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Friday, October 6, 19 05

The Gun Was Loaded.

Last Saturday evening as Mr. Evenson the clerk, was removing a number of shells from a shot gun, at M.J. Barber's hardware store, one of the shells was accidently exploded, the charge passing through the center of the front plate glass window. Fortunately no one was in range and no serious results followed. Had the gun been pointed at the floor the charge would have hit a case of dynamite, with consequences impossible to estimate. Mr. Barber says it makes him shudder to think of what might have happened in such an event. The entire block and possibly many adjoining buildings would have been wrecked, entailing the loss of many lives.

Deaths.

A 4 months old son of Jess Coyer and wife of the town of Bloom , died on Wednesday, Sep. 27th, and was buried at Rushmore on Thursday of last week. Mr. and Mrs. Coyer have the sympathy of a large circle of friends in their bereavement.

A 7 years old son of John Grady of Hersey died on Monday, Oct. 2nd, at the hospital at Rochester after an operation for appendicitis. The funeral was held Tuesday, interment being made in the Brewster cemetery.

ASSIGNMENT OF PASTORS.
Southern Minnesota District Conference Concludes its Labors Monday.
St. Paul Gets Next Conference. New Presiding Elder for Marshall District .
Rev. G.A. Cahoon Returns to Worthington for Another Year.

The annual conference of the M.E. Church for the southern district of Minnesota was held at Mankato this year and concluded its labors Monday. The next conference will be held at St. Paul . Former Presiding Elder Rula was transferred to the Winona district, and F.B. Cowgill was appointed presiding elder of this, the Marshall district. The following is a list of appointments of pastors for this district:

F.B. Cowgill, presiding elder, Marshall, Minn; Adrian, C.D. Nickelson; Balaton, S.H. Brown; Bever Creek, N.C. Claflin; Bigelow, G.M. Glick; Brewster and Wilder, J.B. Holman; Canby and Porter, H.M. Hancock; Clarkfield, H.W. Cannon; Edgerton, C.A. Sharp; Ellsworth, W.C. Folemsyee [sic]; Franklin and Fairfax, J.A. Orrocks; Fulda, J.G. Saunders; Hendricks and Ivanhoe, L.L. Tower; Heron Lake, W.C. Sage; Jackson, T.H. Wildensen; Jasper, Joseph Hanna; Jeffers and Amo, T.O. Krause; Lake Benton, Huben Greaves; Lakefield, W.J. Robinson; Lamberton, E.C. Smith; Luverne, E.G. Durham; Lynd, J.W. Stebbins; Marshall, B.C. Gillis; Morton, H.I. Pharo; Mountain Lake, W.C. Hawley; Pipestone, J.F. VanCamp; Redwood Falls, H.V. Givler; Rushmore, W.M. Gillis; Ruthton and Altura, J.R. Hitchcock; Slayton, T.W. Barbour; Tracy, H.D. Seckner; Wabasso, J.A. Hutchins; Walnut Grove, B.C. Sills; Westbrook, F. Frederickson; Windom, S.A. Cook; Wood Lake, W.H. Stone; Worthington, G.A. Cahoon; Woodstock, G.H. Hunter.

LOCAL NEWS

Mrs. J.P. Biltgen spent Sunday with relatives at Bigelow.

Mrs. Hattie Bassett of Rushmore was the guest of friends Monday.

Charles Erickson and wife were in from the town of Worthington Tuesday.

Mrs. G.T. Bullick of Reading was in Worthington last Friday on a shopping trip.

A. Idso of Brewster has had charge at Kelley and Co's creamery the past two weeks.

Rev. Roi Tibbitts returned from Sheldon Monday where he has been to attend conference.

Miss Beulah Sain who is teaching at Harris , Iowa , was home over Sunday on a visit to her parents.

County Attorney C.M. Crandall, accompanied by his guest W.E. Bullard of Iowa , made a trip to Slayton Tuesday.

Miss Lottie Hagerman of Brewster has entered Miss Fahy's millinery establishment to learn the millinery trade.

Arvid Sahlbom of Sioux Falls , member of the W.U.T. Cols line crew, was here over Sunday visiting relatives and friends.

Rev. W.H. Knowlton, archdeacon for Southwestern Minnesota, held service at St. John's Episcopal church last Sunday evening.

Mr. and Mrs. Robertson and daughter of Wilmont were visiting at the home of Orville Slyfur of Worthington town over Sunday.

Rev. A.E. Driscoll field secretary of McCallister College , of St. Paul , preached a very fine sermon at the Presbyterian church last Sunday morning.

