mutm# :-. 4IHaMRSwF^.^'sx Sr/O? v* *v iL «. r- ±_ Page Two MOWER COUNTY NEWS, AUSTIN, MINN. Monday, Aug. 28,1922 tyGMborftoofr POWER PLANTS erate by electricity. Benefits found ECLIPSE ECHOES 8tory of Lord Alverstene. Crawl-Stroke Soares Man-Eaters. are reduction in fuel cost, in maintenance Among the many good stories told According to an accomplished swimmer IE cost, elimination of coaling a of legal luminaries here is a good one AT MINE MOUTH who first practiced the art in engines, increased tonnage per train, told of Lord Alvarstone. At a banquet shark-infested waters, no shark will increased speed on graded, increased Weekly Shavings. his lordship was proposing to ever come near you if you practice Edited by reliability, reduced train crews, increased Volume 436 the'health of a certain lord mayor of August 23, 1922 the crawl-stroke. Thfe crawl-stroke Splinters. safety, reduced damage and London who, on the occasion, occupied was invented in Australia, where maneating wear on equipment, reduced depreciation BROWNSDALE TO the chair at-the annual dinner of the according to government Your Best Investment. (in corn fed, sharks of great size and ferocity Plan for Conversion of Coal Into on, tracks and improved atmospheric machinery from,estimate, present old boys of King's College school, London, You can't keep And per cent at are constant neighbors. It's a 10 conditions. Noise also is eliminated. .?? c.an incre^se Prices, entire cost in and in the course of his remarks, will pay the a Electric Current Where splashy stroke. Hence, according to HAVE RADIO SET Jhe child of the future may the length of its'satisfactory service season. ingle he said that he had attended these the Antipodeans, the swimmer who not identify a railroau train as a two or three times by housing it It Is Mined. It's A Happy Hog That Feeds on functions with unbroken regularity "crawls" is sharkproof. In "crawling" properly. Rust and decay cause-more •ichoo-choo." A Concrete Floor. for many years. In doing so, he had you splash the water with swiftly damege in one year than wear does Electric Operation Cheaper. Concrete work should be done now, one object, and only one, in view. He paddling feet, just as the Australian in four or five. Remember, rust and Station Is Set By Lo­ so that the floor can be used when All operating costs considered, the IT WOULD MEAN VAST SAVING wanted to meet again a boy who had Up boys learned to do when they turneti .decay car be avoided. Build an ire- 'autumn rains make the ground soft experts figure "that there Is a net saving entered the school in tl\p same year on their backs. Only you're not turned piemen: shed. It will soon pay for cal Telephone and muddy and when your saving will of 25 per cent in electric operation itself a* himself. He had forgotten his on your back—you're face downward, be greatest. DECIDE TODAY—Can of railroad trains as compared Company. name, but he was the boy who had tearing through the water at top speed. |_~f, Hf some good lmple- you we help you? Transportation of the Fuel Would Be with steam. \An analysis made by the knocked out his front tooth. "Why Also you're doing a certain amount of j° ee Avoided, and Fewer Men Would Be Norfolk & Western railroad repealed it a in W does h© not come?" he roared in a splashing with your hands, which jwill t* fhe ger. be give yQU best that the fuel cost of running an electric Mr. Farmer:— Required in One Branch burst of eloquence. "Has he no love you're plunging alternately into Brownsdale will have its first radio vice and supply you with the best of t" Have you an Eclipse Hog Feeder? locomotive 100 miles was $44.95, of World's Work. for the old school? Has he no patriotism?" water at each stroke. receiving1 set for commercial purposes building materials. Our stock in- If you have, you know their real valjue. compared with a cost of $72.42 for eludes trade-marked lumber. If you have not, you better ome installed in the near future. This is a steam locomotive. Washington.—A. plan for the conversion jin and get one as they conserve your due to the enterprise of Manager It is estimated that power can be Great Reservoirs of India. of coal into electrical power at Even the hog objects to eating !^eed and at the same time l-eep it One Key Only Irt Nigeria. transmitted by cable for a distance Clark of the Brownsdale telephone -For conserving her water supply 4he mouths of coal mines and transmitting filth. He is naturally a cleanly ani- anc* clean. Duplicate keys are not wanted in of 200 miles before the leakage makes company and the co-operation of several tQ the currents the industrial there are to be found in tr®" mal. He will thrive better if fed on Nigeria. An official 'ukase decrees the transmission wasteful. In many livestock and grain dealers. The consuming centers has been calle} to mendous artificial lakes. At Dhebar, concrete feeding floor. There are many detours on the road that no machines for making duplicate a sections of ^he country no railroad in the Rajputana province, for in the attention of the President, Secretary several buyers of this vicinity who You will save at least 10 per cent to easy street. keys are to be imported. Whether the is more than 200 miles distant from a stance, there is a reservoir with a superficial of Commerce Hoover and other realize the advarttage of daily market is purpose to penalize an individual coal mine. But in the non-coal-producing high officials of the government. area of 21 square miles the reports* are enthusiastically behind who loses a. key by compelling him to regions, the mine-mouth electrical CLEMENS masonry dam measuring over 300 In proportion to its value, both in J. J. the plan and are convinced that it will buy a new lock, or to prevent persons plants would be supplemented, under yards in length and 32 yards In height. money and in heating power, coal is with predatory Instincts from opening ONE PIECE OR A CAR LOAD JJ be of inestimable value to them and the plan, by hydro-electric power inordinately bulky. More than onethird In southern India, too, there are several the locks of law-abiding citizens, the plants. also to the farmers of the community of the total railroad freight of reservoirs over 12 square miles in official proclamation does not state.