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

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MOWEK OUJNTkiNli VV& Att&XllN,!* Monday, Dec.- 12, 1921. corder Frances Mach, Financier Hattie ,/dcigty STYLES IN WINTER COATS ''YA'rtWS Sutherland, Treasurer Lenora DOLLARS SPENTIIN AUSTIN WILL RETURN Everson, Usher Gertrude Roebuck, ARE GREATLY VARIED ASeistant usher Marie Boyle, Inner TO BOOST FOR YOU 1 Watch Mary Goetsch, Outer Watch Wi Emma Feeley, Musician Minnie Finn, n*** Diversity Club. 5.^ I«' l»VvV '»T-rV -AA trustee Kate Gallagher, Captain. The Diversity club Was very pleasantly entertained by Mrs. M. J. Bassler Baptist Ladies' Elect. NEWS BUY AT HOME CAMPAIGN U:' Thursday afternoon. There were The Baptist Womans Society met twelve members and one guest, Mrs. Friday afternoon at the home of Mrs. George Rice, present. McFarlane. The meeting was called Read careflully the Article Printed Each Week in this Department of the NEWS and then give ser-f'/ A Christmas program was given to order by the president, Mrs. Burnett, ious consideration to what yon have read. Yon will then, no doubt, view the situation in it's true light./ with a greeting to each member in and the following program was AUSTIN merchants are entitled to your' patronage they help to defray the expenses of maintaining all poetical form arranged by. one of the given: the public institutions the use of which yon enjoy: The dollar yon spend with AUSTIN Merchants members. Song, "Wonderful Words of Life," stays in AUSTIN, and* in the course of time, finds its way back to you. The Dollar sent out of Mrs. C. C. Allen read a paper on Scripture reading, 1,2th Chapter of town is gone from the community' and'lost to you forever. If you buy out of town and we all follow Christmas in other lands and Mrs. A. John, Mrs. Bemis, leader Prayer, your example, what will become ofthe town? W. Wright read a very interesting Mrs. Gallagher Rev. McFarlane gave Christmas story. a brief but interesting talk on how we Refreshments were served. tOCAl MARKETS know the Bbile is the Word of God. Smith Wright Company Anderson's Studio A report of the results from the Happy Thot Club. White Cross work was given by Mrs. I E S I E S The Happy Thot ^ub met Thursday Fine Photos. Bemis. Communications were read ARE ESSENTIAL FOR LIVE AND "-Vis at the home of Mrs. William Teeter. from Mrs. D. Whittaker and Mrs. Be Photographed Thig Year on Your s'f! E S S E O A picnic dinner was served at Bloomfield. A vocal duet was given Under New Management. .. r, BIRTHDAY. noon to forty guests, after which a by Madeline Shortt aijd Cora Staijkey. program was given. I Austin Auto Co. SAVE MONEY Roll call was responded to by extracts After the business meeting the following Equal Responsibility for Their 3 from the Literary Digest on the and Buy Your Groceries at officers were elected: Mrs. J. Support Rests Upon the AUTHORIZED FORD AGENGY. Mower County Co-Operative disarmament conference which were W. Varco, president Mrs. Loucks, handed out by the roll call leader, AUTOMOBILES, TIRES, OILS first vice president Mrs. Pike, second Farmers and Merchants. Co. Mrs. Ben Patch. Mrs. Harry Herman vice president Mrs. M. H. Kenaston, and ACCESSORIES. gave two piano selections and Edison Dial 2252. treasurer Mrs. R. P. Phelps, MUST ASSIST EACH OTHER music was also enjoyed. secretary. Auto Top And Auto The Golden Eagle The next meeting will be held in January with Mrs. Norman Gregg on Home Builders Hold Election. Painting. A W A S N E S E S East Alleghany street. The Home Builders held their annual Prosperity of Community Depends & MONEY BACK ON ANY UNSATISFACTORY meeting at the Y. W. C. A. rooms Upon Each of These Two Classes R. H. Gray, Proprietor. K. R. T. Literary Society. PUR­ last evening when officers were elected Buying Products and Goods MAIN ST. AUSTIN, MINN. CHASE. Thte K. R. T. Literary society assembled for the coming year as follows: of Each Other. at the home of the president, W. W. Walker, priesident Frank Sanderson, Frederick Crane, Wednesday evening, Jensen-Phiffer Co. (Copyright, 1917, Western Newspaper Union.) Hormel's Quality Flour t-ti vice president Mrs. Frank The first essential in the development December 7. Perry, secretary Dr. G. L. Baker, I of any business is the possession The entire society went in a body treasurer Mrs. Harry Atwood, assistant is the BEST of a market. The manufacturer must MADE IN AUSTIN to the Baptist church where they treasurer Mrs. W. B. Grise, chairman have