If! *. I'vi $ S 1 ft (,•• 1 4 I 1 MOWER COUNTY NEWS, AUSTIN, MINN. Page Two Monday, Jan. 2, 1922 &• ECLIPSE ECHOES Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Mills, Serene Mankato Commercial college, .spent a SKIRTS OF DISTINCTION SHOW Mollison and Leone Bunker of Austin, few days the past week with her sister, Mrs. R. Blackner. She was accompanied Miss Mary Taylor and Mr. and PLAIDS, STRIPES AND PLAITS Mrs. George Shaw from here. by her mother to their Weekly Shavings. Edited By Messrs John Majerus and John P. home at Waterloo, Iowa. Volume 401 January 2, 1922. Splinters Miss Zona Thader, a student at Landherr, Mrs. Emma Majerus and Carleton college, is with her parents daughter^, Margaret and Agnes, during the Christmas vacation. spent a few days this week at the HAPPY NEW YEAR! It takes 500 spruce trees to furnish Albert Peterson home at Chester, Harry and Raymond Brown, students one day's print stock for the Chicago Eclipse Sanitary Hog Feeders save newspapers. Iowa. at the State university, are feed, protect hogs, shut out fowls, •fr spending- their Christmas vacation birds, rats, vermin, rain, snow and LE ROY How to Save Coal. with their parents. wind. tiwy Mr. and Mrs. W. Schutz and son of Did you ever stop and figure up Be sure to get more heat out of the nner9 (Written for Dec 29 issue.) Bixby, came down Saturday to partake what percentage of grain is actually coal you burn than the chimney does. Mrs. Martin Erie was a passenger of the family Christmas dinner consumed by stock and how much is destroyed and wasted on your farm. to Taopi on Monday afternoon. and visited relatives. If you have not, sharpen your pencil PYRENE Mrs. Beth Porter Garvey was an The Misses Beatrice Daily, Ida Oby and you will get a real surprise, afternoon passenger to Austin on Kills Fire- and Ethleen Redfield, students at the -Saves Life. Ospyrlght, 1921, Western Newspaper Union. and it's our guess you will be after Monday. Mankato State Normal, are spending ELL, what about some good At this time of year when so many one of our Elco Feeders at once. Mr. and Mrs. R. Sorenson of Tracy, their vacation with home^ folks. resolutions for the coming fires are started by overheated are visiting at the Sprung and Sorenson The Christmas programs given by stoves and furnaces you should have year?" asked daddy. homes. a PYRENE in your home. They are the children in the local churches "I have one or two—that THE LOAFING HEN the very best machine made to kill Mr. and Mrs. Larson of Austin, are were much enjoyed by the large is I have made one or two To make noodle soup out of the unprofitable the fire at the start. visiting at the parental, Theo Eastwold crowds that were in attendance. which I think are good hen now, and a warm dry, home. Miss Evelyn Buck, a student at the ones," said Nancy. sunny house for the others is a good Miss Cora Norgarden, an instructor State university, is spending her "So have I," said Nick. winter plan to insure winter eggs. Why do Bears and Builders Hibernate? at the State School at Faribault, is Christmas vacation with her grand Let's hear them," said visiting home folks. parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. Sweet, Sr. 4add(y, and he settled back in his Is there a good reason? Does your home need a new floor? Dr. J. E. Price of Blooming Prairie «balr. Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Thomson and Perhaps for the Bears—not so for We have it. Wouldn't you like to enclose motored" over Christmas and spent "Nancy first," said Nick. the Builders. daughters of Austin, came down Saturday your porch so you can use it the day with home folks. "All right," agreed daddy. during the winter months? We can to spend Christmas at the E. Let's stay Awake and Build this Winter. J. F. Price of St. James, came home furnish the material. "In the first place," said Nancy, "I Diddams, Sr., home. There were Saturday night to spend Christmas. %ave made a resolution to get up when twenty-five who partook of the He returned Monday noon. I am called in the morning and not Christmas dinner, including the children Miss Vera Clark, instructor at the •Bake mother or you try to wake me with their wives or husbands, St. James high school, is spending her that you get all tired out. I get