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LOCAL.
WORTHINGTON. MINN., MAY 30. 1874.
CHURCH DIRECTORY.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL.—Rev. J. W. Lewis,
f0:30
tastor. Services every Sabbath, morning at
Sabbath School at 2:30 P. "Worthing
ton Praying Band," Sabbath evening at 7 o'clock.
Pray meeting Thursday evening at 7 o'clock.
PRESBYTERIAN.—Services in the west room on
first floor of Miller Block. Sunday School at 12
o'clockeach Sabbath. Rev. W.l* Jackson. Pastor.
UNION CONGREGATIONAL.—Services morning
and evening. Sunday School immediately after
the morning service. Praver meeting Thursday
evening.
Cards, Bill-heads, Letter-heads, En
velopes, Posters and Job Work gener
ally done with neatness and dispatch
at the ADVANCE Office.
A general teniiterance meeting of all
the churches will be held to-morrow
evening at Miller Hall under the au
spices of the County Temperance Un
ion.
Mr. Moll is building a neat house on
Tenth Street.
Mr. Grant is building an addition to
his house on 11th Street.
Mr. Alley has put a sod wall several
feet thick around his corrall.
Radishes, Lettuce, Onions and Aspar
agus at Luckey's Provision. Store on
Monday. it.
Seethe advertisement of Mrs. Stevens
who is receiving weekly the latest styles
of Millinery and Fancy Goods at her
store on Ninth Street.
People who want to see the most sub
stantial sidewalk and the neatest board
fence in town are requested to call at
the coiner of Fourth Avenue and
Tenth Street and see how easy it is to
make Mrs. Ensign's lots look 100 per
cent, better.
Special attention is called to the new
advertisement of C. C. Luckey an
nouncing that hereafter he will deliver
goods abouc town free of charge. Mr.
Luckey is determined to keep up with
the times both as to stock and to meth
ods of doing business.
Much needed improvements are now
going on at the foot of Third and of'
Fifth Avenues. Third Avenue is be
ing graded below the Third Avenue
Hotel, an 1 a gxd street will be made
to the Lake. Fifth Avenue is also to
be graded to the Lake by private sub
scription. About $100 have been rais
ed to put in a neat and substantial
bridge, and to make a good street.
It is refreshing to see how the cotton
wood trees in the park grow. Last
year they put o:t timid little head's
about the size of a peck or half-bushel
measure. Now some of their heads
are as large as a good-sized barrel.
The attention of our canine friends
is invited to the ordinance requiring
that they shall not appear on the streets
ithout collars on. This seems to be
an "unjust discrimination," which is
forbidden by the railroad law, for men
appear on our streets every day with
out collars on. Then the dogs are not
permitted to be at large at all without
a license. The constable is authorized
to shoot, them down "like a dog," or
a man down South, in case they
appeal* without collars.
New signs are now in order. Moore
& Smith have put up one about 30 feet
long, gotten up by Mr. Harrington in
his best style, The letters are gilded
and read about like this,
COLONY DRUG STORE.
Mr. C. C. Luckey has also put up a
large sign over his Grocery and Provis
ion store. Benton & Goodnow have
also put out a neat new sign.
The transformation which Fourth
Avenue has undergone since this date
last year is certainly very pleasant to
see. Looking out the street from the
Hall, it is decidedly the handsomest
street in town, with its trees, its
sidewalks, its fences and its neat resi
dences.
PERSONALS.
A. D. Perkins, of Windom, was in
town on Tuesday.
Mr. Lumbard,of Fiskdale, Mass.,has
been here for several days looking for
a location.
J. H. Cunningham, of Graham Lakes,
was in town Tuesday.
G. A. Slater, of Hennepin county,
is here visiting his brother-in-law, Mr.
Coons, and is looking about the Colony
for a location.
Mr. Chidley and Warren Smith, of
Graham Lakes, were in town on Thurs
day.
A. A. Parsons, of Hersey, was in
town on Thursday.
Mr. Bartlett and Mr. Hall, from
Maine, were stopping at the Worthing
ton Hotel during the week. They are
looking at this part of the West with a
view to locating.