a market for his products or he PLACE TO BUY YOUR heard Dr. John L. -Alexander's address. S O E E W E E of social committee Mrs. Leon cannot succeed, no matter h'ow valuable S O E S This was a rare treat as his Smith, chairman of floral committee those products may be or how talk proved especially interesting to efficiently his plant may be operated. Mrs. M. Gr Shuman, chairman of devotional Sanitary Milk Co. fur, has come in for much attention 'HE ever-varying panorama of the young people. The wholesale merchant and the retail committee. Let HOGAN do YOUR SHOE REPAIRING on the part of famous designers, and modes brings to us our winter merchant may have the choicest After returning to the Crane residence, The following program was given: and YOU will get QUALITY DAIRY PRODUCTS coats in several well-defined they have used it in very handsome stocks of goods, but they may as well a discussion of the lecture was —Manufacturers of— Two groups df songs by a quartet styles, and these range all the way coats and in suits also. Natural or FIRST CLASS WORK. go out of business if they have not a followed by a short business meeting. E I S 0 A O N composed of George Ewald, Dr. Scott, from severely plain, finely tailored, pelt fur furnishes the collar or col« market where they can dispose of their WE REPAIR WHILE YOU WAIT Light refreshments were then served A E I E E A mannish affairs, to ornate garments lar and cuffs on many of these rick P. L. Sterner and R. L. Furtney stocks. The farmer may produce Telephone—Dial 2550 and the meeting adjourned. Hogan's Shoe Shop. lavishly decorated. All of them are wraps. The majority of coats are Piano solo, Winifred Sharpstene bumper crops, but they will rot upon quite equal to discharging their mission those made of fashionable coatings like vocal solo, Mrs. Gaylord Morgan. the ground if he cannot find a market The Motor Inn. Thalian Literary Society. of keeping us warm they are those shown in the picture above, and for them. The wage earner's skill and After the program a white elephant Ground Feed, Mill Feed, Chick Feed, The Thalians were called to order ample, soft, and often luxurious with designers use both natural and fabric muscle bring him no returns unless auction sale was conducted by Col. E. D. HOPFE, Proprietor. furs in accessories and finishing as fur trimmings and accessories. Besides at the home of Violet Hopfe, Wednesday Mash, Security Calf Meal, there is a market for his labor. Hopfe, who upheld his reputation as NASH CARS and TRUCKS this bodily comfort their becomingness may be fathered from the illustration. evening, December 7, by the The question of markets is the big a successful auctioneer. Hart-Parr Tractors Dehorning Pencils. warms the heart for there In the coat of brown bolivia one in every line of business and in president. Roll call was answered by Refreshments consisting of creamed is a coat for every type of woman cloth at the left a fur fabric that City Feed Store. every community the question is a quotations and the minutes of the "Value Cars at Volume Prices." and for any sort of occasion. looks Just like lambskin furnishes the chicken in pattie Shells, sandwiches, vital one. In each community, which last meeting were read. long shawl collar extended in-a facing In answer to a demand for serviceable pickles, ftake and coffee were served must be taken to include not only all The following program was given: A. W/Bluhm. coats, in chic models with a distinct to the hem, and the wide straight the people who live' in the town but by Mrs. Lean Comeau's committee. ASK FOR FEDERAL' PRODUCTS "The Government of China," Grace cuffs. style of their own, great men's the farmers who live in the surrounding About seventy members were present. V*. ALWAYS. Brown. tailoring houses -have gone into the The dressy coat at the right in dark country as well, there are two PIANOS and COLUMBIA GRAFONALAS. Federal System of manufacture of coats for women, using blue normandie cloth is cut in gores, "The Champion Rifle Man," Adelaide sides to the market question. The business Cleaning Baskets. the same fabrics as are used in and' each gore ornamented with a design Hummel. men of the town must have a Reed and willow baskets are best Bakeries. men's coats, sticking to mannish lines cut from beige silk and embroidered. WE SAVE YOU MONEY market for the things which they have A very helpful critic's report was cleaned by rubbing with a stflff brush. and ignoring ornament. These coats The