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Friday, September 28, 1906

Birthday Club

The members of the Birthday Club were entertained Tuesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. L.W. Abbott, the occasion being the birthday anniversary of their hostess. A most enjoyable afternoon was spent. After the social session, refreshments were served, after which the guests departed, wishing their hostess many pleasant returns of the day, and leaving behind a handsome reminder of their esteem.

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Editor Beckley, of the Herald, spent Sunday at Spirit Lake .

Worthington Boy Honored.

Up in Morrison county the voters did much honor to a M.E. Barnes of Motley, a former Worthington boy when they gave him the nomination for county superintendent of schools by a majority of 1100 over his opponent.

Mr. Barnes is young, active and well qualified for the position and will make a good superintendent. His Worthington friends rejoice in his success.

Linen Shower.

A linen shower in honor of Miss Grace Wood was held at the home of Mrs. G.A. Cahoon Saturday afternoon. There were about twenty present and some very pretty and tasety gifts were "showered" upon the young lady. Ice cream and cake were served and those present spent a most enjoyable afternoon.

Death of Former Resident.

Saturday morning Dr. Moore received a card from Fred Cone announcing the death of J.C. Clark, which occurred at Springville Utah , on Thursday of last week.

Mr. Clark was one of the original members of the National Colony, which founded Worthington , and was a well known and highly esteemed resident of this vicinity until about twelve years ago when he removed to Utah , where his death occurred. He was also one of the charter members of the Congregational church in this city, and had many friends who deeply regret to hear of his death.

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Dr. F.M. Manson was at Round Lake on professional business, Tuesday.

CORRESPONDENCE

Indian Lake .

Andy Christensen left last week for a few weeks visit to his boyhood home at Audubon , Iowa .

N.M. Nilson and daughter, Miss Hilma, returned last Wednesday from a weeks visit with his brother at Galva , Iowa .

E. Nordquist left last Monday for Spencer , Iowa , in response to a telegram stating that his nephew, Albin Nordquist, who for many years was a resident of Indian Lake , was dying of consumption.

Herman Doeden has rented the Grelson farm for the coming year.

Among those who have received new musical instruments of late is Miss Tillie Larson, who is the happy possessor of an Ellison piano.

C.R. and Walter Saxon have placed a new six horse-power Monitor gasoline engine at their ranch. It does its work to their entire satisfaction.

Wallace Saxon has rented the John Saxon farm of 240 acres and expects to take possession March 1st.

Ransom.

Miss Bessie Hubbard, of Carthage , Missouri , is visiting with the family of F.T. Graves, and with other friends and relatives here in Nobles. Minnesota air is a great tonic, and to get the ful benefit of it she purposes to stay several weeks. She can spend a few weeks very pleasantly with friends and acquaintances for there are many of them.

Theodore Cramer tells me that his potatoes are rotting badly, and some others tell the same story. There was promise of a very good crop of potatoes, but if they rot as reported the yield will be cut down quite a little.

On Monday of this week the fall term of school in the Center district was opened with Miss Montgomery of Lismore, as teacher. Mr. Jule, of Little Rock township, is teaching in the Larsen district; Miss Mitchell of Bigelow, in the Kunkel district, and Miss Cain, also of Bigelow, in the Graves district. Miss Sarah Downes, one of our Ransom school teachers, will begin her school in the Guernsey district on Monday next. All the five schools in the town will then be in session.

Miss Carrie Sorem, another of our Ransom teachers has been engaged to teach the same school that she taught last year. She has an eight months school, and will commence fall term next Monday. Her school is in Little Rock township.

Org.

Mr. and Mrs. Swanson and family who have been visiting for several weeks in St. Paul returned home Sunday.

Alvin Yunquist who has been staying with his uncle Mr. Swanson during the summer returned to St. Paul Monday. Alvin has made many friends during his stay here, who regret to see him go, but all wish for his success.

Mrs. Sanquist, while washing ran a needle into the fleshy part of her thumb. The doctors were unable get part of the needle out. Her hand is in very bad shape.

Among the Org people that attended church in Worthington Sunday evening were Chas. King and family, O.B. Thueson wife and daughter Freda, Hartwick Bjornstad, Reka Johnson, Henry Larson and Ida Bjornstad.

