I. I| ii.ijru.ii.^ji1,^'*'!" V" ri -vp v* V'~ .' -1. .. i* 'pfy» "t ,:,^ :/Page Four *,f%SS?C*. •'&yjjggegMOWER COUNTY NEWS. "AUSTIN, MINN. Thursday, Jan. 12, 1922. JOHN CHRKTfi All AUTO SHOW DATES Mower County News 1921 BUSINESS Le Roy Township Unit .AT POSTOFFTCE Held Meeting Jan. 6 "The County Paper" ADDRESSES UNIT MAY BE MAR. 6-11 DECKER BROTHERS Published every Monday and Thursday, ,%7 ABOUT AVERAGE RELIABLE HARDWARE at Austin, Minnesota. The LeRoy Unit of -the Farm Bureau ROE AND GANNON, Publishers. is the way the sign on the •_ (Continued from Page One) met at the Le Roy town hall on window rea$s, and it is no Austin business conditions, reflected Northwestern Advertising Representatives: Waltham Twp. Takes misnomer. Friday afternoon, January 6. Due to Minnesota Select List, 215 by the stamp sales at the postoffice, Thirty-six years in -business, cold weather and bad road conditions, South Sixth Street,. Minneapolis up Relief of Near ger and a better show than our neighbor for the past year are about on building up a trade 709 Exchange Bank, St. Paul. there was not a very big turnout. Albert Lea. an average with other normal years, 7 East that is second to none in illiS The program at present has npt Director Meyers presided at the according to a statement made by the state, and wi^h a stock been completed, but a brief outline meeting. John Christgau, vice president Postmaster F. Cook. In spite of 7~ which would do justice to The Waltham unit of the Farm •$ was drawn up at the Meeting. Music of the Mower County Farm the events of the past year, said Major a city several times the Bureau niet at the Waltham school will prevail during the' afternoon and Bureau, talked on co-operation and size of Austin, this firm Cook, the sales of the Austin office QUA Saturday afternoon, January 7. Director has a reputation for veracity evening with the privilege to dance gave a summary of the State Farm will total about the same as the AFFILIATING MEMBER* Ziemer presided at the meeting and square dealing, for anyone who is so inclined. Vaudeville Bureau meeting held at St. Paul in year before, and with exception of which is envied by hardware and called on County, Agent L. F. was also mentioned but up to connection with Farmers and Home one month will pr6bably exceed the men thruout the Liebenstein for a discussion of the Makers' Week. this time nothing had been done along same months of 1920. sPciAli northwest. farm bureau activities, The work that line. A general discussion in regard to Sales of documentary stamps from being done in the county was ex The beginning was made Two of Austin's leading 'business getting corn for the Near East Relief December, 1917, until December 31, in the building in which is plained and also that of the state and took place. men have announced that they would 1921, the period during which this located the Economy grocery, federal farm bureau. like to stage a style show in conjunction The annual election for Le Roy form of tax was lin force, thru the where Decker's John Christgau, vice-president of fMEMBER with the auto show. township was postponed until a later hardware was sold for local* office totalled $26,065.24. The Mower County Farm Bureau then ad twenty years. Then at date. The County Agent was unable total amount used in this county will dressed the gathering. He emphasized The Oldest Feast. the corner of Mill and ot be present due to having previously exceed this amount, said Major Cook, The Jewish Feast of the Passover the need and importance of cooperation Official Paper of Mower County Main for fifteen years and scheduled a meeting at Grand Meadow as quantities were purchased direct is the oldest religious celebration showing* how it was necessary now on the corner of Chatham on the same afternoon. SUBSCRIPTION RATES by large users from the Internal known to mankind. It had its birth in any community not only for and Bridge, opposite Per Year, in advance $2.50 on the banks of the Nile 4,000 years Revenue headquarters. the Mower County court Six Months $1.25 school organizations or' school dist ago in the twilight of history. The i'» Mrs. Pirate. house. Proprietory, stamps sold during the Single Copies 05 ricts but any enterprise undertaken feast, an impressive function, lasted The wife of Captain Kidd was period from May, 1919, until the last in that community. He spoke of the through eight days. Entered as Second Class Matter at terrified when he called her "My treasure!" day of December, 1921, amounted to •the Post office at Austin, Minn., under accomplishments of the farm bureau She thought he wanted to bury $5,108.15. the act of March 3, 1879. News Advertising brings results. and its value to each community, also her! Nearly Four Decades in outlined the program taken up at WHO AREJJTHE FIREMEN? Farmers' and Home Makers' Week at Business is Record of We were interested the other day in St. Paul and showed what a great One Austin Hardware reading an appreciation in our local benefit it was to those who could attend. daily paper directed to the Austin fire He urged that another year Firm. department by one who had suffered each unit of the farai bureau should (Continued from Page One) from the "fiery flames." attempt to have several delegates It couldn't have cost very much, present at those meetings. After and it certainly did not take a great tire stock is considered a model by Mr. Christgau emphasized some of hardware men who have had opportunity deal of effort to do this, and it certainly the points drawn out by various for comparison with other cities touched a responsive chord