Mower County transcript. [volume], July 22, 1891, Image 8

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Entered t8 3cc0nd-clasf mattei at the post officeat
Austin. Minnesota.
AUSTIN, WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 1891.
LANSfNC.
Mr. Sanford, of Wisconsin, is visiting his
sister, Mrs. Bartlett.
Joe Pbilips has been repairine bis bouse,
wbicb improves it very much.
Mrs. M. E. Burton bas been visiting friends
bere for tbe past few davs.
A. F. George left Tuesday for Minneapolis.
Myra and Jennie Carll, of Faribault, are
visiting friends bere.
Mrs. Gallagher and daughter Lizzie left last
week for a two weeks visit in Minneapolis.
A party of ladies came up from Austin last
week with luncb baskets to take advantage of
our picnic grounds.
We judge from appearances our depot agent
is very fond of music ml picnic suppers.
OSLO.
Ed Lee has built a new bouse.
A grand celebration on the Fourth at L.
Molin's place.
Lars Tufto bas quit bauling cream and Ole
Jonnson has taken bis route.
Hans Kloppen is building anew bouse.
L. Gjese is back from Kenyon.
A dance at B. Aaby's place last Saturday
evening.
Haying is in full blast.
Married, at the JSast St. Olaf chnrcb, July 8,
Mr. Peter Trygstad to Miss Martha Himle,
Uev. J. A. Thorson officiating.
Ed Sime, of Adams, has been visiting here
tbe past week.
Geo. Dutc-her bas resigned his position as
butter maker of the Vernon creamery and in
tends to leave the 1st of August. The patrons
are very sorry to lose him.
Ed Himle lost two heads of cattle by light
ning last week.
BAlLliY-
Miss Jennie Wright is visiting friends on
tbe Little Cedar.
r. Blackmer. of Le Roy, is doing the ma
son work for Mrs. Bailey's bouse.
MissAbbie Becker, of Hokab, is visiting
her aunt, Mrs. H. Griffin.
Robert Steele is bHilding a large upright
part to bis house.
Christ Dillon caught a young coon last
week. He has it in a cage on exhibition at
present.
T. J- Wheeler is building a large barn.
Johnathan Hall is also building one.
A paper is in circulation for raising money
to build a Methodist church here. We are in
formed that about $500 has already been sub
scribed.
James and Charley Loine were called to
Stacyville last week by the sudden illness of
their mother. They reported her better ou
tbeir return.
W. B. Winslow has built an addition to his
wagon shop, to be used as a blacksmith shop.
The rails are laid on the W. Ss S. W. R. E.
as far as Mclntyre. A construction train is
now run and we hear a great deal of whistling
from that direction.
We saw by a letter in the Riceville Recorder
in regard to the business firms of the town,
that they were going to put in gas works.
Now we don't like to talk about our neigh
bors, but we do think, iudging from the con
stant tooting of the engine whistle and the
big talK about the town that they have quite
a supply of gas now.
LYLE TOWN.
Hayiug is in full blast.
Tbe ladies took a hand in the business at
scbool meeting in Dist. 14 this year.
Misses A. Marsh and Kate Lang, delegates
to the National Convention of the Y. P. C. E.
S. held at Minneapolis last week, have re
turned and report the session a grand suc
cess.
A little girl came to the home of Mr. and
Mrs. J.Conner last week, and from appear
ances, intends to stay. Jack is all smiles.
Miss Cora VanWart, of Otranto Station, is
the guest of Miss May Robertson.
Arthur Lane, while assisting his tather to
put up the track for a hay lork in their barn,
had the misfortuue to loose his footing and
fall 20 feet, but was lucky enough to strike
on his feet and escaped with only a badly
sprained ankle.
Ice cream sociable at the residence of R. P.
Davidson on Saturday evening next under
tbe management of the Y. P. C. E. S. All are
cordially invited to attend.
The quiet people of this vicinity were
aroused from their peaceful slumbers last
Sunday evening by a load of young men from
the east parts. They were using language
unfit to pass from any man's mouth who calls
himself a gentleman. Be eareful boys or you
may get yourselves into trouble.
W. Kennedy has bought of J. H. Goslee the
old John Niles farm consideration, $'2400.
