*fm & ]wmr« sw jijKyy -Ff S£ Page Two X. MOWER COUNTY NEWS, AUSTIN, MINN. Monday, Sept. 4, 1922. N~: -, ty/eMborhood County Board Proceedings l*ower of the Sun's Rays. ECLIPSE ECHOES National Cemeteries. The sun's radiant energy has been There are 82 tuition cemeteries in estimated as being equal to. that which the United States and in City one the would be required to pump from the of Mexico. They were established by rs* The County Hoard and for the County of Mower, Minnesota, met in ocean enough water to supply a Niagara a special act of congress and are under Weekly Shavings. special session at the Court House in the City of Austin at 9 o'clock A. M. Edited by 75,000 miles wide. To equal the Volume 436 Thursday, August 24th, 1922 pursuant to call heretofore duly made. the supervision of the quartermaster August 23, 1922 Splinters energy which the earth receives from All Members Present, Viz: corps of the army. Cemeteries J. H. Krebsbach, Chairman the sun would call for a row of Niagaras Homes that Mean Most. at the national military homes are have a great deal of valuable information A. Hotson encircling the earth three times, under the immediate supervision of DEXTER A house can only be distinctive in in our library such as plans v.. H. P. Johnson with foot-pound of energy utilized the governors of the soldiers' homes every and blue prints, built-in woodwork, irt so far as it expresses or reflects the S. D. Thompson in electric horse power. and subject to the rules of the homes. 4- fact information every builder ihould J. J. Gjerness character of its owner—good taste— have before he starts his improv^jments Miss Marie Garvey is visiting relatives O. J. Simmons, County Auditor careful thought and planning—the no matter if it is a Palace, cottage, at Manley, Iowa. The minutes of the last meeting were read and on motion duly .approved. right sense of proportion4—and a desire barn, hog house, poultry houi^e Communications were read, considered and placed on file. Lulu Miss Townshend of Des or even a machine shed. All our information to provide for your family a A petition of the School Board of Consolidated School District No. 25 is free for the asking, and Moines, who had been spending a few asking to have the entire territory of Common School District No. 56 set into home to be always remembered and of no obligation on your part. days with her sister, Mrs. W. M. and made a part of Consolidated School District No. 25 having heretofore been THE TOP THAT which to be always proud. duly presented to the County BOard by order of said Board the time of hearing Scott, has returned home. You can build as attractive a home PROTECTS YOU of said petition was set for this 24th day of August and the same came Just a few bags of cement and a S. D. Goetsch and daughter, Pearl, out of wood as you can out of any up for hearing at this time. few yards of sand and gravel mixe in rain and storm—the top ether material—at less, cost and with motored to Rochester Monday to visit S. D. Catherwood appeared as counsel for the petitioners and F. G. Sasse with water and spread out at the right that is sightlyand smart equal safety. But any material must a few days with friends. appeared as counsel for the objectors. Mr. Sasse at this time offered the following place will do away forever with feeding looking in fine weather—the te put tog-ether according- to the rules objections: He objected to the jurisdiction of the Board to hear and Miss Genevieve Haigh who has your stock in the mud. top that does not go down of design and good taste if the result consider the petition. Geo. Landherr the owner of the North Half of the been visiting at the F. M. Gifford under slight wear and tear is to be pleasing and attractive—if it North-East Quarter of Section 11 in Township of Nevada objects to the jurisdiction and jars of the road—that is is to stand for the things you lr.ean home has returned to her home at As a trouble hatcher and temper of the Board because his land is not described in the notice, and the the kind you want on your i: to stand for. disturber, green or poor lumber Des Moines. objection to the jurisdiction of the Board is on the same ground that the car and the kind we will build We have LUMBER of all kinds, stands 'bout class A-l. The best proper notice has not been given. Mr. and Mrs. Emery Deyo and for you. and will gladly help you select i.he way to