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Mower County news (Austin, Minn.) 1920-1947

September 21, 1922 · Page 1 of 8

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... 1.r.—,•. VT 1 ... Page Two^^-^mfe^S COUNTY NEWS,'AUSTIN, MINN. Thursday,"Sept. 21,1922 ECLIPSE ECHOES from. Chester, Iowa, is here visiting weather. The choir gave several FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE, arrangements a few weeks. have been made to place fine selections. Mrs. Harry Tolstead and children I'X the Chicago Sunday Herald and Examiner Mr. and Mrs. R. Ketchal and Mr. spent the latter part of last week at on sale at local newsdealers Weekly Shavings. Edited by and Mrs. B. Steins motored down the Stea'rn home in Austin. Volume 440. September 20, 1922 on Saturdays. Buy it early and get Splinters. •I Mrs. Jane Campbell who has been from St. Paul last Friday for a weekend the Eight Page Comic Section, all in in the hospital in Austin for two THE DIGNITY OF BUILDING. visit with their aunt, Mrs. B. full colors. the Eclipse aim to live up to these weeks is improving. Her many A pound of beef provides a meal Dammon, and friends. Adv. Sept. 14-21-28, Oct. 5. responsibilities and to deserve the or two but within a few hours more friends here hope to see her well good will of the building public. food is needed. And even with periodic soon. v-- repairing, shoes finally wear out. Mrs. William Meade returned to But the building materials that make Right now, it requires herculean her home at Long Beach, Calif., last it possible to produce food and clothing efforts to get building materials, not and to provide us with homes week, after spending a month here because of a shortage of materials LEROY MAN DIES GRAND MEADOW continue to serve for indefinite periods. but because of lack of transportation with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. J. THE TOP THAT facilities. In many cases, sorely Davis. PROTECTS YOU Of the three necessities of life— needed construction is being held FROM INJURIES PASTOR LEAVES food, clothing and shelter—shelter is up. in rain and storm—the top "the only one that is not consumed in that is sightlyand smart RACINE serving mankind. Everyone engaged looking in fine weather—the "Cant-Snag" Adjustable Gates in or thinking of building can top that does not'sgo down Good enough to use anywhere— Auto Overturns on Way take pride in this thought and in the Rev. Perjy ^Preaches under slight wear and tear good enough to use everywhere. The produce house is now buying one that building construction adds and jars of the road—that is "Cant-Snag" Gates actually cost less to Home From Last Sermon on eggs on a grade. to the country each year three billions the kind you want on your than ordinary all wood home-made of permanent, taxable wealth. Mrs. C. L. Darrel went to Stewartville Le Roy. car and the kind we will build gates. They solve your gate problems. Sunday. But with that pride go corresponding for you. Thursday. More than a million already responsibilities. Particularly in in use on America's best farms. Silo filling is nearly completed in this period we must all be on the Come and see them when you are in alert to eliminate waste and idleness. this vicinity. R. H. GRAY LeRoy Community was shocked on The services Sunday at the M. E. town. In the furnishing of materials it is John Neill of Dover was in Racine Saturday when it became known that church were well attended. This was Saturday on business. Mr. Vieghum was killed in an auto- Rev. r. Perry's last sermon in this Max. Katz of Osage, la., made a mobile smashup when his car over- church and after his sale he leaves AUTO TOP AND AUTO PAINTING J. J. CLEMENS business trip to Racine this week. turned. He had been in town shop- St. Paul, where he will make his /i for ping and was returning home when home. The forenoon passenger train has PIECE OR A CAR LOADT/ Austin, Minn. So. Main Street the accident occurred. been on time nearly all of this week. He was rushed to Spring Valley .. The Modern Woodmen are to initiate DIAL 2047 Local Manager but passed away at 12:00 o'clock be- oOfOlTl AUCtlOIl xl£l(l seven members Thursday evening. fore medical aid was received. At Grand MeadoW Funeral services were held Tues-[ Earl Kemmer and Harry Wilson day afternoon and burial was in the motored to Chatfield Sunday evening. A very successful sale was held by Bloomfield cemetery, worthy nortfc Alvin Sorom at Grand Meadow Tuesday, of here. Merwin Steffens leaves for the Thomas A. Conlon, Grand Meadow Misfortune seems to come to this cities this week to attend school auctioneer, who conducted the family frequently for within the past there. sale, said today. Mr. Conlon said two years a son has died from the C. W. Peery has returned from his that the prices bid were very satisfactory. influenza and