,wa»agftyfct^ %74*' \f,l'\ j»**^££PW¥V j£A? rff^g? ,f V' v^. Page Four MOWER COUNTY NEWS, AUSTIN, MINN. £*4 Thursday^ Jan. 5, 1922 4' ,.., Mow*L ifoaste^gm ""'V MEIGHAN ASKS prudence, is one who has no opinions strikes me that a commissioner who HIS own, never reads a newspaper L&ItrcRY "The CountyPaper" starts early and who keeps a memorandum and knows nothing about any$lmig PORT Published every Monday anjl Thttrsday, Book with the names and addresses WlTH DEFINITE LINES at Austin, Minnesota, happening in the world. This doesn't FOR PAST YEAR of prospective jurors, makes ROE AND GANNON, Publish«|r8. .wqrk put. in practice, of course, but inquiry about their qualifications and the principles upon which juries are .Northwestern Advertising Representatives: tries to pick the best, will be doing a Judge Asks That Alert Henry Weber, Jun., judge of the selected would seem to indicate a Minnesota Select List, 215 splendid service. Some lawyers who South Sixth Street, Minneapolis Probate Court, submitted his report prejudice against intelligence. Men be Selected on have weak cases seem to seek weak 709 Exchange Bank, St. Paul. to the county commissioners which The recent Action of Judge J. F. D. minded jurors, easily misled. There Jury Lists shows the activities of his office for Meighan, of Albert Lea, therefore should be none such. A the year 1921. The. figures are as comes as a pleasant surprise,' few "Finding women who are not needed follows days ago Judge Meghan sent a communication .. :.(*v In a letter addressed, to each of the by their small children or their Total number of new, cases handled to all-of the county commissioners county commissioners in. the Tenth .home duties and who are qualified during 1921 248 in htfc judicial district Urging, Judicial District* Judge J. F. D, will .require equal care. MEMBER* Numpeirof hearings held during KfflUATIW* the exercise 6£ «are in the preparation Meighan asks that in the selection of year/4 (exclusive of Juvenile "I am not writing this letter to ..mi' J'.mjj «w'l, of jury lists/tdtheend'that' a hearings) 407 the jury lists for the coming term Or criticize, but it is so easy to put off Estates— higher grade of :ihen ahdwomen future terms' that men be selected the choice of jurors until the last minute Number of new Estates 1.11! 100 shall be selected for jury'duty. The who are alert, intelligent, and physically and then simply check them front Administrations ..49 Judge does not, of course, criticise capable of withstanding the Wills 31 some assessment list. A good many the jury system nor the method of Descent of Land Pro- W service on a jury. His communication dead men, .men over sixty years of ceedings 20kn aVr. preparing jury lists, but-his plea is is as. follows: age, deaf persons, persons who don't Inheritance Tax— fMEMBER none the less an earnest protest "Today I am writing each county know what the words, 'plaintiff' and Number of Estates paying inheritance against a system that does not contemplate commissioner of this Judicial district tax 9 'defendent' mean, appear on jury that juries always be composed about your January task, the selection Amount of Inheritance tax lists. So I feel certain that some commissioners Official Paper of Mower County paid ....$5823.26 of men of the highest intelligence, of 1922 jury lists. are rather careless about Insanity— possessed of keen, analytical "The 144 persons on the .petit jury SUBSCRIPTION RATES making £p their share of the names. Number of hearings held ...' minds, and the physical strength to Per Year, in advance $2i50 list, should each be alert and intelligent, Number of persons committed "Keen, alert, honest jurors mean Six Months $1.25 withstand jury service. It is really as with discriminating judgment, to Hospitals, 7 men, 6 women justice both in civil and in criminal Single Copies 05 Guardianship—. important to have alert and intelligent persons not easily misled by smooth cases." Number of New Guardianships Entered as Second Class Matter at men on a jury as to have an intelligent words or loud argument, persons familiar Number of persons placed under the Post office at Austin, Minn., uffder judge or attorney, if actual with ordinary business usages, Whole Truth About Genius. guardianship the act of March 3, 1879. justice is to be remembered. Feeble-Minded— persons who can readily#read and understand A great idea grows like a flower. It Cases considered We do not know what the conditions English, who will know what changes. In its evolution it leaves Thirty-five teams finishing winter Persons examined crudity and imperfection behind. It are in Judge Meighan's district, but witnesses, the. lawyers and the graveling on the Cordova road, the Number of patients committed assumes a new form, more pleasing in it is presumable that they are not judges- are saying, persons not deaf, to State school, at Faribault, LeSueur Center Leader Democrat recalled Its outline and more striking in its much different from