Mower County News 8mok« Without Fire. Drearti Lor*. 'Historical ftoek. To dream you are at the equator oking strictly, prohibited" nottcw rock is in the HtownT of "The County Paper" caught the eye of a commercial corf•tiltant signifies an a^p^uiee of the necessities THERE ONLY LEFT Princeton, Mass., .near Mt. Wauchu-/ Published every Monday and Thursday, who had been called In by Tff life. 4*0 "farmers It is a good anorth Sett. Jt derives its name from a at Austin, Minnesota. England firm to investigate omen, as It promises good weather and treaty made on its surface with a ROE AND GANNON, Publishers. fine crops. To merchants it foretells and report upon the efficiency of ita^ tribe of Indians Mas, 2, 1676, for the a decrease in business. To cross the business methods and to suggest pos-Bible Northwestern Advertising Representatives: ransom of Mrs/- Mary Ronald son/ of equator in a ship, riches if the ship improvements. So soon as he Minnesota Select List, 215 Lancaster, a captive of the Indians. South Sixth Street, Minneapolis is North bound poverty if South paw the sign precluding the fragrant The treaty was. made on behalf of the 709 Exchange Bank, St. Paul. bound. To see a line, where the equator weed he commanded: "Take all those* whites by John Hoan of Concord. The Is denotes good business qualifications, notices down, paint them out. Whatwill rock has a large flat surface, on which successx in commercial life. visitors think?" The factory was bout twenty-five persons can stand.— completely occupied for^the manufacture ston Globe. From now until Christmas The News will Safer. of asbestos. r~ print under- this heading letters from the .« Jud Tunklns says alter studying a Have High Blood Temperatures. youngsters* to their old friend Santa Claua, ~i- OUR picture of justice "he decided the lady Most animals have higher blood temperatures North Pole. Send them along so Santa will Big Christmas Bargains in suits OUNTR ought to take off the blindfold and not be swamped at the last minute. than man, while the temperature AFFILIATING MEMBER* and coats at the Hollister Smart keep her eyes on the scales.—Washington of birds runs, higher ^ret. Shop. Advertisement 48-3-c. Star. ,t- Austin ':r.J Austin, Minn.,,.Dec. 2 Dear Santa ClaUs:— ,-x Minn I want some things for Christmas Dec. 13. 1921. I want a Mechanical airplane, and a Dear Santa/ Claus: MORE SHOPPING DAYS metal garage with two. mechanical Please c6me to by house-—and bring No Fun to Lie Awake Nights autos, and some brown boots with me a- sewing set, and a game don't BEFORE CHRISTMAS I fMEMBER two buckles at the top. I want size care what kind of a game, and a story DO YOUR SHOPPING NOW 32, I think they will be big enough book of Raggedy ann, and a pair of ./ r" Official Paper of Mower County ice skats and a big doll, and a carpet And I want some house slippers with one) button on size l^A. I want a swepper. SUBSCRIPTION. RATES blue and orange sweater Number 1 will close now Per Year, in advance $2.50 Your little Boy, your Six Months $1.25 less anxious to speak strongly and' Perry Culver Friend Single Copies' -05 winsomely to the community?"— Have you ever made an investment without investigating? .!•/ Box 415. Gladys From the Fourth Estate. Entered as Second Class Matter at 306 N. River st. Amos. the Post office at Austin, Minn., under v* .' Austin the act of March 3, 1879. Austin Minn More people are kept awake at night because of some foolish ex- PROHIBITION AND THE PRESS. Minn. Dec 13 1921 Dec. 13, 1921. A southern editorial writer believes A CENTRAL MARKET. Dear Santa. Dear Santa Clause, that violation of the prohibition laws Please bring me a new doll storybooks A central marketing place where please bring me a Sewing Set. And is no more fitting a subject for jests handkerchiefs, games, and a a game I do not care what king it is, farmers and city people may get together that is the crime of burglary, says the sewing set. Bring my sister Vera and and a Story book of raggedy ann. for their mutual benefit, was editor of the. University Farm Press He who has a growing bank account can live a natural and normal brother Alfred some nice things too and a pair of ice skates, and a Doll the subject under discussion at the News, and that newspapers are partly anddont forget my mother, and bring head' for my dorothy Doll, and a new regjilar meeting last Monday evening responsible for the difficulty in enforcing some candy and nuts. I am 7 years sled, my balby doll a sweater. of the Austin Business Men's association. these laws. The Southern old. ,• I will leave the rest for Somebody life and will have little cause for worry in old age. Nelda Mensing Else. Adelaid writer says: It is a. move in the right direction. 403 East Bridge St .v .... Newman "Those who aspire to see the probitition t- And it is a move at the right time. 501 East Bridge laws enforced will hold the r' -v-'. .. Austin Mini). And once more it is a move that daily newspapers, and especially the Dec. 10-21 Austin, Min. E comes from the right source. makers of comic strips, responsible for Dear Santa Clause Dec. 8 1021 Thef farmer has been buffeted about a great deal of the trouble that exists Please bring be for Christmas a horse Dear Santa the past two years by circumstances, at present. some cars & engine candy & nuts, and Please bring me a train"* AUSl'IN until he has come to the place where "It is difficult to pick up a great fill up my stocking and a sled he hardly knows whom he may trust From daily newspaper in which, upon some that is as other boys and girls as a friend, and whom tc( distrust. William. Marmish page, you