wpgqmmmmGsatim&m fc r, jfetej' if f" V?" W f' V\ r- i" if 4 MOWER COUNTY NEWS, AUSTIN, MINN. Page Two Monday, (April 17, 1922. SARGEANT HASA GRAIN GROWERS ECLIPSE ECHOES to outstanding obligations, than it has Demonstrating the "Kissograph" Ml ever been before, it left the organization BAD FIRE SCARE OVERCOMING LOSS temporarily without available Weekly Shavings. cash for routine disbursements. Edited by Volume 417. April 17, 1922 "During December our gross income Splinters. over expenses was $10,000. During An Attempt to Destroy Income Higher than Expenses, January and February, our gross WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO Screen time is about here. Let us Elevator Last Week Says Committee. income over expenses was $28,000. BUILD THIS'YEAR? supply you with A-l quality screens, at the right prices. With reduced overhead expenses that This Spring starts off with many Suspected. opportunities to do the things we put are being effected thru reorganization off last year. of departments in the central office Take building for example—prices FENCE IN YOUR CHICKS. Hayfield, April 14.—Tuesday mornabout and with progress continuing in the By Farm Bureau News Service— of material have come down so that three o'clock as the local field, our financial condition cannot be It will be only a short time now unjtil St. Paul, April 17.—The deficit in you can build this Spring with full freight from Mclntyre was passing time for planting gardens. So if considered at all embarassing." assurance that you will get the most the finances of the U. S. Grain Growers, I you have a few chickens you will do value in return for your investment. through Sargeant, fire was discovered Inc., which attracted attention well to call at Eclipse and get enough You will remember that building material in a refrigerator car which was during the corporation's first annual Poultry fence to keep them within Meaning of Vice Versa. was one of the very last to go standing on the side-track, says the "Now, children," said the teacher of bounds and be at peace with your meeting, is rapidly being overcome, up in, price and one of the first to neighbors. Herald. Emil Postels, who was in the juvenile class, "can any of you come down. according to a statement issued this tell me the meaning of 'vice versa'?" charge of the train, at one took steps We invite you to come in or call us week by the executive committee of "Yes'm, I can," replied the youngster on the phone no matter how small the to extinguish the blaze, but as the the co-operative marketing agency. at the foot of the class. job may be. We welcome every If in need of legal advice consult fire had already burned a hole thru In recent months, the statement chance to be of service, knowing that the best lawyer you know. If in need "Well, Blllie, what Is It?" the floor of the car and had gained a a satisfied customer is our best advertisement. of medicine consult the best doctor says, the income of the corporation "It's when "you sleep with your feet foothold in the packing between the you know. If in need of lumber or toward the head of the bed," answered has been considerably higher than its other building material consult the floors, this was a hard job and required Billie triumphantly. expenses, with the result that the deficit Eclipse Lumber Co. almost two hours work by the A TIMELY SUGGESTION. is gradually disappearing. Cypress trees are planted in almost train crew. Make a deal with your carpenter "Practically all available cash in all Mohammedan burial grounds. Tracks were found in the snow while skilled labor can be secured at the office at the close of the national a reasonable price. Don't wait until Si Smart says: "Th' man who said leading to the car and other tracks "Found Seven Rats Dead in Bin Next convention, amounting to more than the rush sets in this Spring—when !'tew heads is better than one' niver Morning." were found leading away from the carpenters may be hard to get at any $18,000, was set aside in a reserve sat b'hind a fellev courtin' his best Robert Woodruff says: "My premises car, which would seem to indicate that price. girl et a movie show." fund, by the former treasurer," says were infested with rats, I tried the fire was of incendiary origin. RAT-SNAP on friend's recommendation. the statement. Two other box cars separated the Next morning found seven dead "This cash reserve is in addition to Here is the much-talked-of "kissograph," together with Miss Rita Bell, rats in bin, two liear feed box, three burning car from the Sargeant elevator, more than $110,000 in notes tendered in stall. Found large number since. stage beauty, who demonstrated the difference between the most thrilling J. J. CLEMENS and had the flames not been discovered dt for membership payments, which also No smell from dead rats—RAT-SNAP stage klssfes and the real thing In tests made in the hotel hospital at the Waldorf, when they were, the strong drys them up. Best thing I have ever has been placed in reserve. While 'ONE PIECE OR A CAR LOAD jJ New York city. The "kissograph" was Introduced by Prof. J. V. Breitweiser north wind would have driven the fire used." Three sizes, 35c, 65c, $1.25. of the University of California in Berkeley recently. It is an adaption this leaves the organization in stronger Sold and guaranteed by Pooler Drug up against the elevator and it would of the sphygmanomometer, and depends on rising blood pressure for its accuracy DIAL 2047 Local Manager financial condition, with reference Co. Advertisement—April surely have been destroyed. Ordinarily the freight train passes through Sargeant at about one o'clock knows and appreciates the troubles of A Great Lecture but on this occasion it had been two the miners of West Virginia and the for the Farmers hours late getting out of Mclntyre. toilers in the great factories, but he knows the farm arid secured his early If the fire was of incendiary origin, education as a real dirt farmer. the person setting it no doubt was There is coming to the Chautauqua He has studied farm problems, and Roads Are under the impression that the freight this season on the very first afternoon, made exhaustive researches, and says had already passed through and that a man with a special message things with the stamp of authority on there would be no danger of the fire to the farmers. He is Homer C. Boblitt, them. His discussion of "Is Farming being discovered until it was too late. a real man's man with something A Business?" is a masterpiece of to say that promises to make people good sense and clear insight into the LARS ELLINGSON sit up and take notice. very heart of the farmers' real problems. Bad I Won't OF ADAMS DIES It is announced that Boblitt does VAwTEK not discuss the hackneyed themes of Adams, April 14.