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Mower County news (Austin, Minn.) 1920-1947

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•*5 AT rje-t W'JSf, w4- a -.tjsssm)®. *yi iS® iM««»nreaira«iarai«ii»i«aBa»«»»Bwna»««SB&3a^«OTsmCTirogrea«iWap^^ immmr m'm -mg&MP :. •*».•"•• H®® sgtfsps .ft *h- ler&J -»-4*s ."-:vvr- .% '-.-,.•,vv,*\.- r~"? -•, .»c .- v.-'-..••• •.«•-•.. *_ **•.: .- -fc^j42$r%:2*z., -. -. *«s» ... w: Jg?^ .-t, MOWER COUNTY NEWS, AUSTIN, MINN. Monday, Aug. 14,1922. Page Three 1 wife and* daughter, went to Carrington, MASONS TO HONOR DID YOU KNOW .N. D., today, to "Visit his brother-in-law, *3 25 YEARS AGO C. H. Dadidson. Mr. Mitchell will be gone a couple of weeks. FIRST PRESIDENT WHEN MOWER COUNTY WAS FIRST SETTLED? The Armory hall has been thoroly The following items of interest The first settlement within the limits tween the claims of the two McMillans. renovated and put in first class condition. are from the files of the Austin of Mowey county of which there The Armory is in fine shape Daily Register for the week ending is any .record was probably made, Second Settlement at Le Roy. Ground Already Broken for Classic now and makes an elegant place Jior August 14, 1897: says the History of Mower County, The second point of settlement in the boys to drill. Structure on Outskirts of on July 4, .1852, in what is now Racine Mower county was also near the border Since the bicycle ordinance was township, section l1, township Alexandria, Va. line. In 1852 Isaac Van Houghton, passed the tinkling of the bicycle bell •uBD]J9tuv oSBDiqo—*ajn jo sSoiq* A 103, range 14, by Jacob McMillan, who assisted in surveying the is heard at crossings and also when [Baa }B9jS oq} qjiM 0unj uj puu Sr., and his party, which consisted of boundary line between the state of teams are met on the street. One enthusiastic id A3 sjqSnoqi jpq* daaii j£aq} asnBoaq COST IS PUT AT $2,500,000 nine children, one son's family and a Iowa and the then territory of Minnesota, bicycilist had a string of Pio moj3 ?ou HIM pue SuiAn Jjaqj son-in-law of the elder McMillan. japuoA* jM. SJBe^f aqj ^jap ua was much pleased with the sleigh bells hanging to his handle At the time no survey had been araog uBpu&tBO pub aapraoaoaqd vicinity of what now constitutes Le bars today, which attracted attention jfq saSB jo uopsanb aqj aujouaJ made, and as a matter of fact the land Roy township. A year later he induced enough to make him safe from Every Mason In Country to Be Asked -ap jouubd noj 'aAp-jSjuaAv auipag was not open to. settlement, for altho danger of the law. several of his fellow citizens to Contribute $1, and Aiready jo s£bp qBjp aqj u] aau auxos 'AuaAas the Indian treaty of Mendota, which of Lansing, Iowa, to join him in a aaAO JB drnijg Jjaq? uj aae nam auiog $700,000 Has Been Collected- There are already at least two candidates ceded the land to the whites had at .colonizing venture. Consequently some •SJB9A am & MOJEW SUIXjsq Hall of Fame for Masons. in the field for deputy postmaster, that time been signed by the Indians, time in the summer of 1853, Isaac Mr. Geo. Anderson and Miss and approved with amendments by Van Houghton, George Squires, J. S. turning Alexandria, Va.—With the Badly Shaken. Eva Fenton. FASTEST CAR IN WORLD AT STATE FAIR. the senate, the amendments had not priest, Moses Niles, and Isaac Armstrong spot on Hubby (reading paper)—"Just of the first 'sod on a beautiful |?een accepted by the Indians, nor the 1 The fastest cas in the world, capable of going at the rate of more than came to the extreme southeastern think, an earthquake has destroyed the outskirts of Alexandria, overlooking Mrs. Bob Murphy and son, Arthur, three miles a minute, will be piloted at the Minnesota State Fair, September official proclamation issued by the work has the entire town of Piszikszykisky in the national capital, part of Le Roy township. leave for Peshitago, Wis., tonight. 2 to 9, by Sig Haugdahl, a Minnesota boy. Haugdahl expects to shatter prae* George Washington president. Poland." Wife—"Was it spelled the., begun on a memorial to •tlcally every mile dirt track record at the fair. The western part of the county received fitting companion-piece same way before the earthquake?"— which will be a Upon their arrival the party camped George E. Anderson, son of Sven four settlers in 1853. "Hunter" Lincoln Memorial Houston Post. to the by what is now known as Hamilton Anderson has been appointed a clerk (H. O. or O. P.) Clark, who settled In Washington. Spring. Before unhitching his team, in the Austin postoffice. Gibbons and A KODAK ON THE FOR HIS LONG SERVICE a temple Inspired in Lansing township one Woodbury The edifice, stately Early Epigrams. Mr. McMillan nailed a coffee mill to Riley are promoted a step. and Roman architecture, by Greek Is HIGHWAY and his son-in-law, Pinkerton, that the It has to be remembered a tree, as a visible sign of his claim erected by the efforts being combined who settled in Lyle township, and AusNichols, Dr. Daigneau will leave on an Eastern sound 8Q early epigrams which now to a homestead. For a time the family of all the Masons and Masonic orders As a rule the worst boss a man can who settled on the present trip in a few days. flat, were not