LOCAX: THE ADVANCE. THE GRASSHOPPERS, .- "HUMBUO." Village Ordinance. WORTHINQTOir MARKETS. A gentleman at St. Paul writes us The grasshoppers are -hatching out WHEAT #90c The Rock County Herald calls the FLOUR Wbbl. "A on "The thanks of all friends of the Colony along the road from Mankato' to Sibley WORTHINGTON, MINK., MAY 23, 1874. National Colony a' "humbug." We CORN f» bushel are due you for the hard work you areand theOATS from Martin county eastward to PCBLISnED WBXKLT, AT confess to the "hum" without ORDINANCE NO, 11. HAY«ton CHURCH DIRECTORY. WORTHINGTON, NOBLES COUNTY, MINN. Rock county on the west. We have An Ordinance to prevent plugs and other Animals devoting to the ADVANCE. A most BEANS. WHITE, f) bush "bug." While we write we can hear BUTTER from running at large. capital paper you are making of it. I made diligent inquiry during the past METHODIST EPISCOPAL.—Rev. J. W. Lewis, Terms Two Dollars per year, invariably in advance. the "hum" of the Okabena mills, grinding 1214 EGGS W dot The CommonCouncil of the village of Worthington All orders will receive prompt attention. pastor. Services every Sabbath, morning at hear many compliments." week, and learn that thus far they have OBOCKK1ES-COFFEE 31r©40c TEA 50 out what the house of Milton Tootle 150 doordain as follows: Communications intended for publication must 10:30 Sabbath School at 2:30 P. •*Worthington SUGAR, (Coffee A 12 We are making arrangements for the 13c: KX.C*- 12 $ '13 Section 1. That the Common Council shall not cut the crops to any extent. On be accompanied by the real name and address of PrayingBand." Sabbath eveningat 7 o'clock. & Co., of Sioux City, says is the lfl O lie SYRUP 65 01,00 RICE 12* provide a good suitable pound or pounds, to be the writer as a guaranty of good faith—not nec•uarily Brow Pray meeting Thursday evening at 7 o'clock. contemplated enlargement of the A -Thursday we saw several gentlemen »bbl. 3,50 placed under the care of a pound keeper, to be for publication. best flour "ever seen in Sioux City." SALTSlONS—PORK PKBSBTTBKIAN.—Services in the west room on (mess) f» bbl,, 20,00 appointed hy the CoinmouCouncil. Said poundkeeper p*OVISlON8-POR (mess bbl 20,0 0 who came through from Martin county VANCE and hope to do so in a few shall hold his office for one year unless first floor of Miller Block. Sunday School at 12 Just above us we can hear also the SIAi. annul SHOULDERo nvu in A II HAMS16c S 10Q1 1 ADVERTISING RATES. sooner removed. Provided, That the Common o'clockeach Sabbath. Rev.W.P.Jackson. Pastor. weeks. Our Outside will give a condensed and learned from them that in Martin ., BACON 13c LARD 13017c D. APL'S 16 ©17 One Inch three weeks, t&OO, three months, $4.00 "hum" of voices in the Worthington Council may in their discretioncause suchpound UNION CONGREGATIONAL.—Services morning l^KAGxiKS -. 14© 20 Three indies 3 weeks, 5.00, 8 00 statement of the news of the the grasshoppers are quite thick and COAL ton 6 50 8 00toSec.builtNcontract.mule, be by and evening. Sunday School immediately after Seminary, where the youth of the Colony LUMBER—Common ft m. 16.00*920 00 2. horse, ass, goat, sheep, Five inches," 6.00, io!oo the morning service. Praver meeting Thursday world, and especially all news and matter have cut the young wheat clean in FINISHING ^OOgfoioO swine or any cattle, shall be permitted to run at evening. are reciting their lessons and in the Special rates given for larger advertisementsReading large within the corporate limits of the villas* of interest relating to Minnesota many places. In Jackson and the eastern notices, first week 10 c.-iits a line subsequent Cards, Bill-heads, Letter-heads, Envelopes, of Worthington, and if round running at large room west of us we can hear the "bum" SPECIAL NOTICES. insertions 5 cents a line each week. part of this county, they are not so each and every such animal may be impounded and the New Northwest. As to local Posters and Job Work generally of voices in the Worthington public in the viil.ige pound, and shall not be thick and have done but little harm. matters, we expect to make the ADVANCE 20 Gallons new Maple Syrup Just received at released thcnfr»m until the owner or done with neatness and dispatch school which opened again on Monday some person in his behalf shall pay the following A S O N I A gentleman who came through from MOORE & SMITH'S. a complete map and epitome of charges: Fitly cents, out of which the last. Going to the door, we hear at the ADVANCE Office. f«mnd-kceper shall p.iy a fee of twenty cents to EGULAB COMMUNICATIONS of Fraternity the growth of the National Colony, and Dell Rapids on Wednesday informs us 5,000 Pickles in brine at the "hum" of several heavy freight Lodge, No. 101, A. F. & A. M. at Masonic he iierson driving such animal to the pound, Rev. Mr. Packard will preach at the that there are no grasshoppers there would like to have our friends in different twt nty cents of which he shall keep for his own Hall in Worthington, on the trains coming down the railroad, carrying O O E & S I S set vice and pay the iemainiug ten cents to the Union Church to-morrow. 