,, *$ Page Four MOWER COUNTY NEWS, AUSTIN, MINN Thursday, Aug. 31,1922. Mower County News THE PROBLEM OF SENIORITY. WELL, DID YOU Jar Is Apt to Folfow, A It Must Be Instinct. KNOW "The County Paper" Settlement of the railway strike A woman is much more likely to for* Women may like flatiery, bat It Is EVER?— 'hirfges, we are told, on "seniority" Published every Monday and Thuraday, get the baby than to leave the pickles risky to tell a woman that she looks at Austin. Minnesota. behind when she goes to the picnic. which in. railway terms describes the well preserved.—Boston TranscriDt. ROE AND GANNON, Publishers. The following is reprinted'from the, system by which men advance according: THAT IN 1880 AUSTIN UNITED O SECURE MILWAUKEE SHOPS? August issue of "The Squeal.": CARL L. WEICHT, City Editor. to their period of service. "Austin is on the broad road to future which Austin has reason to fully believe." "At a meeting of the Austin Business prt When a vacancy occurs under this growth," remarks the Austin Northwestern Advertising Representatives: tp- Men's association recently, J. G. system the next oldest man, in point YOU MUST In another article in the same issue Minnesota Select List, 215 Register of Thursday, June 16, 1881, Bramham stated that much of the of employment, is promoted. M\ Sonth Sixth Street, Minneapolis the Register further comments on the in commenting on the action of the tendency of Austin people to buy Unfortunately, the next oldest man 709 JSxchange Bank, St. PanL location of the shops here.. HAVE IT city td Secure the location of the Milwaukee away from home, -was caused by the is not always'the best fitted, and so 1 "Everybody Is Glad." indifferent* attitude of some of the shops. ..... railroading has often siiffefed from a 14 "The directors of the Chicago, Milwaukee clerks! in some of the stores? yitfafek system that jwas origiraal$ intended It apparently was!the culmination & St. Paul Railroad Company, Scallbn, secretary of the association,and to insure fairness. of months of agitation onthe.-part of made Austin a visit, on their annual a humorist of hotej submits the In the strike, however, seniority the boosters of the town to finally tour, on Thursday last, and after following questionnaire which' he takes on new meaning. Railway executives convince the railroad that Austin was looking over the ground wanted for claims will have a tendency to separate declared th&t the—strikers the logical point' for location- of its Success and grit mean about the same thing. machine shops, took their departure the sheep from the goats. lost all their rights, and if they returned division point and ships', for the Register in a good frame of mind. Of course, 1. Are you married or single? £cia£ to work they must do so as pats everyone in sight on the If you have the grit, you will have success, and if you have everybody is glad the machine shops Whjr? new employes. They declared it was back for the final decision favoring success it is because you have had the grit. are to be located here, finally, and 2. Do you drink near-beer? Austin. SUBSCRIPTION RATES not fair to supersede men who had about the only thing left to do is to Why? Have you ever started a savings account and failed? Why? Per Year, in advance $2.60 come into help in an emergency. On Held Bond Election. get the titles perfected and make the 3. What is your favorite flower? Six Months $1-26 their side the strikers said they would You know. "On Thursday last," writes the transfer of the land to the company. Single Copies .05 4. If a new clerk', are you troubled never return until their seniority was Register, "the election on the Railroad "Austin is on the broad road to The AUSTIN NATIONAL BANK knows how you can be sure with insomnia? Entered as Second Class Matter at restored. Bond Proposition came off, and future growth which will make her a the Post office at Austin, Minn., under 5. Did you withdraw any money to make your savings account a success. Ask us how. To fair minded persons there is the result has shown that there was the act of March 3, 1879. most important railroad center for from the bank*within the past year? force to both positions. Nevertheless a most unanimous sentiment on that this part of the country. Already evidences Where did you get it to put in the facts dispose of seniority as a question, by our people. Not a single Frank Wing says that Austin is a of a quickening of business 6. Does your wife play the piano? strike problem The so-called strike vote against it, in either of the three good city even if one does go up coming interests is seen in different branches What affect does this have on your breakers brot in by the railroads are wards, is recorded down from the city. Very discerning, of trade, and as fast as progress is rent