MOWER COUNTY NEWS, AUSTIN, MINN. Monday, Oct. 10, 1921. Page Four Owatonna. Lyle fair, Sy Austin good, Mower County News reth, 1208 Baldwin street, Harold JEliason, A VIEW OF Blooming Prairie good, Owatonna. 301 Oakland avenue. "The County Paper" THE PLANT OP No. 41 FAIR—Blooming Prairie Scout Robert Smith has just recovered BOY SCOUT NEWS Published every Monday and Thursday, THE AUSTIN and Hayfield. from the weeks' illness. Bob is at Austin, Minnesota GAS COMPANY No. '56 GOOD—Kenyon, Dodge Center a new clarinetist in the Scout Band. y-. ROE AND GANNON, Publishers AT lll'SOUTH and Brownsdale. Kenyon fair, The Scout band will elect all its RIYER STREET. West Concord good, Dodge Center officers at the next rehearsal, Sundays V» i*' good,' Hayfield good, Brownsdale at three o'clock sharp, at the Old THIS DEPARTMENT DEVOTEDii good, T. H. No. 21. Elk's club on Mill street. EXCLUSIVELY TO ACTIVITIES No. 57 GOOD—Mantorville and M. The scout football team travels to OF MOWER COUNTY BOY T. H. No. 7. SCOUTS. Adams to play the Adams high school No. 59 GOOD, FAIR—Spring Valley, MEMBER* on Friday after school. AFFILIATING Rochester and Lake City. Spring Troop Number 4 meets at 7:30 p. Valley good, Stewartville good, Rochester SEND IN YOUR TROOP NEWS vur/vv. m., Friday at the Congregational fair, Zumbro Falls fair, Lake church. .• City. Troop Number 3 meets Monday No. 21 GOOD Zumbrota, Faribault evening at 7:15 at the Presbyterian and St. Peter. Zumbrota good, The twelfth law in action—a Scout class Scouts a leg on their Merit church. 5 Kenyon good, Faribault good LeSueru is reverent: He is reverent toward Badge in bicycling, Center fair, Cleveland fair, St. Troop Number 2 meets Tuesday God. He is faithful in his religious Scouts, get busy ana advance a fMEMBER evening at 7:15 at the library. duties, and respects the convictions of class in scouting before spring and Now that clothes cannot do so much Troop Number 1 meets Thursday others in matters of custom and religion. the summer camp. iivCiAv: bleaching out of doors as in the summer, evening at 7:15 a tthe library. Scouts—strengthen your relationship. Scouts, hail some of our new applicants: a slice of lemon (with rind removed) Northwestern Advertising Representatives: Harold Voogd, 105 North High in the boiler will help to Miss Sylvia Murphy of Rochester, Minnesota Select List, 215 make them clean and white. A troop basketball league will soon street, Kenneth Nitzkowiski, 1104 South Sixth Street, Minneapolis visited her sister, Mrs. James Sheedy be formed among the Scouts. Each North Freeborn street, Leslie Hild- Friday. 709 Excange Bank, St. Paul. WHY USE A DULL RAZOR? troop must have a team, but can have GAS COMPANY EUREKA Razor strap dressing which is heated with steam pipes in two if available material is at hand. Official Paper of Mower County puts keen edge on dullest razors with cold weath# to prevent freezing. -A TREASURE November 1 is the beginning of first application. Price 25c. Geo. Roscoe, Whether he requires much or little, GROWS RAPIDLY SUBSCRIPTION RATES 1507 Stevens Avenue, Minneapolis, basketball practice for the Scouts. Per Year, in advance $2.50 the gas is always ready for the consumer. Minn. Advertisement 28-2-c. We hope we can have the Armory. Six Months From the large storage holder CHEST WITHIN Single Copies "5 Scouts will in all probability end the gas passes thru the plant (Continued from Page One) LEGAL NOTICES the football season with a game with governor into the mains for distribution Entered as Second Class Matter at YOUR VERY FACE Mason City on October 22 or the candescent fuel into the carburetor. to the various sections of the the Post Office at Austin, Minn., under early part of November here. the act of March 3, 1879. Oil gas to carburet the water gas is city. CHARTER OF THE CITY OF AUSTIN, MINNESOTA. Seventeen miles of mains were in Scouts of all troops, get your bikes made by spraying of the oil into the top of the carburetor, the gas being use last January to convey this fuel in shape for the bike hike that's to \PITAL DOES NOT WANT LOW PROPOSED AMENDMENT. "fixed" by the hot checkered brick to the user, and since that time al-„ come off soon. This will give first WAGES The following amendment to the Doing a thing just one don't help much. filling of the carburetor and superheater. most two more miles of main have Capital in America is not opposed Charter of the City of Austin is made, been laid. From four hundred customers framed, adopted and proposed by the to high wages. In its own interest The superheater is the third cylinder ten years ago, the list of services Charter Board, Board of Freeholders capital prefers high wages. This employer, It is habit that makes the little things thru a hydraulic seal, where a has increased to over fifteen of the City of Austin, pursuant to that corporation, may individually count. Section 1350 of the General Statutes hundred. A meter salesman recently large portion of the tar is removed, conceive its interest to ile in