'V X' *jr &' r«*~ '?%vs-«?v1^-YW4 ,-• iff 1 *T 5* MOWER COUNTY NEWS, AUSTIN, MINN? Page Two Monday, July 25, 1921. ECLIPSE ECHOES force having the greatest rifle fire directed PEOPLE'S PULPIT in one another. Before the war the Mower County News sults. A good place to show up quickly business men would meet and the grocers at the opposing force could expect would be on some of these vacant "The County Paper" to win the battle. It is/just the woud agree on how much they lots about the city, and along the Published every Monday and Thursday, same principle with the framers organizations. would pay for butter and eggs, and streets in the residence section. Weekly Shavings at Austin, Minnesota Edited By (Responsibility is disclaimed for The more generally the what they would sell them for for the Vol. 379 Austin has the best streets of any July 25, 1921 Splinters ROE AND GANNON, Publishers facts stated or opinions expressed in next few days. Kerosene, gasoline, farmers as a whole become members of the southern Minnesota cities, and V. E. FAIRBANKS, City Editor this column, which is open to all readers of the Farm Bureau and its various nails, putty, rope, etc., selling prices it is abomnible to have them rendered for discussion of subjects of general Any old house with substantial "HOME" were stabilized till the next meeting, subordinate organizations, and give unsightly by the unkempt appearance interest. Letters must be signed. framework and foundations can be There's a homelike feeling about and all agreements were religiously them their encouragement and support—back of the boulevards. j^Tho Editor.) ,t transformed into a modern looking the low-spreading bungalow—nestled kept. The business men are honest the officers in their varios home—and the cost of the change is cozily among green and flowered Isn't there an ordinance prohibiting with one another, at least. Not so enterprises—thp sooner the farmers Mower County News:—• small in comparison with rebuilding. TO OUR. Talk it over with the Eclipse. shrubbery. Spreading shade trees the riding of bicycles on the sidewalks? will have their products on a paying Being a paid-up subscriber to your now. Old time honesty has departed ountnAD If there is, it should be enforced. "House of Service"" I shall consider and greed has moved in. At the present form a canopy against the sun. The market. AFFILIATING 1 MEMBER# If there isn't there should be that any remarks you make in the time in Austin there is as many The Fruit Growers Exchange, Incorporated, .A well informed landlord knows porch invites into its own ample outof-doors. that Oak flooring commands a higher one enacted at once. This is no village is an example of what can way of interrogation as addressed to prices on articles of precisely the The setting is charmingly rental, and at the same time attracts where anything goes. We have be done by organization. This organization myself personally, and denotes a want same class as there are dealers. This hospitable. Its sunny rooms and genial Pc»K a better class of tenants. The real streets that are good enough for any condition of affairs is not in anyway handles the fruit crop from the of information. open fireplace its harmonious estate dealer who builds to sell knows bicycle rider in fair and foul weather, detrimental to the consumer, but it time it is gathered until it has been In your issue of July 18, you ask: that Hardwood Floors are his "one outlines, dainty vine-clad pergola, and just shows up the disposition of the and that is where they belong. The "Is that ELUSIVE quality of civic marketed. The marketing is handled best bet." The really satisfied home the wealth of growing things about, sidewalk is for pedestrians, and there pride, commonly called 'Community business man and points to the early so that there is no glutting the market owner in ninety instances out of one make the bungalow the most intimate signs of decay in that institution. As is constant danger of serious injury to at any point, while another place Spirit,' entirely lacking in Austin?" hundred is living on Hardwood Floors CMEMBER expression of "home." Its popularity the little folks especially when the After consulting my "Webster's unabridged," I write these lines, if it wasn't for the is without fruit. The exchange, after The most convincing endorsement comes from simplified housekeeping, I most emphatically say, flies, I could almost shed tears of pity bicyclists are permitted to use them. many years of fighting to instill the as to the superior merits of Hard- the absence of stairs and artistic superiority "No!" Webster defines the word "elusive," and look hopefully into the future for wood Flooring is found in its steady spirit of co-operation into its members, over conventional two and SUPPORT YOUR HOME TEAM. some amelioration of existing ills. My increasing use for every type of Official Paper of-Mower County as deceptive, fallacious. You, has finally achieved its object. tnree-story small houses. At the ball game last Thursday inmost soul is wrought up with con- building both private and public, and I mean everyone living inside