Last year it was admitted to be a great THE WlNTEB. esfern j^Avnntf. THE OKABENA FLOUBINQ cleansed, and made to yield its share of and established fact. A the beginning EXEMPTION FROM EVILS. An old resident of the State said recently MILLS—THE LARGEST MILLS flour. COST OF CRIME. of the third year, it is looked upon that in sixteen years he had SOUTHWEST OF MINNEAPO- It is an old adage that there is no royal A gentleman who visited the Colony Messrs. Sutton & Lundy have invested PCBUSHBD WEIKLY, AT as the most prosperous and promising known but six winters more severe LIS. road to wealth, and it is a true one last Summer from a county in Iowa from $40,000 to $50,000 in their mill, WORTHINGTON, NOBLES COUNTY, MINN. new community in the State, and its than the one now closing. This is that there is no place where men are where there is little liquor sold, said and when working to their full capacity, In November, 1872, Mr. C. Z. Sutton, influence is felt not only throughout Terms Tiro Dollars per year, Invariably In advance. equivalent to saying that the average exempt from the ills of life. Neither that crime had cost his county but $100 they manufacture over 100 barrels All orders will receive prompt attention. of the firm of Sutton and Lundy, from Minnesota, but throughout a large portion winter in Minnesota is not severe. is there any frontier life without its Communications intended for publicationmust for the year previous, while in the adjoining of flour a day. Their returns from near Dayton, Ohio, visited Worthington. be accompanied by the real name and address of of Iowa and Dakota. Worthington Last winter was an exceptionally hard hardships. Let no one come to the National county where liquor is freely the writer as a guaranty of good faith—not necessarily New York, to which most of their flour The character of the people, the for publication. is admitted to be the principal town one throughout the whole country, and Colony expecting that this is a sold, crime cost the people $6,000 for is shipped, will in ordinary times be temperance and educational features of and business point in Southwestern was, according to the records kept at garden spot growing crops without the same year. Nobles county may COLONY INFORMATION. from $500 to $800 per day, which will, the Colony, and the-prospect that these Fort Snelling, the severest one known Minnesota, and it is conceded by nonresidents tending, or that this cream of the prairies justly claim to be the banner county in in the main, be distributed among our We devote a page of this issue to giving prairies would soon be waving with in the Northwest in fifty years. But that it must become a city of will produce butter without churning. this respect. Thus far crime has cost farmers and laboring men. information concerning the National miles of wheat, determined the selection the present winter has been nearer the the magnitude of Mankato at least. Men must labor and wait here as us comparatively nothing. Two cases of Worthington as his future Tiiis is only the initial mill of a series Colony. We hope that our foreign average Minnesota winter. The weather elsewhere, and must undergo some of As to the moral influence and standing of assault and battery and three prosecutions home and base of operations. He returned which will soon be demanded at this subscribers, and others to whom this has been mild and generally beautiful. the hardships of pioneer life. What we of the Colony it is beyond that of for selling liquor the first year to Ohio and at once began preparations point. We are in the heart of an excellent issue is sent, will read the paper and Clear, crisp, sunny, invigorating claim for the National Colony is that any community in the West to which constitute the criminal record ot No for transferring his mills to wheat-producing country, and then hand it to their neighbors. days have been the rule, and there has both climate and soil are exceedingly our knowledge extends. The sale of bles county for two years. As population this place. Early in May, 1873, Messrs. with ninedifferent counties now trading been no disturbance of the elements favorable that the Colony managers ADDRESS. intoxicating liquors as a beverage has increases, there will doubtless be Sutton & Lundy began the erection of here, the wheat which in a few which rose to the dignity of a storm. are spending tens of thousands of dollars All letters addressed to Miller, Humiston for two years been excluded from Nobles an increase of crime, but our present almost years will pour into Worthington, will the mill, which was completed in September. Sooie blustering days we have had, and in locating settlers on government & Company, Worthington, Nobles County educational institutions absolute exemption from crime*' As this is the most important require a vast system of elevators and occasionally, for half a day, there have lands and in building