in speakers at these meetings arid how of larger population. the breasts of the firemen. all were indirectly if not directly The little courtesies which some The tin shop is also well supplied benefited by the work carried on. At with necessary machinery and tools people extend to the fire fighters particularly most of the meetings, the large fchamber INVENTORY during the cold weather for every description of sheet metal in the new capitol was crowded work, and carries a large stock of the when their clothing freezes solid from even for standing room Mr. Christgau various gages of sheet metals in tin, the water, are also appreciated. A said, showing the interest the people pot of hot coffee may not help quench galvanized iron, copper, black iron, LEONARD R. DECKER, of the state have in their organizations. etc., and does a surprising amount of the fire, but it does help the morale of who is a partner with his father in eavespouting and gutter work thruout the boys who are doing their utmost the store here, and also .with his After Mr. Christgau's talk, the the^season. In this shop is also to put out the blaze. brother, Fred R., in a separate bardware meeting extended him a unanimous handled the warm air heating work, business at Dooley, Montana. In this conncetion, we reprint the vote of thanks for his message. Fred S A E Leonard graduated from the Austin and the furnaces. following clipping from an exchange, Kimball made a motion to put the high schooUn 1908, and was in charge which contains a few pertinent questions The entire floor space occupied vote thru. of the manual training and blacksmithing- for Austin people to answer: amounts to 10,196 square feet. An Director Ziemer then raised the department at the University of "When the siren sounds the alarm interesting fact was disclosed by question as to whether the Waltham Southern Minnesota for a few years. at a late hour on a wintry night an- Leonard Decker when asked regarding Unit should have regular meetings In 1913, he and his brother, Fred R., nouncing that another business house the business conditions of the past opened a store at Dooley, Montana, during the winter and it was decided or home is on fire we are inclined af- ]as^ Saturday afternoon year, when he said that while last but returned here the same year and mee ter being advsied as to the location of has been associated with his father in year saw a drop of 20 to 30 per cent of the first three months of the year the conduct of the store here since the conflagration to return to, our cozy in prices of their entire line, their in the school at Waltham at 2:00 that time. Leonard is a member of cot, consoled by the thot thai the firemen sales would total in money value 90 o'clock. the Board of Directors of the University will do all that is necessary to per cent of the preceding year's business. The question of securing grain or of Southern Minnesota, and an control the flames. With this in mind donations for the Near East Relief active member of the Austin Rotary we should do well to consider just for Records are considered one of the The close of the yearly inventory finds us, was taken up and a committee appointed club. He is also active in civic affairs, a moment who are the firemen From most valuable assets in many businesses, to take care of donations for being alderman at large for the city, whence do they come Why their interest and this is graphicly illustraed and was elected to this office without Waltham township. It was decided as always, with many broken assortments, odd opposition on both the labor and business in our proprety?" here where Miss Viola Conrad, to put up posters in the stores and men's tickets. cashier and stenographer, keeps an banks for those wishing to contribute ELECT OFFICERS lots, short lengths and slow movers, that we accurate record of every transaction, to leave their funds at the bank. which are later entered into permanent L. Gilbertson, expert stove repairer The meeting then adjourned. OF FARM BUREAU form by Hogan Ray, who has are anxious to dispose of at a mere fraction of Charles D. Galloway, superintendent charge of the accounting and collections. sheet metal and furnace work P. E. Two maps which have been Electric Cannon. their real value. Wood, roofs, gutters and eavestroughs great variety of electric cannon, (Continued from page 1.) A prepared show the extent of certain J. H. Jordan, furnaces and based upon electromagnetic principles, lines of business. One shows the exact ventilating S. W. Ward, trucks and ejecting a steel shell through one or trip by rail, altho it took more time location of each of the 150 electric more solenoids, have been developed repair work Arthur Enochson, shop than would ordinarily have been the washing machines which have been from time to time but with no practical repair man. In addition to these are case had the roads been passable. sold and the other located 250 furnaces, Many of these items are in such small results. A French engineer, the cashier and accountant spoken of The directors of the Mower County we almost said in the exact Fauchon-Villeplee, has worked out a above, and the members of the firm. Farm Bureau/ met at eleven o'clock new type Of electric cannon which is spot in the basement but that would lots, that it would not be wise to advertise and elected the following officers for described in Revue Generale de be exaggerating a bit. l'Electricite. The basic principle of Florida's Rchiarkable Spring. the coming year's activities. Albert Another thing which is appreciated the new gun is the fact that a current-carrying