the Back up your Farm Bureau in SUBSCRIPTION RATES when the Hormel team played the curb, have got it in plenty, as evidenced flicting emotions. I am impelled at every movement which they are working. NOBODY LOVES A RAT. Per Year, in advance $2.50 Green Goblins—a colored team—the It is all for your benefit. by allowing your city to contaminate one moment to forbear furthre criti- The size of the dollar can not be Don't let your corn crib or granary Six Months $1.25 crowd supported the visitors. That the waters of what was once the cism of your conduct. And then I get compared with the sighs of the dollaranother remain a free boarding house for Single Copies 05 part is all very good and proper. But A LITTLE COMFORT, PLEASE! purest and most beautiful river or whiff of the stagnant pool of} less. rats. "Build him out"—starve him by means of concrete- floors. Concrete Entered as Second Class Matter at the crowd of fans went even further body of water in the entire state of corruption that stands within 100 feet There may have been some worthy the Post Office at Austin, Minn., under is durable, inexpensive, and no of my dwelling—"the main sewer," than a generous hospitality to a visiting Minnesota, from your homes to the motive in moving the bandstand to the act of March 3, 1879. rat has ever geen known to gnaw team called for and openly opposed Gulf of Mexico. dammed by the Hormel company for the Horace Austin State Park from thru it. their home team in matters of That is the kind of Community commercial purposes and dammed by the Court House Square, but can anyone A "CITY" BAND. the whole community outside the curb close decisions. They even failed to Spirit that ails you, and until you get tell us now just what it is ONE PIECE OR A CAR LOAD Jj i\Vw J. J. CLEMENS A city band has been suggested to "V 7 1 show an appreciation when the home it out of your systems you are going as an unlawful stinking nuisance. In There is absolutely no place for us, and it would seem that there is to have flies on you, which is only the duty to myself and my family I am players pulled a good play or made a those who enjoy band music to listen Phone: Mcin 47 Local Mgr. more than mere possibility in this good hit. beginning of the plagues that are compelled to free my mind. to it in comfort in the present location. suggestion. There are many musicians Oh, for a little of that Community sure to follow. You are gambling with You take a slam at the "Farmers Those who are fortunate in the city who can play "the death, and down in your greed-infected Bureau," the only organization in the Spirit injected into affairs in this city. enough to enjoy the pleasures of sounding brass or the tinkling cymbals" Some of the business men could stand «ouls you know it. You think more county that represents a genuine 100 M.H. KENASTON driving" an automobile may sit in the Phone Bridge Residence and ask no excuse of any man considerable to start with those of your lucre than you do of the repu-, per cent "Community Spirit," and intimate car, of course, during the concert, if for the brand of music they turn out. tation of your city and the bodily that perhaps a generous effusion interested in outdoor sports could they are fortunate enough to 'find 802 Some are old professionals, some Main659-R absorb as much more without in the of the healthy blood of that organization a parking place near to the players, health of the community. If you keep have had training in some school, on piling up profits and clipping coupons, might help your disability. least endangering their health or being Many, however, cannot get close REAL ESTATE and INVESTMENTS college or university musical organization, you don't care a "tinker's expletive" Maybe. But the country people don't afflicted with sunstroke, and what enough to the stand to hear the music, City and Business Properties. Rentals and Insurance and some have served in a how it is brought about. love you any more—you smell so. was left would no doubt be eagerly and must either get out and walk military band organization possibly The trouble is your elusive spirit You will have to clean out your befouled sought after by those who come in around, or they become dissatisfied Office with Niehuis 9t DeBuhr Laad Co. during the late war. has caused you to lose confidence in roost before they will consider neither class. and drive away. Then too, each time AUSTIN. MINN. It is a worth-while project thaj will Loyalty to one's own town is the one moment to forbear further critithy moving in with you. Austin National Bank Bldg. a car drives off, those in the vicinity bear looking into by the Business trait has left you poor indeed. Yes, "It is a pity!" ONE thing that should be of first importance are deprived of the music for several Mens Association, if they wish to You, very feelingly, refer to the sad (To be continued.) in the minds of every citizen minutes. And it always seems stand sponsor for those things which ending of the "Commercial Club" by —E. F. PECK, of Austin. Being loyal to the as tho someone must start for home are a benefit to the city. reason of the non-support of