1 s\ 's MOWER COUNTY NEWS, AUSTIN, MINNESOTA Page Four Monday, Dec. 5, 1921. CHRISTMAS SEAL Mower County' News Clean up SquadWPM^ Mrs. Jake Bartley, Mrs. James Mortenson, Mrs. Otto Anderson and Miss ^'Adjust Many Claims "The County Paper" DOLLARS SPENT IN AUSTIN WILL RETURN CAMPAIGN GOOD Dorothy Souge. Published every Monday and Thursday, at Austin, Minnesota More than 84,000 former service TO BOOST FOR YOU ROE AND GANNON, Publishers Dairy Cattle Feeding men have been interviewed to date in Northwestern Advertising Representatives: Various Committees Began Discussed at Adams the "clean-up" campaign instituted by Minnesota Select List, 215 This Morningf Farm Unit Meeting the veterans bureau with the co-operation South Sixth Street, Minneapolis NEWS BUY AT HOME CAMPAIGN of the American Red Cross 709 Excange Bank, St. Paul. in Wards. and the American Legion. In a recent The Adams unit of the farm bureau Official Paper of Mower County report the veterans bureau states met .at the Adams school house, The Christmas Seal sale began this that of the« more than 46,000 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Read careflully the Article Printed Each Week in this Department of the NEWS and then give serious Saturday afternoon. The subject, of morning in the various wards of the Per Yellr, in advance $2.50 claims filed as a result of these interviews consideration to what you have read. You will then, no doubt, view the situation in it's true light. feeding and care of dairy cattle was Six Months $1.25 city. Sitle reports indicate that the all but 3,2000 cases have AUSTIN merchants are entitled to your patronage they help to defray the expenses of maintaining all discussed by County Agent F.-vL. Single Copies -£5 canvass is going good. been adjusted. the public institutions the use of which you enjoy. The dollar you spend with AUSTIN Merchants Liebenstein rind also the problems of In the First ward of which Mrs. Entered as Second Class Matter at These "clean up" squads visited stays in AUSTIN, and, in the course of time, finds its way back to you. The Dollar sent out of marketing were considered. The the Tost Office at Austin, Minn., under Gus Butzke is chairman the captains more than 1,1350 cities and their work town is gone from the community and lost to you forever. If you buy out of town and we all follow meeting was thrown open for discussion the act of March 3, 1879. and their teams of workers are as follows: is rapidly nearing completion. An your example, what will become of the town? and matters of interest to,the BUY JN AUSTIN. appropriation of $310,000 was made community were considered. Mrs. Wallace Gregson, captain. Mrs. Last Friday jobbing houses in Minneapolis by the Red Cross to carry out its Several at that meeting expressed George Eastman, Mrs. Otto Fitzthum, began their 'new policy of share in the "clean up" program. THEY WHO DANCE] their interest in a cow testing association Anderson's Studio Smith Wright Company- Mrs. C. Mossey, Mrs. Charles Campbell buying whatever they could from and appointed a committee to and Miss"!Bess Todd. local manufacturers in order to stimulate Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Smith are visiting I E S I E S see how many others in the community Fine Photos. Mrs. Anton Dalager, captain Miss the local business conditions in Charles City for a few days. MUST PAY FIDDLER FOR LIVE AND would be interested^ A committee Ruth Viste, Mrs. Fay Rayman, Mrs. and do their' part to prevent laying They expect to return to Austin Monday. Be Photographed This Year on Your DRESSED POUL TJR was also appointed to take charge of Frank Harbough, Mrs. L. Williams off employees. BIRTHDAY. Under New Management. securing a mixed carload of feedj/and and Mrs. Roy Phelps. Such an action could be followed flour.. Mrs. D. Z. Robinson, captain Mrs. Miss Mable Jones was an Austin with considerable profit here in Austin. Austin Auto Co SAVE MONEY L. E. Hardy, Mrs J. E DeRemer, Miss shopper Saturday. If every commodity manufactured News advertising brings results. People Cannot Take More Out of and Buy Your Groceries at Nora Paulson or produced in this city was a Community Than They Mower County Co-Operative AUTHORIZED FORD AGENGY. Mrs. Ina Heisey, captain Mrs. sold at retail over the counters of the Ralph Landgraf, Mrs. Alex Campbell, •THE PENALTY Put In.f AUTOMOBILES, TIRES, OILS markets and