asss^Bass ti3£m &&&&$ »&&r -"-£& ''$• 0^ •*2L 35B5* S? 2F* »4' MOWER COUNTY NEWS, AUSTIN, MINN. & Page Five Monday, "May" £*1922. COSTLY ERRORS GIVE OWATONNA^ RETIRES FBOM TRACK SPORT Utopians Entertain yAt department could continue you on the other ways carried out the backward rolls with compensation. idea. Backward Party PRACTICE GAME FROM PACKERS •i"I- desire at this time to'express A delicious ^three-course dinner lier$:Your Earl Eby, *Champion Pennsylvania •the appreciation of. the department for was served, excellent in detail but. Half Mller, Quit* Gameto your long and satisfactory service, and Enter Business World. 7 Go The Utopian Literary Society entertained served backwards, the ice cream the hope that you will be so benefited the Thalian Literary Society cake as entree and other courses xe+versed. by this leave that you can return and Bari Eby, former captain of the Owatonnans Pile up 10Point at a Backwards Party Wednesday A spelling contest in which Speaking on "The Grandstand 'M resume your duties at its expiration." University of Pennsylvania track team, night at the home of Valfred the words had to be spelled back~ Voice," John H. Anderson, president Lead in Early I talked with one of the cabinet How Uncle Sam Spends and winner of the Intercollegiate Hegge, 811 High Street. The guests ward, made a great deal of fea. of the school board, gave the view of officers about the old and feeble employees. half-mile for the last two years, has v: Innings. Your Money in Conducting came dressed in costumes that gave the onlooker in the high school's activities. Gladys Kennedy won the prize in the announced his retirement from the Your Business He said: "I don?t know what congress them the appearanco .of backing contest. The house was prettily decorated 'iW\ He urged a whole-hearted track. intends to do about them but I Barr Gets Homer with He has accepted a position with a thru the evening. Their costumes with a combination of the support of the school's interests. know what I intend to do with those business concern in Chicago and plans were reversed. The guests went Superintendent S. T. Neveln spoke Utopian and Thalian colors, syinbol— None on Bases Gute BDWARDrG. LOWRY in my department. I intend to leave By to leave for that city In a few days. backward down the stairs and in on "The Bigger 'A'," and Coach Robert izating unity of the two societies. them alone. They can stay here as Cloiw-Upa," Anthor "Washington "Banks and Eby holds two legs on the Millrose Fans Four. R. Roach gave a resume of the Financial Systems," arte'. Contributor Political long as they like, until some provision "600" and had hoped to win per- •ad Economic Articles tp Leading Periodicals athletic situation in the concluding is made for them. When I was new and a Writer of Recognized Authority on the National Government's Business Methods in the department I dismissed two of speech. if''®:, 1: Errors and poor fielding at critical these old people and demoted another, As the banquet was being served, moments in the games cost the Hormels Copyright, Western Newspaper Union on the ground that they were superannuated an orchestra composed of high school their first practice game Sunday XVI. and inefficient and were a students, played. when Owatonna defeated them 14 to mam- WHAT OF THESE OLD MEN hindrance to the work. 12 at Owatonna. SHERIFF SERVES "All three of them wrote me sad Congress enacted a law. in 1890 requiring After Owatonna had piled up ten letters and promptly committed suicide. all heads of departments and scores in the first three innings, the That was enough and more Independent establishments in -the TAX WARRANTS than enough for me. Never again Packers tightened up and played a federal service to report each year to will I disturb one of them. I do not better brand of ball. They showed the secretary of the treasury the number choose to have it on my conscience of employees under them who were early-season inexperience, however, that I pronounced sentence of death below a fair standard of efficiency. and never overcame the Owatonna Delinquent Taxes Total on an old man or an old woman in Every year this Is done and the letters lead. the service of the government. They to the secretary of the treasury from Three Times Usual Barr Gets Homer. can all stay on here as long as they the various departments and bureaus Lyle Barr, outfielder, provided the Average. like. I found them here and some of Moving? Now's the time are printed in the book of estimates of best thrill for the Hormel followers them will be .here when I leave. If appropriations compiled for use by congress chooses to provide for them when he batted a clean home-run in congress in making up the annual to buy a Lorain-equipped Over three times the normal number that is its obligation. But I will never the fourth set. His hit counted