twelve grandchildren and one great J. J. CLEMENS vacation with her parents. lazy in the morning, so lazy, and I grand child. Miss J. Peters returned to her think I cannot possibly get along with«ot ONE PIECE OR A CAR LQAD home at Adams, after visiting at the another little nap. Interesting store news will be home of her brother, John. **It isn't that I haven't slept enough, found on every page of The News in Local Manager DIAL 2047 Miss Ruth Bovee, a student at the «r that I want to be late to school, this issue. Shop here first. tor I don't. I love school. It's lots «f fun and I like even the work, for think it Is very interesting. But USTtN KID there is something else about my resolution." BETTER SET yourself "What is that?" asked daddy. "I know perfectly well that I can SOME WPRAULS 'CAV.SE D?Q £0 back to sleep for a little while and IT$ GOING TO PC that some one will see that I really fet up in time though it often means yeAR mi that mother has to hurry the breakfast or that Nick has to get my books xe&dy. "I have known that someone would get me up and look after the things I THE ftadn't time to do, so I have grown separate skirt and blouse, Scotch tweeas, plain, and in the aelfish about it. That's all. That's what a boon to womankind! As heather mixtures of brown, gray, rust resolution number one." far as style is concerned, the separate and orange. Nick smiled, for he knew how often skirt is exacting to exasperation. Knitted skirts for sports wear, having Ike had gotten Nancy's books ready. Admitting no compromise, a skirt a brushed wool surface, are being S3ot that he minded, but still he featured by some shops for real winter must be absolutely correct in length, thought it was fine of Nancy to try must fit perfectly and exploit all the wear. to do something which would be hard little deft touches of smart vogue. Plaited skirts of prunella weaves $ ttor her to do. He knew that she are adaptable to the short fur coats. Designers are, however, taking considerable Saved a "few extra moments" in which Black and white still hold good. Often liberty with skirts this season. sleep. a solid color stripe, say chocolate, The idea of uneven hem-line has "And my second resolution," said blue or taupe, Is alternated with plaids brought this about. Cloth skirts now 3SCancy, "is to save half of every or stripes, as you see In the pictures have attached panels, looped under the penny I get and—" herewith. Plaited skirts of this variety skirt hem at each side. Another favorite "That would be hard to do," are generally favored, and authoritative model fastens to the left side of laughed Nick, "Would you divide advice establishes the prunella the front, where the overlapping portion the pennies In half really?" he added cloth skirts for spring. falls to an elongated point. rafter a moment. In the heavier materials, small Many of the latest cloth models are -"No, don't laugh at me," said Nancy. checks are favored, brown background trimmed at the side seams with loops '"We aren't really laughing at you having tan overcheck in both large formed of one-inch-wide strips of at all," said daddy. and small designs. cloth, hemstitched as if a picot ribbon. "I know it," said Nancy, smiling. A black and white chevron stripe is '"Well, I mean, as Nick knows quite made so the stripes rbeet in mitered At the present moment the sport -well, only he is such a tease, that corners, in the center of each plait. skirt is in its element. The many outof-doors whenever I get some money I will entertainments, especially the football games, call for sports attire exclusively. Stripes and plaid skirts in the college colors are popular among the younger set. These are of COmiOHT IY ViSTEKN NHftFAPtt UNIOH I Good Advice—Don't You Think? New-Year's Day is a holiday with a distinctive spirit. Especially is this true right now. The New Year to come will be a better one—this is conceded everywhere and by everyone. 