stores if the customers Co. Mrs. O. Peck, Mrs. H. Catlin and would refuse to purchase commodities and ACCESSORIES. Miss Mary Huss. Dial 2252. of other than local manufacture OF BEING COLLAPSE IS INEVITABLE In the Second ward, of which Miss where there was no particular price Auto Top And Auto The Golden Eagle -Evelyn Ober is chairman, the captains difference, it would be of immense advantage A FATHER were selected and each captain to the prosperity of this entire Painting. names a team of three workers. The A W A S N E S E S community and would be noted Town Will Not Survive Long its If MONEY BACK ON ANY UNSATISFACTORY captain's are as follows: Mrs. Fred Dugan, thruout the entire country, and its R. H. Gray, Proprietor. Commercial Structure Is Torn PUR­ Mrs. G. K. Wold, Mrs. Fred influence might be exerted in a still Down Faster Than it Can MAIN ST. AUSTIN, MINN. CHASE. Gates, Mrs. Charles Gates, Miss Dorothy wider field. Be Built Up. You, parents, owe a debt to your children. Pooler, Mrs. Roy Woodward, This is no time for people to show Jensen-Phiffer Co. Hormel's Quality Flour Mrs. Earl Dunfee, Mrs. James Jordan, Newspaper how "small" they are. It calls for a (Copyright, 1917, Western Union.) He who dances must .pay the fiddler. Mrs. Arthur Murphy, Mrs. A. G. Bossert, public spirited policy of "home products Much of your kowledge and information That is an old saying which is full of and Mrs. "L. Ma^kie is the BEST for home people"—that means has come from experience. truth. The primary idea in this saying, MADE IN AUSTIN. Mrs. Frank Scullen is chairman of Austin products should be used (so PLACE TO BUY YOUR of course, is that one cannot have You want to save your children some of the the drive in the Third and Fourth far as possible to obtain them) by S O E E W E E any pleasure without paying for it in S O E S hard knocks you have had. wards. The captains and their teams the residents of this city. Mower some way, but this is not the only are as follows: sense in which it may be construed. County products should be used by Sanitary Milk Co. A savings account in this balik will do it. Mrs. Charles Billington, captain Let HOGAN do YOUR SHOE 'REPAIRING It means that we cannot pursue any Mower county people, and so on. Mrs. John Meyers, Mrs. Leon Comeau, foolish policy indefinitely without paying and YOU will get QUALITY DAIRY PRODUCTS There are instances where manufacturers Start it for them and then help them to for it in the end. Mrs. Carl Voelker, Mrs. John Howells, —Manufacturers of— and wholesalers must need FIRST CLASS WORK. keep at it. No man can overtax his physical and Mrs. Fred Valesky. E I S O A O N make some concessions to the local WE REPAIR WHILE YOU WAIT strength indefinitely without risking A E I E E A Mrs. William Brooks, captain Mrs. retailers in order that they may not THE AUSTIN NATIONAL BANK ultimate disaster. Dissipation Hogan's Shoe Shop. Telephone—Dial 2550 Fred Higbee, Mrs. Aiigust Damm and be held for heavily diminished profits or overwork may be continued for a Mrs. Luther Brooks. or losses by reason of a desire to time without any noticeable results, The Motor Inn. Mis Esther Collins, captain Miss but if continued for a sufficiently long help the laborer who is also an Austinite. Ground Feed, Mill Feed, Chick Feed, of Ausitn, Minn. Alice Mclnerny, Miss Delila Leighton, time the inevitable comes to pass. The E. D. HOPFE, Proprietor. The local merchant should be Mash, Security Calf Meal, Mrs. J. Becker and Mrs. Frank Terry. laws of nature cannot be violated witSi NASH CARS and TRUCKS given every concession consistent with Membef Federal Reserve System. impunity. If one takes out of life more Miss Francis Mayer, captain Miss Dehorning Pencils. Hart-Parr Tractors this main idea. than h6 puts in, if he tears down his Lenora Strane, Miss Edna Gallager, City Feed Store. Why should a merchant go to Minneapolis, physical strength faster than he builds "Value Cars at Volume Prices." Miss Anita Becker, Miss Verna Merrill, J. MITCHELL, P. D. BEAULIEU, py. HOPFE, St. Paul, Omaha, Kansas it up, he must eventually pay the fiddler. Miss Leolla Olson and Miss Margaret Vice President Cashier City, Chicago, or any other place for President A. W. Biuhm. Laufle. the same product that he can obtain ASK FOR FEDERAL PRODUCTS What is true of the laws of nature Mrs. Clarence Atkinson, captain is equally true of economic laws. The