Ut*-'" -4 y- &$,^>!IS.~.^. :.~fi?''*':'}-SA£"~ •,.v" 5 ,« -. MOWER COUNTY NEWS, AUSTIN, MINN. Thursday, Oct. 5, 1922. Mower County News country. great distance, but it has eliminated I I the personal contact that went with D. H. Bartholomew of Minot,N. D., ,1 Did Ypu Ever Stop to Think— .• Create A Published every" Monday and Thursday, the business call, before we had the i» manager of the Penney store there, at Austin, Minnesota. business of "calling up.', —^lifineota came to Austin with Mr. Anderson Mascot. and spent Tuesday with him. THAT your city should now be showing a marked, steady, improve- -.# Reserve l^orthiyestern Advertising Representatives: Anient in business. Minnesota Select List, 215 Penney Manager Is 1 News items from all sections of this South Sixth Street, Minneapolis j^ vTHAT -you should enroll yourself with your city boosters. .7 territory are wanted by The News. 709 Exchange Bank, St. .Paul. Back Fr9m Meeting THAT your city will be a more wonderful city if your own people 7c .make use of its advantages. $ P. C. PRESTON Editor-Manager I?*''--''DT'Vf*"?- This is not difficult once you Mart to save money G. J. Anderson, manager of the FIRE DONT'S. THAT since the advent of the automobile^ JMople trayel forpleasureas systematically. If you ever expect to be independent City Editor Ii. W. MARSHALL Penny store of AusH|i? returned ^onday cjgv Fire prevention week brings never before. They seek out-cities thfi have good camping'Pgrounds financially thru your own efforts you must make a night from Sf.' -pa^l, where,, he forth to the people of Austin and modern hotels as their stopping places."* .x start. •!"i' ,-i.' SS1W attended & districi^eeti^g of t&e and Mower county the necessity THAT conventions, gathering together large bodies of men .and managers of Penney stores in Nojth of elimination of fire hazards. women, are increasing. These people go to cities where .. proper ,r.r*. and South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin Money saved and put away will protect you from Here are a few of the -^hotel hospitality is provided. and" parts of Michigan, Iowa don'ts in this connection: misfortune and prepare you to take advantage of opportunities and Nebraska. -THAT you will find a never-ending procession of bargains in "the $ Don't throw lighted matches that will surely come to you. The meeting was attended by 105 "happy grounds" for bargain hunters—the advertising columns away until sure the flame is managers and about 25 buyers. The of your newspapers. READ THE ADS! 1 extinguished. But choose the right place to put your capital,.or was convention proper held on Sep­ Don't use kerosene to light THAT some cities, in order to succeed in really a large way, must the hard earned savings of a lifetime may be swept tember 22 and 23 after which the fires. assume new and .better plans of development than they now have. away in a day. managers spent a week in buying. A ., Don't look for gas leaks with Many cities seem content to remain a small city, others are PEPPI big banquet was held on Saturday an open flame. $2.60 Per Year, in advance NGUP, making plans of development on a large scale and every night, September 23. Don't use volatile liquids to .Six. Months $1.25 citizen is planning to help that plan. THEY WILL WIN. was The convention attended by clean clothing. Mr. Penney, chairman of the board, Entered as Second Class Matter at Don't allow electric wires to THE AUSTIN NATIONAL BANK the Post office at Austin, Minn., under president of, the Penney company come in contact with metals. the act of March 3, 1879. J. M. McDonald, merchandising manager Don't put ashes in wooden receptacles. amusement and arouse interest and Glenn White, in charge of of Austin, Minn. Mower county business men equipment department. pride among the citizens themselves. Don't leave oily rags in corners and bankers showed the true spirit Member Federal- Reserve System. District meetings are being held or closed rooms. Monday evening when they raised in all parts of the country and from Don't have any but metal FIRE PREVENTION. J. L. MITCHELL, P. D. BEAULIEU, W. E. HOPFE, nearly $400 to pay the cost of having St. Paul the Penney officials went to waste-baskets. President Vice President Are you doing your part to make Cashier Mower county represented in a Portland, Oregon, to be present