— The nation is rich in water power, DIAL 2047 who have stock to sell. Local Manager the United States is coal. On some area. by far the greater part of which is The Nation's Business. The receiving of daily market reports roads in eoal-prodtfcing sections coal undeveloped. The general scheme of amounts to 80 per cent of all the is one of the valuable uses to railroad and industrial electrification freight hauled. A very large portion which radio may be put, and it is reported would include greater power development of this coal is railway fuel—that is, to give exceptionally good service from the streams.. Between coal to fire the engines which haul in this respect. The outfit will these hydro-electric plants and the the trains. arrive in*a few days and be put into coal-consuming power plants the country Louis Brandeis, now an associate could ,be covered with a network immediate operation. Justice of the Supreme court of the of power cables which would -serve Leon Moore has been busy for several United States, in his brief In thjfc Five every purpose. days assembling a receiving outlit Per Cent case before the Interstate Some coal movement would continue, commerce commission, estimated that for private use which he expects to such as that for domestic heating, when all items of cost to the railroads have in operation very soon.—Six but "the great bulk of the coal of buying and hauling their own coal Town News. Don't Advertise, transported to run railroads and factories were added, the total would be $250,000,000. DISCUSS PLANS OF would not leave the mines. Its Since that estimate was energy would be shipped by wire. made, prices and costs have increased Such a stupendous development and the railroad coal bill has amounted RED BALL ROUTE could not be realized in a day. It to $700,000,000. would be the work of many years, but To transport coal to meet the American withthe forces of tht government, demand, 18,000,000 cars are employed supplemented by the support df the annually and of tfyese 2,600,000 The New Arrangement great industrial and railroad corporations, Unless- cars are employed in hauling coal it might be a feasible undertaking. and other traffic. These figures have Would Avoid Railroad T\'"%, been filed with the interstate commence Crossings. commission. QUEER THING IN LONDON ZOO The commission has found, in one of its investigations into the coal traffic, that approximately 97 per cent of The state Highway survfeyors have all the coal cars return to the mines been working near Lyle the past week empty. straightening out the kinks in the These figures give an impression of Red Ball route. The indications seem the extent to whioh the transportation to favor a direct route avoiding most system is burdened with the movement of the railway crossings and short of this bulky material and show turns. how much more railroad equipment would be available for general freight One plan is to go south out of If the power which springs from coal Austin to Varco and continue south could be handled in another manner. to the A. Hotson farm on section 14, Power Plants at Mines. thence east 3-4 of a mile to the Great In general outline the new plan .Western railway thence south on the would provide for the erectiorhat the west side of the railroad connecting coal mines of gigantic power plants. with the present Red Ball route at The coal would. bev brought up just the Gekler crossing thence south to tjist enough .to be put into the the Hughson farm, crossing the two furnaces and maintain a steady head of steam to keep the dynamos turning. ttacks as at present only making a, much larger turn and going a couple One of the underlying reasons for hundred feet further east, thence discontent among coal miners and south thru Park addition and the Park, you are absolutely on the level with your customers*— therefore one of the main causes of close to the water? works stand. In the coal strike is the intennittency in Ono of the most extraordinary crea- I fact it would be necessary to take the industry. The big demand for tures ever seen In the London zoo has down the old pump station to avoid coal comes in the winter time in the just arrived there in the form of an Unless your goods are so excellent that everyone who the curve' at the north end of Main summer months it falls off. Coal is Albino monkey, sent from Tanganyika. mined as the market calls- for it. street. Albinos are white specimens of a creature buys them once will want them again— Therefore, the demand is light Avhen Another plan* surveyed is going not usually white, and this is the there is little mining to be done. The north from the state line thru Lyle first time on record that an albino men are thrown out of employment. .cutting off the west part of the park monkey has ever been at the zoo. The The result is that coal miners work •and exact species of the monkey is not gradually working back onto the but from 165 to 210 days a year. Unless there is real need for what you make— definitely known. present route north of town. Instead While their wages are regarded as of crossing the tracks, the proposed good their work Is not steady and POOR ADDRESSES TO BLAME therefore their earnings for the year route leads due ^north along the east are not large!