Mr. Gibson and lady, of Chicago, are
making a Summer visit to friends in
Worthington, and are the guests of
J. C. Clarke. Mr. G. has fully deter
mined to make Worthington his home,
and will leave Chicago as soon as ar
rangements for so doing can be com
pleted.
Gov. Miller was in town yesterday.
It is understood that he will not ac
cept the appointment of the Receiver
of the Bismarck land office. We hope
he will not, for his services are needed
along the line of the Sioux City and
St. Paul Railroad.
Hon. E. P. Freeman was in town on
Thursday attending a case of contest
before the Land Office. This was the
case of D. S. Law against the Rev. Mr,
Clianey, a case which excited a good
deal of interest.
Messrs. Sykes and Funk, from near
Quincy, Illinois, left for home yester
day. They have secured some 1,200
acres of land here with a view to mak
ing their home in the National Colony.
Colony Maps for sale at the ADVANCE
Office.
THE ADVANCE
An eastern journalist of long
experience in the profession writes
the following cordial and hearty com
mendation of the ADVANCE
"I must congratulate you on the
great improvement you have made in
the ADVANCE. Under the new man
agement it is the best country paper I
know of, and if the people of the Na
tional Colony do not give it a liberal
support they will prove unworthy of
their wide reputation for liberality and
a progressive spirit. Such a paper as
you aie making of the ADVANCE is of
incalculable value to any community—
indeed its value cannot be estimated in
dollars and cents. And this is espe
cially true of a community like yours,
founded upon the great principles of
Morality, Education, Temperance and
Industry. If you are supported in
your work as you deserve to be, you
will soon be rich and famous."
And what can we more say, for time
and space would fail us to tell of how
we shall work wonders, subdue king
doms, and give our readers several
times the worth of their money when
we get our enlarged edition.
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.
On Saturday evening last, about dark,
a heavy thunder cloud passed southeast
of Worthington, discharging some very
sharp lightning. After one of the dis
charges, parties in town noticed that
almost instantly a large, bright light
shone up from the prairie in the direc
tion of Captain Miner's residence on
Prof. Humiston's Ocheeda Farm, and
for a time it was thought that this house
had been struck and fired by lightning.
Several persons ascended to the obser
vatory on the Worthington Hotel and
after looking for some time at the light
concluded that it was caused by the fir
ing of a straw stack.
On Sunday afternoon the light was
accounted for. Word was brought to
town that the house of Mr. Hendrick
Solomonson, a Swede, living across
Ocheeda Lake, about six miles south
east of Worthington, had been struck
by lightning and burned, and that Mr.
Solomonson's body was burned with the
house. The family, consisting of six
persons, (Mr. S., wife, and three chil
dren and the father of Mr. S.,) had fin
ished supper only a short time before
the house was struck. Mr. S. and the
oldest boy were sitting near the window
both reading the Bible Mrs. S. was in
the act of descending into the cellar
with some articles from the table, the
smaller boy holding a light, and the
father of Mr. S. was outside of the
house preparing to wash. The young
est child lay in the cradle near the par
tition wall. Near this partition also
stood the stove. The lightning struck
the chimney, broke the stove to pieces
and scattered it about the house, knock
ed out the partition and one end of the
house and let the roof aud the ceiling
down. The lightning passed into the
earth in one corner of the cellar making
a hole in the ground some five inches
in diameter and so deep that the work
men who cleared away the debris were
unable to find the bottom. The house
took fire immediately. Mrs. Solomon
son was hurt about the head by pieces
of the stove, but she recovered in time
to make her escape from under the fal
len building. One of the boys escaped
with his mother and the other one es-Miller,
caped through the window in the end
wall. The ceiling rested upon the cra
dle, but the infant child was unhurt,
and the mother succeeded in drawing
it out just in time to save it from the
flames. Mr. Solomonson, it seems, was
caught where he sat and held fast by
the demolished building, being appa
rently dead. The oldest boy succeeded
in getting hold of his father's hand by
reaching through the window in the
fallen Avail, and, with the assistance of
a neighbor who had arrived, every ef
fort was made to extricate the body.
The flames, however, drove them away
in a few minutes and the family could
only look on in helpless agony while the
body was consumed. The floor soon
gave way and the body fell through in
to the cellar and for some time could
be seen leaning against the cellar wall.
The flesh was burned from the bones
and a portion of the bones was also con
sumed.
