1- vW •^f- sr v«»* MOWER COUNTY NEWS. AUSTIN, MINNESOTA' THURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 1921 PACE SEVEK» from the village of Lansing for four gest that you give them a blow by Mr. and Mrs. Ray Mitchell were Vancover. B. C.—A shipment of Austin callers between trains Monday. miles then you are on the Mower- putting Tiftink Highway Number 40 stegl plates has arrived at a Pacific So Many Women Now in Business That Why Pay More. Freeborn county line. This is a direct over on the West edge of the townline Emma Geiger of LeRoy visited at P°rt China which may have im- fr They Should Share in Government. for Blooming Prairie. A judi- ship over on the Freeborn county for a busSneik course by correspondence, tbe home of ker sister, Mrs. Leo Rem-' portant results on shipbuilding and cial ditch has been petitioned for and line. I thank you. er Thursday. 1 when your home it metal industries of the west coast in has been ordered surveyed for tiling Ruth Short of Mclntire, Iowa, is tion offers a better course, visiting at the home of her brother, this summer. This tile, when completed general. These plaves were manufactured By VISCOUNTESS RHONDDA, British Business Woman. idence at $95. Call on us or Asa Short here. will take care of the low for our catalogue. in a Chinese factory. The Chinese The ladies aid met at the home of LONDON UNIVERSITY OF ground west of Lansing. This ground product is laid down on this Mrs. F. Isaacson Thursday afternoon SOUTHERN MINNESOTA It is more than ever, neoessary nowadays, when will drain readily as it has a sand $ $ it and was well attended. coast about $5.00 cheaper per ton so many women are breadwinners and wage earners subsoil. This ground will make a good Mrs. Leo Remer spent the latter than the Pittsburg steel, including Born to Mr. and Mrs. Ole Foss, part of the week with her mother, in all professions and in business, when so many are roal bed after it is drained. The duty. January 6, a son. Mrs. Geiger at LeRoy. actual leaders in the professions and business,"with |Mower-Freeborn county line must be DELCO-LiGHT Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Mucra went to Mrs. William Henderson and children ,, ,i considered an ideal line for a great Glenville on business Wednesday. and hundreds of me* women their employ, that lef for their home at Sarona, highway. It is a natural divide for Cafe School began Monday, January 10, Wis., the fore part of the week. Greg's they should have a share in running the country. The consplcctf Electric Light nxml after a two weeks holiday vacation. waters running east and those running Mrs. E. A. Dugstad and daughters Power Plant Women should be represented on every public Bert Bump and Edward Mudra west. Hence we have for about Ruby and Opal spent the latter part Ask us for a demonstration* fm made a business trip to Austin Thursday. of the week with Mrs. Dugstad's and governing body. Their right to sit in the house seven1miles a ridge free from water 408 North Mair Street your own home. See for yoursei£. parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. Gullickson obligation.<p></p>Mmmm courses, coulees or ravines. No bridges No of commons has been conceded, but parliament is not of Ostrander. Regular meeting of R. N. A. Thursday, needed, on the entire eleven miles between REGULAR MEALS AT only made up of the house of commons it consists January 13, to plan for installation. Lansing and the Steele county ALL HOURS Wealth Not Life'# Real Prize. also of the house of lords, which has an important line. As to available road material John Carroll of Austin spent a few Open Until Midnight Wealth is not the real prize of life voice in the affairs of the empire. Peeresses in their own right are hereditary there are several. gravel pits of the days at the Charles Kimilicka home It Is only a trophy, a symbol and may this week. members of the house of lords, and as such should be able to take Good Coffee, Chops And very best gravel at a distance of carry with it satisfaction indeed, no Mrs. Fred Allen reurned Saturday Steaks A Specialty from, eighty rods to two miles from their seats side by side with the peers in the upper house. it does not carry with it genuine, lasting from a two weeks visit *w$th her Austin Electric Supply Co^ the county line in the township of satisfaction unless won and employed mother at Mitchell, Iowa. I do not see how my petition to King George to be allowed to take PRICES REASONABLE 121 N. Main St. Phone Main 39 fairly, honestly, honorably. Mrs. John Cook left Monday for a Newry. Now which one of these lines my seat in the house of lords can be refused. However, no action cxpected two weeks visit with her mother at has the most traffic on it? We can to be taken upon my application for some time. The foremost eonstitutional Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin. best determine that by noticing Mr. and Mrs. Albert Kimlicka authorities are at a complete loss to decide how King George —^4 points or centers where people gather spent Sunday with the latter's sister, should treat the petition, as never in the history of these islands has such regularly for businss, for worship Mrs. Herm Chandler of Cedar City. Miss Charlotte Bonnalie accompanied a delicate problem before confronted the estates of the realm. In and for school and social activities. all likelihood her sister Pearl, to Waterloo, On the old Red Ball route there are it will eventually be referred to the committee of privileges. where she will make an indefinite