some of Home Missionary, on the Main Sewer. home town would not mean that a or down town just when the band All that this movement needs is the the business men. I was on the water sports fan could not or should not starts another piece or reaches the backing of public-spirited citizens, Fliver Owners Too? wagon at its birth, and business called show his appreciation of good playing "trio." HAVE THOSE OLD the services of a director, and the opportunity As long as the railroads persist in me up those stairs quite frequently. by a visiting team in whatever If the Horace Austin Park is such charging the present outrageous for the band men to get branch of the sport it was exhibited. I thot sometimes I had got into a lovely place for the band concerts together. rates, every man who owns an automobile the anteroom of hell. Too much On the contrary, it would become his why not provide some place for the Will the Association take it up? should refuse to patronize ELUSIVE civic pride, with the help duty to recognize and applaud good public to sit while the band is discoursing SHOES REPAIRED them.— Worthington Globe. of prohibition killed Austin's Commercial playing and clean sportsmanship sweet music on the balmy Club/ ,. "A friend in need is a friend indeed. whenever and in whatever form it summer breezes? A nice chunk of News Advertising brings results. You speak of the "Austin Business But it always takes a dilemma was displayed, by his own home players grass sod—individual sizes—which Men's Association, and say that its like that one of Cy's to show or by those of an outside team. could be shifted around to suit the meetings are not well attended. Why which are the "friends indeed." It is up-hill work playing ball when convenience of the sitter and then The business men have no confidence your own fans are not behind you, taken home to place in that bare cheering you when you deserve cheering, IS DAVIS SLIPPING? spot of his lawn, or in case he had The future is before you. Make and helping you over the rough The Hon. Charles R. Davis repre no use for it there, the park board sure of it by attending the Mankato places when the going is bad. could pack it away for a week until tentative in Congress from the Second -~rl Commercial College, Mankato, Minn. Let's show the home team a little District, has been turned down by the next concert, when it would come Send for catalog. Advertisement 6-1-c of that loyal team-work called "Community his collegues as chairman of the committee forth for additional duty. Spirit" at the rest of the on appropriations. Davis, on To furnish benches would be out of games. They'll have to win then— WE ARE EQUIPPED TO DO the question. For one reason they account of seniority, was the ranking J. F. FAIRBANKS with the crowd in the stand pulling Republican member in the House and have been known to disappear, to be YOUR WORK SATISFACTORILY for them. in line ,for the appointment, but due discovered' later hidden away under AND QUICKLY. WE some shady spot beneath the trees to his stand on certain questions dur When is the city council going to MAKE OLD SHOES LIKE probably thru the instrumentality of ing the World War did not stand very finish paving Railway street by the high with the loyal element in Congress. some lovelorn couple to whom the NEW. Milwaukee station? Dealer In lack of shade in the evening was quite His votes .before war was declared embarassing. and during the progress of the VALUE OF CO-OPERATION COAL, WOOD, LIME, war were practically all recorded as But all else aside, what's the big The Farm Bureau, with its national idea of having the concerts in a place opposed to Americanism and in favor CEMENT, SEWER PIPE, organization, the Farm- Bureau Federation, of pro-Germanism. There are a few where there are no comforts provided JENSEN & PUFFER and its many subsidiary organizations BRICK AND WALL r^ others who should be relegated to the for the spectators? such as the Wool Pool, To seal in the rear or to private life and their places We use the word spectators advisedly—for PLASTER. the United States Grain Corporation,, delicious Burley filled by some who are much better there are many who never the Committee of Seventeen, and other qualified for the high position by virtue hear a note, but do appreciate watching tobacco flavor. combinations by the farmers, are taking of their stand for America first, the clever manipulation of the it's Toasted their places in the sun these days. Office 301 East Bridge St. last and all the time. keys by the players. After years of being compelled to accept Possibly some one of the class can just what was offered them and give us the answer. What's being done about those Phone: Main 32 awaiting the pleasure of the market bath houses for the bathing beach? gamblers, speculators and other BOND REFUND FORMS READY. When the leaves begin to fall is no Austin, Minn. leechfes, which preyed upon the unprotected Forms of highway bond reimbursement time to start work on this project and unprotesting farmer, he resolutions for adoption by Fresh From The That will be a good time for the has at last come to his senses