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

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S I 1 *jjr*U»3^ KsfL -v «. ^3* »-*«$ •$& 1v*V 'V' '-'Jf-? Page Two MOWER COUNTY NEWS. AUSTIN. MINN.® ill M6nday, June 6, 1921 '--'A Unclelfelte ECLIPSE ECHOES Mr. and Mrs. Robert Palmer and Poets and Article Always Victims. Tons of Petals. ADAMS came down from Minneapolis little daughter Ike absentmtndedness of poets and 'Italy's perfume manufacturers^nrome Friday evening to visit at From the Review artists and their carelessness about 1,800 tons.of orange blossoms, -fi fi the home of the former's father, C. S. personal appearance -has often given Weekly 900 tens of roses, 150 tons of jasmine Shavings Edited By Palmer and family. Hound Comes To Rescue. matter for mirth. The stories about Volume 372. and violets and 15 tons of jonquils Monday, June 6, 1921 Splinters Mrs. John Iverson entertained the Will Krebsbach and Art Nage Morris and his friends in Oxford gain annually. ladies of the Christmas Club at her came in for a good ducking last Friday In picturesqueness from Morris' efforts A SUN PARLOR RETURNS WASTE space is "Slacker" space home Tuesday afternoon. A part evening, when a boat they were to keep the others straight while HEALTH AND COMFORT put it to work with Wall Board. The of the time was spent in singing paddling about in the flood capsized erring widely himself. Less well known Have you ever wished for a room empty attic might just as well be a with Mrs. W. A. Hall furnishing the that would always be bright and full and they took an enforced bath in the la the tale of the Russian fabulist den, play room, study or extra bed music. A very fine supper was served of sunshine—a room that would just "drink." The only one who seemed Krvlov—Grandfather Krvlov, as he room. Even the basement can be "radiate" cheerfulness Let the sunshine^ and all enjoyed a very pleasant transformed into a workroom or concerned over their plight was Art's was called, the title expressing the affection into your house! Enjoy the afternoon. laundry. In business buildings wall fox hound, who took a chance at the of a wide circle of friends. HARD ON THE POETS combination of openness and privacy Board also provides a practical way Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Share of Rushmore This delightful man and poet took life shivering waters, plunged in after of a sun-parlor. Know the pleasure to permanently restore old walls and arrived the latter part of the very easily, though he could hardly be the boatsmen and staged a rescue. (T'M SCHEDULED to recite 'Annabel of a light and cheery room that is so ceiling, partition offices, build extra week for a visit at the home of the called lazy, since he made remarkably Altho the boys were both good swimmers private you can sit and read with Lee' at an entertainment tonight," rooms, and utilize unused lofts or latter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. A. strenuous efforts when some subject your slippers on, and yet one that is and the rescue was not necessary, confessed the retired merchant. other wasts space. Sorenson. They remained over Decoration so open and sunny that the kiddies roused him to master it—-at one time •Tve been repeating the poem to myself it shows the possibiltiies of the will enjoy romping and playing with Day. it might be the Greek language, at another almost constantly for several days, and hound. A porch swing is an essnetial aid to you. a Hindu conjuring trick. But always know every comma in it, but I'm summer evening comfort, and with Blooming Prairie he was absolutely and consistently afraid that when screens all around to keep out the biting Lightning Hits House. The sun-parlor is a year-'round indifferent about dress. Consequently I stand up to recite, things it provides comfort supreme. room, too. When heated in winter, it During the short electrical storm From the Times it was only upon rare occasions is an ideal retreat from the gloomy I'll have forgotten that visited our city Monday about house and in fine weather, what is that he made himself tidy and every word two in the afternoon, a bolt struck the Mrs. Walter Cambern of Austin Anew size package! more enjoyable and restful than to Coops for the little chicks keep the even his tidiness was not always exactly of It." Mrs. Theresa King residence on East was here between trains on Monday. bask in the sunshine? rats away. "I hope so," said cbrrect. Once at a big dinner Ten for 10c. Market street, damaging the roof and Mr. and Mrs. Paul Sander motored The fine weather season is here. the hotelkeeper. party he arrived in a new evening splitting the