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CHAPTER XL
Fal.—Good hearts, devise something.
•—Merry Wives of Windsor.
The following day was Sunday, and,
jalthough North's mind was so absorbed
jwith the important investigation that
jhe had in hand that he felt impatient
iof everything that delayed its prosecu
jtion, he was forced to submit to the
twenty-four hours' inactivity and sus
pense. He passed the greater part of
jttie
time in his own apartments and
jwas fortunately left to the undisturbed
.solitude that he so greatly desired.
At as early an hour as practicable the
jnext morning he started out with the
intention of calling upon Mrs. Maynard
and taking up the discussion of the Dun
jkirk will case at the interesting point
where they had dropped it at their last
interview.
"I wonder," he soliloquized, as he
•walked slowly down the street in the
bright morning sunlight, "I wonder if
Noll is in the habit of devoting so much
of his time during office hours to calling
on Mrs. Maynard? To be sure, the ab
sorbing nature of my business will suf
ficiently excuse the course in her eyes,
but what Noll's partner and clients
will think of my persistent neglect of
all professional duties and my con
tinued absence from the office is an in
teresting and pertinent question which
I leave for them to answer. They will
probably suspect that, for a man who
is so entirely in the hands of his
friends, Noll is devoting a great deal of
time to a personal supervision of the
I campaign—looking after his fences, in
fact, very much after the manner of
other candidates Well, I don't see that
I can help it, and, really—"
"Mr. North! I say, sir, I want to
speak to you! Will you stop, sir?"
The voice was that of an elderly gen
tleman, and it was pitched in aloud key
and charged with a degree of stern em
,'phasis which indicated the speaker had
allowed his angry passions to-rise to a
1 disagreeable extent.
North suddenly stopped and whirled
around with a disconcerted air. Coming
after him at a high pressure rate of
1 speed was a gray-haired, gray-whisk
1 ered, ruddy-faced old gentleman dressed
jin a gray tweed business suit. One
chubby red hand grasped a stout hick
ory cane, while the other as he talked
"was employed in violent and threat
ening gestures which were anything
/but reassuring in their effect.
Glancing calmly at this excited old
,i I gentleman, North lifted his hat, saying
•*. courteously:
"Good morning, sir."
"Oh, good morning, sir!" retorted the
I 1 old. gentleman, irascibly, not intending
the words as an answering salutation,
'but merely echoing them in wrathful
mockery. "You think you're a mighty
fine young gentleman, no doubt, Mr.
North! You set up to be a gentleman,
/11 say, don't you?"
"Really, sir," said North, in amaze
II [ment, looking at his interlocutor as if
jhe considered him an escaped lunatic,
I "your language is quite uncalled for.
ill you have any business with me, I re
jquest that you state it civilly other
wise I must decline to listen to you."
"Oh, you take a lofty air upon your
sell, Mr. North—a lofty air, don't you?"
returned the
old gentleman,still angrily,
though his tones and manner softened
instantly under North's cool, steady
look. "You've worn my patience and
civility out long ago, and now I want to
know what you are going to do, eh?
OTTt
Because if you haven't got any plans,
why then I have, and it is time some
thing was done about this matter."
"To what matter do you refer?" in
quired North, who might have sus
pected his indignant assailant's identi
ty by this time, if he had not been too
greatly annoyed to think clearly about
that question.
"Eh? What am I talking about?" de
manded the old gentleman glaring
wrathfully from beneath a pair of shag
gy eyebrows as he rendered this free
translation of North's words. "Wall, if
that aint the toppin' off of impertinence!
You've put me off time and time agin
•with yourtrifiin' excuses and promises,
Ibut I'll swear that you never tried this
dodge before! Memory's failin', eh?
Then perhaps I can jog it a little.
Here, sir!" and tugging furiously at the
inner pocket of his coat, he drew forth
a large, dog-eared account book and ex
tracted from it a soiled folded paper
which he thrust defiantly at North
"here's that note of Amity's with your
indorsement written across it and now
Amity's cleared out and here's the note
overdue by six weeks!"