will not find some jest or would like some presents to NATIONAL Every hand has seemed to be against some picture which has for its motif with one raggady ann "Austin him no matter which way he has a thrust at the prohibition laws. The John Huss 308 Minn turned. spirit underlying a great number of Dec. 13, 1921 mankato a BANK He either owns or rents high priced the comics is- the delight to be ob Dear Santa Claus— land. He raises grain for which he Austin Minn Please, come to tained from the surreptitious manufacture got an average of $2.00 per bushel Dec 13 1921 my house and bring and consumption of alcoholic of Austin, Minn. jne during the period of the war and Dear Santa a pair of shoes liquors." v* I am a little girl 4 years old please for a short time thereafter. But now arid a pair of Si ."'Of. v.i- bring me a little wagon, doll, set of slippers and a big he cannot get even what that same "MINNESOTA'S MkN OF £RIT" ^Member Federal Reserve System dishes, ball, arid story books,' Please doll and a new dress grain has cost him to produce. His To keep alive the memory o£ Michael bring my daddey something liice to, and a dolls push-H J. L. Mitchell, President. labor cost is still too high taxes or J. Dowling, Minnesota's1 :^man and dont for get lots of «andy aud cart-bring anything rent take most of the money he does of grit," plans are now being^ made P. D. Beaulieu, Vice-Pres. nuts, your good little-girl yOU think that is get when he sells, and no one seems for the raising of funds to bMld a Doreen Mensing Ss W.rE. Hopfe, Cashier. nice for little girls to be particularly anxious to buy on hospital for crippled children^ 403 East Bridge St Your freind the market as it is these days. The Minesota Editorial Associa Irene Amog H!: -Hi Austih^Minn., tion is sponsor for the movement'to 306 N. River st. Various methods have been adopted be conducted thruout the state, in Dec 8, 1921 in other communities to restore the every county, town and city, starting Austin, Minn. Dear Santa confidence between the farmer and the October 17 and lasting until October Dear Santa I have, ben a business men of the community. 31. Please bring me good boy and want a The prosperity of the farming community these things for The Minesota Bankers Association good sled and trairi: and which surrounds any city or Christmas has taken the lead in pledging $25,000 good raggidy andy. strap slippers ...:•?+* Your I^riend -1 town—Austin in particular—is reflected to the fund. That leaves just book $75,000 that is to be raised for the Wm. Huss, in the business concerns in I: Elmer Nygaard 308 W. Mankato memorial. that place. If the farmers are comfortably While definite arrangements have situated on farms that give not been made, the present plans call them a fair return for their labors, were lost in the sounds of the rattling in the Minnesota House of. Representatives for the erection of Michael J. Dowling if th^y have a good market for their wagon and the 70 mile^gale. and in 1900'became a member Memorial Dormitory at the State produce and products, if the relations The boy walked for* hours, knowing of that body. Twice he was School for Crippled .Children. There between country and city are cordial well that his life was in danger. elected Speaker of the House. are npw many little ones", crippled He ^tumbled upon a wood ipile. and and friendly, the effect is noticeable and unfortunate, awaiting the chance When the great war broke out to knew that a house was near. «He in the business which the local merchants get treatment at the state hospi^" Mike Dowling gave his all. He went threw stioks in all directions, homing to the hospitals to spread cheer-among do during the year. tal. It is to care for some of these by sound to locate the buildings. lje the crippled soldiers. The call that the dormitory is planned. If on the other hand the farmer moved about in a circle'aijd finally came for him from across the water has a hard time trying to keep his Committees are being named in found a straw stack. He burrowed and he answered it just as willingly every county by directors selected farm,, from being taken away from in and there spent the night, fighting as he had always every call for help. from the various congressional districts. him thru default on a mortgage payment against the slumber which he knew He went to the hospitals of Europe The committee in charge as which because of market conditions The Ideal Gift meant approaching death." 7 and there spread the gospel of grit named by Philip Leisch, president of he fails to pay when due, if .When morning came, and the storm and courage and good humor and optimism. the Minnesota Editorial Association, had subsided, Mike Dowling crawled he has reached the point where he is as follows: First District, E. K. 1, out into the sunlight. But he found considers the city man his enemy and The Red Cross, the Liberty Loan Whiting, Owatonna Second, A. M. Every Christmas thousand of dollars are spent in that he could not stand. He made his campaigns, in fact all manner of war suspects him of trying to beat him Welles, Worthington Third, Olived making gifts that afford only temporary pleasure to way to the farm house and there on Work, claimed his attention. He out of what little money he is able to J. Quane, Worthington Third, Oliver the door sj ep he found one of the died last winter after a short illness. the persons Beceiving them. ^Yet there is no other son Fuller, St. Paul Fifth, George gather together, 'under those circumstances sticks of wood he had thrown. Hfe It is to perpetuate the memory of E. Ackerson, Minneapolis Sixth, Asa