,#3 s'-v ,1 Page Four COUNTY NEWS. AUSTIN, BONN." W Monday, March 6, 1922. 5 V,«fSSk fJHower Counly News Store to Celebrate If 'jfs peats Twerie .$2,15. Since that day the business has enjoyed a„ gradual but "The P»pei\ County Published every Monday Thurs­ substantial gtrowthf JjBusiness conditions 5 ana day/ at Austin, Minnesota. the since war ite^e* changed. We ROE AND GANNON, Publishers. are recovering fronr—our period of V. E. FAIRBANKS, City Editor what you might, term .tfatty degeneration.' Northwestern Advertising Representatives: Things came too easy for a Minnesota Select Lust, 215 while. The business is still here, but South Sixth Street, Minneapolis we must work harder to get it. 709 Exchange Bank, St. PauL "The average cycle for a style in the jewelry business," continued Mr. Hayes, "is seven years. Just the other day. a salesman came in showing ^aj^ples of ear-rings with" the lorig dl^glipg pendants. He said they MEMBER* AFFILIATING were Cv^y good this season It was only af|ew yeayfe ago that they were all th&rage. ^PciaD "Casters" Once Popular. If You Want It "Then there were the old-fashioned SUBSCRIPTION RATES 'casters,^ receptacles for salt, pepper, Per Year, in advance .$2.50 and various relishes. They were elaborately Six Months .$1.25 fashioned and very popular. Single Copies 05 Foreign subscriptions, per year. 3.50 The bride of those days was sure to. Class Matter at Entered as Second receive one or more as wedding presents. the Post office at Austin, Minn., under They were placed in the center the act of March 3, 1879. of the table and an embroidered cloth spread over the whole to keep If you want a savings account, you LOCAL the dust away until the next meal. "Wedding rings, too have changed. must plan for it, the same as you do for 'PENINGL The wide gold band is no longer popular. The modern bric^p-to-be wears anything worth having. a thin, narrow ring of engraved white Miss Agnes Mickelson spent the gold or platinum. Diamonds are frequently week-end at Mankato. used with the rings and one The first thing to do is to deposit any set for each wedding anniversary. Misses Schissler of Adams were Trade Trusts Jeweler. Austin shoppers Saturday. amount you have on hand. "As I said before the success of Paul Johnson of Blooding Prairie, our business is due largely to honesty, spent Saturday in Austin. integrity and square dealing. Next, decide the amount you can spare There are few businesses where a Born to Mr. and Mrs. Elmo Goslee customer will come in and leave hundreds daily then deposit this amount in the bank Saturday, March 4, a son. of dollars worth of property for repair or mounting without demanding Miss Bessie Haugen spent the once a week. a receipt. The jewelry business week-end at Spring Valley. is an exception-to this-rule. A man J. P. Sullivan of Blooming Prairie brings in a diamond worth $500.00 or was an Austin caller Saturday. $600.00 for a new mounting and does not ask a receipt. Frank Cregan returned Friday "Watches and jewels are daily left from a business trip to Chicago. with us without apparent concern as Born to Mr. and Mrs. Allie Cornelius to their safety," Mr. Hayes said. "Of Saturday, March 4, a daughter. course the customer's, property is always fully insured against loss and Max B. Welton spent the week-end The Austin National Bank given the same care as our own property. with his parents in Albert Lea. It has tal^u yeaj£ to build up this feeling of Confidence among our Mrs. Jacob Hoist of Brawnsdale trade and we value' it highly. was an Austin shopper Saturday. Endorses Advertising. ing the business, "has been operated OF AUSTIN, MINN. Clayton Dauser spent the week-end "Consistent advertising is another upon the principle .of winning and retaining with friends in the Twin Cities. important factor in business development. patronage thru giving substantial a In the summer ofj^-919 the new Member Federal Reserve System value for every penny received Miss Viola Conrad spent the weekend store front was built. The new display having confidence in our customers' with friends in Minneapolis. windows, I believe, have repaid integrity and deserving their J. L. MITCHELL, President me many, times their cost. Connect Mtes Marie Brainard of Blooming confidence in return. your window display with your advertising Prairie spent Saturday in Austin. P. D. BEAULIEU, Vice President "We have endeavored to extend and them make your word W. E. HOPFE, Cashier courtesy uniformly to all, whether Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Martinson are as good as your, bond and you can't purchasers or visitors and welcome visiting relatives at Lake Mills, Iowa. help but win custfoniers,'' Mr. Hayes the opportunity to adjust any.transaction stated. Mrs. Walter Topkes of Aplington, which the customer feels is not