scarf-collar and deep to sell. Otherwise they con­ If not waxed they may, be scrubbed given by Helen Carlson. cannot Dial 2013. have made a success, especially with cuffs are of natural squirrel. tinue in business. At the same time with soapy water, rinsed and dried. Three fifteen minute periods of parliamentary people who like simple designs and THE FINEST FOOTWEAR the farmers must have a market for drill were held with Clarice are appreciative of fine lines and the things which they raise or they GJFTS THAT LAST IN AUSTIN Insurance Specialists Swenson, chairman, and Catherine workmanship or the Intangible element may as well go out of business. An Appropriate gift for everyone, the Schleuder, secretary, for the first of good style. I C. I. Johnson. When Either Fails Both Suffer. 'IP fl Fabric fur, which Is the name given Austin Insurance Agency period. Lola Belle Cory, chairman, Gift That Suggests Permanence. The merchants of the. town can provide to those plushes that imitate natural MINJV E. Ray Cory, Manager AUSTIN, and Lucille Sasse, secretary, for the COPVMOHT aVVBIBN WHHW WW* a market for the products of the J. S. R. Scovill. Babcock Building second period and Grace Brown, farmers and the farmers can provide YOU REALIZE VALUES, YOU AUSTIN, MINNESOTA If chairman, and Adelaide Hummel, secretary, a market for the goods which the merchants lister, Mrs. C. M. Laws, Mrs. H. J. Dorn, Overseer Carlisle Donovan, ARE BUYING ALL YOUR have to sell. As long as each of the third period. After a Drost and Miss Sarah Cook. Considerable Financier J. L. Mitchell, Treasurer LOWEST PRICES ARE CHIEF GROCERIES WHERE class of citizens provides a market for lengthy business session Violet served business was transacted and Arthur Sutherland, Recorder Bert Dr. A. I. ARNESON ATTRACTIONS IN the other class all is well and the goose I A I A a delightful lunch which was enjoyed final arrangements were made for Roebuck, Guide Bruce Donovan, Inside hangs high, but when either class fails W A S E A I S READY-TO-WEAR, DRY by all and they adjourned. Physician and Surgeon. the bazaar be held on Saturday afternoon. Guide Raymond Dorn, Outside Square Deal Grocery to provide a market for the other the CHRONIC DISEASES GOODS AND SHOES. Refreshments were served. Watch. William Teeter was re-elected goose is cooked, not only for the class Yii Congregational Ladies' Aid. ELECTRO-PHYSICAL THE VALUE STORE which is deprived of the market but trustee. TREATMENTS. The Ladies' Aid of the Congregational SAVE MONEY AND BUY AT THE for the other as well. also RECTAL and COLON JUSTIN, MINN. A. O. U. W. Elects. The 'Degree of Honor elected the church met with Mrs. R. C. The farmer has a right to expect the DISEASES. The A. O. U. W. elected the following officers: Swisher at the Manse Wednesday afternoon follow- town which is his natural trading point New Offices in Automatic ALL RUBBER ing officers for the ensuing year atl Hattie Miller, President Elizabeth 8&?tSS telephone with a good attendance, about to provide a market for bis products, their meeting Thursday, December, 8.j Watkins, Past President 'Jennie Pik€, Rubber Case—Threaded Rubber Insulation. and the town is not performing its sixty being present. Mrs. Swisher 10 A.M. to ,s Office 2676 proper function as the trading center Harry D. Earl, Master Workman Vice president June Snell, Second was assisted by Mrs. J. E. Crippen, 6 P. M. Residence 2677 No rotten cases—no short circuits. of its community if it does not see John Cartwright, Foreman Robert vice president Agnes Robinson, Re- Mrs. L. W. Delaporte, Mrs. L. 0. Hol- Austin, Minn. Have you seen the ndw WILLARD, that such a market Is provided. The responsibility of looking after the fulfillment all-rubber batteries for Fords,, others for Buick, Dodge, Studebaker, etc. of this obligation rests largely YET THE PATHE COSTS O A business without a Come in and let us show them to upon the merchants of the town. The NO MORE you. farmer is a producer and he must dispose THAN Schmitz Auto Elec. Co. of his products before he can become ORDINARY a consumer. It Is, therefore, not PHONOGRAPHS only right but necessary from a business is like a ship without a. rudder— E E N A N AUBURN— -GARDNER standpoint that the merchants Dial 2625 should aid the farmer in turning his Dial 2083, _*• products into money. Otherwise the there's no definite purpose Aui9 Sales Co. farmer naturally will have no money Must Have Outside Business. In the average community, however," to spend in the