James VauWinkle, formerly of this place,
but now of Rapidan. is here on business and
also visiting his sister, Mrs. E. Robertson.
SUTTON
Barley is ripening fast and some cutting
was done Monday. The crop, if saved, will
be a large one.
Mr. and Mrs. F. O. Chamberlain, of La
Crosse, are visiting at Eugene Derr's.
Dr. W. C. Corcoran, a graduate of the Ann
Arbor medical college, has located at Sutton
to practice.
Mr. Daily, our hardware merchant, will
change his store to a general merchandise
store. We wish Mr. Daily success.
Mrs.
Caswell Fairbanks went to Pipestone,
Minn last week, to visit her brother who re
sides there.
Geo. E. Studer and mother, in company
with Mr. and Mrs. G. Seebacb, Sundaved at
Stewartville with old friends.
John Christgau made a flying trip to St.
Paul and Red Wing last week.
At a meeting of the Centre Alliance tbe fol
lowing
officers were elected: Pres., C. Fair
banks Vice-Pres., H. J. Hull Sec., C. Proe
schel Treas., Aug. Smith.
Henry Strangman took bis best girl out rid
Ing in his new top rig.
Tbe little ones are having tbe whooping
oougb
in this vicinity.
G. Seebacb is baying a veranda built to bis
bouse, and giving it afresh coat of paint.
Miss Rena Bemis is engaged to teacb tbe
winter term of school in Dist. 106.
Burton Fairbanks lost his way north of
Austin while out on a "dear hunt."
LrV, »s
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LYLE.
Curtiss Bifbee, of Nevada, bas been very
sick witb inflamation of tbe bowels.
Capt. Stanley is building an addition to his
bouse, digging a new well and putting in a
new cistern. Tbe addition will be larger than
tbe original and will make him a fine resi
dence when completed. Milt Bowers, of Aus
tin, is doing the carpenter work.
Ed. Stanley is doing a rushing insurance
business these days. Everybody wants in
surance 6ince tbe tire.
Mrs. Belle Carlson, wbo bas been visiting
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Captain Stanley,
returned to her borne last Monday, after a
six weeks visit. Sbe bas ere this been agree
ably surprised by receiving & set of tbose
elegant crayon portraits of her parents,
W. R. Breitengros, lately an assistant in
Austin, bas been appointed agent of tbe
Kansas City road in tbis place, vice F. K,
Baird.
Capt. William Stanley bas just received
nine fine crayon portraits. They come in
sets of three, one of Mrs. Stanley and one
representing Mr. Stanley as a military man
and the other as a private citizen. He has
presented a set to each of bis three children.
Tbey are fine portraits and were secured
through Evans & Conray, our pbotograpbers.
Tbe Everson & Anderson block, a part of
which is to be used as a bank building, will be
a fine structure. Lyle will have as fine a
banKing establishment as there is in the
county. A. H. Anderson will be tbe presi
dent and his son Oliver will be cashier. Tbe
young man has gone to Waboo, Neb., not to
learn tbe short route to Canada, but to take
practical lessons and fit himself for the bank
ing business.
A. O. Mybre and brother, of Lyle, Minn.,
are in town. A. O. is the gentleman wbo was
recently here and purchased the Ballard
building, in which be will put a general stock
next month. Being in attendance at tbe
Knigbt Templar Conclave at Spirit Lake, he
ran down to visit his old stamping grounds
before returning home.—Stewartville Vindi
cator.
Henry Peterson has bought the under
Halverson lot, knowu as the old post office
stand. Consideration, $300.
Independent scbool district No. 90 is fitting
up tbe scbool building for the fall term of
school. It is being replastered and painted
all through. Miss Kate VanCamp will teacb
tbs higher grade and Miss Annie Vail bas
been employed for tbe primary department-
New buildings are going up as fast as men
and naterial can be had to put them up.
The Kansas City depot is now completed
and is a great improvement over the old one.
Tbe new Milwaukee depot is being crowded
as fast as possible. It is being built under
the supervision of W. K. Hunkins, and will be
as fine a depot as tbere is on the division. Tbe
building is 21x80 with 16 foot posts. There
will be two waiting rooms, 28x14 feet each,
and an office 23x12. The platforms are large
and roomy. It will be ready to occupy in
about two weeks, and then Agent Wenham
will be prouder than a peacock.
