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WILLMAR TRIBUNE. State Historical Society

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_ One to go to a firstclass optician, have your eyes properly tested and get what you need. The oth­er, togo to a merchant who keeps spectacles, make a "grab in the bag," as it were, get a pair that don't fit you (although it may seem so for the moment), run the risk of ruining your eye-sight entirely —and all for a very small difference in expense.

If you need the services of a good optician, we can serve you— well and cheaply

^7VrBISr2SrESR,3L.XJ2Sr3D,S Oppo>teAaiidi\ohito Bank. J E W E L E R «ft O P T I C I A N ,

CITY GLEANINGS.

Items Gathered by the Special Reporter of the Tribune.

Miss Agnes Spicer left Friday afternoon.

for L hicago

Defects of Eyesight

r e q u i r i n g co r r ec t i on by t h e use of s p e c t a c l e s a r e p u r e l y mechan ica l a n d can be s o coi r e c t e d b y t h e p r o p e r a d j u s t m e n t of p e r f e c t l y m a d e l enses t h a t t h e i r effects will oe e n t i r e l y obv ia ted .

C. H. ANDERSON,

Graduate of Chicago Opthal-mic College is in charge of the Optical work and he guarantees to give proper fit and satisfaction

ANDERSON BROTHERS, Jewelers and

^^Optic ians .

| LOCAL-BREVITIES. 1 Mrs. Christine

sick list. Wheeler is on the

the

Open . . All Night

Is practically, but not literally, the case at our store. OUR MGHT BELL will always sum­mon prompt and willing service »%hen there is serious illness jiind necessity for prompt relief.

HO E X T R A C H A R G E FOR NIGHT C A L L S .

I simply ask for that kindly tee ling on your part that gives me \ our DAY patronage.

A. E. Mossberg, D R U G G I S T .

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CHOICE CONFECTIONS!

I have opened a Confectionery and Fruit Store in the building one door south of Ekander's tailor shop, where I will be pleased to see all wishing any­thing in my line. I shall en­deavor to always keep on hand a

FRESH STOCK

Ice-boating seems to be the favorite pastime now-a-days.

Mr*. Swain of Benson visited in town a few days the past week.

Miss Flossie McLaughlin \isited friends in Marshall la«t week.

Rev. D. T. Booth held services in Kerkho\en last Thursdaj evening.

Prof. Cross and class are working hard preparatory to gi\ ing their pro­gram soon.

Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Dickej of Min­neapolis have been visiting relatives here a few days.

Miss Nellie Haley resumed her po­sition as primary teacher in the Kan­diyohi schools, Monday.

Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Wiggins are nicely settled in their home next to the Roman Catholic church.

The Teachers' Magazine club met with Mrs. A. C. Rice Monday night and re-organized.

Mrs. Miles German and daughter of Ellendale, N. D.. returned home Fridaj evening, after a visit here with relatives.

In the case of C W. Thompson against the Great Northern company the defendants have appealed to the Supreme court.

The Presbyterians did fairlv well at their sale of pictures and supper given Thursday evening. Most of the pictures were sold.

Mrs. E. R. Aldrich and Mrs. J. Hunter from Benson have returned home, after visiting their sister. Mrs. C. E. McLaughlin.

The Kandi\ohi County Teachers' Association will, instead of their reg­ular meeting, give a program appro­priate to the day on the evening of Lincoln's birthday. The committee having it in charge are Misses Nellie Haley and Sarah Booth, and Burness Stanford of Kandiyohi.

The benefit dance given by Mr. Aus­tin Lee and orchestra was well attend­ed and all enjoyed themselves. The orchestra made its initial appearance at dances and was heartilv received. The members are Mr. Lee, Robert Otterness, Walter Hanscom, George Tyler. Archie Larson and George Williams.

The Invincible Whist club pla\ed with the ladies of the Fireside club at the home of Mrs. A. E. Rice Friday evening. The ladies won by twenty points. The Invindoles say it was due to the fact that there were several substitutes in their club owing to the fact that several of the regular mem­bers were at the dance given the same evening.

Mrs. C. A. Birch gave a delightful party last Wednesday afte'rnoon. Each lady was7 requested to bring a photo of herself when young. The guests were then told to guess as to whom the pictures were, the lady guessing most receiving head prize. Mrs. G. W. Tyler was the lucky one, Mrs. J . Brown receiving foot prize for least number. A dainty lunch was served.

Re\ . Sutherland preaches in Swedish Baptist church to-night.

For Abstracts of Title, call on John T Otos: office 1st floor, Tribune Build­ing

The Swedish Lutheran ladies meet with Mrs. Peter Nelson, next Thursday afternoon.

Alexandre Erixon of Irving spent Sunday here with his brother, Gus-tave A. Erixon.

A girl was born to Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Mankel of Lake Andrew on the 22nd ot January.

Mrs. E. D. Case returned home Sun­day morning from a visit with rela­tives at Fargo, N. D

Solomon Porter is the latest ac­quisition to our real estate and loan agencies in the village.