The house and all the contents were
consumed and the loss is estimated at
about $1,000. Lumber to rebuild the
house has been donated and quite a sum
of money has been raised for the relief
of the distressed family.
We acknowledge the receipt of an in*
vitation from the editors of the Spirit
Lake Beacon to attend the Editorial
Convention for Northwestern Iowa, to
be held at that place on the 17th of
June. Unless we shall have a rush of
job work like that which has over
whelmed the Jacksen Republic, we
hope to attend.
We intended last week to announce
that Prof. Bagley proposes to give a
Concert of Vocal and Instrumental
music, but the slip containing the an
nouncement was mislaid. He will be
assisted by his brother.
Mr. Amos Smith and family will
leave for New York on Monday next.
We regret to lose them from our midst.
Mrs. Smith has been a favorite and
faithful worker in the Union Congre
gational Sunday School, and her class,
consisting of Captain Smith's Jennie
and Mattie, Ella Grant, Berta Law,
Willie Grant, Charley Anderson, By
ron Plumb and Allie Coons, surprised
their teacher a few evenings since by
suddenly appearing at her house and
presenting her a handsome picture.
DECORATION DAY.
As announced last week, the Grand
Army have made preparations to cele
brate Decoration Day (to-day) in an
appropriate manner. The exercises
will begin this afternoon at half past
one o*clock. Dr. J. A. Leonard will de
liver the opening address and Maj. T.
C. Bell the addresss at the Cemetery.
We learn that David Twitchell yes
terday received a severe cut in the wrist.
THE NATIONAL COLONY.
Once again (but not once for all) we
wish to announce that the National
Colony is located in Southwestern Min
nesota and Northwestern Iowa, and
that in these sections is contained what
is called the cream of the prairies. We
do this because we wish to say a word
to our friend of the Sibley Gazette in
response to an article which appeared
in that paper last week* The Gazette
says:
As regards soil we have heard it inti
mated that it is low and wet, with nu
merous sloughs near W. Certain it is
that Sibley receives a good deal of
trade that would naturally go to W.
but for bad roads. Concerning the
Advanet, itself, we always expect to
get something fresh and livelv in its
columns, and are never disappointed,
but we must confess that we do not
like so much assumption of extraordi
nary advantages possessed by the Na
tional Colony—as though the hinds of
that Colony were especially favored by
gods and men.
Now we do not wish to be under
stood as comparing Worthington with
Sibley, for the former is a "city" and
the latter only a lively village, but have
noted a few facts of general knowl
edge. We do insist, however, that we
have as blue a sky, as balmy an air, and
as excellent a soil as the good people of
the Natioual Colony.
And so do we. Sibley is only 18 miles
from Worthington, and the mere fact
that an arbitrary "State line" crosses
between the two towns does not change
the soil nor the climate. The Nation
al Colony extends into Osceola county,
Iowa, and many of the settlers now lo
cated there, and whose trade goes to
Sibley, were attracted to this part of
the West by the advertisements of Mil
ler, Humiston & Co., setting forth the
advantages of this locality. The Colo
ny Company have adveitised these
prairies to the extent of a column to a
column and a half in between four hun
dred and five hundred different news
papers throughout the United States,
and have done more to call attention to
the State at large than any one
company has ever done, not excepting
even the railroad companies.
The, soil and the climate of the Na
tional Colony arc especially favored of
"gods and men." And we want to say
to the Gazette about what we intimated
last week to the Rock Co. Herald, that
when surrounding papers attempt to
detract from the National Colony they
detract
ufrom
themselves. The AD-
VANCE has spoken for all this section of
country and not this County alone.
Southwestern Minnesota and North
western Iowa are "all of a piece," and
are destined to become one of the finest
garden spots of the West. As to Wor
thington and our people, we take a just
pride in them, and we have the testi
mony of scores of outsiders that the
community is a model one in culture
and character.
For three years the National Colony
Company has been shaking the bush
and the surrounding counties have
been catching a good share of the birds.
Of course, the greater part remain here
in Nobles County, but Hock, Cotton
wood, Jackson, and Osceola across the
line, have scores of settlers who were
b"ought here through the agency of
Humiston & Co. Thus are we
doing good to those who "despitefully"
use \is. We are overrunning them
with blessings and with generous treat
ment, and, without confessing it to
themselves, they are adopting our ideas.