North received the paper daintily
with the tips of his gloved fingers, un
I folded and glanced over it. There was
Ollin's indorsement in clear, bold char
acters, that defied all doubt or denial,
"Oh, I see, this is old Archer," thought
I North, ruefully. "Yes, that is the name
»Jonathan Archer. Well, I see very
plainly that I shall be obliged to pay
[this note in order to save myself serious
/embarrassment. Let me see, what's
,the amount? By jove, two hundred
'l dollars—why, I haven't so much as that
with me, and if I had—"
|f| "Wall, what do you say now, sir?"
demanded Mr. Archer, with a grin of
triumph. "'S'pose you remember the
business now, don't you? Beckon you
:'t very well go back on your own
write!"
"Oh, heavens and earth!" thought
orth. "If this was the way he talked.
Wee the other day, I don't ponder
my honored co^efrgge was ou$ o£
per about it. What 6n earth aicn I
do?* V-'—,- "i
He looked up,, and down the street,'
ok in a a
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way for a moment then turning to Mr.
"WILL TOU STOP, SIR?"
Archer, who was contemplating him
with evident impatience, yet with an
air of consciously possessing all the ad
vantage, North began suavely:
"I promise you, Mr. Archer, that this
little matter shall be attended to as
quickly as possible—"
"Now, sir, now!" interrupted Mr.
Archer excitedly. "It's got to be
settled inside of ten minutes or I'll sue
you for the hull amount! You've put
me off a dozen times if you've done it
once, with that same smooth promise,
and I've waited and waited as civil as a
gentleman all this time, while my own
creditors are pushing me to the walL
And what with my waiting and your
getting so airy that you can't see me
on the street, but pass me by a dozen
times a day without speaking"—North
glanced sharply at Mr. Archer, and sud
denly realized that he had frequently
seen him during the past few days—"I
begin to feel mighty shaky, and the
sooner I see my money the better satis
fied 111 be. Now, sir, this note's got to
be paid, and paid inside of ten minutes.
That's my determination:, and there'll
be no back down on it, either."
It required all the taet that North
possessed, as well as a recollection of
Mr. Archer's undoubted provocation, to
enable him to control himself under the
exasperation caused by this scene but
he contrived to say calraly enough,
though with considerable sharpness
mingled with the remonstrance:
"Really, sir, you must be more
reasonable about this matter. It is
simply impossible for me to settle tWn
claim on ten minutes' notice. I shall
be obliged to telegraph for the money,
and that will necessitate a delay of pos
sibly several hours. You really must
wait, sir."
"And haven't I told you plain enough
that I won't wait?" retorted Mr. Archer,
belligerently waving his hand. 'Tm
done with triflin'. If you havent got
the money right by you, sir, you don't
[need to telegraph to Californy or the
dear knows where, to get it. You
borrow it off some of your friends right
'here in town as easy as turnin' over
your hand, and you'd better do it
{mighty sudden!"
"Some of my friends!" thought North,
jin despair, as he cast another specula
tive glance up and down the street.
"Heavens! what a situation—dunned
on the public highway in belliger
ent manner! How could Noll have been
so negligent? But then, it's Just like
him—'an unpardonably careless fellow
in money matters,' as Wee said. 'Some
of my friends'—to whom can I apply?
Clipper? No, he's an editor it would
be setting aside all the traditions of the
craft to assume that he has any Hie
cash. Warner? I have no means of
estimating his financial basis he might
be a millionaire or a church mouse, for
anything that his appearance indicates.
Wee? It is the wildest nonsense to
think of him! CoL Dayton is forever
growling about the hard times I heard
him saying only this morning that it
was as much as he could do to keep his
head above water. To be sure, it would
be simply a loan, to be repaid as soon
as I can receive a telegraphic check
from my banker in New York but I
shall feel a little delicate about, asking
even that. Wymer? He is probably
putting too much into the campaign
fund to have any money to spend for
other purposes and besides, he
wouldn't do me this friendly service.
Well, my list of acquaintances is can
vassed, and to no purpose. In the name
of all the unmerciful fates at once,
what am I to do?"
