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Mower County news (Austin, Minn.) 1920-1947

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MOWER COUNTY NEWS, AUSTIN, MINNESOTA MONDAY, MAY 9, 1921 PAGE TWO Uncle LEROY GRAND MEADOW I NEVADA From The Independent From The Recor^ Mrs. Frank Spooner spent Tuesday Friday evening of last week the of. last week at the Tom Enerson A shipment of pickerel spa^rn was LeRoy community club held their TALKS ABOUT home received from the state game and fish first meeting since organizing and Mrs. Herman Austinson and children department and were taken*by F. H. adopted a constitution and bylawe. A visited at the M. D. Nelson Townsend and deposited in the creek membership committee of five was home. at Pine Lawn Park Saturday evening. appointed and are now at work securing Nila .Nelson is spending a few Mrs. Nels Julson and Mrs. Albert new members. A committee days with her sister, Mrs. Herman Dykstra of Sioux Center, Iowa, arrived BUILDINGS has been appointed to work with the Austinson. here last Friday evening for a Miss Ida Morstad has been spending Old Settlers' Day Committee with a visit of a few days at the homes of a few days with her sister, Mrs. view to making Old Settler's day the J. A. Finhart and Elvin Florand. Mrs. John Jacobson, near Rose Creek. biggest event ever pulled off in or Julson is the mother and Mrs. Mrs. THE MODEL GUEST about LeRoy. Mrs. Hans Sampson and daughter, Dykstra a sister of Mrs. Finhart and _____ Melba, spent last Wednesday at the Dr. and Mrs. CVC* Leek came down Mrs. Florand. iCAiTY COUSIN James is coming C. K. Olson home at Lyle. from Austin Friday owing to. the illness The Woman's Social and Civic lVl to spend a week," anounced the Mrs. Halvor Moen and daughter of the latter's mother, Mrs. W. Leagi^e met Tuesday afternoon at the landlady, "and I can't say I'm overjoyed. Andrena were guests at the T. S Horn. home of Mrs. Geo. Wright with a Morstad home last Wednesday. Mrs. W. H. Spencer went to Austin He's* the most unsatisfactory large number present. Four delegates If you are not a home-owner today you have a choice of two courses of Mrs. Louis Jacobson and Miss Tuesday afternoon to visit several visitor I ever saw. You can hardly were appointed to attend the Albert action. days at the home of her daughter, Laura Jacobson called at the Ole Lea convention to be held 5Jay 10 and get a word out of him. He isn't a bit Lastine home last Wednesday. Mrs. A. C. Brooks, and also Vith 11. They were Miss Ella Schroeder like his brother her mother. Mr. and Mrs. Chris E. Olson and and Mesdames C. F. Greening, E. J. Jeremiah, who is Carl Olson spent Wednesday evening Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Brown left You can continue to pay rent. The'country is short thousands of Van Bronkhorst and G. F. Brown. The full of fun, and with ""the Axel Hollerud family. the first of the week for Virginia, Child Welfare committee reported a homes and until people like you build homes for themselves rents will the best company where the former went as a delegate very successful clinic, fifty-seven children continue to advance. You can pay the increases and suffer the inconveniences imaginable. ADAMS to the bi-ennial state camp of the being examined. Mrs. Nolan gave and uneasiness of renting—on a gambling chance that later Modern Woodmen of Amercia. "Your remarks an instructive talk on the movies.. From The Review on your home will cost a few dollars-less than now. show how little Roil call, Song, Dorothy Greeninjf Mrs. Glynn, Substitute Gasoline true greatness is Miss Amelia Forthum of Austin Piano solo, Vivian Wright. Miss Ella Doyou kn&w appreciated in a visited Adams friends for a few days Schroeder gave a wonderful description You can buy or build a home. Building costs 'have been reduced. A moral family the past week. can roll of her trip thru Yellowstone Chas. Gilligan lost a valuable work iu boarding house, substantial part of every payment—paid like rent—goes to reduce your Park, illustrated by many pictures. horse Monday. During the thunder where the damages indebtedness. These amounts, which otherwise you would be paying Saxophone solo, Miss Bernice Nolan storm, lightning struck killing the are collected accompanied by Mrs. L. B. Willison. your landlord, will more than offset any probable further reductions in aga rr horse. in advance," observed Nine new members were voted in. Fr. Graeve assited Fr. Jungemann building costs for some time to come, and in a few years will make you a the star lOcis lOc from at Meyer for a few days this week. hom^-pwner. LYLE boarder. "In my Archibishop Keane is his official capacity one bag of opinion, James is From The Tribune was a guest of Fr. Jungemann We believe there are many good citizens in this community whose the model visitor. If I had my own