class of merchandise that will give many years of it will not be hard to observe missed his mark by inches. this wonderful man, "Minnesota's M. Wallace, Sauk Center Seventh, a' trend in the business affairs of the enjoyment and service as Jewelry wlil. Kind and willing hands cared foS* man of grit," that the campaign to Ludwig I. Roe, Montevideo Eighth, city which will breed pessimists faster him. When the doctors arrived, after raise funds for a memorial has been R. W. Hitchcock, Hibbing Ninth, H. What other gifts can you purchase even at great-* than 'they can be counted. long delays due to the recurrence planned. M. Wheelock, Fergus Falls Tenth, er cost that wall bring back as fond recollections of the The ideal city is one where city man of the "storm, it was found that an It is ^considered particularly significant Henry Rines, Mora. and country man come together on an immediate operation was necesary. that the plans call for a hospital giver as a ring, a watch, or a piece of silver? Surely, J. R. Hardy of Olivia, long time equal footing, where one man is as When it was over Mike Dowling was building J^pr crippled chlidren. they are b'v friend of Michael Dowling, is chairman minus both legs, and most of his right good as another, where both are Himself a cripple. Mike Dowling of the general committee. H. hand. classed as business men, have the knew the heartaches of the little ones GIFTS THAT LAST C. Hotaling is acting as executive Mike Dowling became a county same privileges and enjoy the same -who had been maimed. No greater secretary. Miss H. S. Bordewich of charge but that was not to last for benefits. monument could be built to him than the Olivia State Bank, the Dowling Our stock is filled with gifts suitable for eachl long. He made a proposition to the one whichUhas. for its purpose the bank, is treasurer. Julius Schmahl This move by^the business men is county commissioners that they send member of the family. We want you to see our com-s ceasing of fife burdens for the unfortunate of St. Paul, former secretary of state, we repeat, the right start in the right him twp terms to Carleton College plete line of Diamonds, Watches, 'Jewelry, Silverware,* is committeeman-at-large. onest .. direction. Let's see it finished up, and that then.he would Relieve tlugpf Apportionments for the various All his life, Mike Dowling was interested and finished up right. etc. of all responsibility. The- bargain -o-c .si counties have been made and the in ^ripples. He cheerejl By the way, how maijy merchants was made and Mikie went to "school! committees in charge will be asked them on their way and gave to them After leaving school, Mike Dowliug^ Our Prices Will Surely Interest You. in Austin know their country customers to raise the definite amount desired newu couragfe' land hope. The Minne taught for seven years and theft and call them by their first as quickly as possible after Oct. 17. apolis editors, and the bankers of the 6 ft branched out as a business man. Jv|ll names The story of the life^of Michael state,' believed that the peopler themselves '^ike Dowling then edited a netf$)| 1 And how many of the farmers can J. J. HA YES &SON Dowling is one of, courage and grit will wants to have some part in paper, sold insurance' and finaUl| say the same about the merchants against tremendous odds. It is a building this memorial. went to the banking business. H& with whom they do business? story which has inspired thousands Jewelers Since 1868::t became secretary of the Nation^ and will/continue to be a living inspiration. Get acquainted with the other fellow—you Thackeray. Republican League during the Mc~ Austin, Minn: miglit like him! Sark Orne Jewett sayss of Thackeray: 'Kinley campaign. He was offered 41?|North Main St. Born in Huntington, Mass., Michael "Thaclreray is so great, a great the past as assistant secretary of war J. Dowling started out in lfie Chri^ian. p^v does not affect, he but 'declined. He finally became f| WHY CHURCHES SHOULD With a sound body. His parents were humbly iearnsKaiid reverently tries to special educational commissioner ttt.ihe ADVERTISE. poor. At ten has was motherless. teach lout of his "-own experiences." Philippines. He was chief ~cle^| "The daily and weekly papers furnish With his father he "v^ent to St. Louis, 77777? 77777777 and then to. Chicago. ^In -the streets the best medium for church publicity," iV of the great city sold papers and ri Jii jsays Bishop Joseph F. Berry -t YLE attended-school./At. 12, the little fellow of the Methodist church. "And I do decided to sfrift for himself^^ For not see why the church should expect two years he worked as a farm-hand IULUL a1 to get its advertising free. It included RVICE in Yellow Medicine county. *M$C, in its budget various items of In the summer of 1880 he collected expense, such as the minister's salary, a large herd of cattle to care for the janitor, light, heat, insurance, during the season. On December 4, ATISFACTiON repairs, and often the salary of 1880, the boy was finishing up his the**organist and some special singers. season's business. With two farmsrs he rode out into the country that Why should not advertising be properly night. The -big blizzard" came and added to this list The world, vvhen it reached its height, the men the flesh and the" devil do a lot of advertising KOBES' tAFE iould not see their horses, the team in these, days. Itseems to could not keep to the road In racing pay this iniquitio^sf ^combination across the plowed field, the boy prefty well. Should the church be was jolted out. His cries for help 't 1 $ ehv "fs*i-"a# N 5 Jf'