45AII Rijjfit," Agreed Daddy. Saturday to spend Christmas with The World is back on its feet, and it only takes the combined efforts ROSE CREEK relatives. They returned home Tues- of all to bring 1922 up to the old standard. -«ve half of it. If I only get one day. -penny at a time I will save the first (Written for Dec 29 is£ue.) Frank Schammel of Kenmare, 'penny I get and the second one will North Dakota, is home for an extended Wishing you all a Happy and Prosperous Austin is in line for bigger and better things the coming year than for myself." visit with her parents, Mr. and New Year. "What are you going to save for, ever before. More people will pass thru this city this next year than Mrs. Mike Schammel. Mrs. C. H. Wood assisted at the E. Xancy?" asked Nick. "Do you expect E. Keefe store during the holiday Miss Olive Gerhardt, who is a ever before and will leave their share of the contribution to its welfare. to be a penny millionaire?" rush. trained nurse at the Minneapolis hospital "What In the world is that?" asked Mr. and Mrs. Runkle were entertained is spending her holiday vacation 5faney. The people from the surrounding territory are anxious to be counted at the C. H. Wood home on with her mother, Mrs. Kate Gerhardt. "I thought perhaps you were tryr&sg Christmas day. in the Austin Community. All that is needed is "combined effort." to save a million pennies Instead Miss Mary Cress entertained a Mr. and Mrs. John Merrill entertained •«C a million dollars so you would be number of friends at a Christmas the following at a Christmas 31 millionaire of pennies.14 dinner Sunday. Mower County is setting out on a road program which will mean dinner Sunday: Mr. and Mrs. John Nancy and daddy laughed. But Nick Walter Anderson of Minneapolis, Shaw and Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Shaw considerable more work for those who needs it just now. is spending the holidays this week and Charlie Stankey of Brownsdale, t3o on, Sis, I want to hear." with his father. Tm going to put my pennies in a Mr. Anderson, manager of the Cooperative Everything in fact is working for a better city and abetter county and when the summer comes I'm store, spent Christmas at J. F. FAIRBANKS jjrfng to give them to some farm for right from the start. his home at Minneapolis. dty children. Daddy gave to one Mrs. Jacob Majerus assisted at the year for both of us. But I'm Farmer's Co-operative store a few Let's all get behind and shove—get back on the solid ground once to try to do my own share this days during Christmas week. ^ear. We have a country home but more. Mr. Norton spent Christmas at his there Dealer In are lots of children in the city home. Geo. Hartman substituted at vbo can't have the country unless the elevator during his absence. COAL, WOOD, LIME, someone helps to pay their expenses." Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Hines and "Great!" said Nick. "That's the right CEMENT, SEWER PIPE, "well my"resolutions don't sound |Mrs- Charles Cassidy and son, James, *»fine beside yours. But here is one: jfPent Christmas at the W. D. Fink BRICK AND WALL Do your shopping in The News first—you will be better satisfied Tw been thinking that sometimes ho™e- PLASTER. there are children in the hospital here, Mr- Mrs. Jacob Majerus spent and that It would be nice if once a Christmas with the former's parents, sk we went to see thm fcWsliotf ed4 Mr-. and Mrs. Nick Hug at Maple them our story Ijooks,'an^ took' ^ni Office 301 East Bridge St. some of ouV-'toys, play6d g*mes with M*. .and Mrs. A. S. Wheelock are them—quiet* games ljke .Jac* Straws. spending the holidays with their "Mower County ews Phone: Main 32 In the springtime we could take any ^au^hter,.' Mr*:'. &*>.- Wood and famchildren we knew of some Ay of •Stewdrivilfe, *.v Austin, Minn. Cowers for it must be awfully hard to I A- H. Landdek dnd-family motored -fee sick In the spring. to Grafton and St. Ansgar, Iowa, And at Easter -time we could take them chocolate' 15he House of Service {ninnies! M. H. KEN ASTON Phone Bridge Residence *Tve planned to save some of my •pennies for the bunnies and sometimes Main 659-3 802 tbr an extra treat we might take the children. And I've also made a REAL ESTATE and INVESTMENTS -resolution to never tease anyone or anything smaller than myself, for City and Business Properties. Rentals and Insurance that's mean." Daddy smiled and said, "Two- resolutions Offic* with Niehuis & DeBuhr Laad Co. to be kept are better than AUSTIN. MINN. Austin National Bank Bldf. dozens of them forgotten the day after »*, Hew Year's." 1 'V •4M ffl •j W't 4 .. Si