W(rrtMttt)t0tt IMlMttM,
Terms $a.oo a Year, $*.oo for Six Months.
SATUKDAY, SEPTEMBER 2G, 1874.
Republican Ticket.
For Chief Justice of the Supreme Court,
S. J. It. McMILLEN.
For Associate Justice of the Supreme
Court,
F. R. E. CORNELL.
For Congress.
MARK H, DUNNELL.
Of Steele County.
REPUBLICAN DISTRICT CONVENTION.
The Republican Assembly District Convention
for the Thirty-eighth Assembly District will meet
at the village of Heron Lake on THURSDAY, OC
TOBER 1,1871, at 2 o'clock r. M., for the purpose
of nominating a candidate to be supported at the
next general election.
Each county in tho Distiict will be entitled to
one delegate and one for every one hundred votes
cast for Hon. E. P. Freeman for Senator at the
last general election, as follows:
Jackson
Cottonwood
Nobles
7 Murray 3
4 Rock 3
6 Pipestone 1
M. A. STRONG,
J. W. BENJAMIN,
S. It. II VKKIS,
C. F. CUOSBY,
Distiict Committee.
REPUBLICAN JUDICIAL DISTRICT
CONVENTION.
Notice is hereby given that tlieio will be a Re
publican Judicial District Convention held at
Flandreau's Hall, in the village of Madelin, in
the county of Watonwan, on TUESDAY, the 13th
day of OCTOBER 1874, at two o'clock in the af
ternoon of that day, foi tho purpose of nominat
ing a candidate for Distiict Judge for the SKth
Judicial Disti ict of Minnesota, and for the trans
action of such oilier business as may come be
fore the Convention.
The different counties will be entitled to dele
gates as follow s:
Blue Eaith County
Cottonwood
Fai ibault
Jackson
Mai tin
Murray
Nobles
Rock
"Watonwan
Pipestone
1
'f,
1
2
1
The apportionment of delegates is based upon
the vote for Gov. Davis in 1ST?, as follows: One
delegate foi CUMy two hundied and liftv votes
and one for eveiy major liaction thcieof, each
county being entitled to at least one delegate.
By order of the District Cential Committee.
J. II. SPROUT, Chan man.
BEECIIER.
The dispatches announce that Beech
er addressed an audience of 8,000 per
sons a few days since at a Fair at Johns
bury, Vt. His reception was an ova
tion and lie has evidently lost nothing
of his popularity by the scandal, but
has rather gained, if that were possible,
in public estimation.
While Beecher is receiving an ovation,
Moulton is being expelled from the
Clubs and Boards of which lie was once
a respected member in New York, and
Tilton io denounced by ncailj the whole
secular and ichgious pi ess of the city.
And now, unkinde-.t cut of all, his lie
loved paramour, Victoua '.Voodhull, is
coming home to show him up as he ap
pears to her, as a '-liar and a coward."
These are her own words and sound
harsh, but they are doubtless true.—
Tilton and Moulton are deseited even
by their own free-love and church
hating class.
INDEPENDEN JO URN A LISM.'
There is no more humiliating spec
tacle on eaith than that of a public
journalist, after having protested
against the nomination of a gambling
political trickster all through his pre
liminary canvass because of his innate
wortlilessness and depiavity, coming
gushingly and glowingly to his support
the moment the convention of his par
ty has been prostituted into his endow
ment. The PIOVKEU has, in obedience
to the common fashion of partisan
journalism, been accustomed to this
sort of thing in the past, but it has,
thank heaven, come to a realizing sense
of the degradation it involves, and will
be guilty of it no more.—St. Paul Pi
oneer.
The Pioneer is right. "We can easily
understand how a public journal can
support a candidate whose nomination
it had opposed, and do so under protest
and as a choice between two evils, but
we hope the day is gone by when pub
lic journals will come "gushingly and
glowingly" to the suppoit of bad men,
under the party lash. What we want
above all tilings in this country is an
independent and uncorrupt press.
The St. Paul Pioneer has now an op
portunity, by becoming thoroughly in
dependent, to become the leading paper
in the Northwest, outside of Chicago.