boards at one of the corners to Owatonna Decoration Day and Now is time to have the work done. Distinctive architectural beauty as "Such a poem as' suit fresh from the tailor's, with the Very convenient. of the house from roof to foundation. well as comfort, convenience and the spent the day with friends. •Annabel Lee' deserves buttons still wrapped up in tissue paper. A concrete platform around the At the time of the striking air of "homeyness" can best be obtained Mr. and Mrs. Joe Schiler, and Mrs. Dealers carry both better Efut it didn't matter, his friends milk house makes xrucKlng of cans in the home by building with Melvin Lewis was passing the place Bernard Bell of Owatonna visited easy, promotes cleanliness and reduces treatment ha were too fond of him to let him suppose lumber. AND WOOD IS THE on the buttermilk wagon. He received lOforlOc 20for20c. at the Thos. McAdam home Saturday. N labor. you are qualified they had noticed the superfluous LEAST EXPENSIVE MATERIAL so severe a shock that it required The C. F. Mortenson, J. H. McCain to give it. You trimming, and one very dear friend YOU CAN BUY TODAY. It's toasted. the greater part of the day and a and M. C. Brainerd families spent have a voice like 1 found a suitable moment to remove it. half, before he felt relieved from the ^_ Sunday at Beaver Lake. a guinea hen, and —Christian Science Monitor. jJ effects. J. J. CLEMENS ONE PIECE OR A CAR LOAD The Misses Vivian and Edna Alley you telescope your 1 and Messrs. Bernard McGee and Ed Marriage, no doubt is a sacred words, and you The Will Keifer family of Austin Moe of Austin motored here Decoration institution, but lots of marriages are don't know any more about poetry Phone: Me£n 47 Local Mgr. spent Sunday at Adams as guests of Day. than a porcupine knows about Paradise. not. the T. Sabel family. They also were Mr. and Mrs. Lynn Alley, daughter, If you'd stand up and recite a present at the First Communion Services Gretchen, and son, Russell, of Austin few pages from a mail-order catalogue at the Sacred Heart church during I have no doubt you'd put the proper visited friends here Decoration Day. their stay. feeling into it, and move your audience Mr. and Mrs. Edward Paulson spent Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Johnson of Mabel, to tears, but It's a crime for a Memorial Day. with Mrs. Paulson's Minnesota, autoed to Adams Saturday man like you to mangle a beautiful mother, Mrs. A. Fairbanks, at Austin. poem, full of sentiment and melody, and were over Sunday guests of The Missse Inez Ille and Melba "There ought tp be a law against local relatives, Mr. Johnson returned Cashman who attend the Normal that sort of thing.* Some of the best to Mabel Sunday evening. Mrs. Johnson school at Mankato spent Sunday and poems in the country have been ruined will remain here for a more extended Monday at their homes here. by common or garden elocutionists. visit. Geo. C. Thompson and family who -V Nowadays people smile when you for some time resided here have moved fr mention 'Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight.' LEROY on a farm near Lansing. Mr. Thompson It has been recited so much is engaged in painting and cement From The Independent by people with cracked voices that it work. has become a joke. Yet if you examIne Messrs. Frank and Joe Ruzek, Birthday Surprise. the poem calmly and impartially Frank Ressler and Frank Wewerka you will find that It has a great deal Last Saturday being Mrs. I. A. McCaughey's returned Friday from Cedar Xake of merit. birthday, her little granddaughter, You Make It with fifty pickerel. Muriel Frisbee decided to "In the schools the pupils are permitted Miss Blanche Srsen who teacher at give her a surprise so she invited in to recite some of our best Adams spent Sunday and Monday at quite a number of her neighbors and poems, and the poems aren't fit for her home here. anything after it. The school authorities friends. They came about five o'clock Born last Saturday to Mr. and Mrs. should prohibit this sort of thing, and Muriel had succeeded famously J. J. Manning of Minneapolis, a son. and prepare a volume of cheap asbestos for it was a real surprise. Ice cream Mrs. Manning was Miss Margaret poetry that is fool proof, that caq't and cookies were served and an enjoyable Herdina known by many in this vicinity be injured, no matter what you do to hour spent. who extend congratulations. it. There is plenty of punk poetry in H. C. Wegerslev suffered a very the world, and a collection of this Thatched Roofs Last Long. painful accident Thursday of last stuff would serve the schoolboy elocutionists Thatched roofs in Holland are exceedingly