two school houses and one small stay. There are twenty-five peeresses in their own right who could invade The young people of the community cemetery. I dont know the name of the second house, as at present constituted, should I succeed but there is held their party at the hall Friday it. On Cy. Thomson's route there, is evening, which was the second of no concerted action,among them to support me. Several of them are entirely, not a single center of any kind aside a series of get-together parties which unsympathetic to my claims the remainder are closely waicli'.iic from Mr. Thomson's farm which is thev will give during the season. no more a center than anyone else's Miss Sara Pierce returned Saturday every move in the fight. from a visit at her parental farm. I not share the opinion of those who look upon the do house lordas of home at New Richland, where she On the county line route we have spent her two weeks vacation from a mere figurehead. To me it represents an integral part of oar government. four school houses. We have the inland her duties as teacher in our village school. town of Corning in which is located Mr. and Mrs. Bert Bump entertained IG DEPRESSION EXPECTED TO the Red Oak Grove Creamery El Sunday in honor of the birthday which has been in successful operation of their son Raymond. Those now for about thirty years and present were: Mr. and Mrs. Alv& Lang and three sons, Mr. and Mrs. last year did a business of $109,000.00. FILL WEST POINT AND ANNAPOLIS Joe Mohr and two sons, Ed Mudra In Corning we have also one and Percy Bump of Austin. The afternoon merchandise» store, one blacksmith and evening passed away only shop, one auto repair shop and near too quickly and old as well as young Fiala's enjoyed a most entertaining day. S?7 there we have the central for Cornj. ing Farmer's Telephone Company. continued until April, when spring MANY VACANCIES IN ARMY We have also on this route the Red examinations are held. AND NAVY SCHOOL Oak Grove church with an active membership $ Washington officials of the military TAOPI of between six and seven NOW academy reported recently there hundred people. This church will no were 140 congressional vacancies now Mrs. H. F. Hawkins was an Adams doubt soon be replaced by a new and available, for which no nominations NEW MEN ARE HARD TO GET caller Monday. larger structure. had been made. They believed the Of Austin, (Late of Chicago) Harry Chipman of Austin called on 5-' We have also on this route the state of affairs in the business world friends here Tuesday. Red Oak Grove Cemetery. People would aid in filling the vacancies, but August Koball of Spring Valley is visiting relatives here. Situation Expected To Adjust have been buried there for the last declared that congressmen had not always Art Lagervall was an Austin caller sixty years*. Many honest, sturdy, employed the best methods for Itself Soon Say between trains Monday. Elkton, Flinn. hard working people have here found obtaining candidates. They stated, as J. Officials W. Remer went to Austin Monday their last resting plaice. Many of an example, than in many instances to have some dental work done. "jS your citizens in Austin have relatives, Laura Bell was an Adams caller where congressmen reported they had by United Press between trains Monday. parents, or grand parents buried received no applications for West —i Washington, January 13.—Applications Point, they had been filled later by there and come out regularly each for entrance to West Point STORAGE! SERVICE year and decorate their graves. placing the opportunity before the and Annapolis form an interesting index BATTERY [STATION A The Red Oak Grove Cemetery organization today to America's economic situation—so Reserve Officers' Training Corps of colleges and universities. In these spent this year between WINTER STORAGE far as the young men of $1400 and $1500 trying to improve the country are concerned. cases, students already had displayed When you are ready to put the appearance of the cemetery. The This developed here today in the their interest in military affairs, but Newry Creamery comes up on this belief expressed by officials of both had been overlooked by congressmen your car away for the winter, line with its hauling in and out of academies that the present economic in their quest f«r prospective army call the Pierce Battery Co., to Blooming Prairie. depression in the United States— officers. take care of your battery, 112 whatever its cause or its probable Now as to the public support which 4 these of different routes show. We duration—would remedy a situation E. Maple street. Phone Bridge CORNING GOOD ROADS CLUB have had petitions circulated here in which America's military and naval PUTTING UP HARD FIGHT 301. the city of Austin, in the townshhips schools have faced since the end of FOR STATE ROAD of Lansing and Udolpho in the townships the war. This situation, which developed (Continued from Page One) of Moscow, Newry and Geneva almost immediately after the and in the Village of Blooming Prairie. signing of the armistice, manifested sidered by the Highway Department itself in a disinclination of the American if requested. You are no doubt more J. F. FAIRBANKS We have met far greater support youth to adopt the career of or less familiar with the old route. than we at first hoped for. We can either soldier or sailor. Most of you I am sure have been over show over a thousand names on our Applications for entrance to West this many more times than I have. petitions—for this we are very thankful.