ifrrr $3 t-^WW fi ^ssWwJB i£?^V£r^~ -li ^-*-.-3 "4"-*"*£ ?^v -J 7 jM-.-'ifjru V,-" -O Five MOWER COUNTY NEWS, AUSTIN, MINN. Page Monday, July 24, 1922 Steele County Fair "it "Yes," he continued, costs a lot*"- Mrs, Harriman With 'No More War' Banner EVA PAINTS SIGNS of money but we happen to be veiy True First Radio Exposition True fortunate in having the Fonce Radiomanufacturing impi company located Irero Detective Stories Detective Stories In Austin Friday to place publicity and because of the fact that the principal and advertising' for the 1922 Steele stockholders are great believer* MIDNIGHT MURDER BY PERSONS county fair, L. Klima, advertising in the Steele county fair we wiH have manager, said, "Besides having already UNKNOWN this great radio school ond exhibition." earned the distinction of being Copyright bjrSThe Wheeler Syndicate, Inc. Minnesota's biggest county fair Mr. Klima said that every buildup" 'HEN1 the-" only thing you have this year we are proud to announce Copyright by The Wheeler Syndicate, Inc. would be equipped with radijp aerial to gq|on is the fact that sev-. that the first radio fair in America and complete set and there will be TT IS absolutely a -in Grafton street .will be held at Owatonna, the week one large building devoted wholly to the secretary ^v^reasury, recaU ^g^g^i^frd-a cry a few nights before tlie state fair. ing across his d6S&3ft en sedh Radi()-v .. ruddy-complexioned, rather stotitrihfln •4 who sat opposite him, "that the persons ThajV^all, chief If it weren't for responsible for these lynchings in the se*eam $he night—and they all at Versailles be arrested, tried and TWO DAYS SWEET-SHOP agrjgg&hat ij^wfas a blood-curdling cry convicted. I don't think it is overstating & —it?Wtrtzld lobfrJike a plain case of disappearance. the matter to say that this We'v^ been all through case is more important than any tlie'-ho'use, bui? of course we couldn't counterfeiting plot or smuggling Wfcctt it thoroughly without a regular OPENING IS SUCCESSFUL scheme which the department has ever .warrant, and there's no ground for issuing worked on, for ,the governor of Indiana one.1 -Epstein may have wandered has applied to the federal .government off somewhere to get away from for troops to handle the uprising his wife. She's a regular hellion, they ,Miss Eva La Hose ot .Lavvrencer 1 which threatens to sweep over a pay—though she was nice as pie to Mass., gave up "slingingdishes" as that part of the country, and the entire waitress, to sling paint. She is now Sincere Appreciation is Extended to- the us." state is taking sides in the matter. a cracker jack in the art, and is said John Kane, chief inspector of Scotland 4*' & to be the only girl sign painter in New Yard, rubbed his chin thoughtfully. "Naturally we do not wish to send England. People of Austin and Community troops to Versailles unless it is absolutely "I'll take a run down to Grafton necessary. It would only street myself as soon as I have gotten lead to additional bloodshed and disorder. "It Looked Like a Battlefield in Europe," 4b these reports out of the way," Said Mr. C. Dunster. What we need is someone stated Kane. "In the meantime keep who has the nerve to go out there, Mrs. J. Borden Harriman, member of the executive board of the National "Was staying at a hotel in a small & an eye on the house, and let me know investigate the case from every possible Two days of very successful opening are Council for Reduction of Armaments, holding the "No More War" banner with Pennsylvania town. Early "bhe morning if anything develops." angle and make a report as to the unbroken circle of the flags of all nations, which will'be raised over the I went to the stable to hire a rig over and we wish to take this opportunity When Kane approached the house on the persons responsible for the lynchings. and was shown a pile of dead rats council headquarters as part of the international "No More War" demonstration Grafton street later in the evening, That's why I sent for you." killed with RAT-SNAP the night before. to be carried out In fourteen nations July -29 and 30, the week-end preceding to express our sincere appreciation to the one of his men reported that there Looked- like a batlte-field in The man on the other side of the the anniversary of the outbreak of the World war. were indications of activity inside the Europe." Three sizes, 35c, 65c, $1.25, people of Austin and Community for their' desk smiled and tapped thoughtfully !Sold and guaranteed by Pooler Drug place. with the forefinger of a hand which interest and g-ood patronage of the Sweet !Co. INJUNCTIONS ARE "Looks like