-.» st««. i4 ^fRsT *'~1*" 101 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1920. MOWER COUNTY NEWS, AUSTIN, MINNESOTA r^AGE SI-X By All Aboard for Vunxsutawney, Conshohocken and Oamamowoc MICKIE, THE PRINTER'S DEVIL Charles Sughroe Wcttem Ncwipiper Union I THE GOOD sOtV)A rWc. ^V3SY T&VXUG (aS*\P OOXFcRIkWHlV.? AM.tfefcXNVtxx.'. CW WAK INEW YEAR I Go xo fcosrov* o* -4 WWWA. SOWte Pt.*£fe VCXKi sefcu. •SPELL IT"? -^1 ::3 EMORY J. HAYNES In the Boston Globe •T WAS foretold forty years ago. The New Year shall be a good one. This is the story of the prophecy. It depends upon you to believe it. Forty years ago a lone skater upon glassy surface of a lake in north:New England celebrated his solitars holiday. At the far end of his -^sen-mile dash he rested in the noonsun, sitting at the base of a towjgriug- cliff. &> vSe was a stonemason's apprentice, =•-^1 mere boy workman. He habitually $ iCtrried his steel chisel in his pocket Locating Of County Seat In Mower No Hard Hart To the Kiddies! limbing /high, and with much hazard, REEL FACTS TAKE the face of the towering rocks, he jcr.it: this County Was Thrilling Say Old Timers legend iu the face of the "The Testing Block" BY VIOLET MOORE HIGGINS CHIROPRACTIC .leaerantain: William S. Hart, widely known as It wouldn't be a regular Bill -4*33ie New Year Will Be Good." "Big Bill," is an author as well as Ever since the organization of the four days. After hiding the box, Hart picture, if he didn't act like TChe bold lettering is visible for ADJUSTMENTS actor as he proves in his latest Paramount county the "bone of contention" had Fates went about a half mile and a bad. bad guy. just at first, and miles. The lake in summer is a fa«aarite. picture, "The Testing Block," resort of pleasure parties. Each been the county seat question. Mower stopped a few hours at the house of In that respect "The Testing a story of the California gold fever 3$ssr thousands of eyes have spelled Mr. Pierce, and then returned to the Block." his new Paramount picture. county at that time was entitled to And Get Well W&i the cheery monograph, while boats days which will be shown at the Park hotel. He afterwards drew a diagram Is no exception. one representative in the legislature gassed, and many a hearty laugh has Theatre, January 3 and 4. It was and his election took place in October of the grounds where the box had Indeed, as "Sierra Bill."* a ^azis with a heartier joy as old and adapted and directed by Lambert 1855—the first election held within been hidden, and gave it to John bandit chief in the mountains of •.-gtoBisg have approved the sculptured Hillyer. Wm. A. Chapman, California, back in the fifties. the county. The polls at High Forest Patterson and C. C. Hatchett who •syrosnlse. "In the life of every man, on were located under an oak tree, a dug it up from beneath the snow and Bill's as bad as they make 'em. St will long endure, foj the steel cut D.c. the ladder he climbs toward his goal, and goes from bad to worse, for and the mountain will not re-•awve, board with ends placed on two barrel' conveyed it into Austin, where it was there is a rung that proves his testing nor the pretty lake pass away. he holds up a wandering minstrel heads served as a judge's desk. secreted in the hardware store of R. Chiropractor block." That in a sense is the lEbe boy did not date it. Fortunso, ahow. fights his entire band of The east side nominated W. B. Cov- L- Kimball. The officers produced a for that makes it fit every theme of the story. Austin, Minn. ruffians to win Nelly Gray, the ell, a democrat, and the west side A. searc^ warrant, which only allowed jear and every reader. Why not for Hart as the bandit chief meets gentle tittle violinist with the B. Vaughan, a Republican. Ninety- them to search within the store propseven Bridge 277 for Appointment. Tel. •a, century to come? Nelly Gray a straying violinist—a troupe, and mad with drink, A thousand times the question has voters were polled Vaughan re-| er» an^ R°t the upper story, which lovely girl. He fights his entire band forces her to marry him. And Seen asked: "Who wrote it?" And ceived the majority, and received his use^ by Mr. Kimball as a resi was to save her from embraces—and, under that was the beginning of better && one knew. So It seemed some certificate of election from thej *®"C J^hl?e search was being made iiqUor, forces the influence of liquor, forces der the influence of days for "Sierra Bill"—golden «6srnal truth of nature that the very judges, and