Miss Ida Lund bas returned from Sioux
Falls, where she bas been attending
school for
the past year.
Hello! papa!! Born, to Mr. and Mrs. J. S.
Schuyler, on Wednesday, July 15, a baby girl.
John sets up the cigars with the greatest of
satisfaction.
John J. Lindland bas returned from his
western trip, and says that Lyle is the best
place alter all in the way of crops and busi
ness.
Stanley has ju6t received the largest and
best stock of wall paper ever brought to
Lyle. Call and examine the new styles.
J. H. Sherman has improved his property
by painting and papering. A new cistern is
also a late improvement.
Oliver Mybre bas returned home.
James Curran has purchased a horse and
buggy.
Mrs. C. F. Wenham is visiting relatives at
Columbus and Fort Atkinson. Wis.
Rev. Giberson, in a recent sermon, spoke in
flattering rerms of Free Masonry.
Tbe death and burial of William Wheeler at
Lyle, on Tuesday of last week, was mentioned
in your last issue. He was buried with Ma
sonic honors. The day was fine and the cere
monies perfect and impressive. Tttfere was
the largest attendance ever gathered on such
an occasion at Lyle. At a regular communi
cation of Alma Lodge, held July 14, 1801, the
following resolutions of condolence were
adopted and ordered to be spread on the
records of the lodge also published in county
papers, and a copy presented to relatives:
Whereas, Our Supreme Grand Master has
seen fit in His wisdom to remove from our
midst our esteemed and worthy brother, Wrt
liam Wheeler, be it
Resolved. That we lament his untimely
death, and extend to his sorrowing relatives
and friends our heartfelt sympathy in this
their sudden bereavement.
BHOS. C. F. WENHAM,
w, F. COBB,
REV. GIBERSON,
Committee.
DEXTER
Tommy Sheridan visited friends in Lanes
boro last week.
Mr. and Mrs. E. Buck, of Toledo, Iowa, are
visiting with G, W. Buck's family.
Miss Ella Buck, of Terry, is visiting at
home, called here by the sickness of her
mother.
B. S. Benner's boy has been quite sick the
past week, but has about recovered.
Some few have commenced cutting barley
but harvest will not be generally commenced
much before next Monday.
O. J. Dickens has a large force of men at
work on his new residence. It will be a credit
to the village when completed.
Mr. Weidfman, of St. Charles, is here mak
ing hay on his farm lately purchased of Mr.
Eaton. He will take possession in October.
Crops are simply immense. A drive
through the country will convince one that
Mower county is an A No. 1 farming county.
If prices are good farmers will be in a bappy
state. We understand parties are offering to
contract oats at 28 cents.
Quite a good many farmers from Olmsted
county are buying their machinery and bind
ing twine here. Rochester is gettibg to be a
back number among the Jive young villages
surrounding it.
M. B. Johnson, Mr. Lawrence and D. L. Tan
ner, of Brownsdale, were among us Monday.
Harvey Chase an old Dexter boy, but late
of Dakota, is here at present and will remain
through tbe summer.
P. Vandenoever went to Chicago last week
witb two cars of stock, and will go again next
Saturday with 3 cars. Stock day makes our
village lively.
Dexter will soon have a new lumber yard,
a shoemaker and some talk of a new black
smith sbop and furniture store. A barber
shop will also come and it is whispered we are
to indulge in the luxury of a first-class saloon.
W. A, Medbury was elected school director
Saturday.
SAINT'S REST-
Mrs. Mary Mnrphy and son spent a few days with
her sister. Airs. Rankin, last week.
Dixon's lost a valuable horse last week.
Miss Vic Savage is home, after leaching a success
fal term of echoal mDist. 14.
School closed Friday with a picnic. Cake and ice
cream for refreshments.
Miss Ayner Pierce has been visiting her cousin,
Lottie BJyton for the past week.
A little girl arrived at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Ed Bn Ills last Thursday morning.
Blyton's have a new family carriage, finest yet
seen on the streets oi Sts. Rest.
