tnittn ^t\vm\t^ LOCAL. SABBATH SCHOOL ASSOCIATION GOV. DAVIS AND THE RELIEF. needs only to be "tickled with a hoe, FARMERS' DEPARTMENT. The meeting on Saturday last for the SOMETHING NEW! to laugh with a harvest." Thorough Statement of Prof. Humiston—Extent of the purpose of completing the County Sunday farming will pay best everywhere, and SnEEP RAISING. PUBLISHED WEEKLY, AT WORTHINGTON, I N N ., LY 25. 1874. Crop Loss and Destitution in this County. here in Nobles county, just as well as Col. Taylor, in an essay read School organization adopted a Constitution Some one wrote a letter to the Minneapolis WORTHINGTON, NOBLES COUNTY, MINN. among the rocks of Ne or Old CHURCH DIRECTORY. before the Hennepin County Council, similar to that given in Tribune questioning Gov. Davis' England. W have much to be thankful METIIODI3T EPISCOPAL.—Rev. J. W. Lewis, Terms Two Dollars per year, invariably In advance. published in the Farmers' Union, says: "Eggleston's Sabbath School Convention for I doubt whether such universal All orders will receive prompt attention. efforts to procure relief for those pastor. Services every Sabbath, morning at Farmer's Supply Store My experience in sheep raising induces Communications intended for publication must and Institutes.'' The name adopted good health can be found anywhere on suffering from the grasshopper plague. be accompanied by the real name and address of me to say that sheep raising in this the face of-the whole earth. Our climate is "Th Noble 3 County Sabbath School MM writer as a guaranty of good falth-not necwsarlly The Governor, thereupon, addressed a State will pay better than any other is excellent, our soil unsurpassed, for publication. PuESBYTKHUN.-Services In the west room on Association." The Annual meeting letter to Prof. Humiston, asking for a stock proportion to the capital invested, our excellent community unparalleled, first Hoor of Miller Block. Sundav School at 12 ADVERTISING A E S oclockeachSabbath. Rev.W.P.Jackson,Pastor. will be held each year on the second and for these reasons, the drier the the grasshoppers have left us, we hope statement as to this county for publication. One inch three tveelm oft th-__ ...™*tih _. FNTON- CONGREGATIONAL.—Services morning climate the better it is for sheep, and as Thursday in June, and the Quarterly forever, and n»w let us thank God and ThreeInches 3 weeks 00 •i"2S ^evening. Sunday School immediately after This statement has been made all stock must neccessarily be housed take courage. Five Inches, gffl -S"22 he ""orninK service. Praver meeting Thursday meetings on the second Thursdays of and is given below. I is generally here winter, none pay so well for «I_.M,I J»„. 10.00 evening. Bible Class every Monday evening at September, December and March. R. I S O N that attention as sheep. A few persons conceeffcd that Gov. Davis has done B. w. x.-roir. special rates given for larger advertisements- 8 o'clock at the Church. Rev. C. C. Foote, pas—iug»t Gen'l Manager National Colony. are of the opinion that nature has An effort will be made at once to all that any Governor could have done insertions cents a line each week. Ladies' Union Prayer Meeting every Tuesday provided ample protection to the sheep afternoon at ?M o'clock. thoroughly organize the County and to CORRESPONDENCE. under the circumstances and the writer in the fleece, but a more mistaken notion establish Sabbath Schools in districts of the letter doubtless speaks for A S O N I does not exist, for while no stock NEH'TYPE. where there are none now. FROM DE WALD. pays so well, if proper attention is given himself alone: F.GULAR COMMUNICATIONS of Fraternity A I N E N E E The A A N E lias just received a lot PEWALD, Nobles Co., Minn., July 20,1874. Lodge, No. ioi, A. F. & A. M. at Masonic to it, none is so utterly worthless and The complete list of officers is as follows H&?//. Iu-U In WorthinRtoii on the of new type from the Foundry of Far- W O I I I O X, July 2S, ig74. unprofitable, if neglected, and suffered E I O A A N E The grasshoppers 1st and 3d Mondavs SOUTH ROOM to be exposed to the inclemency of the a mer, Little & Co., and the Wood Type month. began to settle here on last Friday There seem to be many conflicting President—C. Z. Sutton. Vice President—D. A. c. RoniNsos. \Y.