up the agricultural .county, Minnesota, will be promptly have been successfully inaugurated and due chiefly to the exclusion of the liquor manufacturing enterprise which has mills to dispose of it. Five to ten been such demonstrations in the sky and other interests ol the county, answered, and full information given a remarkable energy has been displayed traffic, is afact beyond any question. thus far been established in our midst, years hence will witness an endless procession as to suggest a "blizzard," but the barometer and that there is no other frontier community concerning the National Colony. in church work, the Methodist Episcopal We can give the money which would go of teams winding along Okabena a detailed description of the mill will has s' eadily pei sisted in predicting in the country where men can Church purchasing Miller Hall at a to prosecute criminals and support paupers, be of interest. Lake, bringing the golden Minnesota good weather, and the barometer REMITTANCES. start with so many advantages and favorable cost of some $7,000 and Union Congregational to the building up of our public staple to a series of mills like that The building is four stories in height, All remittances for Certificates of has been true in its prognostications. surroundings. Society building, as before library, our schools, and our churches. of Messrs. Sutton & Lundy. and with the machinery cost between Membership, lands or other investments During the greater part of the winter stated, a beautiful church at a cost of The claim is justly made that we have in the Colony, should be made by express, $35,000 and $40,000. Attached to the the sleighing has been good and there THE TEMPERANCE FEATURE. between $3,500 and $4,000. These features fertile soil, convenient markets, healthful MINNESOTA AIR. mill is an elevator with a capacity to Post Office Order, or Bankers' have been few days too severe for a The temperance feature of the National have shown such a high state of climate, and cultivated, Christian It is not probable that Minnesota air store from 30,000 to 40,000 bushels of Drafts payable to the order of Miller, child to be abroad enjoying the sleighing. Colony is a fact. It is rigidly enforced. moral and religious development in the society that we have superior mail, differs in essential constituent elements wheat. The engine which drives the Humiston & Co. On New Year's day the Union Public sentiment sustains law, community, that a prominent position railroad, school, church and other privileges, from any other air. But there is more machinery is one of eighty-five horse Sabbath School of Worthington enjoyed and there is not a grog-shop in Nobles and a wide influence are inevitable. and that we have no ague, no oxygen and less foreign material or impure HOW TO COME tO THE COLONYAll power, with balance wheel twelve feet a sleigh-ride on Okabena Lake. There county. The town charter of Worthington The foundation of the National Colony consumption, no liquor traffic, no crime, vapor to every lung full, than persons living east and south of in diameter and weighing about four were over twenty sleighs in the procession, contains a clause of perpetual no ruffians nor desperadoes, no Indians is now fairly laid in an enduring moral there is in probably any other air below Chicago, should go to that city and take and atlialf tons. Messrs Sutton & Lundy which was headed by the Worthington prohibition. There was a severe struggle and no poisonous reptiles. There have and material basis, and the superstructure the mountain altitudes. In fact, Minnesota the Ciiicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul had not originally intended the introduction Cornet Band, with flag flying, the first year, but the liquor element been one or two imported cases of ague cannot fail to be one of the most might be called a mountain railroad to St. Paul. The connections of the Middlings Separator and so mild was the day that many saw that the Colony managers and the and of crime since the Colony was remarkable in the West. State, though there is not, strictly by this route during the greater part of into their mill, but on arriving here of the children went without gloves colonists were determined to enforce founded, but this climate is remarkably speaking, a mountain on all its surface. the year are close, and colonists will they found that they could not manufacture and wrappers. Up to January first, not the temperance feature and it withdrew. free from both physical and moral malaria. WORTHINGTON. The whole State lies at such an altitude save time and expense by going that flour of the best brand in the a day passed without the customary Prof. Humiston prosecuted three liquor A gentleman who has held an important that it might be considered a way. Those who have certificates of market without this process, and therefore game of croquet in the yard of the sellers who