insipid when they wef# lived in the wagons, later they United States, and will be a In th£ perpetrated. have is himself. site of Austin. the man and tribute to Washington, took up their abode in a rude cabin Judge Washburn, O. J. Simmons Austin Nichols hunted along the Mason. It will be 200 feet from portico of rough poplar logs. Near the place The tailor should stick to his last— and Messrs. Seebach and Kinsman enjoyed Cedar river in 1852, and in 1853 reached to observation platform on the of settlement were two springs some and the husband to his first. a pleasant bicycle ride to the Spcncer Jordan extensive top, and will be surrounded by an the present"site of Austin. In his ten rods apart. Jacob McMillan took vicinity of Sutton last evening. landscaped garden to be The crops seem to be doing well in reminiscences he does not state the west spring, and the -land west of known aS George Washington park. It Funeral Director. spite of all the gossip afrout them. whether he spent his first winter of John Skinner, the pusher for the it, while his son, Jacob, Jr., took the Is expected that the memorial will be The Establishment of 1853-1854 here. At any rate, he drove Herald, was seen on the streets of land east of this* line, thus including completed in from four to five years. Some folks are so "cultured" that Service. his first claim stake June 8, 1854. Oakland last evening. He says he in his property the more eastern part The cost will be approximately $2,500,000. they eat grapes with a nutcracker. likes the town. In 1855 the real influx of settlers of the two springs. Constructed of snowy marble and •v W 4 "V "V It's almost hot enough for the clear began, and from then until 1860 the The county line now x-uns a few J. L. Mitchell, cashier of the Austin white concrete, the columned structure thine-s to wear all their furs. WE'LL EXPLAIN rods to the eastyvard of the line be- pioneers came in readily. National bank, accompanied by his will tower high above the river and will stand out from a background of What is needed in this world today mmiiimiimiiiimiiiniiiiinitmmimmHiHmmuiuHiiinuimsnsmuisnnsHnmiit THE KEY THAT UNLOCKS THE If you think printing is densely wooded hillsides, visible foi is more charity of the soft-pedal variety. DOOR TO LONG LIVING. miles, and within a short distance in ACCESSORIES ARE INCREASED all alike, let us tell you The men of eighty-five and ninety Muiint Vernon. how our work differs. It BY MANY QUAINT REVIVALS years of age are not the rotund, wellfed, Masons to Contribute. will be time well spent $* Those who live on Easy Street generally but thin, spare men, who live on Every Mason has been asked to contribute a a so arrived by the alley of. Hard a slender diet. Be as careful as he a dollar toward the fund, and will, however, a man past middle age thing worth while. Knocks. already more than $700,000 has been will occasionally eat too much or of collected. Additional pledges bring some article of food not suited to his I A lot of men had a reputation for the figure tx almost $1,600,000. Masonic constitution, causing indigestion or truth and veracity—before they took MOWER COUNTY orders and Individuals contributing constipation and will need a dose of up golf. Chamberlain's Tablets to move his -$100 toward the fund will be placed N E W S bowels and invigorate his stomach. upon the honor charter roll to be kept When a chap is sliding1 down hill, When this is done, there is no reason among the temple archives. 202 E. MILL STREET. all the world seems to .want, to supply why the average man should not The building, according to architects, a live to ripe old age. more grease. will be after the style of memorials •*••1..:.,: In recognition of his Services of fifty to heroes placed at the harbor entrances of years -in the money-order division The lad who thinks the world is his of ancient Greek and Roman F. N. the Post Office Department Rainey oyster generally finds that he is in It ridge cities. will be erected on a AUTO TOP was presented with a gold watch from need- of a cracker. 250 feet above the Potomac, and by Postmaster General Work. its tower, 200 feet higher, a grand If the coal miners insist on making and AUTO PAINTING panorama of the City of Washington it cold for us, the public will make TAKE PRINTS OF NOSES will lie before the observer, as well as of the country bordering upon it warm for them. Mount Vernon. R. H. GRAY, Proprietor A hundred years from" now where The first floor will be given over largely to a memorial hall, the commanding-feature Bertillon Expertry Applied to will your worries be? Dial 4128 Austin, Minn. Main St. of which will be a 2 Blooded Cows Proves Success. One of the inalienable rights of a heroic statue of Washington. However, as the memorial as a whole will child is to have a grandmother who WE HAVE ON HAND be dedicated also to the memories can make a pumpkin pie. of other great Masons of the country, Experiments Conducted at the Minnesota Sbmcl Coupe Seat Covers there will be available to the Grand The school house with its closed, University Farm, in Wfiich Lodges of each state space In the shutters and locked door, looks beautiful 2,000 Prints Were Taken, memorial hall in which they may enshrine very nice to keep dust off clothes. to the little boy these days. Proves No Two Are Alike. portraits £r other tributes to They are washable. Mo sons whose deeds place them beside If you'd take a moving picture of St. Paul, Minn.