\ weather. In this county, to its remotest statements as to the amount of damage establishment of Win. II. Page & Co., about 11 o'clock. By seven o'clock p. Rohrer. Secretary—A. bounds, sheep for mutton alone, S. Ed. ClIANOLKK. SCC. supposed to be done by grasshoppers to REGULAR A. I f™ W are therefore prepared m., they had destroyed everytlfing in for the supply of the Minneapolis wid Miller. Assistant Secretaries—A. M. the crops of Nobles County during the Tioxsof Living Arch (hrip-1 to do any kind of job work, from a St. Paul markets, would amply repay this section, wheat, flax, potatoes, corn, present season. The estimates vary Smith and William II. Humiston.— ter. U.l). I N it.-, A.-. M.\ at Ma- 1oster to a label. any investments. Of course I do not with the peculiarities of the men who and have trimmed trees of two years sonic Hall on the 1st Tuesday Treasurer—Rev. S. M. Smith. mean to say, or convey the idea, that In each month. make them. Those who are very sanguine, growth of all their leaves. What are pura blood Southdown, the finest mutton A. f. Uonivaov, M.*. E.\ II.-.lv The'Ladles' Prayer ^Meeting will be held on Township Presidents: ForBigelow— METHODIST BLOCK, and hopeful usually estimate too LJV. DinFEE. AclgSec. [:M] we to do C. sheep in the world, or pure Cotswolds Tuesday afternoon next at the residence of Mrs. D. C. Holmes. Ransom—Mr. Gray. high, while those who are inclined to ^llJSlNESS CARDS. or Leicesters, at present prices be despondent take the opposite extreme. Oapt. Smith. Indian Lake—Rev. Clias. Peterson.— pay for mutton. But I do mean to say, FROM GRAHAM LAKES. And then there are others, who DS ESIRES1totsays«PPly to the public that he is now Lorain—Rev. C. Brown. Elk—T. L. that any farmer who tries the experiment ill declare one day, that the whole GR.vnAM LAKES, July 22,187^. 0 Rev. J. W.'McKee, of Shakopee, will E them with a FULL JI ANA'S. I did, will find more monev in a STOCK OF Taylor. Graham Lakes—Mr. Chidley. country is ruined, and the next, that preach in Miller Hall, on Sunday morning, E I O A A N E We had another grade such as 1 have mentioned, than we shall have a pretty fair crop aftei all BANK OF WORTHINGTON. Seward—Mr. Vail. Olney—li. C. Stillllian. shower of grasshoppers on Friday last at lot o'clock. in any other stock in proportion to the General Merchandise, and this statement will be repeated on Dewald—Jonas Bedford. Horsey—Miss which destroyed nearly all the crops amount invested. Ha I the means to every new arrival and departure of the An excursion from Omaha and Council El-lliu SMITH, Banker. A. M. SMITH. Cashier. Campbell. Little begin again, I would soon convince the we had left. School district No. 3 have grasshopper. We cannot with any degree Bluffs passed through here on skeptical of the truth of my opinion, Miss Wetherby. Wilson-Geo. B. Aikin. of accuracy estimate our loss, till their school house finished, and have a FO INTEREST PAID FOR TIME DEPOSITS. by exhibiting to his eyes a mutton sheep Thursday morning, going to St. Paul. our crops are brought to the test of the Worthington—Prof. R. Humiston. school of 21 scholars, with Miss Clara that would make his mouth water, until Drafts Bought ami Sold. Special attention given scales, or the half-bushel and even CASH OK PRODUCE. to collections. Horton, of Seward, as teacher. Graham The State Normal School, at Mankato, he had secured one of its fat quirters then we shall be unable to determine Office Hours from 9 to 12 a. in. and from 1 to 4 NOBLES COUNTY FAB MS. for his dinner. My sheep were often Lakes Union Sunday School was agiin o'clock, p. m. will open for^tlie fall term on the what would have been our yield but so fat, that I often feared they for this scourge, and how much poor commenced at this house on Sunday 2ulh of August. Those who give their would die from its excess in warm Farm of Aaron Lambert—Pluck and farming will be charged to the grasshoppers. last, with brother Wm. Chidley, as Superintendent, OFFICERS. pledge to teach two years in the common weather. Perseverance—A Good Crop—How to and brother Geo. Clark, A. A. PARSONS, schools of the State receive tuition JUSTICE Farm—Faith in Nobles County- There never was a finer prospect for Assistant. One of those little things OF THE PEACE, Real Estate and free. See advertisement. LITERARY NOTICES. an abundant harvest than the farmers Collecting Agent. Small vs. Large Farms. which you call "Minor Arrivals,'" stopped Scrihncr's Monthly, for August, is already received. of Nobles county had till this scourge My Stock consists of HEJtSEY, MINN [38y Moore & Smith are out in a spring Our stove 13 at present capped with at the house of Mr. Wade, on the Georgia and Alabama are illustrated in came upon them. Our most substan- wagon, which looks brigh .