1 1 1 I I rt 1 1 r* Vv MOWEBi COUNTY NEWS, AUSTIN, MINN, Monday, Dec. 5, 1921. i#p»4 Page Three CONVENTIONS Real Estate Transfers Christmas Message to Boys 5 rk t.x MARCH NEXT Deeds. and Girls of Austin J. S. McCleary to 1 L. Hanson," NW 12-102-16 ....$ Barthelomew Kennedy to New Law Provides for Christmas is almost here. David Smith, SW 5-10217 Delegates' Conventions. Your great post office department has a big job and needs ahead 500 your help. Mary C. McConnell to Harry Think what it means to be Santa Claus to our 100,000,000 people E. Marrow, N NE 29101-18 and to deliver Christmas parcels to every family in this great couatry 1 within the short space of a few days and without disappointment. Martin Mc Collough et ux to E. "Any voter desiring to become a It can be done, and we're going to do it if we have your help. S. Babcock, W 25 ft. 7% inches I want to enlist the active assistance of everyboy and girl in the candidate for delegate to a political N 100 ft. lot 8, blk 12, schools of our country in getting parcels mailed THIS WEEK to relieve party to the county convention from Davison Add 1 the rush that comes directly before Christmas. the election district in which such voter Will you go home to-day and take this message to your parents Asben S. Rolfion et ux to Guy resides may do so by filing with and friends: Rolfson, W SE 19-103-16 1 "Our postmaster has asked us to mail our Christmas parcels THIS the county auditor of the county -of E. S. Babcock et ux to Harry WEEK, for, unless we do, Uncle Sam's load may be so heavy the last his residence, at least fifteen days before Slocum, W NW and SE few days before Christmas that he won't be able to deliver all the N W 1 2 1 0 4 1 7 1 the date of such delegate election, presents by Christmas eve." Henry Schiler et ux to E. S. an/affidavit, blank {forms of The parcels must be well wrapped and tied and addressed plainly Babcock, W V»- N W% and in order that they may arrive in good condition with their Christmasy which shall be provided by the county SE NW 12-104-17.,... .15000 appearance unspoiled. You can put on your packages, "Do not auditor of the respective counties, open until Christmas." Albert H. Peterson et ux to etc." And, there must be a number on your house and a mail receptacle John Thein, E NE 17102-16 The foregoing is an extract from to, for, if there isn't, Santa Claus's messenger, your letter carrier, ..15500 may not be able to find the house where the present belongs. the amendment to the primary election W. J. Roat et ux to F. G. Sasse There are some other things, too, in which you can all assist in law of the state of Minnesota. & Lafayette French Jr. W improving the mail service and in saving our great Government millions The amendment was passed and approved NW 25'and W NE of dollars a year that's now wasted because of our carelessness— April 25,1921, and carrying an and NE NE 26 N 30 1 yours and mine. Every day that you drop a letter in the mail box 40,000,000 other acres SE NE 26-102-17 2796 immediate enactment clause, was at If You Own letters are already pushing and jamming thru the postal machinery once effective. One letter a day for each family of five persons in the United There had been much discussion Mower County News Market States is given to Uncle Sam to deliver. Place is the place to list anything aroused by the wording of this extract When you send a parcel othe post office for mailing any day you may nave to dispose of. there are about 8,000,000 other parcels ahead of .yours passing thru which is from Section 5 of Senate a Ford Car the postal hopper. This is in ordinary days at Christmas time it is File No. 702. The use of the multiplied many times. How Big York Grocery Firm New word "may" with regard to filing his One family in about every ten puts a badly addressed letter Keeps Down Rats. name for election as a delegate to the the mail every day. This mixes up over 2,000,000 half addressed Vroome & Co., Butter & Cheese lettters with the 20,000,000 fully addressed letters. That means that convention has been constructed by Merchants, New York City, says: "We the fully addressed letters must wait on the slow moving poorly addressed Now you can nave a specially many to mean that, with the context keep RAT-SNAP in our cellar all the letters just like the larger boys and girls by a bunch of "bad time. It keepa down rats.. We buy of the law, a' man must file in order kids" tagging along. designed, high-grade it by the gross, would not be without You boys and girls can help the Postal Service and save your to become a delegate candidate. Others it." Farmers use RAT-SNAP because father some money, because he has to help pay the cost of searching say that a man who is a voter rats pass up all food for RATSNAP. addresses on letters and parcels sent out by this one careless and Ford battery at the price of Three sizes, 35c, 65c, $1.25. may file if he wishes but that it is not thotless family in every ten. Sold and guaranteed by Pooler Drug a necessity to make the voter's candidacy First find out if your family is the careless one, then bear in an ordinary one, the new Co., Austin, Minn. Advertisement. legal. The former is without mind that your letters must be handled by skilled mail distributors December. standing in post offices and on swaying postal cars of a mile-aminute doubt the spirit of the law but in mail trains, often under poor light. court the wording and not the meaning I- The address on every letter, card, or package must be correct, would be the issue. complete, and legible, including the house number and name of street, and