?s##Sfe Vlf Vqpp$*SRP* ijgp ij ,i- A™r •s, gjiF-Oi v" _, h-v^ 'i MOWER COUNTY NEWS, AUSTIN, MINN. Page Two Thursday, 4ug\ 31,1922. Thirteen Are Victims of Pen When Frank Wing Descends Upon Austin IP*' ®P4v MlV f,S llf' f"' «ssW,«- C!2rC£^ A mi ^5^ S cJ^^)C (S-eoKa,e. T^vJ(C Stfr=e CARU cOeiotTt HOME FOLKS ARE of one of the company's refrigerators. "Taxes!" and others who speak somewhat when he was strgeant-at-arms oc the 1 spends most -A ".is time oa'.. of place. It somewhat releases him from tin's he can look at the best the city A Query for St. Paulites. House. It was he, you know, who sardonically of the beautiful the "tyranny of things" from which has to show, and say, "Aw, it ain't it. He is tremendously interested in brought in the llag on the occasion of SHOT BY ARTIST basement equipment of the school In the foregoing paragraph, mention many of us old-timers suffered when Horace Austin state park, and since so much." From this feeling that he the annou-v.-emfnt that our country building as "The baths of Rome." It is made of the "St. Paul" railway. first we went out into the world. In is not entirely an putlander he will his appointment by Mayor Hirsh asa had entered the war. We were int is our opinion that this building would That is what they call it in the old days, when a village or farm member of the park board (of members derive much comfort, whether he enter told what then he did with it. be cheap at twice the price. Austin, and in Milwaukee, and on the boy went to the city he entered a there are five, whose ducy it i=to college or business. It makes easier Our anxiet about obtaining picture Water Comes ^rom Springs. floor of the stock exchange. Why do (Continued from Page One) new world. Nothing was like anything the swallowing of his insides and work in amity with the state auditor, All of Austin's parks, the one of St. Paul people persist in saying, of Ira was but a pale reflection has made necessary an expenditure of he had known at home everything the tackling of the world. "The Milwaukee?" of that of some of his townspeople. who pays rut the money for the chief interest to us, even tho we failed $180,000 for an intercepting- sewage seemed so big and magnificent In our day, when villagte streets lay We wasted a lot of time in searching They desired that he be honored, because, to see it, was the City Spring, a system, which is but incidental to the and overpowering. a a deep in dust all summer, when the place of 160 acres and containing a for one Ira Padden, who has been, said they, he has been, and erection of a disposal plant to cost Country Boy Wise Now. to. be seen dairy, and ail the day long, schoolhouse was a dingy wooden firetrap nine-hole course and the spring from for a matter of something like thirtythree is, one of the city's best servants, untiring $150,000 more. ^The State Board of He was scared and lonesome, and he place vv^ere the drMg^ happens smelling principally, perhaps, of which comes the city's most excellent years, an alderman. Once we in "his interest and his efforts. Health is working in conjunction with fell, like a stray pup for any least act l* be discharging what it has sucked slates and saliva, and being, in all cornered him, when he said that he He was first elected to the council of seeming kindness, which often water supply.' It flows, this spring, from the bonom of the river, the city to devise a plan to take care matters of sanitation, deficient as a guessed he could se us at his real from the third ward in 1888, and held ict rr of two Kinds of sewage by one system. turned out to be something else. Nowadays, 2,000,000 gallons of water a day, and He watca the char c£ thio. hogpen, things were different. As estate office at three o'clock but he office continually until 1918, when he the country boy already is there are three other gushers nearby, '-charge, and when it geis too n:r..-h All this we were told by a newspaper elsewhere, there are in Austin, people was mistaken in that guess, for he with a combined® flow surpassing the removed to the second ward, which always man. We set it all down as faithfully familiar with paved streets, and if I this week, he turns a disc set on a who, with blanched faces, cry, main one's, that can be put in service wasn't there at three, nor at four, rfor had opposed him while he rep as we could, without in the least understanding he has attended a school like Aus­ n. oomstick, to notify the dreilgi men, at four-thirty. Nor could we catch rrs.nted the third., hi! which ec tc-J it. For one tiling, why whenever needed. In Austin, if there away off at t.ne other en I of a Jarge. him next day. People said they thot him to his old job in U19. is a fire they deluge it with lovely, 3e ky pipe. These pronio:i'y see thai should anybody desire to intercept Aivays at the Pai-fc. hemust be out along the new sewage cold spring water. We did not learn the charact -v of the outpit is changed sewage, particularly when he has no diggings, 'somewhere. Wherever he Another man wu!i-'ngh obsessed whether it is any more efficacious from this to that, and the building of disposal plant? We should build the was, we saw him but th£ once, on the by the notion of pcr-'ice to his comunity a park where the river used to flow than warni river fluid. The water disposal plant first. M. v/no occasion of his guessing. We do not is Ousi°.v, says he is goes merrily on. There is a man comes by gravity to the city plant, Great School City's Pride. remember him as being so gun-shy .suii in the furnitur? business, but which is combined with the electric hired to do this work, but M. relieves They certainly are beautiful spenders light and power stations under one him of it every day, except when there in Austin, but who shall say they head, William Todd, who has been in is a ball game. don't get their money's worth? Not More Exciting Than Fishing. that position so long that he disremembers we. They have several dainty little His certainly is a lovely existence. just when he began. The parks (besides the great City Spring There he stands, or sits, day after springs are abount two miles east of park and the Horace Austin State, day,-chewing Sweet Mist finecut and the city. Should an emergency occur, which is under construction) and watching the eight-inch column of the power plant can tap the rVer. more paved streets than are to be water, mud, rock, and whatnot that The industries of Austin, while not found in many towns of thrice the issues from the pipe. The whatnot numerous, are of very considerable size of Austin. But the chief evidence sometimes is of an interesting character. size, in two -or' three instances. The of civic pride and faith is presented Once M. "ketched" a mastodon's Hormel Packing company employs by the magnificent new high tooth, and once a bottle of old 1,600 men, including its office force, school, which cost more than $800,000 Scotch. Beaver gnawed wod is common, and the"HorAiel Flour mill, 60. When and of which one well nrtay use and two "mushrats" have come no strike is on, the St. Paul shops that trite phrase, "It's the last word." thru the pipe, but both got away. give employment to 500. It will be The building houses both the senior Yes, M.'s is a great life. Since adopting seen that the biggest employers in And junior1 highs, and it is in such this mode he has regained his the city are the Hormels. The newspaper perfect taste, both inside and out, health, without a cent of expense, man told us that people who that children schooled there are sure while the park to be a thing blessed have lived in Austin more than thirty to acquire certain very valuable ideas jby future-generations, has grown up years have seen George A. Hormel go that never entered the heads of most I about him, adding value to his property from the proprietorship of a meat of their forebears. across the way. market to the headship of the great Aside from all consideration of the Across the street from the nice packing plant, all of which has been artistic, and of the practical, as represented furniture emporium that nowadays built during that period. The original by up-to-date workrooms, sees so little of M., is the office of building of the company, which used there is great benefit particularly to the good Charley Fox, proprietor of a to be shown with pride by citizens, as the rural student, in the familiarity wholesale tobacco business and man1 the home of one of Austin's thriving with modern building construction to (Continued on page 3.) industries, now forms a small part be gained from schooling in such a mmM