^enough to this number in the "Great South papers. Stoddard DR GOODS, a sheaf of flax which makes it look like tial and reliable farmers were mo'sTcon 12tn. Said "miHor" 13 of the male B. W W O O S E N O O tells some very interesting things about the keep company with their soda fountain. a monument erected-to Agriculture.— indent that they would realize from S CLOTIIIXG, persuasion. W E S A A mothers of Byion, Cowper and the poets. A. B. 1 6 W a 0 This sheaf of ilax came from the farm S A i"?, Johnson contributes recollections of Sumnerand AH orders for surveying thankfully roccied A S A N CAPS, some one gives a sketch of the lire of Whitelaw and promptly executed. Office with Shuck & Ar,. 1 4. 1 ,• the acre, troin helds that were an un- FROM WILSON. G. Anderson has opened a carpenter Uookstaver, nf Worthington, Nobles Co. Minn. Reid, Greeley's successor on the Tribune. Y. F. ot Mi Aaion Lambert, WHO lives I broken prairie but two years ago. Our W I S O N, O 20, 1874. BOOTS A N SHOES. shop on Tenth Street, between the Furniture [JOt] Taylor furnishes a poem on the old stage driver about five miles West of Worthington, crops of oats, flax, corn, and potatoes E I O A A N E The grasshoppers Store and the Drug Store. and there are three or four other poems, one on the Verne road, in Dewald equally promising and our gardens came down upon us again a few ATTORNEYS. township.' We give an account of Mr. beautiful one, by II. H. Besides these, are the were unusually good. The latter B. W Lyon is building a large barn days ago and have made sad work for continued stories, the editorial departments and B. SOULE, Lambert's farm at this time, not because which were the main dependence of COUNSELLOR-AT LAW on his lots on Third Avenue. us. On the morning of the 17th the a number of other articles. many families who had not sufficient he is one of our most extensive And Not.irv Public. Office on Tenth Street. In crops were looking fine and every one St. Nicholas also received. Sixteen to twenty S E E A N KAILS the Davis Block. Prompt attention gi\ en to conveyancing. means for extensive farming, are almost We regret that we neglected to notice farmers, but because lie is one of our liTly. illustrated papers, all in the happiest style. One universally destroyed. was anticipating a fair harvest. But best in proportion to his facilities and in our last issue, the ''Children's Day' GROCERIES O A KINDS of these gives illustrations of the London Royal ravagesxof In si townsnips enemof our county the our have been par about 10 o'clock the air became alive s. SHUCK, means. He probably stands alone in of the Methodist Church, held Sunday Zoological Garden. Stories, poems, sketches, ATTORNEagent,Twould ticularly severe. These are Ilersey, A N N E FRUITS A LAW. Real Estate and col- with grasshoppers, and they settled riddles, everything to interest young people. this, viz that his crop has not been in before last. Of course, this was an Graham Lakes, Seward, Wilson, Dewald lecting respectfnilv tender his down in numbers past telling. Then •ervices to I he people of this and adjoining counties, and Olney where there are un- I E I S oversight and nothing else. The hall the least injured by the grasshoppers SPECIAL NOTICES. and hopes, by prompt attention to business, began the work of destruction. Corn, •nfip,n-»tii^', one hundre.dl and fifty la.m and fair and honest dealings, to merit a share or was beautifully decorated with llowcrs His success in securing a S MOORE & SMITH'S Ice-Cream has now arrived public patronage. el potatoes, garden truck, sill disappeared and pL'tures and the exorcises were oi' year, lie attributos cY.a'.y t0 1o hard an flP.'d ,STr0)UjJ siMKi„ andI alll liaiU crmissi fin-t t.lir «ccniu MII/ oi •»»•. at perfection. Go there and partake. 0 are like frost before the sun. There- was B. N. CARRIER 1 borough WOI-K. and he is willing to ad-: more or less in debt, and their person- unusual interest. no driving them away. They did not Ice-Cream and Confectionery and Frigid Soda al property is under mortgage. These ihit Mrs. Lambert's claim that her Water at MOORE & SMITH'S. The tin roof has'disappeared from the seem to work on the wheat so much families averaging from three to live A O N E A A W prayers had much to do with saving street on the north side of Methodist members each, have truly a gloomy and there will be some of this saved, A splendid lot of Glycerine Soap at them from the grasshoppers. prospect before them until another harvest. MOORE & SMITH'S. Block, and a substantial sidewalk has but everything else is a total wreck.