But it is impossible, in reading the Pi
oneer, not to see the old Democratic
claws sticking from under the new garb.
The paper has vastly impioved under
Mr. Blakeley's management, but it is
still far from being a thoroughly inde
pendent and non-paitizan journal. The
Pioneer is anti-Beecher, anti-adminis
tration and anti-Republicanism, but
we look in vain for indications that it
is anti-Democracy. Until it becomes
that also, we cannot accept the Pioneer
as a thoroughly independent journal.
MINNES 6 TA^ANDKANSA S.
Letter from a Correspondent Answered—
Why the National Colony Company
Selected Southwestern Minnesota—Ad
vantages of Kansas and Minnesota
Compared—Minnesota has greatly the
advantage inl Climate, in Nearness to
Market and in Manufacturing and
General Resources—Minnesota Pivot
al—Kansas Tributary.
A correspondent at Eagle Harbor,
New Yoik, sends us the following let
ter:
EAGLE HARBOR, N. Y.,)
September 14,1S74.
EDITOR ADVAXCE—Sir: I enclose
ten cents for which I would be obliged
for two numbers of your paper.
Your paper being devoted largely to
the lmiiding up of your locality, any in
formation bearing'upon your advanta
ges will be of value and inteiest to all
concerned* sind paillcularl3 those who
Are looking that way for a home, of
whom I am one. When I can make
it expedient to leave here, which I hope
will be within a twelve month. I want
to make my home in some part of the
West, and wlnlc I have had a strong
partiality for your place ever since
your settlement, I am not unmindful
of the attractions of other places, and
just now I am eager for full informa
tion concerning the Arkansas valley
in southern Kansas. As I understand
it, the originators of your Colony trav
eled extensively before purchasing
where they did. and I am a littla at
loss why they chose Minnesota in pref
erence to southern Kansas. Each sec
tion has a trunk railway in operation,
and perhaps equally good soil, and if
there is nothing to outweigh it, the
well known desire of every immigrant
to get into a warmer climate, I should
think would havegiven it the preference.
The summers are longer and hotter,
but at Hutchinson, 1,500 feet above the
sea level, the heat, it is said, is not felt
so oppressively, and that flies, which so
torment cattle further East, are less
troublesome at that place. The amount
of rainfall has been a question, but it
is claimed that it is sufficient east of
Great Bend. It is not as near an East
ern market as you are and I suppose is
less reliable for wheat, but on the other
hand, it must be abetter stock country
and it is claimed to be well adapted to
fruit, which can not be said of Minne
sota. I have stated what I apprehend
to be facts, but if I am misinformed in
any particular I should be glad to be
set right, not only on my own account
but on that of others, whom I hope to
induce to go with me after I have seen
with my own eyes the home of my
adoption.
If Minnesota has advantages over the
locality named of which I am ignorant,
I should like the facts through your pa
per, if you are pleased to "give them
without the use of my name.
Truly Yours,
We have not space for a full answer
to the questions proposed by our cor
respondent, but we will endeavor'to an
swer them correctly and fairly and at
as much length as our space will per
mit:
THE NATIONAL COLONY.
1. Our correspondent desires full in
formation concerning this portion of
the West. For this we must refer him
to the journals issued from time to
time by the National Colony Company.
The advertisement of the Company,
published in our paper, claims for this
region fertile soil, convenient markets,
healthful climate, Christian society,
superior mail, railroad, school and
chinch pihileges, and an absence of
ague, consumption, the liquor traffic,
desperadoes and Indians. This is mere
ly a summing up of advantages upon
which we shall dwell for a moment.—
As to fertile soil, this is called, (and
was so called before this county was
settled,) the Garden of the State and
the cream of the prairies. The soil
has a depth of from two to four feet.—
Its productiveness has been demonstra
ted during the past three seasons. No
bles comity took fust premiums on
wheat and squashes at the recent State
Fau1 at St. Paul. Some of the oldest
residents of the State say they would
not give two counties in Southwestern
Minnesota for all the land on the North
ern Pacific. The healthfulncs-* of the
climate is so well established as to be
beyond any question. We are north of
the pguo line or belt, and the dry at
mosphere precludes any such thing as
original cases of consumption, while
nearly eveiy form of lung and throat
disease is cured by a lesidence in this
State. Too much can scarcely be said
as to the exhilerating effect of the cli
mate. Men are buoyant and energetic un
der almost all circumstances except abso
lute sickness. Our markets are conven
ient. Minnesota is on tho Great Lakes
and on the Mississippi, thus giving her"
the ad\ .ullages of w.Uer transportation.