they were getting ready from.our side and not violating a law, indicated strength and determination 'Advertisement July. to'go away or something," said the Shop. of character. but every once in a while we were operative. "There's a dray coming up "Of course," contimied the secretary, charged with carrying guns and we SERVED IN AUSTIN ... now. Wouldn't' be surprised if the "I must warn you that the case were subjected to search, We are glad that you were pleased for in All sorts woraa'n) alarmed our snooping Is one that is apt to prove dangerous. of insulting insinuations were circulated, around, is preparing for a getaway." the future, as attendants become more acquainted More so, in fact, than anything you while on the other hand the Kane said -nothing, but edged closer have ever attempted. Compared to with the service we wish to offer, the Brotherhood of Railway Carmen' company violated the child labor law to the house. From the meager information it. the roundup of a gang of moonshiners of America and Clem Beckel, Alex by putting children to work in the at his disposal, he was not at you will like the Sweet Shop better than is child's play—for here you Laufle, Pat Gilvery, Eugene Cree-. roundhouse under^ fourteen years of all inclined to credit the theory ttiat will have to work entirely in the dark, t. ever. a crime had been committed. But one man against practically an entire gan, Thomas Brown, James Gallag- age, violating the state boiler inspecher, •J- there would be no harm in looking state. A single slip would mean your Albin Larson, John Couhig, Ar- tion laws and allowed their men to things over, particularly if Mrs. Epstein death, and would force the government thur Brittain, Joe Martin. carry guns both on their property to take steps which might lead was intending to move. Under the restraining order the and on the streets." NYGRIS & GODFREY to protracted bloodshed." From the driver of the dray, Kane & strikers are principally enjoined from & obtained the information that the luggage "In which case," replied the other, •J. Arrest Guard picketting the buildings and property was to ba taken to Charing Cross "it would be well for me to get out N. Main Street of the railroad except' that one thence to be shipped across the channel. Toting Weapon to Versailles as soon as I can. The The tags were on the various representative of the strikers may be longer we wait the less chance there Shows-two nerves issuing from Charged with carrying concealed articles, and it was not- until the last is of success. Don't make any attempt maintained at each regular entrance the vertebrae of the .spinal column PARR piece was brought out of the house weapons, Albert Hanson, a guard Hoi to hear from me or to locate me ts in its normal condi­ for the purpose of announcing the that Kane noted anything out of the for at least a month. If, at the end employed by the .Milwaukee rairoad, tion, diving health and vi«for strike and peaceably persuading employes that portion of the body- it ordinary. Then he motioned to his to of that time, you haven't received was lodged in the county jail Friday and would-be employes not to serves. men to close in. some kind of a report, you will know following an altercation wi£h strike Mo.2. cannot perform its. work for. the company from interfering "Take that chest back into the that they've got me. But, somehow, pickets stationed at Railway and mission, beins? pinched by with the employes of the road house," he ordered. "Let's see what's I've got a hunch that they won't." displaced vertebra,. It is Walter streets. Hanson was later and in going to and from their work in it!'" It was two days later that the train this impairment of nerve released when Union officials agreed function,that is the cause of which stopped at Versailles, Ind., or remaining at such work from any "What right have you to give such nearly every form ot not to press charges against him if disease halted just long enough to permit a orders?" demanded a voice from the violence to persons employed at the CHIROPRACTIC he left the city. single passenger to alight—a man doorway, and the Scotland Yard man, yards, or from interfering with the looking up, caught a glimpse of a tall, who was short and rather plump and The fight between Hanson and the THEATRE traffic or injuring the property of the Quickly corrects such impairment, with a ruddy complexion, a man who gaunt woman glaring down at him pickets is said to have taken place without dru$s or railroad.