— A N Undoubtedly there are some Mr. Lambert is an Englishman by Farmers and others will find it to their interest They ate corn that was two inches in been laid the length of the building.— MOORE & SMITH now have on hand the largest among them who greatly exaggerate stock of Drugs, Paint* and Medicines ever CLER O DIST. COURT. birth, who came to America about 80 to call and examine my STOCK AND PRICES We can now fall asleep over our editorials diameter at the base close off to the their loss, hoping thereby to awaken brought into Nobles County. years ago and settled in Wisconsin.— before purchasing elsewhere. sympathy in their behalf, and thus secure without being waked up by twenty ground. They came» from the north All business left with him will receive prompt A new $300 PIANO for «(». Warranted six About nine years ago, he came to Minnesota a larger amount from the relief attention, small boys beating a tin tattoo. and left on the 19th going southward. years. CllAS. F. HUMISTON. [38 fund. On the other hand, there are and settled in the vicinity of Office on 9th Street opposite the Park. Almost all day Sunday the air was filled many families, who are heroically enduring DOO DA YS. Rochester. In the Spring of 1872, he The Smith AMERICAN ORGANS for sale with them, having the appearance their loss, never uttering a murmur BrsTOs-, O. n. Dog days seem to have set in on Wednesday 3S] by C1IAS. F. HUMISTON. r. (.oi»o\v. came to the National Coiony, and selected JI- complaint, and taking every Att'j at Law. of smoke in the distance. What most Notan Public. last, which was the first real a claim of SO acres west of town, pains to conceal their real condition, of us will do now is impossible to tell. ALL KINDS OF PRODUCE TAKEN Benton & Goodnow, Those wishing to SEND MONEY safely and "murky'" day of the season. The really they will not consent to receive any assistance as before stated, lie says, without J. W. M. cheaply by mail will find it to their advantage to IN EXCHANGE FOR till they approach the verge of Att'ys & Counselors at Law, hot weather is probably mostly over, reservation, that this is the finest Canning get Drafts at the BANK of WORTHINGTON. starvation. They declare that they GOODS. and we ha\ rounded the summer cape. country lie has seen. He arrived 'Vai and will dry and bum grass for FROM SEWARD. WOR THING TON MA RKETS. E A ESTATE Summer before last we had two weeks mom1 Mere with but four dollars in fuel, ti.id hoil gva$.i and weeds for food,,''' SirwAUD, LY 23,1874. WHEAT ${M)c@ 1.00 Inch some are now doing, rather than 1XSCRANCE A N of hot weather in .luiy and a cool An- viritli good teams and iniplemeiits E I O A A N E The grasshoppers FLOUi flblll. COOl^iJ.Ofi "disgrace themselves, and the community CORN bushel %r(ri) 9P visited us again last week, lea^ ing B. W. LYON. gust, with two months following of as [and several stout boys to help him OATS 70 (S) 7o COLLECTION AGENTS. in which they live, by applying on Sunday morning. They took nearly HAY ton 4,50® 0.00 beautiful Indian Summer weather as breaking and working some for tor relief, and appearing before the BKANS, WHITE, bu«h. 4.00 Worthington, Minn., July 1«, 1874.—[4w4". Particular attention paid to business before world as mendicants." Consequently all the crop which was left and Seward ever "laid out of doors." Last Summer I others, Iwwnade some monfy each seawe BUTTKR 15 the local and general Land Offices. our people positively refused to receive KGGS f. doz. 15 township is stripped almost bare of Photography had some quite hot days in August'son, and now has a comfortable house *lt] Worthington, Minnesota. GROCKRIKS—COFFER 30e@45c TEA 50tf?1,00 a dollar as a gift last winter, until it crops. Relief has been issued to about but they were so interspersed with and about .JO acres of land under eulcooler SCO A R, (Coffee A 12 OH 13c Ex. VJ. 13 was found that the Legislature could Brown ]utf?lie SIRUP 05 1,00 RICE 12^ PJIYSICTANS. 40 families in this township and these ones and with cool refreshing tivation. not constitutionally loan us the required cropped this year about as SAi/r^bw. xrf) amount. Undoubtedly most of will need relief until another crop, unless PR)\ isiONS—PORK (mess) W bbl, 22.00 nights, during which one could CRAFT, M. D., follows HO acres of wheat. 10 of oats, HAMSISc: SHOULOEKS in (ri) 11 these families who have lost all the products they can obtain work. Those who sleep at the rate of about four knots an BACON 13c LARD lo@ 17c: U. A PL'S KS ©17 10 of flax and ton of other crops.