The temperance feature is a leven which
is pervading the whole lump of coun
ties around us, and all the children are
beginning to cry to come up to Worth
ington and go to the Seminary. We
shall not stop doing good to our neigh
bors because they receive it in a nar
row spirit.
THE GRASSHOPPERS.
We have nothing very new to report
concerning the grasshoppers. They are
haying a vigorous growth and their ap
petites seem to be good. Thus far the
damage is chiefly in prospect, and far
mers are beginning now to be somewhat
afraid of another loss of crop. In some
places they have injured the flax to some
extent, which they seem to prefer to the
wheat. They are not generally distrib
uted throughout the county, but we do
not see why they cannot deploy at
any moment and caver all the ground.
The birds are eating thousands of them
and farmers are fighting them in vari
ous ways. Mr. Ames drives them into
winrows of hay or straw and burns
them. Pi of.-Humiston put the "roll
ers on his wheat and crushed them as
they kept accumulating in front of the
"rollers."
We learned yesterday, from a gentle
man who lives- near Clear Lake, in
Jackson county, that they had eaten off
the wheat of one or two men near the
town of Jackson that west of that
place there are not many of them, and
that east of the town, extending east
ward into Martin county, and south
ward into Emmet county, Iowa, they
are quite thick and are cutting the crops
badly. This gentleman is positive in
his belief that the first hatch are gone
and that the whole hatch are working
in a southeastward direction as rapidly
as possible. He thinks also that they
are sparing the crops because they feed
mostly on the prairie grass while it is
young and tender.
We see by the Sibley Gazette that they
are doing some damage along the road
as far as Le Mars. The Gazette says
"The oldest inhabitants, those who
have seen their ravages before, do not
seem to manifest any alarm, for they
say that in 1867 they were there in great
numbers, deposited an immense quanti
ty of eggs, but on hatching out in the
spring of 1868, they left about as soon
as they got wings big enough tofly,do
ing no material damage, and that crops
were about as good as usual." The
Sioux City Journal has reports covering
an area of 400 miles, and says the re
ports are generally favorable and that
serious damage to crops is not appre
hended.
NOBLES COUNTY FARMS.
Farm of J. Ames—Beginning of a Mod
el Farm.
As heretofore announced, we expect
from time to time to give accounts of
the farms and farmers of Nobles Coun
ty. We shall begin this week with the
farm of Mr. Jonathan Ames, which
thus far we regard as the model farm
of the county, for general order, neat
ness and thoroughness of cultivation.
Of course, everything, so far, is in a
crude shape, but Mr. Ames is laying
the foundations of what in a few years
will be a farm which will not only glad
den his pocket with substantial returns,
but will please his taste with its beauty.
Mr. Ames has contracted for some
2,000 acres of land which he proposes
gradually to bring under cultivation,
but the farm of which we speak con
tains only 320 acres, and lies across the
lakes on section 35, presenting a half
mile front to the railroad. Along this
front Air. Ames has set soft maple,
willow, European larch and chestnut
trees. The "whole 320 acres are now
under the finest cultivation of any land
we have seen in the county. Mr. Ames
has insisted upon deep plowing and
upon laying his farm off into lands
which are measured almost to the inch.
Thoroug plowing and harrowing and
deep dead furrows have made the farm
look almost as smooth as a garden.
Mr. A. has out this year 150 acres of
flax, 80 acres of wheat, 40 acres of corn
and from 40 to 50 acres of tame grass.
His flax is already from three to five
inches high/and he says he never saw
flax grow so rapidly nor so beautifully.
The house is built on a rise about
twenty or thirty rods from the road
and commands a good view of the East
Lake and the town. The slopes of this
rise have been set with evergreens and
fruit trees, and north and west of the
slope groves of forest trees are planted.
The approach to the house is by two
winding carriage roads. In a few
years the house will be surrounded with
a beautiful lawn set with shrubbery
and fruit trees, and Mr. A. will have
shown farmers how much a little ex
penditure aud taste will do for a farm.
GRASSHOPPER CONVENTION.