Worthington is on a trunk line of rail
road which runs daily trains to St.
Paul and Sioux City. As to church
and school privileges and society, these
are admitted to be unsurpassed by
those in any community on the frontier.
The liquor traffic is excluded from No
bles county, and the Colony is compos
ed of a class of people who average
much better in character and intelli
gence than frontier communities gen
erally.
THE GRASSnOPPEltS.
For two seasons Southwestern Min
nesota has had her crops destroyed by
gia&shoppers but enough has been
laised in this section to show the capa
bilities of the soil. Its productiveness
is simply wonderful, and settles our
right to be called the gaiden of the
Stata. The grasshopper visitation this
season was general along the frontier,
extending from Manitoba, in British
America, to Texas. The destruction of
crops in Kansas and Nebraska was ful
ly as great as in Minnesota, and, if the
published accounts are true, the suffer
ing there is greater than here.
WHY "MINNESOTA WAS SELECTED.
2. Our correspondent is at a loss to
know why the foundeis of the Nation
al Colony selected a location in Minne
sota rather than in Kansas. This was
done because Minnesota is vastly supe
rior to Kansas in climate and in re
sources. The founders of the Nation
al Colony tiaveled over 20,000 miles, ex
amining the country from Missouri to
the Red lliver country and from Iowa
to Utah, and after a careful 'Compari
son of advantages decided in favor of
Minnesota. They made special examin
ation of the advantages of Kansas and
Nebraska and rejected these States for
the following reasons: 1. Both are
too far from the great water routes
and hence from market. Farmers can
not afford, as a rule, to raise wheat in
Kansas and the greater part of Nebras
ka and send it to market. 2. Both are
in the ague or malarial belt, and hence
have an unhealthy climate. 3. Kan
sas is subject to drouth, and has suf
fered famine twice fiom this cause. 4.
Neither Kansas nor Nebraska have
anything like the variety of resources
which Minnesota has. Both are prai
rie States, and have good soil/but they
must always be almost exclusively ag
ricultural, while Minnesota is rich in
lumber and mineral resources and in wa
ter power for manufacturing. The piner
iesof Minnesota cover an area of 21,000
squaie miles, and Kansas and Nebras
ka, and even Texas, are now drawing
supplies of lumber from our Minneso
ta mills.,_ The hard wood of Minneso
ta covers an area of about 5,000 square
miles. Coal and minerals are found in
"the Northern portion of the- State, and
coal will be found in large quantities in
Southern Minnesota. Already it has
been found on the Minnesota river and
in one or two Southern counties. There
are thirty-eight rivers in the State,
nearly all of which furnish water pow
er for manufacturing. The Falls of
St. Anthony, with an available hy
draulic capacity of 120,000 horse power
furnish manufacturing power enough
to build up ten such cities as Lowell,
and have built up the beautiful city of
Minneapolis, with a population of 30,
000, in a few years. Hence Minnesota
is fitly called "the New England of the
West." 4. Neither Kansas nor Ne
braska can ever be great pivotal or cen
tral (commercially speaking) States,
while Minnesota is one of these already.
St. Paul is universally recognized as the
commercial metropolis of the new
Northwest. It is to the Upper Missis*
sippi what St. Louis is to the lower, and
what Chicago is to the great central
belt. There is no possibility of any
great commercial center forming with
in 600 miles of St. Paul. Behind St.