— 'PHYSICIAN & SURGEON. of their labor for two years will PEACHES 14 if? 20 can get away to harvest are doing so. HUNTINGTON &• CO., hour, that August did not have the depressing Among his ruta bagas is one which require sullicient aid to help them COAL ton Cv".o OH S.(0 Special attention given to Surgerv and the LUMBER—Common ft m. l«,0(i!ftlH.0C Several are taking advantage of the effect which it has in States treatment of Female Diseases ha\ing had eight through till another harvest. We hope measures three feet across the leaves. FINISHING 35,00640,00 years' experience. the necessary means will be furnished homestead relief law and are going General Photographers, further south. The summers are not OFFICE—At residence, corner of Fourth Avenue All his crops are in excellent condition as a loan if possible, and if not as a E A A E I S E E N S away until Spring. But two men have and Eleventh Street, Worthington, Minnesota. exhausting, and people can cat and except the potatoes and corn, which are gift from our own state. Many of outpeople [44-ly. left the country never to return. The sleep. now suffering for want of rain. Mr. are leaving temporally for work. SHERIFFS SALE. Removed from u3 East Third Street, R. I). BAIMER, BY people generally are hopeful and determined Few have any idea of permanently deserting PHarvard Lambert cut his flax last week and has virtue of an Execution, issued out of the HYSICIAN AND SCKGEON, Graduate of *. s. PICXIC. TO E GROUND FLOOR A this beautiful and most productive if possible to hold on their claims. District Court, for the Sixth Judicial District University. United States Examining it safely in the stack. His oats were On Thursday the Seward Township in and for the Countv of Nobles and State of portion of our state. Those who Surgeon for Pensions. Office at Bather & They are satisfied that no where else Minnesota, upon a ji dgment issued and docketed N a S cut the first part of this week and he is Lawrence's, Worthington Mina. are tints disposed will generally confer Sabbath School held a Pic Nic in in said Court on the third day of March, A. can they find a better climate or a richer now cutting Ins wheat. He is therefore a greater blessing on the community by D. 1874, in a certain action wherein Isaac N. Sater ST' FAUL" Miy,X' O Muck's grove at Graham Lakes. They soil, and they know that grasshoppers is Plaintiff, and C.C. Goodnow, Defendant, departing in peace, than by remaining GEO. O. MOORE, safe from the grasshoppers, and in favor said Plaintiff, and against said Defendant, were joined by the two Graham Lakes with us. and we bid them God speed.— came only at long intervals. Pu for the .sum of Seven Hundred and has raised this year from $«00 to S700 Sabbath Schools. There were about Eighteen Dollars and Two Cents, ($713 02,) I N one supposes that this grass hopper Seward down as one of the most loyal S I I A N A N S E O N lia\e 011 the ninth day of .Tulv, A. D. 1874, le\ierl worth of crops. He* has already put scourge will continue after the present 100 persons present, and the occasion E LARGEST, upon all the tight, title and interest of the said townships to be found to this section season, unless our locality shall prove Graduate nf Ann Arhor. Michigan. Residence up some twenty tons of hay and could Delendant. C. ('.Goodnow, to the following deseiibed was a very pleasant one. There was a on loth sheet below the public hall. Office :l| of the West. J. W. MOST COMPLETE A N an exception to every other part of the real estate, to-wit: 21 feet front on Tenth put up hundreds of tons within a radius the Colony l»nm Store, opposite the Worthington bountiful dinner spread, notwithstanding Street, commencing 78 feel from the corner of state where they had similar visitations Hotel, Worthington, Minn. said Tenth street and Third Avenue thence on MOST E E A N of one mile from his house. He urges the grasshopper raid. Prof. Humiston during their early history, but never repeated a line parallel with said Third Avenue 48 feet to Will attend promoth/ to oil Call*. 