at Don't leave matches within Austin and Mower county a safer big way at the National Dairy Show. Invites Self-Examination. the Portland meeting. reach of children. place to live in. Mr. Anderson reports that the business (Kansas City Times) Serge Yessinin, the Russian poet Don't buy any but safety More than 15,000 lives jsre lost each of the Penney company is on When the Herrin massacre was matches. \vho married Isadora Duncan, must year by fire. Most of the victims are the increase in every part of the Advertisements in the News Bring Results. first reported it Was generally assumed'that depend upon an interpreter to converse women and little children. Safeguard the killing of the unarmed with his bride, as she cannot your family and your home by being prisoners must have been done by speak Russian and he can speak careful. aliens. Americans, people said, would neither English nor French. Would T- This is Fire Prevention week and never have been guilty of such atrocities^. that be termed a handicap or an unfair is the time when every resident advantage PREVENT FIRE LOSS! should give consideration to these The Jacksonville, 111., Courier, calls Of course you have been bearing vital things. attention to the fact that practically in mind all week that this is Fire Fire waste helps to keep living every one of those indicted for the 'Prevention Week. Likewise you have costs high by destroying dwellings, crime bears an American name. been studying all the rules laid down supplies of food and other necessities. These men are not foreigners. Most by -¥a¥?™18-fir®, chiefs and authorities -Do your part in preventing of them, the Courier says, came from BE FULLY PROTECTED! on fire prevention. Furthermore you fire and benefit yourself. the. mountain regions of Tennessee have convinced yourselves that no Take these precautions and be sure and Kentucky. matter how carefuhyou may be, others to look over your insurance policies What sort of training and education are not so careful and that fires and see that you are properly protected. could men have had who would will happen, and consequently have Any insurance merchant will show "such savagery What sort of vr. taken out insurance. Haven't you? be glad to give you the information *T- Home life was theirs What kind of you require to place your property Are Lessons To Be learned from Fire Prevention Week, October 2 to 9. surroundings were they brought up There can't be too much enthusiasm under proper protection. over football when baseball is in? .The Committee on Publicity and Education claims the nation's toll is still on the stage. This week in particular The Herrin affair invites other A BANKER'S VIEW. States to self-examination. Are they football will be little thought over 15,000 killed and 50,000 injured as a result of Fire, and over $485*000,000 Every farmer in Mower county permitting children to grow up in of, with, the baseball world's series should have heard the remarks before being held in New York and several a way that will make them possible Fire Loss in 1921, not including unreported losses. the meeting of business men and other junior world series and post perpetrators of tragedies like that in bankers Monday evening in Austin season consolations taking place ajl the Illinois coal fields? by N. F. Banfield, Sr., who told the over the country. For about two assemblage how the banker looks upon of Fires Are Due to Carelessness days after these various series have Buncombe Bob. the dairy iifofusfcy. been completed they will hold prominent The radicals of all types and entanglements Significant was hia remark that his space in the news and then are once more figuring bank had made more loans in number football will come into its own. on a third-party movement, with Bob to extendvthe dairying industry-4hair. LaFollette as their standard bearer. Advertising will sell goods. By for any other purpose. This, jjiidoubtedly, 'They figure on drawing a lot from the that is not meant that an advertisement is news to many people of Democrats after the next platforms JUST ONE MINUTE once in a while is worth anything. READ THIS ALSO. Mower county. are adopted. By that time also the We mean advertising that Of importance also was his remark political status of Hearst may be keeps up steadily, that never relaxes, You can read this in one