right in his own city, and by so doing ALWAYS. PIANOS and COLUMBIA GRAFON people of a community may for a time help maintain or increase the level of Federal System of ,v ALAS., tear down the commercial structure of the city's prosperity. a- town faster than they build it up Bakeries, I^W^'SFVE YOU A few years ago it was discovered SblfteY without meeting disaster, but i£ cannot SENSATIONAL BARGAINS IN that a jeweler could sSnd to England be continued indefinitely. In the end Dial 2013. ior a certain American watch and they must pay the fiddler. THE FINEST FOOTWEAR would pay less for it than if he had COATS, SUITS, DRESSES AND Exh&ust Resources of Community. GIFTS THAT LAST purchased it direct from the factory IN AUSTIN The person who makes his living in in this country. Why should such An Appropriate gift, for everyone, the a community, reeeiving the money of C. I. Johnson. cases exist? The watch purchased the community for his labor or the Gift That Suggests Permanence. CLOTH COATS products of his labor, and then spends from England had to bear thg expense AUSTIN, MIN.N J. S. R. Scovill. his income outside of his community of two ocean trips, duty, selling is'helping to exhaust the resources o£ Marked down to the lowest possible price. In fashion's most lux- expense of two establishments, If YOU REALIZE VALUES, YOUI the community just as the man who and overhead of the English concern, ARE BUYING ALL YOUR urious styles. expends his energy through dissipation GROCERIES WHERE and then had to cover the same distance, or overexertion faster than he I A I A practically, after entering this builds it up is exhausting his physical Chappe Cioats, cham- $OQ W A S E A I S country before reaching the purchaser—and resources. One man may do this, of Square Deal Grocery course, without noticeably affecting the even then the cost was oiseJined at economic strength of the§community, so much less that it paid to import: a but "when a dozen men or women do _home product. AUSTIN, MINN. SAVE MONEY AND BUY AT THE LOT ONE it the effect becomes noticeable and We visit local stores every day and when a hundred do it the resources of CHARGE IT? YOU BET find articles of foreign manufacture Pur collared cloth Coats, the community become -exhausted to We charge and repair all makes of not only competing with but actually the point where collapse is inevitable. values to $35.00 $ 9 7« BATTERIES supplanting local products upon the Those who are responsible for this situation Qncorpcrtaed DEPARTMENT STORES We also sell the WILLARD, all Rubber shelves and in the show cases. It may think that they have profited Battery. Testing and filling free. individually by their actions, but may possibly be good business to have Au^n, Minn. Winter Storage in Dry, Warm place. they have not realized that in the end competition, otherwise the manufacturer LOT TWO they must pay the fiddler. All batteries charged and tested regularly. would soon begin to think he YET THE PATHE COSTS There are some persons Who seem to Ladies' Coats in fashion's finest was king of his small domain and NO MORE be able to get through life without Schmitz Auto Elec. Co. the people would gradually fall undei THAN styles and materials, worthy much effort. There are some who proceed t, ORDINARY his control' and be worse off than before. on the theory that the world owes .up to $50.00 PHONOGRAPHS Them a living and they proceed to collect AUBURN- —GARDNER M. J. E E N A N at '. :. it. They take what they can get By all means let us have competition, Dial 2Q83 and give nothing in return. Such persons, Dial 2625 but let's give the home people Auto Sales Co. however, are. not very numerous. all the benefits we have to offer. LOT THREE Most of us must pay for everything In the country surrounding the town, Let's make Austin a better place to Auto Repairing. that we get. Some may have to pay that the merchants be enabled to provide All our finest cloth Coats, fur live in, and an easier place to make more than their share and these are this market for at least a part of Oakland & Chatham Streets a living in, by insisting that Austin collars of Opossum,Raccoon, carrying the burden of those who get the farmer's products. 