His despairing question was answered
most unexpectedly. It had scarcely
been formed in his mind when Warner
appeared upon the scene, sharp, busi
ness-like and observant as usual. He
greeted North in a cordial way then as
he perceived Mr. Archer's aggressive air
and North's perplexity and annoyance,
and recalled Mr. Wescott's reference to
his own encounter with the old gentle
man, Warner comprehended the situa
tion at once.
"I say, North," he exclaimed, in his
impetuous way as he drew North
confidentially, "is old Archer pushing
for that money?"
North assented with an expressive
shrug of his shoulders.
"He'll not give me time to turn
around," he continued in an undertone.
"The note is overdue, I admit but he
insists upon immediate payment, and I
haven't got the money in hand and
can't get it without considerable delay."
"He won't wait?" interrogated War
ner reflectively.
"Not ten minutes. He threatens to
bring suit against me if I do not satisfy
his claim at once."
"I say, now, that's rough! You'll have
to lose it, won't you? Of'course you'd
have heard-from Amity before this, if
he were ever going to answer your let
ter. He has acted confoundedly mean
after the handsome way you treated
him when everyone else was kicking
him out of the way. What's the amount,
North?"
"Two hundred dollars."
"That all?"
"It's all, but it happens to be enough
to embarrass me for the reason already
specified."
Warner looked rather blankly at
North for an instant then as if dis
missing all idle speculation from his
mind he said:
"Now, see here my bank is just
around the corner, and all I've got to
do to make this thing straight with old
Archer is to scratch my name to a
check. What d'ye say, North—shall I
do it?"
It is needless to say that North ac
cepted this delicately offered assistance
with a hearty:
"Thank you, Warner! I'll make it
all right with you before night."
"Hold on a minute—be back soon,"
were Warner's parting words as, with
both arras swinging energetically and
his xmSe high in the air, he started
around the corner at an alarming pace.
"Warner is my good angel judge, oh
ye gods, how dearly I do love him!"
thought North, in grateful paraphrase
then turning to his relentless creditor
he added aloud:
"This matter will be adjusted in a
very few moments, Mr. Archer."
"Wall, wall, now,—ahem—I ain't
takin' on about it, Mr. North, since I
see you're willing to ack fair an'
square," said Mr. Archer in modified
tones and with an obvious wish to
make peace. "1 hope you won't take
no offense at what I've said, sir. Busi
ness is business, you know, and has got
to be 'tended to."
"And civility is civility," retorted
North in a mental aside, "but you have
behaved toward me like a backwoods
man and a boor!"
Nevertheless he smiled with superfi
cial amiability and glanced nervously
up the street and wished devoutly that
Warner would really hurry.
"It's a fine, ba'my day, on the whole,"
continued old Mr. Archer, as he gazed
upon the clear skies and the radiant
sunlight with the condescendingly ap
proving air of a competent critic giving
his opinion of a fine effort that nature
had intended expressly for his benefit.
"'Business is business,'" thought
North, magnificently, "and it forms the
only conceivable connecting link be
tween yourself and me. You will
please confine your observations to that
one subject: it is the only common
ground upon which we can possibly
meet!"
Nevertheless he bent his stately head
to the inexorable yoke of "policy," and
uttered the most suave acquiescence.
"Pollytics seems to be pretty aauch
the order of the day, just now," pur
sued Mr. Archer, probably with the
benevolent intention of drawing out
Mr. North's conversational powers,
which at that moment appeared to be
somewhat limited as with the point of
his stout ivory-headed cane he indus
triously knocked the loose stones and
pebbles off the pavement with as ear
nest application to the task as if it had
been his regular occupation in life. "I
hear that your prospects is mighty
good, Mr. North."
"Ah! Here's my opportunity to dis
tinguish myself," thought North, with
a sudden inspiration of reckless non
sense. "I'll make this simple old voter
think that I'm a model of disinterested
patriotism!"
