnearted order is caus
ing great deal of consternstior
and confusion ard We should not b.
at all surprised 10 see public senti
ment arise in it's majesty and demand
to have it repealed. The idea of de
nying people the privilege of imbib
ing for two long hours Ia simply out
rsgeous, anyway, and is in direct op
position to the spirit Of the constitu
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