iMBpyss ^^....^..M., .»•»:• », "Him .Liu,' i»M«'i"«*''W"WiWiW|!|.i^ i:" MOWER COUNTY NEWS, AUSTIN, MINNESOTA YACE SIX MONDAY, APRIL 11, 1921 fall, that begins to lay early In the TAX JUDGMENT SALE o'clock A. M., why said petition CITATION FOR HEARING ON CAULDRON Pursuant to a Real Estate Tax should not be minted. when eggs are high in price. FINAL ACCOUNT AND FOR Hard Work Helped Make Steele Judgment of the District Court, of WITNESS, The Judge of aid DISTRIBUTION The cockerel that can be, marketed (Responsibility is disclaimed for the County of Mower, State of Minnesota, Court, and the Seal of said Court this of STATE OF MINNESOTA, County tocts stated or opinions expressed in as a broiler in March or Apfil brings entered the 31at day of March, 24th day of March, 1921. «s County Farmers Successful Mower, ss. In Probate Court Ibis column, which is open to all readera more money than the one marketed 1921, in proceedings for enfbrcing of In the Matter of the Estate HENRY WEBER, JUN., for discussion of subjects of general payment of taxes and penalties upon in June. 1 B. Judge of Probate. Lucius Griffin, Decedent: interest. Letters must be signed. X"4 real estate in the County of Mower (COURT SEAL) —The Editor.) THE STATE OF MINNESOTA, to remaining delinquent on the first A. W. WRIGHT, Farm-Land Values Monday in January, 1921, and of the Ezra L. Griffin, Stella Griffin Padelford, Cost of production studies made financial disaster in an unfavorable M. A. NELSON, The Farmer Lower, Department statutes in such case made and provided, Lafayette Griffin, Angie Griffin-Gutherless, Attorneys for Petitioner. on twenty-two farms in Steele county year, and with a return to staple price I shall on Monday the 9th day Reports Show I care not for toil, I'm Lord of the soil File No. 3918. Lillian Griffin-Andrew, in 1920 under the direction of Prof. conditions and relations should in nor of May, 1921, at ten o'clock in tye My right I demand, I declare it. March 28-April 4-11. Jay Hull, Sadie Hull-Adams, forenoon at my office in the Court Andrew Boss, chief of the division of mal years insure reasonable returns I eat my own lamb and turkey and r-l! The average price of plowland per Samuel Hull, Vera Hull-Castell, Zena House, in the City of Austin and ham, farm management, University Farm, to Steele county fanners for their la Advertising is the father of goodwill Hull, Louis Hull, and Roy €ook, acre in the United States decreased County of Mlower seH the lands which My flocks fleece I clip and I wear and confidence. with Prof. G. A. Pond, a member of bor and investment." and to all persons interested in are charged with taxes, penalties and about 7 per cent during the past it. the final account and distribution his staff, in immediate charge, go to cost in said Judgment, and on which year, according to a report, just PROPER PLANTING OF PEAS of the estate of said decedent: DELCO-UGHT .I have lawns, I have bowers, I have taxes shall not have been previously show that in spite of unprecedented issued by the United^ States Department of GIVES ALL-SEASON SUPPLY The representative the above fruit, I have flowers, paid. costs for labor, machinery, and many of Agriculture. The average named decedent, having filed in this The lark is my morning alarmer. Dated thio 7th day of April, 1921 other items of farm production, which Ik complsm Electric Ugh* aai In planting garden peas firjit pre Court his final account of the administration So my jolly boys now, here God speed O. J. SIMMONS, value of plowland perkacre on March xsr Power Plan* prevailed thru the year, and the headlong of the estate of said decedent, the plow, Auditor of Mover County pare the soil the same as for other 1 of this year was $83.78, as compared for a demonstration in Ask us (SEAL) together with his petition Success and long life to the farmer. decline in the prices of farm pro- crops, then scatter little fertilizer a to $90.01 in 1920/and $74.31, your own home. See lor yourself. praying for the adjustment and allowance It is impossible to measure or even ducts the latter part of the year, the No obligation. where the row is to be planted and CITATION FOR HEARING ON of said final account and in 1919. The statisticians of the department estimate the importance of agi-icul-! farmers of Steele county succeeded in FINAL ACCOUNT AND FOR rake this into the soil. Next stretch for distribution of the residue of attribute the decline to the DISTRIBUTION Sure to a people. I making a good living. Steele county said estate to the persons thereunto a line and make a deep mark with the reduction in the prices of crops. STATE OF MINNESOTA, County of entitled. Therefore, YOU, AND foundation upon which js regar(jed as tvpical in farming as- corner of the hoe. The bottom of Mower, ss. In Probate Court. d^ihzation and society rest.. The basis EACH OF YOU, are hereby cited and •nmJ source of the permanent wealth Pects f^nd cojichtions^ with such coun••wf this mark should be at least three In the matter of the estate of required to show cause, if any you LEGAL NOTICES Harriet E. Gibbons, Decedept: the nation. No people in history ties as Rice, Dodge,- Freeborn and oth- inches across so that the seed can be have, before this Court at the Probate Ifeare made substantial progress in THE STATE OF MINNESOTA, TO ers in the older settled districts of Court Rooms in the Court House spread somewhat and not crowded ORDER LIMITING TIME TO FILE Austin Electric Supply Co. •sivilLzation, the arts and science, and Solon F. Gibbons, Charles H. Gibbons, of in the City of Austin, in the County Minnesota. too closely together. Scatter the CLAIMS, AND FOR HEARING B. E. Hughes, and all persons leave remained long prosperous if they Mower, State of Minnesota, on the 39 121 N. Main St. Phone Main THEREON In a tabulated statement showing seed in this furrow fifteen or twenty interested in the final account .have neglected agriculture. 