Paul lies a region large enough to make
seventeen States the size of Pennsylva
nia, which is now pouring its products
and draws its support through Minne
sota. Hence, every far-seeng man ad
mits that one of the greatest and finest
cities on the continent will be at the
head of navigation of the Mississippi
lliver. There is now over 100,000 pop
ulation within a radius of a few miles
around the Falls of St.Anthony,and this
must soon swell to a population of five
times that number. Minnesota is one of
the great pivotal States, like New York,
Pennsylvania and Illinois, while Kan
sas and Nebraska never can be. They
will in time be rich agricultural States,
having good railroad facililes, but will
be far from market and always
tributary to States like Minnesota and
Illinois and to cities like St. Paul and
Chicago. 5. Notwithstanding the fact
that Kansas has been so extensively ad
vertised and that it lies in the course of
the gfeat travel across the continent,
Minnesota increases in population
much faster than either Kansas or Ne
biaska, and has, in fact, a population
now nearly equal to both these States.
6. And, finally, Kansas pro^ablv has the
advantage in stock growing and in fruit,
while in every other respect Minnesota
has greatly the advantage. But Minne
sota is rapidly becoming a leading stock
State. The Lyndale herd, sold recently
at Chicago, was a Minnesota herd and
as line as any ever sold in America. Of
course these wore blooded cattle, but
then splendid condition is attributed to
our climate and our unsurpassed grass
es. Minnesota is exceedingly rich in
grass and water, and many of her farm
ers are engaging now in stock raising
anddaiijing. Here about Worthing
ton is an excellent region for these pur
poses, and several of our best farmers
are preparing to engage in the business.
There is a lake frontage of from 25 to
30 miles within a radius of eight miles
of Worthington.
CLIMATE.
The climate of Minnesota is its first
and chief attraction, and it is often
said that any one who has lived in this
climate a year is unwilling forever af
ter io live in any other. Here in South
western Minnesota, we claim to have
the climate at its best. We are just
north of Iowa and the ague belt, while
we are several hundred miles south of
the region of extremely rigorous win
ters. Just now the beautiful Indian
Summer weather of this latitude is be
ginning and for a month or two to
come we may expect crisp nights and
clear days with an atmosphere which
exhilarates and almost intoxicates.—
Summers are hot here, the thermome
ter sometimes going up to 102 above
zero, but there is nearly always a good
breeze blowing over the prairies. The
general remark is that it is like being
on the sea shore. The cold winters are
feared by some, but those who have
tried the Minnesota winters are rarely
willing to spend a winter again in the
damper regions. The cokVjis not felt in
this dry atmosphere as it is in the damp
regions of the coast and the lower lakes.
RECAPITULATION.
In conclusion, we repeat that Minne
sota has greatly the advantage of Kan
sas (1) in healthful climate (2,) in near
ness to market and, (3,) in manufac
turing and general resources. Minne
sota is a central or pivotal State, while
Kansas is a tributary State. But, we
say to our correspondent, by all means
come and see for yom self.
FIGURES FOR DAIRYMEN.
[Estheiville Vindicator.]
After the past experience in grain
raising it is plain to most ot our farm
ers that their prosperity in the future
depends upon the quantity and quality
of stock they keep. This is more ap
parent now, than at any previous pe
riod in the history of oiir county, for
although our grain crops have been de
stroyed for two successive seasons, our
crop of grass abundant. In con
nection with cattle raising* the manu
facture of butter and cheese should en
gage the attention of the people to a
greater extent than at present. It mav
not be generally known that a cheese
factory is in successful operation at
Spirit Lake, using the milk of sixty
cows. The factory and machinery
enough to use the milk of three hun
dred cows cost about twelve hundred
dollars. The quality of the cheese
is pronounced first class by good judges,
and sells lapidly at 12i cents per pound,
green. The milk is bought of farmers
and the whey returned to feed calves,
pigs &c. Fiom careful experiments
made it is found that it takes 8£ to 9
pounds of milk to make a pound of
cheese, and that milk from an average
cow will bring twenty cents per day.—
This is iu a country where pasturage
costs nothing, and hay can be had for
the cutting.