applied at the house forj *e store room, it was said thatiher _but ut to marry him she learns that sacks had miraculously inscribed upon idfcys they were after little Sonny his seat. In the meantime Covell has! carried the tin box under beneath his vicious exterior he is a one ffiemselves. came Into their two llres. made the returns of the election to of shawl to the cellar and! .g preliminary—for cover a J. F. FAIRBANKS ft was true to anyone who would Excellent actor as he ls. It Is real man Thig the register of deeds, in Houston. Stow!1 P*le of ere 11 away Wlthm take the trouble to lift his eyes and a good thing Mr Hart ls not called nAfofAiie TWii« —:n 1 the real st starts when th deeds potatoes. Thus it will be seen the he t, and the faces of the past, aead It. In storms the snow silvered and from him received his certificate on to act the villain toward this 0 pas f&e Lettering. In sun the words gleamed of election, proceeded to the house searc was made in vain. George, me forth to haunt him. Eva Noval little tot. for that would be a CO Dealer In flrtiSi lines of living light A sentence »»«o umjf quauiicu aa tiie lust! emis oo.c the book containing the jg the leading woman. and was duly qualified as the first thing beyond his power He Is too ao means elegant, but crude and member of the legislature of Mower p.roceedings the county commis-j it is a story that will never be for- of Intensely and deeply fond of children COAL, WOOD, LIME dryish rather. Yet what rhetoric county. S12£ers under his coat the night they gotten once seen. to pretend to bate them, and enold add to the abrupt and simple CEMENT, SEWER PIPE, .. all remained at Tattersoll's House It is the western pictui'e of the prophecy from a hopeful, healthy The first question of any import- nuuse' they know It. Some day when he has grown BRICK AND WALL and the following morning he and year. spirit? ance which came before the newly .. He knows the best games to tf"ed of making films, he intends *ates walked about eighty rods from PLASTER. The New Year was to be Just plain elected County Commissioners was ,, play and the best stories to tell, to spend all his time writing stories wia flla Friendless Amidst n. 4- i. ut v.- there disposited in under "ipod." Was that enough? Is It the hotel and and he has scores of little friends for the kiddles he loves so that of establishing a permanent ,, oat Boarding House Cats enough for us all? One good to countv seat °W' th® tree' welL at foot of an oak who adore him. jdo, another good to me, still another disguising the marks they had nec- Did you ever leave your home The people of the west side of the essarily made in the snow, by a cercounty the direction of Miss Thykeson. The Literature Immortal. Office 301 East Bridge St. town somewhere in America to seek argued that it would be easier in process "more effective than ele- same evening Rev. Brunna was presented Books are the metempsychosis, the ta your fortune with the millions of the with an electric reading lamp to locate the county seat at Austin gant." Phone: Main 32 symbol and presage of immortality. metropolis? Then, when you arrived by the young people and Miss Ida go Frankfoid to, book The dead are scattered, and none shall Austin, Minn. to to remained there a short Anderson was presented with a pearl than it would be there, did you have a hard time to find them but behold they are here. transact the county buoine=s. ^en jajjen to necklace by the pupils of the parochial anc was obtain employment of any kind and —H. W. Beecher. school. "When it was establishe at ran p»ranjc£orj an(j cari.ie(j by Mr. Bemis -.nnr.„v, ntv!rraillkAuru a"u iur- on more than one occassion did you carrieu Demis CnU by the first (te jthruout the trial, closely guarded be^have to ask the landlady to wait a ford y) Commissioners, it wa.. 5 eaj-j1 coat an(j vest. few weeks for your room rent? And clared that it could not be removed: Morse, Willis and Belexcept did you suffer lonesomeness—the Armstrong by a vote of the peop ppearej jn j.jje ti*ial for the prose- kind that gnaws at the heart and a county. Two of the newly ec cution, and Jones, Ripley, and GorXT causes insomnia and melancholia? ic onH Commissioners, George H. Bemis and 7 don E. Cole for the defense. The A If you are one of the thousands H. C. Blodgett, favored its removal, citizens from the west part of the who have had such experiences you and took it upon themselves to remove county having heard of the arrests will doubtless find much