25th day of April, 1921, at 10 and distribution of the estate Estate of Elizabeth Meyer. the 1920 farm business on the twen- seeds to the foot, then cover about It is the most universal of all arts, of said decedent: tfce parent of manufactures and com-ity-two farms, Mr. Pond finds that the STATE OF MINNESOTA, County of three inches deep and slightly firm The representative of the above another spring! Mower, In Probate Court. inerce and the basis of all other in- reaj estate, livestock, machinerv, and the soil over the seed with the back named decedent. having filed dastries, and' without it all others In the Matter of the Estate of in this Court his final account of of the hoe. About two weeks will decay and perish. jVaiious feeds and supplies mventorIndeed HEtxst Elizabeth Meyer, Decedent. the administration of the estate of Older, uglier, cause of more generally elapse before the sprout when a people have devoted ied $32,714 at the opening of the Letters of administration this day said decedent,, together with his petition work than ever, the old themselves to agriculture they have year. At the close this inventory had appears above the ground. having been granted to Charles Meyer, praying for the adjustment and range, that you planned a feeen uniformly prosperous and pro-j declined to $31,033, making the avergressive, and the -At least three, and preferably four, of Sargeant, Minnesota: allowance of said final account and year ago to discard this while those nations and peo-l ,, It is ordered, that the time within for distribution of the residue of said plantings should be made at intervals spring, is still in the kitchen. pies that have been abandoned or inventory for the twenty-two which all. creditors of the above estate to the persons thereunto entitled. It remains a stumbling block -«ven neglected it have declined. farms $31,874. The receipts averThe of two weeks in order to keep up a old range named decedent may present claims THEREFORE, YOU, AND in your plans for the kitchen continuous supply. If the first planting majority of all people in all aged a total of $5,547, while the ex- against her estate in this court, be, EACH OF YOU, are hiereby cited cheerful. ~£imes and ages of the world, from the arises averaged $3,642, leaving an is of Alaska the second should be and required to show cause, if and the same hereby is, limited to is more any you have, before this Court at -humblest to the highest have en- SXCess of receipts'of $1,905. three months from and after the date of Gradus or Thomas Laxton, while hereof said time expiring the the Probate Court Rooms in the the third should be of Excelsior and The land was inventoried at the gone 11th day of July, 1921. Court House in the City of Austin dilapidated the fourth of Telephone or some similar in the County of Mower, State of Minnesota, sale value in the locality likewise, And it is further ordered, that on the 9th day of May, variety. This will guarantee a Monday, the 18th day of July, 1921, livestock and feeds, were priced" 1921, at 10 o'clock A. M., why said at 2 o'clock P. M., in the Probate continuous supply. than ever according to the same value. petition should not be granted. Court Rooms at Court house at the There is nothing particularly difficult "The large decrease in the last two city of Austin, in said county, be, WITNESS, The Judge of said about the cultivation of peas— and the same hereby is fixed and Court, and the Seal of said Court items during the year," says Mr. this 9th day of April, 1921. just keep them well hoed and properly appointed as the time and place for Pond, "was due to the great drop in We went you to come in hearing .upon and the examination, HENRY WEBER, JUN., trained upon the bush or wire trellis livestock and crop prices that characterized and see the Copper-Clad. adjustment and allowances of such Judge of Probate. to keep them off the ground. After We want you to see its claims as shall be presented within the closing, months of 1920 (COURT SEAL) smoothness, its simple beauty the peas are all gathered the he time aforesaid. J. and does not -indicate ahy considerable N. NICHOLSEN We'll tell you why its scientific Let notice hereof be given by the vines and trellis can be removed and R. C. ALDERSON drop in numboi- of head of stock construction makes it publication of this order in the Attorneys For Petitioner. the ground planted to late1 potatoes, or amount of feed. Machinery was the "perfectcooking machine." Mower County News, as provided by File No. 4138. late cabbage, spinach, turnips, late law. valuea on the basis of original cost April 11-18-25. snap beans, or an3'- crop that it is desired Dated April 11th, 1921. depreciated according to the estimated AUSTIN FURNITURE CO. HENRY WEBER JUN., REMEMBER THE 'PHONE to grow during the late summer life of use. The purchases during Judge of Probate. You knew all about it. You or fail months. (COURT SEAL.) jthe year more than offset this deI didn't let the paper know it. You SASSE & FRENCH, found fault because the paper preciation." CARE GIVEN CHICKS IN MAY Attorneys for Estate. didn't have it. Hardly fair. When twu-otu .wi Livestock and dairy farming leads File No. 4191. vou have an, item remember the SPELLS PROFITS IN FALL April 11-18-25. in Steele county and most of the News and Phone Main 450. crops grown were fed to farm animals. By E. F. PECK, Where good breeding stocK is used Riverview Farm Eighty-six per cent of the and reasonable care is given the hen FARMERS and GARDENERS Sfag^d in agriculture. Presidents, ^ptal receipts were from livestock and or incubator, good-sized hatches may nemperors, kings and nobles have not "vestock products. Sixty per cent reasonably be expected. The size of "V S&ot it a condescension to be a farm- of these livestock receipts were from the flock in the fall, however, depends We have a car of fertilizer from the American Chemical «£lmt rather an honor and a credit.\ cattle, thirty-six per cent from hogs pretty largely on the attention Company. This is one of the best chemical fertilizers on ise greatest names our history nT1j ,, MR. FARMER Seave been those who were practical1 from poultry. given the chicks during the first six the marekt—and the prices are right. jEanneis and devoted to agriculture, Nearly half of the total expense, weeks of their existence. ... We have been from the beginning or $1,758, represents investment in Start thfe brooder a day or two before and must remain a nation of farmers. m, BURNETT & THOMPSON putting in the chicks to see that, liberties were coniured and our livestock. The labor 5? Oet the heating apparatus is working constitution made mainly by farmers, exPen«itures represented an average CITY FEED STORE. sind to them in any and every- great of one man to six or seven months at properly. ensis we must look for the "feafe keep-, the going wage rate of $60 to $70 a Brooder lamps- should be cleaned Phone Main 100. AUSTIN, MINN. lEg* and protection of both. jj-j.- a. .i every day. Emerson said 'The first farmer: ™°nth' In addl^on to the cash labor ~was A* record should be kept of each the first man and all historic no- *"ere was t"e labor of the farmer and foSity rests on possession and use of niembers of his family that was not hatch, showing the date set out, and larwL" William Jennings Bryan gives paid and hence is not included in the the chickens hatched. *sg3it Teasons why young men should. summarv Powder the chicks occasionally during catoose farming in preference to the the first eight weeks. «*Sier ^occupations. Here thev are: 1. -Ihe excess of receipts, $1,905," Running is the most independent way continued Mr. Pond, "represents what Chicks should not receive feed until &( 2. Less capital is requir- the farmer actually had to spend as they are 36 hours old. r&em&JVZ farming than to enter any the results of the year's business. The In cold weather 10 to 13 chicks afiaer occupation. 3. All members:2sf are sufficient for one hen, while in the _famiiy can participate some inventory decrease of $1,681 if de- Do You Want To warmer weather 15 to 20 can be cared is the work of the farm. 4.1ducted would leave a farm income of life is healthful. 5. Farming' only $224. However, it should be for successfully. BevfJxvps useful habits of industry and remembered, that the decrease in inapplication. Toe-mark the chicks as soon as they Save Monev on 6. The farm provides are hatched. This enables one to tell 8e most wholesome environment forj™n*°ry11 really a paper loss only' their ages later. jjr-owing children, 7. Farm life: '-hat it does not represent a cash outbeaches Confine the hen until the chicks are the true philosophy that labor lay, and that it is the result of a deIs HARNESS and honorable and worthy of reward, crease in or ice rather than a decrease weaned. SL The farmer is the most mdepend-! 1. The coop for hen and chicks should factor in our uolitical life. Pfopercy. The excess of receipts COLLARS be well ventilated, easy to clean, and Uryan is one of the very few great 1S the measure of the farmer's net of sufficient proportions to insure ssen still with us and his reasoning is cgsh income. In addition, the farmsound. IF YOU DO, CALL AND LET US SHOW YOU The above assertions were er had a house to live in rent free, comfort. made before our "Eastern Contro-! WHAT* WE HAVE TO OFFER. The early hatched^ pullet is the one ^rersy" but all apply with the excepJand farm prpducts of the-value of $284 to use in the house. This fioii of No. 2 and that depends on the of the proposition contemplated would seem like a fairly comfortable size JENSON & PHIFFER In some parts of Uncle Sam's domain