of Minnesota, for 1913, and acts and what is left is removed to the tar spoke of the steady growth shown by forcing wages to as low a point as amendatory thereto. We wish to impress this upon the minds of extractor, from which it passes into the company and stated that this was possible but if all employers did the Chapter VI, Section 15, of the Charter one of the very few concerns in this the relief holder where it is cooled. all. same and succeeded in reducing wages of the City of Austin, is hereby After being cooled to the proper section of the country which was ordering to the minimum, producers as a class, amended by adding to and at the end temperature, the gas is drawn from meters. In most places services by diminishing the purchasing powers of Section 15, the following If you get into the habit of placing a certain the relief holder and forced thru the were being discontinued and the of consumers, would find themselves For the purpose of constructing a amount in the bank once a week, you washer where most of the impurities storage shelves were filled with meters injured. municipal sewerage disposal plant are washed out by fine sprays of which had been taken out. will soon be casting glances at your bank with and including all necessary intercepting Therefore capital, which is more or water. Then the gas is forced thru Credit for this efficient public service sewers or system of intercept and wonder how you did it. less intelligent, would choose to pay utility rests upon Z. T. F. Runner, ing sewers, the cpmmon council shall the purifying tanks where an iron as high wages as possible, other have the power and authority to borrow oxide removes the sulphuretted hydrogen, president and manager F. E. things being equal. For capital in money and to issue the city's and it is then passed thru ':Ke Gleason, vice-president R. K. Runner, America to seek to drive wages down THE AUSTIN NATIONAL BANK bonds, but the city's net indebtedness plant mei^r which registers the number secretary N^Fruden, treasurer, to a minimum, thereby lowering the as defined by General Statutes, Minnesota, of cubic feet manufactured, and and W. H. Martell, superintendent. 1913, Section 1848, shall not, high American standard of living and 'into the gas storage holder. We trust that this little sketch of inclusive of such bonds, exceed ten lessening proportionately the demand of Austin, Minn. While the relief holder holds only the workings of the gas plant, to- per cent of the taxable property for products in this great home market 16,000 cubic feet, the storage holder gether with the accompany picture, therein, including moneys and credits. of the United States, would be to Member Federal Reserve System. The bonds so tb be issued shall be in has a capacity of 50,000 cubic feet, will enlighten many of our readers pursue a policy pennywise and pound-. ,.. snch form And denomination, bear who have not had the privilege of foolish. To curtail the great home Thistankit set in a water seal. a /. L. MITCHELL, P. D. BEAULIEU, W. E. HOPFE, such rate of interest, aitd shall mature WELDING. cement pit nineteen feet in depth, seeing the. inner working of this industry. President, .? Vice President market buying-power would be suitcidal Cashier at such time or times as the common holding 300,000 gallons of water, from the capitalistic point of council may by resolution determine. The power and authority hereby We can fix any size, shape or granted shall be additional and Near New Prague a tractor outfit In England and Germany, employers design of broken parts. Bring supplementary to all other powers MA KENASTON is reshaping the highway and making Phone Bridge Residenoe have more plausible excuse for granted the common council and may LOCAL WORK a needed improvement. them to us. We can make them reducing wages, altho the policy there be exercised by it without submitting 802 like new. Trunk highway number 21.—East is economically unsound in the long Main 659-R the proposition of the issuance of such of Faribault a 4-mile job of grading bonds to the city's electors, or to any run. England and Germany produce REAL ESTATE and INVESTMENTS and gravel surfacing is nearing completion. MOTOR INN class of the city's electors^ notwithstanding for foreign markets largely. The demand Work Advancing on entire any provisions to'the con City and Business Properties. Rentals and Insurance of those foreign markets is not trary in the Charter or any applicable Trunk highway number 40.—South related to their domestic conditions. 7,000-Mile statutes contained-j^^ Repair Department Office with Niehuis & DeBuhr Laad Co. of Austin the highway is being reshaped The lower wages they pay, the larger This amendmiift Inall take effect on a 7-mile section, the work AUSTIN. MINN. profits they can make from foreign A. H. ANDERSON, Austin National Bank Bldg. seven (7) daraprofh and aftfer its due System. "2 being done by local teams. sales. Also the competition for foreign adoption a^#flpifroval at any election Trunk highway number 41.