The Worthington advance. [volume], July 06, 1906, Image 1

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VOL. XXXV.
IMPORTANT
CAPTURE
Sheriff Fauskee Arrests Youthful
Forger Wanted in
Illinois.
The Offender was Captured at
Brewster Some Time ago
But Escaped.
Last Saturday Sheriff Fauskee
added another imporant arrest to
the long line already to his credit
when he secured the person of
Ralph Nelson, wanted at Tuscola,
111., op charge of forgery.
A mdnth or more ago Nelson
appeared at Brewster, where he
formerly resided, and the officers at
that place arrested him upm re­
quest of the Illinois authorities and
placed him in the village lock-iip.
During the night Nelson made his
escape and has successfully eluded
his would be captors uatil last Sat­
urday when Sheriff Fauskee arrested
him south of Adrianr where he was
working on a farm.
Nelson who is but twenty years
of age, stated that he went direct to
Adrian after his escape from the
Brewster calaboose, and had' been
working in that vicinity ever since,
taking care not to exhibit himself
in the towns. He relied upon a
general belief that he had left this
part of the state to secure him free­
dom, and his theory worked well
for a time.
Sheriff J. S. Baker of Tuscola,
111., arrived this week with re­
quisition papers and took Nelson
back to stand trial for his offense.
GRAVE CHARGES ARE MADE
Petition for Removal of a Jackson
Be­
fore the Governor.
The application of W. G. Duulap
for the rem val from otBce of County
Commissioner H. G. Anderson, of
Jackson countv, van presented to
Gov. Johnson today by .State Sena­
tor Somerrille. A commissioner will
be
nam» to take testimony and the
final hearing will be given in the
matter Wednesday, Aug. 1. This
trouble arose out of the proceedings
for the removal of the county seat
from Jackson to Lakefield. The pe­
tition charges that Anderson forged
names to the petition for the removal
that he solicited T. E. Eluess to re­
move his name from the petition by
the offer of a bribe of $20 that he
used his influence to defeat the pe­
tition, and that the petitioners were
never given a fair bearing before th"
county board.
The above frcm the St. Paul Dis­
patch gives the latest move in the
county seat fight over in Jackeon
county. Mr. Anderson is chairman
of the county board, a leading citizen
of Jackson county and w© scarcely
believe he can be guilty of the offense
charged.. If he could be temporarily
deprived of office the board would be
a tie on all matters affecting the
county seat removal, a gain for Lake
field.
Sunday School Picnic.
The members of the Swedish
Lutheran Sunday school tfna con­
gregation held a most enjoyable
picnic at the farm of William Olson,
south of town, last Friday. In
addition to the usual games and
sports there was a program consist­
ing of songs and recitations and a
brief address by the pastor Rev.
Swan.
Some excellent music was
furnished by the Svea band which
made its first public appearance on
this occasion.
Taken all together it was a day
long to be remembered by those
who participated.
Depot Burned.
The ^maha depot at Sheldon was
destrdjpetf by fire Thursday.
CONTRACT
AWARDED
For the Erection of the New
Congregational Church
Building.
It Will Be a Handsome Addition
to Our Church Edifices.
On Tuesday the building board of
the Congregational church com­
pleted the contract for the erection
of their new church building, the
contractor being J. H. Peterson, of
this city and the contract price
$6,000.
The new building will be erected
on the site of the former church
which was destroyed by fire, at the
corner of 3rd avenue and 11th street,
and will be completed and ready for
dedication not later than November
1st The plans call for a very hand­
some building 50x50 feet, the foun­
dation and basement to be built of
brick and stone and frame above.
The design is entirely different than
any church structure in the city and
cannot fail to attract favorable at­
tention.
The basement will be divided into
furnace room, Sunday school room,
class room and kitchen, leaving the
entire ground floor in a large audi­
torium.
It is designed to use hot air for
heating purposes and ample radia­
tion has been provided to make the
building comfortable in the coldest
weather.