attempted to sell liquors State office, and who has seen nearly mountain-top twice as large as all New membership will save $8 45 on each determined, at an additional expense Worthington Hotel. here the first year: he retained the best THANKSGIVING. all the larger towns of Minnesota England. The Mississippi River rises ticket between Chicago and Worthington of some $10,000, to introduce the legal talent which the State afforded, This is an "open" winter in Minnesota. grow from a few huts to populous and The colonists of the National Colony in this State and flows southward, the and from 25 to 40 per cent, on Separator. The Middlings Separator and the Colony Company set aside Settlers from tiiose states where wealthy centres of trade, recently said have originated a unique method of observing Red River of the North rises here and freight. The run from Chicago to this is a Minnesota invention and can be $5,000 to push the cases clear through an "open" winter means rain, mud and that Worthington was undoubtedly flows northward, and the great Lakes Thanksgiving Day. Two such place is made in from 30 to 33 hours. applied, we urderstand, only to the the Supreme Court, if necessary. The a laige proportion of the population occasions have passed since tie Colony destined to become one of the important rise in Minnesota and flow eastward. harder varieties of spring wheat raised people promptly formed a Temperance sick, are decided in their piaise of this GOVERNMENT LAND. towns of the State. Located as it was founded and each was celebrated In fact, it is down hill in all directions in Minnesota and the Northwest. The Alliance which held weekly meetings 'climate. While they read of impassable There are several townships in Nobles is, just half way between Mankato and by a general gathering of the people at from Minnesota. Hence we catch the flour made by this process commands and public sentiment was kept screwed roads, of business almost suspended County in which the government lands Sioux City, and being so located that balsamic breezes that blow down over Worthington to partake of a bountiful from one to two dollars more per barrel up to the sticking point. The liquor because of the mud, and of much remain almost untouched. The 1 mds it is naturally the best point at which dinner, followed in each instance by hundreds of miles of northern forests in the New York market than the sellers and their friends soon succumbed sickness and many deaths in their former neatest the villages and the lailroads nine or ten counties can meet the railroad, toasts and responses, music and social befoie they have taken up a breath of best St Louis brands, or than the best and we claim to have the cleanest community, homes, they are enjoying bright are, of couise, taken, but the vacant it cannot fail to expand rapidly malarious impurity or lost any of the enjoyment. On the second occasion of brands made from winter wheat.— morally speaking, in the West. skies, good sleighing and the most exhliberant lands are near projected railroads, and the kind between 500 and 600 persons into a thriving city. In fact, nine virtues gathered from the pine forests. From the New York Exchange Reporter and abounding health. No post offices and countiy stores are established counties are now trading here, and took dinner, and under the stimulus and Price Current we quote the following, Where, then, is the top of Minnesota? The difference in latitude between disease whatever has prevailed here during almost as soon as the lands Worthington is recognized as the business, of what is known as the Minnesota giving the price of leading Minnesota Singularly enough, the top is in the the Winnipeg country, where some of are taken. the winter. It is a rare thing to railroad and educational centre of appetite they ate about fifty turkies, and St. Louis brands: southwestern corner of the State. The the finest wheat and largest vegetables meet a person with a cold or a cough. a large extent of country extending into several flocks of chickens, a few loads highest lake in Minnesota is Okabena on the continent are grown, and Southern GROWTH OF THE NATIONAL Minnesota Sup. Extra, $8.70® #12,25 Three or four deaths have occurred during Iowa and Dakota. of pumpkins baked into pies, and then 1st. Louis Tuple Extra, 8,90® 10^25 Lake, whose "voice of many waters" Minnesota, where the National Colony COLONY. the winter, two of the persons being browsed over vast fields of other pies, lulls the people of Worthington to sleep At present we have but one railroad, is located, is as great as the difference The letters received at the Colony office In the manufacture of this brand, infants and one an aged man who cakes and articles of food besides. on summer nights. The waters of and we do not anticipate the building between Northern Ohio and Southern the flour passes through the usual process, indicate that the influx of settlers died of apoplexy. While numbers of New En glanders Okabena Lake flow southward through of any other road to this point in less Kentucky. that portion which is separated will be greater during the present than were compelled to forego the customary Two points, then, seem to be settled Ocheeda Lake to the Missouri River, time than from three to four years.