"~rr "V^ -V-'* W» 'W -. 1 .f=? *y, -:. v' "'r&tjh?, r*^ MOWER COUNTY NEWS, AUSTIN, MINNESOTA PAGE TWO MONDAY, APRIL 25, 1921 Uncle ECLIPSE CORNER Claus Johnson Killed when times were htivder, we had to By Accidental Discharge' Interesting History of Moweir Comity haul goods for a living. It would be S3 of Shot Gun Monday amusing to a Minnesota dude of the -s-" present day to see us sitting around Hayfield people were shocked late Weekly Shavings Edited By Volume 866 'I April 25, 1921 Splinters a camp fire with our wagons stuck in Monday evening to learn that Claus the mud,, with more mud on our Johnson, a well kn6wn and respected HE PURCHASED TWENTY BUSHELS OF In the United States during 1920 END YOUR GATE TROUBLES clothes than would be considered citizen of the place, had accidentally WHEAT AT $1.50 A BUSHEL there were a million weddings and No more heavy tumble down, sagging good for-our health at the'present shot and killed himself while hunting only seventy thousand homes were day, eating a supper of mush, made gates. No more bent and twisted in the woods along the creek west built. Better build YOUR home now gates. Put up "Can't Sags"— of corn meal and water, and using a of town. before the rush begins, when maters, chip for a spoon. He (the dude) It appears that he had taken a made of an ideal combination of iron —But that was in the spring of it in the wind and then started to •~jg ial, labor and transportation will again High Forest to mill, about thirty would think that it beat eating pie shot gun and gone out to the farm and steel bolted securely together— NOTHING FOR NOTHING 1856. Lawrence Digman, an old settler lip hard to get. no screws or nails to pull out. When miles. Mother made a shake-poke to with a fork, all to smash. A word of his son-in-law, Wm. Gerrish as of Mower County wrote the following closed and latched, the "Can't Sag" to my lady readers of the present and was often his custom, and after a last me until I got to the mill and 44T WAS feeling bad this afternoon, reminiscence in 1884. It is There is no longer any reason for Gate is securely locked at both ends and Mrs. Pollywog heard about for fear that you do not know what I I am done. Young ladies of the present short stay at the Gerrish farm had delay in building your family a real more interesting now than it was —stock can't break through and destroy It and brought me over some chicken gone on to the Iverson farm, where mean by a shake-poke, I will tell you. day,"if you got a look at the wedding home—costs are down—you need the then. He says "I know no better subject growing crops. broth," announced the landlady. "I She shook the meal bag and made a outfit of the average young lady he spent a short time. Returning home and NOW IS THE TIME TO to write on than my early farming thought it was very kind of her. Such BUILD IT and give yourselves a real cake out of the last that was in it. of pioneer days in Minnesota, you to the Gerrish farm, he told them "CANT-SAG" GATES experience in this county, and for place to live, enjoy life and make considerate actions convince us that When we got to High Forest we wo^ld laugh yourself tired. A gingham that he was going to start for home Can't sag a fraction of an inch. good. the benefit of those that come after human nature is found the dam was gone, and had to sonbonnet, a nice calico dress, and that he would follow the bank In order to sag even a quarter of an me will tell you that I came to this all right." GOOD POULTRY HOUSING PAYS go to Rochester, fifteen-miles further. of the creek and look for fish. inch, 45 bolts and 8 pieces of an^le with buttons whittled out of wood "They don't convince country in June, 1856, with my parents. pf BIG DIVIDENDS Mr. Gibson was with me—he had Nothing more was thot his ab­ steel would have to bend. You know and covered with pieces of the dress, me, to any I was then 16 years old. The grist, too. Both our shake-pokes were sence until later in the evening when A concrete floored chicken house that is impossible. Yet, this ideal a nice set of crinoline, made of pieces great extent," objected spring of 1857 my father was taken is a wise investment—it makes cleaning played out the first night at High it was found that he had not gate costs less than the old-fashioned the 6tar of grapevine, and if they had shoes sick and I was sent to Spring Valley and disinfecting easy which will boarder. "Nobody Forest. Next morning we got into a returned to his home, when his family kind. Thousands are in use on large they wore them, and if they had none keep the hens laying the year 'round. about forty miles distant, to purchase ever does a potato patch, pulled some and roasted and small farms everywhere. Ask they went without and while you «.f called up the Gerrish farm to inquire This means more