another was drowned. vacation. He reports having a very A younger son was left crippled from good time in Utah. an attack of infantile paralysis. Only George Moon is working in Austin A BUSINESS Thos. Conlon is driving last week another son had a leg A. a new in the repair department of the Ford Coupe. broken. Milwaukee Railway. Theo. Bratrud, Alfred Mhyers and W. A. Wilson made a trip to Winona Thos. A. Conlon went to St. Paul with his truck to bring back a Mrs. W. H. Brown was a Cresco Sunday morning. load of binding twine. shopper on Tuesday. Will Rice of Hayward, Wis., spent MOTIVE POWER Miss Cora Norgarden went to Ostrander the week-end here shaking hands RENOVA Wednesday to attend the with old time friends. wedding of a relative. Mrs. Carl Skustad and her mother, Mr. and Mrs. Reynolds and family The Whiteside baby is recovering Mrs. Gilbertson were callers in Grand of Pine Island motored over Sunday from its severe illness. Meadow Friday afternoon. and visited old-time friends. Mr. and Mrs. S. K. Dahle were Mrs. Frank Hambliton, who is in Dr. Price and Miss Ulland of business callers in Austin Saturday. the hospital at Rochester, is getting Blooming Prairie motored down and Miss Agnes Jacobson spent the as well as can be expected. along spent Sunday at the E. J. Diddams week-end with friends in Austin. T. A. Conlon received news of the home. Clifford Browning expects to leave death of a friend and neighbor in Mr. and Mrs. Sprung left by automobile for St. Paul soon to attend school. his old home town in North Dakota, Tuesday morning for the Rev. Mr. Hanson of Clear Lake, who was seriously injured when cities to transact business and visit The time must come when all business will consider Iowa, held services at the schjool a passenger train struck the sedan friends. house Sunday. the advertising in the same spirit that a manufacturer in which he was riding. He was Rev. and Mrs. Oestreich and Supt. Miss Lulu Phillips has returned rushed to the hospital and died a few ponders over the advisability of adopting a new machine. and Mrs. Thielvold motored to Rochester home after undergoing an operation minutes after the accident. last week to visit relatives at One does not install a piece of labor-saving at the Austin hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Silas Skaran, north the hospital. I Mr. and Mrs. Walter Boeff of Hawley of town, were pleasantly surprised mechanism because it suits his fancy but because the The Dorcas society of the Baptist were visiting relatives and friends Sunday when a host of neighbors efficiency of the business requires it. church entertained the faculty of the in the neighborhood for a few days. and friends and relatives from Clay- public school at a 6:50 clock dinner They were guests at the Wesley ton and Adams AJ came with well fill- He expects the new machine to reduce his cost to operate—perhaps in the church parlors. Browning home Monday. ed baskets to enjoy the afternoon. Mr. Nelson of Brooten visited last Mr. and Mrs. Foster and daughter, to make, a better product—and thus aid tt «U1 enjoyed a picnic lunch and a good week at the Banielson home. He, Edith, and son, Floyd, were calling time together. Mr. and Mrs. Skaran him in meeting competition and making larger profits. with a cousin, were on their way to on friends in the neighborhood Saturday. leave soon after their sale, on September resume their college work at Decorah, Mr. Foster is looking for a 26, for their new home at Advertising is exactly similar. The man who refuses Iowa. farm to rent for the coming year. Farwell, where Mr. Skaram has purchased to consider it as a possible expedient, simply shuts his Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Mc'Knight, Mr. and Mrs. George Young entertained a butcher shop. who have been visiting the past week at dinner Sunday the following: eyes on one of the problems of his business. He might at the Wells home, left on Wednesday Mr. and Mrs. F. O. Tanner as well ignore the banks as sources of credit when he has morning for their home at Devils LANSING and children of Brownsdale, Dr. and Lake, N. D. need to borrow capital. Mrs. J. F. Rockwell and Vern Young Mrs. C. Summicht very pleasantly of Austin, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Rockwell, Mrs. George Hunter was an Austin entertained the members of the embroidery On the other hand, the man who looks to advertising Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Phillips caller Tuesday. club on Tuesday evening. and daughters, Lulu and Marian. to checkmate all weaknesses and shortcomings of his Born, to Mr. and Mrs. O. P. Quam, After the usual routine of business Thursday, September 14, a daughter. business and to carry it along to victory despite these, a thermos bottle was presented to WEST LANSING Miss Josephine Pinckney who leaves