Therefore, assuming an air and atti
tude of stilted dignity, North answered
with a slight wave of his hand as if he
thus rejected all political ambitions and
honors:
"Oh, I have scarcely considered my
prospects, Mr. Archer. The .truth is, I
do not desire office unless I should be
come convinced that it was my duty
thus to serve the public interests and
as to the present canvass, I may say
that I have been the least active of all
the candidates now in the field. If I
am elected, I shall accept my election
as the unmistakable call of duty, speak
ing through the 'still small voice of the
ballot but in the meantime I shall
give myself no concern, and to the
probable issue very little thought. I
am perfectly content to be the humble
instrument to execute the will of the
people. Duty, sir, duty is the grand
pivotal point on which all my desires
and ambitions turn!"
Mr. Archer stared and nodded with
an air of being very much impressed
and before North had time to- recover
from the severe mental exhaustion con
sequent upon this effort, a hand was
placed lightly on his shoulder.
Turning around quickly he saw War
ner convulsed with laughter.
"I say, North, don't put it quite so
steep! Too much allowance for stage
perspective for an audience of one!"
were his low-spoken words as, thrust
ing a roll oi crisp banknotes into
North's hand, he hurried off before
another syllable could be spoken.
North looked after him with an
amused air then turning to Mr. Archer
lie said courteously:
"If you will accompany me to my
office now, Mr. Archer, we will con
clude this business at once."
Mr. Wescott, elaborately disposed in
an easy chair after his. own peculiar no
tions of making himself comfortable,
was reading a newsaper in the quiet
inner office when North and Mr. Archer
entered.
"Good morning, Wee. Tj*ke a chair,
Mr. Archer, over here by my desk,"
said North, airily, tossing his gloves
down on the desk and nodding gracious
ly to the junior partner. "I will co\mt
these bills, Mr. Archer, and you may'
run over them after me, if you will,
just to see that there is no mistake."
And as he sat down at the desk, ap
parently absorbed in the business in
hand, North said to himself with a keen
sense of enjoyment, as he accidentally
encountered a pair of eyes raised with
an expression of contemptuous surprise
from the paper that Mr. Wescott was
not reading:
"Poor Wee! I'm afraid this may give
him concussion of the brain! wonder
if he will not fall on my neck and weep
when old Archer is gone? He will at
least think better of that rash determi
nation to dissolve partnership!"
"Wall, Mr. North," said Jonathan
Archer, ,as, having finally disposed of
his business, he stood for a few mo
ments beside North's desk hugging his
ELABORATELY EAST
DISPOSED
CHAIR.
cane as if it were some favorite de
lusion, "I'm free to say that I was
mighty well pleased with the senty
ments that you expressed in my hear
ing a spell ago. I can't say as I've ever
heard jest the same before, but I reckon
you hit pretty nigh right every time.
Now, sir, I'm free to say that I had
about made up my mind to support Mr.
Wymer this comin' election but since
I've heard your sentyments I've changed
my mind consider'ble. So, Mr. North,
I'm goin' to vote for you, sir, and what
ever infiooence I can pull shall all go in
the same direction. Good day, sir!
Good day, Mr. Wescott, good day!"
North, rising from the desk, laugh
ingly bowed the old gentleman out of
the office saying to himself with a
touch of good-humored satire:
"And thus are swayed the suffrages
of an intelligent and independent con
stituency!"
CHAPTER XXL
Par.—Good, very good It is so, then.
Good, very good let it be concealed
awhile.
—All's Well That Ends WelL
"And now, my dear fellow, if you can
think of any other indebtedness, great
or small—but especially small—that I
may have incurred, which is exercising
a peculiarly damaging effect upon my
own credit and also through my busi
ness connection with you, upon your
self, I ask you in all sincerity, I entreat
you in all seriousness, I adjure you in
the sacred name of friendship, to bring
the same to my remembrance at once,
or else forever after hold your peace!"
As he spoke thus with a provoking
little twinkle in his eyes, North threw
himself into an easy chair close beside
Weo and leaned over confidentially to
ward that gentleman.
Mr. Wescott, who still had his news
paper spread out before him, rustled it
slightly as he gave his shoulders a pet
ulant shrug, and without glancing up
he growled:
"What should I know about your
private affairs? IVe never meddled
with them, so far as I am aware. Have
I, sir?" he added, as he looked defiantly
at North now for an instant.
"No, no! a thousand times no!" cried
North with ready volubility when Wee
dryly cut him short with:
"Very well, then that settles it."