- .&*«>.«*it side of the Milwaukee track connecting Unless you appreciate that it takes along time and costs is the opinion of experts that the Investigation Shows They Are the with the Red Ball route at Gekler's coal industry is overmanned. There Chief Cause of Failure of Mail crossing and then following a lot of money to educate twenty-six thousand persons are some 700,000 men engaged in it. to Arrive. present route into Austin. This route Under the power plan, the intermittency would only make two turns between to associate your name and your business with a definite in the work' of Coal miners Washington.—Recent. investigations Lyle and Austin and have but one woOld be eliminated. The coal would made at the request of the Department standard of quality— railroad crossing.—Lyle Tribune. be feeding machines running steadily of Commerce regarding the failure and not an ever-changing open-market of foreign mail to reach Its destination Trial Date Set For demand. resulted in the disclosure that Fewer Men Would Be Needed. carelessness in proper addressing of Formerv Local Girl Unless your business is built on the firm foundation of The requirements of the power generators matter is responsible. could be reckoned in advance The Post Office department has been with a fair amount of accuracy sjnd conducting a survey of conditions at economical production and sound finance. November 20 has been set as the the coal could be kept coming above the port of New York,, where an average date of the thifd trial of Madelyn ground regularly all the year round. of 30,000 pieces of mail daily is Obenchain, former Grand Meadow Fewer men would be required to take received and placed upon ships for girl, charged with the murder of her care of this production and while the foreign-bound points, which has resulted sweetheart, J. Belton Kennedy, in change would throw many thousands in the discovery that illegible California, Th§ Judge trying the case out of work it would bw gradual and names and poorly printed addresses lias refused to release her on bonds.— ultimately would result in a clear cause many letters and packages to Grand Meadow Record. economic gain, it is claimed. Fewer go astray. A report of the situation men would be doing one branch of has begamade to the Department of the world's work. The remainder Commerce. 1 Look for Mason would become engaged in other prove Most of the blame is laid upon the City Burglar Here labor, I- larger manufacturers of the United The* $rsT1Sep in the plan for the States, who are the major offenders in. electrification of the nation is the failing to properly address their for-' Great Western trains were boftig changing over of railroads from steam eign mail. The report, while commending watched Friday by local police officers to electric power. The railroads cross the use of addressing machines, for a man said to have burglarized the country In every direction and the urges that careful attention be a store\in Mason City. No one cities and industries/which consume given to their operation, particularly power are built up along their tracks. was found answering the description in the case of letters or packages to Power cables would parallel the .given by the Mason City authorities. be sent overseas. tracks, but would carry so much more power than would be required for the CHAINS SON HOME 4 DAYS Storm Damages railways that the surplus would be Mower County News Telephone Lines ample for diversion to the cities en Father Admits He "Kept Boy Out of route. This would run the mills and Trouble.'!—Rescued by factories, light the cities and furnish Police. The storm vLioh passes over Austin ipower for municipal traction lines. When William G. McAdoo .was director Thursday evening mowed down New York.—Andrew Karo, nineyear-old general of "railroads during a section of telephone line between SERVICE IS OUR MOTTO son of John Karo,. was rescued federal control in the wartime, he Owatonna and Austin, about nine by the police after his father had said that if government control were m--' miles from heie. The Tri-State Telephone kept him in chains for four days. to be permanent or even long extended^ fe" Companv reported that twelve According to the boy and his sisters, his first step would be the *V^ Andrew was forced to keep chains poles were down. electrification of the railroads. Some on night and day. When police found of the roads have taken the step already., him he lay in a corner with a chain a Miles of the Baltimore & Ohio, yard long wrapped around his ankles Secretary Bird's Good Qualities. the Boston & Maine, the Chicago, j' and the feet secured with a padlock. The secretary bird, a large, longfegged Milwaukee & St. Paul, the Erie, the bird of South Africa, feeds Karo admitted that he. chained and Great Northern, the Michigan Central, padlockeiThis son, but Hie said that at largely on reptiles and is often frmed the New York Central, the New York. to night the boy was released. The taper rid ptetfi'ttm of them. Its crS New Haven & Hartford, the Norfolk" said he chained the boy to "keep goggeztfng a twich of pens stuck & Western, the Pennsylvania and the him out of tipuble." outhern Pacific system already op* btM the e&t, gives it It* name.