— from the middlings and barrelled up the past spring. The panic and the Thanksgiving turkey on account of the Southwestern Minnesota is admitted definitely in the minds of the settlers and northeastward through Heron Nor do we think it would be to our advantage open and disagreeable winter in the forming the second best brand. The financial pinch, there was no one in the to be the garden of the State and to in the National Colony, viz.: that, in Lake to the Mississippi River. The to have another road at present. middlings are then passed through the States south of us, have turned the attention National Colony who was not invited contain the cream of the prairies. both soil and climate, Southwestern highest point in Minnesota, from In five years time the country separator and the dark particles are of thousands toward the newer to line his stomach with "good capon Minnesota is unsurpassed. 1,200 to 1,800 feet above the level of the Southwestern Minnesota has the climate now tributary to Worthington will lands of the great Northwest, and many separated from the white. These white and fat turkey. sea. lies on the ridge about four miles of the mountains and the soil of have made the town of so much consequence THE WORTHINGTON SEMINARY. particles are then returned to the burrs are already packing their boxes to start west of Worthington. Hence we claim One of the interesting features of the that it can command the branch the river bottoms. and re-ground. Thence they pass to for the National Colony. A few have occasion was the awarding of two silver the climate of the mountains. On this to Sioux Falls and also the Southern From the first the founders of the the bolting cloths and the flour thus arrived thus eaily in the spring and are wheat crop of Minnesota last point, the testimony is all one way. medal prizes for the best two specimens Minnesota which is now feeling its National Colony determined upon two putting houses upon their lands. At obtained is the whitest and best brand year was about 28,000,000 bushels. Minnesota There is no more healthful region on of bread baked from flour furnished by way westward. The town once established tilings. One of these was that the sale known in the maikets of the world. the beginning of another Colony year, raises more surplus wheat than Messrs. Sutton & Lundy of the Okabena the Continent. Men in this section and recognized as an important of intoxicating liquors as a beverage therefore, it may be interesting to review To form a clear idea ot the mill, we all the states and territories west of are alive with a superabundance of oxygen Mills. These gentlemen contributed city, other railroads will be greatly to sho'Jld be prohibited within the Colony briefly the growth of the Colony. must begin at the beginning and follow the Mississippi, not including the Pacific and electricity. Men die here as a barrel of their best brand which commands our advantage in making this a jobbing limits, and the other was that the Colony the wheat until it is finally barrelled side. The National Colony, as most of our well as elsewhere, but they live a lively $12 25 in the New York market and manufacturing centre. should be made an educational centre. up in the foim of flour. The wheat is readers are aware, began to settle here when the best St. Louis brand commands life while they do live. No man can Botli purposes have been carried DAIR PROD UCTS. For the information of persons leceived at the second story of the elevator, in the spring of 1872, just two years escape the cares of life bv coming to but $10 25. The flour Was made out in good faith. A Seminary of learning We learn that Mr. John Alley is preparing abroad, we give the subjoined details then passed to the story below ago. At that time there were a few the National Colony, but he can secure from the middlings of Minnesota Spring has been established at Worthington to open a dairy farm in this vicinity. The largest buildings in Worthington and is thence elevated to bins above, settlers about Okabena, Graham and increased strength to his back-bone to wheat. There were some forty competitors at which the young can secure as That this section will in a few are Miller's Hall, built at a cost of over there being separate bins for the different Indian lakes, but those who arrived at bear them. for the prizes. The bread was the good an education as can be secured at years become one of the finest dairying $7,000 the Worthington Hotel, built grades. When ready to grind, the Worthington as early as April looked wonder and