avoid all this is to buy lumber School District No. 56 and the individual property owners therein object family of St. Paul, motored' here Lmd and grade which will serve best from us—properly seasoned or kiln to Commissioner S. D. Thompson sitting in this case as highly improper, illegal R. Monday to spend a week with relatives. and last longest. That is part 01 our dried lumber is the best to buy—that'.the and prejudicial, he being a member of the petitioners school board and H. GRAY service to our customers. We also kind we sell. a petitioner herein. After listening to the arguments of the respective counsel and the advice Miss Marguerite Daily returned of the County Attorney, the objection as to the jurisdiction was over-ruled and home Tuesday after being gone the the objection as to Commissioner Thompson not being qualified to sit in the r. J. J. CLEMENS past month on a trip to the coast. AUTO TOP AND AUTO PAINTING case was accepted and the taking of evidence for and against the granting of Mrs. W. J. Root is spending this said petition "proceeded. ONE PIECE OR A CAR LOAD Austin, Minn. So. Main Street At 5 o'clock P. M. recess was taken until 9 o'clock A. M., Friday, August week with her mother at" St. Charles. 25th at which time the Board reconvened with all members present. After Miss Ruth Loucke of Spring Valley DIAL 2047 Local Manager all the evidence had been taken for and against the granting of said petition was in town Monday. Miss and the arguments of the respective counsel heard, the matter was taken under Loucks is principal of our school this advisement and recss taken until 9 o'clock A. M. Saturday, 'August 26th at which time the Board reconvened with all members present. year. The petition of the School Board of Consolidated School District No. 25 to Allan Britzius of Spring Valley, have the territory comprising Common School District No. 56 annexed to and who is employed by the Dexter Auto made a part of said Consolidated School District No. 25 came on for final decision company, is moving his family here at this-time. The roll being called, the petition was rejected by the following vote: Commission Hotson voting in favor of granting said petition this week. They are moving in the and Commissioners Krebsbach, Johnson and Gjerness voting against granting Durham place. the petition. Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Briu of Austin On motion the following bills were duly audited and allowed: were calling on friends here Wednesday. County Revenue J. E. Detwiler, Justice Fees $ 145.70 Puritan Oil & Paint Co., Puritan Cleaner 57.46 Clifford S. Backen, son of Mr. and F. H. McCulloch Prtg. Co., Carbon paper .60 Mrs. Frank C. Backen of Dexter, Ralph S. Mitchell, Witness in John Wagner inquest 2.24 died at his home Wednesday night Geo. E. Wright, Witness in Wagner inquest 2.24 Is that all there Miller-Davis Co., Office supplies 35.50 after suffering several months with Miller-Davis Co., Office supplies 5.58 diabetis. The body was taken to Cummings Brush Co., Janitor supplies 4.25 Burt, la., the old home of the family Emma Simonson, Witness in Wagner inquest 2.24 for burial. He was fifteen years old F. H. McCulloch Prtg. Co., Office supplies .75 Metropolitan Supply Co., Supplies for Supt. of Schools 8.13 the 29th day of August. is to Advertising? Miller-Davis Co., Office supplies .- 12.13 N. Nicholsen, Boarding prisoners for July 40.50 GRAND MEADOW F. H. McCulloch Prtg. Co., Office supplies 37.50 Geo. C. Clifford, Window glass for court house 7.25 Earl Printing Co., Office supplies 14.00 \-, Lyle Tribune, Advertising 10.50 Mr. and Mrs. Geo. King of Dexter A. C. Page, Insurance premium Fair Grounds Bldgs 108.75 and two grand children of St. Paul Charles W. Sexton Co., Ins. premium for fire and theft on spent Sunday at Rene Laws' home/ Federal Truck 10.50 Miller-Davis Co., Office supplies 29.25 Mr. and Mrs. Bean and Mrs. Mallum Herald Pub. Co., Advertising s.25 of St. Paul motored here and J. T. McCormick, Coal for Court House 264.65 spent Sunday at the Martin Sorum Miller-Davis Co., Office supplies 57.25 Williams Stationery Co., Overhauling mimeograph 14.50 home. Mrs. Mallum and Mrs. Bean Six Town News Advertising 3.60 are Mr. Sorum's sisters, and it has Burroughs Adding Mach. Co., Repairs to adding machine 25.58 been about twenty-five years since Louis F. Dow Co., Office supplies 5.22 they were in Grand