7 5 products, 4nade by Austin workmen, more than they pay for. The fact remains Every dollar sent away from a town", Mole and Wolf, val- AK UK WHEN YOUR BATTERY NEEDS that, as a general 'rule, one can-, be sold by Austin merchants to Austin to a mail order house helps to diminish^ uesupto$85at... not have much worth while without the ability of the local merchants to^ home-makers, and thus keep the 1 ATTENTION LET EXPERTS paying for it. provide a market for the farmer's prod-, money at home where it will do good.' DO IT. The merchants of any community ucts or to do any of the many other In this connection we reprint in another LOT FOUR are the backbone of that community, W E S A I S things which the merchants of everyf^ column an article taken from so far as its prosperity and progress town do for their community. Childrens' all wool cloth Pierce Battery Co. the Waseca-Journal, "Buy by Sightnot are concerned. Individually there may Business in a community cannot be*S by Picture." It fits in nicely be some of them who do not exert conducted on a one-sided basis. A manjgcannot $6.75, $8.75 with this buy at home subject. 12 themselves to boost their community, Read take out of his community a year, sizes The Webber Agency it now and think it over? but collectively they are the ipen upon good living for himself and family and whom the living of every person in give nothing in return. He may do K. R. T. SOCIETY Wayne H. Webber. John P. Delfield the community depends. The success so for a short time and get away with: tH or failure of an individual" merchant District Agent -^3 it, but in the end he must pay the! 1 ENTERTAINED may not be of particular concern to fiddler. $10,000 Life Ins. (Double Indemnity. BY DUODECIM'S the people of a community, but the $20,000) age 30, $107.60. 7 success or failure of the merchants as The Best Policy. All KINDS OF INSURANCE A joint meeting at which the mem" Special values in Canton Crepe a Avhole is a matter of the very greatest It is better to be parsimonious than concern. ,, bers of the K. R. T. literary society ,Wold Building .y, P-ftotl*-2670 dishonest., Zk- Serge and Tricotine, at fJt Provide Market for Farmers. were entertained at dinner by the The merchants of a town, in the first Duodecim society, was held Thursday Sveverka's Place. sf X3, is £f place, provide a market for a large Dust Carried Long Distances. evening at the home of Edward Banfield, /-K A1itwS?..Suits ONE-HALF PRICE part of the products of the farmers THE IDEAL PLACE* IN 4 It has been calculated that storms 604 North Greenwich, street. V/ -. in the territory surrounding the town. -T! Jp v"-AUSTIN 'in "the western United States are responsible t- at less than 7* Coach Robert R. Roach and L. P. They buy the produce of the farmers TO for carrying 850,000,000 tons Sprague were guests of the societies in small quantities, in accordance with of dust 1,440 miles every year. SPEl/D YOUR TIME: for the evening. their need, and some of them buy in Before making:, your selection see these extraordinary larger quantities for shipment to foreign A, The rooms were decorated in the markets. If the merchants could Upstairs and Downstair®. -& colors of the two societies with flowers offerings. THE BEST SHOE REPAIRING AT not do this there would be no market A short time ago I invited a number entering into .the decorative at least for ihe small quantities except of friends in to play bridge. When Noren's Shoe Store. scheme. The dinner was prepared and at ruinous prices. If the farmers gould they were leaving one of them said served by the mothers of the members not realize a reasonable profit from to me: "I found this white linen bow Best in service, feest workmanship, of the Duodecim society and was their products, there would be no mon iji the crown' of my hat. It's the one |i bountiful and appetizing. Places were ey ftt" them to spend and there^oguld ^your tnaid #$ars ip her hair." Bvibe Mategjal t. belt prices.' Sir provided for thirty. n| money to pay for your products? deftly, whim^jM &ere playing cards or to pay for your labor. It is there- downstairs, my maid was upstairs tryfore, Following the dinner, the balance News items from all sections of this of the greatest Importance to ev- ing on the guests' tiats, and, unfor-' territory are wanted by The News of the evening was spent in games, ery member of the community, wheth- tunateiy, left a clew. It was truly Send them to us by mail, tell us personally o/wQ cards and music. or Dial 2650. er a resident of the town or a farmer most embarrasshi?.—-Chlcaeo Tribune.- v..-*