has a childlike faith in the miraculous. Miss Olive Vaughan and Miss the last of the month on an extended •—. Elizabeth Frilds were Austin shoppers trip thruout the eastern states. Advertising will not make his product or his service Carl A. Larson has blood poisoning Friday. Guests of honor were Mrs. Hueslin, in his hand. any better than they are but it will bring him to full The mid-week union prayer meeting sister of Miss Pinckney and Mrs. McKnight, Ernest Noble went to St. Ansgar, will be held at the church Wednesday a former member. Light refreshments benefits of their merits. It will not eliminate wastefulness la., for a visit Saturday. evening. were served. Mr. and Mrs. Ole Lund attended in his factory or his store but it will reduce his cost Mr. and Mrs. Everett Subra were church in Austin Sunday. Sunday guests at the home of her to operate. It will not make illogical selling methods Otto Baudler of Austin was a caller brother, Mr. Guy Yarwood. WALTHAM in this vicinity last week. successful but it will assist good selling methods, and Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Cory and family Dan Dugaw was a dinner guest often point the way for improving them. of Medford spent Sunday at the at John Nobles heme Sunday. Adelia and" Esther Baumgartner home of his sister, Mrs. E. Barlow. Thomas DeMoss of Iowa was calling were Austin shoppers Friday of last Advertising is the most inexpensive motive power The Bible Study class meets at on old friends here last Saturday. week. the home of Grandma Summey every that the manufacturer or merchant can buy today. It Mrs. H. F. Greene and Minnie Tuesday afternoon. All are welcome. Mr. and Mrs. George Jorgenson of Fett were Austin callers Thursday is a form of stimulus that brings excellent returns on the There will be Sunday school promotion Ceylon called at L. J. Haney's Saturr afternoon. investment. exercises at the church Sunday day. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Beneke and family morning beginning at nine Mr. and Mrs. Frank Haney accompanied spent Thursday evening at the o'clock. Mr. and Mrs. George Jorgenson Henry Fett home. Mr. and Mrs. George Hunter and to Harris, Minn., to visit at the Mr. and Mrs. George Beneke and daughter, motored to Lime Springs Orma Haney home. They made the children visited Sunday afternoon Sunday and spent the day with relatives. trip by auto. with Mr. and Mrs. Will Steinbach. "Mr. and Mrs. Olaf Bekkadahl and Mr. and Mrs. George Fett, Sr., and Mr. and Mrs. A. Anderson and children of Blooming Prairie,' Mr. family, Mr. and Mrs. August Siegfried daughters of Lime Springs, Iowa, and Mrs. L. J. Haney, Agnes and and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Fett were guests at the home of Mr. and Melvin, were dinner guests at Dugaw's and family spent Sunday at the Geo. Mrs. E. Barlow Sunday. Sunday. Fett, Jr., home in Austin. A. McColluch of Iowa, who has spent several weeks at the home of ELKTON his cousin, Mrs. W. L. Yarwood left SARGEANT for Minneapolis Tuesday morning. Silo filling is the order of the day Evangelical Church. TAOPI in this vicninity. A. H. Nauman, Pastor Mower County News H. F. Dienst of Kansas is looking 10:00 a. m., Sunday school. after business interests here. 11:00 a. m., Public worship, sermon Mrs. Watson of Austin spent Friday by student roesti. Will Ilogne left for Northfield on in Taopi. 2:30 p. m.f choir rehearsal. Tuesday. He is attending St. Olaf Alex Bell is home after spending 7:30 p. m.f league, Eva Heydt, college. the summer in Faribault. W- •Icftcicr* 8:00* p. m., sermon by the pastor. Mr. and Mrs. John Jeck, Jr., are Mr. and Mrs. J. Johifeon spent Thursday evening, September 28, "THE COUNTY ADVERTISING MEDIUM" the proud parents of a baby girl Sunday at the Lawsen home near t?- 8:00 p. m., the convention begins and born September 8. Austin. convenes over Sunday, October 1. §1 Leo Reamer spent the first of the Milss Dora Helen Sievert entertained Hear the fifteen speakers on as many a number of friends at a birth, interesting subjects. Dinner and supper week at Sumner, Iowa, with relatives. served the three days of the convention day dinner on Saturday evening. in the church basement free Miss Sadie Blesi and Leonard Asa Short and family motored to of charge. Prof. E. F.. George, D. Owatonna Saturday returning Sunday Blesis from Anoka visited with their of Naperville Theological Seminary brother at Elkton over Sunday. Mr. will deliver three sermons on evening. Sunday, October 1. Blesis, the agriculture teacher here. Mr. and Mrs. John Johnson and .I.. %. ..i.5v-'*.1.. The Mission Festival at the German Mrs. Reamer were shopping in Austin Lutheran church was well attended .50 by the year, and Saturday. The News, in spite of the inclement Mrs. Williams Steams' mother worth it. #1 it W A-' v.1-?"* U'i-. 'to ivS&sA? '*r 1 1