money for you. Better seed wheat and oats. I bought twenty good deed without them and found them very fine. about him. After failing to the Eclipse. start right NOW to build your the present day go off to Chicago or bushels of wheat at $1.50 per expecting a chicken house while prices are right We went on to Rochester and got our locate him at any of the neighbors, Washington on the cars for your wedding bushel, twenty-five bushels of oats at reward, Mrs. Jiggers. and material is available? Flies are dangerous. Use good grist ground and sold some wheat to a search was instituted in the timber tour, they, like Priscilla, the sixty cents per bushel. I started In highly screens. Get them now. the miller. We bought some bread along the creek, which resulted in the Puritan maid, if they did not ride home with my load, feeling very moral books intended S and butter and had a big dinner and finding of the body about 10 o'clock home on a bull, they, in lots of cases for the much like a man, if I was small and J. J. CLEMENS started home the third day. I was by John Hagen, Soren Smith and Wm rode home behind a yoke of oxen, PIECE OR A CAR I0AO1/ young, people do young, not thinking that on my arrival four days making the round trip to Gerrish. It was lying on the bank and lived, loved and were happy.* such things, but home that I was to receive the mill with my first grist of ten bushels of the creek on the Gerrish farm in never in real life. greatest shock of my life, but such ?hone: 47 Local Manager of wheat, which it took me two a pool of blood.—Hayfield Herald. Mrs. Pollywog will be over tomorrow The News is the buyers' guide. was the case, for on entering the to borrow your fountain pen or your years to raise. settlement, I meta neighbor, William tortoiseshell comb, or perhaps she will The third year, or the year of 1859, Rutherford, who was sent to meet come visiting for a few days, and the "vi! I did better. I raised 350 bushels of me and tell me the sad news of my cost of entertaining her would buy several wheat from about twenty-five bushels father's death before I reached home. barrels of chicken broth. of seed. Since that time I have Then being the oldest of the family "I hate to have anybody do me a not had to fall back on the shakepoke. my farming commenced. I sowed kindness, knowing I'll be expected to It surprises me to hear people return the favor with interest in one the twenty bushels of wheat and of the present finding fault with the way or another. When I was a mere twenty-five of oats. The spring of hardships of the present time in Minnesota. boy my eyes were opened to the fact 11857 I planted fifteen acres of corn po that kind actions are a delusion and a If they were down the ex­ and some potatoes. The crops did snare. Next door to us there lived an tremes now that the early settlers well up to the first of August, or old dame named Mrs. Crimp. One day were, they would know something about that time, We then had a hail she came over to our house with a about pioneer life. The first winter storm that completely destroyed pair of woolen socks she had knitted a:..-: that my father lived in Mower Coun everything that was growing. I thot for me. I suppose an equally good "V ty he went to Austin for a sleigh. He that by mowing the 'wheat that we pair could have been bought at the had a yoke of oxfen. The snow was could get enough'for seed so I paid a trade palace for fifteen cents, and I Busi about four feet deep. The sleigh wasn't overwhelmed with joy. My neighbor $10*. 00 for cutting it with a _J was not finished. A load of dressed mother, who, with all her splendid scythe, and got it threshed by a party qualities, was an easy mark, and inclined hogs came-in from Iowa, and he that was bringing a threshing machine to find good in everything and bought one that weighed 200 pounds into the country that fall. I everybody, was enthusiastic over Mrs. for $5Q. He hitched the chain in the paid $5.00 for threshing, and had Crimp's generosity. hog's leg and hauled him home thru twenty-five bushels when threshed. "But even in my Infant years I was the snow and the whole family, as r? This was all that we saved out of our gifted with the wisdom of the serpent, well as some of the neighbors, thot first crop, with the exception of a and I felt from the first that there was it was very nice pork. Later on, few potatoes. Then, kind reader, some malevolent scheme in the background. .1 we had to settle down to corn bread "The scheme was soon developed. in good earnest for the next year. Mrs. Crimp bad many chores to do, In the spring of 1858 I sowed my and she hated to do them herself. twenty-five bushels of wheat, the JEWELRY There was wood to be carried into the crop of the previous year, and had house, and the cow to be taken care MANUFACTUR- but