mm v""" wm 'f.\ •x Page Two MOWER COUNTY NEWS, AUSTIN, MINN. -r Monday, Sept. 11,1922. EGLIPSE ECHOES Rev. Elmer Moe to llM *. Mr. Moe will be made at meetings &F 2&t of the three congregations, Lyle, Waseca Pastorate Looking In on Congress From & Mona, and Six Mile Grove, Monday, fe* September A mass meeting will 18. dSJ-, Weekly Shavings. Edited by Lyle community bade farewell to be held at Lyle Thursday evening, the House Gallery Volume 438 September 6, 1922 Splinters. 4 Rev. Elmer Moe last week. Mr. Moe September 21, at eight o'clock. ll' -. leaves his Lyle charge to accept a "THAT'S THE STUFF" IF RATS HAD BELLSWOULD Sgv-IV"--' LYLE SCHOOLS call at Waseca, following eleven Says your carpenter, when a load YOUR PLACE RING? Interesting store news will be of our material comes on your job. years in the Lyle community. Did you ever stop to figure what found on every page of The News in THE STORY OF A BILL He likes good lumber and it makes the rats on your place destroy for Selection of a successor to Rev. OPENED FRIDAY this issue. Shop here nrsc. him happy to work it, and he knows you in one year? Take your pencil the Eclipse make a special effort to and figure your loss in 1922 from furnish material best adapted to the rats. Then figure the price of concreting job. By CONGRESSMAN GUY U. HARDY them off the place and vou will see that it would not take long to School Activities Are do the job with what it now costs vou Resumed—Large There's ample reason this year for to board YOUR rats. Copyright, 1912. Western Newspaper Union. THE TOP THAT building early. Shortage of labor and Attendance. Society affairs are not on the dally We're not just hitting the "high PROTECTS YOU material may handicap those who Most people think that a congressman spots" today, but we are purring wait. iprogram of many members. A few has a soft snap. Little work, in rain and storm—the top along- on all six cylinders, confident, jlarge receptions may be attended and You know the difficulty the railroads big pay, bright lights, much society. that is sightlyand smart that as we deliver the goods and treat are having moving freight. We Lyle, September 11.—Vacation .a few dinners exchanged, but the avjerage I suppose I used to think so. I had looking in fine weather—the you right, that you will keep "kuminagin." have full stocks of building material member wears his evening days for Lyle boys and girls ended geen the legislature at work, and I naturally top that does not go down NOW but can't promise what we can Clothes, If he has any, less frequently. supposed that such an important today with the opening of the schools under slight wear and tear do later this fall. So if you are in :ln Washington than he does in his body as the congress would not and jars of the road—that is here with a large enrollment. Put In Concrete Foundations While need of more storage room for grain .home town. the kind you want on your work more Continuously than does a or stock, or need to repair present the Weather Is Good. Miss Cora Ostenson will have So it may be seen that a congressjman,.if ear and the kind we will build state legislature. I had never seen buildings, we would suggest that you While of course concrete can be charge of the seventh and eighth for you. he takes his job seriously, soon come in and give us your order for much of the eastern part of the country, laid during- the winter months, it is grades Mass Hazeli Muldown, the [finds that In Washington he Is just a and when I came down here I •& your needs. Then you will not have much more convenient to get it out of fifth and sixth grades Miss plain, everyday worklngman with a Bessie R. H. GRAY to worry about having the material found myself planning little week-end the way while warm weather continues. dally program full and complete. when you are ready to do the work. Preston, the third and fourth and trips to New York, Atlantic City, New Miss Genevieve Dahl, the primary. England and near-by places. A CONGRESSMAN'S MAIL In the night school Supt. Ed. E. Munson, But I had another guess coming. The congress takes mighty few weekend J. J. CLEMENS AUTO TOP AND AUTO PAINTING Miss Anna Doyle and Henrik recesses. A congressman's desk is full of mail 'ONE PIECE OR A CAR LOAD// Nessen will have charge. Austin, Minn. So. Main Street In olden times, a few years ago in V7V7 /ms and propaganda. fact, the congress was in session, more What do the people write about? you Neighbors Save DIAL 2047 Local Manager or less leisurely, for about half the ask. Lansing Man's House year. The members could spend a Well, about almost everything under good deal of time back home where the sun. The congressman is the bureau congressmen are not so numerous and of information for his district. He Exploding gasoline when a garage where their official title cuts more ice is the direct representative for his district and hen house were destroyed by than it does here in Washington. But of the great government at during the past six or seven years the fire, threatened the home of E. E. Washington to which all people turn congress has been in almost continue Dennis at Lansing Wednesday afternoon. when In need or distress. ous session. The war, of course, Both Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Letters come favoring or opposing threw a big burden on congress and were absent from home and neighbors legislation asking for information on brought about the extra long sessions. every conceivable subject asking for fought the fire in their absence, The talk here would indicate that