the "From" address should be in the upper left-hand Stated on Ballot. corner so that the mail will be returned to you in case it is not delivered. The law as amended further provides Do not abbreviate names of States, because so many look for county, district and state alike when abbreviated. Put the proper amount of postage on your letters and wrap the conventions, the primary *to be used parcels carefully. Avoid fancy writing, which causes post-office in the naming of the delegates to the clerks'and letter carriers to stop and study,and thus lose time. county convention. It states that the Make the address plan and easily read, and always use pen and choice for office of the conventions ink or typewriter and light-colored envelopes, so as to save the This rugged, powerful battery is eyes of the post-office clerks. Do not use envelopes of unusual size. shall be so designated on, the ballots the product of the oldest and largest The little ones that are so frequently used for cards and notes at at the election. General election laws Christmas and -other holiday times causes an untold .amount of are to apply to the elections wherein trouble and labor, as they will not fit our cencelling machines and manufacturers of storage batteries these delegates are elected. must therefore be cancelled by hand. Because of their size and in the world. tendency to slip out of a package, these small envelopes are more The law sets the second Tuesday in likely to be overlooked or lost. March of the years ending in even Mail your letters and packages early in the day, because this Don't deny yourself the satisfaction Our watering and testing service numbers as the dates on which elections avoids overloading and delaying mail at the end of the day. is FREE but it~is NOT to be held. This date is also to of an Exide Junior. Your local postmaster and your teachers will tell you more about careless or indifferent because the Postal Service. be utilized for taking of voters' registrations. of this feature—it is painstaking Don't forget to mail Christmas packages THIS WEEK. and thorough. Do these things, and you will win the grateful appreciation of Continuing on the procedure, the The service is for YOU regardless the people in your post office and especially of of your make battery amendment specifies that the county Your Postmaster General, pnd without any obligation. conventions are to be held within ten WILL H. HAYS. Try it. days after the delegate election on a University of 508-510 North Main Street date to be fixed by the state central committees. Southern Minnesota of the-evening nominations for new Photographer Catches Thieves. Two men photographed in a London AUSTIN, MINN. Authority of Conventions. members were made. Robert Leek 1 DIAL 7502 studio were seen to steal some money was nominated and unanimously elected These county conventions are authorized from the till as they passed through* into the society, making the twelfth to elect delegates to the state the shop. The woman photographer member. A twenty minute period of convention appoint a county committee developed the negative quickly, took parliamentary drill ensued with Edward elect delegates to the district convention tne photograph to the police, and the -TV* Banfield as chairman and Bernard men were-arrested. which lies wholly within the Kough as secertary. county or of which the county is a The^meeting was then adjourned to part and to certify the names of delegates You Never Can Tell, Sir. the program as follows Western Paper—^'Miss Alice Somerby elected to the secretary of state. "Chemistry^nd National Welfare," and William B. Wave, both of this The state convention, under the town, were married Tuesday. 'Alice Maurice Daigneau. new law, is to be held on any of the gets a permanent wave,' comments J. "Englands Recent Warships," Wade last seven days in March, except on G."—Boston Transcript. Searles. Saturday. The state convention may "Development of Motion Pictures," OF THE REflODELED adopt a state platform endorse state George Bucklin. officers including the United States •f -35 'Origin of Football," Lauren senator and also names the presidential Brown electors. "Track Men of the University of It is probable that there will be controversy Call Us Up California," Clifford Erickson. over the use of the word Critic's Report, Paul Leek. -M "may" until there is 9. decision from Following the program a light luncheon the office of the attorney general but was served by Mrs. Kenaston the idea of the lawmakers was to There are three things—and only X- after which the meeting adjourned. make it compulsory for all candidates three—that wear out batteries. (1) for delegate to file with the auditor Miles of service—(2) Months of service fifteen days before the date of election. —(3) Neglect and abuse. Dr. A. I. ARNESON The way to get the most months or Physician and Surgeon. the most miles—or both—is, of course, CHKbNIC DISEASES Robert Leek Elected to get the right battery and then take ELECTRO-PHYSICAL TREATMENTS. care of it. to Duodecim Society also RECTAL and COLON Well sell you the right one—the DISEASES. Y/illard Threaded Rubber Battery New Offices in Automatic The regular meeting of the Duodecim —and more than that, we'll help you Gas Building. Telephone literary society was called to order Office Hours lelep„®?? lock after it. by the president at the home of 10 A.M. to Office 2676 Call us up. 6 P. M. Residence 2677 Graham Kenaston Wednesday night. Cr better still come in! Roll call was responded Jo by quotations. 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