The Grasshopper Convention on
Tuesday, at Windom, was attended by
about 200 persons. Nobles County, so
far as we can learn, was not represent
ed. The contention passed a resolu
tion requesting Governor Davis to ap
point Ex-Governor Stephen Miller a
commissioner to visit Washington and
ask relief of the General Government.
A motion was also carried to ask Con
gress to grant settlers the right to
leave their claims until after the grass
hopper raid is passed and they can pro
cure seed for another year. A com
mittee of one from each county repre
sented was appointed to make a can
vass and ascertain what relief is need
ed, the result to be reported to Govern
or Miller at once.
The Convention was probably prema
ture and the result of the apprehended
loss of another crop. We still believe
that the grasshoppers will not woik a
general or very serious destruction of
crops the present season, for this would
be contrary to precedent, and we do
not think an appeal to the General Gov
ernment necessary unless there should
be another loss of crop. Even then, we
think the State should render the nec
essary aid. That there are many fam
ilies in Jackson, Nobles, Rock, Murray
and Cottonwood counties who will need
aid to carry them until harvest cannot
be denied, but after that time, should
there be a good crop, Southwestern
Minnesota can rake care of herself.
We ought probably to say a word here
concerning a letter from Jackson coun
ty which appeared the St. Paul Press,
saying that the people of the State had
been imposed upon by Warren Smith
and others sent out to ask aid. This
of course comes fron an irresponible
person and is denounced as libelous by
all honest men in the several counties
which have received aid.
An infant child of Mr. L. F. Bennett
died on Thursday night. The funeral
will take place to-day at 10 o'clock at
the Union Church.
The Mortgage sale advertised else
where did not take place on Tuesday
last owing to the refusal of the Deputy
Sheriff to make the sale. By reference
to the .advertisement it will be seen
that the sale will take place on Tues
day next.
MINOR ARRIVALS.
Dr. Moore went to Hersey at tele
graph speed a few days since to meet a
little settler at the residence of Chas.
A. Barrows. A plump boy, and worth
a cool half million dollars—to his pa
rents.
COR RESPOND EN CE.
FROM HERSEY.
HERSEY, Nobles Co Minn., May 29,1874.
EDITOR ADVANCE:—Mr. T. Conger went
through town this week with 30 head of cattle
for his farm in the town of Fairview. He Is get
ting in lumber to build him a barn 40x60. Who
beats it
Grisshoppers are numerous. Experiments
are being tried to check their ravages on crops.
A careful investigation of their habits should be
made, and the results placed before the public,
so that the people where they may make their
next raid may be forewarned, which may do
much toward their final destruction. In case
they should stop here and deposit their eggs for
the next crop we shall know what to do, and it
will be our duty to our country to do it.
A new settler, of the masculine gender, called
on Mr. Chas. A Barrows a few days since, and
the present indications are that he will make
ids home.
Mrs. Watson Is soon to leave the Hotel at this
place to respond to a very urgent appeal from
her friends in Osceola, Wis., where she used to
reside.
Martin Heiser is building a large addition to
his store, which he will use temporarily as a
dwelling house.
If the grasshoppers commence at the outer
edge of your garden or field of grain, set aboard
12 inches wide edgewise so close to the ground
that they canuot crawl under, around the lot,
and sec if they will hop over. Try it.
LITERARY NOTICES.
The Aldine, for June contains ten
fine engravings and from sixteen to
twenty large pages of reading matter.
Several of the engravings are views on
the Missisquoi and are full page size,
say 8 by twelve inches. We regret
that we have not space to speak of the
Aldine as it deserves. Any one who
wishes to cultivate a taste in his child
ren for genuine art cannot afford to do
without the Aldine. We can hardly
estimate its value in money, but we see
that it sells at 50 cents a number.
Published by James Sutton & Co.,
58have
Maiden Lane, New York.
DemoresVs Monthly, for June, contains the
usual colored and other fashion plates, and a
great deal of interesting reading matter. The
two dresses In the colored plate, we should say,
In our general ignorance of sucli matters, are
"nice," and we should like to see Mrs. ADVANCE
with one of that kind on. DemoresVs Young
America accompanies the Monthly. It contains
much matter of interest to the Boys and Girls.
Tfie Nursery, for June, contains a number of
pictures, stories, etc., for "youngest readers."