stores of the town. Auto Repairing. the town is dependent for its prosperity Obligation on Farmers. Oakland & Chatham Streets upon the money received from On the other hand, the merchants of the farmers in the ordinary channels the town have a right to expect the of trade, rather than upon that obtained The moment there is no definite purpose of the J. C. Penney Company, other farmers to provide a market for the WHEN YOUR BATTERY NEEDS from the sale of its own products. merchandise which they have to sell, than to sell reliable merchandise at a fair profit, the time Will have arrived for it ATTENTION LET EXPERTS In the average town the merchants and the farmers are not doing their cannot make money and continue DO IT. duty to their community if they do not to go out of business. in business if they are dependent provide such a market. In this case, W E S A I S solely upon the people of the town also, it is not only right but it is necessary When there is no soul in a business, there can be no real success. Its progress is for their business. Pierce Battery Co. J, to the^prosperity of the farmers only transitory. No business can last long with "everything that they should aid the merchants in going out and nothing coming turning their merchandise Into cash. in," and it is equally true that no business Self-respect and the respect of our neighbors, has been and is today our chief Otherwise It is obvious that the merchants The JVebber Agency: can be operated on the principle will have no money/with, which aim. Its achievement has ever been guiding course. Our of "everything coming in and nothing to buy the products of the farmers. Wayne H. Webber. John P. Delfield going out" To maintain the bal-. This is a double-barreled proposition District Agent By meting out Justice, Equality and Service alike to all our patrons and friends, ance which is necessary to the maintenance and the obligation rests equally upon of prosperity in a community $10,000 Life Ins. (Double Indemnity both the merchants and the farmers to we have won that which we have earned—Success! $20,000) age 30, $107.60. there must be an even trade between maintain the markets which are essential the business meirof the town. to both classes of citizens. Any ALL KINDS OF INSURANCE This is the soul—the inspiration—of our business our big and definite purpose! town, which would import from points Wold Building Phone 2670 'i Offended Hia Dignity. It is these business ideals that have made hundreds of thousands of friends for hundreds of miles distant the farm Jim Blue, colored, has resigned as products which it could buy at home us in the 26 stdtes in which the 312 J. C. Penney Company stores operate. ,r Veverka's Place. a Pullman porter on the Central would be pursuing a very short-sighted branch. He resigned in a huff. It policy, for it would be making it tinpossible These ideals commend themselves to you! •. THE IDEAL PLACE IN came about this way.: One night Jim for the farmers in its territory was standing on the platform at Concordia, to buy the goods of its merchants. AUSTIN TO Suddenly he slipped and fell, As a matter of fact no town SPEND YOUR TIME. and as he fell he threw his lantern does this unless it is forced by unusual high into the air. The engineer conditions to do so. A town may be thought the lantern was giving the 312 Stores in 26 States THE BEST SHOE REPAIRING AT located in a community which is not SB highball sign and pulled out of the station, productive enough to meet the local Shoe Noren's StSre. leaving Jim on the platform. That 13 Stores in Minnesota. demands, and in that case it is forced peeved Jim and he decided to quit.—. to import farm products but the town Austin ..Little Falls St. Cloud Best in service,- best workmanship, Atchison Globe. which is compelled to do this is at' Bemidji Mankato St. Paul |f, :3"!:^Material at best prices. a disadvantage .from a commercial Crooks ton Owatonna Virginia Thd^oiiticians' Handicap. 312 PEPARTMENT,SroRES standpoint unless it is essentially a A I\ Hibbing Red Wing Fergus Falls v^BmMans agree that one improvement manufacturing town, in which case its Thief River Falls could me made in the human News items from all sections of this .AUSTIN, products are sold to other communities MINN. body. It ought to be possible territory are wanted by The News. and bring in enough cash to offset ground to get both ears to Send them to us by mail, tell as per- that which is sept away to purchase once.—Chicago Hews. 1