A.N. Douglas of Minneapolis was in Worthington last Friday and Saturday renewing acquaintances and looking after business matters. Mr. Douglas was on his way home from Illinois , where he had been on the sad errand of burying his wife.

An Advance reporter visited the Worthington Bottling Co's. plant last Friday, and found Mr. Nieman and his force busily at work putting up goods. Mr. Nieman is putting up a fine grade of soft drinks and has worked up an extensive business on his goods.

C.A. Steinman was in from Elk Wednesday.

Mrs. Mary Dirks is reported to be seriously ill.

Miss Lena Reynolds of Bigelow was in the city Saturday.

G.E. [or C.F.] Story of Elk was a business visitor in town Wednesday.

Miss Celia McGinnis returned to her home in Currie Saturday.

Misses Lottie and Mable Kunzman returned from Mitchell Saturday.

Miss Rosa Sather who is teaching at Reading spent Sunday with her parents.

Misses Alma and Freda Fagerman of Sioux City visited with Nettie and Mary Fitch last week.

T.H. Thompson on Tuesday made a trip into Elk and Hersey towns canvassing for cream separators.

P.O. Mimnaugh went to Rock Valley last week to look after his restaurant business at that point.

Mrs. G.A. Cahoon attended the Conference at Mankato returning Monday evening with her husband.

Miss Frances Clark who is teaching in Heron Lake came up Friday to spend Sunday with her parents.

Cashier Evans of the Nobles County bank is expected home next Sunday from his trip to the Pacific coast.

The Misses Ehlers of Adrian passed through the city Saturday on their way to Brewster to visit their sister.

Rev. G.M. Walker has been afflicted with a carbuncle on one of his hands the past week, causing him considerable pain and annoyance.

Frank Wells and his mother of Bristol , Iowa , arrived the first of the week for a visit with his sister Mrs. G.M. Walker. Mrs. Wells will remain here for some time.

Many Worthington people will be interested in the following birth notice clipped from a Hastings paper -- "Born in Hasting, Sept. 25, to Supt. and Mrs. E.L. Porter a daughter."

Fred Debor the clerk in Moses hardware store, is at St. James this week attending court, being a witness in the case against the parties who burglarized a hardware store here last spring.

C.T. Tupper of the Citizens Bank returned on Monday from a business trip to Thornton and Clarion, Iowa . Mr. Tupper found times much improved in that section and farm lands on the advance. The corn crop there was a bumper.

Mr. and Mrs. Nels Erickson and son Arthur of Sterling Illinois, are here on a visit to their sons, Charles and John Erickson of Worthington township. Mr. Erickson has also been looking up farm lands and will buy a place if he finds one to suit him.

The Worthington Globe has been leased to Albert Smalley, of Luverne, who will take charge in a week or so. Mr. Smelley is an old newspaper man, but has, we understand, been engaged in the hardware business at Luverne for some time past.

Mrs. G.C. Hyde and two daughters left Friday for Sleepy Eye to take charge of the depot lunch counter. Mrs. Hyde has had charge of the lunch counter at the Omaha depot here for some months, giving good satisfaction. Fred Slaker, the day operator, will take her place here.

E.F. Buchan met with a very painful accident one evening this week while taking a flash light photograph at the residence of Dr. Wiedow. In lighting the powder to produce the flash-light he got his hand too close, and sustained a severe burn that will incapacitate him for business for several days.

Stanley Swanburg while returning from a bicycle trip to Oychedan lake Sunday evening of last week found a pocket book containing a sum of money. He brought it to the Advance office to be advertised, and the owner, C.S. Morton of Rushmore, claimed the property Tuesday.

Walter Ager of Wilmont visited relatives here Saturday.

Dr. Humiston returned Saturday from a two week trip in Dakota.

Conductor Horton's family are entertaining friends from abroad.

Rudolph Geyerman and Leon Morris of Brewster were in town on business Monday.

E.L. Nance has a fine new delivery wagon, bought from the Smith Implement Co.

C.J. Anderson of the town of Round Lake was in Worthington on business last Saturday.

L.L. McCartney, the popular baggageman at the Omaha depot was on the sick list a few days the first of the week.

P.A. Christenson, a former resident of Worthington , passed through town Tuesday, on his way home from Luverne to Hinckley .

Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Moore returned the first of the week from their trip to New York City . They visited many points of interest on their tour and report a very enjoyable trip.

Mrs. Lizzie Brant of Welcome stopped here on her way home from a visit in Sheldon , Iowa , to visit Grandma Brant. Mrs. Brant leaves the last of this month to spend the winter in New York .