7"/ or Establishment of the Kind FROM LITTLE ROCK. the utilization of our splendid wild and it is generally conceded an established alley: thence along said alley 24 addressed the schools, and Mr. nii/lit. [27ly. E. A. Penberthy, teacher in Little feet: thence on a line parallel with Third Avenue timt wc have not suffered worse from in the West. a Ci to mild Tenth Street thence on a line with and Mrs. Harris, of Lake Shelek, sang I S '°l which are annually going to this scourge than other western states, Rock, township sends the following letter said Tenth Street to the place of begumin^, being a a a 1, HOTELS. some sacred songs, with excellent effect. never saw a count:y during their early history, or more than .1 part of lots 8 and 9 in Block 8 in the village of to Major Bell, the County Superintendent Worthington. County of Nobles and State of were grass and water were so generally some even now from drought, chinchbug, Minnesota, being apiece of land 24 by 48 feet, THIRD A VENUE HOI EL, PERSONALS. and other causes. I is generally and abundantly distributed. and the building thereon known as the' Pot Office Wholesale & Retail Prof. Bagley has gone to Kasson. liuilding, and will sell the same, or so much conceded t'irit the average for the I E ROCK, July 17,1874. The question njiturally arises how thereof as may be necessary to satisfy said execution C. B. LOVELESS Proprietor. county is less than half a crop, all of Minn., to be al sent for some time. SIR The following is a report of my and eosls. at the ofllce of the Countv Auditor, has Mr. Lambert succeeded in raising v. Inch and even more will have been in the village of Worthington, in the County school during the time since you were Attorney Clarke and Mr. George, of Wurlhiiiijton, Minn. such a good crop and securing it so early? and State aforesaid. On Saturtho/ the 29Ui expended in the cost of producing—so DEALERS IX here: No. of pupils enrolled 2S. Average (!ai of August, A. D., 1874, at 2 o'clock p. in., of Windom, were ia town on "Wednesday. that few if any of our community will Stereoscopic Views a Stereoscopes, attendance, 19. Best progress in thatdav. OK ARENA IIWSE, be able to .lo much toward assisting II. S. Finn has gone to St. Paul to learning made by Geo. E. Jenkins and Dated July 9th, A. D. 1874. &c, &c First, he plowed in the fall and plowed their more destitute neighbors, but let Eliza James. Have had very good order. C. W. BULLIS, engage in business. C. P-STOUOH, Proprietor. deep. Deep plowing, he thinks, pre- 44-6w.] Sheriff of Nobles Countv, Minn. I have allowed no whispering and ...ltev.-J. Koerling, of Mankato, is vis EVERY KIND OF PICTURE known to the I find the rule works well, as we have 1 vented the grasshoppers from hatching us do what we can, with faith in the SUMMONS. WOKTHINGTOX, MINX, Art executed in the very best manner p.«HV.e iting friends the netghoorhood of, plow- assurance that it is more blessed to more study and less noise. Names of STCOUNTY a 1 I a 81I ing A TE OF MINNESOTA, pupils neither absent or tardy Eliza On Ninth Street, between Second & Third avc. 1 give than to receive. Let all save what and warranted to give PERFECT SATISFACTION. OF NOBLES. ,., __.,, I ing here, and warns farmers against James and Villie James. Names of they have. Not a pound of food for District Court Sixth Judicial District. "WORTHINBTON HOTEL I)r. A. Miller is expected Oil the Secondly, he planted early, even be- man or beast should go to waste. Let pupils noted for best conduct: Eliza it John V. Farwell, Charles 13. Faiwell, Wiliam alternoon tram to-day. will spend ,. SEND FOR CATALOGUE. VISI- James, Fred Jenkins and Otis Jenkins. D. Farwell. Mmeon Farwell & John K. Harmon, everybody put up an abundant supply he a a Best-Appointe copartners in business under the firm name and some time the Colony, and will no of hay. All can do this, without an TORS AL WA YS WELCOME. style of .rohn V. Farwell & Co., Plaintiffs, against a Hotel in S Minnesota doubt be surprised and gratified at the outlay of money, and it may be found John E. Mailer. Defendant. SUPPLIES FOR THE DESTITUTE. a a 0 I The State of Minnesota to the above named a great convenience before next summer. 43—3m. change which has come over the region We have received the following letter Defendant: You, Jnhn E. Halletr, are herebv 3 Now is your time to sow white J. AMES, Prop. GEO. AMES, Cleric summoned and required to answer the complaint Barber & Lawrence, about OkabenaLakesmcehis last visit. thatched, he from Seward township: turnips—don't neglect it. If any are unable in this action which is tiled in the office of W a 49*Itates to fanners and teamsters as low as the clerk of said court at Worthington, in said Prof Hill, of Marion, Illinois, burnt off the prairie on one side and to buy the seed, call at the Colony E I O ADVANCE:—Fro theabundance any house in town. Large barn accommodations. Comity and State, and to ser\e a copy of vour Onice and it will be furnished gratis.— of the heart the mouth speaketh. 