B~URNING TIIE PRAIRIE.
$25 REWARD.
THE
Commissionei of Nobles County will pay
TWENTY FIVE DOLLARS REWARD for such
infoim.ition as ,\\ill lead to theappiehension and
cotniction of any neison or "poisons who may
wilfully or caie!es«lv. oyanv means, set fire to
tiie grass on the piaine within the county during
this Autumn, and allowing the same to run be
ond his own premises contrary to the statutes
of Minnesota. By oiderof Commissioners,
W M. M. BEAR,
August lo 1871.—10-3m. Auditor.
Barber & Lawrence,
FEELINoGthe
that it is their duty to bear their
share hardships caused by the destruc
tion of the crops
OFFER THEIR GOODS
FOB
THE NEXT THIRTY A S O
CASH ONLY,
At the following prices and discounts:
All dollar patent medicines
All 50c do do
All 25c do do
All Dollar School Books
All 50c do
AH 25c do
Boiled Linseed Oil, per gal.
Raw Linseed Oil, per gal.
Turpentine
Tartaric Acid
Cream of Tartar, chemically pure
Cream of Tartar, commercial
Castor Oil, commercial, per pt.
Castor Oil, dark, per pt.
Lard oil, per gallon,
Engine oft, per gallon,
Engine oil, per gallon,
Spirits Nitre?per
Aqua aminonl_,, ...
Laudanum, perr oz
Paregoric, per osS
85c
45c
22c
90c
45c
22c
130c
125c
95C
850
50c
40C
50c
35c
HOC
100c
80c
6c
5c
10c
5c
5c
oz.
peroz.
fa
_, --....ro,
Camphor Gum, per o?.
nd all other Drugs in
An all other Drug in proportion.
from this date our customers will please take*
notice that we SELL ONLY FOU CASH. Don't
ask us for credit as we shall be compelled to re
fuse It, and every man's goodsense must tell him
that the credit system, under the present pros
pects, is only another name for certain ruin and
the beggery of our families. "Charity should
begin at Home."
Worthington, July 10, 1874—44tf.
GROCERIES
FREE OF CHARGE
Orders for Groceries left at my store will re
ceive prompt attention, and the goods will be de
livered AT ANY PLACE DESIGNATED FREE
OF CHARGE. We invite all our friends to come
and test our Stock of Groceries and Provisions
for themselves, and be convinced we are selling
them at bottom prices.
We intend to sell only the best of everything
in our line—and at the same time only ask mod
erate prices.
We quote the prices of a few staple goods:
Brown Sugar, 9\4 pounds, *1 00
Yellow C. 8J4 1 00
Coffee A. (white) 8 1 00
Standaid 7J4 100
Molasses fy gallon, 70
Molasses Syrup $1 20
Teas, Coffees, and other goods at correspond
ing prices.
Gioceries and Provisions given in exchange
for Country Produce.
38tf}
C.C. LUCREY.
HO!
For the Spring Trade.
We are now prepared to receive orcters
for
Seeders,
Harrows,
Cultivators,
Persons desiring any of these goods will find our
stock complete.
*S~Also Stoves, Tin and Hardware,
At Panic Prices,
at the Colony Store.
HUMISTON & STOCKDALE.
Town Lots for Sale!
In HERSEY and BIGELOW, on the Sioux City
and St. Paul Railroad.
Desirable Lots for sale the above named vil
lages on favorable terms.
Hersey lias a Hotel, Tost Office, Lumber Yard
and several shops and stores, and is surrounded
by a beautiful country.
Bigelow is near the Iowa line, has also several
stores and shops and is destined to become a
having village.
Apply or address
Wm. H. HUMISTON,
WORTnnwTON, NOBLES CO.,
tf] MINNESOTA.
St. Paul & Sisux City
AND
Sioux City & Saint Paul R. R.
TIME CARD.
Goinq West.
Leave St. Paul at
Worthington, at
An ive at Sioux City, at
Goinq East.