minute. Many merchants do not seem to realize that the most expensive that the banker regards the farmer known. He will support the Democratic stock they carry is waste paper and rubbish— that keeps the store name and store with a herd of milk cows as a good, By the time you reach the last line, property worth $923 values constantly before the buying ticket if he isn't. So far jas safe borrower. With a cream check will have been destroyed by fire somewhere in the United States. Persons who examine gasoline tanks with lighted matches LaFollette is concerned, he is an ideal public. Just one word should should telephone the undertaker before lighting the match. coming in regularly, this kind of farmer Minute after minute, day by day, on the average, this appalling leader for a league of despair. He be emphasized in connection with the takes care of his obligations in pace keeps up, to the grand total yearly of $485,000,000. The same thing applies to persons who start fires in stoves has been a consistent wrecker all his word "advertising." That word is 'such a way that he gains the banker's with coal oil. That, at least, was the record in 1921. What the showing consistent. life and is never found with any conservative confidence. will be this year, and in the years to come depends, in large One gallon of gasoline properly mixed with air is equal in measure. He is a voice of measure 651 YOU. The speaker also urged the linking "STOP, LOOK, LISTEN." explosive power to 83 pounds of dynamite. protest, but never-of cheer and acclaim.—Los up of- the dairy industry with hogs Ninety per cent of all fires are preventable, for they are The horrible railroad crossing accident The average number of fires in the United States each day Angeles Times. due to carelessness. and poultry, a combination, in his which occurred in St. Paul Monday is about 1500, three-fourths of which are from carelessness. opinion, that is hard to beat. Take, a look in your cellar, your attic, that closet. Clear afternoon prompted the Ramsey On an average five (5) school houses are burned each day Every middle aged person remembers out the rubbish—the old stuff stored away because "maybe Mr. Banfield's experience is probably County Coroner to make the following during the school period in the United States and still people some day we'll find use for it." Many fires about the house are when there was no telephone, no no different than that of other kick on having fire drills. statement, quoted from the Pioneer born of thrash piles. phonograph, no automobile, no rural bankers in Mower county. The banker, Press: Oily rags will start a fire by spontaneous combustion. free delivery, no movies and none of 'While insurance marks the difference between protection and upon' whom the farmers must "This tragedy phould be &' Wsson destitution, every American home has its treasured possessions the thousand and one other modern The" best way^ to fight fire'S' ls^'to fight them before they look for assistance, will be found to whose worth cannot be computed in terms of money and can start, which can be done by close inspection and carefulness. to every St. Paur person who drives conveniences that we now enjoy. And be heartily in favor of any movement never be replaced. an automobile," Coroner C. A. Ingerson Every fire that destroys property either real or personal in still people Were just as happy in for the bettering of dairy herds A minute's thought now may save the patient accumulation this community is a loss the general public must pay. said Monday night after seven those days as they are now. The automobile and diversified farming. Mr. Banfield's of a life time from the ravages of fire. .persons had been killed and one mortally has revolutionized our mode In 1920 there were 105 deaths reported as the direct result remarks should be a valuable After all, it's chiefly a matter of protecting your own hurt in the crash at the Omaha of fire in this state of which number 47 were women and 33 of travel and, to a great extent, our property and those whose presence there make it HOME. tip to Mower county farmers. children. crossing. mode of life—but it has caused us to Isn't it worth a minute to you? "Nothing relieves the motorists Help eliminate the fire hazard and be a better citizen. travel to the distant acquaintance DON'T BE DISCOURAGED. of