"Ah, but my dear Wee, that does not
settle itl" exclaimed North fervently.
"Why do you fling cold water in this
heartless way over my first real at
tempt at reformation? A sense of
what I owe you in the way of repara
tion urges me on to this decisive step.
I wish firgt of all, of course, to redeem
my own credit—now, right along, you
know, while I have some to redeem
your judicious advice on that point
touched a chord that has been vibrat
ing ever since. But next to this I
wish to restore to you all that you
may have lost in public confidence by
having been so long associated with me
as my partner. This is simple justice
to you, and a duty that I owe to my
self. Come, now! Can't you help me a
little, Wee, in such a commendable
undertaking? Stop reading that Daily
Times upside down and give me the
benefit of your wise counsel."
But Mr. Wescott was deaf to all ap
peals. Exasperated by an attack from
which he had no ready response to de
fend himself, he took refuge in a grim
silence and kept his whole attention,
outwardly at least, upon his news
paper.
North lifted his eye brows with an air
of surprise, as if he were utterly unable
to understand such absolute stoicism.
Leaning back in his chair he "gorgon
ized" the unhappy Wee for several
moments with a "stony British stare,"
apparently lost in contemplation of
that gentleman's hardened and de
praved nature.
Mr. Wescott, while betraying by Ills
expression of heroic suffering that he
was conscious of this provoking
scrutiny, succeeded for a short time in
keeping his eyes fixed upon the news
paper, which he rustled nervously now
and then in his painful effort to appear
unconscious but there is a limit to hu
man endurance, and he finally reached
that point.
[TO BE CONTINUED.!
Make Fresh Kesta Often.
When the nests are used merely as lay
ing nests they may do through the sea
son but, says The Poultry Yard, by mak
ing new nests several times during the
year and burning the old ones you foster
cleanliness and prevent lice and other
parasites from gaining a lodgment. If
'the nests are used for sitters, as soon as
the hen is taken off with her brood, out
with the nest and burn the straw at once
or you will soon have a healthy lot of
lice to deal with, which will worry your
poultry so that improvement will be but
a slow race indeed. Fresh nests, neatly
and nicely made, induce the hens to lay
in them, keep the eggs clean and give a
tidy, attractive appearance to the prem
ises, so that you will not be ashamed
when friends or customers call to see
them.
Opportune wd Helpful Hints From Suo
cescfal Poultry Breeders.
"Why do the chickens die?" is an ever
recurring question, especially with be
ginners. Successful poultrymen believe
that much of the mortality of the poul
try yard is due to the improper care and
feeding of the little chicks. With a view
to affording timely assistance, we here
give some helpful hints from a number
of successful poultry breeders. The au
thorities are generally agreed that the
chicks should be left alone whew, they are
hatching out and not disturbed with at
tempts to feed them for 24 hours after
hatching. As a rule the first feed given
is a little hard boiled egg chopped fine,
with fine bread crumbs.
The Feathered World,, in an article on
chicken feeding, says that the chick can
not too soon be supplied with food that
will require the grinding power of the
gizzard to be properly brought into ac
tion. This authority claims that even
baby chicks should be fed upon a sanded
floor. There has been much dispute as
to how soon dry grain or cracked grain
should be fed to chicks. -The authority
quoted advises that when chicks are
young broken wheat or oatmeal should
be given along with other feed.
Wright, the well known English au
thority, says that the best food for
chickens, irrespective of price, is oat
meal. He claims that after the first
meal of bread crumbs and egg no food
is equal to it if coarsely ground and
only moistened enough so that it will
remain crumbly. Farm Poultry, com
menting on this, says that oatmeal, ir
respective of price, is an economical
food that it has paid by actual experi
ment to make it two-fifths of the food
of chicks from shell to maturity.
Many progressive breeders give stale
bread crumbs to alternate with rolled
oats till the birds are ready for heavier
feed, with boiled milk where there is any
bowel trouble. A good ration for the
chicks after a week old consists of two
parts bran and one part cornmeal and
ground wheat, with a little meat scraps
added. A little green food later on is ben
eficial. Editor Hunter of Farm Poultry
names lice as the worst foe of young
chicks and suggests that every hen should
be carefully dusted with rUlmafin/n in
sect powder and nest box be kept clean
and free from vermin.