Since purchasing the business Iowa, is visiting at the J. W. DeBuhr what was expected. We have endeavored from his father, Mr. Hayes has enlarged home. to work on the theory that the the Victrola department and customer is always right. Miss Elsie Pederson^ went to made many other changed that the $2.15 First Day's Receipts. Brownsdale to spend the day with relatives.1 growth of the business has demanded, "When father started the business but the firm name remains the same on April 24, 1868, the first day's re­ J. J. Hayes & Son. M. W. Clefton of Mukwonage, Wisconsin arrived Saturday to visit his son, Floyd. Joyce Skalicky of Blooming Prairie underwent an operation Saturday at St. Olaf hospital. W1thru INNING and retaining patronage Mrs. L. 0. Hollister went to Owatonna giving substantial value for You can have your garments -cleaned Sunday for a few days' visit every penny received confidence in with relatives. the customer's integrity, extension of and dyed at most reasonable DOWN courtesy uniformly to all and absolute prices, with work guaranteed, as in Born to Mr. and, Mrs. James Kapenes, advertising truthfulness are, the 1008 East Water street, Friday, the past and your clothes are insured contributing factors to the success of March 3, a son. J. J. Hayes & Son, jewelers, who'will while in our possession. This is celebrate the fifty-fourth anniversary Mrs. Jack Till has accepted a position' the shop where you get the service of the founding of the store next at the Hollister Smart shop and month. you like. began vtork this morning. TODAY TO Thru fifty-four years of fluctuating Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Ott and daugh-* Ovir New Price# financial conditions, the l|rm name ter, are visiting relatives at Mclntyre, has remained intact and today the $550 Iowa, for a few days. business is the oldest in the jewelry Men's Suits, cleaned and pressed. $1.50 trade in this* section of the state. Ladies' Suits, cleaned and pressed. $2.00 Business Founded 1868. Ladies' Plain Wool Dresses.,...... .$1.50 The founder of the business, J. J. Ladies' Silk Dresses. ....$2.00 -$3.00 Hayes, who died in January, 1921, was born at Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, $4.00 Suits and Overcoats, dyed .... February 22, 1843, and was apprenticed ..50c Suits pressed.. to a jeweler. While learning his trade he was given only his board, Pants pressed, 7y2c per leg, seats Completely Equipped lodging ajid clothes. His bedroom was .•15c free f. o. b. Toledo in the loft of the home of the jeweler and in the winter time the boy had jto shovel out the snow that drifted into PROMPT ATTENTION GIVEN TO ALL GREATEST his bedroom thru the roof. He, like THE TRUTH AND NOTHIN' BUT OUT-OP-TOWN ORDERS other apprentices in those days, did THE TRUTH not eat with the family and when he Judge: Were you going to steal that automobile young man? approached the table the frugal We Call For and Deliver I wasn't Automobile Value in America Prisoner: Why, yer honor housewife removed the bowl of white even thinking of such a thing. sugar and replaced it w,ith the brown Officec: No, he wasn't thinking PRICE, the Tailor variety. about It yer honor, he had already decided on It. Made Brother Partner. Mr. Hayes opened a store on East Open Evenings Phone Visibility of the Moon. Mill street in 1868 with Kis^ brother, The reason for only a part of the Henry. They dissolved partnership moon's disc being visible to the earth in 1869 and in October, 1871, Orris is that the east and west- sides become Hayes bought half interest and the alternately visible this is called the moon's longitudinal libration. The brothers moved to a store on the west HEALTH SERVICE libration in latitude arises from the of Main street, the present site Side moon's axis not being perpendicular of Williams' cigar store. Late in the to her orbit, in consequence of which 70's they built the present brick -'if-- a part of her surface round the North building -arid continued in partnership pole is visible during one-half and a until January, 1913, v?hen Orris sold If your health ft not the very best then you need the corresponding portion round the South his interest to J. J. Hayes. A pole during the other half of her revolution services of in lier orbit the libration ic In July, 1917, Mr. Hayes retired DR. G. F. STORING latitude is about 6 degrees, 41 minutes. Dial 2015 from active business arid sold to his 114-116 N. Main St, The Chiropractor ,. son, Albert, who is now sole owner an to of a The Only Way. Office over the Woolwprth Store A Honesty Prime Factor-.' Fame is a splendid thing to know AUSTIft Dial 2508 for appointment*- ^MINN. Bpt when she finds your door, "Our business" stated Albert''Hayes Just greet her pleasantly, and go today, in answer to a question regard­ On working as before.