1st and 3d Mondays in each and very few in Rock county, and" that parts of the county send in all items village Treasurer, for receivingand discharging month. immense quantities of Minnesota each and ever animal impounded andauy sum the wheat west of us is looking unusully Dat prices ve make high down. Dem under A. C. ROBINSON, W.\ M.\ of interest which may occur in their The M. L. Church holds Quarterly that may have been expendedor incurred by lumber to Nebraska and the States S. Ed. CHANDLEK, Sec. store fellows beat us—not Oh! veil, gome and well. pounokeeper lor thesustenance thereof. Any respective neighborhoods. We hope Meeting here to-day and to-morrow. South of us, and bringing to Worthington, speak mit us any how. C. T. POPE. owner of any horse, mule, goat, sheep, swine or REGULAR CONVOCA- that every farmer, postmaster, teacher, Rev. Mr. Fitch, of Windom, will officiate. cattle, who shall permit the same run at large In this county, the grasshoppers are as a railroad official recently said, _. TIONS 1).f, Living A..Arch. Chap- [32 within the corporate limits of the village of Worthington, f&j&K'M&C ter. U. It.-. M. at Maa clergyman, etc., will constitute himself not general, the whole Noi thwestern shall on conviction thereof be puuiahed "more freight than is shipped to all PIANOS and ORGANS for sale by In^ month.^ sonic Hall on the 1st Tuesday each by a tine of one dollar and costs. or herself a correspondent and send us corner of the county being exempt, as The Pound Social of the Union the other points between Mankato and CIIAS. F. IIUMISTOU. A. C. ROBINSON, M.\ E.\ H.\P.\ Sec. 3. It shall be the duty of the pound-keeper news and practical suggestions concerning I. P.". PUHFEE, Act'gSec. [30t] last year they did not extend more than Church held last evening at the resi-• the State line put together." Twice a to provide proper and necessary- sustenance Choice Roasted Coffee cheap at Bennett Bros. for all animals so impounded and it shall be agriculture and other branches of six or eight miles northwest of Worthington. deuce of Capt. Smith was a very enjoyable W0RTHINGT0N HOTEL. day we hear the "hum" of passenger Seed Com, Fieid Peas, Buckwheat and Beans lawful for any such pound keeper to sell at public culture. We have no room for essays vendue, to the highest bidder for cash, any animal They have not yet hatched at Bennett Bros. affair and quite a success pecuniarily. trains carrying passengers through or animals so lmiiouuded as aforesaid at any The Largest and Best-Appointed on theology or politics, but we have on ground A\hich was plowed last fall time after the expiration of three days from the with close connections from St. Paul 1000 Rolls Wall Paper, Newest Spring time they shall be so 1 ipounded, the said poundkeener Hotel in Southwestern Minnesota. space for news and for practical suggestions or this Spring, but have come out in to St. Louis and from St. Louis to St. giving at least forty-eight hours previous Read the ordinance to prevent animals Patterns, at upon current topics. Send public notice of the time and place of sale by considerable numbers on all the unplowed Paul. On our streets we hear daily three advertisements, one of which shall be put from running at large. J. AXES, Prop. GEO. AXES, Clerk. along the news and the subscriptions. and unbroken portions of the BARBER & LAWRENCE'S. on the door of the post office and each of the the "hum" of wagons passing out from others in a public place in the village of Worthington, 4^Rates to farmers and teamsters as low as C. P. Fake offers his business house prairie. In some places, the gardens but if said animals or any of them are our depot and lumler yards with Good goods at low prices at Bennett Bros. FIRES. any house in town. Large barn accommodations. redeemed, or an offer is made to redeem them have been eaten off and the edges of in town and his farm of 80 acres near freight and lumber for Rock County, Good Cigars for 5 cents, at Bennett Bros. by their owner or agent, by paying the poundkeeper's Stage office for the (liferent stage lines. A prairie fire ran into E. S. Chandler's wheat fields have been somewhat cut, fee and the penalty provided in the preceding WOKTII1NGTON, MINN. town for sale. For a business man stable, about a mile north of town, Sioux Falls, and other points. And all section, together with the expense of sustenance Moulded Linen-Faced turned edge [iy3fi] who wants a good business stand in but no serious injury has so. far been as aforesaid, at any time before they are around us we hear the "hum" of business on Thursday, and soon laid it in ashes. actually sold, the same shall not be sold, but Collars at 