Silver spring, Florida, one of the each lot separately but they will find each one 0. Stark, Dexter, president John M. by the tired shoppers is the conveniences movable conductor will largest springs in the world, fills a Christgau, Dexter, vice president offered by thiS store in their travel across a strong magnetic field. basin 200 feet wide and 30 feet deep. Andrew Jensen, Windom unit, of Rose rest room, where one may rest and well displayed, with large tickets over them, The author built during the war a The water, which is extremely transparent, Creek, secretary-treasurer executive read while accumulating energy to model of such a gun, which shot a 50gram issues from several orifices at board, the officers and William Enright, projectile at a muzzle velocity carry her safely home again. the bottom of the basin at the rate quoting the reduced price of each lot, thru Windom unit, Rose Creek, and of 200 meters, piercing easily a large of several hundred million gallons a The store employes fifteen people hard-wood block. The author directs day. C. B. Sayles, Austin. the year round and about twenty during attention to the fact that because the out the store. In addition President Starks was the busy fall months. The personnel gun windings are used for only a elected as director from Mower County of the force is as follows A. R. fraction of a second, enormous Warm Secret. Farm Bureau in the state organnation. An interesting suggestion for use In Pierce, head salesman and builders' amounts of current may be used—of connection with soldering iron or steel hardware Joseph Houff, stoves and the order of 100,000 amperes and In addition of Jno. Christgau, vice Is to make a swab from flexible electric over—and supplied by a flywheel ranges E. R. Hacniac, sporting goods Every department has its tables, counters light cord, which is used in swabbing president, and Andrew Jensen, secretary-treasurer, dynamo or a storage battery.—Scientific and barn equipment J. M. Pierce, on to the work a solution made the following directors American. electric goods and washers Leon by dissolving a bit of zinc In muriatic were present at the meeting: or racks, of unusual bargains, awaiting the Smith, paints, oils and varnishes acid and then diluting with a little Adams Unit, Stephen Klapperich, France Exporting Bricks. Russell Thompson, shelf hardware G. water. The shock of war has jarred us Adams Austin Unit, C. B. Sayles, first shrewd buyer. May we urge you to loose from so many of our ancient Austin Clayton Unit, A. J. Ramseth, beliefs and practices that we have Elkton Dexter Unit, A. O. Starks, become somewhat hardened to surprises. •IF YOU ARE come in and look over these bargain displays. Dexter Frankford Unit, L. A. Buttolph, But we have not entirely lost Grand Meadow Lansing Unit, the faculty of being startled. We CONVINCED J. R. Woods, Austin Lyle Unit, C. E. have known France as an exporter of bronzes, jewelry, hats, gowns, perfumes—beautiful Redter, Austin Marshall Unit, Elmer and delicate things Wilson, Adams Nevada Unit, Newell GO TO IT It will mean a profitable investment of of adornment and pleasure^ We were Nelson, vic§ director, Lyle Racine somewhat bewildered, therefore, to Unit, C. H. Steffens, Racine Udolpho learn recently that the French are your time, to investigate these unusual values Unit, O. W. Cummings, Lansing 'showing great activity in the making Waltham Unit, J. F. Ziemer, Waltham of the unlovely aiftl prosaic brick. It Windom Unit, Wm. Enright, seems that bricks fashioned in France we are offering, and money saved on every You have often thought that you would are being offered at less than quotation Rose Creek. *s on the local product. And Kent, like to start a savings account some time. The report of the secretary-treasurer purchase. mind you, is the citadel of~the British was given at this time before That "some time," is now here and may brick industry.—The Nation's Business. the directors and showed affairs to be never come again. %.5=tivA in good shape, altho some of the membership contracts have, not been Food by- Air. Do it today in our bank with whatever you? completed and some money outstanding The British air ministry was prepared »*•. have on hand. to transport and distribute food in this particular could be used to i: throughout the United Kingdom had advantage. West Dry Goods the recent threatened railway strike 5 You do not have to make emy pre^ai^im^ The count of the ballots returned materialized. in making the start. by the members in response to a referendum •f-* /.-*,•V f\*- i| ij ••••V'-i" on the adoption tff amend-? ri r,v. .f-fjp- In Justice Court. ments to the constitution providing THE AUSTIN NATIONAL BANK Ralph Todd, John Herr and Jack for the township unit plan of organization, Wallace were arrested today at resulting in carrying the proposition. Brownsdale and brought to Austin to Practically every ballot returned of Austin, Minn. be tried before Justice Detwiler. They was in favor of the changes were found guilty of assault and Todd, .suggested in the old constitution, and S Member Federal Reserve System. 1 who was the leader, was fined $15.00 were automatically in effect as soon N-'- i-:- and cpsts, Herr arid Wallace wef'e ,as the vote was announced.. .. L. MITCHELL, P. D. BEAULIEU, E. HOPFE, J. W. ffned $10.00 each and costs. The argument started over a girl. The complaining President Vice ^fepBjdent Cashier r- Advertising is the art of making .vrr others think as you think about yoi:r witness was Milton R. Gillett -1 a. of Brownsdale. product. TTT- it. IT- L.'„»fi ... ... .. .**») rnk,