during this time. Nels Haugland returned Saturday It will be good news to the many household, with a charming bride to best interests demand that they build a home for themselves. If you are from a business trip to Minneapolis. friends of the Ole Qualey Jr. family pour the imitation coffee, and a vine one of them we should like to talk it over with you personally. Our Dr. and Mrs. Cobb returned Wednesday to learn that Olive Qualey, who recently. and figtree in a jardiniere, I'd send a from Ridgeway. Mrs. Putnam friendly, unbiased counsel and assistance are at your disposal, without underwent an operation for appendicitis came with them and is helping the special delivery letter to James, asking at the St. Lucas hospetal, obligation, of course. Doctor get settled. him to come and stay for ten years Fargo, N. D., is doing nicely. Miss Elizabeth Gerlach visited at or more. A La Crosse paper has the following the Bluhm home in Austin Saturday "There's something restful and to say of Arnold Schneider who and Sunday. played with St. Mary's College of Winona soothing about that gifted man. He D. D. Lione received a- very interesting against the La Crosse Normal: never bothers anybody. No one has letter recently from relatives "The fielding of Schneider, Winona to waste precious moments entertaining in Norway who are anxious to have shortstop, was high grade. In the him. It isn't necessary to discuss him return to his native land and J. J. CLEMENS third he raced fifty feet back of second spend his declining years with.them, the weather predictions, or dig up a DIFCE OR A GAR LOAD and speared a high one with one in ease and comfort. Mr. Lione is lot of statistics about the crops, in BULLUURHAM hand on a dead run." Arnold will be quite well satisfied with this land of Phone: Main 47 Local Mgr. order to make James have a good time. seen in an Adams uniform the coming GENUINE liberty and freedom and is loth to You don't have to show him the old season. leave it. plush photograph album, and describe The long defunct base ball microbe Ten new members were added to has been aroused from its slumbers the ancestry of the melancholy effigies the roll at the W. C. T. U: meeting and the "bug" has put in a busy week. TOBACCO whose pictures appear therein. Nearly last week. The hostess, Mrs. Carberry, As a result, the stove league has been all visitors are bores, my dear Mrs. served a delicious luncheon after in full operation and the air is full of Jiggers, because they have to be entertained. the reception of members service. "dope" which is calculated to put the Somebody has to sit up The society now has fifty members. Adams club right up there with the Carl Reuter and County Commis with them and thrash out last year's best in this section of the state. Manager sioner A. H'otson went to Minneapolis gossip. They have no initiative or Krebsbach however has had little Wednesday to see the State Highway referendum. They have no resources to say and only a fair line can as yet I Commission about changing the Red Creating A of their own. In order to have a pleasant be obtained on the posisble line-up Ball Route between Lyle and Austin, which will take the field June 1. visit, they need help. to the Minnereka Road. "Your cousin James is a man after "Ruth in a Rush" the delightful Marshall Johnson gave a bootlegger comedy offered by the students of the my own heart. I remember his last a lively chase Sunday evening and obI Adams high school at Krebsbach'shall visit quite well. He came in the evening, tained his grip containing some moonshine. Friday evening, more than lived up to After the council meeting Monevening and after supper he took a chair advance expectations and its rendi­|day the council viewed the remains on the porch. Knowing he was a tion by the capable cast compared Demand for and assisted the marshall in destroying guest, I felt it my duty to entertain very favorably with the high school it. him in the conventional way. I plays that never failed to please in I The H. G. Dahl family came down dragged my chair close up to his and the past. The attendance was all that from Minneapolis Friday and visited remarked that it was a pleasant evening, could be expected—a large appreciative relatives and friends until Monday. audience that responded handsomely but the presence of a cloud, bank They were accompanied by Miss Matie to the efforts of the youthful in the northwest almost convinced me Volstad. The trip was made by auto players. that there would be rai^ within twelve and they report the roads in splendid Your Goods The regular meeting of the Business condition. hours, in which case, I proceeded, Men's association held at Sables Rev. Moe and family moved into there would be much jubilation among hall Monday evening brought out a the handsome Lutheran parsonage the honest old