* Point and Annapolis began to slump. On the old route there are eight Dealer In The young man either was "sick of turns on about eleven miles, six of I think I have shown to you quite war" and everything pertaining thereto, them right angle turns and two of COAL, WOOD, LIME plainly where the most people are or he found the opportunities in them at an angle of about 45 CEMENT, SEWER PIPE, and if you want your share of the patronage commercial and industrial life so attractive degrees. On that same distance there BRICK AND WALL of those people you will support financially that he lost interest arethree railroadc rossings. The roadbed PLASTER. this county line route. in the advantages presented by is in many places for long The road North from Corning is Uncle Sam's educational institutions. stretches soft and spongy in the early Some are just as good comparatively good at all times and As a result, congressmen in all part of the summer for a long time. we will soon have it all graveled, on parts of the country reported they The available road material is mostly But none are better the other hand the road South and were meeting difficulty in obtaining river sand. These conditions taken together Office 301 East Bridge St. East from Corning wliich is all Mower candidates for West Point and Annapolis. make this route very dangerous, Phone: Main 32 county road is not good. For a while the situation annoying and unsatisfactory A BIG TIME—LET'S GO Austin, Minn. seemed serious. Even today some Not a load of gravel has ever been to the drivers of fast vehicles. put on it. congressmen have failed to name The condition of the road bed and their candidates, because they were The people of Moscow and Newry location of available road material unable to obtain applicants. township have been cussing that will handicap the Highway department But the situation is beginning now road for forty years or more. You and cause an unwarranted expenditure to adjust itself rapidly, according to business men and professional men of money and very likely both army and naval authorites here. of Austin have been doing the same an unsatisfactory and doubtful job in thing whenever you had occassion to With a noticeable diminution in the the end. go over it. number of high-paid jobs, such as Mr. Thomson as I think you all follows the war, the American youth Now cussing a road never helped know by this time has a farm in Section apparently is reviving his appreciation much to make the road better. Whose two in Udolpho township. By of the opportunity to obtain an business it it to fix these roads? It taking a straight shoot north from education, at the same time equipping is the business of Lansing township Lansing the line comes along the west ,Nr himself for service as an officer in together with your county board of side of his farm (Indicated on map.) the army or navy. Applications to the Mower county. But they say like this. Mr. Thomson says he can eliminate academies are beginning to increase, It costs too much money—We don't seVen turns by going this way. We say officials foreseeing an end to the travel there much anyway—Those challenge Mr. Thomson or any of his lack of interest that followed the war. Freeborn county people if they want friends to show us on this map or any The effect of the business slump on to come to Lansing or Austin will map how and where he can do other young men, they say, also is reflected have to plod in the mud as they have that. in the stimulus that army and navy had to do now for fifty years or We also challenge his statement lately. more. recruiting has revived Traveling Bags, Shoes, Overshoes, in regard to saving Mower county The next entrance examination to Why not then do your utmost to and the State of Minnesota any Annapolis will be held February 16. Suit Cases, Trunks, get Trunk Highway ftumber 40 to money. The Cedar River would have Rubber Boots, Nominations to date number 308. come this way. State of Minnesota to be crossed twice. That costs big That leaves about 500 congressional Harness and can make roads. Now I do not know money. Rivers are unruly things. Vacancies. A great many of these how a big a family Cy. Thomson has They dont follow section lines or Blankets, Wool ''V. ire expected to be filled by February, Leather Goods got but I dare say he will not buy so any line made by man. They don't entrance to Annapolis has been failiated many shoes, as many clothes as much seem to know that the shortest distance Socki IdveVetc: of all kinds this year adoption of the hardware, or groceries or staple goods between two points is a straight policy of admitting candidates on line. of any kind as all these people up in cademic certificates from colleges the Corning country. The road bed and the available nd universities—a practice followed road material on this route is about Nor will he be likely to call the Jensen& jby West Point for several years. In the same as along the old Red Ball doctor or see the dentist as many addition, one hundred enlisted men route. times. :v are allowed each year to qualify for Now I have discussed to some extent Now about Udolpho township which -'rf* the naval academy. If all the vacancies the old route and Cy. Thomson's voted against the Road Amendment. are not filled in time for the route. Let us lookxat the county line You can not very well jump over eft. tiY •*& TftlMrih liiliifii February examinations, they will be route. Take a straight line west Udolpho township but I would sug- 4 rrML 1 v.