25c a Box, at DENT1STR r. town and a farm near by, this is a good done. DENTAL in town and of farmers getting in shall lie released by the pound keeper. We learn also that the house of Rev. ROOMS of K. BEDFORlare on 10th opportunity. Rumor says that the young grasshoppers BARBKR tk LAWRENCE'S. '1 he pound-keeper shall render to the Council Street, opposite public square, and will l*e J. W. Lewis, across the West Lake, their crops, and rejoicing at the prospect monthly a statement under oath, of all fees and open the last week in each month. Work insured are already beginning to fly southward, Pearl Barley and Split Peas, at Bennett Bros. caught fire on Friday. The fire was of a bountiful harvest. On Sunday of sill moiiej receive by him either for penalties J. C. Clarke has treated his horse to live years. [27y or for animals sold by him, and shall at the but we do not take much stock Sugars by the Ban-ell cheap at Bennett Bros. a new sett of harness and new buggy. discovered by some of the sparks falling we hear the "hum" of three congregations same time pa over to the kecorder all fees, penalties SADDLE~AND HARNESS SHOP. in the rumor. We still think, however, and moneys collected by him for impounding into the grass near the house and igniting singing praise to God for this You can always find a good assortment of H. JOHNSON, Dealer in Saddlerv Hardware, or selling any such animals. Dr. 13. S Langdon is building a wing that the grasshopper will not injure tlie Boots & Shoes at POPE'S. 'I nuiks, Valises, eic. Harness always it. This attracted the attention of Sec. 4. V\ heuever any animal impounded as beautiful country and this unsurpassed to his house. on hand, and made to order. Repairing neatly aforesaid shall be sold and shall not bring enough crops to any great extent this season. the family, and, on going out, they discovered climate, and of three Sabbath Schools done. Shop on Ninth Street, Worthington, Minn. to pay the fees and penalties the same shall be A large stock of Notions, Balls, Cutlery They are not as yet thick enough in 27 ly. recovered of the owner of any such animal by Mr. Morgan has located his corrall at that the roof of the house was of rosy-looking children who sing like suit before the Mage justice in the name of the and Perfumery just received at this section to destroy the crops, and if M. li. SOULE', the foot of Tenth Street, between the burning in several places. Fortunately, village, the fee, chargr-s and penalties so recoveied the birds, because they can't help it under B. &L. to be paid in to the village treasury. it be their habit toflyaway as soon as street and the lake. a ladder was already leaning against lOUNSELOK AT LAW and Notary Pubic— the stimulus «f this atmosphere and See. 5. lien any moneys are paid in to the Vy Othce on'Mave., opposite the nark, Worthington, their wings are developed, we shall soon Mary had a little coin, village treasury, aitsing from the sale of any anini.-il the house and there were several barrels these surrounding3, But we never hear Minn. Prompt attention given to conveyancing. S. A. Davis has put out a handsome or animals sold by the pound master, the be rid of them. We may be liable to And everywhere that Mary went of water standing by doing nothing," same if claimed within one year from the time the "hum" of liquor saloons or of new sign. The corn was sure to go: another visit from those of "foreign of such sale, shall be paid o\er by the village'Recorder so that Mr. L. ascended the ladder and drunken men reeling home on our to the owner of siid animal on demand, ./. ,s. SHUCK, Until she chanced to get a pair of those birth," but the mle is that they rarely after deducting the sum necessary to pay the The Okabena Mills have put up a ATTORNEagent,Twould, soon extinguished the flames. The fire streets, nor see, (as a correspondent easy fitting Shoes which can always be found A LAW Real Estate and col- costs of impounding and keeping said animal destroy the crops for two successive large new smoke stack. lecting respeotfullv tender his caught from a galvanized iron chimney. at Popes's Boot & Shoe Store. and advei tisiim and selling the same, and also of the Herald says in the very issue in •eivices to the people of this and adjoining counties, years in the same section. the penalty provided in section two of thb ordinance. and hones, prompt attention to business, J. A. Town is putting a picket fence We are informed also that Mr. which it calls the National Colony a NE W ADVERTISEMENTS. and fair ami honest dealings, to merit a share of Sec. 6. Whenever any est ray shall be hereafter around his lot. Schultz's blacksmith shop made a narrow "humbug") "the marks of depravity public patronage. BRIDGE. sold under this ordinance of the value of more than twenty-fhe dollars, the owner shall escape from fire on .ursday. The We learn that an effort is being made Two