Work is to* be commenced at once
and will be pushed as rapidly as
possibly until the building is com­
plete.
INSTALLATION SERyiCES
Officers of the Christian En­
deavor Society of Presby­
terian Church
Installed.
At the Presbyterian church last
Sunday evening a special program
was rendered s$id a public installa­
tion of the newly elected officers of
the Christian Endeavor society
held. The program opened with a
violin solo by Miss Pearl Luehrs.
accompanied on the piano by Leslie
Luehrs. This was followed by a
vocal solo, sung by Clifford Loveless
at the conclusion of which came the
roll call of members and the taking
of an offering for missions, after
which the pastor Rev. E. W. Lan
ham installed the following officers
of the society:
President—Miss Avis Voak.
Vice President—Fred DeBoer.
Secretary—Miss Myrtle Clark.
Treasurer—Miss Prue Town.
Pianist—Miss Lillian Webb.
Assistant Pianist—Miss Muriel
Ramage.
Circus Breakfast.
Miss Frances A. Clark gave a cir­
cus breakfast at her home Thursday
morning. The guests were aroused
from their slumbers at half past
four and went down to the circus
grounds to see the trains unloaded.
Then by nine o'clock all were
gathered at her home where break­
fast was served. The occasion was
one of great pleasure to all. The
guests were the Misses Virginia and
Blanche Matteson, Myrtle Jeffers
of Windom, Lucy Ecker of Heron
Lake, and Irene Meyers of Hastings.
Messers Jet Smallwood, Raymond
Hawley and Sherman St. John and
Ed Gibbeo of Heron Lake and
Ernest Foss of Madelia.
A Handsome Souvenir.
Twelve specimens of wild flowers
from Yellowstone National Park
pressed and mounted in a neat
portfolio, with six half tone illus­
trations of scenes in the park makes
a very pertty souvenir of the
National Park which is truly
nature's own Wonderland.
Mailed post paid for 50 cents.
A. M. Cleland, G. P. A.,
Northern Pacific Railway,
St. Paul, Minn.
Lawn Party.
Last Friday afternoon Mesdatnes
E. J. Wolven aud Edward V. Voak
entertained a party of about forty
ladies on the Wolven lawn. A vferv
pleasant social afternoon was en­
joyed by those iu attendance.
Married.
At the residonce of the bride iu
this city on Saturday June 3PUi
occurred the marriage of Miss
Ejn'na Tryon to E. Peters, of
Oelwein^ Iowa. The groom was a
former resident of this city but is
now employed as a boilermaker iu
the shop3 of the C. & G. W. rail­
road at Oelwein. The bride has
long been a resident of this city,
where she has many friends.
Death at Round Lake.
At the family residence in the
village of Round Lake on Saturday
evening of last week occu^ajysije
death of Charles Antritter at1 the
age of 59 years. His death fol­
lowed several years of suffering
from a cancer and came as a wel­
come relief. Deceased is survived
by a wife and several children.
The funeral was held on Monday
and was largely attended.
Nearly everybody has heard of
the famous Carolina Jubilee Singers
whose portraits appear above and
many have enjoyed their singing.
They have been engaged for the
Voting Contest Closed
The voting contest conducted by
Advance closed at 6 o'clock July 4th
Mies Nellie Johnson of Bigalosv woa
first place and tbe gold watch, and
Miss Julia Hylaud wen second place
and the set of encyclopedias. Tbe
young ladies are to be congratulated
on their success. The friends of Miss
Johnson were particularly entbusiatic
and loyal Jin their support of their
candidate.
The following is the ie ult of the
vote.
Nellie Johnson 9552
Julia Hylandi 4575
Bessie Tripp 2250
Margaret Ackerman 1400
Iva D. Schuck 1180
Nellie
Plan to Come to the Chautauqua Assembly at Worthington August 6 to 14
The Patterson Sisters, St. Paul
Above we present photos of the") I is very pnn.=ual to fin 1 four sisters
Misses Patterson, of St. Paul who I with a perfect blending of voices
compose the Patterson Sisters for auartstte singing, but they have
quartette which will appear at the tiie reputation of being among the
Worthington Chautauqua ufremfcon
1
aud evening of Monday August ljfth- Chautauqua platforms.