interest in it to Austin. which had been made, proceeded at the picture version of "39 East," the As the county had erected no building, once to Frankford, to liberate the Rachel Crothers play in which Conprisoners, the records and little tin box all going well armed as it stance Binney is appearing this week, which contained them, constituted the was feared by some that something Saturday at the Park Theatre, Miss county seat, and wherever these were jous jght transpire. But all soon Crothers has got at the heart of the ser here it was also. passed off without the shedding of experience which an ambitious girl About noon Sheriff Yates andib]ooc^ ptjon ihas upon coming to New York, with- an{ exce a Vaghan, with the little tin box, on fa]ss alarm that caused no little out money and friends, seeking with- which rested the future of both Frank-j bQut fifteen jout success employment that is to jon among a consternat ford and Austin, in their sleigh, start- hQ sleeping in Levi Pat-! ^er likingr, and finally having to do men wer ed for Austin. That night they stopped chin's old log tavern, the examin- work which she nsiders much be­ at the Tattersoll House, in High For- j.jon proceeded without further neath her. Miss Crothers' heroine, est. The landlord took the tin box and, trouble. Yates and Bemis were each ^owever» comes out of her experien hid it away, with instructions to deliver ces all the purer and stronger—as n«**n«r iwofvn/jfiAnc +A rlo_ II i_1. bound over for the sum of $3,000, to no one but Yates and Vau- j^ood to others. But always to all who well as wiser. ... to appear at the next term of the, arfii grasp it written on the very face jss£ ghan. In a short time Sheriff Sher- Fillmore county court. Before the' Constance Binney was ideally cast the turning globe, the next year man, (Yates had not yet duly quali- session of court convened, the 16ca-'for Penelope Penn, be- the heroine ^sfii be "good." fied,) with a posse of men fromjtion of the county seat in Austin •C3USe success in New she herseIf won -Last summer a wealthy visitor at Y°rk "Pul1" by without and sheer Frankford, arrived and arrested decided by a vote of the people! 4&e lakeside hotel drew the propriegar was Yates, Vaughan, Bemis and Tatter-|june consequently no Srit Personality. and force of to the corner of the veranda, and, lf 1857 and soli (who was the landlord) for ifurt-hm- nrHo-, SJSing glasses, asked: "Do you j, action was had regard to Iurcnei grand larcency. he then posted the parties under bonds. those letters on the rocks? I am guards around the hotel and went to! *t» boy who cut them, January 1, ADAMS -184:7. You seem glad to know the auftmr. obtain a search warrant, as the land-! N a a a a I never revealed the fact Why lord would not give up the tin box! BlueBird is Here -sftoutd I? To Be Opened to Sportsmen containing the records. While he was Roy Willinger is visiting his broAO vio&wug Ills UiU- -4Sm*Tt Is not because I said it that It gone, Yates made a bargain with W. American sportsmen are formine-1! th®i5-duri,l8r the holidays, true. No matter who says It, on a IOI™m^| Miss Alma Tieger is spending her ov. Sykes, by which Sykes was to receive Sappy New Year the New Year will organization which will make ac- vacation with her parents, Mr. and $20 if he would obtain the box and •Se good. It is true In itself. Happy cessible to the public the famous ^rs- E* Tiegen. Yes, BlueBird, the beautiful, all-white cabinet Electric Clothes tnan or boy who says It, who feels deliver it to Yates, in case they sue- Conejos Lakes region of the Rio I- ^IisJs TSarrle Slindee who is teachceeded Washer that offers the first satisfactory solution to the washday .££, and who will have It so. in removing the county seat Grande National Forest, Colorado, ~ac"-1S ^thlome 'it.S'"11''8 her problem. BlueBird gives you absolute freedom from washing "The mere freak of a moment, yet if not, he was to have $5 which was °r information received by Arthur Lewiston is enjoying a twotne somehow later I awoke to the fact that paid down. At a signal from Yates worries. The drudgery, the tiring rubbing and scrubbing, the United States Department of Ag- weeks vacation from school duties. bad written a life creed on my heart (he was to pass out of the back door) Arthur is attending the State "U." days of washing work are gone. riculture. This area, with its wonderful •&f£t s£ the hopefulness and daring of a Charley Anderson of Minneapolis the man was to take it out and hide scenic beauty, its primeval forests, is spending the holidays with friends Ask for Free Demonstration of it. The evening being quite cold its trout streams, lies in the Let as t&ke the hope and courage of -a **vo iu tuc and relatives in this community. Yates soon induced the guards tolsouthern part of the State near the Miss Anna Uglum is visiting her •38sth as the truth of this latest of mother. Miss Uglum is taking a come in and take a drink, and they New Mexico line, a day's journey by *scr years. The New Year must be economics course at the State University. 