desirable Farms near .Vorthington on the countenances of our most prominent H. D. BARBER, The beach of Okabena Lake is doing have the privilege to redeem the same within for sale. Also House to rent. Apply 1MIYSICIAN stable manure with which the shop had to bridge the Sioux River in Minnehaha (Rock County) men, and those thirty days after such sale, by paying to the purci AND SURGEON, Graduate of a good business now scouring plows asei or to any peison who shall have subsequently Harvard I'nlversity. I'nitcd States kv.imin to WM. 8. STOCKDALE. l»een banked up caught from some particles county, Dakota, at a point above not so prominent and men that came purchased the same, the amount of the lug Surgeon for 1'ensions. Ofllce at Bai ber & prei aratory to breaking. bkltheieftir. and ten dollars additional to recoinpensesuch of cinder, but the fire was extinguished Dell Rapids, and that with some assistance Lawrence's, Worthington Minn. here to avoid the temptation of the intoxicating pui chaser foi his tiouble. FOR SALE. Mr. Brant has built a neat cottage before any damage was done. from Worthington the bridge can cup." Let the Herald be Sec. 7. Auj person or persons who -.hall break A building, suitable for a store and dwelling, GEO. O. MOORE, open, or in any wa diivctlj or indirectly aid or on the shore of the West Lake. It may be well to refer again to the be built. This is important to Worthington on Tenth Ntreet, two doors north of Worthington just. If our soil and climate area humbug, assist in breaking up any village pound, Hotel. Also about so acres of land near the villajr'1 sh.il on conviction thereof, be puuisiied by a line hay, straw, and other inflammable material as much of the trade about the so are the soil and climate of Rock all of which will be sold at a bargain. PHYSICIAN AND SUKGEOX, Everybody has rejoiced during the of twenty-five dollars or by imprisonment in the [4w37] C. P. FAKE. with which the town is littered. lakes north of Minnehaha finds its village prison for a term not less than six uor County, and the Herald is in the same past week in three or four days of more than ten da s. Graduate of Ann Arl*»r, Michigan. Office and A Utile care may save us from the natural railrond point here. A great NOTICE. boat. If a county without a single beautiful May weather. The prairie is See. 8. Any person who shall hinder, delay or Residence on loth street below the public hall, The Common Council have procured the yard fate of Ridgeway, the town recently obstruct any person persons engaged in driving Woitliington, Minn. deal of wheat is raised in that portion grog-shop in it is not a temperance belonging to the Worthington Hotel Barn for a green in all directions with grass, to ihe village pound any animal or animals, Public Pound, wheie all parties wishing to impound Will attend promptly to all Calls, day or burned in Iowa. of Dakota, which will pour into our be t«t or beasts, liable to be impounded in the community then the temperance feature wheat and flax. cattle or other animals intended in Ordinance village pounds, shall, for each and every hindance, uifj/tt. warehouses next fall if this bridge is is a "humbug." The National No. 11 will And a Master in charge. dela or obstruction, on conviction thereof, FIRE TEST OF THE SODA FOUNTAIN By order of the Council. be punished by a fine of not less than five or The prairie is still lighted up at night built and the roads are kept in good Colony is the most "imposing" success more than twenty-five dollais. C. C. GOODNOW, Recorder. ENGINE. BANK OF WORTHINGTON. in places, by brilliant prairie fires, which condition. in Southwestern Minnesota, as the sec. 9. Ai pound-keeper, appointed as aforesaid, We announced recently that 200 feet who shall refuse or neglect to take up. distrain no doubt make it lively for the young OKABENA HOUSE FOR SALE. Herald well knows, and give us a good of hose had been ordered to be attached oi impound any animal mentioned in section PEAT. The undersigned wishes to sell the Okabena grasshoppers. two of tliiioidiuauce, known to him to be ELIHU SMITH, Banker. A. M. SMITH, Cashier. crop this season, and we are sure of a to the soda fountain of Moore & Smith, Mr. N. W. Conger, and Messrs. Cassell Hotel, located on Ninth Street, in Worthington. running at large contrary to the ordinances of The house has a good run of patronage, and INTEREST PAID FOR TIME DEPOSITS. the village, shall on conviction thereof be punished The wild plum trees on Okabena great and prosperous future. to be used in case of fire. Recently and Cotes, of Blue Earth county, Eood stabling businessfon or teams. Am thcompelledh t« change account of ill-healt bv a line of not less than ten dollars. Lake are in blossom and filling the air s*ec. io. This ordinance shall take effect front Drafts Bought and Sold. Special attention given this novel fire engine was tested. The called on