Leave Sioux City at
Woithington, at
Arrive at St. Paul, at
1,500,000 ACRES
PRAIRIE & MEADOW LANDS,
Situated in Southwestern Minnesota and North
western Iowa,
O S A E
at moderate prices with easy terms of payment.
ALSO TOWN LOTS,
in towns at ranvad stations. Land bonds of the
Sioux City and St. Paul Railroad to be taken at
par In exchange for land within their limits.
For particulais addiess: "Land Department
St. P. & S. C. and S. C. & St. P. It. It. Co., St.Paul
Minn.
State Normal School.
MANKATO, MINN.
1. FALL TERM commences August 20,1874/
2. Pupils must be at least fifteen year*, of age.
3. Applicants for admission to the Normal De
partment will be examined in Spelling, Heading,
Writing, Geography, Grammar and Arithmetic.
4. Tuition free to those who pledge to teach
two years in the Common Schools or the tate.
All others will be charged EIGHT DOLLARS
PEE TEKM.
5. Special facilities for those who wish to learn
how to teach.
For further information apply to the Princi
pal- D. C. JOHN,
4G—3w* Mankato, Minn.
Estra Oat.
STRAY.ED
from the subscriber, living on Sec.
20, Town 105, Range 38, near Talbot Lake, in
South Brook township, Jackson county, on the
24th day of July, a large RED STEER. 9 years old
with star in foi ehead. Any one that will return
him or give information leading to his recovery,
will be paid for the same. OLEY RUED,
52tf. Heron Lake Minn.
DR. G. O. MOORE. CAPT. J. W. SMITH.
Colony Drug Store!
Cor. 10th St.& 3d Ave.,
Worthington, Minnesota,
Opposite Worthington Hotel.
Wtth thanks for favors in the past, we desire*
to remind the good people of Worthington and
surrounding country that We are here, ready at
all times to serve them with goods as low as they
can be found in Southern Minnesota.
DRUG DEPARTMENT.
We have a full stock' of fresh and reliable
DRUG S—all standard Patent Medicines—Chemi
cals, Paints, Oils, Dye Stuffs, Window Glassf
Putty, Druggists' Sundries,' Notions, Perfumery,
Toilet and Fancy Soaps.
Prescriptions Carefully
pounded.
Com-
STATIONERY DEPARTMENT.
School Books, Blank Books, Gift and Toy
Books, Letter Paper, foolscap. Legal Cap, Bill
Paper, Plain and Fancy Note Paper, Ini'ial Pam
per, Envelopes in great variety, Pciicils, Pens,
Pen-Holders, Inks.
NEWS DEPOT.
We are now prepared to furnish any publica
tion in the United States at publishers' rates.
Call on us for dailies, pictorials, magazines, etc.
Tobaccos.
Best brands of Cigars—and full line of smokers'
Mateiiiil.
Lamps and Lamp Goods.
A large variety of Lamps and Fixtures,
kinds of Chimneys.
Eight
We have but one price, and that as low as fhe
lowest, and, with our e^peilence, we feel war
ranted in saying that we can make it an object
for you to give us a liberal shaie of your patron
age'.
Articles notftrstock will be furnished on short
notice.
M00RE & SMITH.
March 21,1874.
Plows, etc.
Having Refitted and Furnished
HIS STORE,
AT
Bigelow, Minn.,
IS NOW PREPARED TO OFFER A
Complete Assortment of
General Merchandise,
Cotnsising I pait of
STAPLE AND FANCY
DRY GOODS,
GROCERIES,
NOTIONS, etc.
The Best Goods always on hand at
THE LOWEST LIVING PRICES.
Choice Tobaccos and Cigars.
Terms Strictly Caali on
Delivery.
Bigelow, June 25,1874.—[42
LUMBER,
LATH,
8.00 a
5.00
9.30 p.
5.30 a.
9.42 a
7.00
a
SHINGLES,
Constantly on hand.
OFFICE—At Store. YARD—Corner Ninth St.
and First Avenue.
Bigelow
Minn.
S. 0. MORSE.
Photography.