those found in por infirm. Minnesota .. beauty, as it is molded into a thing that not many years ago ten other sections. Consequently his plea Cases continued I "I appreciate that it is easier- to say of deathless energy. An idea which sacks of cement weighing only 1,000 Cases discharged is not a reflection upon the people of this than a commissioner to search is different to all else is a thing of pounds made a big load for a good Mothers' Pension— his district nor upon the commissioners, thru the five or six townships in his wonder—if it is true. It is original Number of new petitions during team on the same road. but no doubt is based upon a distri^. It merits painstaking and thought, and this is all that genius is. year, granted 8, Denied broadminded effort to improve the intelligent inquiry thruout every part front. Glycerined ostrich flues spring IS .hard to generalize about hats, The news twice a week in The Minnesota's banner road-building Number of pensions discontinued standard or juries in general by the of a commissioner's district. It I News—less than 5c a week up about the Tarim edge and droop over since they are so endlessly varied. year just ended, the state highway department elimination of persons lacking what it. There seems to be no room for improvement It appears that designers have aspirations Number of pensions in force., already is advancing plans ordinary common sense should hold in this design. that no two of their brainchildren January 1, 1922 to make bigger records in the New as essential qualifications—a matter Number of children benefited shall be alike but they have Silver cloth and metallic silks have -SAVINGS Year. Commissioner Babcock explains during yeaj apparently overlooked in the establishment no objection to certain family resemblances an unassailable prestige in the season's Number of mothers benefited that the chief concern is about modes and silver tissue drapes in them. In the group of of the jury system. Upon during year funds. A good working organization the square crown of the hat at the four hats illustrated, we discover this ground his suggestions merit Average amount paid per child, left. The brim of black velvet shows models that good taste and propriety has been perfected in the department, during December $ 6.70 serious consideration in all sections itself clever enough for such fine company dictate may be worn by matrons—older he added, and with labor plentiful and Total amount paid for Mothers of the country. DUE by1 being gracefully \uieven in women, who have passed by the pensions, 1921 $3445.00 prices at low levels, 1922 promises to width and notched at the front. A Juvenile Court— era of romantic millinery and reached be a year for speeding highway imr spray of ostrich flues springs from the Number of new cases brought that of brilliant and spirited headwear. provements on the biggest scale pos7 MONEY OWING UNCLE SAM. I right side. before the court The hats pictured are both 75 sible. 1 Millions of dollars were loaned by Delinquent cases ....... 61 brilliant and spirited, yet they are all A very new turban of sand colored \!s the United States to foreign govern^ Found .delinquent ...... 47 in black or quiet shades of color. duvetyn has jet sequins set above its "Found not delinquent.... .3 The quarterly interest on savings accounts A' new record price was obtained by ments during the war. Together with A little study of these models reveals brim and contrives a crown that suggests Turned over to Criminal Rft?e county last week on $295,000 of the amount of interest which has accrued that they have definite lines, the youthful tam. A wreath of court 6 is now payable. Savings depositors which the mode sponsors, along with monkey fur redeems this bit of frivolity. and remains unpaid there is iray and refunding bonds, the Cases to be heard ..... 5 a much more numerous family of hats The black hat at the bottom of still owing to this country the foJlQWr. Placed on probation.. .37 Faribault News reports. An issue of are, requested to present their books for that are vague and soft in outline. the group, ought by virtue of its name, Sent to Institution.... 2 ing sums: $90,000 of 4% per cent highway bonds These are becoming to nearly everyone, to lead the rest. It is a Napoleon Committed to Institution credit of interest. Armenia $ 1,009,868 brought $1,850 premium and $205,000 and Commitment suspended but not always the best choice shape, covered with velvet and decorated Austria 721,^71 of 5U refunding bonds were bid at during good for the matron, who finds more vivacity with beads. These beads are of Belgium 34,007,409 behavoir 1 $7,100 premium. Highway Commissioner in shapes, like the tricorn or wood, as large as small peas, and are All deposits made before January Discharged (of 1921 Cuba Babcock insisted that the highway Napoleon, or in the. several styles in put on in loops. The trimming is cases 17 Czecho-Slovakia 8,125,165 wrapped by ornaments at each side. bond rate be reduced to 4% per turbans. The Russian turban, at the Dependent 10th, draw interest from the 1st. 6 top of the group, is brimming over Esthonia 1,389,668 cent in justice to other localities. Dependent and neglected.... 