—liars Ellingson farm life. He has a- new and revealing died at his home here today after a treatise that calls for a new deal long illness. for the farmer, and an equitable adjustment Mr. and Mrs. N. S. Gravdahl went ADVERTISE!" of values and dividends commensurate to Minneapolis Friday to spend Easter with the farmers importance with the A. C. Johnson family. as a business asset. Mrs. O. T. Ness of Steele, North Boblitt has the goods, and will set Dakota, is visiting at the I. E. Tiegen brains to thinking and tongues to home. wagging when he gets thru with his Mrs. Dale Smith and daughter of big undertaking. Every farmer in the Le Roy was visiting her parents a whole country should hear him by all few days this week. means, as they can well afford to take I. E. Tiegeh wont to Oakes, North a half day off to hear one who so ably Dakota, last Monday on business. champions their cause. Miss Coramae Anderson came down from Minneapolis Wednesday to spend Indigestion and Constipation. That is the expression handed out by merchants to Easter with her parents. She is a "Prior to using Chamberlain's Tablets, student at the McPhail School of I suffered dreadfully from indigestion. local advertising solicitors on their rounds in Austin. Nothing I ate agreed with me Music. and I lost flesh and ran down in health. Miss Orph'a Johnson arrived Saturday They won't advertise because the farmer in the Chamberlain's Tablets strengthened evening from Northfielj where Boblitt is a great big, strong fellow, my digestion and cured me of constipation," country is "stuck in the mud/' and it would be throwing writes Mrs. George Stroup, she is a student at St. Olaf college. who has traveled all over the Solvay, N. Y. For sale by K. O. Wold money away to carry the message to him, (so they say). She will spend the Easter holiday world, and is acquainted with her and Pooler Drug Co. with hey parents. problems in & big way. He not only Advertisement—April. Far-sighted merchants advertise to the man or John Johnson, a rural mail carrier at Taopi, was in Adams Thursday. woman in the country whether he be snowbound or mudbound. Mr. Johnson is taking his annual leave of fifteen days. Why should the merchant advertise to the people Bank fro. 1231 when the roads are bad? Just this— Statement of the condition of LANSING STATE BANK, HOT SHO? B=D BATTEKY C2D Lansing, Minnesota. The paper reaches him regardless of the condition at the close of business on Aprii 7th, of the roads. In all probability the farmer and his wife 1922. RESOURCES and family will stay at home and read what the merchant Loans and Discounts $ 96,415.58 Overdrafts 117.40 has to offer, because they can't get away from the U. S. Bonds and other U. S. No. 6 Obligations 27,900.00 CQLUMliTA house. Due from other IGNITOR Columbia Dry Batteries banks .$17,814.84 BATI Why do the banks advertise? That may sound like Cash on hand: ere universally used because— Cur. .$2,219.00 a foolish question, but nevertheless the answer will retire Gold 470.00 Silver 759.20 some thot. They cost so little, are so easy to ob' Other 217.62 tain, are so powerful, and last so long. 3,665.82 Tfie bank advertises for good will—that's what they That's why they are used everywhere 2 1 4 8 0 6 6 have to'sell—Good Will. for every battery need. It's why dealers The world's most famous Total Cash Assets 21,480.66 all around you carry Columbias to meet dry battery. Used where *Every business man is after the good will of others. Checks and Cash Items... 82.98 group individual cell* of your demands—electricians, hardware is needed. Fahnt stock Without it he cannot expect to stay in business. Spring Clip Binding stores, general stores, auto supply shops, Total $145,996.62 Post* 1 no extra charge LIABILITIES garages, implement dealers. Columbia Dry Bat* Advertise to the country people. Make ads carry Capital Stock $ 15,000.00 teries work better Surplus Fund 7,500.00 For doorbells, buzzers, heat regulators, the idea that we are all anxious for them to come to the and last longer Undivided Profits, Net.... 223.18 alarms, etc. for gas engine and tractor Reserved for depreciation —for trcOa and buocn city—when conditions permit. Invite them in at the next thermostat* on bonds 1,150.00 —for ignition for quick starting ignition on —for gut engine* flat opportunity. Deposits subject I —for OB ion the non-self-starting Fords for every pur* to check $32,663.47 FM Ford while Manioc pose, always—insist upon Columbia. Cashier's Checks 2,234.84 dry battery fight* —for S efv£j lag in closet, ccDar, CREATE GOOD WILL AND BUSINESS gam*, barn, etc. Total Immediate Liabilities .... 34,8&8.31 WILL TAKE CARE OF ITSELF. Savings Deposits 28,069.35 Time Certificates 59,155.78 122,123.44 Do your shopping in The News first—you will be better satisfied Total Deposits 122,123.44 Total $145,996.62 Amount of Reserve on hand $21,480.66 Amount of Reserve Required by Law 8,549.00 STATE OF MINNESOTA, County of Mower, ss. Mower bounty "News We, N. F. Banfield, President, and L. S. Chapman, Cashier, of the above named Bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true to the best of our knowledge and belief. House of Service N. F. BANFIELD, President "Bhe L. S. CHAPMAN. Cashier. Correct Attest: (Two) directors N. F. BANFIELD, Jr. E. C. BANFIELD. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 13th day of April, 1922. (Seal) GEO. M. SHORTT. KOBES CAFE Notary Public, Mower County, Minnesota. My commission expires March 1, 1927. 1 4 m.