ad niration of every one. similar institutions in the Eastern regions in the West, no one can doubt at a cost of about $10,000, and the Okabena wheat is elevated to the cupalo of the A. SUMMER ItESORT. in vain over nearly the whole vast prairie Here were settlers from New York States, while at the same time they are who considers our luxuriant grasses, Flouring Mills, which cost from mill, (which may be called the fifth story,) for a single habitation. By the Graham Lakes, near the northern Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, and other safe from the temptations of the liquor our numerous lakes and our dry winters. $35,000 to $40,000, and have a capacity and there passed through a storage first of June about fifty houses could line of Nobles County, is destined to States who did not hesitate to declare traffic. The New York Bulletin., in a recent of over 100 barrels of flour a day.— separator which runs about 400 bushels become one of the favorite lake resorts be counted in Worthington, and between that the bread was the whitest, the article, speaks of the steady growth The Worthington Seminary was opened There are three other hotels in the an hour. Thence the wheat passes to 100 and 200on the prairie around of Minnesota. Theie aie three crystal lightest and the finest they had ever of this branch of business and of the in November last, with a corps of place, the Farmer's, the Third Avenue the story below, or the fourth story, the town. The improvements in the lakes, set in a frame of timber, which seen. Some who had just arrived in high prices prevailing, aud says: eight teachers. The design of the Seminary, and the Okabena, all good sized houses. and is there run through an Oats and pass under the name of Graham Lakes, town the first year cost between $80,000 the Colony, and who had been notified as announced by the founders, "It needs oniy to be pointed out to be Weed Separator which separates the and within a radius of six miles there and $100,000. Probably 10,000 or 12,000 before coming to Minnesota that they recognized as a fact, without demonstration, is to prepare students for a collegiate wheat from whatever oats, weeds, etc., Nearly all branches of business are acres of land were broken during the are some ten or twelve moi lakes. For must prepare to eat dark bread, were that this industry offers unusual course, or to qualify them to engage successfully it may contain. Thence the wheat induce nents to capital seeking investment represented, prominent among which breaking seoson of that year. During a quiet resort, with good fishing, boating astonished to see such snow-white and in business. The institution for, as we have shown before, passes to the next or third story and is are three stores for general merchandize, and bird shooting, we do not know the spring of 1873, the influx of settlers beautiful loaves made from Spring wheat is under the patronage of the Methodist this state of the trade is not the run through the Smutter, which scours three hardware stores, three lumber of their equal. There are at present was probably not as great as the first flour. result of any accident, nor of short Episcopal Church, and is designed the berries and passes them to the next yards, two drug stores, two flour and year, but the town nearly doubled in very inferior .accommodations for visitors crop anywhere, but is the result of to beauxilary to the Hamline University, or second story, where they are again causes which have been steadily growing feed stores, two meat markets, one at this resort, and but little effort A FINE VIEW. substantial improvements during the already located between St. Paul for the past two years, and are still run through a smutter and then raised Day before yesterday we took a boot and shoe store, one clothing store, has been made to advertise the place, past year, the principal buildings erected operating to an indefinite extension of and Minneapolis and destined to become into bins just over the burrs. There sleigh-ride to the highest point in Minnesota, one confectionery, one grocery store, being the Okabena mills, at a cost yet last summer trom fifty to a hundred the same result. In our last review we the fading Methodist institution are five run of stone in the mill, four in company with a gentleman one furniture store, one fuel yard, one of between $35,000 and $40,000, and the persons were turned away for lack of showed why the consumption of this of learning in the Northwest. Those for wheat and one for corn. The wheat from Michigan who is looking with reference food was much more rapidly increasing livery stable, one bank and one printing accommodatiops, and already letters Union Church, at a cost of from $3,500 preparing for college may prepare at than its production, and that the causes is then passed to the burrs and ground, to opening a mercantle house and office, one harness shop and a variety