only supply bills. Congress never pays the of warrants for collection of delinquent sentence another one of them to selfdestruction, slightest heed to these reports. They one for the Packers, as the bases Gas Range no matter what the cost personal property taxes in are made up year after year, but the Reliable 'ANGLIRDN" were empty. to the taxpayer and the government." Austin and Mower county are being inefficient are never fired. Titus started the games for Austin, served this spring by Sheriff N. For example, last year the chief with D. Barr catching. In the Winto clerk of the treasury reported 170 employees Uncle Eben. Nicholsen. fourth inning the pair were replaced HETHER you will buy the stove that will go "De troublemaker," said Uncle Eben, of the Treasury department as Sheriff Nicholsen has started serving by Gute and Smith, who finished the your new home or apartment, or whether "Is one kind of manufacturer dat below a fair standard of efficiency. But 342 warrants on persons who game. Gute fanned four, while Bertsch, ought to be taxed extra." nothing will be done about it. The your landlord puts it in, make sure that it is a Reliable were unable to pay their personal Owatonna twirler, struck out BHHi Interior department reported 139 inefficients, range, equipped with the famous Lorain Oven. property taxes. In ordinary years three. and will probably go on reporting Heat Regulator. the number would be seventy-five or "Practical Books for Packers Hit Hard. them till they die of old age. eighty, Mr. Nicholsen said. The delinquencies There are employees of the government The Packers hit well for an early Practical Men" You will find it a joy to use this fine, modern range, in Washington who are totally in taxes are about evenly season game, making fifteen or sixteen and youll appreciate these results of the Lorain regulator blind and who are led from thei£4 divided between city and country of them count for bases, but the homes to their offices each day and Your library offers some new practical resident's, he saif. slow beginning gave Owatonna too Accurate, measured and controlled oven heat back home again in the afternoon. books for practical men: big a lead from the start. The warrants range from thirtythree any heat you want, maintained as long as you I knew in 1920 one gentleman of Howe—Modern City and Its Problems, cents to $500, altho the bulk of ninety-two years who had been in the want it success with every baking 'whole-meal (For city fathers.) TRACKSTERS WIN then? are below $100. government service for seventy-two cookery no pot-watching necessary and Lorain Earl Eby. Blythe—Keeping Fit at Fifty. years. He was being paid at that time Persons failing to pay their taxes (For fiftyiters who want to keep the canning—a better and easier way to put up fruits $900 a year. His maximum pay during manent possession of the cup. His THIRDJNMEDLEY by March 1, 1922, must pay a penalty forty-year-olds from treading on his long service was $1800 a year. business, however, will not permit of and vegetables. of ten per cent. There is also their toes.) James K. Polk was President when further training and reason for this added 25 cents for clerk of court Come in and see Lorain demonstrated now! this old gentleman came into the service. Haridicock—Physical Training for retired. he His home is in" Chicago. fee. Thisr fee goes to the county. The 6e was born on January 10, Business Men. Roach's Men Place in sheriff is allowed 50 cents for serving 1828. His father was a captain of Dunn—A of Golf. "Names Is Names." LORAIN th« the regular army in the war of 1812. Event at Hamline on s, each warrant, five per cent of One e*iy turn of "Lormln" Grant—Passing of a Great Race. After that service he led an active life r*4 *lu*l|lvw you a choic* pf the amount for collection, and his Ask J. L. Mitchell Yerkes—New World of Science. VEN HEAT Saturday. 44 meuurad and contioikd in other occupations until 1848, when mileage on each warrant he serves. Marden—Masterful Personality. EGULATOR ovwn butt for any kind he died, leaving a dependent family of Sheriff Nicholsen only makes a total oven cooking or hakim. Sherrill—Prime Ministers and nine persons, three of them boys. It "Names is'names." Austin high school's trackmen, charge of thirty cents for mileage, Presidents. fell to the lot of one of them to be the But sometimes "Names_is—" well, competing in the Interscholastic Relays on each. The normal charge for chief support of the family. Prout—Life of George Westinghouse. worse than that. at Hamline Saturday won third mileage from here to LeRoy, for instance, It came to pass, then, that at the age Take the president of the Austin place in the medley relay with Nockelby would be $7.60. of twenty he received through the Greenbie—Pacific Triangle. National bank for example, J. L.