responsibility Always to stop, look and neglect the neighbor across the Remember this: and listen at railroad crossings." way. The telephone has made it possible When Abraham Lincoln was a to converse with people at a OUR BIRTHDAY. young man he ran for the legislature READ MINNESOTA'S FIRE RECORD FOR FIVE YEARS in Illinois, and was badly swamped. This week marks the second anniversary He next entered business, failed, of the Mower County News 4- and spent seventeen years of his life under that name. LOSSES TOTALING $52,343,720 paying up the debts of a worthless Two years ago this October the partner. name was changed from the Transcript-Repubican He was in love with a beautiful to the present name. Defective chimneys and flues.. $ 1,384,484 Steam and hot water pipes ... 29,488 Sparks from combustion 555,250 THEATRE young woman to whom he became engaged—then Two years of progress is the result Fireworks, firecrackers, etc 62,867 Stoves, furnaces, boilers, pipes 2,327,606 Spontaneous combustion 3,114,614 she died. Gas, natural and Artificial 109,292 Electricity 2,906,091 of continued efforts to serve Unknown causes 6,284,426 Hot ash^s, Coals, open fires 451,094 Explosions ......_. 152,155 Later he married a woman who Mower county,. The News has long Exposure,, including conflagations Ignition Of hot grease, etc 63,691 was a constant burden to him. THURSDAY and FRIDAY— Total of reported cases $41,874,976 been known as the county paper and Matches atid smoking 2,431,939 17,730,478 Entering politics again, he ran for Open Lights v. 258,641 under the present management has Sparks from machinery ....... 792,888 "The Wall Flower" Twenty-five per cent should be added Congress and was badly defeated. Petroleum and products ...... 732,489 Incendiarism 329,620 taken on a neW slogan: Community to these figures to cover losses not reported Rubbish and litter 275,432 He then tried to get an appointment Lightning ..... 787,625 Service, first last, always. With Colleen Moore to actuarial bureau. Sparks on roof .— 626jl71 Miscellaneous known causes. .. 468,128 to the United States Land Office, It will be the .endeavlf^of- the management but failed. Pathe News to faithfully "carry out the He became a candidate for the meaning of this slogan which ^^|lly United States Senate, and was badly Winter is Coming and With it Extra Fire Hazards means: Austin arid Mower County— SATURDAY— "•[defeated. iirst, last, always.' "Confidence" Im-1856 he became a candidate for "Help Keep the Loss Low—Be Fully Insured for Your Own Good. Vice-President and was again defeated. FARIBAULT'S-"OPEN HOUSE." •Witli Herbert Rawlinson. i, Faribault held its second -"Open *Eh$se Firms are Reliable Insurance Merchants and Will Be Glad to Ad- In 1858 he was defeated by Douglas. House" last evening attd entertained re­ thousands of visitors with every Cpmejj^. vise You On Insurance Matters. One failure after another bad thing from displ^f of goods to free failures^-great setback^-^i^jpiCface demonstrations and concerts^.^Practically •trf all this he event^ll3^^am^ ^p# all the mercljants ol^the $£~the country's greatest meny-i#--net got together to make the^fij the greatest. Wayne H. Webber greatest ever h^ld. FeatugjpT »f y^lie Austin Insurance J. E. Crippen Alfred C. Page When you think of a series of setbacks With Gladys rockwell "Open House" were Musical entertainments, Agency like his, doesn't it make you "Good-bye Anxiety" band concerts, prize contests, .. and Stuart Holmes Insurance of All Kinds feel small to become discouraged, just 57 Varieties E. RAY CORY, Manager a fashion show, and a public Century Comedy General Insurance^ because you think you are having a Austin National Bank Bldg. Babcock Building Wk wedding at one of the leading theatres. Insurance Protection Service Service Our Motto— hard time in life ?—-Praetorian Guard. Wold Building Dial 2670 Y&i Advice Without Obligation AUSTIN, MINNESOTA. ^AUSTIN, MINNESOTA. "Community endeavors like tHe MATINEE 2:30—10c & 20c iiAUSTIN, MINNESOTA. AUSTIN, MINNESOTA. id Tht^&eriF glr|f i& not v^ry /vk "Open House" tend to advertise a EVENINGS 7:30 & 9:00 of walking^: but sne is always willing city over great areas and area great 10c & 20c AH '5 to take a hike to the soda fountains bdon to business in the city. In addition of Austin..: they furnish clean, wholesome s«Vf •i '/m-