--J. L. Hildebrand has rented his saloon at Lyle to B. C. Tierney, for three years at $600 per year.

A few words in regard to the moral aspect of our town. Our sensitive natures are frequently aroused by the insinuations and slurs about Lyle, from those who know nothing of us excepting what they have heard from others. You might think form their insinuations that as a class we were not far advanced from the cow boy; that we carried side arms and were ready for any lawless act at any time. For the information of your readers allow me to say that we have quite a number of good people here, and they are not all of one nationality either.

LYLE.

Cold, damp and muddy.

Dr. T. S. Rounce is again with us, and it makes more than one soul happy.

Miss Verhus, of Albia, is the new night operator at the M. & N. W. depot.

Swen Carlson, of Brookings, Dakota, was the guest of Stanley's last week.

J. S. Sohuyler has returned from his trip east. He reports a splendid time.

Glen Jones left for LeRoy, where he is in the employ of the C., M. & St. Paul R. R.

Miss Annie Chandler, of Cedar City, was the guest of Miss Carrie Carter last week.

Miss Lena Christianson died Sunday morning at the Railroad Eating House. Her parents live in Dakota. She was to have been married this week to one Nels Jorgenson, who has also been taken down and it is feared he will not recover.

Z.

LYLE.

Miss Sarah Keenan, our popular postmistress, spent the Sabbath with friends and relatives at Mason City, Iowa.

Miss Frances Kirby returned to her home at Rose Creek, Monday.

Two new millinery stores are about to be started on Grove street.

A splendid time was had at the St. Patrick's ball here.

Lyle is about to organize a fire company. It is something we are in great need of and we hope our citizens will
appreciate this move.

LYLE.

Miss Clara Edwards departed from Austin, Thursday to the great sorrow of her Lyle friends.

Mr. Alex Sweningsen of Austin, formerly with J. T. Humel & Co., of this city, showed his genial
face amongst us for a short while, Saturday.

Miss Ella Kirby left Saturday, for her home at Rose Creek, after a pleasant visit with friends here.

Our popular blacksmith is evidently considering whether he would do well to apply for the position
of Assistant Post Master No. [illegible:?] at Lyle, Minn.

LYLE.

Miss Ella Kirby, an accomplished young lady Rose Creek, is visiting with Mrs. Hickok.

Miss Watt was canvassing our town the other day with good success.

Our city is crowded with lawyers every day, but we do not see that they accomplish much
of anything. F. Lewis will soon open a law office at Lyle, and will probably locate in the
Board of Trade building.

Hans C. Anderson left for an extended trip west. He will visit all principal cities in
Montana, Oregon and Washington Ter.

LYLE.

-Rev. J. D. Shannon preaches next Sunday at the school house.

-T. G. Mandt of the T. G. Mandt Mfg. Co. of Stoughton, Wis., was in town Monday.

-J. I. Taylor of Plymouth, Iowa, has stopped in Lyle with a stock of clothing for a
couple of weeks.

-I. J. Quale formerly of Mona has moved his house to Lyle and has secured
employment in the M. & N-W. R. R.

-J. P. Collins feels happy thinking that he is to become postmaster here, he
has now been in Minnesota nine months and has at last succeeded in getting
the appointment.

--The Congregational church is now completed. It is a beautiful little structure, and one that our citizens may be proud of.

-The following comes to us as a Washington special to a Minneapolis paper. Perhaps the statements therein may be a little exaggerated, but we understand them to be substantially correct. President Cleveland would undoubtedly do the most satisfactory thing for the Lyle public if he would allow the post office to remain in its present hands:

MINNEAPOLIS
ST. PAUL
PIONEER PRESS, ST. PAUL.

Minnesota &
Northwestern
Railroad,
AND
CONNECTIONS.

The only line in the Northwest running Pullman's
elegant Buffet Sleepers and Combination
Sleeping and Chair Cars.

Popular Route to Chicago and the East.

SHORT LINE

To St. Louis, Kansas City, St. Joseph, Atchison,
Leavenworth, Galveston, San Francisco
and all California points.