Bjork & Kalbak have opened a wook yard near the creamery and re­port a fair business so far.

The ladies of the Swedish Baptist church meet Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock with Mrs. Andrew Johnson.

Mrs. Buchanan, of Canastota, S. D., arrived here last Thursday for a visit with her lister. Mrs. A. T. Bo-gart.

Miss Laura Johnson arrived here last Saturday from Browns Vallej for a \ isit with her sister. Mrs. J . C. Frese.

Mrs. Nelson, mother of N. O. Nel-soii. of Whitefield. has been severely ill, but the latest report states that she is improving.

Gospel Temperance Revival.

The local W. C. T. U. have made arrangements for the appearance here on Feb. 13th of Mr. Alexander Cooper, of Greenville. Mich.. who will con­duct a series of gospel temperance meetings at the Willmar Opera House. The opening meeting, which will be on Sunday evening, will be held at the United Luth. church.

Mr. Cooper L> a strong temperance worker ana his meetings are largely attended. The following are among the testimonials received from the dif­ferent places where Mr. Cooper has conducted his interesting meetings:

"We have nothing but kind words for Mr. Cooper. He is an eloquent speaker and a thorough]} earnest Christian worker He spent two weeks in our town, during which he did a grand work, speaking to crowd­ed houses every evening and holding temperance prayer meetings each af­ternoon. During his work here about 1000 people signed the pledge and sinee that time the work has been go­ing on throughout the county, until now 1000 more names have been added to thereon, which is steadily increas­ing. I think we shall want him here again in the near future."

Yours. Pres. W. C T. U.. Lurerne. Minn.

"Mr. Cooper is a very earnest Christian Temperance worker. I wish he might go to every place in my dis­trict. He has been speaking to crowd­ed houses all the week and has held the close attention of his audiences every night. I believe he has done more to advance the cause of temper­ance than we shall ever know. The afternoon meetings were especiallv in­teresting and full of power."'

ELLA J. COOK. Pres. of Third Dist.. Minn . W. C. T.

U.. Austin, Minn.

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1 J of the choicest goods, such as • Chocolate Creams and other Z cream candies; also Apples, Ba-J nanas and other fruits in their

season. I will also handle Tobacco and Cigars. Call on me when you wa^nt a good smoke.

Respectfully,

1LE.VJ3 FJELLMAN.

Notice to Farmers.

I have opened a robe tanning es­tablishment at New London, where I will tan all kinds of bides, pelts, and furs, and manufacture robes, coats, mittens, gloves, e tc Coats and robes lined and all kinds of furs n.ade over. I will also buy furs. Send for price list. All work guaranteed or money refunded.

Soliciting your custom and hoping to be able to give satisfaction, I am

Yours Respectfully F . E . HAGGERTY.

014 papers at this offioe, 30 cents a

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Goes farther and farther, never stops until j ou"re well. That 's what Rocky Mountain Tea does. 35 cents only. Sold by A. E. Mossberg.

Mrs. A. A. Hauglum and children, of Lake Park. Minn., spent Friday with Willmar friends, on their way home from Granite Falls .

Ada Marie Crow gives one of her superbly illustrated "Travel Ta lks" on Europe in the old Presbyterian church this evening, under the aus­pices of the Sunday school.

Anthon Carlson, of the town of Green Lake, fell off his load while on his way in the woods last Saturday, badly bruising both legs. Dr. John­son was summoned to attend him.

Rev. Edw. Brekhus. the noted evan­gelist, addressed large congregations at the United Lutheran church the past week. Mr. Brekhus is also looked for several other places in the county.

A. T. Stebbins, of Rochester: E. E. Hughson. of St. Paul: Chas. G. Hinds, of Shakopee, and J. J. McCardy, of St. Paul, the Finance Committee of the A. O. U. W.. had business here with Grand Recorder Olson last week.

H. C. Traue. who has been em­ployed as baker at Sandbo's restau­rant, for some time past, and G. R. Porter, the ex-hotel man of this place, will open up a bakery and confection­ery at Litchfield. The field for a bak­ery there, we understand, is a good one, as Litchfield suffered the loss by fire of her only bakery not long since. We wish the gentlemen success in their venture.

Mrs. Chas. J. Sperry, one of the early settlers of the county, died at her home in New London last Thurs­day morning after a long illness. Funeral services were held on Satur­day afternoon and were conducted by Rev. D. T. Booth, of Willmar. Among the relatives who attended the funeral were A. H. Sperry. W. A. Sperry and wife, and Mrs. Sam'l Garver, from this place.

Hon. JiiQ. W. Arctander, who is so well known to all our people, will no doubt draw a very large crowd here on Feb, 17th, to hear the public read­ing of his new book, entitled, "Guil­ty.*' We understand that die story will be one of great interest, particu­larly so to Kandiyohi county people, owing to the fact that the opening scenes are laid in the town of White-field. Tickets for the reading are now being sold by local parties.