us Tliursday, and gave an account mv ife. For particulars address. Colony Maps for sale at the A A N E and after its publication. to rolleetions. with perfume. of a peat marsh which they visited t36tf] C. P. STOUGH. Hose was first filled with water, the operation Office Hours hum 9 to 12 a, m. and from 1 to 4 Approved May 21,1874. Office. o'clock, p. m. J. CRAFT, President. about eleven miles east of Worthington, occupying minute. In the I TREASURER'S NOTICE. Okabena Lake is just now yielding C. C. GOODNOW, illage Recorder. in Jackson county, near the The Taxes on real estate are due now, and operation the fact was discovered that Published May 23, 1ST4. C. II. KENTON, c. c. oOODVOW, some Hue picker ?1 from afoot to eighteen CORRESPONDENCE. must be paid before the first day of June, or a Notary Public. farm of Mr. Barton. Mr. Conger has the Fountain was a regular Fire Engine Att'y at Law. WOR THINO TON SEMINAR penalty will be added. Please take notice thereof inches long. and govern yourselves accordingly. had considerable experience in working Benton & Goodnow, without Gas, and that a continuotis FROM DEWALD. 3\\3.-] H. D. HOUSTON, Treasurer. FOlt YOLTII OF BOTH SEXES, Sidewalks are being laid on the west peat in New York, and pronounces stream could be kept on the fire by DEWALD, Nobles Co., Minn., May 22, 1874. Att'ys & Counselors at Law, AT WORTHINGTON, NOBLES CO. MINN TAKEN UP. sides of Third and Fourth Avenues. this peat an excellent quality. The means of the pump. After tilling the EDITOR ADVANCIS :—The third Quarterly Meeting By the subscriber, in Elk township, four mare ON THE ST. PA UL & SJOUX CITY marsh is a large one, being about forty colts and one horse colt. Two of tl horse colts Hose with water the Fountain was of the M. E. Church will be held heie on Saturday RAILWAY. The St. Paul Press says it is rumored are sorrel, two bay, and the mare colt dark giav. REAL ESTATE, and Sunday next. Elder Webb is expected. rods from the Jackson road, and would charged with Gas, after which the Hose that Judge Wakefield is to resign and All have white in face. The owner will pl»»ase This institution is announced in accordance Religious services are held every other Sunday, prove property, pav charges and take the same supply a large extent of country for INSrilAXCE AND was attached and the stream turned that MODS Grinager is to be appointed with the declaration of the founders of the National ltev. Mr. Bear preaching. Our Sabbath away. [3w35] S. NELSON. years. COLLECTION AGENTS. in his place. on. In a second after opening the School is in a %ery flourishing condition, and was Colony, that the early establishment of a FOR SALE. kept up all winter. valve at the Fountain, there was a House and Lot on 10th Street, enquire of seminary of learningr, on a liberal basis, at some Particular attention paid to business before Carbolic acid sprinkled on vegetables GRASSHOPPER CONVENTION. Miss Nekton, or Worthington, is teaching our stream 200 feet off. Of course the tire 32t] BENTON & GOODNOW. favorable point, was part of their plan. the local and general Land Offices. A convention lias been called to meet school this Summer. We have a sehool-house on will protect them from grasshoppers. 31t] Woitliington, Minnesota. was extinguished as soon as the Gas It has been judged advisable to put the enterprise at Vindom on Tuesday next, the 26th, section 28. Mrs. Churchill has preserved her plants (•ARTIES having Cattle to Herd can apply to touched it. The conclusion, after the Farmers have put in a considerable breadth of under denominational control it is, accordingly, to consider the grasshopper question, [32t] JOHN AL B. N A I E in this way. grain. Mr. Jonas Bedford lias out about 100 test, is that double the amount of Hose introduced under the patronage of the and to discuss matters of interest to acres of wheat and some 40 acres of oats. D. WANTED, L. E. Kimball's team enlivened our could be used to the same advantage, the district visited last year by the Methodist Episcopal Church, and as auxiliary to ATTORNEY AT LAW, A few good Milch Cows suitable for Stock-raising streets yesterday morning with one of that the Fountain would throw a continuous FROM NEW HAVEN. Hamiine University. It will be conducted in grasshopper. We wish to request our and Dairy purposes. Inquire of the most proper and exemplary run AND stream for at least half an NEW HAVEN, Nobles Co., Minn., May 22,1874. E. S. MILLS, Bigelow. Minn. the most catho ic spirit: the object being to unite friends in the country to bring in or aways of the season. They kept well EDITOR ADVANCE :—The grasshopper is the hour, and that it can be made ready send in, either to the Relief Committee liberal cultuie with the precepts and spirit of the TEED & BAKER, CLERK OF DIST. COURT. "burden of the farmers just now, but they have in the middle of the streets, took it for another half hour's