not mechanics and quit, their jobs as Frank. And don't you think "This insures the building of the made in this direction, so fast will 7. Are you a light eater or heavy? THE AUSTIN NATIONAL BANK soon as a settlement is reached. The road, and unites Austin with the the elevation is cultural and progressive the business boom progress. A good If heavy, state how and why? railroads are paying them more 'than Southern Minnesota, as well as secures as well as geographical? location is a great boon for a place, 8. Has your yearly expenditure for the usual wages and they are having to our city the location of the and a power money nor influence rent increased since the shortage of of Austin, Minn. more trouble with them because of extensive machine shops of the C. M. Would we had in Mower county an can't move. It sticks thru everything houses prevents frequent moving? their inexperience. & St. P. R. R., and an era of prosperity organization where there would be a and that'is just what Austin has. Member Federal Reserve System. 9. Are you on friendly terms with When the strike is settled wages which she never had before. place for all and work for all, whose No wonder people are looking your reatives? will go back to their previous scale, J. L. MITCHELL, P. D. BEAULIEU, W. E. HOPFE, It establishes a permanent source of capital would be community spirit toward Austin. They can see that Why? and the strike breaker will be cut to industry among us, which will increase President Vice President Cashier and interest, and whose dividends she is destined to grow rapidly for 10. If possible, give the name of the standard wage. Not seeking a and continue as long as railroads would be a better community and a the next few years, and they want to someone less intelligent than yourself, steady job, anyway, he will not stand run, and steam, iron rails, and more contented citizenry. be here. Business is the magnet yet making more salary. for it. wheels are the means of transporting which draws men, and business is the 11. State average monthly grocery Once the regular men go back to our produce to market. 'Better power which impels them to look to Next week and during the coming bill and paymeents, if any. work the problem of seniority is automatically born lucky than rich' is an old saying, business centres." month many of the schools of the 12. State briefly (no profanity allowed) solved so far as the strike county will resume their activities what your wife thinks of being breakers are concerned. They are not RED ROCK for -another term. The authorities, could do was of no avail, and he slept married to a common clerk. interested in orderly industrial procedure teachers, and pupils will profit by the peacefully away early Monday morning. 13. Do you drink, and where do you and they will be scattered united, willing, and interested support Funeral services were held at get it? (this information will be waiting for the next strike to break Two little girls of Mr. and Mrs. that every community owes the the home Wednesday at 1:00 o'clock treaten as confidential information). John Bottema, who were hurt quite out. school. -and at the Brownsdale Baptist church 14. Exclusive of billiard halls, how But the real problem of seniority badly last week, are slowly recovering at 2:00 o'clock conducted by Rev. E. many people depend upon you for will remain to face the railroad men from the injuries received when Don't get discouraged reading the Volkenant. Burial was in the cemetery support until it is settled right. It can only they fell from the hay mow to the divource court doings. Just remember south of Brownsdale. The community 15. Do you keep chickens? be settled right where the basic wage cement floor V.eneath. that hundreds and thousands of sympathizes with the bereaved Does your wife know it? is just, where men earn a decent livlihood Fred Helmick returned Wednesday good men and women, unknown and parents. ,16. Does your wife take in washing whatever their degree xf from St. Paul where he went on business unheard of, are finding married life to help you support the family Sunday evening-. ployment. .• beautiful, and making it sing around Have you suggested it to her? P* C. Helmick and family from Darwin Lost His Taste for Art. the glory of unselfish service.—"Larry If so, state results and name hospital. near Blooming Prairie visited with In the last 20 or 30 years I" have NEWSPAPER ADVERTISING, Ho." almost lost my taste for pictures or his brother, Fred, and family Sunday. 0 .