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

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.\ ,o -A -,y.* %«W$ "s rv$s*$w Met "H li ^-i 1 !tV* s^1'- re T| S '.'I nf MOWER COUNTY NEWS, AUSTIN, MINN. Page Two Monday, August 1,1921. ECLIPSE ECHOES Uniform Tax Laws are tection in this part of the country," Mrs. W. D. Fink is assisting during guests of honor. The club will meet said George McKerrow, president of Miss Regan's absence. with Mrs. Charles Angel in August. Sought by Representatvies Mr. and Mrs. F. F. Struck motored the Wisconsin federation. "The foreign RATCHEN MARRIED of the Minnesota producer can ship wool into the to Faribault Sunday to spend the day Weekly Shavings Edited By with relatives. AT MILWAUKEE. i" United States and sell it at fifteen Vol. 380 Farmers August 1, 1921 Splinter* cents a pound that is only hall of Mr. and Mrs. Henry U1 welling and Adams.—I^o. J. Ratchen, genial what we must have to make ends Mr. and Mrs. Phil Ulwelling motored (Continued from Page 1) captain and shortstop of the Adams NOW IS THE TIME TO BUILD because— meet." to Faribault Sunday to attend the K. ball club was married to Miss Edna SINCE STYLES HAVE CHANGED "Hides, too, are free, and yet we of C. picnic and to spend the day with Knickelbein of Milwaukee at the to assist in promoting high quality 1.—Materials and transportation are "Many a draft-evader hid behind hig. fear the price of shoes will not come Mr. and Mrs. Joe Ulwelling. Cream City Tuesday. Announcements and uniformity, therby commanding available. During the fall when wife's skirts." down." Mrs. Gerhart has gone to Minneapolis to this effect were received by Adams coal, crops and fall merchandise better markets to bring about greater "Well, if another war was to come up Mr. Gray urged the farm bureau to chaperon an outing party of compete for cars, this favorable friends Wednesday. The ceremony was economy an efficiency in manufacture, nurses of St. Mary's hospital one of federation thruout the country to organize now, they'd have to find a new condition may no longer exist. performed by Rev. John Boyle of Milwaukee, shipping and selling to save which is her daughter, Olive. They dodge!" BEING A SUNBEAM a vigorous protest to congress, 2.—Cost of construction is down. a classmate of Mr. Ratchen. money by carlot shipments and will spend two weeks at the lakes. When the accumulated building program and force raising of some of the socalled Mr. and Mrs. Ratchen will spend a wholesale purchases of creamery supplies that must some day be carried protective levies on farm products 4i CT7E HEAR and read a great deal AUSTIN ROUTE 6 short honeymoon at Crystal Lake, and to give every creamery individual A concrete silk cooling tank will out is in full swing and heavy to a point where they really protect. W about optimism," said the Wisconsin. They will reside at Helena, service in standardizing and demands are made on the supply, quickly pay for itself. Ask the stranger, "and we go around telling Montana, and will be at home to their Eclipse. prices again may rise. shipping its products at home, in advertising Threshing has begun in this vicinity. Murray Lincoln, secretary of the tour friends not to worry. The advice friends after September 10. Mr. Ratchen 3.—Labor is efficient and plentiful. co-operative creamery products Orin Varco reports his small Ohio federation, urged the establishment is good enough, but we dont pause to will finish out the season with When building activity gathers full on a national scale, and in selling grain much better than he expected. of a national statistical bureau, When the cows come home. Tho reflect that optimism is a mental attltude momentum, it may be scarce. the local club. them on the terminal markets. A company of young people are enjoying pastured and fed well, cows, if kept in supported by all farmers co-operative 4.—Building started now is soon that can be the camping season in Brooks KITTEN BALL GAMES improperly constructed and insanitary Credit Pool Planned. marketing firms, to gather accurate available for use and begins to pay reached only by barns, will in time lose their grove. They plan to remain several dividends on the investment. data so that the farmer can present DRAWING BIG CROWDS. study and training. President Potter announced at the good health and. contentment. This weeks. NOW Is the time to build. his case to congress and the federal What shall close of the Midwest conference that Grand Meadow.