Isaac Craig is the possessor of a new engine the
finest around these parts.
Mr. Henry Baker was elected director at the an
nual school meeting.
NEVADA-
Tbe Misses Jobauna Overgaard and Inga
Peterson, of A'bert Lea, are visiting their
relatives, the Jacobsons.
Last Friday William Hilmar's little boy,
aged about four years, fell, witb his right
arm and side, in a washtub into wbich his
mother had just poured a kettle of dot soap,
burning the poor little fellows arm badly.
Saturday, July 11, being the Twenty-fifth
anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. John Burgeson
(they were among tbe first settlers in Nevada)
a crowd of relatives and neighbors went,
loaded with presents and good things to eat,
to their house in London, Freeborn county, to
give them a surprise. Miss Ella, daughter of
Mr. Burgeson and wife, surprised the sur
prises by being married on tbe same day.
Tbe whole affair was enjoyed by all.
S. Volstad, of St. Paul, son of under Vol
stad, is visiting bis old home.
Curtis Bisbee is very ill with peritonitis,
Chris Hanson's children have the measles.
Quite a number of others in this vicinity have
them.
Alice Deremer's school in District 87 closed
last week.
Bert A Bisbee bas moved bis bouse off the
e^2 ne}£ section 26 to a farm in Worth county,
Iowa.
ELKTON-
Barley harvest is in full blast in this vicini
ty. Oats will be harvested next week.
The InterState Grain Co. will rebuild their
warehouse at this station. Mr. Sharp, head
carpenter for the company, was bere and
looked things over.
Mr. and Mrs. Hackett, of Minneapolis, are
visiting at Mr. Jester's.
On Friday last James Kirkwood left a
satchel in a buggy, containing a suit of
clothes, hat, shoes, etc. In about half an
hour he went after tbe satchel and found
that it had disappeared. Some tramp thought
it was time to dress up. All that botbers jas.
is that the tramp may have fooled some of
his Sunday people.
James Kirkwood is drilling a well tor W at
son & Eastman, and is down witb the well to
a depth of 130 feet, with no water.
Watson & Eastman are building a barn.
Will Nierbood and wife are visiting relatives
and friends in Fillmore county.
Mr. Bates, of Spring Valley, is doing con
siderable insuring in this vicinity.
Miss Emma Bulson is woriing for Mrs.
Watson.
Mr. Herring, traveling salesman for Arthur
Warren & Abbott, of St. Paul, spent a day
last week in to wo.
Fred Sievert's ba-n is about completed
Tbis makes tbe second time he has built it.
C. B. L. & L. CORNERS.
Mrs. B. Brownlow is enjoying a visit from her
mother and little sister this week.
The Sunday school in the Estlick district is pro
gressing finely.
Miss Lillie Bishop's school in Diet. 59 closes Tues
day with a grand ice cream festival.
Ole Haroldson is building a large addition to his
residence.
I). Whitney, -,ve are sorry to note, is again on the
sick list. His malady is a form of paralysis.
The W. & S. "W. depot at Le Roy is nearly com
pleted.
Wilbur Allen, a former Le Roy boy, but now of
West Superior, was around last week shaking hands
with the boys and soliciting buyers foi West Supe
rior real estate.
This community has been lately stirred up over a
bold piece of hor?e stealing. On Sunday night, Jnly
12, an unknown party stole a team, buggy, new har
ness and sack of oats from a Mr. Langworthy, living
between Dodge Center and Hayfield. Mr. Lang
worthy got track of the thief at Grand Meadow,
Tuesday morning, but could find nothing further till
he got to 1. Estlick's, a farmer living eight miles
south of that place, where he found one of his horses.
Estiick gave fifteen dollars and an old horse worth
about fifteen dollars for it to a stranger that came
along the morning before and who said, a3 an ex
cuse, that it was too fast for its mate. From here
he was traced to Chester, Iowa, where he traded the
harness to L. Baldwin for an old one and eight dol
lars. Deputy Sheriff Whitcomb, of that county, and
others searched for two days around the last named
place, but could find no further trace of him. On
Thursday night the team was found rnnning loofe on
the road about four miles southeast of Le Roy. It
has since been found that he drove the team to some
place south of Lime Springs, and turned it loose,
after "which he went to the residence of a Mr. Caplo
acd got permission to sleep in his barn over night
Next morning Mr. Caplo discovered that the
stranger and his best team were both missing and
have not since been heard from. The thief is de
scribed as a man about 30 or 35 years old, five feet
five inches tall and weighing about 130 lbs. He was
of a yellowish complexion, clean shaven and had a
scar on the left side of his chin.