- registered at the local hotel as "James from tlie threshplfr.. instrument, restoring the when Hanson was accosted- by two body to a I M. Beck" and who allowed it to become healthy condition. "The right of an, officer of the crown pickets as he stepped from the Johnson known that he was an Insurance Negroes Driven to investigate 'suspicious circumstances," Drug store. The guard is reported agent, representing one of the retorted Kane. "I happen DR. R. L. NELSON From Roundhouse to have reached for his revolver best-known companies in the country. to be the chief inspector of Scotland and flashed it at his assailant But Versailles, as Beck soon discovered, Yard, and,, as your husband recently The thirteen negro workers in the MONDAY AND TUESDAY— as the atter sent him reeling-to the was a poor field for life insurance disappeared, I desire to know what is CHIROPRACTOR round house were driven from the at that time. There was only ground. in that box." city Thursday night "at 7:45 when THE SON OFWAIUNGFORD one topic of conversation JLn^ which It was in the dim, barely-furnished When Sheriff N. Nicholsen invest- LEWIS BUILDING the natives were interested the-lynching aboutji hundred strike sympathizers he matter, following the ar parlor of the house that Kane directed1 igated of the five prisonerS~"*Wfio had the chest to be placed. The flickering stormed the round house and drove v. L. Scholl, chief AUSTIN, MINN. rest of the guard been taken from jail and murdered by yellow light -of a single gas jet cast Written and Directed by Lillian and George them out. special agent for the Milwaukee, said an infuriated mob. This, coupled with a ghostly illumination over the scene, Office Telephone Dial 2277 Preceding the demonstration at disturb_ Randolph Chester. he was anxious to avoid open threats of defiance against vlie. and even Kane's iron nerves were Residence Dial 7122 the round house, the strike sympa- I, guards governor's edict that the guilty men of any kind between tlie shocked when the lid of the box was thizers paraded thru the main streets the pickets and that he was will- A Big Special Production with All Star cast. must be punished, kept the town ia a thrown back, and what appeared to an( of the city calling on the men along. -ng discharge any agent of the continual state of simmering, seething be a ghost sat up and leered out into unrest—punctuated by frequent statements the streets to join them. |company ho does not conduct himIncensed the room! It was the body of the A masterpiece of Film Production a story of human that any state or government over what they termed the missing man, the upper portion of the gelf with that end in view official who tried to find out the names lntei est, love, adventure and mammoth specetacular trunk attached to the lid of the box importation of strike breaker and jaco"b Herzog""and other representparticularly •fire scenes. of the men implicated in the lynching in such a manner that, when the top angry because they were tjves -the shop employes declared would he shot on sight. a 0 wras thrown back, the body sprang into negroes, a crowd of strikers and ^hat they were heartily in accord Beck, apparently, wasn't in the least a sitting posture, as if it were alive —AND— sympathizers gathered at the shops jth the efforts to maintain peace interested in the local turmoil. He again. had been sent to Versailles to sell insurance, following the parade. avoid disturbances of any Even Mrs. Epstein, hardened as she THE DOG AND THE MOSQUITO and It was reported that two of the ne- kjnd and he was determined to was, cried out at the apparition and sell it, no matter how- many people gro workers were beaten up, a statement A Modern Fable. then fainted away. he had to interview. The fact that that could not be verified but "Quick!" directed Kane. "Find out he was a stranger led, of course, to Too Keen in most of them were escorted a mile or how the man was killed!" Immediate suspicion of his motives, Jud Tunkins sa.vs tin* "A thrust of some long, thin instrument two out of town and told never to return, and some two weeks passed before he peteut hi rod man is ah- .?: r1 through the heart," reported one advice that they promptly complied was able to allay this. a*ho is most anxious to quit wo WEDNESDAY— "A of the detectives. drop of blood with. undertake to be a boss. About the end of the third week on his chest is the only indication of According to observers of the demonstration, matters were brought to a head by foul play, but that's what did it, all JACK HOLT reason of a wire which Beck sent to strikers and their supporters SHEIKH UL ISLAM right. Not a stiletto or a dagger, New York, a dispatch which was in entered the shops from the though. The