Mower County transcript., 1906-09-19

territory first and third Tuesdays.
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j. Z. Elmer, G.P. A.,:@St. Paul, MINI
State number in party and when going.
OTHER EDITORS OPINIONS
Chicago Post: The Tennessee man
who asks legislation barring peek boo
waists ought to wear binders.
Somerville Journal: Pointer for the
young man who wants to be popular
When girl asks you it elbow. sleeves
are becoming to her, always lie.
Benson Review: The corporations
will get no favors from A. L. Cole and
they know it. All they expect is a
square deal and this they are entitled
to and will get.
Boston Transcript: A farmer must
not touch deer, no matter how much
it may be- trampling and deyouring
his crops. He may, however, drive it
out of his fields, if he can do so with
out hurting it's feelings.
Grand Meadow Record: The city of
Austin has purchased street sweeper
for their paved streets. The report is
that they are not going to use it until
the funds in the treasury get low, when
they will use it to raise the dust.
Red Wing Republican,: The value
| of that kind of character which can be
depended upon, not in some extraordi-
nary emergency but in the everyday
routine duties of life becomes more
and more apparent in view of the con-
slant disclosures of crookedness and
unreliability.
Wheaton Gazette Reporter: Cover
nor ohnson talks a great deal about
the necessity of railroad regulation, but
during the two years he has occupied
the executive chair he has not made a
single move to enforce the laws and
decisions we already have on this SUBJ
ject.
LeSueur News: Friends of tariff-re
vision upwards say they don't want to
touch the schedules because they fear
it would disturb the price OF farm pro-
ducts Let us see. Wheat is ten cent
lower than year ago and flour the
same price as it was then, under an un
changed schedule. Puzzle. How S
the farmer helped?
Leroy Independent: Hon. John
Frank has gone to Albert Lea to act as
one of appraisers on the big ditch COM
mission. This ditch is one that is con-
templated being run through Freeborn
and Mower counties for the purpose of
draining swamp lands. 1t will cost
about $l5O,OOO.OO will require SO miles
of bitches and ditching and affect over
$4,000 acres of land, The commission
of which Mr.. Frank is member was
appointed by Judge Kingsley.
Caledonia Journal: Alfred Johnson,
one of Wilmington's young and pro.
gressive farmers sold and delivered at
this market last Wednesday and
Thursday thirty-fve fine hogs that
weighed 1O,420 lbs, receiving for same
$573.1O or $3.50 per cwt. 1t certainly
pays to raise the best of hogs. Heavy
hogs were sold here the same time fol
$5.25 per cwt. Alfred said: 1 was
lucky this time as my hogs we're just
right to bring the very highest market
price.
Duluth Herald: One of the most i'm
portant pieces of legislation proposed
In the last session of the legislature was
the So called reciprocal demurrage bill
a measure which provided that rail,
roads must pay demurrage charges to
shippers for unreasonable delays in fur.
nishing cars. The railroads now col.
lect demurrage for delays in unloading
cars, and the proposition was simply to
produce that "turn about" which is gen
orally recognized as fair play. Ship.
pers all over the state demanded its
passage, though the railroads fought it
bitterly, -
Duluth News Tribune: When Con.
gress was considering the bill for the
federal inspection of packing houses j
Adam Bede, from city where he was
filling q lecture engagement, was re.
ported in the dispatches as saying that
congress might as we'll try to go into a
housewives home and tell how she
should run her kitchen. He added that
soon the people would be running ia
Ec0ngress every time they had the "belly
ache" It is the use of these
homely illustrations and picturesque
language that makes Mr.. Bede's wit
the mirror of his mind.
J Owatonna Journal Chronicles: From
the present outlook the First Baptist
church will soon have valuable par.
sonage of it's own. Rev. Edwin s,
lStucker recently received q hint from
enc of the deacons of the church that
i whenever q suitable house should be
= found the church might have pafson.
tage. This was Deacon T.. c. Wood.
Imam, and on Monday Mr.. Woodman
land Mr.. Stneker agreed that the pro.
! lperty located on east Vine street, jus,