10 with style, and is a special dispensation Neglected 1 Finland 598,339 of this season for the benefit of Committed to Institution 1 THE AUSTIN NATIONAL BANK France 284,148,863 THE JURY LIST. matronly wearers. It is made of black Turned over to State Great Britain 407,303,283 velvet, an^ has a brilliant rliinestone Judge J. F. D. Meighan has created Greece Beginning or Manual Training. ornament dangling from its pointed no small amount of comment by his COPYRIGHT BY WESTERN NEVSPAPER UNIOM. Hungary 50,575 The earliest official recognition of of Austin, Minn. action in addressing the commissioners manual training was given in Finland, Italy 161,078,880 the Revenue Act of 1918. The manufacturer of this Tenth district regarding where Uno Cygnaeus organized a plan Latvia 386,962 Member Federal Reserve System. INCOME TAX may reimburse himself, by the selection of the jury lists for the for such work in primary schools in Liberia 1,568 agreement with the purchaser, by 1858, was coming year. He asks for men to be and where such instruction Lithuania 49,162 quoting the selling price and tax in W. E. HOPFE, made compulsory for certain pupils P. D. BEAULIEU, chosen who posses certain qualifications, J. L. MITCHELL, Poland 9,837,443 separate and exact amounts, or by 1868. In Sweden soon after recognized which when one stops to think Cashier Vice President President Roumania 3,477,534 the importance of such training stating to the purchaser in advance Under This Heading The News a bit seems perfectly logical. Not movement. Russia 26,120,560 and gave an impetus to the will, from time to tihte, print of the sale, what portion of the quoted only is it logical but it is to a certain Cuba 9,025,000f suggestions and articles of timely price represents thie price charged for •j ||. extent a. matter of economy. How interest for those who may Serbia 4,778,797 the article, and what portion represents many triais would be ended at the have difficulty in interpretation the tax. one term of court without the need of of the new law. Total $943,534,755 The taxes on sporting goods, (tennis Pre-lnventory Pribes going into the next term or several •V. Debt to United States including interest: rackets, fishing- rods, baseball and terms because of mistrials or disagreements football uniforms, fishing rods, etc.) The following statement is issued thru the inability of S9me Armenia $ 12,969,786 are repealed, also the taxes on chewing by the collector of Internal Revenue jurror or failing to understand certain Austria 24,777,380 gum, portable electric fans, thermostatic M. Willcuts, district of Minnesota. legal matters and stubbornly holding L. Belgium 409,287,557 containers* articles made of out on some technicality which was Czecho-Slovakia 99,304,693 fdr, and toilet articles and' musical In response to numerous inquiries not entirely clear t? him. on all Wringers, Galvanlzad Esthonia 15,388,813 instruments. taxpayers are advised that, certain The same difficulty has been encountered Finland 8,880,265 The tax on sales of jewelry, real or taxes, Among them the so-called in the courts of Hennepin France 3,634,911,801 imitation, is five per cent, and is payable "nuisance" and "luxury" taxes, are county the past -yjreek when members Great Britain 4,573,621,642 by the vendor. The tax on the repealed, effective January 1, 1922, of the panel were found not to be Tubs and Pails Greece 15,000,000 sale of works of art (paintings, statuary, qualified for jury service. One by the Revenue Act of 1921. Italy 1,809,112,931 art porcelains, and bronzes) is wpman was found who was indispensible Patrons of-soda-water fountains,. Latvia ..£• 5,519,249 "reduced from ten to five per cent. in the register of deeds office ice cream parlors and "similar places Liberia 27,568 This tax, payable by the vendor, applies January 4th to 20th but because of deafness could not sit Of business" no longer are required to Lithuania 5,479,790 except in the original salie by the on the jury even after her name^had pay the tax of 1 cent for each 10 Poland 145,499,103 artist, or to an educational institution been placed- on the panel. A number cents or fraction thereof on the Roumania 39,006,029 or public art museum, or a sale of other women whose names had been amount expended for sodas, sundaes, Russia 218,721,857 by a recognized dealer in such article^ Standard drawn were found unable to serve "or similar articles of food or drink." Extra to another such dealenApr resale. because the duties to their families The small boy may rejoice in the fac^ Total $11,084,802,341 and the care of small children demanded that an ice-cream cone doesn't cost an Because of an agreement enteredinto When payable by the manufacturer Galvanized Heavy all theif