M%m^T m•: ..*» Page Two MOWER COUNTY NEWS, AUSTIN, MINN. Thurgday, Nov. 24,1921.: ECLIPSE ECHOES Vr Christmas time when the whole postal tives here, went to Austin to visit L. Guy, held at his home, south of I friends Monday for a few days. Oakland Monday afternoon. v' institution is keyed up to top v» Miss Addi»- Wiseman was a guest J. W. Buxton attended Earl Padelfords speed and trying to keep on top of the of Austin friends last week sale Thursday.^ ^-1, load. F" &:t Weekly Shavings. Edited By THE MISSES LILA ROGERS, Mrs* Rudolph Lunacheck is entertaining Mrs. Sandy Noble of Corning called Volume 397. -Thursday, November 24,1921. Splinter* 9tfwhl)orho6& her sister and nephew for ai at her parental home Thursday. AUDRAY PULVER few days. __ Mr. and Mrs. John Noble and Ruby AND GENE- H. 0. Wood,went to Lockport, Illinois, THANGSGIVING were guests at the Alex Noble home Saturday for a few days visit VIEVE FINK., in Newry Friday and Saturday. with his daughter. Mr. and Mrs. William Bergstrom Remeiqber the Bible study class As the minds of this wonderful land of ours turn members of the Rose Creek and daughter, Marion, were dinner meets at the hqpte of Grandma Summey guests at the L. J. Haney home Sunday. Cake Team, which won every Tuesday afternoon. Everybody to thoughts of gratitude for the blessings we enjoy, first place in the cake contest welcome. .RENOVAsfe#, we give thanks for many things. at the Minnesota State WEST LANSING Fair 1921. The young ladies Spf ncerJordan We give thanks foi* the country in- whieh we live, The-la grippe is in the neighborhood also took the first prize and a number are quite sick MissBernice.Duerst spent the the home in which we dwell, the food that graces nthe peach shortcake contest Miss Marion Phillips, is visiting week-#ld at her home in Austin. -"^Funeral Directpr. S at the State Fair, which schools this week as part of hej^Normal our table. l- Irvin Johnson of- Austin called "at 1 The Establishment of entitles them to the free training for teachers. the- Dugaw home Tuesday'evening. %, .Service.^""'" 7. trip to the International Mi$$ Margaret Blaine went to Miss Lutina Noble visited her sister, We give thanks for the rulers that guide us, the Rochester last week and underwent Mrs. Theo Htelleck at Blooming Livestock Show at Chicago. constitution that protects us, the friends that itir an operation appendicitis. Prairie the past week. Lester Slack is attending the U. S. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Dugaw attended WAGNER make living worth while. M. in Austin. He is taking a ten the funeral of the late Robert weeks' course of tractor machanism. Last but not least, we give thanks to those whose Construction Co. Thomas Johnson, Henry Krull and Dr. A. I. ARNESON Ernest Rockwell atended the auction patronage we enjoy—a thanks we try hard to express sale south of Lansing Tuesday. "Physician and Surgeon. in the service to our p&trons. TIME TO THINK Let us give you an estimate Clifford Browning is as pleased as CHRONIC DISEASES it is impossible to deliver such mail on those proposed buildings. ELECTRO-PHYSICAL ever with the U. farm school, where matter. We can save you money and TREATMENTS. he is attending. He reports everything OF CHRISTMAS These small cards and greetings guaranteed satisfaction. also RECTAL and COLON just fine. are not meant to be mailed separately DISEASES. Phone Estimate Furnished Mr. and Mrs. K. Dahle took in New Offices in but are intended to be placed within Automatic E E the sale and chicken pie supper at the Gas Building. J. J. CLEMENS ONE PIECE OR'A CAR LOAD Jj Telephone packages containing gifts. Mr. Cook M. E. church Friday night and reported Dial 2202 Office Hours Suggestions for Mailing VWI stated-that last year envelopes containing Office 2676 a fine time. 10 A.M. to AUSTIN, DIAL 2047 Loc$l Manager Your Holiday Announcements. Residence 2677 MINN. some of these small cards were Dr. and Mrs. J. F. Rockwell of 6 P. M. Austin will entertain at Thanksgiving received at the local office whiCh were dinner the families of Geo. Young, not larger than an inch and a half F. O. Tannert W. M. Phillips