For all the little people who have not yet grown
up to the "Little Corporal," this is the best pub
lication. Published by J. L. Shorey, 36 Broom
field Street, Boston.
WOR THING TON MA RKETS.
WHEAT 90c 1,00
FLOUR flbbl. 6,0"ft9 00
CORN bushel tot* 95
HAY W ton 4,50 6,00
BEANS. WHITE, f? bush. 1 4
BUTTER
8
'20
EGGS «doz. ft
GROCERIES-COFFEE 33e.@45c TEA 50 1,00
SUGAR, (Coffee A 12 @l:«:Ex.C 12® 13
Brown 10 lie SYRUP 65 1,00 RICE 12U
SALTWbbl. 3,sj
PROVISIONS—PORK (mess) bbl, 20,00
HAMS 16c: SHOULDERS 10® 11
BACON 13c LARD 13® 17c: D. APLS 16 @17
PEACHES 14® 20
COAL W ton 6,50 (H 8,00
LUMBER—Common f)m. l(i,oo@20,00
FINISHING 35,00@40,00
SPECIAL NOTICES.
20 Gallons new Maple Syrup just received at
MOORE & SMITH'S.
5,000 Pickles in brine at
O O E & S I S
A new $500 PIANO for $300. Warranted six
years. CHAS. F. HUMISTON. [38
The Smith AMERICAN ORGANS for sale
38] by CHAS. F. HUMISTON.
Choice Roasted Coffee cheap at Bennett Bros.
Seed Corn, Fieid Peas, Buckwheat and Beans
at Bennett Bios.
1000 liolls Wall Paper, Newest Spring
Patterns, at
BARBER & LAWRENCE'S.
Good goods at low prices at Bennett Bros.
Good Cigars for ocents, at Bennett Bros.
Moulded Linen-Faced turned
Collars at 2oc a Box, at
BARBER & LAWRENCE'S
edge
Pearl Barley and Split Peas, at Bennett Bros.
Sugars by the Barren cheap at Bennett Bros.
A large stock of Notions, Balls, Cut
lery and Perfumery just received at
B. & L.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Millinery & Fancy Goods.
Mrs. A. A. Stevens is receiving weekly a sun
ply of M.l-LINERY AND FANCY GOODS at
her Store on Ninth Street, opposite the Thiid Av
enue Hotel. Ladies are respect 1 nil invited to
call and examine the Goods, which are all NEW
AND IN THE LATEST STYLES. Age for
Madame Demorest's Patterns. [3\\38
GROCERIES
E I E E
FREE OF CHARGE
Orders for Groceries left at my store will re
ceive prompt attention, and the goods ni be
livered AT ANY PLACE DESIGNATED FREeE
OF CHARGE. We im ite all our iriends to come
and test our Stock of Groceiics and Provisions
for themselves, and be convinced we are selling
them at bottom pi ices.
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 priee? of a few staple goods:
Brown Sugar, 9]4 pounds, $1 00
Yellow C. 8Vi 1 00
Coffee A. (white) 8 1 00
Standard 100
Molasses fl gallon, 70
Molasses Syrup $1 20
Teas, Coffees, and other goods at correspond
ing prices.
Groceries and Provisions given in exchange
for Country Produce.
38tf]
C. C. LUCKEY.
Two desirable Farms near A'orthing
ton for sale. Also House to rent. Ap
ply to WJ S. STOCKDALE.
FOR SALE.
A building, suitable for a store and dwelling,
on Tenth hti eet, t\v floors noi tli of 01 thington
Hotel. Also about 80 acres of land near the vil
lage all of which will be sold at a bargain.
[4w37] C. P. FAKE.
OKABENA HOUSE I OR SALE.
The undersigned wishes to sell the Okahena
Hotel, located on Ninth street, in Woitliiugtou.
The house has a good inn of pationaire, and
good stabling for teams. Am compelled to
change business on account of the ill health
my «i fe. For p.u ticulars add ress.
[36tf] C. P. STOUGII.
TAKEN UP.
By the subscriber, in Elk township, four mare
colts and one horse colt. Two of tl horse colts
are son el, two ba. and the mare colt dark gray.
All have white in face. The owner will please
prove property, pay charges and take the same
away. [3w35] S. NELSON.