We are sorry to announce this week that the Willmar School of Shorthand and Business has been obliged to close. Mr. Geo. Smith, the manager of the school, had worked hard to make the institution a success, sparing neither time nor expense in his efforts to do BO, but the enterprise proved to be an unprofitable one for him. The attendance was not large enough to warrant the running of the school. Mr. Smith hap resumed his old occu­pation of railway stenographer, hav­ing accepted a position, at Larnsore,

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Admitted to Minneapolis.

As is well known to our citizens, ef­forts have been made for some time past by the Minnesota Central Tele­phone Co. to extend its lines into Min­neapolis. We are now enabled to in­form our readers that the permission has at last been granted by the Minne-polis city council, as the following re­lative to the meeting of the council on last Friday evening will show

' TKf feature of the evening session, asideorozn the Haugan compromise, was" consideration of the ordinance granting permission to the Minnesota Central Telephone company to enter the city. Upon that question Alder­man Webster was the bright resolving light. The council adopted the ordi­nance as submitted by the ordinance and underground wires committees. Amendments were offered to certain sections, one by Alderman Drew and another by Alderman Rand and a third by Alderman Long. That of the last mentioned prevailed. Those of the others were defeated.

'•The one of Alderman Drew, who was careful that by the provisions no instruments for private use might be established, drew from Alderman Webster a fiery outburst against the Northwestern Telephone company. As he understood the English language the ordinance specifically stated that no such a contingency could arise. 'I fail to see,' said he 'whj any one should be so extremel j sensitive where the interests of the Northwestern Tele­phone company are concerned. In God's name, do they want the earth? Can we not have points in South Da­kota where their lines do not reach for the benefit of the business interests of Minneapolis? People," he continued, came to my office and industriously

circulated the report that the wires of the Minnesota Central company were no good: that they had not cost over $4,000 a mile. We have a sister city near us, and the business interests of this city demand that we carry this ordinance through.' The section pre­vailed with two dissenting votes.'"

The ordinance was afterwards passed by unaminous vote.

^TProf. F. M. Erkel, magnetisk healer fra Minneapolis, vil for en kort Tid vaere at tr<effe paa ' 'Marlow House'" her i Byen. Dette er den magnetiske Mand, som har gjort saa mange mierkelige Kure af kroniske Sygdomme i Syd Minnesota i den sid-ste Tid. Han bruger Ikke Mediciner, han helbreder alligevel a Is lags kron­iske Sygdomme, som andre ikke har vseret istand til att kurere. Alle Per-soner, som plages af Paralysis, Gigt, Sygdomme i mave, Lever. Nyrer, Af-foringsorganerne, Hjernen eller Rygg-raden, helbredes sikkert og hurtigt foruden Mediciner. Ligeledes kurer-es alle Slags Kvindesygdomme. Skriv til bam for naermere Opplysninger. Hans Adresse er nu Willmar, Minn., P. O. Box No. 229.

Sandbo's Bakery. We have opened a bakery and can

now furnish the people with a full line of bakery goods. Come and give us a trial. Bread for sale at my restaurant in the Gilger block.

* E. T. SANDBO.

Farm For Sale 160 acres, H miles from city limits;

90 acres under plow, balance pasture and meadow. For terms inquire of or address,

stgr-r G. W. SWENSON, Willmar, Mina.

THE WILLMAR j SHOE COMPANY \

have just received a full and $ complete Hue of . . .

GENTS', LADIES' AND CHILDREN'S

Felt and Woolen Lined Goods

i Exactly the Goods for this Time of Year, -j

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We carry all kinds of RUBBER GOODS in Overshoes and Hip Boots

Our stock is large and complete and we can lit you with every kind of Footwear.

We have a tine assortment of Gentlemen's WARM MITTS and GLOVES.

Call in and see our stock. No trouble to show goods.

OTTERNESS BROS., * WILLMAR, MINN.

Paulson Block, Front Street

FOR THE BEST CUT OF STEAK GO TO THE

CENTRAL MEAT MARKET.

Our maats are tender and juicv. being cured in our new ccld storage plant. AU are invited to calL

ANDERSON & SKOOG.

ANDERSON BROS. JEWELERS,

Diamonds, Watches, Clocks, Jewelry Silverware and Spectacles.

REPAIRIH6 AND EN6RAVIN6. 6ET OUR PRICES. WILLMAR, MINN.

Anderson & Skeie, BLACKSMITHS ANT

HORSESHOERS, N E W L O N D O N , M I N N E S O T A .

r Wagon work done in connection. Wft

handle Sections, Guard Plates, devices , Evetiers, Whipple Trees, Etc.

LIVERY, F E C 0 A N 0 SALE STABLE, NEL8 P. NELSON, PROP.,

New Locatioa o« Beasoa A Y C , Oae^&alf Block Bast of Poatofflcc.

The best rigs furnished. Careful drivers. Prices reasonable Good stabling. A Fine Hearse. Prompt attention to all calls.

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