are beginning to arrive from parties at to $4,000. During the year a public library, were in their nature permanent. the Seminary for entering the Freshman and the meal is carried up to the top farm here. This point is four miles of mechanical occupations. There a Seminary of learning, a bank, Cincinnati and elsewhere asking if accommodations or the Sophomore classes. story and passed to the bolting chests, West of town on the State road. The HERSE AND BIUELO W. are also in the place three lawyers, can be had. Mr. Warren and a number of new branches of business There are two villages, with railroad stations, The success of the Seminary from its of which there are two single ones and day was not as clear as usual, yet on three physicians, two dentists, two jewelers, Smith, of the "Island," we learn, were opened, and the town more in the Colony besides Worthington. These are one double one. These chests are each opening was a surprise to its most sanguine looking around nearly the whole county four real estate dealers and four than doubled in business, social, educational intends to enlarge his house with a named Hersey, lying in the northeastern part of 20 feet long and 18 high, the single ones lay in sight. Northeastward we friends. Great credit is due the builders. There are two grain warehouses and church interest. Throughout view to accommodating guests. An the county, and Bigelow, lying southeast of having each 3 reels and the double one 6 saw the timber on Graham Lakes, some Rev. B. H. Crever, who was the founder Worthington. Both are rounding Into thriving besides the grain elevator connected effort is being made to secure the location the County the amount of breaking villages, with postofnee and stores of various of Carlisle College, Pennsylvania, reels. From these bolting chests the 18 miles distant and moving the eye with the Okabena mills. of a hotel and water-sure at these was increased to about 15,000 to 20,000 kinds. Hersey has quite a large hotel for a small flour is carried to the packer for this for his labors in securing the early opening further to the east, we saw the timber acres, and the farming population lakes during the coming summer.— It may also be an interesting fact village. The country aronnd each of these villages brand of flour and packed for shipment. on Heron Lake, some 22 miles distant of the Seminary, and his services reached between 3,000 and 4,000.— There is no finer point on the western is all that any farmer could ask. About that there are in Worthington some were cheerfully recognized by his election The middlings are carried to the Separator, from our point of observation, and then Bigelow it is more rolling and will always be praries for the location of a hotel and Granges of the Patrons of Husbandry fifteen or twenty college graduates and well adapted tofruit and wheatgrowing. About of which there is one in the upper to the Presidency of the institution. looking to the southeast, we saw, and an Agricultural Society, said to be water-cure, than the second point on some ten or twelve persons who now Hersey the country Is more level, bnt the land story and two in the third story. His efforts were vigorously seconded twelve miles off, the timber on Round the largest county society in the State, the Bookstaver place now owned by are or have been teachers of music. lies beautifully. To our eye, there is no finer The meal passes over a series of silk Lake. Ocheeda and Okabena Lakes, by Prof. R. F. Humiston, who has had Mr. Ames. This point commands a prospect in the county than that about Hersey. were organized. Hundreds of thousands There are two schools in the place, twenty-five years experience as an educator, cloths which allow the portion to be reground were, of course, plainly seen and apparently Seven miles north of Hersey lie Graham Lakes, view of nearly the whole East lake, and of trees were planted, superior a graded district school, with two and abont ten miles eastward lies Herou Lake to pass through, while the other and who has accepted the department near, aud Worthington loomed breeds of stock in many instances were from the top of the hotel, on any clear teachers, and the Worthington Seminary, the timber on each of the lakes being in sight. portion is carried off and received at of Natural Science and donated imported, better farm houses were constructed, day, the eye could see twenty lakes, and up on the shore of the West Lake like Both Hersev and Bigelow must become the centers with a corps of eight teachers. to the Seminary, at a cost of between the end of the Separator. The white the towns of Worthington, Hersey and of quite a local trade. There Is a strong and even before a wheat crop a young city. Although the country There is tu one church edifice in the particles which fell through the cloth $500 and $600, a quantity of probability that a colony of Cumberland Presbyterians Heron Lake. On