(Albert Lea Tribune^ 17. What do you think is a fairly music. I cannot endure to read a line Jacob Oelkers and family were in Newspaper advertising -worth of poetry. My mind seems to have become After years of disappointing indifference, good salary for a good worker? Austin Monday. more tcitiay,. and costs tK^' user proportionately a machine for grinding general Biggest and Best For yourself? the Great Western railroad Note Books 5c Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Sivers and son, less for wtiaf he gets, laws out of large collections of facts. company has finally come to terms on Mr. and Mrs. John Sivers and baby Pencils 2 for 5c than at any time in history. This is If I had to live my life again I would the proposed surface sewer to avoid Tablet in Town visited over Sunday at the Rochard have made a rule to read some poetry as true of the smaller country papers On the Screen Rubber Penholders damage to property from flooding on Weiland home. and listen to some music at least once as of the big city dailies, as Harry 5c Maple street. Even a railway corporation Mr. and Mrs. Dolph Morlyn of every week. The loss of these tastes 5c L. Tyler, buyer of advertising for the Betrayed by a scar, exposed by his must give way finally to the Is a loss of happiness.—Charles Darwin Woolstock, Iowa, are visiting their Erasers 1c to 5c W. H. Rankin Co. points out. For love for music, stripped of his disguise in His Autobiography. pressure of a rightuous cause and an daughter, Mrs. Fr&d Helmick and wherever it is situated, the newspaper Rulers 5c by his failure to recognize the indignant wrath. family. that survives in these times has become secretary of the man he was supposed Fountain Pen Ink A1 Smith and Howard Butts left more than an individual enterprise—it to be, he found himself verging Regardless of opinion as to the merits Tuesday morning for North Dakota. is an institution whose lines on the brink of ruin. The reputation Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Rieken mourn Waterman's 15 VELVET of the Rose Creek school district of influence are closely woven into of one of England's oldest the loss of their baby boy a little past petition to annex District tNo. 56, the very fabric of the community life Carter's 15c Best pencil in town. and most respected families was at two years old. The little boy became which was denied by the county around it. There is ample reason for stake—the honor of a man who had Sanford's 15c 4 grades 5c board, it is apparent that there is no ill more than a week ago, and seemed the great power of newspaper space. made a great name for himself and argument in favor of discontinuance to be getting better when suddenly Any manufacturer that has placed a then disipatid" his prestige. it got worse. Saturday nigh :, he was of public school operation in any district. good product on the dealer's shelf and This is the situation that faced taken to the hospital at Austin for Paints 35c SCHOOL BOOKS Fair minds see the danger that isgetting eye strain from watching it John Loder in the climax of "The treatment but all that medical skill threatens our rural school system if Paint Pans 5c The official books. stay there can trace it to just one Masquerader," which will be at The it becomes optional, cither legally or thing—he is not telling the people Park theatre tonight and tomorrow CrayoEas 10c Buy the right kind actually, for any district to maintain what he has to sell and where they which marks one of the most unusual PARK a public school. There is something Pens 4 for 5c here. can buy it. And people can't be expected and gripping stories that has ever far more important involved than a to buy things they do not know been translated to the screen. mere question of tolerance. K. O. Wold Drug Co. exist. "The Masquerader" is a play that The electrical system on your car has been widely praised as an unusual The Boys' and Girls' club work, can be repaired right here in Austin. THEATRE Cor. Main ft Bridge Est. 1966 photographic screen accomplishment. "which is being so effectively directed Why go farther? in Mower county by County Agent Unirersb'y of Southern Minn. Trooper O'Neil starring Buck Jones F. L. Liebenstein and Miss Jessie is coming to The Park Theatre Saturday. Partridge, county club leader, is one A reviewer has said of this of the profitable outgrowths of the THURSDAY and RIDAY— PHONE 6743. film: "It is a breath of the Canadian Farm Bureau movement. It means GUY BATES POST woodlands. When the picture opens something very definite in the way of Is It Right? you are greeted by a scene where in Hardy Friend who wronged an Albert a keener and more lasting interest in Auto and Tractor Auction snow-capped peaks raise their crests, the farming problems on the part of Lea girl and who has twice been "The Masquerader" plumed with giant pines. That is the the growing generation. No more convicted of the crime by two sets of background for a story which is swift desertion of the farm for the boys twelve jurymen, one from Freeborn The story of John Chilcote, the in acfcjon and