1.REELINof Stage ofllce for tlie Afferent stnye lines. spending nfoir weeks iu the Colony. answer to the said complaint on the .subscriber, that it is their duty to bear thdr Let no one decline to work even at low The time has come when the fact that at his office in Windom, in Cottonwood Countv, hliarc the hardships caused by the desil action WORTH IXGTOX, .MI XX. He owns a quarter section north of State aforesaid, within twenty days after the of the crops wages, a half loaf is better than no there are many families in this locality IlyTGJ sen ice of this summons upon you, 'exehiMxe of town, and finds that the grasshoppers OFFEH.THEIR GOODS loaf."' Some are supplying their families who are actually in want of the necessaries did not pass over these strips of breaking the day of such service, and if you fail to answer have not eaten up the sod. MISCELLAXEO US. with lish, why cannot many who of life can no longer be concealed the said complaint within the time aforesaid, the and of burnt prairie. He saw them Plaintills in action will take judgment against are idle do likewise, and salt down a from the general public. The A. J. Mauley and family have gone DEXT1STR Y. you for the sum of two hundred and thirtv-se^cn FOR DENTAL frequently hop on to the breaking, and year's supply. Soon our game laws neesssity for aid is becoming so urgent, dobars, with interest from October 11 th. 1873, at E N E I DAYS, FO ROOMS of E. BEDFORD are on 10th to West Mitchell, Iowa, to spend the finding nothing to eat, turn about and will allow us to shoot prairie chickens, that further attempt to conceal the ten per cent. j»er annum, together with the costs Street, opposite public square, and will be fall and winter. W commend "Jack and disbursements of this action. CASH ONLY open the last week iu each mouth. Work injured and many, in former years, have found facts would be suicidal to our own -interests. hop back into the grass. By the time Dated May 30th. 1874. Ave years. [27y to the people as a man who is fitly the shipping of these'birds to our eastern At the following prices and discounts Many of us lost our crops last E. CLARK, riaintiff's Attorney the grasshoppers began to ily in large All dollar patent medicines 0w40] Windom, Minn. Wo market, a most lucrative employment. ye?r and also this, and the boat that SADDLE AND HARNESS SHOP. named, and hope they will send him AH 50c do do numbers and settle down upon his Others have furnished their held us above water so far is about to II. JOHNSON, Dealer in Saddlery Hard- back by spring. All 25c Io do STu* place, his crops were well ripened, and own tables with their only meat for sink, and then it will become neccessary N E W A E I S E E N S All Dollar School Books ware, Trunks, Valises, etc. Harness always a Mr. Wm Gray arrived this morning All 50c do 4ftc on hand, and made to order. Uepairini neat'lv several months during the fall and earlv to swim or die. Life boats have while he was cutting his flax they were done. Shop on Ninth Street, Worthington, Minn". A112.JC do from Illinois, accompanied by his bride. winter. Save your flax straw—all already been sent us. but as many as State Normal School. Boiled Linseed Oil, per gal. 27 ly. alighting around him by millions. 1 H0e who have tried it say it makes a much can swim alone, grapple for and snatch Raw Linseed Oil, per gal. 1 _V In Mrs. Gray the society of the National Mr. Lambert is thorougly convinced E A E S A E A E N better fuel than slough grass. Many Turpentine iOf them up, there will not be enough to go Colony will find a valuable addition, Tartaric Acid K.C can find employment with their teams of the superiority of this country for around. I would therefore recommend, MANKATO, MINN. :c Cream of Tartar, chemically pure inasmuch as she is an intelligent or axes in the "Big Woods." Good urge and request those whose duty it iC,-.} Cream of Tartar, commercial agriculture. says we want men SOULE & LAXGDOX peat, in abundance, can lie obtained Castor Oil, commercial, per pt. Nie and refined Christian lady. is, or may become, to distribute any who are practical and hard-working Castor Oil, dark, per pt. 35« the western part of the county on aid, to exclude such as can swim or are Z. L. White, correspondent of thoN 1 101 Lard oil, per gallon, 1. FALL TERM commences August 20,1874. and then we shall get good results. Dealers in Real Estate, the Kanaranzi, near the Luverne road above water or even on dry land.*' OOe Engine oil, per gallon. 