Bordeaux Mixture.
The formula recommended by the de
partment of agriculture for the bor
deaux mixture to be used in spraying
diseased plants is as follows: In a barrel
that will hold 45 gallons dissolve 0
pounds of copper sulphate, using 8 ox
10 gallons of water, or as much as may
be necessary for the purpose. In a tub
or half barrel slake 4 pounds of fresh
lime. When completely slaked, add
enough water to make a creamy white
wash. Pour this slowly into the barrel
containing the copper sulphate solution,
using a coarse gunnysack stretched over
the head of the barrel for a strainer.
Finally fill the barrel with water, stir
thoroughly, and the mixture is ready for
use. If the copper sulphate costs 7
cents per pound and the lime 80 cents
per bushel, the cost of a gallon of this
mixture will not exceed 1 cent. Fresh
lime must be used, and the copper sul
phate will dissolve more readily if pow
dered.
In tbe Vegetable Garden.
Among varieties of celery that rank
well are the New Rose, London Red,
Half Dwarf, Golden Dwarf, Giant Pas
cal, White Walnut, Whit© Plume and
Boston Market.
The melon crop continues to increase
in extent and importance.
The general remedy for the cabbage
worm is buhach or pyrethrum, mixed
with flour or in water decoction. An
other remedy is hot water, temperature
from 140 to 160 degrees, applied in a
spray.
For the inelon worm that eats holes in
melons, squashes, etc., hellebore is the
remedy, applied dry or in water. In
water use one ounce of hellebore to three
gallons of water.
It is suggested that readers try tomato
bagging. Tomatoes protected in paper
bags last season were free from blemish,
color intensified and fruit matured ear
lier than fruit not thus protected.
Melons thrive best in a warm, sandy
loam soil not too sandy and dry, but
rather low, with just slope enough to
drain the land sc that it will not be too
wet and heavy. They grow best on new
land or sod. Clover or timothy sod is
good, or land that has produced potatoes,
cabbages or tobacco is good, says a Wis
consin grower in The Farm Journal.
Under all circumstances and at all sear
sons, warm or cold, the Succession cab
bage is a sure header. So writes a Penn
sylvania market gardener. But remem
ber that cabbage needs a rich soil.
In almost every neighborhood through
out the west there is some one or more
persons whose lives have been saved by
Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Di
arrhoea Remedy, or who have been cured
of chronic diarrhoea by it. Such persons
take pleasure in recommending the rem
edy to others. The praise that follows
its introduction and use makes it very
popular. 25 and 50 cent bottles for sale
by Opera House Pharmacy.
Order to Examine Accounts.
STATE OF MINNESOTA,
County of Mower,—88.
In Probate Court, Special term. May 17, 1893.
In the matter of the estate of Mary A. Duffy,
d6C6&S6d•
On reading and filing the petition of George
Duffy, administrator of the estate of Mary A.
Duffy, deceased, representing, among other
things, that he haB fully administered said
estate, and praying that a time and place be
fixed for examining and allowing the final
account of his administration, and for the
assignment of the residue of said estate to
tbe parties entitled thereto by law:
It is ordered, that said account be examined
and petition beard by this Court, on Friday,
the ninth day of .Tune, A. D. 1893, at 10 o*elock
a. m., at the Probate office, in the city of Aus
tin, in said county.
And it is further ordered, that notice there
of be given to all persons interested by pub
lishing this order once in each week for three
successive weeks prior to said daV of bearing
in the MOWER COUNTY TRANSCRIPT, a weekly
newspaper printed and published at Austin,
in said county.
Dated at Austin, Minnesota, tbe 17th day of
May, A. D.
1893.
By the Court:— 8. S. WASHBURN,
[SEAII] 10-13 Judge of Probate.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
OFFICE OF COMPTROLLER OF THE CURRENCY.
WASHINGTON, May 3,1893.
