»f- 3*e»s ,* -5- 'W^m if ^v: ^^asaw? .r"S^r -_Tf- •»,te¥r ,Vf 4* -"V #-f VOWER NEWS,'AUSTIN, MINN. Five COUNTY Page Monday, Oct. 23,1922. of mental laxity which these books funny, and the Reverend Doctor whc? LIGHT ON PREHISTORIC RACE eldest. They Itave appeared a.s separate LIBRARY .NOTES KNOW weighed eighteen stone and always^ stories, but the interest is contiguous allow. {V.. and one does not come to a There isn't a better, book on the rumbled in his chest before he spoke*, Scientist Explain* How H« Expect! Some of the bopkS Austin folk to Determine Age of Ancient shelves, if the library staff be permitted like the works of a big clock before* Bfull stop at the ^nd of each. Central American Cjtie*. read this winter. it strikes, promised so well that we? to judge, than Bacheller's "In the WHEN THE FIRST WEDDING WA1 S HELD IN MOWER COUNTY? "Country Beyond" tells on its If books came steaming from the Days of Ben Franklin. The genial were sorry to have him turn into jacket just what it is—a young dog those of the present day, but it was It was in the summer of 1856, August Prehistoric ruins In America will griddle of all the Child's restaurants and romantic characters move in the ghost. Humor of the chuckling sortis takes the place 6f the mounted police "some" wedding just the same. It soon be accurately dated. This was to be exact, that Cupid first took flip-flop into the hand/3 £f the hungry presence of Ben Franklin. never lacking and if one attempted^ in attaining perfection^in the the opinion expressed In an address was held in John Watkin's log cabin up his work in the county. At that crowds pressing|igainst the library to marked lightful passages ones "The Old Madhouse" a posthumous chilly northwest. on "The Chronological Yardstick of ^nd the knot was tied by Justice of desk, and if all 'pancake librarians" would need to make a full sweep o£~ time there was a ^flourishing little Ancient America," by Sylvanus G. //Three books of' surpassing prettiness novel of the late William DeMorban the Peace- Sylvester Smith, father of from BostoWto San Francisco the pencil along the margin of practically Morley of the Carnegie Institute of town of Cedar City, just three or which can be read" by the nientslly tho a novel of last year must be classed Fay Smith, present city recorder of were kept at work inHhree shits, the Washington, before the twentieth international every page. with the popular books for winter four miles down the river from Austin. exhausted without fear of injuryikre Austin. A sumptuous meal was served congress of Americanists. staff could n^t^upply"' Zane- Grey's reading. "Abbe' Peire' by W. Hudson, This little town was started the the wedding guests in the bride's Doctor Morley's "yardstick" is the now book 'Taies ^f#ionely Trails." Some fellows get their nests feathered "The rHoiise of .Mohun," by George There are, as always with De Morgan same year as Austin and had a general home and at night a grand ball took! marvelous Mayan calendar by which De la Roche?«{ ^xplorers' *f the because riches have wings. Gibbs, and |Maria Chapdelaine," by a goodly number of humorous store, a postffice and a mill to place. There being no music for the ages of the ancient cities of Guatemala Dawn" is a iirifs of delightful Louis i-Hemon. Most of us. feel a characters. The Grewbeers, caretakers, boast of. miles around* Eb. Merry volunteered and Yucatan will'eventually be sketches abpj^t lJtli^ sriM! English An optimist, my son, is a chap who/ crowding at times for the'yer sort at the Cedars, are deliciously determined more accurately than the to serve as the orchestra. His sing, Caleb Stock was the town's leading boys told iiiv-ih'e''first person by the plays the other fellow's game. ages of the cities of ancient Egypt. .. ing without accompaniment, served citizen, for he owned the store There was a desultory trading in the dancers as they |yppled and circled and the mill and was the postmaster. Mayan pottery carried on with the about the floor, ACt-u Consequently Caleb was considered its'. peoples In Mexico, Peru, and the southwestern quite a "catch." Be that as it may Mrs. Stock died about a year ago United States. This pottery Caleb picked for his bride Miss Mary at Mitchell, Iowa, aria her husband found among these other peoples and its Mayan date determined by comparison passed' away a few years previous. Watkins, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. THE SADDEST THING IN with similar pottery in Central Cedar City was practically wiped out John Watkins, early~pioneers, and America may lead to an approximately, of existence by the severe floods in sister of "Abe" Watkins, Austins, accurate date being set upon the cliff the spring of 1857 and there are no best known old settler. dwellings of the United States and traces of the settlement today. The The wedding was simple and lacked THE WORLD ruins in Peru and Mexico, Doctor Morley ground is now pasture and farm land. the pomp and splendor of some of thinks. He also told of his researches into the great walled city of Tulum, in Yucatan. Farm Bureau Meets.