—Last week when will, of course, affect their milk flow: The neighborhood Club met Thursday we study? I have commissions as effectively as private steps will be taken immediately to organize THE WOMAN OF THE HOUSE the local Kitten Ball League was To modernize your barn will pay afternoon with Mrs. Peter Rosenthal here, madam, a interests. The American federation is a joint farmer-banker committee wants OAK FLOORS because they you well. formed, few realized the extent and in spite of the busy time a large little book entitled, beginning the formation of such a department will harmonize perfectly with any to prepare the way for a state importance of the sport program number were present which shows a of experts, it was announced. kind of decoration, and owing to their 'How to Be a agricultural finance corporation. The framed. The first three games have good interest. The Subject for study WHY RENT a house when you can rich and cheerful color create a Sunbeam,' which course followed is likely to be that already I created an interest on the part of just as well build? The longer you was "Patriotism" or "Our Flag." friendly and homelike atmosphere. answers the question charted by the Iowa Farm Bureau local people that the most enthusiastic to rent the harder it will be for you Three good readings had been prepared, fully and LEROY federation. In that state a committee booster for the movement never buy. Build or buy today while buying and the "National Emblem," completely. 11 of fifteen farmers and fifteen dreamed of. With each succeeding and building are good. and "Our Flag" were selections on the was written by—" bankers is already organizing such a game the crowds that gather on the Born to Mr. and Mrs. Will Sweet "I phonograph. Miss Elsie Angel favored don't care corporation for that state. school grounds have grown larger and PIECE OR A CAR LOAD Sunday morning, a boy. the company with vocal and instrumental J. J. CLEMEN who it was written The purpose of the corporation the sport is providing a funfest of no Miss Ida Oby returned home Friday music, at 4:30 o'clock, ice by, or whether would be to serve as a credit clearing small proportion. from a weeks visit with Miss Elizabeth cream and cake were served. Mrs. Phone: Mein 47 Local Mgr. it is indorsed house, collecting and sending out information Garnhard of Rochester. William Coogan and daughter were The News—$2.50 a year—worth it. by all the statesmen and prelates in as to credit resources and The ball game played Sunday between the country," exclaimed Mrs. Curfew. needs, and helping to distribute available Adams and Hayfield was won "I don't want to be a sunbeam, experience agricultural credits where most by the former team, 7 to 0. having taught me that I can get needed. It would constitute a sort of Miss Ethel Taylor of Austin visited along better and have less trouble and farm credit pool, with a view to making with Mrs. G. Boyd last Friday. She tribulation, when I look as much like available credit for marketing of was returning home from Rochester. a meatax as possible. farm products and to a limited extent Miss Alta Wright of Taopi visited for production, as well, particularly "Last evening before I went to bed at the home of the Misses Lewis, Friday. for the building up of pedigreed I was reading a book called 'Sunshine She returned Saturday morning. herds. Susan.' It was about a woman who Little David Price celebrated his just made up her mind to be happy Uniform Tax Laws Sought. fourth birthday Wednesday by entertaining no matter what happened. Then her a few of his neighbor friends. The opening season of the Midwest husband was brought home with a Mr. and Mrs. Moser and little Farm Bureau conference was devoted broken leg, and the two children had daughter came home Monday from to a study of tax conditions as they a number of measles simultaneously, their extended trip thru the eastern affect farmers in various parts of the and the house burned down, and the states. middle west. The discussion, lead by bank in which she had deposited her Mrs. Halver returned the latter presidents of the various bureaus savings closed its doors, and in spite part of the week from an extended represented, developed the fact that of everything she went around singing visit with her daughter and son in taxation methods vary widely in different and dancing. sections. Montana. "If I had thought it over I might Mr. and Mrs. Henning and two children The conference passed a resolution have realized that it was too good to and Mrs. W. R. Robinson1 of calling on the American Farm Bureau be true. No human woman could be Saratoga, spent Wednesday afternoon federation to appoint a national investigating gay and happy in the midst of so at the E. Price home. committee, to study tax many calamities. But I was in a Miss Mae Mahoney is taking a vacation methods in various states and suggest sentimental mood, and when I turned from her duties as stenographer uniform methods as a basis for out" the light and went to bed I thougfct in Mason City, Iowa, and is visiting changes in tax laws of the states. The that I ought to be ashamed of myself her mother, Mrs. Sarah Mahoney. aims of such a committee