30Md. We will make it good. Can became quite convivial, and supposed train from Denver. Many square miles j«a not see those lettered cliffs? No as long as they watched the persons of beautiful forests and more than Mr. and Mrs. H. Berglund of Minneapolis *3fcftor ever was dull to their magic under arrest that their duty,would be 100 lakes are included in its boundaries. spent Christmas with Mrs. ayH, and many have read them Berglund's parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. performed, and that the box would be Few places are more more richly EIECTRICCIOTHESWASHER iJ*rough grateful tears. Qualley. safe. But, alas, for the cunning strategy endowed by nature, or offer greater The Misses Alma, Orphie and Evelyn recreational advantages. of Yates. He passed out of the See how absolutely clean BlueBird washes. See how a whole week's Johnson entertained a crowd of SLEIGHBELLS JINGLE— The new association plans to keep wash is actually "on the line by nine" without the slightest effort by front door (the signal agreed ilpon) young people Sunday evening. The evening was spent in playing games and down into the timber a short distance. the tract upspoiled, but will erect rustic you—how even the wringing is done by motor. r-Hear the moaning and the groaning and singing. All report a fine time. Three of the guards, who saw log cabins and chalets to accommodate Come see this handsome washer. Or better, have us send one to your the winter breeze Old Year's dy£ag—-hear A number of girls under the direction those who desire a vacation him go out followed him, but he eluded home for with your own clothes. There is no hlro sighing, listen to him Free Demonstration of Miss Thykeson were out "off the beaten paths." The plan is tsiieeze! Weary Willie Is quite chilly them by taking advantage of a Christmas caroling Wednesday evening. obligation, no expense. Phone today They called „at about a dozen ?&ft: bis threadbare coat this cold to co-operate with the United States short turn in the road, and jumped homes and their singing was very HancUome white enamel, nickel cabinet table Built (or a lifetime of service, extra-strong, another altogether gets his Hl-clad Forest Serivce and the State Fish and into the brush, while the three guards lop all mechanism protected rigid frame simple, dependable mechanism. much enjoyed. Last Tuesday afternoon Old Br'er Rabbit's wary habits game commission in preserving the Extra large, motor driven, swinging wringer. passed directly-on. I„ the meantime Washes by perfect rock-a-bye action, quickest, they visited at some of the rat®*? avail him not hounds are telling most thorough way. natural beauty of the forest, and its homes in the country.. es had co-operated with Yates in their yelling that the trail is hot. fish, animal, and bird life. The Christmas tree exercises under carrying out the plans already laid, DECKER BROS. the fuel fight a duel with your the auspices of theyoung peoples society and was seen by Yates in the act of £ses£ week's pay watch your meter 4 was held at the_ Little Cedar tgod the heater steal your heart away! hiding the box. Yates then took the' Lutheran church, Thursday evening THE STORE THAT SATISFIES ITou remember last September, Au33HStand The pupils of the parachol school ren box and afer Sykes had gone to the A Record Holder. dered a very pleasing program under July? Sun was shining, you house took the box some distance! boy' A smal1 b0rn in a Turkish f' -*g?eee whining, vowing you would die! and hid it beneath the m-nfi harem» to have 48 stepmothers ls 8111(1 J*ea were praying for some sleighing, living. Our office boy, however, is still snow which then covered the "earth to °"r b°* rH" however ,a spying for some Ice now It's freezing, undefeated in the matter of recently quite a depth, and covered it with «iait your sneezing 'yeU, and say it's defunct grandmothers. London rails it remained there for three or titfcel Punch. Mi DEFECTIVE PAGE