Mower County news (Austin, Minn.) 1920-1947
November 11, 1920 · Page 1 of 16
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MOWBR COUNTY NEWS, AUSTIN, MINNESOTA PAGE TWO THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1920 filled, there is a greater task before to be properly cared for, or if we tion, as the supreme contribution Fourth Red Cross the Red Cross today than during the are to build up physical and social which we made in the Great War. Price Readjustment I Roll Call Great War. welfare in cities and towns and rural War is hell, and we undertook, as a districts, we must enlist everyone "This is the reason which leads, nation, to give men and means to alleviate and that means YQU. me, a former Red Cross officer and Rev. Wm. P. Remmington, Episcopal the pangs of hell, and to care one who served as Chaplain in the "Furthermore YOU need the Red Suffragan Bishop of South Dakota, for the suffering and need of a Minnesota Base Hospital, to tell the Cross as much as it needs you, and who spent one year "overseas" "stricken humanity. No one of us can SALE people of the Northwest why I support that leads me to my second point. with the Red Cross as Chaplain of forget the glory of it all, nor the This great country of ours is sinking Minnesota Base Hospital No. 26, with all my heart and energy lessons of unselfish service, which back into the slougti of self-interest. wrote the following Red Cross editorial. the effort of the American .Red Cross moved us to united action. Class wars, labor troubles, capitalistic Bishop Remmington's association in its Fourth Roll Call. manipulations, self-indulgence, and experience with the Red "After the armistice was signed "First—A Roll Call contemplates and lessening of the moral fibre are Cross, both abroad and at home, came the period of readjustments and an enlistment, or rather a re-enlistment, all due primary to the fact that we makes him particularly adapted to reconstruction, and the inevitable reaction of every American who has have made up our minds to look to write an article of this type. He recently set in. The supreme effort any spark of humanity left burning our own interests and let the other returned from an extensive which we had made, left us, as a people, within his breast. It means that we fellow go hang. We need supremely four months European tour and has tired and inactive. We began to shall once again unite as a people to Also Sale of Manufacturers and the teaching of Je«us, "Beware of resumed his duties at Rapid City. feel that we had done enough and give power to an engine for world covetousness, a man's life consisteth that we might win a well deserved welfare and human happiness, which "During the Great War, the American not of the abundance of things, rest. When people "let go," two but for the efforts of a few would Wholesalers' Surplus Stocks people developed and set in operation which he possesseth." The Red Cross deadly temptations assail them. a mighty engine for the welfare have gone to the scrap heap, or simply is big enough and broad enough to First, to question, "Is it all worth of humanity. It is not necessary have become a "dummy," to pull center the attention of the nation on nor is there space to describe while?", and secondly, to permit our own freight on our stub line Sale commences Friday, Nov. 12 Closes Tues., Nov. 16 unselfish ends, and that is what we here the magnificent work accomplished criticism and misunderstanding to rob tracks. We cannot sink back into most need to day." by the American Red Cross. Probably us of the power of united action. the pre-war states, where charities With wise foresight the leaders of no organization ever appealed were supported only by the interested A Sensational Drop In Prices with such success to the altruistic and the Red Cross realized that their work or wealthy few. Your dollar or your Miss Emily Knebuhl arrived from humanitarian instirfcts of a whole had just been begun, that to reconstruct ten or your hundred Is needed because the cities Tuesday and was in charge people, both rich and poor, and without and rehabilitate a stricken it means YOU back of it. If of the Community school in session world