should be for not being like Sunshine Susan, and twofold, the resolution said. It should I made up my mind I would turn over Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Larrabee aim to bring about tax adjustments a new leaf first thing in the morning. returned to their home in Minneapolis so that agriculture shall bear its Saturday. They visited several days share of taxes in relation to other interests, "So I came downstairs smiling, and with the former's mother and other and to obtain uniform laws I was singing all the time I was getting relatives. so that agriculture in one part of the breakfast, and when Mr. Curfew On Saturday forenoon occurred the country may not be penalized by came down he said it warmed up his death of T. A. Thompson. Funeral heavy taxes for the benefit of competing whole being to see me in such a cheerful services were held at the Engelson producers in other sections. frame of mind. It reminded him Lutheran church Monday afternoon Grain Growers Discussed. of him of the time when I was sweet by Rev. Berg and Lin. "It seems to me that retail advertising is a very simple seventeen, and as pretty as a red The afternoon session of the first Mr. and Mrs. H. Hawkins arrived wagon. Then he gradually drifted into day was devoted to discussion of the home Wednesday morning from a ten matter in these times, when the newspaper goes into relationship between bureau federations a story to the effect that he had a days vacation spent in Austin and at great opportunity to make the finest and the U. S. Grain Growers, Clear Lake. They were accompanied every home in the land. I believe that the retail merchant horse trade of his career. All he needed Inc. C. H. Gustafson, president of the by Mr. and Mrs. O. Larson of Austin. was $7 in cash to close the transaction, grain growers, outlined the ideas that T. W. Panghorn left for his home in who fails to advertise, fails in his duty to his customers. and he would make at least are being incorporated in the preliminary Hagerstown, North Dakota, last Tuesday |15 by it drafts of a contract between after having spent an enjoyable The public has a right to know what a merchant Grain Growers and the Equity Cooperative visit at the home of Mrs. Larrabee. 1 "He knew I had $7 put away in the exchange. The intention, he Mr. Pangbom was a former Le Roy dock to buy myself some clothes I is doing it has aright to know what sort of goods said, was to provide for use of the boy. need the worst way. I had saved that elevators and terminals facilities of money, a nickel and a dime at a time, Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Tracy of Spring and was looking forward to the time the Equity for grain controlled by the Valley metored over Friday and attended he has in his establishment, and what kind of service he when I would have enough to go shopping U. S. Grain Growers, the grain to remain the ball game between the and buy myself an outfit good under the direction and control Union Giants and Charles City, the renders, and what the conditions of his service are. It enough for the queen of Sheba. of the national corporation while concert of the 168th Infantry band being marketed thru the physical and dance. Mr. Curfew had been trying to borrow has aright to know when he receives new goods, and has properties of the Equity. The tentative Mrs. Fischer and daughter, Miss my savings for along time, offering to give me his note as security, and contract, he said, would give the Angela, Mr. and Mrs. J. Fischer of aright to know what the new goods are like." U. S. Grain Growers an option to acquire Austin and Mr. and Mrs. Paul Hynish before I read that Sunshine Susan book the properties of the Equity at and two children of Dubuque, I always refused him, and nearly the expiration of a certain period of Iowa, called at the E. Price home snapped his head off doing it. But that "No merchant nowadays ought to expect the public to Wednesday. morning I was anxious to make everybody time to be agreed on. happy, so I handed him the In the presence of only the immediate Tariff Bill Criticised. give him its patronage unless he comes out frankly and money, and he went and made his families at the home of Mr. and The morning session of the second horse trade and brought home an old Mrs. Sarah Mahoney Saturday noon, day was devoted to a discussion of agricultural tells the public what reasons he has to expect its patronage. crowbait that has been sick ever since, occured the marriage of her youngest legislation, lead by Chester and he spends all his time out at the daughter, Iva, to George Brown, eldest Gray, president of the Missouri Farm barn, feeding it pills and powders, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Brown. And he ought to do this in the local newspapers— Bureau federation. and I can't get him to do any of the