Meadow. E. R. Clay, Repairing typewriter 1.50 A critic got after our advertising. He said, "You Herald Pub. Co., Publishing Commissioners Proceedings 117.33 Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Laws and son, Clarence M. Myers, Jury Service -1.00 people talk about advertising moulding favorable public Charles, of Austin, and Mrs. Renova West Dry Goods Co., Supplies for Supt. of Schools 5.32 were callers at the Conlon home Sunday John Terlinden, Witness in Wagner inquest 2.24 opinion. John H. Rochford, Ins. premium on Fair Ground Bldg 33.30 evening. Herald Pub. Co., Pub. notice of School Dist. No. 25 21.60 "Why don't you talk about selling goods? Public Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Coleman of County Poor opinion is all right, but what I want to know is how about Lenox, S. D., spnt a few days at F. C. Weidt, Mpls. Tribune for County Home 5.00 the home of their parents, Mr. ai Minn. State Sanatorium, Board and Treatment month of July for sales, profits, turnover, more distribution, window displays, Bessie Hill, Alma Sibriel and Jacob Krotter 121.85 Mrs. Ray Coleman, Mr. and Mrs. Minnie Lappin, Nurse at County Home 90.00 bigger earnings, as a result of buying advertising'' Brownlow of LeEoy and Marvin David W. J. Urbatch & Bro., Supplies and equipment for County Home 50.67 of Chatfield also spent Sunday at C. A. Carlson, Welding bearing 3 75 the Coleman home. J. T. McCormick, Coal for County Home 173.49 It's not a very strange thing for a business man to Road and Bridge Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Myhre and Henry Meyers Work on State Road No. 7 17.00 want these things. Most of them do. Cscar Jacobsons 'notored to Aust?n John Winkels Work on State Road No. 7 at Waltham 30.00 Saturday to attend the funeral of Lester Hill, Work on State Road No. 7 at Waltham 7.00 This man doesn't want to wait for favorable public Mis. Mable Pierce. T. J. McClellan, Work on State Road No. 7 at Waltham 17.50 opinion. He wants to go straight to the mark for more Chris.Rettig, Work on State Road No. 7 at Waltham 30.00 Mr. and Mrs. Homer Curtis of Oakland Chris Rettig, Work on State Road No. 7 at Waltham 15.00 spent Sunday at the 0& sales and greater profits. He wants a public actually Earl Carpenter, Work on State Road No. 7 at Waltham 27.50 Myhre home. Will Jacob, Work on State Road No. 7 at Waltham 27.50 buying his goods—not just a public getting more favorably The ball game Sunday, Grand Meade Arthur Leeper, Foreman on State Road No. 7 33.60 disposed toward buying. Arthur Leeper, Work on State Road No. 7 at Waltham 60.00 v« vs. Austin very interesting. w?.k Jim Hall, Work on State Road No. 7 at Waltham 18.00 The score being S to 10 in favor of Nevertheless, the way advertising works is thru Ray Jacobs, Work on State Road No. 7 at Waltham 17.50 Grand Meadow. Lloyd Leeper, Work on State Road No. 7 at Waltham 20.00 the moulding of favorable public opinion. Mr. and Mrs. Culick Tollefson an'.1 Herbert McClellan, Work on State Road No. 7 at Waltham 15.60 Geo. Benzel, Work on State Road No. 7 at Waltham IS.00 family and grandpa and giandina The quality of an article, its price, its competition, Lyle Culvert & Road Equipment Co., Armco Culverts 162.69 so a S a its method of sale, and the extent to which people actually Lyle Culvert & Road Equipment Co., Armco Culverts 96J3 land and son, Mis. Lilian Johnbn, Lyle Culvert & Road Equipment Co., Armco Culverts 1909!01 need it affect immediate sales more than advertising iNndrena Lien, Mis. Knut Basnes? H. F. Garbisch, Final payment on Bridge No. 3749 406^50 H. F. Garbisch, Final payment on Culvert Job No. 2208 97.50 Corning, Mr. and Mrs. Selmer Chris*onson does. H. F. Garbisch, Final payment on Job 2201 158.76 and two daughters of Bixby, Lyle Culvert & Road Equipment Co., Armco Iron Culverts 168.00 Advertising is a relatively new thing. But it is not Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Cole and family, C. A. Carlson, Gasoline, storage and repairs for Ford car 142.11 so new that people who buy it should be uninformed as Mrs. Sever Carlson, Mrs. M. Goodwin Frank E. Wilson, Dynamite 7.50 W. E. Lewis, Grading on Job 2209 of Blooming Prairie, motored 337.50 to how it works. Schleuder Paper Co., Supplies for Engineer 2.50 here with well filled baskets and Eggert Bros., Repairing Road tools 8.85 Whether the results from advertising are fast or spent the day with M. and Mrs. Thus. W. J. Urbatch & Bro., Nails .60 A. Conlon, all went to Rine Lawn and Chicago Steel Tape Co., Steel tapes and menders 11.10 slow the process' is the same. It is the moulding of a favorable Charles Milner, Engineering expense a picnic dinner was surely enjoyed. public opinion for articles or services that deserve M. J. McGowan, Engineers Assistant 104 00 Grand Meadow girls are getting Phillip McLaughlin, Chainman -r-, 70.00 it. busy. Elvft SfockbraPd commences Lea F. Duholm, Repair tires 4 35 '20f teaching today in Bist. No. known C. D. Edwards Mfg. Co., Grader blade 5 45 Lyle Culvert & Road Equipt. Co., Repairs for grader ....... 