BORN.
BASSETT—To Mr. and Mrs. George Bassett, of
Udolpho, on Tuesday, July 21, two boys and a
girl.
Dr. Emma Washburn, the attending physician,
reuorts them all smart and doing well. Two boys
and a girl at once gladdens every corner in the
hearts of the happy parents.
BROWN—To Mr. and Mrs. Ormanzo Brown.
Julv 15, a girl. Ormanzo imagines that he
is one of the richest men in the county.
BULLIS—To Mr. and Mrs- E- L. Bullis, Fri
day, July IT, a nine pound girl.
D4VT—To Mr. and Mrs. M. G. Daw, on
Friday last, a daughter.
FURTNEY—To Mr. and Mrs. James Furtney,
July 15, a son.
DIED.
GREENMAN—On Saturday, July 18, 3891, Mrs.
Mary Clark Green man, -wife of Henry P. Green
man.
Mrs. Greenman has been an invalid for more than
a year, suffering from brain trouble. She was born
May 26,1855, and came to Austin in 1871, She was
married to H. P. Greenman, Dec. 22, 1886. She
leaves a husband and a two and a half year old
I daughter to mourn hei loss.
Ingalls the Moses.
"Ingalls the Sybil," "Ingalls as Cas
sandra," is what the papers have been
calling the eloquent Kansas ex-senator
since his letter in which were these
words: "The campaign of 1892 will be
waged upon economic and practical
questions not upon memories and emo
tions. The Republicanism of the future
must readjust itself to the changed con
ditions of American life or it will per
ish."
Mr. Ingalls is certainly right in one
respect. The economic questions of the
day are those which are here and now
pressing with terrific squeezing force
upon many members of all the parties.
The crops are more promising than they
have been in years in most parts of the
country, yet this brings no cheer to 44
per cent, of the voters of America, those
who constitute the rural population.
Prices will be forced down for them so
low, and freights will be put so high
that they will not get returns from their
labor sufficient to more than keep soul
and body together, they say. In Cali
fornia particularly the fruit crop is sur
passingly rich and varied. "But we
who grow it get nothing for it. Already
the railroad ringmasters are inquiring
how much freight the California fruit
crop will carry. They pile on us all
they dare, just so as to keep the farmer's
mouth shut, and so that we may not stop
raising fruit altogether, in despair.
They squeeze us into the earth." On the
other hand, not many railroads are pay
ing large dividends just now.
Irrespective of party, can the brilliant
and far seeing Kansan find any remedy
for this state of things? It is something
which concerns all the people of the
United States, irrespective of political
affiliations. Why should not Mr. In
galls be the Moses to lead our agricult
ural population to prosperity and con
tent? There certainly is a solution to
the questions that distress them. No
evil ever yet existed for which there was
not a remedy. The man or the party
who shall find the adjustment of this
agricultural difficulty, so that both farm
ers and those who transport and deliver
their product shall have prosperty and
justice, that man or that party will
have lease of power for a generation.
But this is plain: The farmers certainly
have grievances, and these must be met
and remedied by somebody.
The New Weather Bureau.
On the first of next July the weather
bureau of the United States government
will be taken out of the hands of the sig
nal service corps of the armytknd handed
over with all its belongings to the agri
cultural department. This transfer has
long been discussed throughout the coun
try, but was finally determined on by
act of the last congress.
Considerable change will be made of
such character as would naturally follow
a transfer from military to agricultural
hands. The scope will be enlarged. The
signal service bureau has so far confined
its work to recording atmospheric phe
nomena and making predictions about
the weather, which happened to hit, or
otherwise, as the case might be. The
agricultural bureau will undertake to
make a complete American meteorology.