FOR SA LE.
House and Lot on 10th Street, enquire of
32t] BENTON & GOODNOW'.
WANTED,
A few good Milch Cows suitable for Stock-rais
ing and Dairy purposes. Inquire of
E. S. MILLS, Bigelow, Minn.
THE PHOTOGRAPH
FAMILY RECORD
Is and Elegant Oil Chromo, Photograph Album
and Family liecord Combined, and is designed
for the insertion and preservation of the pictures
of the family as well as the names. It is some
thing new. beautiful, useful and attractive, and
should ornament every home in the land. All
who see it pronounce ft superb, and are lavish
in its praise. The faces of dear ones appear in a
tasteful setting of gold and beautiful colors, and
it is at once and forever a household treasure.
Price, $1.00. Mailed, post-paid, on receipt of
price. A GOOD THING FOK AGENTS, Men
and Women, Boys and Girls: whole or spare
time, day-time or evening. Agents wanted ev
erywhere. COMPLETE OUTEIT mailed, post-daid,
on receipt of price. Address tiie BEVEHLY COM
PANY, 284 Wabash Ave., CHICAGO.
THE GEM
I O S O E
Is the most wonderful scientific production of
the nineteenth ceuturv. It furnishes the power
of a high priced instrument for -i mere tiifle,
and exceeds in usefulness any microscope ever
invented. It reveals the hidden wonbers of
God's minute creation—as Eels in Vinegar, Ani
mals in Water, Butterflies' Feathers, the Golden
Marrow of a Hair, etc., etc. liaison/tows TRI
CHINA SPIRALIS or pork Worm, xrhorerer
it exists in pork. IT IS Jl'ST THE THING FOK
CHILDREN AND YOUNG FOLKS, and grown
folks too. Price, $1.50. Sent by mail, post-paid,
on receipt of pi ice. A GREAT CHANCE FOK
AGENTS. Agents wanted everywhere. Men
and Women, Boys and Girls whole or spare
time, day time or evening. COMPLETE OUTFIT
mailed,_post-paid, on receipt of price. Address
THE BEVERLY COMPANY, 284 Wabash Ave..
CHICAGO.
Village Ordinance.
OBDHUMCBBO.12.
An Ordinance relating to the Running at Large
of Dogs, and to the licensing of the same.
The CommonCouncil of the village of Worth*
ington do ordaL. as follows:
SECTION MO person or personsrestdlncwlth
in the village of Worthington shall, after the lath
day of June, A. D. 1874, suffer or penult any
dog or puppy, owned, harbored, kept or possess
ed oy him or them, to he or go at huge In said
Tillage, or to be or go off the premises owned or
occupied by such person or persous, or to be or
K» in anv street, alley or public ground within
said Tillage, unless such dog or puppy shall
been duly licensed, registered, numbered,
described and collared, as hreluafter provided.
SBC. 2. Any person desiring to procure a li
cense for any dog or puppy shall apply for that
purpose to the Village Recorder of said Tillage,
and shall pay to said Recorder for such license
one dollar for a male dog, and two dollars for
female dog. The Recorder shall thereupon is
a book kept for that purpose, the name of the
owner, the name, description and registered
number of said dog the date of the license and
when it shall expire and the license shall agree
with the record in all essential respects. The
owner or keeper of such dog for which such il
cense shall have been issued, shall cause such
dog to wear around its neck a collar distinctly
marked with the owner's name and the register
ed number as shown by said license.
Dogs may be licensed at auy time but all li
censes shall expire on the first day of April .next
following the date of such license.
SEC. 1. Whoever shall keep or harbor about
his or her premises, a dog or puppy without hav
ing it licensed and collared, according to the
provision of this ordinance, and shall suffer or
permit such dog or puppy to be or go at large or
off his premises in violation of the provisions of
this ordinance shall be punished by a fine of ten
dollars, to be recovered before the village Justice
of said village.
SEC. 4. whoever wrongfully removes the col
lar from any dog licensed and collared in ac
cordance with this ordinance, or steals any such
dog, or exposes any poisonous substance to be
eaten by any such dog, shall be punished by a
fine of not less than five nor more than fifty dol
lars upon conviction before the village justice of
said village.