income, and it is." SL man can start farming with a hoe Another- side of the picture, which and a handful of beans. no doubt makes strong appeal to the Why We Are This is ancient history and makes interesting reading on the tombstone farmers of Steele county, is the fact Strong for xyf agriculture. that they put in many hours of their If I could know, or even imagine *, that the foregoing would ever again several Willard obtain, I would willingly leave my *lours Sunday, and that members on GET READY 3rT and wrap the drapery of my couch oi their families also labored without We've seen a lot of batteries, slvoTit me and lie down content in my cash remuneration. Subtracting the UP WHILST YOU ARE CLEANING UP—IT'S A 3»»t long sleep. But each succeeding but never another like the sum of $840, a fair wage for the GOOD TIME—MAKE ONE JOB OF IT. WE «3ay brings ample proof that the world Willard Threaded Rubber Battery. labor given by each farmer, and $438 HAVE THE BEST PAINTS—EVERY DROP IS A fa turning against the horny handed ®otis of the soil, and instead of his as wages for members of their family, DROP OF PAINT AND IT WILL MAKE A GOOD Threaded Rubber insulates, «famorous boast of freedom and independence, only $637 is left from the excess of JOB THAT WILL LAST LONGEST. the farmer might better the plates instead of separating the receipts, as a return from the awake to the fact that the combined them the way wood separators •::V:u Cement Paint Town and Country Outside cnpital investment of $31,784. This forces that dwell inside the curb are do. Let us put your car, truck, or tractor in first class Paint your concrete floors, Paint osgTmized to make him the veriest is less than two per cent. Also, if the No carbonizing, puncturing, porches, make them clean We have the following colors condition «rvile that ever writhed beneath the return for the labor is figured and of this well known regular and sanitary as well QR(% checking or cracking, because lash of desneration. six per cent allowed as a reasonable $4 high grade paint which NOW .r as attractive, per qt. It was Theodore Roosevelt who said Threaded Rubber Insulation retains we are offering while it lasts interest on the investment, the interest and annoying and expensive delays is the dutv of, every American citizen, save all the valuable insulating .....$3.15 Dupont'i Sanitary flat inside fearlessly but truthfully to criti«5se, would amount to $1,912, or more qualities of .rubber and is not paint, only a few colors not only his. government, but his ALL WORK DONE BY EXPERIENCED MEN than the net cash returns, leaving left, regular $3.80 per gallon affected by add. people for wrong doing or for failure AND GUARANTEED. Pick out your colors, suitable nothing for the labor of the farmer whilie it QC That's one reason why we're what is right, by insisting on or his family. for trim or body, spend lasts publicity of inefficiency, or for Willard Threaded strong We do oxy-acetylene welding, Machine work, snhordination of public to private considerations, Professor Pond believes that the a small amount and increase Rubber Batteries. D«voe Auto Top Dressing vulcanizing, radiator repairing, have facilities for or any other form of experience of thenar 1920 cannot the v.alue fyour building gives a fine black gloss finish testing and repairing all makes of starters, generators government failure to perform Layden Electric Service Co. 10%. Dark Buff, Drab, Maple be taken as a criterion of the status to Auto Tops, cushions, traveling daty." Roosevelt was right. The and magnetos. Also carry a full line of bags, etc., whether leaf Red, Vienna Drab, of farming returns in general. "The gxrvernment is not playing fair with brushes and bearings. Charge and Repaid all made of real or imitation 115 E. Br Ida a St. agriculture. The government can Ivory, Moss Green, Maroon, fact that farmers could make a comfortable 70c leather, per makes of batteries. «1© anything and evervthing in peace Crimson Red, New Tuscan living in the face of such disastrous €hat it did in war. Nothing else but pint Red, Light Bronze Green, circumstances," he says, "and We invite you to visit our modern shops. Sw government c?n correct the evils Dupont's Sanitary Gloss Straw Yellow, Pink, Dark could succesfully weather the storms €faat exist, and until the people plnce while it lasts OC Green, Light Yellow? Apple IfeoneBt men, men that practise the of price adjustments and deflation is University of Southern Minn. per gal. faw Batteries Golden Rule in the high places, the Green. cause for gratification at the stability J&trkuer will stand no more show than of the systems of farming practiced Let us save you money on your paint ojb. a. pismire under the wheel of a locomotive. in Steele county rather than for AUSTIN HARDWARE Cd! protest against the low profits in farming. Diversification, with the One seldom sees children who are inpadent to their parents, nowadays, dairy cow and the hog as the principal COME IN AND SELECT YOUR PAINT NOW frecause the parents allow the children sources of receipts, has proven its to do a? they pleape and thereby worth as insurance against loss and remove all reason for impudence.