The Famous Carolinian Jubilee Singers
Lyon 640
Addie Ely 600
Myrtle Beard 555
Amy.Darling 525
Clara Main 460
Carrie Sorem 450
Edith Ciark 450
Esther Peterson 400
Mary Mitchell 350
l.^st iadies quartettes now on the
fire Cracker Causes Fire.
The small boy ami tire cracker
combination got iu their work early
last" Saturday morning with the re­
sult that the tire department got a
hurry up call and Lou Holbrojk is
short a Darn and uiw the later
being cremated. Thm barn was
located beyond the reach of thn
hose so that the department was
unable to do more than, watch the
flames, complete their work of
destruction.
The fire was caused by a sm.:l
boy throwing a lighted tire cracker
into the hay loft of the barn.
Picnic and Campfire.
The Misses Lear treated a party
of young people to a sail boat ride
la-t Friday afternoon, followed by
a picnic supper and campfire at the
Foe .sea ow grove. It was a meet
enjoyable affair.
Library Notice
The Worthington public library
is again open every day aud even­
ing excepting Sunday. The at­
tempt to open only a portion of the
time proved very unsatisfactory to
the patrons and the board decided
t^ return to the old method.
first three days of the Worthington
Chautauqua, August 6, 7 and 8,
when all will have an opportunity
of hearing them in their almost in­
exhaustible repertoire.
Claudia Was burn 3C0
Mary Leuhrs 225
Grace Cass 175
Vianel Brock 175
Rose Buckuol 150
Mbrgaret Brooks 150
Ida Hagerman 150
Presbyterian Church Services,
Sunday July 8th, '06.
Rev. L. F. Badger of Mankato,
Pastor at-large of Mankato Pres­
bytery, will occupy the pulpit at
the morning service, and in the
afternoon will preach at Reading.
Rev P. A. Schwarz Jr. of Win­
dom will occupy the pulpit at the
evening service.
A large audience should greet
both of these gentlemen, for they
bear the reputation of being strong
preachers.
T. M. McCra«fcen was in from
Dewald Thursday.
ThTee pocket books were found at
the circus grounds during the after­
noon performance yesterday and re­
turned to their owners by tbe secret
police connected with the circus.
WORTHINGTON, MINN FRIDAY, JULY 6, 1906. NO. 38
Worthiugton's Fourth of July
Celebration of 1906 will always be
remembered by its citizens and the
great throng of visitors present as
one of the bes|j and. pleasantest in
the history of the city. The day
dawned bright and clear, aud the
weather all day was simply ideal.
It was just warm enough to be
pleasant. The crowds began to
arrive in the early morning and by
the middle of the forenoon the town
was well filled. The Rock Island
trains bought in about 250 people
from the south and 100 people from
the north The Omaha lines
brought in upwards of 1500 from
the north, south and west. It is
conservatively estimated that there
were 6000 strangers in tbe city dur­
ing the day.
The exercises were inaugurated
by the time honored salute ot 100
guns at sunrise, and from that time
on the rest of the day the ubiquitous
small boy kept up the noise, without
any preoeptible intermission until
the wee small hours of the next
morning.
Music furnished by three bands
all day. They were the Windom
High School Cornet Band of 27
pieces, the Rock Rapids and Sibley
bands of 20 pieces each.
At 9:30 the Industrial and Cali
thumpian parade began to form on
second avenue, and headed by the
Windom Band, marched down 10th
street to 6th avenue, thence down
6th to 11th street, thence south on
11th to 5th avenue up 5th to 10th
street, up 10th to 2nd avenue. The
Windom band was followed by
Co. F, M. N. G., then came the
speaker of the day and county and
city officials and citizens in carriages
then another band and the Cali
thumpians, then the last- band and
the Industrial section.