—Between markets is such that they are of the qualified voters of the City of Charles M. Babcock, state highway Blooming Prairie and Hayfield forced to minimize their labor costs. Austin, a,tl whi^h fetid amendment and commissioner, is now in Washington, a big grading gravel surfacing shall be stibmil ted While we Americans do business serving on President Harding's unemployment project will be finished soon. The foregoing is a draft"*bf a proposed abroad and hope to do more, our conference, which has Trunk highway number 60.—Construction amendmte&t to the Charter of main business is supplying our own indorsed his proposal for increased work east of Madison Lake the City of Aus^n, made, framed, proposed vigorous and avid domestic market. federal highway aid to relieve the and adopted by the Charter will be completed soon and the entire What increases the adivity of that jobless and speed needed work this Board, Board of Freeholder ^appointed route is rated in good condition. market helps our manufacturers and by the District Court of the Tenth winter. District maintenance superintendents distributors. The demand of the Judicial District,1 State of Minnesota, COLDER WEATHER thruout the state report American market, the most extensive under and pursuant to Section 36, of that both construction projects and Article IV of the Constitution of the and intensive in the world, is stimulated maintenance operations are being State of Minnesota*- as amended, and IS HIGHWAY AID by high wages. Consequently pushed, on the big 7,000-mile trunk & pursuant to Section 1350 of the General capital, so called, has an interst in highwaf^ system. Statutes Of ^Minnesota, for 1913, having wages as high as is economically and all of the ,provisions of Chapter Progress reports show that contractors feasible. IX of said stsitutes and amendments generally are ahead of their Lighter Traffic Makes thereof relating to home rule char Compared with wages anywhere schedules and that hundreds of men ters the said graft of said proposed else, American wages, even at the Maintenance Work will be laid off late this month and amendment is hereby returned to the proposed lower level, will still be high, 3 left jobless unless funds are provided Hon. Alfred C. -Page, Mayor of the Easier. and those lower wages will suffice to to continue operations thru the winter. City of Austin, according to law, purchase as much or more before a signed by the undersigned, a majority This situation was foreseen by long time has elapsed in the new set of the Charter Board, Board of Freeholders. the commissoner who is concerning St. Paul, October 8.—Minnesota of conditions that will register the himself with relief measures. Mr. trung highways as a whole are in new adjustment all around. Dated this 16th day of September, Babcock was pleased with, the support good condition, according to the A. D. 1921 As it is true that capital in America ine road employment plan received weekly bulletin issued today by the A. W. WRIGHT, President, is interested in having high wages thruout the. state and newspaper state highway department. Traffic RALPH P. CRANE, prevail, conversely it is true that labor dispatches indicate that it is is lighter, it was explained, and weather Secretary, is interested in having prevail the being favorably" received in Washington. and other conditions make possible F. G. SASSE, reasonable maximum wage and not effective work by patrolmen. C. W. STREETER, FIRST SHOWS AT 7:30 SECOND AT 9:00. the unreasonable. What can it avail N. F. BANFIELD, Jr., Trunk Routes Marked. The state highway department bulletin PRICES—EVENING, 15 and 25 Cents. MATINEE, 10 and 20 Cents labor to maintain an inordinately GEORGE E. ANDERSON, Recent rains enabled patrolmen in follows: AUGMENTED PARK ORCHESTRA JOHN H. ROCHFORD, high standard of wages, if their excess every district to smooth up their sections TRUNK HIGHWAYS:— IRA PADDEN, shuts down industry and causes of trunk routes and overcome No. 1 FAIR—Albert Lea, St. Paul, J. L. MITCHELL, MONDAY AND TUESDAY, OCTOBER 10 AND 11— general nonemployment Senator the effects of continued dry weather. ,, Duluth and North Short. South State J. N. NICHOLSEN, Nelson uttered the truth in the Senate, TOM MIX IN "AFTER YOUR OWN HEART" THEODORE MILLER, Albert Lea good, fair, Owa- when he said many wages now up in nearly all districts and highway JACOB HERZOGG, tonnagood, Faribault paved, Northfield^good, paid are excessive, and when wages A story of the west brimful of Tom Mix's experiences as a cowboyfj users are praising the brighter yellow J. L. GULDEN, detour, Farmington are reasonably reduced revival of BEN SPECK, stars carrying^ the numbers and the Plenty of action and thrills. Tale of modern goocfci detour, paved. St. Paul paved, JENS MORTENSON. business will follow with .plenty of marking method." §^M^anch owner whose cowboys used airplanes White Bear good. Forest Lake good, ^SKk employment. Notice is hereby given that pursuant and autos in place of bronchos. Ne\*rs notes-o^i^iwiy operations Wyoming good, Rush City good, Pine to Resolution No. 720 duly passed Capital by said experience has in this sectiori^fufpisbed thru the district City good, Hinckley fair, Sandstone Aitd Ehster Keaton in "THE SCARECS0W" by the common council of the City of learned some bitter lessons the last supeiintendents^ollow: good, Moose Lake good, Carlton good, -4. Austin, Mower County, Minnesota, on la twenty years. Labor for its own sake Trunk highway number 1.