W.E. Jones is home from Denver on a visit to his parents Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Jones. The young man is engaged in the mining business and holds a responsible position as mining engineer with large mining company. He will return to his work the first of the week.

The dredging company, which is constructing the large drainage ditch northwest of the city has moved its camp from Chas. Erickson's place in town of Worthington   to Mr. Jones' place in the town of Dewald . Work on the big ditch is progressing rapidly.

Rev. Frank Johnson an Evangelist from Kilron , Iowa , planned for a series of meeting here in Worthington and at Round Lake from the 11th to the 15th inclusive, the time and place will be definitely published in our next issue. These meetings may be held in English or Swedish as the congregations desire as the speaker commands the two languages he formerly being a political stump speaker but now follows the vocation of farming.

For Sale: -- A large part of my household furniture including, beds, stoves, baby carriage, lamp, rocking chairs, and spring jumper, one Edison Phonograph complete with 53 records, and many other articles. Call at my residence. Edwin C. Wilson.

NOBLES COUNTY NOTES

Lismore.
(From the Leader)

C.A. Manning turned over the keys of the drug store to Wm. _entler Wednesday, and commenced __king his household good preparatory to leaving Lismore. Mr. Manning intends to go from here to Minneapolis , where he will remain for the present, but is uncertain as to whether his stay there will be permanent.

Nick Bach is nursing a broken forearm as the result of a runaway last Friday evening.

Brewster.
(From the Tribune.)

T.E. Bly and wife arrived home the first of the week from Lake Co. Fair at Madison , S.D. , and this will probably be the last exhibiting that Mr. B. will do this season. At Madison he gathered in three first prizes and four seconds on swine and also captured the first prize on honey.

Miss Margaret Meyer, who has been acting as book keeper at the Big Store for several months, will close her engagement with the firm at the end of this week, and later she and her sister Elizabeth will go to Mankato to attend the commercial college.

E.V. Voak, George W. Patterson, M.E. Lawton and other prominent Worthington residents were in town this week. None of them are politicians, but simply came on business.

Albert Idso went down to Worthington Monday to take charge of the butter making at the Kelley creamery for a few days, as the regular man had suddenly departed, leaving the institution in a tight spot. Albert has been employed in the Brewster creamery for some time, and can handle the work in good shape.

J.F. Plot exhibited an apple of the Wolf River variety this week that measured just fourteen inches in circumference and weighed exactly a pound. J.B. Williams also showed some apples that were about the same size, and were perfect in shape and color. In many places through this section orchards are loaded and apples are rotting on the ground. In a few years more Minnesota will be shipping apples to Michigan , New York and Missouri .

Ellsworth News: This community was greatly shocked to learn of the sudden death of John Butler, which occurred at Mankato last Thursday, the result of a stroke of apoplexy. John Butler was born in Kilkenney , Ireland , fifty eight years ago, and came with his parents to America when he was two years old. It was about the year 1883, that he started the town of Ellsworth , and from that time on he was one of the most active men in the place. He has been connected with many enterprises here, and was always ready to aid any ______nt that benefitted the town. The first business house Ellsworth erected was John Butler's, and ___ ombination of a grocery, a ____ds and furnishings, a drug ____dware store on the corner occupied by Keedick and Rood.

Round Lake .
(From the Graphic.)

____ Tripp was down from the county seat last Saturday and sold ____ Poland China sows to a ____tendorf of Ocheyedan.

____ey Morgan is attending the ____on at Portland , Oregon . Be___  __arning he expects to look at ___ _ontana land.

___ce Hurlbert, who was in charge of R.W. Abbott's threshing machine as seperator tender, met with a frightful accident at the Renberg farm, about 5 miles southwest of here Monday. He stepped on a defective board over the cylinder while the machine was in [motion?] and his right heel was caught and so badly mangled that it was found necessary to amputate ___.

Theo. Bahls has a force of carpenters and masons at work on his residence enlarging and improving the house and surroundings.

Julius Palm, of Worthington , and assistants are now engaged at erecting a barn on the Brockmann farm in Round Lake township. This is the farm Walter Walker occupies.

John Nienaber, of Round Lake township, is contemplating the erection of a commodious dwelling on his farm this fall. The structure will be two full stories high, 16x32 feet in size, with a wing two stories high, 16x20 feet. A basement under the entire building is part of the plan figured on.

Chas. Horton's oldest boy met with a very painful accident last Friday. His father was handling lumber in the Round Lake grain and Lumber Co's yard and just as he pulled out a board with considerable force the little fellow stepped to the side of his father and was hit across the bridge of the nose and knocked insensible. His father pressed his nose into shape immediately and the little fellow is getting along nicely