work in the Christian system. or to the ADVANCE office, any facts not so far done much damage. If we have to leisurely, and were evidently willing to space of one or two minutes. A regular concerning the grasshopper or which All businessleft with him will receive prompt feed them, besides feeding ourselves and stock, The Seminary building, now known as the be stopped, as they were near the AD attention. company of reliable men is to be it will tax us heavily. have grown out of the grasshopper visitation. Methodist Church Block, is spacious and attractive, Office on 9th Street opposite the Park. T. H. Childs has purchased the Hebbard prop, formed to operate the Fountain and VANCE office. Our delegation to the Convention and admirably located. It fronts on the erty, on the Lu Verne road, six miles west of Hose in case of Fire, and the appararatus want reliable data upon which E A E S A E A E N 0ENERAL DEALERS IK The typo of this establishment wishes Public Square, in Worthington, within a short Churchill's, and has opened a hotel. This will be will be ready for use night and to act. quite a convenience to the traveling public. to tender his thanks to the Amateur distance of West Okabena Lake. day for the next five months. A Sabbath School will be opened next Sabbath SOULE & LANGDON, Band, of Worthington, for raising him It is intended to make the Seminary an honor Those who wish to see how a box-elder by Mr. Stiilma at the school-huose in the eastern the other night from a horizontal slumber to the State—the equal of any .similar Institution DECORATION DAY. Ready Made Clothing part of the township. H. tree can grow may do so by looking Dealers in Real Estate, The Grand Army are making considerable to a wakeful perpendicular, by the in the West. The board of instruction Is already at one in the yard of the Worthington Homesteads, Preemptions FROM INDIAN LAKE. preparation for celebrating Decoration large and embraces. In an unusual degree, both discourse of sweet music under his Hotel. We are assured by a lady who and Town Property Bought and Sold. INDIAN LAKE. Nobles Co., Minn., May 21,1874. Day, on Saturday next, the 30th. the experience and ability essential to success. Worthington, August 31. chamber window. Do so some more, has watched the tree with interest that EDITOR ADVANCE :—A number of our farmers Will. The following will be the order of exercises As occasion demands it will be enlarged and are already through with corn planting. Some some of the limbs have grown from S. A. 1ULDRETH, have out fi om 60 to 75 acres of heat. 1 he grasshoppers nothing shall be warning to the completeness of eight inches to a foot during the past A HINT TO ADVERTISERS. are hatching and are eating the wheat the several departments. Assemble at 1 p. m.—Form in front Has Opened a L. C. Hopkins, the great dry goods week. It is to be regretted that more some along the edges of the fields, but as yet they of G. A. R. Hall and march to Park at The contemplated course of study will cover a merchant, of Cincinnati, is about to retire of these trees have not been set out. have done no great harm. S A I N S A O O N p. m.—Prayer.—Music by Worthington period of three years the design being to prepare We have school in District No. 22, with Rev. GENTS FURNISHING GOODS, from business a rich and honored The box-elder is a rapid grower, is a F. Peterson, of the Baptist Church, as teacher. Cornet Band.—Address.—Music by students for a collegiate course, or to qualify man. We can remember when he began hardy tree not easily injured by the on Tenth Street, opposite the Worthington Hotel, Mr. Peterson preaches io us on Sunday and is organizing where he is prepared to wait upon the public Band.—Singing.—Form and march to them to engage successfully in business pursuits. to take the lead there as a merchant frost or storms, and makes a beautiful, in anything pertaining to Ins line. a Sabbath School. L. Cemetery.—Singing.—Strewing of flowers Preparatory classes, however, will be The patronage of the public solicited. and know that his fortune was made bushy shade tree. Have Just received a very fine stock of Spring and Dirge by Band.—Address.— ormed, especially for the first six months, during principally by liberal advertising. For FROM HERSEY. THIRD AVENUE HOIEL, and Summer Clothing of the Latest Styles, which Music by Band.—Benediction.