—Bertillon expertry the First President. some people's thoughts, it wouldn't in the purebred cattle Industry, an innovation Price $10.00 on put Such men as Paul Revere, representing put a crimp in the film market. in the identification of the Massachusetts De Witt Clintoit, aninals by "nose prints," is the latest New York Benjamin Franklin, Pennsylvania With choice steaks still up in the .subject"cattle men will have to Henry Clay, Lewis and 9 pictures it's hard to convince the fat learn with the spreading of the practice Clark, Blair, Randolph and many among live stock men. man that there is any justice in this others have been suggested to be remembered Experimented with last October at world. thus as prominent historymaking the university farm here by. W. E. Sell Thru an Ad in Masons. Peterson, superintendent of official The man who invented the vacuum IN and they vary greatly In size and The temple will be the active lodge THE thousand and one accessories testing in Minnesota, at the suggestion cleaner is dead. His memory is revered of quarters of Alexandria-Washington dress with which women shape. Very pretty little affairs are of O. H. Baker of the American Jersey by husbands who formerly beat Lodge No. 22 A. F. and A. M„ of made by painting small palmleaf fans vary and accent their costumes, neckwear Cattle club, the new identification the News the carpet. which Washington was the first Master a light color, binding them with narrow just now holds first place, and system has acted as a substitute for when it was Lodge No. 39. Other satin ribbon shirred on and winding the guimpe, sleeveless or otherwise, the unsatisfactory branding methods. What has become of the old-fashioned the handles with ribbon. They rooms surrounding the atrium will be commands most attention. It often More than 2,000 prints have been girl who kept her hands soft are further decked out with little nosegays given over to the uses of grand national usurps the place of the blouse and is taken and are on file, and no two and pretty by getting them into the of gay organdie or millinery bodies of ihe order. At all shown with round or tuxedo collar, have been found alike. When the suggestion Mower County News MARKET PLACE, tim^s, except when used in ritual by flowers. dish water three times a day? vestee or jabot front, made of net, had reached the ears of many You can do go thru an advertisement in the Combs of tortoise fehell or other the Alexandria lod^e, the entire tem nsually and trimmed with lace Hrnl of the leading cattle breeders it was pie will be open to the public. A friend doesn't mind much what transparent celluloid are made in lacy tucks. An example of the popular net regarded as a humorous bit of "air It only costs a cent a word each issue, with Masonic Art Gallery. -patterns and set with colored or white guimpe is shown in the group of accessories kind of architectural lines you are talk," but, like the days subsequent rhinestones for evening and afternoon Above the hall, which will rise in a pictured. built on, so long as you have a knob to the developing of the world generally, a minimum charge of 25c. For example wear. The vogue for earrings appears I'K-ar story from the ground floor, will The Peter^ Pan collar and simple the past few months has proved on which to hang his affection. to increase along with other revivals be a museum and Masonic art gallery. collars longer than the Peter Pan ave the efficacy of the new identification an advertisement of eight words three insertions and now Come lace mitts following in Here will be placed Masonic portraits The inventor of the bass drum and system. developed in net, marquisette and and the many historic relics of Wasli» the wake of long skirts. would cost 25c nine words three scrim also in batiste and a few the inventor of the bass drum and The procedure in making nose prints But beads of all kinds, lea4 by inglon and the several other noted heavier fabrics. Old fashioned embroideries is simple. The cow's head is taken' the inventor of the firecracker are times would cost 27c and so on. beautiful pearls, remain the most Virginians who from time to time and little round collars have under left arm, its nose wiped and ink unknown, but the world must give ear popular of all adornments. The fad ha\e been members of the Alexandria been resurrected, so that, if one possesses applied with a soaked stamping pad. to them. just now is for three strands fastened lodge. an heirloom, now is the time to A small board to which mimeograph WRITE YOUR ADVERTISEMENT with one clasp. A replica of the first lodge hoase paper has been attached takes the Imprint. wear it. THE REMNANT. used by Alexandria lodge, which was The lower edge of Hie paper There Is an immense variety in fans. HERE, AND SEND IT IN NOW After the rose is gone we still may dedicated by Washington, will he Included. is started at the base of the cow's Those for evening include gauze and Other souvenirs include the upper lip and with slight, even pressure, lace mounted