Whereas, by satisfactory evidence present
ed to the undersigned, it has been made to
appear that "The Citizen's National Bank,
of Austin, in tbe City of Austin, in the
county of Mower, and state of Minnesota,
has complied with all tbe provisions of the
Statutes of the United States, required to b©
complied with before an association sball be
authorized to commence the business of bank
ing.
Now therefore, I.
James H. Eckels, Comp
troller of the Currency, do hereby certify that
"The Citizen's National Bank, of Austin," in
tbe City of Austin, in the county of Mower,
and state of Minnesota, is authorized to com
mence tbe business of banking as provided
In section fifty-one hundred and sixty-nine of
the Revised Statutes of tbe United States.
In testimony wbereof witness my band and
Seal of office this 3d dav of May, 1893.
9*19 JAMES H. ECKELS,
[Seal.] Comptroller of the Currency.
SUMMONS.
STATE OF MINNESOTA,
County of Mower—S3.
District Court. Tenth Judicial District.
J. H. Steward, plaintiff, against T. W. Britts
and O. A. Dickinson, defendants.
The State of Minnesota to the defendants
named above
5Tou, T. W. Britts and 0- A. Dickinson, are
hereby summoned and required to answer the
complaint of the plaintiff
and to serve
in
a
this action,
which has been filed in the office of the Clerk
of this Court, in and for
Raid
Mower county,
copy of your answer to the
said complaint, on the subscriber, at his office
in Austin, in the County of Mower and State
aforesaid, within twenty days after the ser
vice of this summons on you, exclusive of
the day of such service, and if you fail to
answer the said complaint within the time
aforesaid, the plaintiff will take judgment
against you for the sum of one hundred dol
lars, with interest at seven per cent, per
annum from the 27th day of March. A.
1891.
and
for his costs and disbursements in
this action.
Dated at Austin, Minnesota, March 31st,1893.
S-l3 W. W. RANNEY.
Plaintiff's Attorney, Austin, Mower County,
Minnesota.
Order to Examine Accounts.
STATE OF MINNESOTA,
County of Mower.—ss.
In Probate Court, Special term,April 28,1893.
In the matter of the estate of Horace P.
Sleeper, deceased.
On reading and filing the petition of Sher
wood H. Sleeper, administrator of the es
tate of Horace P. Sleeper, deceased, rep
resenting, among otber things, that he
has fully administered said estate, and pray
ing: that a time and place be fixed for examin
ing and allowing the final account of his ad
ministration, and for the assignment of the
residue of said estate to the parties entitled
thereto by law:
It is ordered, that said account be examined
and petition heard by this Court, on Friday,
tbe twenty-sixth day of May, A. D. 1893,
at ten o'clock a. m., at the Probate Office in
the city of Austin, in said county.
And it is further ordered, that notice there
of be given to all persons interested by pub
lishing this order once in each week tor three
successive weeks prior to said day of hearing
in the MOWER COUNTY TRANSCRIPT, a weekly
newspaper printed and published at Austin
in said county.
Dated at Austin, Minnesota, the 28th day of
April, A. D. 1893.
By the Court:— S. S. WASHBURN,
[Seal.] 8-11 Judge of Probate.
Order for Hearing and Notice of Applica
tion for Appointment of Administrator.
STATE OF MINNESOTA,
County of Mower,—ss.
In Probate Court, Special Term, May 9, 1893.
In the matter of the estate of Hezekiah Per
kins, deceased.
On reading and filing tbe petition of Elvi
ra Perkins, of Mower county, representing,
among other things, that Hezekiah Perkins,
late of said county, on the 29th day of April,
A. D. 1893,at the town of Windom in said coun
ty, died Intestate, and being a resident of this
county at the time of his death,leaving goods,
chattels, and estate within this county, and
that the said petitioner is the widow of said
deceased, and praying that administration of
said estate be to Elvira Perkins, granted:
It is ordered, that said petition be heard
before this court, on Monday, the fifth day of
June, A. D. 1893, at ten o'clock a. m„ at the
Probate office in Austin in said county.