17.75 as the Case school S,uby JacobsCH £o.ipmission§r Johnson offered the following resolution and moved its jn t]ie same school she taught last adoption: the parks' district, north of Vear, WlleFeas in pursuance of and in full compliance with the provisions of Dexter Geraldine Millner in the Chapter 230, General Laws, Minnesota, 1905, and the several acts amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto, such steps have been duly andv legally taken Frankford school. that a certain public drainage ditch has been duly located and established, E. G. Wash of Santa, Ana, Calif., with certain branches and laterals, the entire system of which is located in arrived Thursday to look after his the county of Mower in the State of Minnesota, and known as Judicial Ditch interests here. Number 6, and Whereas, it has been definitely ascertained and determined in accordance H. B. Bussal went t0 LaCrosse on with the provisions of law applicable thereto, that the expense incurred and business Saturday. to be incurred in locating, constructing and establishing said Judicial Ditch Mrs. Elif Jorgens, who has been Number 6 will be at least the sum of $36,000.00, and Whereas, there is not sufficient money in the treasury of said county to visiting relatives and friends here for expense defray the incurred and to be incurred, in so locating, constructing several weeks, leaves from Spring and establishing said ditch. Valley Monday for Minneapolis. Now Therefore, Be It Resolved, by the County Board of Mower County Miss Alma Johnson, who has been Minnesota, that it is necessary for the purpose of defraying in part the expense home on a two weeks' vacation returned incurred and to be incurred in locating constructing and establishing Mower County News said Judicial Ditch Number 6 to raise at this time the sum of, $36,000.00 and to Geo. Nelson's Sunday. for that purpose the negotiable coupon bonds of said county be issued in the Mike Tyrel of St. Paul returned aggregate amount of $36,000.00. That said bonds shall be 36 in number, numbered home Friday after a week's visit with from 1 to 36 inclusive, shall be in the denomination of $1000,00 each, old time friends. Mike is a Grand shall bear date the first day of September 1922, and shall bear interest at the rate of four and three-quarters- per cent per annum, payable semi-annually on Meadow boy—was born and .raised the first days of March and September in each year, and that both principal here—but many changes have taken "THE COUNTY ADVERTISING MEDIUM" and interest of said bonds shall be payable in United States Gold Coin at the place during his absence of twentythree Northwestern Trust Company in the City of St. Paul, Minnesota. years. That said bonds shall be due and payable as to principal as follows: 1 -2 1, 1928, Bonds numbered and on September and two bonds in the order Mrs. Martin Skarran and daughter, 11 of their numbers lowest numbers first, on September 1st in each of the Minnie, went to Austin Saturday. 20 years 1929 to 1936 inclusive Bonds numbered 19, and 21 on September 1st, J. R. Joyce was an Austin caller 1937, and three bonds in the order of their numbers lowest numbers first, on Saturday. September 1st in each of the years, 1938 to 1942 inclusive. Resolved further that said bonds and the coupons thereto attached shall be in substantially tfco following form with the necessary variations as to "Mercifully" Put to Death. 'I Aged numbers, and maturities, which said form is hereby approved and adopted: fe'^ The Ayon United States of America natives pf Island, 700 State of Minnesota miles west of Bering strait, do not Mower County know their own ages—but they 1 kill f.'i (Continued on Page Two) old people a4 an act of mejrcy. •Vsi-V' liii -m