mornings when there had been raised, our farmers were pulling is not seen to advantage when covered place, a beautiful house, with basement, from Pennsylvania will locate around are then carried down again to the beautiful apparatus for the illustration down their barns and building was a looming mirage, the country witii snow, the view was beautiful. Hersey during the coming summer. built by the Union Congregational burrs, re-ground and passed again to of physical science. Chas. F. Dunning, would be visible for 30 or 40 miles in greater. The most extensive farmer in When the prairie is green and the lake Church at a cost of between $3,500 B. A., of Delaware, an experienced educator, the bolting chests, whence the flour is all directions, and it would be worth a THE TREE LAW. our midst is Prof. Humiston, the manager sky-blue and Worthington is shining and $4,000. The Presbyterians, we understand, passed to another packer used exclusively Our Congressman, Mr. Dunnell, has done the has been secured as Principal. of the Colony. Last spring he opened trip from the East to see the wonderfully |Mit in the light of the Summer sun, contemplate building during prairie regions of the West quite a service by bis for packing this brand, which is Rev. B. H. Crever is now abroad presenting three farms, averaging about half beautiful and seemingly spectral but there are few prairie views equal to the amended tree law. The leading provisions of the Summer. Strictly speaking, there the best brand made, equal to the best the claims of the Seminary to nevertheless real map of lakes, rivers, a section, each under the immediate one from tins point. the law are: 1, That three vears, instead of one are but three church organizations in Minneapolis brands and surpassing all the friends of education in the East. as heretofore, are allowed in which to do the groves and towns spread out beneath management of a practical farmer. the place, viz: the Methodist Episcopal, brands not made by this process. Near INEBRIATE ASYLUM. breaking, ten acres being required .thefirstyear, That it will be founded on an enduring Early in the spring, Mr. Jonathan the eye. Rev. J. W. Lewis, pastor the ten the second and twenty the third year from the packers is what is called the Duster, There is a strong probability that the basis, and that its influence will be felt Ames, of Toledo, took some 2,000 acres Presbyterian, Rev. Wm. Jackson, pastor, the date ofentry. 2, Four years. Instead of one a box made to receive the dust State Inebriate Asylum will be located for many years to come throughout of land with a view of ultimate improvement. CLIMATE OF SOUTHWESTERN asheretofore, are allowed In which to plant aU and the Union Congregational, which is ordinarily wasted in mills. in the National Colony. It seems to be Southwestern Minnesota, Northwestern the trees, ten acres being required the second His farming operations last year MINNESOTA. Rev. J. B. Sharp, pastor. The Episcopalians This dust passes into the box through conceded throughout the State that year, ten thethird and twenty the fourth. This Iowa and Southeastern Dakota, no covered between 300and 400 acres. Mr. Here in Southwestern Minnesota we and Lutherans have occasional is where a quarter section Is taken. 3, When a tube in which is a suction fan which Worthington is the point at which to longer admits of a doubt. John Alley has taken about a section of get the Minnesota climate at its best. less than a quarter section is entered, the warnber services. carries the dust into the box with great locate such an institution if any respect vVe are several hundred miles south of land, and is preparing to open a dairy of acres to be planted bearsthe sameproportion SCHOOLS OF NOBLES COUNTY. Worthington has besides a public library, force. The particles of flour being is to be paid to the fitness of things. to the quantity entered that forty acres farm. Mr. I. P. Durfee has opened a the region of extremely rigorous winters, a Masonic Lodge, with a hall We learn from the County Superintendent bears to one hundred and sixty, that Is, twenty heavier than the particles of other dust, But whether the State institution be farm of about 400 acres, and is giving while we are still far north of the acres of timber to eighty acres, ten acres of timber and quite a large Post of the Grand of Schools that there are twenty-nine fall to the bottom of the box, while the located here or not, we wish to announce his attention chiefly to grain. ague or malarial line, being about 100 to forty acres, and so on. A patent can be Army. organized school districts in foreign and lighter particles are carried that the National Colony has made the miles north of the latitude of Chicago. secured by cultivating the trees eight years Instead Mr. Oliver Baitt came here last year, the county, and that eleven petitions off and blown through an opening whole of Nobles county an