Mr. August Wass is the proud possessor of a bran new wind-mill.

Mrs. Moore started giving music lessons here last Saturday. She has four pupils and several more intend taking later on.

Mr. Groniger is helping Mr. Burnham cut corn.

Bigelow.

Reuben, the young son of Mr. and Mrs. Ole Nystrom has been severely ill, but at this writing is greatly improved.

After a stay of five or six weeks in Indian Lake Miss Esther Blomgren returned to her Bigelow home last Friday.

List of Jurors

The following is the list of grand jurors drawn for the general October, 1906, term of the district court for Nobles county:

J.L. Flint... Round Lake Village

W.R. Abbott... Indian Lake Township

J.M. Pain... Hersey Township

W. Dierks... Graham Lake Township

Jos. Foehr... Graham Lake Township

A.W. Buxx... Bloom Township

Herman Mohr... Bloom Township

Robert Black... Dewald Township

John Good... Summit Lake Township

A.M. Becker... Adrian Village

L.W. Roerig... Adrian Village

John McCord... Adrian Village

Mike Vedier... Larking Township

L.T. Engon... Lismore Township

L.W. Johnson... Leota Township

John F. O'Connor... Leota Township

E.W. Cutler... Worthington Village

Fred Howard... Worthington Village

Ned Jones... Worthington Village

Arnold Tschirgi... Grand Prairie Twp

Wm. Parry... Little Rock Township

A. Schultz... Little Rock Township

Robert Shore ... Ransom Township

Petit Jurors

J.N. Horton... Round Lake Village

John Chapa... Graham Lakes Twp.

F. Latourell... Wilmont Village

William Wolf... Wilmont Township

Charles Hildred... Bloom Township

John Dahlberg... Rushmore Village

Frank Baker... Summit Lake Township

F.A. Durfee... Summit Lake Township

C.F. Modisett... Bigelow Village

Fred Bird... Bigelow Township

A. Hanson... Little Rock Township

John Crowley... Ellsworth Village

Peter Lenz, Jr.... Adrian Village

J.H. Brabender... Adrian Village

J.E. Faragher... Adrian Village

James F. Britt... Leota Township

H. Magee... Lismore Township

John Apel... Elk Township

Frank Thom... Olney Township

Emil Graaf... Worthington Township

Frank Dean... Worthington Village

Wilson Ager... Worthington Village

C.M. Harding... Worthington Village

Ernest Sterling... Worthington Village

LOCAL NEWS

John Pepple was up from St. James on one of his regular Sunday visits.

Miss Gettis, of Mankato is acting as stenographer for County Attorney Crandall.

Mrs. J.W. McBride left on Wednesday for Rochester where she will undergo an operation for the removal of a tumor.

Mrs. Stanley Moore and Mrs. Samuel Allen went to Minneapolis Monday for a short visit with relatives and friends.

H. TerHar, democratic candidate for sheriff of Jackson county, was in this city Monday, on his way to Round Lake township, looking after his political fences.

Heron Lake News: Misses Nelson, Mullany and Jean Smith came up from Worthington Saturday to spend Sunday with Heron Lake friends. The young ladies are three of Worthington 's most popular teachers.

Louis Hadberg, who resides four miles north of the city, got a small piece of straw or chaff in his eye while working about a threshing machine, which so injured the member that there is a danger of his losing the sight of that eye.

W.H. Sievert of Wilmont made a business trip to this city Tuesday.

We understand that Harry Rockwell has purchased the Conway residence property on Tenth street .

Lee Forbes has sold his farm in this township to Iowa parties. We understand that the price paid was $46 per acre.

Editor Smalley, of the Globe, finds cause for rejoicing in the birth of a son, who arrived at his house on Monday of this week.

G.A. Gilman, of Hersey, was a welcome visitor at the Advance office Tuesday. He informs us that the excessive rains are damaging the corn somewhat.

Peter Baltis, a blacksmith from Lismore brought to this city on Wednesday last, suffering from dementia, and was committed to the asylum for insane at St. Peter. Mrs. John Kunzman and daughter, Miss Mable returned home Thursday afternoon from Mitchell , S.D. , where they went Monday to visit relatives and take in Coin Palace .