—An interesting Farmer Is Bankrupt. Hugo A The walling of a city was exceptional 'meeting of the Farm Bureau House, a farmer in Adams township, in Central America and this fortified town on a bluff overlooking Unit at Dexter will be held Wednesday has filed a petition of bankruptcy a the Caribbean sea, with a wall on SHOCKED--STARTLED--APPALLED evening in the Woodman Hall. with Referee H. M. Pierce in Winona. three land sides, represents the crude There will be a special program and He placed his debts at $65,000 and work which followed the breakdown some good music. Mr. Heaton of iiis assets at $14,000. He has been of the great Mayan civilization in the you may be when you read these Shannon City, Iowa, will be one of the Fifteenth century after Christ, when farming on the old Rausch farm for these early city-states fell to fighting speakers. some time. their own race.—By Science Service. terrible figures. YOUNGSTER HAD IT SIZED UP _____ Shoes For Everyone 1 smwii Possibly His Frank Announcement of Situation Was Something More THEY'LL COME BACK TO YOU THEY'LL KEEP Than a Guess. 1 83H.A8# YOU AWAKE AT NIGHT THEY'LL STRIKE DEEP A young teacher of the fourth grade O'Donnell Shoes AT YOUR HEART—UNLESS YOU HAVE ALREADY in one of the township schools near SAFEGUARDED YOUR FAMILY. Indianapolis marked her pupils's papers for I at her home, and occasionally had the assistance of some of her friends Men and Women who came In to spend the evening. THIRTY-TWO PER CENT OFWIDOWS OVER One evening the grades were exceptionally SIXTY-FIVE YEARS OF AGE IN AMERICA LACK low on the papers and the SHOES for Chil- I next day at school, the young teacher THE BARE NECESSITIES OF LIFE. told her pupils that one of her friends 1 Marooned!! ren in a variety I had helped her mark the papers and that she was really ashamed of the of styles and poor marks, and she wished them to Out of every 100 people in this county, 82 die penniless. Only 18 persons out do better next time. grades. of every 100 have money to leave to dependents at the time of the death of the provider.-' The next day the marks were considerably Pi higher, so she told the 'children cm Our store is headquarters how glad she was to see the improvement and that she was proud to for shoes for the famfly- The saddest thing in the world is the face of the recently bereaved widow as have her friends see how bright the pupils were. she and her young children faee the world without funds, often without friends Aftejr making this announcement, she blushed to hear one of the boys or other resources. say in a loud whisper, "H'm! He was ...... One of those warm leather vests over again la3t night."—Indianapolis News. Safe From Such will please the men. New River. Abbe Mermet, a famous water diviner and explorer, has discovered Fate? in the Mont Blanc region a great subterranean Jensen-Phiffer Co. I a river, with a volume of about 50,000 gallons per minute. It Austin, Minn, East of Courthouse runs from the base of the mountains under the Saleve and Jura Alps. This Forty-six of every hundred average American men have saved absolutely river, which has been named "EauxBelles," sends out mapy branches, nothing at the age of 45 years. Are YOU Saving? which have formed little lakes and wells of pure and extremely cold water in the northeast departments of One person out of every ten who die today in our large pities is buried in potters' FARM LOANS France and in some southern Swiss lleld. cantons. We make Farm Loans at lowest Abbe Mermet declares that the waters of the "Eaux-Belles," at a depth rates, without delay. Of every hundred widows in America 47 have to work and 35 are supported of 75 to 150 feet, have carved out under Agents for the Federal Land Bank. the mountain wonderful caverns by charity. and grottos, full of stalactites and Come in and see us before you stalagmites. Some of the caverns near place your loan. Geneva are 90 feet high and 150 feet Is the future of your family so well provided for that you do not need life broad. insurance? Farmers and Merchants State Bank. What's the Use? Austin, Minn. The business on a suburban line had Da you know that it requires only a moderate sum to invest in a life insurance Increased very rapidly, but there were not enough trains or cars to accommodate policy in a