Inebriate of ten as heretofore. It may be an interesting fact to our from Mc Gregor, Iowa, and opened a TAXES. for the formation of eleven more districts in the side of the mill, in which is placed Asylum, the benefits of which are freely readers abroad to know that Worthington TREE CLAIMS. stock farm on the East lake. In the are now before the Board of Commissioners. Settlers from other States, where expensive an iron grate. In the basement extended to all who come among us. is several hundred miles south of Quite a number of persons who have taken fall he was taken with brain disease Before the end of the year bridges and roads are necessary there is a similar contrivance called The inebriate will here find the temptation homesteads andfindthat they cannot live on the the latitude of Paris, over 1,100 miles and died, thus cutting off the further we shall have at least fifty districts in land themselves, are preparing to change their and where crime is rampant, often remark the Steam Duster. This is constructed withdrawn and Christian sympathy south of the latitude of Edinburgh, and prosecution of farming enterprise homesteads into tree claims. Whatever nay be the county. In most of these, schools upon the ease and the little expense to receive the steam dust which arises extended to him in his efforts to a about 1,600 miles south of St. Petersburg. said about the tree law, it Is evident that It will from which much was expected. We will be held during the coming season. from the burrs during the process of with which a country like this reform. secure the object for which It was enacted, viz: mention these because they are the Our Worthington school has two departments. can be turned into a garden. There is grinding, and which is so ruinous to the planting of trees. Ten years fromnew there largest farms opened in this county. PROFITS OF TREE CULTURE. QUININE AND WHISKY. The teachers are efficient will be two orthree hundred percent, more trees not a stream in Nobles county that the lungs of millers. This dust is taken An annual bounty of four dollars an One of our druggists informs us that Other farms, ranging from 80 to 320 in NoblesCounty than therewould havehem bad and earnest, the discipline is admirable. probably cannot be well bridged at any at the burrs and carried through a acre is allowed by the State for tree not the tree law been enacted. The man who since he took charge of his drug store acres are no less intelligently and energetically The progress of the pupils is satisfactory tube by means of another suction fan point for $200 or $300, while the mere grows forty acres of timberonthese pratrfesdoes culture on the prairie. Thus the bounty I in July last he has sold but one ounce conducted, and there are few and the attendance is fully 90 per earth, with a few inexpensive culverts and is caught in the steam duster in the eounty an inestimable service and is doing a on forty acres of trees, the amount required farmers here who do not see the superior and one-third ounce of quinine, and cent, of the enrollment. kind of farming which ought to be universally here and there, will make a capital road the story below. to secure a tree claim, is $160 a that his sales of whisky for medicinal, encouraged, and which cannot fall to pay. farming possibilities of this county in any direction. It will be along time For the training of a corps of teachers, 1 year. A man may therefore buy a farm mechanical and chemical purposes have Thus in this most complete and admirable and who do not believe that this a Teachers' Association has been before we shall need jails or pauper averaged but one gallon a month. The near Worthington at $10 an acre, take Mr. Hunt, of Grand Rapids, Mleh., was here, mill, the very middlings, heretofore county will in ten years be one of the organized, which meets once a month. fact is, we don't indulge in ague nor houses, or expensive county buildings, a tree claim, and pay for his farm neai during the week looking with reference to opening sold for feed for the lower animals, garden spots of the west. The membership already numbers thirty ardent spirits in this community. or, in short, heavy taxes. Nobles county town out,,cf ten years bouuty drawn a mercantile house and a large farm. persons, and the papers read show a is made to yield a brand of flour which The National Colony, the first year, is not only a refuge from the liquor from the State, thus making the tree I According to the U. S. Census of very high degree of culture and professional was looked upon as an experiment. leads the markets of the world, and the Mr. Anderson, who recently arrived tram lo. traffic but also from heavy taxes. 11870, Minnesota is the healthiest state claim pay for the farm, and having both training. very dust usually wasted, is gathered, me, has purchased a farm across the lake, ami in the Union. farms and the trees besides.' is bottdtesa house.