~ running the hundred, Searles, influence of navy friends of his father The sheriff must report his collections Ruhl—New Masters of the Baltic. Mitchell is, apparently, a law-abiding a small clerkship at the naval observatory, the 220-yard dash, Reynolds, the by June 1. Delinquent taxes AUSTIN, MINNESOTA Kelly—Expert House Painter. then under the'superintendence citizen, who hasn't yet been hauled quarter, and Remmel the half mile. which he fails to collect are deducted Slauson—First Aid to the Car. of-that accomplished officer, Matthew before Justice Detwiler or Justice Winona won first in the medley, from his salary. Fernow—Care of Trees.Stephenson—Traction Fontaine Maury, wham he served as Chaffee, a respector of the peace, in making it in 3.51. Aurora was second. Farming. Cases of persons filing answers to amanuensis for ten years, accounting other words., ~V: It a great privilege -and pleasure to Sears—Productive Orcharding. Monty, running in* the half' mile, the delinquent tax lists are: set for Bttt all the things that Mr. Mitchell have heard Maury'sr voice dictating the Goldsmith—Radio Telephony. won fourth in the first heat, but his hearing by the district court at the gets credit for and is accused of words of sense and. wisdom which Cabot—What Men Live By. time was not good enough to place fall term. would fill a book. make up the sailing directions, the Walton—Complete Angler. him. HUGHES ELECTED The latest coincidence is the announcement wind and current charts and other Russell—Motor Trucks. publications issued from the observatory that the "J. L. Mitchell" EIGHT ATHLETES Durstine—Making Advertisements for the benefit of the world. inedal will be awarded annually to CITY ATTORNEY and Making Them Pay. From a copyist at first, November 9, the University of Wisconsin student Blackford—The Job, the Man and WIN LETTERS 1848, at $3 a day, the young-man was who writes and submits the best essay E A E the Boss. advanced as follows on "Industrial jRelatioris" The July 1, 1853, clerk at $1,200 a medal is to be given in honor of Immigrant Plants. Prominent Lawyer is year July 1, 1854, clerk at $1,500 a Many of our handsome garden phim.are John Lendrum Mitchell, Wisconsin year July 1, 1870, principal clerk at 200 Attend the Athletic Chosen Successor to immigrants. These include the MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 9, ID class of 17, who died in the United $1,800 a year December 6, 1911, clerk tulip, peony, lilac, forsythia and chrysanthemum, Banquet at HighSchool. French. States army service France on at $1,400 a year May 1, 1918, stenographer while only a few, including May 28, 1918, as an aviator. and typewriter at $900 a year. the dahlia and snowdrop tree are It will be seen that lie was demoted pure Americans. Among the wild flowers, Burton Hughes, a member of the in December, 1911, and again in May, Where ripples ||fiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!iiiiiiiiiniiiiiig the natives are Jack-in-tlie-pulpit, firm of Catherwood & Nicholsen, was 1918, to lower positions, involving less At a banquet Friday evening, attended Columbine, arbutus, cardinal flower, of delight elected by the city council Tuesday work and responsibility. These demotions by 200 persons, among whom Joepye weed, yellow d^isy the immigrants, VIDDIES SIX I were at his own request. In as city attorney of Austin to succeed were many alumni and townspeople, the white daisy, butter-andeggs, Check the .October, 1917, he received from the Lafayette French, who resigned that eight Austin high school athletes chickweed, white melllot, devil's assistant secretary of the navy, Mr. position to accept the appointment as trembling tears paint-brush, peppermint, chicory, dandelion, were awarded the coveted letters LVX WillM. Maupin Roosevelt, the following letter: United States district attorney for catnip and bittersweet. Native signifying achievement in athletics "I have to Inform you that you have Minnesota. trees are the black walnut, sassafras in the high school. been granted leave without pay for nmiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiimiiiiri? and ash Immigrants are the six months beginning October 13, 1917. Following a program of toasts to Mr. Hughes' election as city attorney MAPY DAY DREAMS white mulberry, allanthus and paulownla. "As you have been In the employ the school and the athletes, the following was expected, as it has been I LONG for the days of the barlow of the government now nearly sixtynine received "A's" in recognition known for some time that he was favored knife, years, and during all that time of their athletic work during the for the position by Mayor Look over our fishing tackle line your record has been excellent, I regret And the sore toe tied with' yarn before buying. Austin Hardware Co. past year: Leon Coggins, Chester George Hirsh. PICKF0RD For the "mumblepeg" and the "Boston that there is no, way in which the Advertisement 37-1-c Nockelby, Clifford Erickson, Lee At Tuesday's meeting, Mr. Hughes taw" Owens, Bert Leversee, Ernest Jessen, was in his place as city attorney, wm In the shade of the moss-grown barn. when Mayor Hirsh requested that he Clarence Hanson, and Leslie Young. I even yearn for a stone-bruised heel, UTTViroriinnor withdraw during the discussion of Or a back burned red by the sun Mothers Prepare Banquet. his nomination, which the mayor For the old-time zest for my. couch The mothers of the boys who had then announced to the council with of rest played on Austin high school teams, from had when the day was done. the request that that body confirm I prepared the three-course banquet, PRANCES HODGSON BURNETT'S the appointment. I long for the days of the "sight unseen," which was served at 6:30 by girls cnims famous story from the domestic science department. Disapproves Election Method. And the peg tops spun with twine The nomination was received with SCENAkiO BY BERNARD MCCONVILLC For my old-time place down at second Frederick Crane, president of the approval by the majority of councilmen, base DUCTOGRAPHY BY CUARLES ROSUER Athletic association, acted as toastmaster altho Alderman Decker took exception As one of the village "Nine." DIRECTION. BY JACK PICKEORD 5L at the program of speeches to the method used in arriving I even yearn .for the finger bunged ALHRED E. GREEN which followed the banquet. Harold at it. Mr. Decker's contention Or the thumb with a ragged split was that the council, alone, had the Fawver, who holds the record of The touching appeal Or the old-time lump on my bulging IS SHE faithfulness in practice and play on right to nominate and elect the city brow and quaint, the teams on which he has played, attorney. That showed where the baseball hit. tine humor of the PSOUD Of was the first speaker. His subject Nomination of A. C. Richardson I long for the days of the swimmin' hole, tender story the was "The Forward Pass," in which was made by Alderman Burns, seconded And the "swish" of the old fish-line wonderful art of he compared that technical improvement by Alderman Weilarid^- Then BERHOME? For the "crockrles," "aggies," "glassies" the never-to-beforgotten in football to the constant the question arose as to whether Mr. and dual portrayal The "nealles" that once were mine. pressing forward of Austin high Hughes had been properly nominated the exquisite School. BE the walls spotless, the woodwork I even yearn for the blistered hands and it was decided that he had. On beauty of the entire That came from the old grub hoe Next year's football captain, iJfcslie finely finished, the furniture the ballot the council divided 6 to 1 production-—all of For the appetite that came with night Young, made a plea for a new in favor of Mr. Hughes. unmarrcd, th£. floors irreproachable? In the days of long ago. .... these have captured football grounds. Dr. F. P. Meany The new city attorney has held .a a at rjr|# In woird, do guests see her home the hearts of I long for the days that are-long, long urged better sportsmanship in his prominent place in his profession and its best? dead, everyone who has toast on "Personal Fouls." Leon Coggins, in civic and social circles in Austin Thete is a "JiiTl When hiy heart was free from'.care basketball captain, expressed seen this photoJ for several years, and is recognized FORMAN, FORD & CO. For stlie sufiny hours when my boyish S- the gratitude of the athletes to the play^' of- rarest as especially well qualified to fill the paint or varr&ih for every need.- soul lrlf student^ and the townspeople for cHann^a place left vacant by- Mr. French's Was as H|ht as|the^ supamer air.£ their support. resignation. *ts If it is still new, keep it agCl so renew "V ^But, thank} the Lord, I am living yet. Expresses School's Adnjiration.' s— 1 'VP •J4' "Save the SUrface and You Save All And I thank- Hlm, too/Coat I Voicing the sentiments of the high Hears Musc'al Program—The second Can sit at ease when the day is done school as a while, Miss- Gladys Kennedy program under the auspices of lYETIM?!* DPAQ And dream of the days gone by. RELIABLES TWICE DAILY—-Matinee 2 30 p. m.^ Evenings 8:15 spoke on "Stars," in which/she tfie newly organized student council IF ElL li II a US. HARDWARE (CODYTiKht.) expressed the pfride which Austin at the. high school was held Thursday 0 P:IE C,EP ORCHESTRA 9 Keep your lawn looking nice by using high school has in her athletes. Lawrence morning in the auditorium. The "The Store That Satisfies" a Caldwell lawn mower for sale, Remmel, track captain, urged high school Boys Glee Club sang a by the Austin Hardware Co. :^c.WC|j Playing: Special Muaical Scores MINN. *1LXu£Tkp^^ Advertisement 37-1-c a greater interest in track, a com- •i- group of songs. Miss Evelyn Ober