and P. square. H. Rockwell. The letter from the Postoffice Department A Every year hundreds of thousands NEVADA is given below for the information of parcels, letters and other mail matter of those who may not be remains undelivered because of fully acquainted with the provisions: Miss Lulu Jacobson spent Sunday illegible addresses. A letter from at Henry Thorsons. During the holiday season large First Assistant Postmaster General Mr. and Mrs. Nordahl Nelson were quantities of very small envelopes Hubert Work calls particular attention Sunday visitors at Oliver Ostensons. and cards are put into the mails to this feature in relation to the Mr. and Mrs. I. I. Anderson spent with the result that all postal work Christmas mail, which is unusually Sunday afternoon at the Ole Larson is very much retarded and mail dis: heavy the last two or three weeks before home. v- figured and mutilated. Christmas. Mrs. Gilbert Nelson spent Wednesday The minimum size of cards and envelopes of last week at the N. D. Nelson Postmaster C. F. Cook noticed particularly home. should not be below 2% by during the holiday season Mr. and Mrs. Ole Lastine were enterained 4 Jnches for the following reasons. last year the number of holday greetings at the Mrs. Jacobson home 1. Addresses will be obliterated by and announcements which were Sunday. cancellation mark Mr. and Mrs. Dave Nelson and family 2. Too small to be run thru facing were guests at the M. D. Nelson To All Patrons of The Postal tables, necessitating three extra home Sunday. Service: handlings with consequent delay not 4- LANSING only to this but other mail. The attention of all patrons 3. Delay in cancellation because of of this office is especially called Mrs. C. A. Bates was an Austin awkwardness in putting thru cancelling to the First Assistant Postmaster caller Monday. machines. Generals letter, and it The presiding elder will be here 4. Delayed thru difficulty in sorting. is urged that the use of small Sunday evening and will give a talk. sized envelopes and cards for C. W. Brown of Austin was a caller 5. Liabilty to loss or damage as mailing purposes be discontinued. at the home of C. A. Bates Friday. small pieces of stationery have come From inquiry made of the into use in the past few years and several local dealers it is learned Marvin Farlow of Salt Creek, only appear now in any quantities at that these small sized envelopes Wyoming who hps been visiting rela- and cards are intended to be placed inside Christmas parcels SPECIAL and not to be mailed as ordinary t— ___ Does this sort of condition hamper Austin merchants? letters. Sincerely, C. F. COOK, Postmaster. Are YOU putting as much effort into your business NOW as when prices were soaring and times •i mailed in Austin not conforming to were easier? the postal regulations were well into Don't forget your Cranberry Ice for the thousands. It is not so much the your Turkey Dinner at the When the war was over did Germany sit and brood fact that-some are smaller than sizes specified, as it is that running them TEA SHOP over hard-times? Most emphatically she did not. She 1 thru the cancelling machine or in cancelling got busy. German goods are at this moment entering them by hand stamping obliberates the address entirely and American markets. The attitude of the German people was to get on their feet as soon as possible. The successful merchant of today waits not for better times. He advertises for the future. Careful 'and conservative merchants buy goods carefully. DO YOU BUY ADVERTISING CAREFULLY? DO l! YOU APPEAL TO THE BUYER BY CONSCIENTIOUS ADVERTISING? This is not the time to wait-for better times. Take an inventory of your store from manager down and determine their worth. Are you serving the public right? To get business NOW means "GO AND GET IT." You'll get somewhere Lets all go after our share of the business. Co-operate with each other and put Austin on the map of the with a pipe and P. A.! Mercantile world. v? The Mower County News is YOUR paper, Mr. Merchant Start fresh t* all over again at the beginning! 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