for government aid in all sorts of enterprises succeeding with difficulty in a long time to come a member will asking help to get people out saving the house. spend most of his time In Washington. of all sorts of difficulties and troubles The house meets every day at twelve asking for information that will help Brownsdale Schools o'clock noon and continues in session boys asking for and girls in debates Is Money Ever "Spent" usually until five or six o'clock at decisions to help settle bets asking Show Big Attendance night, and some times later. It meets for literature on all manner of subjects usually every day except Sundaj. It asking for aid in getting post observes few legal holidays and has The enrollment in the Brownsdale offices-and rural routes established. taken only short recess at Christmas schools is 110, thirty-nine more than The homesteader seeks his congressman's times. For Advertising? last year. The enrollment by rooms assistance in land office matters. When the house is in session a member The old soldier and the soldier of later is as follows: Primary room, 32 rarely leaves the hill. He may wars bring many problems to their intermediate room, 32 grammar not sit in the house all the time, but congressman. The mothers of soldiers grades, 27 high school 19. he sticks around nearby so as to be on often have need of help in the way of hand if a quorum is needed or a vote delayed insurance adjustments, a discharge 4*- taken. for the boy who enlisted under DEXTER He gets his lunch whenever he can. age, and occasionally help to get There is a restaurant in the capitol clemency for a boy in prison. The and in the house office building, and he The public school opened last Monday farmer asks bulletins, agriculture for usually eats hurriedly in one of these year books, garden seed, rare field seed, with the following staff: Principal, when he finds a slack time. Men's farm loans and a variety of other Miss Dorothy Loucks of Spring tastes in lunches vary everywhere, but things. One wrote In and asked for Valley teachers, Mrs. Horstman, I have observed that members are usually the loan of a government bull. They light eaters at lunch time. The Mrs. Holdren, and Miss Swanson of also write often about fence laws, road speaker and several other men of my Rochester. laws and high taxes on real estate— acquaintance always take a pint bottle Dexter will soon have a poultry with all of which the federal government of milk and eat It In a bowl with market house. Parties have purchased has nothing to- do. crackers or bread. This may be followed the old livery and feed barn and Claims against the government produce by Ice cream, pie or some simple much mail and some work. Some have started remodeling it. dessert. A young and energetic executive took hold of a fine of the claims are recent and collectable, Frank Docken, who is in the St. Hard Work in Committees. but many are for losses during the old retail business in New York. Olaf hospital at Austin, is very much If a member had nothing else to do Civil war and before, and these, however improved. but to attend sessions of the house and just, are hard to do anything with W. H. Beltz from Brownsdale was give some study, thought and consideration at this late date. "What this business needs," he told himself, "is a calling on Dexter friends Saturday. to the big problems before congress Many people write urging larger appropriations place in the mind of the public/' he would find himself quite well Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Mott and Mr. for various departments occupied. But that Is only half of the of the government In which they or and Mrs. Lyle Leach spent last week work—perhaps not half. Much of the their-communities are directly Interested. at the state fair. And deliberately he set out to sacrifice the greater business of congress is conducted in Some urge greater appropriations Howard Merritt and Dan Root attended committees. and lower federal taxes at the volume of his profits and invest the sacrifice into the the state fair Friday morning. Every bill is first considered In a same time. building of good will. committed, and sometimes a committee Sdme letters refer to jobs the writers Asa Chase attended a meeting of spends weeks or months holding hearings would like to obtain, but as a congressman and considering a single bill. the Mower County Rural Carriers' has little influence in procuring He did. And to this old business, advertising was This was true of the revenue, tariff, association at Austin Saturday afternoon. jobs now since nearly all government bonus, immigration, educational, prohibition positions have seen but in the the breath of life. enforcement, appropriation civil service, this class of letters does Mrs. Vera Warner is spending this and other big bills. Some committees not crowd the desk. week in St. Paul. meet every day for weeks at a time, For six months had not passed before the business There are many unclaslfled requests, and others at less frequent intervals. such as one from the citizens of a certain had grown so that the advertising cost was a smaller Committees usually meet at ten o'clock town alleging that the citizens of ADAMS ip the morning. Sometimes they go on another town had stolen their courthouse percentage than ever it had been, and, because of a working while the house is in session in the night and asking for its and sometimes they meet at night. larger volume, the shop effected economies and gave far (From the Review.) return through government agency. Some