farmers, whose crops fair membership. Rev. Brenna, vice Tuesday. were suffering for moisture. president, presided and N. V. Torgerson Vernel Fortun, who is taking the "James listened to my remarks and acted as clerk. A report on the nurses training course at Austin, was then looked at me, in a sad, reproachful Lyceum course of the past winter was down to attend the Class play. read. The question of installing curbs way, as though he thought it a Friends of Miss Florence Williams, about the "white way" posts was shameful thing that imbeciles should formerly principal in our school, have again proposed and referred to a committee. be at large, and then he took his chair received word from her that she will A committee was also appointed tour Europe this summer. Miss Williams to the opposite end of the porch without to see to placing £ui£e posts showing has been instructor in French having said a word. I must confess the way to Adams. at Marshalltown, Iowa, for three that I felt like a counterfeit years, and will stop at one of the universities kopeck for a few minutes, but the An egotist who has a reason for his to do some special work before more I considered the matter, the egotism is irritating: one who has no returning to Marshalltown, in MICKIE SAYS— more I admired and respected that reason for it, is laughable. time for another school year. remarkable man. "He used to go downtown every The way to create a sales demand A fcVLNESS VAM4 WUO DOEStfT morning and buy a paper backed M*JEKT\SE KTTRkCTS AfcOOT bS novel, or a fiction magazine, and then A health-building is to keep telling the story of what he'd read it all day, and when he was VAVICM wmmou NMXSMO TOUW done with his literature he left it Bread for growing AS A feHu. \MOOU where the boarders could get it. I vanuounr you're offering in a place where the people youngsters didn't hear him say ten words during his visit, yet you say, Mrs. Jiggers, you want to sell it to will see it. Unless you that he is an unsatisfactory guest. Elderly landladies, whose intellects have been warped by long years of impress it upon their minds you haven't parsimony, are hard to please. "Jeremiah, whom you describe as told the story fairly. If the first auto Ford jolly and agreeable, should be suppressed. He has collected all the old turned out hadn't been advertised the name cheesey stories ever manufactured, pSP* and insists upon telling them. He has would'nt be familiar to every man, woman a horrible habit of making puns, and considers himself a humorist, because of it. You couldn't bribe him to and child in the land today. You've got to sit down with a book or magazine and behave himself. He has to be entertained tell the man you want to sell to that the every minute of his time, and the only way you can entertain him thing you've got is good, if you expect him is by letting him do the entertaining. "He Is a genial old freak who thinks to buy it. And years of experimenting have he is a privileged character, and everybody's pet. The last time he was here he went into my sumptuous apartment proven that the newspaper is the best medium BREAD- and used my razor to shave the southeast quarter section of his on earth for reaching him and holding countenance. His whiskers are full of barbed wire, and the razor was his attention. rained. When I spoke to him about has been called the staff of life. It he thought it funny. Yet you refer IT IS! to such a man as an agreeable visitor. Perhaps you don't know how really good bread is—how I blush for you, Mrs. Jiggers." dainty, how tempting, how appetizing! Truly a treat to entice the most fanciful taste or the most jaded appetite. "Do your, shopping in The News first-you will be better satisfied In Moderation. "Would you advise a candidate to Bread is the most evenly balanced food you can eat— stay on his front porch?" "Yes," answered Senator Sorghum not too heavy—not too light. It gives energy without "but only part of the time Just long heat. It is a bone and muscle builder. enough to take care of his voice and Now that the kiddies are in school again—they need get together a good bunch of speeches bread—lots of bread. Mower |,oun for delivery on tour." And they'll need no urging— WHEN IT IS— Just It. "I thought you said you had a fine FEDERAL BREAD ending to your automobile trip." "So 1 had." "Your chauffeur told me you 15he House of Service were arrested for speeding." "Well, TRY OUR NEW RAISIN PRODUCTS wouldn't you call a windup in the police MGHT LUNCHES SERVED IN CONNECTION WITH court a fine ending?" BAKERY Ancient Perfume. It seems strange to us today to read of saffron as a perfume one of the FEDERAL SYSTEM of BAKERIES romances about it lies in the story by Hakluyt of a pilgrim smuggling, at the risk of his life, from the Levant a head of saffron in a hollow made- in his Btaff.