puncture isn't large code and which caused the operator east side of the railroad yards, going enough for that." —IN— to spread the report that, the "life The chief 4nspector examined the across the overhead bridge and filing insurance agent" was a detective in THE GRIM COMEDIAN wound for a moment carefully, and into the yards orderly but with a disguise. Getting wind of this and then, stepping across to where the rush. No violence was shown any of realizing that he must take some radical fainting woman lay, began, to* fumble the men while in the shops, however, step to offset suspicion, Beck approached with- something ip her hair. —AND— according to eye witnesses and while the man who appeared to be "Throw somfe ypater in her face," the leader of the trouble-faction. The there was considerable confusion and he ordered, "and-, then, stand back. I YEARS TO COME agent explained to him that he. Was excitement none of the imported want to And out something before she getting tired of the quarters a't the gets a chance to recover her nerve." workmen or those who entered the A Pollard Comedy hotel, and wondered if it would be As the woman's eye» opened, she became-aware, loiindhoitse suffered injuries. possible to secure lodgings in some first, of •theRbody of her private house where he would be a jJead husband staring kt^er with sightaccusing little more comfortable. re£e|. Th«Bk%he saw the Strike Officials THURSDAY AND FRIDAY— "Certainly," said the native. "I ^hief inspect^^Mandljii^in front of Get Them At The reckon we can put you up all right." Issue Statement her, examining under a^opCket magnifying ELLEN TERRY AND And he smiled at the thought of this glass—sometliini^^that shone Austin officials of the Federated man whom he suspected placing himself and glittered in the light o^ the jet directly entirely in his power. That, however, Shop Crafts emphatically denied that above it.' was precisely what Beck wished, yfo instant later *Kan£ stood over the disturbance was either planned or and it only took a couple of days of her, |iis finger indicating the thing he le$ by any of the leaders of the striL clever acting to convince the local heUy|&Ms?|j|Lnd. erl 6r by shop employes themselves. -IN— leader that he was only what he appeared i^|p*d1d 2?ou kill y3tf$:h|tsband -at Jacob .Herzog and Richard Taylor, to be—a slow, plodding and *our days ago?" li%demand- ?l(T. representing the shop employes, "onscientious Insurance agent. It was -H a did! j. There's no use house of the most dangerous made the following statement Friday len/ii Ve -havg fitnesses who', very of Versailles, under $he "There were very few, if any, ^of hea/d ii. We li^Vptoof that j#.?' •-J':- i's associates, that the stranlie our men in the crowd! The action last you v.-f c. •'e the ho^S^ with hiifi. rr rv Made by the Director of the "Four Horseman." information he wanted' tv" Vt he had :a^onfeideEal5|e: night, we feel, represents the sentiments t?^. -i cT: jiixvv f-r together piece-by piece, 8 -uni or' aiui.ey concealed on the precSises of Austin as a corporation establishing W' I' I the entire story. jiiiti'—here his yoide became the a 'black* belt' in our city. ecisely a month to thfc day .. W&I of have here the weap-'i Hear the Matinee Daily office of There is no slum district in our city after the conversation in the onTVkh' w!0eh the murder was comiBHi nor is there room^for one. We place the rsrretary of the treasury, when —your hatpin, with a tiny bit at 2:30 Augmented Here is the real head of the Mohammedan tlit: ofacial received a wire fropa Chicago the blame for what took place last of the uv.ud man's blood clotted close church. Hls full title Is Sheikh stating that "all facts about Versailles night at. thje door of the ones that tO- the head where you neglected to Qy$% Ul Islam Haldary Zade Ibrahim Effendi, 3Jt Park Complete lynching now in hand. Two Evening were respsOnsible for bringing the 39ipe it off and in this photograph he i^ -ksd of follows "\5f? list men implicated monthgvJatep, Mrs. Epstein negroes here and from the information Shows shown wearing priestly robes, jrichl^1 ola^sme by Orpteitraf ,: mail," embroidered. This'leader of ^we fcan gather they wfefe misled 7:30 and^ 9:00 The name signed to the. wire w«s Jflte, while ^e= ^fttpin was added 4 JIO lowers of Allah is absolute ruleri spfr^ as to this work they were to ^erform. "William J. Burns, chief of the Upited .. ithftt gruesoigfc collection which adorLS, itually, and lii the mosque his word There- was no violence r?.^?gtates secret service." •._ is law. "We were conducting a clean strike ms .....v.. •. Sl'&T&C