and is county boards of commissioners were warming house to receive consideration. forming his own companies and organizations prepared this week by C. H. Christopherson, to see that his products assistant attorney general. are marketed to the best advantage O. L. Kipp, chief construction engineer -IF THIS IS TRUE, "THE KING CAN DO NO WRONG." Oven and at a time when they can be in the highway department, is Just because Len Small happens to assured of the best price without undue supplying copies to county attorneys WHY NOT DO IT? be governor of Illinois, he has the profit. and auditors. The forms hate the approval privilege, it seems, to embezzle several The farmer is entitled to a profit of representatives of bond hundred thousand dollars and upon the goods he has to sell just as houses besides insuring uniformity Topped with a crisp, brown crust, inside brazenly defy the law to arrest him. much as the merchant. To raise grain and compliance with the statutes. He has the power to call out the National and food requires capital the farmer a snowy white—Our bread is so Guard to prevent his arrest by must pay his labor for their work on There area number of things that are of Insurance Specialists good that vpu cannot imagine a better. the authorities. To such an extent his farm, he must buy seed, machinery, vast importance to us all. can politics enable a man to evade his fertilizer, horses, and many other Austin Insurance Agency just punishment. Good health gives you a fighting chance. things he must feed his family, Any law that will provide a loophole E. Ray Cory, Manager clothe them, send thtf children to Morality commands respect. such as the governor of Illinois Babcock Building school, pay taxes, and so forth. And has at his command, by which he can Education makes your chance easier to he certainly cannot be expected to do AUSTIN, MINNESOTA utilize forces of troops which are for see. any of these things raising oats at the avowed purpose of supporting the 25 cents a bushel on land that rents I Thrift insures independence. government and putting down rebellion, for pasture at $5.0(T to $7.50 per acre. evidently was placed on the statute The main thing for the farmer to A savings account means thrift. books by some far-seeing politicians remember is that he must stick to the who foresaw the time when it The road to all leads thru this bank. organization. Take the co-operative would came in handy to save their creameries for an example: whenever scalps. the centralizers have a plant in A governor who would steal from competition with a co-operative butter THE AUSTIN NATIONAL BANK his state is no better than any other g' factory, they always pay a higher man. In fact he should have a special price for butterfat at that point. At And our other baked goods are equally^, law which would deal with his particular other points where there is no competition as good, in fact, most folks say they are case in a more drastic manner. they set the price below the of Austin, Minn. Playing politics by unscrupulous price paid by the co-operative concern, just like homemade—The Highest men has been and ever will be the biggest 1 i-i and thus equalize things for themselves drawback in the present form of Praise They Can Give. a Member Federal Reserve System. to the detriment of the farmers our government. There is need for pocketbook. If the members of the cooperative new blood in American political life, creamery patronize the centralizer Resources Two Million Dollars. and we would suggest that the boys for the temporary profits who fought in the World War get that they see for the time being, it busy and run politics for a while in will not be long before there will be the interest of abetter America. no competition, and the price offered MT. by the centralizer will be lowered considerably. Now that Austin's biggest booster has fallen from his place of honor, the The same experience has been noted boosting campaign, will probably go WELDING. in regard to the farmers' attitude to into cold storage. ', "A their own elevators when in competition with the line elevators owned by WHERE IS THE WEED COMMISSIONER? private interests. We can fix any size,. shape or design of broken parts. Bring The matter of a little temporary Where is the Weed Commissioner? profit blinds them to the big thing them to us. We can make them On the vacant lots across from the that co-operation stands for. It takes like new. News office there are weeds growing every member to make co-operation a Federal System of Bakeries rank to such a height that would compare success. For every backslider front the MOTOR INN I HHP1? 1 with the tropical growths in Central organization means that much loss in America. Is the commissioner job the battle-front presented to the competition. KOBE'S CAFE simply one ox political patronage or During the war the opposing Repair Department is it supposed to be a practical affair forces worked to secure a preponderence with certain duties to the appointee. A. H. ANDERSON, of rifles over the enemy, for it If it is practical, let's see some re­ has been generally accepted that the