New Orleans and Florida,

--Knut Tolefson shipped about 4,000 pounds of tobacco Monday to Edgerton, Wis. He expects to get eight cents per pound. Crop raised from three acres of ground and with very little care.

-Saturday was a very busy day in Lyle. The streets were crowded, and all the stores were full of customers, considerable grain was marketed, and other produce. Lyle is one of the best business points in this section of the country. The one thing we lack is a flour mill. Farmers that visit Lyle think it too far to go to Austin, or to Otranto, to get their wheat ground. We are also in want of a good hardware store. A newspaper has not been established here as yet. A bank would also do very well here.

--Dr. W. S. Cobb, hung out in front of W. Stanley & Son's drug store a very nice sign, announcing that he will hereafter be found at that place. It also indicates that he will leave Mona behind same as the I. C. R. R. Co. did, "and still there's more to follow."

--Twenty-seven lots have been sold since November 15th. Who says there will not be some building next spring. The parties who have purchased those lots will build as soon as the weather allows them to.

Junius Scraper.

--Lyle, 11 miles south of this city, Sept. 9th, was opened as a regular station on the Minn. & N.-W. R'y, with Mr. G. N. Briggs in charge as agent. Sept. 14th, Nerstrand station, 6 miles north of Kenyon, was also put in charge of Mr. M. E. Winn, as agent.

-A Base Ball Club was organized at Lyle last Saturday, with the following officers and members: Louis Maschact, Captain; Ed Stanley, Secretary; Amos Maschack, Andrew Olson, Ace Hall, Arad Osborn, T. S. Hickok, Thos. Rochford, Wilbur Ames, Olos Myhre.

THE FIRST TRAIN!

THE MINNESOTA & NORTH
WESTERN.

A New Line of 110 Miles Built
and Equipped inside of
Eleven Months.

It was about the 20th of last August when grading was first commenced upon the Minnesota & Northwestern Railroad. Last Saturday, June 27th, at 6:30 p. m., the steel rails on this railroad were laid from St. Paul into the city of Austin, as far as Water street.

Track-laying St. Paulward commenced April 7th, at Cascade. May 13th, track-laying commenced Austinward from Cascade. Austin was reached June 27th, 65 miles from Cascade. Lyle, Sunday, July 5th. Total mileage from West St. Paul to Lyle, including side-tracks, 115 miles.

LYLE.

-Lyle is booming.

-John O. Myhre left for Chicago Monday to purchase fall stock.

-J. Wold and L. F. Clausen of Austin, were in our city Saturday.

-Louis Olson's building on Main street, is undergoing exterior repairs.

-C. O. Wenham succeeds P. McCulley as agent at the C. M. & St. P. depot.

-If you don't believe we will have a city here come and be convinced that we will.

-Andrew I. Sondrol left for Esterville, Iowa, last Wednesday, on a business trip.

Fully 75 per cent of the grading work is now done, on the Iowa Central extension to Lyle, and the rest will be completed by the 1st prox. Track layers started Monday, laying north from Manly Junction. It will take about thirty days to iron the extension. The entire twenty miles will be in thorough running order by Dec. 1, on which date the Minnesota & Northwestern will be running through cars to St. Louis and Kansas City, over the Central Iowa and Wabash roads.

Once again the iron has entered the soul of the Austin contingent. After giving a bonus, and assisting in booming the M. & N. road, that corporation has unfeelingly located its shops twelve or fourteen miles below Austin. 'Twas ever so. Albert Lea has in days gone by aspired to have railroad shops; so has Waseca, likewise Owatonna, the city of the "indignant" school. Let us all arise and sing.- Albert Lea Enterprise.

--Several of the conductors and other trainmen of the Illinois Central R. R., make Austin their headquarters, and have ever since regular trains commenced running on the Minn. & N.-W. They can easily run up and back on the new road, and they find Austin a much pleasanter place to "lay over" than at Mona or Lyle.

New Route to the Southwest.

--Mr. White, of Manchester, Iowa, who will operate the Railway Eating House, is a first class business man, and will, without doubt, run a first class place.