—Form which time, it may be piesumed, many will be a long time he filled columns in the Ridgway, in Winneshiek County, HEHSEV, Nobles CO., Minn., May 22,1874. we are selling very cheap for cash. unprepared for the regular course. and march to Place of Starting. Cincinnati papers with advertisements, Iowa, was destroyed by fire recently, EDITOR ADVANCE :—Noticing that a reward Also Clothing made to order by a first-class C. B. LOVELESS Proprietor. has been offered for the best essay on wheatraising, While the school in itself will be unequivocally spending one year $25,000 in advertising. leaving but one building. The Windom TO TAX PA YERS. I think it would be well to offer an inducement workman. Please give us a call. [4w35 Christian, it possesses, also, the external advantages There are only six more days, after Worthington, Minn. Reporter says: "Its fate was the result for some one to prepare a reliable essay of location in a community not only highly to-day, in which tax payers can pay before of carelessness, and should be a on the Grasshopper, so that the habits of this PERSONALS. pest may be generally known. We ought to intelligent and moral, but uncarst by the liquor the penalty of ten per cent, attaches, warning to all in the towns entirely i. S. SntJCK, H. D. BOOKSTAVER. OKABENA HOUSE, Mrs. Rohrer and daughter arrived know how to Atht them to-advantage. Some Att'y at Late. Notary Publte. and the two per cent, a month tralic. This nefarious trade, the prolific source built of wooden buildings." We know from St. Paul on Tuesday. talk of leaving this country if the crops are destroyed C. P- STOUOH, '. Proprietor. of poverty and crime, is, by law, utterly excluded begins to run. Old delinquent taxes A. O. Conde', of Hersey, was in cf no place more exposed to such danger this year. Why flee befoie so small an from Nobles county. No thoughtful parent or may be paid any time before the first than Worthington. Buildings are enemy Larger and smaller enemies have been town on Tuesday. WORTHINGTON. MINN, WESTERN HOME conquered, why not the grasshopper If it had guardian will underestimate the importance of of August. dry and inflammable, lots are littered J. B. Pixley, formerly of Heron Lake, On Ninth Street, between Second & Third ave. been positively known last Fall that the eggs this most significant fact. has moved to the Bookstaver farm at with hay and straw, and wells and cisterns Prof Powers delivered some very interesting would hatch this Spring, the pests might have are low. In-nected., Prof Ilumistou takes charge of a department B. W WOOLSTBNOROFT, Graham Lakes. been annihilated by protecting the grass on the Real Estate, Loan & lectures on Phrenology and with Inch he has been long and honorably conand prairtes until now, when we could make a general Mr. Graves, of Windom, was in town S Phisiognomy during the past week at Dr. Craft is sinking a well on his sweep by firing the praii ie. brings with him, as a gift to the institution, on Wednesday. All orders for surveying thankfully received Miller Hall. He is certainly an intelligent, lot. ITEMS-—Lawrence Keidle, while out shootiug philosophical and chemical apparatus and promptly executed. Office with Shuck & Mr. Funk and Mr. Sikes, of Illinois, advanced man, and well worth prairie squirrels on his corn ground, was badly Bookstaver, Worthington, Nobles Co. Minn. worth six hundred and liity dollars. are visiting the Colony looking with surance A?ency. [30t] The pigeons have built nests in the hurt in the leg by the accidental discharge of his hearing. reference to locating among us. gun. PBICES or TVITION.—In older to extend as far Union Churc steeple. Seren Iverson, the mason, has moved to his TREES. The Windom Reporter moves that as possible, the benefits of the institution, to those Wm. Kenny, of Goodhue county, is farm. Cotton Wood and Soft Maple Trees at iM,00 per the editors of this part of the State The Mankato Record says a lady in who desire it, and to meet the stringency of the visitiug his friends in the National Colony A. L. Rogers, of Madison, Wis., is soon expected thousand. Also Soft Maple and White Elms, organize an Editorial Association. that city picked ripe strawberries from times, tuition, for the first six months, will be but and is selecting lands here preparatory at Hersey with 20 horses for sale. He will (Nursery grown and Trans-Planted,) from 10 Second the motion. her vines on the 13th of May. to 12 feet high, at low rates, by *5.00 per quarter. This charge will be uniform to making this county his home. SHUCK & BOOKSTAVER sell on time to accommodate buyers. 32t] W. E. CHAPIN. for all studies except instrumental music, French Capt. Heath is taking the place, at MORE ANON. The editor of the Estherville Vindicator DIED—May 21st, at 8 a. m., at home B. T. BABBITT'S and ornamental needlework. the Rooms of the State Historical Society, has been up to Jackson, and savs: FROM BIGELOW. of parents, in Elk township, Nobles Have established an agency for buying and selling Address all communications in regard to the of the Librarian and Secretary, Pure Concentrated Potash, county, after a short illness, HARRY BIOELOW, Nobles Co., Minn., May 23, 1874. "Jackson is a nice town, in as fertile real estate and offer unsurpassed facilities in Seminary to B. H. CUGVER, Worthington, Nobles Hon. J. F. Williams, who is sojourning EDITOR ADVANCE :—Farmers are generally a county as Southern Minnesota cau GIRARD, infant son of W. H. and Maud Co., Minnesota. selling land or providing purchasers, with the Hoyi, aged 4 months. through seedi-.g small grain, which is up and in Philadelphia on business connected Of Double the Strength of any other boast. Its business men are of the solid BOAKDiNG.