strong company? the passengers. The overcrowding caused many serious discomforts. The superintendent was called CJv Poacnne -why you should talk to us before the board of directors and was P12L YOUR INSURANCE I PUBLIC AUCTION. I Reasons about asked: "Why don't you immediately put on As I am renting my farm and moving to Austin I will sell at more trains and cars?" Public Auction the following described property on the farm 4% "Well," he replied, "what would be HOW TO BEAT STATISTICS ON THIS LIFE CHART miles south of Austin, mile north of Varco School house on the use? They are ^settling so fast along the line that the people would WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER, 1, 1922. fill them up and overcrowd them just •'j, Everything to gain This space represents mail's accu At 65, 95 per cent of as before." -and nothing mulating .period. Either success men are dependent upon FREE LUNCH AT NOON SALE STARTS AT 11:00 A. M. to lose. or failure is settled. No days of their daily earning Brisk Demand for Copper. grace are allowed. HORSES.—1 Bay Mare, 5 years old, weight 1300 pounds 1 Brown or their children for A hardware company consumes support. Mare, 5 years old, weight 1200 pounds 1 Gray Mare, 6 years old, 4 NOW OR NEVER. about 8,000,000 pounds of copper annually. weight 1500 pounds: 1 Black Colt, 2 years old, weight 1100 pounds 20 vf Danger Line. There are pins, bolts, hinges, 2 Roan Colts, 2 years old, weight 2200 pounds 1 Mare Colt, 5 30 -This is the egotistical screws, plates, discs, nails, tubings, Months old 1 Team Work Mules, weight 2200 pounds 1 Mule Colt, This is the age of caution, period—when the son wires and castings of all kinds. In a 4 months old. as man must not thinks he knows more 35. hardware store the choice ranges all1 speculate, for he has CATTLE—12 head extra good Milk. Cows 4 Yearling Heifers 10 than his father. This all to lose and nothing the way from a brass pin to a 100pound -1 .. Spring and Summer Calves. space represents the The boy is now to gain. copper pot—from a brass hairpin The son realizes changing his. son's egotism. He looks for security, to a samovar. Even the cuspidor CHESTER WHITE HOGS—1 Registered Boar 4 Registered Sows, that life is a 40 mind and concludes not high rates or interest. 1 year old 24 Spring Shoats 23 and Fall Pigs 1 Grade reality and he and the brass rail of the ex-saloon are Summer he is not as smart Chester White Sow. represented. doesn't know as 97 per cent •. .. as he once Ag%pf ,Wild Oats much as he of men here 50 SHEEP—9 good Breeding Ewes. thought. imagined. He meet with 45 Pat as a Linguist. The father 1 Pair of now considers reverses and Pat and No rah were sitting in the CHICKENS, DUCKS, & GEESE—150 Wyapotte Pul was a man of his father a. begin to lose By this age 97* •use Geese 1 African Geese 19 Pekin Ducks 5 PuregBred Tgj|| After this age but one theater before the performance began, or masterful their accumulations^ per cent have man of fair in 5,000 can recover Pure Bred Bropze Tom Turkey. |J when the girl observed the word "Asbestos" judgments mind. lost all. 1 his financial footing. on the fire curtain and inquired MACHINERY—1 McCormick Binder, 8-foo^^^tlptiesota Mower, 5foot- what it meant. 1 & O Gang Plow, 13 inch 2 6-shovel- Cultivator 1 John "Whist 1" said Pat 'and don't be flD fOiir representative will tell you what kind of policy you should: take to make you independent at any age after 50. I Deere Seeder,'ll-foot 1 Stoughton ManurfSpreader 2J5et Breech& displayin' yer ignorance. ye ing Work Harness 5 ISIilk Cans 1 Horse Cultivator 1^Small Feed know that 'Asbestos' is the Latin word Grinder 1V2 H. P. Gas Engine 2 Truck Wagons 1 Hay Rack 1 Mm' Single Buggy 1 Set.Single^Harness 1 Barrel Churn 1 Fuller & for 'Welcome?'" Boston Evening Johnson Corn Planter, SO rods of wire, 1 Lever Harrow, 18-foot Transcript. 1 Wagon Box 1 Cutter 1 Sharpies Cream Separator Cqrn 2 Plows 6 Al. Chicken m^ny other articles not herein mei*^ Coops Regular. W. E. JOHNSON and ALBERT HOPFE, District Managers. tioned. A minister from a country district had just moved into the motion picture TERMS—All sums of ten dollars and under, cash on sums over that First Floor Babcock Building amount a credit will be given of twelve months' time on approved colony, and a friend was asking notes bearing 8 per cent interest from date of sale. how he liked his new pastorate. 4 Austin, Minnesota., I sO & jv "Very well," replied the pastor, "I T'?#± ALBERT HADLEY, Owner am doing very well here." wzmffmm "Plenty of marriages, I expect?" COL. ALBERT HOPFE, Auctioneer. "Oh, yes," said the parson, I have FARMERS & MERCHANTS STATE BANK, Clerk. my regular customers.—American Legion Weekly.