2. Pupils must 1H at least fifteen years of age. Y. Tribune, spent a day or two in the Homesteads, Preemptions attend to digging it in season to have Engine oil, per gallon. advises those coming to bring good 3. Applicants for admission to the Normal Department Spirits Nitre, per o/. and Town Property Bought and Sold. The Relief Committee cannot know will be examined in Spelling, Reading, Colony during the past week looking up it well dried, and then haul it with your stout teams and then work as hard as Aqua ammonia, per oz. Worthington, August 31. Writing, Geography, Grammar and Arithmetic. own teams, and supply yourselves with who are worthy and who are not, only the grasshopper question. Mr. White'al Laudanum, per oz. 4. Tuition free to those who pledge to teach We farmers do east and they will be astonished an excellent fuel for the winter. Let Paregoric, per oz. twovearsin the Common Schools of the -tate. as they are informed from the township flC, is an alert, intelligent, thoroughly Camphor Gum, per o/. at the crops they will raise. All others will be charged EIGHT DOLLARS S. A. HILDllETH, neighbors assist eacli other, especially 5o committees. The plan has therefore I'KIt TERM. And all other Drugs in proportion. posted gentleman, as Tribune correspondents by ''changing work," and thus gather is, moreover, hostile to large farms and 5. Special facilities for those who wish to learn From this date our customer* will please take Has Opened a been adopted of issuing to such neccessarily are, and his statements your crops and fuel without paying out notice that we SELL ONLY FOR CAhH. Dons how to teach. insists upon small farms thoroughly ask us for credit as we shall be compelled t. re. committees and leaving them to dispense For further information apply to the Principal. money. Watch your wheat, oats and concerning the grasshopper raid S A I N S A O O N D. C. JOHN, fuse it, a- every man's good sense mast tell him worked, if we expect to have a rich and corn till after they are harvested and the supplies to those who are 4(5—3w* Mankato, Minn. that the credit system, under the present pro-,pects, and the prairies of Southwestern Minnesota prosperous county. I all this, it appears secure, and see that the birds don't take is only another name for certain ruin and on Tenth Street, opposite the Worthington Hotel, needy. can be relied on. expresses the leggery of our families. "Chaiity should where he is prepared to wait upon the public what the grasshoppers have left. Children to us that Mr. Lambert is saying 3N*. JS-A.T-E1-F1., begin at Home." in anything pertaining to his line. himself as much pleased with our can attend to this. Finally do Worthington, July 10, 1874—14tf. some very sensible things, which it The patronage of the public solicited. While we are suffering from the grasshoppers, not .allow yourselves to become discouraged beautiful prairies and says that they At his would be well to heed. OK ARENA HOUSE FOR SALE. these calamities do not come Illinois, Wisconsin and Missouri ADDRESS. are the counterpart of a portion of The undersigned wishes to sell the Qkalwia from the ground and they will doubtless All letters addressed to Miller, Humiston are being ravaged bv the chinch Hotel, located on Ninth Street, in Worthington. Texas and of the Indian Territory, Lumber Yard in Worthington, minister to our good, if properly & Company, Worthington, Nobles The prairie begins to be dotted over The house has a good run of patronage, and bug, and Kentucky is being dried up only that we have the advantage of improved. Stern discipline seems necessary good stabling for teams. Am compelled to county, Minnesota, will be promptly with hay ricks in all directions. We by prolonged drouth. From twenty to change business on account of the ill-health to make an industrious and thrifty many beautiful lakes, which that country answered, and full information given my wi fe. For particulars add ress. venture the prediction that those who and vigorous people. W find this a twenty-five counties in Southern Kentucky lias constantly)!! hand l36tfl C. P. STOFGII. concerning the National Colony. has not. put up plenty of hay will make a hit, universal truth in the history of our have raised no crop. The rivers Two desirable Farms near Worthington race. I fear that we have dwelt too for feed will be scarce next Spring and Colony Maps for sale at the A A N E Township maps for sale at the A are dried lip and cases of starvation A Large and Varied Assortment of Pine for sale. Also House to rent. Apply 1 much upon the idea that our rich soil hay will be in demand. -Office. are reported. A N E office. T.mnbrr, to W S STOCKDALE.