S.M. Stewart made a trip down into Nebraska this week returning Tuesday evening with 125 head of high grade Hereford cattle all of which were sold to farmers in this vicinity on Wednesday.

Harry R. Tripp, our nominee for register of deeds was over from Round Lake Tuesday, shaking hands with his many friends here. He is more than pleased with the support he received at the primary election.

Ensign A. Swanson, solicitor for the Iowa division of the Salvation Army was in the city Wednesday soliciting aid for the work of that body.

F.C. Stitser visited his wife at Kansas City during the past week, returning home Wednesday morning. He reports that Mrs. Stitser is steadily improving, which will be pleasing news to her numerous friends

NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES

Newsy Notes Gathered From Our Exchanges.

Mrs. Anna Neiness, of Lismore died at the Northwestern hospital, Minneapolis , recently. She had been ailing for some time and went to the city for medical treatment.

Lismore Leader: Miss Mae Philips was a Worthington visitor the first of the week, going down Monday and returning Wednesday.

Peter Baltis, assistant in the Lismore blacksmith shop, met with a painful accident last week Monday. While working around the emery wheel his left arm became caught in one of the belts, resulting in severely cutting it in a number of places although no bones were broken. He was taken to the doctors office and the wounds dressed and then to the hotel where he remained until Wednesday when he was taken to Worthington to be where he could receive better treatment.

Married: Geo. Kothaner of Bellingham , Wash. , and Miss Mabel Booth of Seward township, were married Thursday, Sept. 13, 19 06 , by Rev. J.A. Saunders. The happy couple left for their home in Washington last Monday.

L.H. Luepker of Seward, and Ernst and Wm. Luheker, returned home Tuesday from Farmersburg , Ia. , where they attended the funeral of their mother, who died Sept. 10th 1906 . Mrs. Luepker was 58 years old and died suddenly during the night. Fred Kahle also attended the funeral.

Lightning struck the house on the Cullen farm in Westside, Sunday, and did considerable damage. The chimney was torn to pieces, the roof damaged two window were partially uncased. John Appledorn lives in the house but none of the family were hurt.

Wilmont Tribune: The R.I. gang of Italians have moved to Worthington , and still you can hear occasional rooster crow.

John Humiston of Worthington , was a Wilmont visitor Monday. While here Mr. Humiston made arrangements with Mr. J. McConnell to take charge of his large stock farm near Worthington .

The funeral of little Elfie Spartz, who died on Thursday morning, Sep. 13, of cholera infantum, was held from the Catholic church at St. Kilian on Saturday and the interment took place in the St. Kilian cemetery. -- W.R. Mansel of Adrian , has gone to the Pacific coast. He will visit Washington Oregon and California .

J.W. Peterson, of Litchfield Minn. , was here Saturday and bought four fine stallions from T.F. Robinson, who has retired from the horse business. Mr. Peterson also bought a stallion from T.G. Perkins, west of Magnolia, and a two-year old colt from S.H. Boden of Westside township. The colt is a good one and it did not take Mr. Peterson long to make up his mind to pay $225 for it.

Mr. and Mrs. P.A. Nelson, of Adrian , are the proud parents of a son, born on the 20th. Adrian Democrat.

Rushmore Enterprise: O. Malmquist and John Kenney have each hauled out a half car load of tile the past week and are going ot do considerable tiling on their respective farms. Farm land is becoming too valuable to allow it to lay idle and tiling is about the only way to reclaim the wet places.

Bert Ash and Miss Mamie Unzen, former residents of Ellsworth were married at St. Paul Tuesday of this week.

C. Story has been appointed roadmaster of the Ellsworth division of the Rock Island railway with headquarters at Ellsworth. He relieves S.M. Witbeck, who resigned.

Ed Egan and Matt Geardy of Ellsworth, have purchased 200 sheep which they will feed this winter.

Ellsworth News: Geo. Premo was a Worthington visitor a few hours last Friday, to take in the county fair and purchase a few full blooded O.I.C. hogs, to add to his already fine herd.

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Source:
Microfilm, Worthington Advance; Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul , MN ; obtained March, 2008.

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