G. Mahoney came home from Rochester Two of the measures backed by the chores around the place. Saturday where he spent a week I That's the way for him to stand fair and square with the framers thru the bureau, he said, receiving medical treatment. He was "The same morning Mrs. Turpentine have passed congress—The PhippsDowell accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. H. Mahoney, heard me singing in the back yard, people whom he expects to come in and buy his goods. act providing farm-to-market and she thought it would be a good who were returning from anj road construction under state supervision, time to borrow my patent electric automobile trip thru Blue Earth and rather than transcontinental other southern cities. washing machine, and came over for "Let his advertisements be the truthful news of what he highways under federal commission that purpose. She had asked for it a The largest crowd yet was assembled supervision as provided in the Townsend dozen times before, but I always told at the Oak Dale park last Sunday. is doing, and let him print it in the newspaper, where bill and the act providing $25,000,000 her to go to. Being full of sunshine There were cars parked there working capital for the federal on that occasion, however, I told her from hundreds of miles away. There farm loan system, so that loans news belongs, and then he will be p!#ying fair with the she' could have it and welcome, and was no special event to draw the need not be delayed thru lack of funds crowd so it must have been mere curiosity I've never been able foTise it since. while new bond issues of the system that brought them. public and deserving of its confidence." The man who sold it to me says it are being floated. Packer regulation will cost $6 for repairs, so you see ROSE CREEK legislation has pased both houses, he what Sunshine Susan did to me. said, but is now in conference. C. H. Call Main 450 for demonstration of Bonnet-Brown "No, mister, I don't want any recipe Gustafson, who is chairman of the T. E. Meany spent Sunday and Monday for being a sunbeam, and you can Sales Service—ads and cuts here at your command at no Committee of Fifteen investigating with his family at Waldorf. take your book along to Mrs. Turwilliger, livestock marketing, declared that Fred Reek of Grafton, Iowa, was a in the yellow house across extra charge. amendments attached to the bill as it business called in our village Tuesday. the street. She's the champion middle passed the house would mean a severe weight pessimist of this neighbor* blow to agriculture if finally Miss Catherine Fink is enjoying the hood." passed. One amendment, he said, week with her sister, Mrs. Charles Do your shopping in The News first—you will be better satisfied would seriously cripple the federal Cassidy, at Austin. Explained. trade commission. Mrs. Jake Haffner and daughter, "Do you see the man yonder? Well, The debate then developed into a Eileen, of Austin spent a few days at to my certain knowledge he is leading pointed attack on certain provisions the Peter Haffner home. a double life." of the permanent or Fordney tariff Mrs. F. Carl and children of Watertown, say so!" "You don't bill. South Dakota, are enjoying a oun "Yes he is a professional contort "It appears that there may be a visit at the Meany and Markey homes. tionist." great number of jokers in the bill," Tony Weinert arrived home last Mr. Gray said. "In many cases it absolutely Thursday morning from a trip thru After American Stylemakera. fails to give the farmers the Pennsylvania and western New York, French creators of feminine gowns protection they must have it is not leaving the city of Buffalo for home. tfU-f j-1, and hats have appealed for a law to '/.y truly protective. -VT Mrs. Dahlsten and daughter, Marcella ".'i prohibit the indiscriminate photographing ,!( "Argentine can ship corn to the of Rosholt, South Dakota, are of their models at the race United States, pay the fifteen cents a visiting her grandmother, Mrs. Jacobson, tracks. They claim that American bushel duty and lay it down in the and aunt, Mrs. F. A. Ulven, for a and other clothing designers are stealing United States market cheaper than few days. 1 fashion points from the pictures. A. the corn producer of the central west Mrs. J. Haffner and son, Jack, can," Mr. Gray said. "The situation arrived home Monday morning from ClOM Call. Sauk City/ Wisconsin, where Mrs. seems to be similar on wheat. The ad I "It was a near thing, but made it.** valorem duty on wool gives the wool Hoffner was called by the serious illness 1 "The operation, you mean?" grower of the northwest virtually no of an aunt. hours "Yes. In another twenty-four Miss Josephine Ragen is enoying protection at all." the witb- patient would have rawvered "The wool schedule gives the wool a week'svacation from her work as