HUNTINGTON & CO.,
General Photographers,
Removed from 53 East Third Street,
TO TIIE GROUND FLOOR AT
"CKroart S
60
ST. PA UL, MINN.
THE LARGEST,
MOST COMPLETE, AND
MOST ELEGANT
Establishment of the Kind
in the West.
Wholesale & Retail
DEALERS IN
Stereoscopic Views, Frames, Stere
oscopes, & &c.
EVERY KIND OF PICTURE known to the
Art executed in the very best manner possible
and warranted to give PERFECT SATISFAC
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THENATIONALCOLONY
LOCATED
IN SOUTH WESTERN
Minnesota and Northwestern Io
wa.
Twelve Towrishipi
OF
Rich Prairie Land
In Nobles County, Minnesota.
Soil and Climate
The CREAM OF THE PRAIRIES
and the GARDEN OF THE STATE.
The Climate of the Mountains and the
Soil of the River Bottoms.
Government Lands.
Several Townships of GOVERNMENT
LAND in the. County STILL VA
CANT.
RAILROADS
These
lands are on the Sioux City & St Paul
Railroad which runs daily tiains to both
cities.
Towns and Villages.
Three THRIVING VILLAGES grow
ing up in the Colony.
Worthington the Business, Railroad,
Social, and Educational Centre of a
large extent of country.
TRJkDBL
NINE COUNTIES NOW TRAD
ING A WOli THING TON.
FARMING.
A FARMING POPULATION of sev
eral thousand now on the lands and
the County RAPIDLY FILLING
UP.
The National Colony is organized up
ona TEMPERANCE BASIS. No IN
TOXICATING BEVERAGES sold in
the County.
EDUCATION.
Good PUBLIC SCHOOLS and a SEM
INARY OF LEARNING now in
operation at Worthington.
Advantages.
FERTILE SOIL,
CONVENIENT MARKETS,
HEALTHFUL CLIMATE,
CHRISTIAN SOCIETY.
Superior Mail, Railroad, School, Church
and other Privileges.
NO AGUE,
NO CONSUMPTION,
NO LIQUOR TRAFFIC,
NO DESPERADOES,
NO INDIANS.
RAPID INCREASE IN THE VALUE OF1
LAND ASSURED.
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JOURNAL, giving full particulars, to
MILLER, HUMISTON & CO.,
Worthington, Notoef County, Minnesota.
A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER PUB
LISHED EVERY SATURDAY
AT
Worthington, Minnesota.
Tlrtf ADVANCE IS the regularly-Issued county'
paper,'rfndthe only newspaper published in No*
bles county. To persons abroad who contenv
plate coming to the National Colony, the A©-*
VAscE will prove of great value, as it will ehron
tele from week to week every step in the progress*
of the Colony, and will give besides a great quan
tity of valuable information concerning the*
prairies of the West/
DEPARTMENTS.
FARMER'S DEPARTMENT.
Special prominence will be given to all ques•'
tions affecting the interests of the farmers, anrf
to agricultural topics. An account of every farmf
in the county wfll be given. Correspondence
solicited from farmers. Write facts and obser-'
vatroirS upon farming matters, and the editor
ill nut them in shape for the press. Particular
atte*rtlton will be given to the subject of Tree'
Culture, as one of vital importance to this part of'
the'West.
LAND DEPARTMENT.
Reliable information will be given concerning
the securing of Government Land. Letters of
inquiry as to the homestead and tree-claim laws
will be promptly and correctly answered through'
the paper, and all the decisions of the General
Land Office which can be obtained will be pub
lished.
COLONY DEPARTMENT.
7*56" ADVANCE, as intimated above, will be sr
map and l.Ntoiy o? the National Colony. Air
questions relating to the soil, cllinnte, and other
natural advantages, and to the development o(
Southwestern Minnesota, will be faithfully ai*
swered1.
N E W S AMD LOCAL,
The ADVANCE will give a general summary of"
the news of the world, but its aim will hi to be
come a first-class local newspaper, devoted espe
cially to home news and home interests. Corres
pondence from the different townships and fronf
the several counties tiibutary to Worthlngtorf
solicited.
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