ny^iiii.. 1111 S S. 1 ... .^. .. .. .':. .. '"•.. M'X- I'4 l' T^ Page MOWER COUNTY NEWS, AUSTIN, MINN. Twtf Thursday, Aug. 17,1922. COUNTY SCHOOL til^fe UNIT EFFICIENT NORTH Plan Proposed By State Educators Avoids Politics. E The county-unit school system proposed for Minnesota by the educational AST Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Rector. TAOPI leaders of the state will, thru the Mrs. J. H. Smith was a caller at naming of the county superintendent the C. A Bates home Monday evening by a. county board of education, have Mrs. P. V. Freener, from Grinnel, the recognized advantage of removing Mr. and Mrs. Guy Yarwood were Iowa, arrived last Thursday to spend that important school leader from Sunday guests at the home of his sister, a short time at the home of her son, politics. Mrs. Everett Subra. Harry Fleener. Under the present plan of popular WES Mrs. Cal Reed went to Cresco, la., election, it is said, there is too much Wednesday. RENOVA chance in the choice of that officer. Dale Hughes from Emery, Wis. He The present law in Minnesota limits visited here last week and is enroute the selection to the county and the Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Phillips and to Conrad, Iowa, where he will remain few who will go thru the dangers of daughter and A. A. Tanner and family for the fall. a political campaign, places no adequate attended services in Brownsdale Weed Inspector Mike Callan has professional or educational Sunday. OUTH been looking after business in this standards upon the candidate, and Mrs. Alfred Schurman, Mrs. S. K. territory the past week. obliges him to spend two to four Dahle and daughter, Pearly, were Mrs. Wm. Meade of Long Beach, months every few years electioneering Austin callers Friday. California, arrived at the home of her to keep his place. By this method Krull Brothers were guests at the parents, Mr. and Mrs. Davis. an efficient officer frequently loses his Rush home Sunday. Bennie Davis has been spending a position and the county loses a good The gospel team holds services every few days at the Davis home returning executive. Experience shows that a Tuesday night at the school house. to Lime Springs, Iowa, Wednesday. board, better than a mass of voters, Everyone is invited to attend these Wm. Wrinkle and Joe Schafer were can learn the needs of a county and FOR THE FAMILY LIVING IN ANY PART OF MOWER COUNTY, meetings and enjoy a pleasant evening. both taken ill Sunday afternoon, evidently get the right person for the office. being poisoned in some way. When a capable superintendent is secured THE MOWER COUNTY NEWS GIVES THE MOST NEWS, THE Mrs. Thomas Iorn's and daughter, According to reports they are both his tenure, it is believed, should Lepha, were visitors at the homes of improving. continue with good work. LARGEST SERVICE, AND THE BEST VALUE OF ANY PAPER PUBLISHED A. A. Tanner and S. Slack last week. Miss Ada Dodd of Turtle Lake, Supervision of Schools Provided. Harold Zeinier spent the week-end Wisconsin, spent Tuesday with Mrs. Much of the efficiency of city schools IN THE MOWER COUNTY COMMUNITY. with the home folks at Waltham. Allard, going from here to Lime is due to organization and supervision. Alphonso Tanner of Kernah, Texas, Springs and other points in Iowa, Both may be provided for rural arrived last week for a ten days' visit where she will visit relatives. Some Of Its Features schools by the county-unit system. with his brothers, J. M. and B. F. Mrs. Hannah Nelson is spending a It puts school affairs mainly in the Tanner, and other relatives and old few days at Mclntyre visiting friends. hands of a small board, who, with friends. Mr. Tanner was an old resident Mrs. Archie Doyle and children of the county superintendent, a small of this vicinity. He moved away Waterloo, Iowa, are visiting at the group of supervisors, a helping teacher, LOCAL AND COUNTY NEWS.—It gives fair and accurate stories about thirty-five years ago. Wm. Huckins home. and the rural school teachers Mr. and Mrs. John Cross visited at Miss Genevieve Davis returned on of happening's everywhere in Mower county as they actually occur, a news make a complete, co-operative grojjp the home of their daughter, Mrs. Joseph Monday to her duties as nurse at the for the effective running of .the service that benefits the subscriber and the county. Glassel, in Austin, the first of Swedish hospital in Minneapolis. schools. the week. The Nelson store building, which has How Rural Schools are Made Better. been a landmark in Taopi for many FARMERS' ACTIVITIES.