little success. The season was of, and a hundred other unprofitable so wet that the crop was nearly a NG. EXPERT RE­ tasks. Every time I'd meet her she'd failure, but I got thirty-five-bushels say, "Well, my sweet little boy, with PAIRING. this year of wheat, and thot before your golden ringlets and sunny smile, it was threshed that there was a great how do you like the socks I made you? ALL WORK If you only knew how I worked, so you deal more. One of my neighbors, What we really need is some system by would have the best socks in town! Thomas Gibson, was going to thresh a GUARANTEED And that reminds me of a little errand grist and I thot I would thresh some, I wish you would do for me. Go to Mail Orders Given Prompt too. He threshed his with a flail Attention Mr. Jinks, who lives seven miles north, which we can tell how business is going not knowing how to use a flail, I had and ask him to let you have his saw, to do the next best thing. My brothers WHOLESALERS AND vA so you can cut some kindling for me and sisters and myself took the RETAILERS tomorrow." to be next month or next season." grain by the handful and whipped it "First and last, Mrs. Jiggers, I put in out on the sides of a wagon box, letting SOSKOVK & CO. $1,000 worth of manual labor for that SI the grain fall in the box. In woman and my youth was poisoned, Over Brenner's Bargain Store. and my manhood embittered by it I that way we threshed five sacks or 'might have forgiven everything had about ten bushels of wheat, cleaned the socks been good ones, but they MICKIE SAYS— What we all want is good business. were atrocious. The heels always 6* worked around to my insteps and the tops worked down over my shoe9. A health-building .Not the kind that gives a fortune OKIE ADVANTAGE OF "It has been that way all my life. When a man insists upon doing me a Bread for grotving ADVERtt%\M5 V* A kindness I look upon him with suspicion. today and takes it tomorrow, NOUKtQ BO&V4E&S t*AM QN youngsters When I was laid up in my \JS\K& tt PERS&YEttflM AMD room with a broken leg two or three feACKAMC* W CAM &U\U> but good, steady business in which years ago, I had an excellent time. UP AS GOOO A. \M The leg hurt only at Intervals, and I had plenty of novels to read, and A COUPLE OP VEMBS AS U& a man who is diligent can earn a nothing to worry over, and I would OLDER MON»A0VERtt&lN& have enjoyed myself splendidly but COMPETITOR VAAS \UOM for tiresome philanthropists who were competance and the man who is determined to sit by my bedside and NfcARS OF cheer me up. I didn't need any cheering •M more than diligent can earn more up, and I tried to convince them that their visits had the opposite effect, but they wouldn't take a hint. tha,n a competance." They sat by my couch of suffering and told idiotic stories, and bored me almost to death. "Bad business, for instance, is not "£im Higginbottom was an especial nuisance. That man simply wouldn't go away as long as there was an excuse a cause it is an effect of bad plan- for staying. He said his conscience wouldn't allow him to forsake ning. 9 9 the bedside of a suffering friend. At that time I carried some accident Insurance, E A and when my check came Jim borrowed half of it, and after he got Let The News help you with your the money he never worried over my leg any more. And he never returned has been called the staff of life. any of the money. I don't blame him plans for better business. IT IS! for that, for I make it a rule never to 8SSS& Perhaps you don't know how really good bread is—how return borrowed money, but I can't dainty, how* tempting, how appetizing! Truly a treat easily forgive him for boring me so to entice the most fanciful taste or the most jaded appetite. many hours, when I wanted to be -I Do your shopping in The News first-you will be better satisfied reading." Bread is the most evenly balanced food you can eat— Obeyed Orders. not too heavy—not too light. It gives energy without Hi "How is it I have such big telegraph heat. It is a bone and muscle builder. bills?" Now that the kiddies are in school again—they need "You told me, sir, to use dispatch W bread—lots of bread. that correspondence, so I wired all the And they'll need no urging— "Mower f^ounty "N ews letters." I: WHEN IJ IS— All Have Obligations. FEDERAL BREAD Every citizen has obligations in the community in which he lives. Whether a man is prominent or not he is &/>e House of Service expected to do his part in helping Try Our New Raisin Products bring about normal conditions in this *p country. LIGHT LUNCHES SERVED IN CONNECTION WITH BAKERY. A Pretty Good Method. "Why do. you encourage your boy to FEDERAL SYSTEM of BAKERIES 11= ., his verses to the magazines? Do Bend you want him to be a poet?" "No, merely want him to get the conceit knocked out of him, that's alL"