week when he stepped on a spike just as well as the high durable, and some of the while working about his new garage. class poetry that is so easily spoiled. oldest buildings still have the original The I. A. McCaughey family moved "When I went to school, about a roof in place doing good service. last week into the Chris Madsen residence hundred years ago, there was a tall, There are many instances of a which they will occupy during freckled, gangling boy, who talked thatched roof 200 years old. their absence. smfaraiHiEiErdiiuari through his nose, with a sort of whine that sounded like filing a saw. There was to be a school entertainment, and THE IDEAL CAFE this boy was down for a recitation. The teacher never asked him what he was going to recite, but gave him the right of way. Teachers continue to AUSTIN, MINN. make the same mistake, even as we go Business won't "THE HOME OF MOTHERS BAKING AND COOKING" to press. They should choose the poems which are to be butchered to WE ARE ANXIOUS TO SERVE YOU THE BEST grow without first make a Roman holiday and select AT THE LOWEST OF PRICES having a good something that won't rip, ravel or run TRY US down at the heel. ROY CHRISTENSON start. Neither "This boy stood up before the school and droned through Gray's 'Elegy.' will it prosper Now, that's one of the best rhymes ever composed. It was written by a unless it is watched journeyman poet who put in seven years at it, in the time when they had closely and OMfehwr ten-hour days. He wanted to leave advertised. behind him a poem that would stand A health-building the severest tests of the government inspectors, and he did. In my opinion We liken your Bread for growing I there is nothing better in any language. business with a It is rather melaricholy, but it youngsters His vitality, enthusiasm and spirit all breathed into the has a sort of doggone soothing quality message. The selection of paper and printing was machine. If you that is a balm to the bruised spirit of a landlord when he finds that the typical, reflected his taste, and conveyed the writer so fail to fill it with receipts of his hotel don't equal the strikingly as to conjure in the mind of the correspondent expenses. the power producing "Time and again, when discouraged a vision almost real. The printer helped materially and played out, I have started to read materials in the making of such a realistic impression. that poem, and as soon as I get fair-. ]y into it, I seem to see that blamed the machine stops. gangling schoolboy, in his high-water Our printing is of this type—high in quality to meet Your business is garments, and hear him droning exacting tastes, and our prices are from the noted through those verses, making a noise your "car," our like a sawmill on a wet day. It's more than forty years since he made business is the a violent assault upon the Elegy, but RANKLIN It seems like yesterday. It's the same "fuel." way with Hamlet's •Soliloquy.* Every PRINTING time I hear or see that gem I think of Think it over. a .fat youth who recited it in our PRICE LIST school, and then I burst into tears. "There's no sense In such a business, and congress ought to do something, doggone it." Individual or business stationery appropriately printed THERE ABE MANY iBianiaizizrasaB here for everybody. May we suggest something for you? Freak of Acoustics. REDUCTIONS IN PRICE OP In the whispering gallery of St. Paul's cathedral in London the faintest Visit This Office and See Our Samples Today sound is faithfully conveyed from FEDERAL BAKERY GOODS one side of the dome to the other, but can not be heard at any intermediate Federal Products point, Do your shopping in The News first-you will be better satisfied Accounting for the Blue. Mrs. Bacon—They do say that a single grain of indigo will color a ton baked in our daylight ovens right of water. Mr. Bacon—Do you suppose that Is in plain view of the public assures why the milk Is so blue this morning, l* ower oun you of the utmost in cleanliness, dear? purity and invigorating Bread, Biscuits ———-—rr~ Cigarette Smoking. and Rolls. .* Cigarette smoking Is on the Increase all over the world, according to a census of the Industry. In 1919 39,000,000 House of Service: Our lunches will delight you as well as &/>e "coffin nails" were smoked in t- --a -It the United States and more than 16,000,000,000 save you time and money were exported. 1" -a Just Fancy. -j "Whatcher figuring out, Jlmmle?" FEDERAL SYSTCM of BAKERIES *Tm thinking what a fortune it Would be for someone if I could figure out how to harness the energy that Is wasted in shimmy dances."— A rjpj&Y* Florida Times-Union. A- 4 'jiw. "Mi, mijg^gp