engrossing in theme. and girls who have a chance to do county and one from Mower county, leader of men, and then the The beauty of the settings is cleverly something for themselves in the club is still at large, while his attorneys outcast—and of his double, blended with the ever-increasing "work. fight again for a third trial. Two John Loder, who took his name, charm of this spirited romance. Situation his place and his wife. counties have tried to give this man Having- taken in the- following described cars and tractors in exchange for New A masterpiece among great motion The modern newspaper is'a modern follows situation in rapidly increasing •a jail sentence as the Minnesota pictures. institution, of, by and for the people. succession in the final stirring Cars and in order to dispose of our surplus stock, we will sell the following at Public statute prescribes for crime he now Pathe News Its real owner is the public, not the climax. And rarely has a climax Auction to the highest bidder on stands convicted of. Still the attorneys gentleman who happens to control for been more powerful." for the defense of this rich man's the time being its purse strings. Its son fight in an effort to let him continue SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2 purpose is public service and not private Sunday film fans will have an opportunity to enjoy his freedom, while the SATURDAY— gain or aggrandizement. This to see Bebe Daniels in one girl he has wronged is serving time at 2:00 P. M. Sale will be held at the Roc kwell Barn, one block east of the Motor is the paramount principle underlying of her best pictures, when "The Speed BUCK JONES at Sauk Center. Oh well,- there are Inn Garage. today any successful policy or program Girl" is shown at the Park Theatere. t, .. eighty-four counties left where the in of good publishing. It is just case can be tried out!—Albert Lea "Trooper O'Neil" what Thomas Jefferson meant, too, 1 1919 Model Nash Six Tour- 1—1914 Model Ford Touring1 WALTHAM Tribune. back in the eighteenth century when ing Car. Car. he said he would rather live in a Z* Story of the Canadian Woodlands.. The George Fett family spent Sunday At the Library country without a government than in 1_1Car M°del Velie Tou''in8' 1—1920 Case 9-18 Case Tractor evening with Mr. and Mrs. August one without newspapers. Senator a •, and Siegfried. Arthur Capper. New books at the Austin Public Mr. and Mrs. Carl Faber and Mr. Torchy Comedy 1—1916 Maxwell Touring Car. on rn Library: and Mrs. George Beneke left Friday Centralizers are trying to get control 2—1S15 Ford Touring Cars. odel 10 20 Cleveland Ashmun Isobel Carlton in the for Theresa, Wisconsin, for a week's of the creamery industry in the West, Ashmun—Isobel Carlton at dfXiC.:# 1—1915 Model Forcf Touring*^ v&it with relatives and friends state, according to A. J. McGuire, Home, Bennett—Mr. Prohack, Deeping—House SUNDAY— Mr. and Mrs. George Fett and family general manager of the Minnesota 1—1914 Buick?Jfcoadster. of Adventure, Francis—Adventure spent Sunday at flie Harvey1 "Miller BEBE DANIELS rf'T Co-operative Creameries association. of Virginia, Dale, Qerould llxB %0i- qfrfan&i*f fedine! near Hayfield. 1 v* Having $evoted most of his life to —Lost Valley, Gibbs—House of Mohun, no 9-oslc\ —ei rnsrfj- Mr. al^^^ BL Bien^ke, Mrt: ind the promotion of dairying Mr. Mcj?uire's e|u«i.are lit/good runnii^^l^^d^i|l^^d^n^Strated 6^ Hemon—Maria Chapdelain, Hudson "The Speed Girl" and Mr. and ... p- ^rs. ~A«€Fist Siegfri£d and Mr. and '-statements are especially day of Sale. ^RememBer the time and plitca car/or tracffri^at^o~ur own price, nf to Kasson 4 significant. They call attention to cle, M.lfer-Man.l.iwhte', ofcrfwd•V ^0^.Mrs. and Sunday,- spoidtng^e day with Mrs. the new competition that co-operatitre —Madame Valcour's Lodger, Pryde— TERMS:—Cash or approved bankable notes, 6 months, at 8 per cent. .. .. Frank Klampe. creameries face. In a special article, Purplq Pearl, |uick—Vandermark!s EDUCATIONAL COMEDY prepared thru the Farm Bureau Folly, Sabitini—Sacramouche, Sedgwick Atfhealve Tap*. News service, The News is Adrienne Toner, Stringer— Hear the Augmented Adhesive tape will make many bandy printing today some .of'Mr. McGuire gtpn Park Orchestra t"'\ household repainr where two edges interesting viewpoints, iri which, he *s. mftirt be brought tqcether then Matinee Da% at 2 :30 It points out the achievements of Minnesota covered. Electric ^lordls atta :'iied to I Albert Hopfe, Auctioneer. Austin National Bank, Clerk. Two Evening Shows creameries. From so authentic the flatiron and hot water bottles may Young— tead Ranch. 7:30 and 9:00 also do service for a time with this a pen, the article, on page 6, is wrapping put suugly round joints. We print everything but money. worth reading. r- 1# —l|i