Tbe following awards were made
for the different features of the
parade:
Industrial section —Best float,
Anderson & Benson, 1st., W. E.
Moses 2nd.
Calithumpians—First, Lew Hol
brook 2nd, Carl Anderson.
Best decorated family turnout—
T. A. Palmer.
At 11 o'clock the crpwd assembled
in tbe court house square, where
the speaking was held. S. S.
Smith, in a neat little address wel­
comed the visitors and then intro­
duced Col. J. A. Town, who in
his usual happy vein made one of
his characteristic popular hits.
The oration of the day was de­
livered by Gen. Wallace B. Douglas,
of, St Paul. Gen. Douglas is a
speaker of national fame and on
this occasion he fully sustained his
reputation.
From 12 to 1:30 the time was
devoted to satisfying the inner man,
and hundreds of family groups
dotted the green in the courthouse
square, the park, lawns, and even
vacant lots. The hotels, restau­
rants an other eating places were
fairly overrun by the hungry
crowds.
A GRAND. SUCCESS
The Demonstration on July 4th
in Worthington Was One of
the Most Delightful in
City's History.
Ideal Weather, Big Crowd and Splendid
Program Combined to Make the
Celebration a Record Breaker
Every Visitor Went Home Well (Satisfied,
With a Good Will for Worthington
At 1:30 the program of street
sports was started. The following
is the result in the several events.
Men's race—I. Pettit, 1st E.
Rodgers, 2nd.
Boys race—Jas. Moore, 1st Ole
Danielson, 2nd.
Three-legged race—M. Ramage
and David Tripp, 1st Smith and
Shumaker, 2nd.
Old men's race—C. A. Tatum, 1st
R. S. Hurd, 2nd.
The grease pig was caught by E.
M. Dewey.
In the money shower for boys
Will Bunt carried off the prize.
In the tug of war between
Worthington township and the rest
of the world the town of Worthing­
ton carried off the prize.
The judges in these events were
He^ry Hornstine, 1. P. Fox. and
riarry'Kies.
At the conclusion of the sports
program the crowd repaired to the
fair grounds where other amuse­
ments were scheduled. The first
was a pony race, in which there
were many entries. Henry Horn­
stine took first money and T. A.
Palmer second.
The chief attraction, and one of
the bast features of the day was the
base ball game between the Heron
Lake and Lake Park teams. The
following is the lineup of the two
teams:
Lake Park—Rettig, ss., F. Blair,
If., W. Blair C., Fay 2nd b., Flint,
p., Kitts, 3rd b., Rouse, cf., Bock
1st b., Winters, rf.
Heron Lake—Gebbic, cf., Van
derberg, If., Smith, ss., Robson,
Is b., Drews, 2db., Barnes, c.,
Brown, p., Kelley, rf., Johnson 3d b.
The grounds were in fair condi­
tion, and the game was hotly con­
tested, until the 7th inning, when
costly errors netted the Heron Lake
boys several runs. The result of the
game was 12 to 6 in favor of Heron
Lake. E. J. Jones umpired.
After supper the crowds were
entertained with a game of water
twse ball, in the lake. This is a
very interesting sport, and the
large crowds which witnessed it
were greatly pleased. The contest
was between Brewster and Worth­
ington. The latter team won by a
score of 6 to 0.
The celebration closed with a dis­
play of fireworks on the lake shore.
The crowd was good natured and
orderly all day, and everyone
seemed pleased with the exercises
and their treatment in Worthington.
A good many stayed over until the
next day to take in the circus, and
as the hotels were over crowded
they took in the bowery and other
dances.
Rushmore was well represented
at the celebration on the 4th.
Robt. Wilson of Chicago, is here
on a visit at the home of his uncle,
Judge G. W. Wilson.
Rev. R. L. Webber of Marshal],
district organizer for the Sunday
School Union' was here a number of
days this week visiting old friends.