on shell, ivory, and know clock which stood beside Washington's rolled upward. The resultant transparent celluloid sticks. Spangles From a lone Fragrance where it used bed, the pendulum cord Of which was nose print is a permanent record, as Still twinkle and painted flowers still to grow noses do not change with time. cut at the moment of his death a bloom on these gauze and lace fans vbtwn nevstak* uwau cornuoHT After the bell is silenced we».may hear pocket knife given Washington by his According to Mr. Peterson, positive On the still air: its echo clean and mother, which was carried by him as identification of animals is necessary clear Refreshing Ignorance. a boy and man his old hour-glass, the for several reasons. Substitution of When we have passed beyond the sunset two scrub cows would have little significance, Radio Plows May Replace Mr*. Kawior—"I can't do without chair he occupied as Worshipful Master he said, but if a pure-bred my matutinal coffee." Mrs. Newricli and which was used for 122 years, hill Hired Men on Farms Soon —"Is that a good brand? We've tried and the Williams portrait of Washington, cow should be replaced by a mediocre May there remain in our* old corners so —many that are poor."—Boston which be approved. one, the substitution might mean still Mechanical plows controlled With these will also be placed the thousands of dollars. Again, if afresh Transcript. Some wisp of song, some fragrance of from a radio tower may be expected spade used in the ground-breaking cow of similar appearance were to replace to revolutionize agriculture white prayer a cow on official test a seriousfraud ceremony by Louis A. Watres, President The Urge of Success. t)f the future, according to Touching men's hearts with gladness would be perpetrated." of the Masonic National Memorial Once the task of success gets you, John Hays Hammond, Jr., of Many insurance-concern^ have solicited association. As this simple ceremony unaware. there is born an eternal urge, unsatisfied Washington. "Gangs of mechanical information about it," Superintendent was planned hastily and completed with inferior things. It compels in plows of the kind already Your Name Peterson stated. Under the present success. The., problems discourage on an hour's notice no special that Dreaded South African Snake. on great farms in use the the arrangement the livexstock owners weaklings put fire into the blood tools were provided. The greatest terror of all South African Middle West can be controlled The thirty-two-acre tract surrounding may. insure eight or ten animals and make men irresistible. The neighbors Address snakes is the black mamba. Its and operated simultaneously by and in many cases with the death of the temple has already been obtained wonder how it all happens. It bite is almost instantly fatal, and the radio from a tower, centrally located," any one animal, insurance is collected, by the association. The larger doesn't happen. It's Just nature asserting mamba is of a strangely irritable disposition, he aaid. "Work which regardless of whether or not one of portion, about twenty-two acres, valued herself and worthy youth coming frequently "itching for a now takes weeks can be done in $1,000,000, the insured cattle was the dead one. at more than was into his own.—Exchange. Send in Your Order Today to scrap," and apparently fond of bluffing days. What that will mean to according to Mr. Peterson. With nose bought of the city of Alexandria at a man by its near presence, daring him agriculture is self-evident." prints, the companies will have positive a nominal figure, which made it a gift. WANT AD DEPARTMENT to try and hit it, then landing a swift Beautiful Papuan Viillages. ... proof. Ceremonies of cornerstone laying return that cannot be avoided. It will Some of-the Papuan communities "Substitution is also possible* in tuberculosis were planned for Nov. 4, the anniversary also dash out from its den and attack are literally "villages beautiful." They MOWER COUNTY NEWS testing," the testing superintendent of the Inauguration of the the passer-by. are cleanswept, with streets sanded Given New Jaw. continued. "In a case where a country's first President, but have been and planted with ornamental shrubs. A French sergeant, named Vialla, valuable animal reacts to the test and advanced to early October. The day Make your own count and enclose money with order. In the center are little plazas or "palaver whose lower jaw was blown away bj is condemned, ear tags may be has not yet been set, but the program spots" where conferences are explosives in the World war, has been Care for Tan Shoes. swapped and another animal of -less Initials and numbers count the same as one word. includes participation by President held. These are paved with flat reconstructed with a complete set of New tan shoes should always-be poT. value may be killed, while the reactor Harding, Chief Justice Taft and many stones beside which are eretfed ^tone false teeth, and a rubber tongue. He Ished before wearing. Any scratches is saved to spread the disease to other other notable and high government now able to talk and sing. ei pillars to serve as backvestC will th$n affect only the surface... animals." ... officials. jit*-