required more effort, more patience respect of race or creed, in such a we are to take part again in rehabilitating at the Congregational church. Miss This will be the most noteworthy event for many months in value giving. A.golden way as did the American Red Cross, and larger contributions than the stricken peoples of the Kneubuhl has conducted citizenship It is a record to which the whole nation to care for the emergencies of war. world, or if we are to see to it that schools in forty counties in Minnesota. opportunity is presented to supply all your requirements at .the lowest prices imagin may point with pride and satisfac Their prophetic vision has been ful our own maimed or sick soldiers are miw 7 able now. ItBlliiBII NOTE THE GREAT SAVINGS Outing Flannels Coats In white, plain colors and stripes, All silk, Plush lush Coats Coats and Furs during Are We Blinkies Downhearted light and dark colors worth to 50c a yd. thi* sale At a yard 27c 25 per cent off reg. price Percales Cloth Coats 36 inches wide. In light and dark NO! Not so long as the Red Cross A great purchase all good and colors, 50c quality. newest styles. Astonishing values. Worth to $50, at At a yard 21c $23.75 Sees a fellow through 1 Dress Ginghams Blouses and Waists Plaids, striped and plain colors. 25 IN 2 GROUPS select pieces. Values to 50c. While Values to $15, at $4.89 they last $3.49 Values to $10, at at a yard 19c Sweaters 'fmwm Pillow Tubings Ladies' Slip on Sweaters to $9.50 ~jT UjMwm at $3.95 each 42 and 45 inch. All Best brands at a yard 49c Ladies' Slipon Sweaters, reg. $6.50 at $2.95 each Hope Bleached Muslin Children's Slipon Sweaters a 4 at 88s' Limit 20 yards to customer. I yard very special 19c Petticoats Extra Special, heather-bloom with Dress Ginghams silk flounces. I at $2.85 ,! 32 inch, regular 65c quality. 1 1 at a yard 29c Bungalow Aprons In light and dark colors Muslin Uubleached at $1.39 Let a blind soldier speak to you— Yard wide, heavy quality" SPECIAL AT 19c Close your eyes for a moment. Then imagine that, for you, the rest Millinery of your life was to be one perpetual night no flowers, no colors, no sunshine, Our regular 45c Pequot at SPECIAL 28c Any Hat in Stock. no friendly faces—just sounds and smells and feeling things with your fingers. That's blindness. r,,: at $1.03 each Women's Winter "But are we blinkies downhearted? NO! Not so long as the Red Cross sticks around and sees a fellow through!" Blankets Underwear $6.50 Plaid Blankets, at $4.29 Your Red Cross does just that—"sticks around and sees a fellow Union suits and 2 piece garments, 1 $4.95 and $5.50 Blankets, at $3.39 through," ," $4 Cotton Blankets, at $2.89 at 93c Entire lot of $11.95 and $12.50 Not only is your Red Cross helping ALL of those men who were Wool Blankets $9.00 blinded or half blinded in the war and training them for happy, selfsupporting Women's Flannel Downs occupations it is helping to bring back to health more than Hosiery In white and striped, worth to $3.00 26,000 men who are still in hospitals as a result of the war. Men, Women's and Children's hose $1.79 at 1 values to 45c, at Your Red Cross membership makes possible work like this,' A PAIR 23c 1 Join the Red Cross or renew your membership during the Women's silk hose a real special Silks Sale on values to $3.50 at $169 a pair RED CROSS I yard at $1.69 RED CROSS PED CROSS FOUMWi 36 inch New Satins Sheeting 9 4 PROVIDES) TEACHES: 36 inch New Messalines ROLL CALL Health Centers 36 inch Chiffon Taffetas Home Hygiene Bleached Pepperell sheeting Public Health Nurses Care of Sick 36 inch Plaid Silks regular 98c Social Workers 36 inch Brocade Silks First Aid at a yard 59c November 11-25, 1920 Care for Service Men Values to $3.50 Dietetics at a yard $1.69 Help in Disaster I Life 8aving Relief in Europe Thrift =3 40 inch Crepe de .Chines 40 in. Men's Flannel Night Shirts, Information Service 8ervIoe Community Georgette and 36 inch Silk Poplin. regular $3, at $2.25 at $1.43 Men's $3.75 Union Suits, at $2.49 Men's $1.75 Work Shirts, at 89c CONTRIBUTED BY FIRST NATIONAL BANK I Is MINNESOTA AUSTIN I If 1 If l!B!! iBIBIB!IIIB!ll KlilBlliBllHBIi'il IlBillSiili IHIIBUtlHlBMlHlBNBlBHflBlin miiBiiiiaiiiiBiiiiHiuaii lima