The recorded data will be classified and
conclusions drawn from them which
will form the basis of the future Ameri
can weather science. One of the most
interesting branches of inquiry will be
the relation of weather to disease in its
various shapes. One disease which
seemed to have a decided relation to
weather was the grip. During stormy
weather the epidemic raged most with,
the appearance of settled, clear, dry
weather it abated.
One obstacle that has stood in the way
of an American weather science is the
size of the country. To all appearances
a certain kind of weather will be ap
proaching from one point of the com
pass. The signal service predicts that
certain meteorological conditions will
prevail in a given stretch of country on
a given day. Behold! up sweeps a storm
from the southeast and all the weather
wisdom of the bureau is put to shame.
Europeans have settled it in their own
minds that Americans are very ignorant
and backward in meteorology, knowing
nothing of our variable conditions and
sudden changes here. An official of the
agricultural department rather wishes it
were possible to give the average Euro
pean meteorologist a taste of an Ameri
can blizzard or tornado just once, so as
to enlighten his understanding.
It is considered one of the strongest
signs of progress that in our time and
among English speaking peoples young
men and maidens are allowed to make
their own choice as to whom they will
marry, and are not bossed as their kind
were in the old patriarchal times when
the fathers of a tribe selected the wives
for their sons and none dared rebel.
But the sons of the Prince of Wales are
even worse off than boys were in old pa
triarchal times. Not only do they have
no choice as to whom they shall marry,
but their father himself has nothing to
say. The prince is said to object very
strongly to his sons being forced to marry
German princesses, according to the tra
ditional usage of the British royal fam
ily. But all his objections will go for
naught, and his queen mother, Victoria
herself, assisted by her grandson, the em
peror of Germany, will probably soon
settle whom the sons of Albert Edward
shall wed, and how and when and where
as well American boys ought to be
glad their grandmothers cannot boss
them around in the matter of matri
mony.
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JAS. KEENAN
IS BETTER THAN EVER
Prepared to meet the wants of all at Rock Bot
tom Prices in the following goods, all of which
are as good as the market affords and
fully warranted.
Tne Racine Buggies, Phaetons aud Spring Wagons.
The Mohne Buggies, Phaetons and Spring Wagons.
The Northwestern Manufacturing Co.'s full line of buggies.
The Northwestern wagons, conceded to be the besrmade.
The Deere Disc Harrow, the best of its class.
The Superior seeders and drills.
The Buckeye seeders and drills.
The Deere full line of walking and riding plows.
The Lever harrows, cultivators and planters.
The Weir plows, cultivators and steel lever harrows.
The Clark cutaway disc harrow.
The Celebrated Standard Cultivators and planters.
ihe Deere hay rake and loader, the best in the world.
The Halliday wind mill, undoubtedly tlie best ever made.
The Eclipse wind mill.
The Aermetor wind mill and cheaper mills.
Also a power converter to do all kinds of farm work with a ten foot
churn, grind feed, saw wood, turn grind stone, shell corn, cut feed,etc.
Also the most extensive and complete stock ot
Iron, Wood and Chain Pumps in the state
outside of St. Paul and Minneapolis.
The Standard and Osborn Mowers.
The Celebrated Osborn Harvester and Binder.
The Piano Harvester and Binder.
The most full and complete line of repairs in the country for the machines
I handle and many others.
Tbe Hapgood Sulky and Walking plows cheap.
The Hay worth Check Rower, fitted for all planteis.
The Birdsell Clover Huller has no equal on earth.
A large stock of the best brands of twine, oil, leather, rubber belting, hose.
Hay Forks, Carriers and Ropes, Corn Shelters and Scales.
First-class men always on hand to put up
wind mills or anything else in our line.
There is no wind about this. Everything
advertised and many others can be seen at my
office and sales room, No. 418 and 420 Main
street, day or night, as we have electric lights
to show goods at night.
PRESERVE THIS FOR REFERENCE,
JAMES KEENAN
THE NEW SUCCESS!
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NO SMOKE,
NO SOOT,
NO SMELL,
Gas always ready
For Generating.
No tubes to fill with gas, or
gasolene to take fire and
explode.
The latest thing out in gaso
lene stoves and a positive
success.
Higg
No gas to come out in room
after closing valves.
SOLD ONLY BY
Roberts & Company
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