The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1913-09-18

mere was gOOQ attendance al CndPei
services Sunday. There's a reason, and
the reason does not lay with the choir
either.
Asst. Deputy 3ackland is wearing a
cheerful smile these days. Thinks the
Mirror will let him and the house alone
maybe.
The water tables for the new building
were received Saturday. Mr.. Olson says
things are going to move right along from
this on
The boys in the excavating crew should
make good in stone quarry when they
leave here. Getting lots of valuable ex-
perience.
The Worthingham Plumbing Co. of
Minneapolis have been awarded the con-
tract for the plumbing, etc., in the new
buildings.
Did you ever have to lay off because it
made year girl sea-sick to ride on a street.
car? We know a young man hereabouts
who tried to put this over.
Ben Olson wants to get his section men
after the track on his dinky railroad. If
he don't the New Haven wreck will prove
only small affair in comparison.
Guard Bell says there is no chance of
the firm of Berg & Bell ever materializing.
Says he is afraid Foreman Berg would take
the bank-roll and buy new suit
Kinder thought we had reached the
limit of our abilities when we got the rul-
ing machine working. We hadn't though.
They are trying to make school marin out
of us.
The contract for the moving of the
three state houses, beyond the walls, has
been let to Contractor w. ]. Blumquist of
St. Paul. Work will be started the last
of the month.
Capt. Alexander says he only wishes
there was another newspaper here, then
he'd get even with the Mirror bunch. All
right Capt, but we don't want another sol
itary department.
Another standby gone glimmering.
Main street paving is completed. Fore
man Berg and his men are to be compli-
mented on the job; it looks to be first
class in every particular.
The North Western Electrical Co. is on
the Job, and all hands are as busy as bees
getting things in shape. Two former en-
ployes of the Hanley- Casey Co., are with
the North Western people.
With apologies to Good Words: Cor
naments last longer than anything else a
man makes Wonder if the letters an
S. p on the guards coats are considered
ornaments? They last all right.
The Lightning Express ran into an open
switch the other night and ditched the
mail car. The engineer brought the
engine in on one cylinder and then went
back and carried the mail car home.
Hon. J. w. Jackson, of Williston,
N. D., member of the Board of Con-
troll of the North Dakota Penitentiary, was
an interested visitor at this institution Mon
day. Mr.. Jackson called on the Mirror
force while here.
Guard Raymo worked for two hours
Saturday trying to read mans letter to
him. 1t was an Austrian letter, by the
way. The natural query is: Did Mr..
Raymo know it was Austrian or did it take
him that long to discover the fact?
The way fruit and other goodies
make their appearance in the front office,
we are forced to retract the statement about
March, April, May, and find out the
other maiden's name. She lives back east
and sends the fruit, ETC., by parcel post.
Mr.. Terrier who has been connected
with the Hanley- Casey Co., for the past
three years has resigned, having accepted
position with Supt. of Construction Rob
ertson. He will have charge of the grad
ing, etc. This is good move by Mr..
Ferrier, his home being in saltwater.
A little two-by-twice pup tried to keep
up with Guard Parent when he pulled off
his sprinting exhibition Monday morning.
Mr.. Parent very politely requested the pup
to get out of the road and let someone run
that could. Must have been someone else
in the race we haven't heard about.
The champion corn huskers hereabouts
had just as well go and lay down There
is man working here who says he husked
and cribbed ia bushels of corn day for
fourteen straight days. From the little we
know about corn-husking the gent evident
ly worked twenty-five hours out of every
twenty-four.
Would you believe that cake of cement,
equaling cubic inch, would stand a
strain of 685 pounds before breaking? 1t
will. Mr.. Robertson proved the above to
our satisfaction. He took the cake and
fastened it in the Fairbanks testing scale,
then hipped little doo-dad, partially fill
ing small bucket full of shot, and the
little cake stood steady pull of 685
pounds before it broke. Mighty good ce-
ment they are using and no mistake.
CHAUTAUQUA CIRCLE