SEC. 5. Whenever any person shall be con
victed befote the village Justice of any violation
of the provisions of the first three sections of
this ordinance, upon the complaint of any per
son, such person so complaining shall be entitled
to receive from the Justice before whom such
conviction is had, one half of the penalty or fine
imposed for such offense.
SEC. 6. It shall be the duty of the village eon
stable to kill or cause to be desteoyed all dogs
not licensed and collared according to the pro
visions of tills ordinance, and for killing or des
troying such dog and disposing of the carcass in
a proper manner shall receive out of the vil
lage Treasury the sum of seventy-five cents.
SEC. 7. This ordinance shall be in force and
take effect from and after its publication.
Approved May 21,1874.
J. CRAFT, President
C. C. GOODNOW, Village Recorder.
Published May 30,1874.
TEED & BAKER,
•KtntlL DEALRM19
Ready Made Clothing
GENTS FURNISHING GOODS,
Have just received a very fine stock of Spring
and Summer Clothing of the Latest Styles, which
we are selling very cheap for cash.
Also Clothing made to order by a first-class
workman. Please give us a call. [4w35
WOR THING TON SEMINAR
FOR. YOUTH or DOTH SEXES,
AT WORTHING Toy, XOBLES CO. MIXN
ON THE ST. PAUL & SIOUX CITY
RAILWAY.
This Institution is announced In accordance
with the declaration of the founders of the Na
tional Colony, that the early establishment of
seminary of learning, on a liberal basis, at some
favorable point, was part of their plan.
It has been Judged advisable to put the enter
prise under denominational control it is, accord
ingly, Introduced under tile patronage of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, and as auxiliary to
Hamline University. It will be conducted in
the most cathode spirit: the object being to unite
liberal culture with the precepts and spiritof the
Christian system.
The Seminary building, now known as the
Methodist Church Block, is spacious and attract
ive, and .admirably located. It fronts on the
Public Square, in Worthington, within a short
distance of West Okabena Lake.
It is intended to make the Seminary an honor
to the State—the equal of any similar Institution
in the West. The board of instruction is already
large and embraces, in an unusual degree, both
the experience and ability essential to success.
As occasion demands it will be enlarged and
nothing shall be wanting to the completeness of
the several departments.
The contemplated course of study will cover a
period of three years the design being to pre
pare students for a collegiate course, or to quali
fy ,them to engage successfully in business pur
suits. Preparatory classes, however, will be
ormed, especially for the first six months, during
which time, it may be presumed, many will be
unprepared for the regular course.
While the school in Itself will be unequivocally
Christian, it possesses, also, the external advan
tages of location in a community not only highly
intelligent and moral, but uncurst by the liquor
trafic. This nefarious trade, the prolific source
of poverty and crime. Is, by law, utterly exclud
ed from Nobles county. No thoughtful parent or
guardian will uudcr-estimate the importance of
this most significant fact.
Prof. Humiston takes charge of a department
with which he has been long and honorably con
nected, aud brings with him, as a gift tot he in
stitution, philosophical and chemical apparatus
worth six hundred and fifty dollars.
PRICES or TUITION.—In order to extend as far
as possible, the benefits of the institution, to those
who desire it, and to meet the stringency of the
times, tuition, for the first six months, will be but
•5.00 per quarter. This charge will be uniform
for all studies except instrumental music, French
and ornamental needlework.
Address all communications in regard to the
Seminary to B. H. CKEVEK, Worthington, Nobles
Co., Minnesota.
BOARDING.—Students can, during the coming
winter, be accommodated In private families on
reasonable terms. Immediate efforts will also be
made to provide for any students who may pre
fer to board themselves. As soon as the success
of the institution is assured, a boarding house
will be added to our present accommodations.
BOARD OF INSTRUCTORS.
B. If. CKEVEK, A. M., Principal.
Mental and Moral Science.
K. F. HUMISTON, A. M.,
Natural Science.
CHAS. T. DUNNING, B. A.,
Gree Iat»n aud Mathematics.
CHAS. H. BAithows,
Book-keeping and Peunanship.
MART H. CKEVEK,
Instrumental Music—Pianoand Organ
CLARA J. CRAFT,
French.
J.CRAFT. M. D.,
Voeal Culture.