time and energies. extra penny. The tax imposed by thf between the Wilson administration or vendor, taxes must be in the hands Revenue .Act of 1921 is on "beverages With the men it is different.v While and foreign countries the interest of, the collector of internal revenue on and the constitution parts thereof" and they may not relish the idea of serving remains -finpaid. Recently an agitation or before the last day of t»e month is paid by the manufacturer. Galvanized on the jury, it h&s been impressed was started favoring handing following the month in which the sale upon them that they are not patriotic The tax on transportation of a "paid in full" slip to those who are was made. .... if they refuse service—which freight and passengers is repealed, indebted to the United States. How Following are forms for making returns Tubs Tubs by the way is not within their "power effective January 1, 1922, also the tax many favor this unheard of procedure? and regulations relating to to accept or dispute unless the presiding paid by s£he pur cite ser on amounts Stand up and be counted. Nobody taxes, which may be had on application judge hears their plea. paid for jihen's and women's wearing home but the latchstring and to offices of collectors of internal and and In the Minneapolis panel the men apparel ^shoeS, hats, caps, neckwear^ that's out! revenue manufacturers*, excise tax were selected from the city directory shirts, hoije, etc.) in excess of a specie 'V -(7 11 Form 728 revised, Regulations 47, revised and the women were chosen from the fied price.-' St. Olaf Choir on tax on works of art and.jewelry, polling list. Nothing is known of the Taxes imposed under Section 904 Form 728 A, revised. Regulations 48, Third Concert Tour persons whom the commissioners, (which upder the Revenue Act of revised tax on beverages, Form 726, choose to sit on the jury except the 1918 included the taxes on wearing revised, Regulations. 52,,,revised."av ^The. St. Olaf college choir left names, until they make their appearance apparel) are now confined to a five Northfield Monday for Milwaukee, for in the court room. per cent on the following articles C. W. Errett Becomes Galv. Pails Galvanized Tubs Wringers the opening of its third concert tour Judge Meighan is proving himself carpets, on| the amount in exfefess of SoleOwnW of Store of the largest crfcies of the central and to be a capable judge on the bench of $4.50 a square yard rugs, on the Hfeavy r/',v': Standard 8 qt. Pail. ..?. 2QC! ^00* $5.95 eastern states. The choir numbers 66, the Tenth Judicial district, and his amount in excess of $6 a square yard f:: 10 qt. Pkn .......24c No. 1 $1,210 :.,No. 1 79c This week ^Charles. Errett became opinion in this matter of the selection trunks on the amount in excels of $35 .,$6.50 ./ ,,$5.45 No. 2 $1.45 "/No. 2 89c vi2 the -sole^owner bf the store- which iqt. Pail..,...,.2^, each ach valines, traveling i-j— brfgs, suit ca?ne tfte sole^owner oi tne store-wrnch of jurors is being commented upon 14 qt. Pail ..35c No. 3 $1.55 No. 3 99c $5.50 ./'^$4.25 The first concerts were given in? ases, hat boxes uSed by travelers and'-has been operated under the firm thruout the state, not mer^l&.wiAhin E eases, nr— s, Milwaukee Tuesday. Leaving* Milwaukee, fitted itted toilet toilet cases, cases, on on the the amount amount in in n^ne^df^Peddycoart ni|he*af Peddycoart & Errett. Ki th6 his own district. *The Rbfek County the choir goes to Chicago and excess of $25 each purses, pocket-)1.-ttansltdtum Mr. Peddycoart retains Herald has this to say regarding DECKER BROTHERS thence east, returning February 6 for books, shopping and hand bags, on at #enominee, Wisconsin, st 0re his communication, under the caption ir ts final concert in the Minneapolis the amount in excess, of $5 each' port- oyer, to the active "A Good Omen:" auditorium. able lighting fixtures, including lamps Management of his son. Under the One is often impressed, when listening Concerts in Chicago, Detroit, New of all kinds, on the amount in^ ex- management of Mr* Errett the firm to lawyers pickjng a jury to York, Pjh^adelphia and Baltimore aref cess or $10 each ftfnEon the amount^ prospered and friends of Mr. Er try a case, with the idea that ouf view with satisfaction this move slated,'in addition to other large citjesj|n jury system must contemplate that in excess of:$l each.^grhese taxes are aid- si. #!bj} $$st and central?west.' ch will give him full control of hi&„ the more ignorant a" manis ncluded in[ithev.^al^jj^^^nfeexel8e-| store here in Austin. desirable is he for jury service. In ixes, and are payabl^^-^tlfe^ manufacturer, -ro»f Mj1 Anything that will make a child other words, one is lead to think that producer or importer, and news'twice a week in The augh is a better tonic than any Th &%' the ideal juryman, in American juris- not by the purchaser, as required by jfews—less than 5c a week loctor can prescribe. 1 •aserssai vv' & V., t. i1 "h MWMMM——Matt—W——BM—WB—WWWII |H W