—Students can, during the coming most desirable bargains, in both wild and improved looks well. Capt. Mills lias out about 96 acres of St. Paul papers please copy. with the Centennial. SAPONIFYING SUBSTANCE. winter, be accommodated in private families on kind, its newspaper is first class, edited wheat. lands, Homesteads, Pre-emptions and reasonable terms. Immediate efforts will also be I have recently perfected a new method of Messrs. J. Hale, John Wolzmuth and by a gentleman." Bonds have been issued to build a school-house, Tree Claims located in Nobles and adjoining packing my Potash, or Lye, and am now packing made to provide for any students who may prefer THE OEM O. A. Smith, of Sioux City, spent last in the village, at a cost of #600. and the contract it only in Balls, the coating of which will saponP Jackson is one of the best counties counties. In connection with this branch of our to board themselves. As soon as the success I O S O PE fy, and does not injure the Soap. It is packed has been let. The work is to be done bythe middle Sunday in Worthington. Mr. Hale is of the institution is assured, a boarding house in boxes containing 24 and 48tb. Balls, and in no tributary to Worthington. The Republic business, we have scured the services of B. W. of June. other way. Directions in English and German, working up a machine to press prairie will be added to our present accommodations. Woolstencroft, County Surveyor, one of the is one of the bast of our neighboring We have two stores for general merchandize, for making hard and soft soap with this Potash, grass for fuel. We hope he may succeed. Is the most wonderful scientific production of accompaning each package. BOAKD OF IXSTKUCTOBS. exchanges. We are indebted to one kept by Mr. S. D. Tinnis and one by Mr. oldest settles and most experienced men iu the the nineteenth century. It furnishes the power of a high iced instrument for a mere trifle, Morse, at the depot. Messrs. Colvin & De Boos «,, *. cMi BABBITT. B. H. CBEVEK, A. M., Principal. it for most interesting news items, and country as locating agent. and exceeds in usefulness any microscope ever 32] 61 to 84 Washington St., N. Y. have a well-stocked hard-ware store, and manufacture Mental and Moral Science, II. D. Winters, of New York City, for weekly advertisements of the A -God's invented. It reveals the hidden wnnbers of tin-ware. Special attention given to Land Office business, A. C. ROBINSON, R. F. HUMISTON, A. M., minute creation—as Eels in Vinecar, Animals who has been with us for some time, to contested and appeal cases arising under the VANCE and of the National Colony. Natural Science. In Water, Butterflies' Feathers, the Golden A great many trees have been planted in all Marrow of a Hair, etc., etc. It ftlxo xhows TRICHINA and has invested in lands near town, Pre-emption and Homestead Laws, "May it live long and prosper." directions. Mr. Morse has planted several thousand CHAS. T. DUNNING, B. A., SPIRALIS or Pork Worm, wheretvr CARPENTER AND BUILDER, European Larches on hit farm. Gree Latin and Mathematics. left for New York a few days ago. He it erists in pork. IT IS JUST THE THING FOR Insurance effected in first-class companies. CHAS. H. BABI-OWS, CHILDREN AND YOUNG FOLKS, and grown We have regular religious services on every alternate The Windom Repoter says that Roberts, will return in the fall. Mr. W. has Loans negotiated, folks too. Price, $i.s- Sent by mail, post-paid, Book-keeping and Penmanship. Office and shop on Tenth Street, opposite Miller's Sunday at the store-room of S. D. Tinnis, on receipt of pi ice. A GREAT CHANCE FOR paid out here about $6,000 for county who recently purchased the 7,000 Hall. MAKT H. CKEVEK, Conveyances promptly and neatly done. the Rev. Wm. M. Bear of the M. E. Church officiating. AGENTS. Agents wanted everywhere. Men Instrumental Music—Piano and Organ orders and school bonds and will, when acre farm near that place, will break and Women, Boys and Girls whole or spare We have also a regular and flourishing Office first Door east of Post Office. WORTHINGTON, MINNESOTA, time, day time or evening. COMPLETE OUTFIT CLAJU J. CRAFT, Sabbath-School. he returns, be prepared for further purchases 1,000 acres this year. Here is a chance mailed, post-paid, on receipt of price. Address WORTHINGTON. French. Will attend promptly to all kinds of building, furnlshlng MINNESOTA. We are much in need of a good blaek«mlth at THE BEVERLY COMPANY, 281 Wabash Ave., of bonds. for breakers. J.CRAFT. H. D., tidepoint. Can you wtid one W. Plans, Specifications and Estimates. ClIICAOO. vofml Culture.