members have very hard committee Adams Poultry men have scored superior service. Is Propaganda Plentiful. work and some are more or less in splendid fashion at the Minnesota Then there is the propaganda, which fortunate, as they choose to look at it. state fair now in progress. Father is in a class by itself. It comes from As a rule, every committee wants to That was five years ago. Today a certain percentage Graeve won 1 and 2 cockerel in a all quarters of the globe and covers consider every bill that can possibly all subjects relating to life, from birth class of twelve on his S. C.Arconas, be referred to it, and almost every is spent, or supposed to be spent, for advertising. control to government graveyards. It member is anxious to get on the most and 1-2-3 pullets in a class of 19. But as fast as the appropriation is spent, the more is delivered by wire, mail and messenger. important and hardest working commit This win in strong competition It runs in volume from a telegram ees. the business increases and the more that the business stamps the local flock as one of the or post card to bound books. No Then there is the office work. The best in the state. The Royal Puritan subject is suggested in congress, it increases the smaller the percentage becomes. mail brings lots of office work. The Yards, Krebsbach and Schneider seems, that does not bring forth a office and departmental work alone shower of propaganda, and some subjects owners, entered 26 Barred Rocks, 23 would keep a man fairly busy all of Is money ever "spent" for advertising? bring a deluge. the time if he worked union hours. of which won prizes. The class numbered So you can see that a congressman's about 250 birds. The wins were Much Business With Departments. desk is apt to be full of mall. His office as follows: 4 cock, 1 hen, 3 ckl, 12-4 The practice has grown up for many Is quite a business institution. If pullet, 2-3 light cock, 1-3 light people to write their congressman he had no legislative duties to perform about their business with the various ckl., 1 dark pullet, 1 light young pen he would find his whole time well employed departments. The .Western members and 3 dark young pen. Joe Schafer in taking care of the mall, and get a great deal more of this class of won a first, a second and a third on the requests for service which the work to do than do the members from malls bring in. White Orpingtons at the Owatonna the East and South. The public land a And withal let me say that congresman fair last week. tracts furnish much business that likes to hear from home. He The American Legion has procured must be looked after at the general wants to be of service to his constituents. the services of the Peshak-Fraser land office. During the week a member He courts the business, so to is apt to have business before the Trio, which will give a concert here, speak. He Is proud of the big bunch Interior department, the forestry service, Saturday, September, 16. of mall that comes in and is pleased the pension bureau, the veterans' a The following are some of the to see big bunch go out at the close bureau and the Post Office department. of the day. A big mall Indicates a local girls who left recently to fill And he may have an immigration close touch with home. Most members teaching^ positions. Miss Katherine case before the Labor department, answer most letters. I have replied to Mandled will resume her duties at a passport case before the Department every letter that has come to my office Faribault and Miss Katherine Steichen of State, some business in some branch from Colorado, except one. That at Mazeppa. Miss Corale of the Agriculture department, and almost came from a sort of anarchist, I would Mower County News anything else before any other Schissel is again teaching at Rose judge. Anyway, I could hardly dictate bureau or department In Washington. Creek. Miss Lucille Dodge left Saturday a proper reply to a lady stenographer, A member never considers the question so that single letter among the for Richfield, Utah. Miss of official duty. If it Is something thousands went into the waste basket, Clara Gilligan has accepted a school that can properly be done, and a constituent unanswered. near Rose Creek. back home wants it done, he The business houses of Adams will goes and does It. And he is glad to do Scotch Thrift. "THE COUNTY ADVERTISING MEDIUM" keep stores open after supper Tuesday It, for it makes him a friend back" a In a talk on thrift, a banker told home. But it all takes time and helps evening, instead of Wednesday story about a Scotch farmer who, on to make his day a full day. as heretofore. This will enable shoppers frequent shopping trips in town, would Offices are usually open by nine hitch his horse on Main street, and to take in the band concert, o'clock In the morning and many members having' securely attacned the feed bag which will be given every Tuesday are there ahead of their secretaries. would lift a hen from the wagon and evening the rest of the season. The secretaries may have of tie her with a stout cord to one to hours work by, but the congressman the in a that she shafts, such manner has none, or rather many. There are able to pick up every bit of would be mm Must and lights in half the offices at night mtfaagf oats the horse might drop while wrest* At a role the piper doe* not extend the best time to find many membera In ling with the feed bag.-—Judge» looi credit Be has habit of collecting their offices U^at night. ,, "& mMBfrffajwasisas pronfptty/—Boeton qwucrlpt. '""W ML