Ordered further, that notice thereof be
given to tbe heirs of said deceased, and to all
persons Interested, bv publishing this order
once in each week, tor three successive
weeks prior to said day of hearintr in the
MOWER COUNTY TRANSCRIPT, a weekly news
paper printed and published at Austin In said
county.
Dated at Austin, Minnesota, the ninth day
of May, A. D. 1893.
By the Court:— S. S. WASHBURN,
(Seal.) 9-12 Judge of Probate.
Order to Hear Petition for License to Sell
Land of Minors.
STATE OF MINNESOTA,
County of Mower,—ss.
In Probate Court, Special Term, May 17,1893,
In the matter of tbe Guardianship of Rosana
Duffy, Thomas E. Duffy, Stephen J. Duffy,
Florence M. Duffy, and Calista M. Duffy,
minors.
On reading and filing the petition of Edward
Gorman, guardian of said minors, represent
ing, among otber thing6, that they, the said
wards, are seized of certain real estate in
Mower county, Minnesota, and that for the
benefit of said wards the same 6bould be sold,
and praying for license to sell the same. And
it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court,
from said petition, that for tbe benefit of said
wards said real estate should be sold:
It is ordered, (hat all persons interested in
said estate appear before this Court on Fri
day, the ninth day of June, A. D. 1893,
at 10 o'clock a. m., at tbe Court House in
Austin, in said county, then and there to
show cause (if any there be) why license
should not be granted for tbe sale of said real
estate, according to the praj er of said peti
tion.
And it is further ordered, that this order
shall be published once in each week, for
three successive weeks prior to said day ot
hearing, in the MOWER COUNTY TRANSCRIPT,
a weekly newspaper printed and published at
Austin in Baid county.
Dated at Austin, Minnesota, the seventeenth
day of May, A. D. 1893.
By the Court: S- S. WASHBURN,
[Seal.] 10-13 Judge of Probate.
Notice of Mortgage Sale by Advertisement
Default has been made in the payment of the ram
of sixty-two dollars, which is claimed to be due
and is duo, at the date of this notice, upon a cer
tain mortgage, duly executed and delivered by
Minnie S. Gregg and Olin L. Gregg, her husband, to
Peter Clark, bearing date the 20th day of February,
A. D., 1892, and duly recorded in the office of
the Register of Deeds, in and for the County of
Mower, and State of Minnesota, on the 24th day of
February, A. D., 1892, at 4 o'clock, p. m. in Book
14 of Mortgages, on page 120.
Said Mortgage is conditioned that if default be
made in any of the provisions therein contained, it
shall be lawful for said mortgagee, his assigns, or
attorney, to declare the whole amount thereof to be
due, and pursuant to said conditions, the whole
amount secured by said mortgage remaining unpaid,
to-wit: the sum of nine hundred sixty-one and 19-100
Dollars, is hereby declared to be due, and the-said
sum is claimed to be due at the date of this notice
And no action or proceeding at law or otherwise
having been instituted to recover the debt secured
by said mortgage, or any part thereof:
Now therefore, notice is hereby given, that by
virtue of a power of sale contained in said mortgage,
and pursuant to the statute in such case made and
provided, the said mortgage will be foreclosed, and
the premises described in and covered by said
mortgage, viz:
The south half northwest quarter, section seven
teen (17), and the south half northeast quarter, sec
tion eighteen (18), township one hundred and two
(102), north of range seventeen (17) west, in Mower
County, and State of Minnesota, with the here
ditaments and appurtenances.
Will be sold at public auction, to the highest bid
der, for cash, to pay said debt and interest, and
the taxes, if any on said premises, and fifty
dollars attorney's fee, as stipulated in and
by said mortgage in case of foreclosure, and the
disbursements allowed by law which sale will be
made by the sheriff of said Mower County, at the West
front door of the Court Honse in .the City of
Austin in said County and State, on Saturday*
the 17th day of June, A. D., 1893, at 10 o'clock"
a. m., of that day, subject to redemption at any
time within one year from the day of sale, as
provided bylaw.
Dated at Austin Minnesota May 2d, A. D. ,1893.
PETER CLARK, Mortgagee.
LYMAN D. BAIBD, Attorney forMortgagee, Austin.,
Minnesota. 8-13 .......
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