—Between His latest collection of laughs. Duluth good, Two Harbors good, the 16th day of September, A. D. 1921, as well as for that of ,everybody Owatonna and Faribault, a 7mile Grand Maris good, Pidgeon River. and to the provisions of the charter of •ft- ought to be willing to learn a few.— said City of Austin, that a special section is being replacd by a No. 3 GOOD—Winona, Twin Cities WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12— Minneapolis Journal. election of the voters of said city: will tractor outfit and soon a fleet of and Breckenridge. (That portion between be held in and for said City of Austin, trucks will begin re-graveling it. I I E E A A Winona and Twin Cities is on Tuesday, the. 25th day of October, JUST THE SAME HERE TOO. Similar improvements on the Albert omited,) St. Paul to Minneapolis, A. D. 1921, for the purpose of A-powerful dramatic story of life, which carries the spectators If officials are unable to locate violators Lea-Owatonna section were started payed, Osseo paved, Anoka paved, voting on the foregoing amendment. several months ago. of the automobile license law, Elk River paved, Big Lake paved, The polls will be. open from 6 o'clock to Paris and into the Alps they should shift their position to the Trunk highway number 7.—East of good detour, St. Cloud good, Albany A. M., until 9 o'clock P. M. of that day. Also "GOLFING" With the Century Comedians streets where old tags and cars with Mankato a. big grading "job by contract The several -Voting:$&?es are hereby good, Sauk Center good, Alexandria stated to be as follows? no tags at all appear daily. By night is to be finished late this good, Elbow Lake good, Fergus Falls they can easily gobble the bright month. FIRSt W£RD. i. good, Breckenridge. THURSDAY AND FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13 and 14— First Election Precinct: Place—G. A. light fan, the guy with one light and No. 9 FAIR—GOOD—La Crescent, Trunk highway number 9.—West R. Hall,, -a' 4 ALL STAR CAST IN "THE OLD NEST" no lights at all. If anyone expects of Austin a 3-mile Section is- being Fairmont and Luverne. La Crescent Second Election ••Pr^'clftct: .Place— these birds to walk into court and offer resurfaced with gravel by local-team fair, Hokah fair, Houston fair, Rush ^~y^- j: By RUPERT HUGHES. Sumner School House. themselves up they have a wild ford fair, Lanesboro fair, Preston gangs. *•, U-vM' I SECONfr^ARD. -'V A heart gripping story of home with the greatest Star Cast ever imagination. There is no surer way East of Blue Earth, the" 21-mile fair, Fountain fair, Spring Valley First Election Pre cih6t:. Place—Hose assembled. This is a guaranteed attraction, and is one of the world to encourage a general gravel surfacing project, under contract good, Grand Meadow fair, good, Austin .: House Number disrespect for law than to permit a Second Election Precinct:: Place— the most powerful dramatic subjects ever shown on to F. Cramer, is about onethird good, Albert Lea good, Blue Earth J. Shaw School House. few ginks to "get by" with violations the screen. A picture that you will advise your advanced. A fleet of twenty- fair, detour, Fairmont good, Sheri?„CkS.°L.ffir-. THIRD WARD. just^because they have the nerve to two trucks has been operating "here friends to see. One of the seasons greatest d,et0.Lu­ OT- First Electio"precinct:*VIjPlace—Hose do it.—St. James independent. and the contractor this week announ Worthington fair, Adrian good, pictures, bar none. 4 House Number 2. verne good, fair, State Line. ced that about fifteen additional Second Election Precinct: Place— ALSO PATHE NEWS At the Coontown Bank. trucks would be put on to hasten completion No. 20 GOOD—Canton, Rochester, Webster School House. Dusky Depositor: want to draw I of the work. and Cannon Falls. Canton good, Preston Dated Sept. 22nd, 1921. 3E» out dat money put in dis bank four I FAY R. SMITH, Trunk highway number 13.—Be- fair, Fountain fair, Chatfield fi City Recorder. good, Rochester good, Oronoco good, oooDOOPPOouutHioPogE yeHusky°Cashier: Man, you ain't got' twfn Montgomery andNew Prague, ffoooaoooo (Corporation Seal of the Pine Island good, Zumbrota good,' no money in here now! De interest I ,"m ^Tave^ surfacing contract a City of Austin.) Cannon Falls good, M. T. H. No. 3. done et up de principal long ago.— [project is to be finished in about Sept. 22, 26, 29, Oct. 3, 6, 10, 13, 17, nonoPOPDOPPPPaaoooPPPPOPDO Wayside Tales. two weeks. No. 40 GOOD—Lyle, Austin and 000000 20, 24. 1 S