—Every issue carries a full page devoted The superintendent may be freed years was torn down and the lumber WEST LANSING I by the board from routine clerical to the interest of Mower county farmers and seeking* to aid in showing* taken out to the Daily farm to be duties and allowed to do for the rural, the way to better conditions on the farm, with a very earnest belief in the used in the construction of a house. schools what a city superintendent Mr. and Mrs. Ole E. Lerud were ultimate prosperity of the farmer. Harriet Burns and children left on does for the city schools. The rural Austin callers Monday. Wednesday for Fort Dodge, Iowa, to supervisors outline the work in various Mr. and Mrs. John Noble, Everett, visit with relatives, for two weeks. subjects, send the outlines to SPECIAL FEATURES. Feature stories of home happenings, interesting and Mrs. L. C. Richardson motored teachers, tell how to use them, keep to Udolpho Sunday and called at Mrs. notes from neighboring communities, Mayme's unmatchable the work uniform, and report to the DEXTER George Winn's home. superintendent. The helping-teacher discussions, articles of historic interest, a picture service of world happenings Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Woods are entertaining helps the rural teachers in their work his brother and family of unequalled in any weekly or semiweekly newspaper in this state, and Misses Elsie Faber and Mildred with children. The rural teachers are Dunnell. a sport service of genuine interest and pep, are regular parts of The News. Vermilyea returned from Camp thus improved, they like their work Albert Mathison and Albert Tollerud Soker, near Wasbasha, Friday, after better, and serve longer. motored to Lyle, and Rose Creek a few days' outing there. Approved by County Superintendents. NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS.—Correspondence from every Mower Sunday. Mrs. M. H. Gregg left on Thursday The plan of choosing county superintendents Mrs. J. Le Clair, Mrs. T. Le Clair county community forms a valuable and interesting part of every issue of for Lampson, Wisconsin, for a by a county board is approved, and son, Mrs. D. Dibble, Irene and not only by educational leaders visit with her parents. the county paper. Esther of Austin called at the Dugaw thruout the country, but also by Mrs. Leo Burke of Kimbrae is visiting home Thursday evening. at the home of Mrs. Burke. many superintendents in Minnesota. Mr. and Mrs- Lewis Ulland and ADVERTISING SERVICE.—Merchants using the Mower County The plan suggested for this state, it Mr. and Mrs. Asa Chase returned Charles and Lillian attended church is understood, makes all existing superintendents home Sunday after attending the rural News are the ones that are seeking to give their patrons the benefit of in Austin Sunday. eligible to continue in carriers' state convention at Lake Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Padelford and every buying advantage. office. A few statements by present City. children, Richard Abrams, Mr. and superintendents are typical. (1) "It Miss Florence Daily is spending a Mrs. L. J. Haney and baby visited at will give both incentive and opportunity A SPIRIT OF SERVICE.—Co-operation and service are as much a few days at Hutchinson visiting her their parental home Sunday. for professional advancement sister, Mrs. G. W. Madsen. part of the whole make-up and purpose of the Mower County News as any for county superintendents, making Miss Etta Ludeman of Mankato is of its distinctive features. While The News exists as a business enterprise, RED ROCK this office a profession instead of a visiting at the home of her sister, political football, as it now is." (2) it seeks thru every means to keep foremost in the expenditure of its Mrs. Wm. Voog-t. "I have advocated such a plan for a Misses Elsie and Dorothy Root returned Fred Helmick was a business caller energy, the service of the people of Mower county. in Austin Saturday. number of years and hope it will from Los Angeles Tuesday after Mr. Botama and family of Holland, finally be adopted in this state." (3) spending the past month there Iowafi have been visiting his brother, "The county superintendent is now with their brother, Earl Root. John and family, since Monday. the only school worker in Minnesota Mr. Ellenbroek has been hauling cement blocks for new far mbuildings elected by popular vote." Special Subscr LANSING on his farm which were destroyed by fire several weeks ago. Mr. De Buhr of Aplington, Iiwa, "Leviathan of Literature." The Bible Study class meets at the visited at the Richard Weiland home "The Leviathan of Literature" Is a You Can Save $1.00 Sunday. home of Grandma Summy Tuesday "name sometimes given to Dr. Samuel Pearl Helmick and son, Charles, o± Johnson. afternoon. Blooming Prairie visited his brother, The mid-week Union prayer meeting Fred, and family Thursday, returning will be held at the church Wednesday. home Friday. Ernest Henry and Robert Jacobs The News is in a class by itself in publishing the news of Mower evening. of Rose Creek visited with Johannas Mrs, S. W, Playle was a caller at county, and is not excelled by any paper in this section in its aim to give Risius Sunday afternoon. If Your Battery the C, A. Bates home Tuesday. actual and personal service to its subscribers and Mower county in general. Lloyd Vanghan went to Winnebago Bits of Information. Budget is Just Don't take our word for it. Make the comparison yourself. Friday to visit a few days with relatives. The phrase, "a feather in his cap," He returned home Monday. originated in an old custom in Hungary, In order to enable a wider group of readers to secure the splendid So Much Mrs. A. Brady and son, Edward, which forbade any one to wear features provided in the columns of The News, we are offering during the returned to their home after several a feather in his cap unless he had killed a Turk. four days of the Mower county fair,to any person living in Mower county, months' stay in the cities. And you've got to keep Mrs. Maud Thompson and daughter, who is not no wreceiving the paper, a year's subscription to the Mower within it, you'll want to Estella, went to Mason City where Correct, Doctor. County News for "Hum," murmured the doctor absently, know more about our new they will remain for some time. $1.50 as lie cut Into his restaurant Mr. and Mrs. John Pollock went to CW Battery (Wood Separator). steak. "Hum, patient very senile with Goldfield, Iowa, for a few days' visit Quality plates— extreme hardening of the tissues."— with relatives and friends. selected cedar wood separators New York Sun. Mrs. Frank Ulwelling of Minot, best grade of To every old subscriber we will make the same offer of a year's rene North Dakota, was calling on old workmanship and material. Necessity, Indeed! friends in the village last week. wal at $1:50. Necessity Is the mother of invention. Si^es to fit all cars. Come Mr. and Mrs. Ole Christianson and Hence the marvelous pieces of fiction in and ask questions. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Rasmusson and from late iiome-comine hubbies. For Four Days Only family were Sunday guests at the Price: for 6-volt, home of their daughter and sister, The Old Nantucketer. 11-plate, We are making this offer because we want every person in this Mrs. Bernie Anderson of Moscow. The Nantucketer, he alone resides The following were Austin shop county to benefit 15y receiving the best and most up-to-date county newspaper and riots on the sea. There Is pers Saturday: Mr. and Mrs. Rich his home there lies his business in Minnesota. It is open only to residents of Mower county on Aug. Which a Noah's flood would nottnterrapt ard Beckman and son, Irving, Mr. anc SCHMITZ AUTO though it overwhelmed all the Mrs. Sherman Boyer and Family, 22,23,24, and 25,1922. -ELECTRIC CO. millions of China. He litres on the Mr. and Mrs. Nels Goodman, Mr. and sea, as prairie cocks In the prairie Mrs. O. W. Cummings and family. Mr, he hides among the waves, he climbs -Wit Complete Electric Senriee The 'A Mower County News and Mrs. Wm. Cochran and family, them as chamois hunters climb the Mr. and Mrs. Robert Story, Mr. and 216-218 East Bridge Street Alps. For years he knows not the Mrs. B. R. Shumway, Mr. and Mrs land so that when he comes to it at m:VLk Guy Yarwood -and daughter, Miss last, it smells like another world, more Representing ... strangely than the moon would to an May Wiseman, Mrs. J. BIoss, Mrs. Batteries Englishman. With the landless gull, P. Sulivan and son, Mr. and Mrs. A in pa a a a a it that at sunset folds her wings and is Hahn and family, Mrs. S. W. Boyle (THREADED RUBBER INSULATION) rocked to slfeep between billows so at vice of the Mower county community as the keynote of its whole being. St?^i and son, Forest, Mrs. J. Blowers and and Batteries nightfall, the Nantucketer,^ out of "daughter, Vernie. sight of land, furls his sails, and lays (WOOD SEPARATORS) Mr. and Mrs. Ira Rector and daughter/ him to his rest? while under his very I 4 pillow rush herds of walruses .and Ethel of Austin were Sunday mhnlao' T-lofnicn \1olviTlfk guests, at ,the home gf„ his parents j*sar %i j- iini -Ad iinfifri- 'iifr