*r. -"S~l Fagre Two MOWER COUNTY NEWS, AUSTIN, MINN. Thursday, Dec. 7,1922. KNEE DEEP IN CHRISTMAS vising farmers and livestock raisers thinks about when he ^snaps those MOWER COUNTY NEWS this happy November day.—Six Town to. anticipate much better conditions faces we see in the society columns News. "THE COMMUNITY PAPER" next year than' exist at the present of the Sunday papers Some of them time. In brief the livestock industry must make him feel like running Naturally. Publisherd every Thursday at Austin, in the northwest is in good shape away. On January first Germany's debt Minnesota. and the coming of spring will find Monday morning we threw open will be over one trillion marks. Germany farmers with livestock on their hands Northwestern Advertising Representatives: our coats, breathed in the balmy, almost is a strong advocate of cancelling Minnesota Select List, 215 for which there will be a ready market." MAMMA, summer-like air, and thot how South Sixth Street, Minneapolis the World War debts.—Albert :.. 709 Exchange Bank, St. Paul. foolish,, it was to keep the old furnace WHAT MAKES Lea Times-Enterprise, This information coming from a DADDY SO going in such weather. Reaching ROE & PRESTON, Publishers. banker in one of the livestock centers home at night we filled the old Some Satisfaction. of the nation sounds rather encouraging. coal heater to the brim. The temperature F. C. PRESTON Editor-Manager The new political group in the senate It .would appear profitable had dropped 50 degrees. L. W. MARSHALL City Editor will not accomplish anything. then, in view of the reasonable prices On a busy day when we answer Senator LaFollette will take up the for purebred sires and dams, for the Per Year, in advance ... $2.00 the phone and say /'News office," we time talking.—Minneapolis Journal. farmer to get started in the punbred Six Months $1.00 get awfully wrathy when a voice at business when stock is at the bottom. the other end informs us that he, or Entered as second class matter at. the Whether farmer intends to a oftentimes she, has the wrong number •postoffice at Austin, Minn., under raise beef or dairy herds, an early and by tone of voiice implies that the act of March 3, 1879. start spells success, especially when we have had .something to do with he can buy animals at his own price. making the mistake. We wouldn't iijvia That ten minute recess between the swear half so much if he or she would adjournment of the extraordinary LETS NOT A BADGE OF DISHONOR say, "pardon me." snoop around the attic, to & session, is more in keeping with the A city paper lays stress upon the a. journey of surprise.. Let's school boys idea of a recess. flftger" through the bundles fact that a great many of the criminals WELL, DID YOU stored away.. Let's open up the let-! of this country are of foreign tterer that perhaps have cheered our' The St. Paul Pioneer Press has an EVER?— birth. eyes, maybe made them moist irt car awful peeve against these special olden day.. The editor of that sheet might also Air ancient trunk ifc hidden in at weeks. You see, Minneapolis announced have stated, with justice, that hundreds There's no use naming a girl corner. Shades of dust! kind The a Minneapolis week. of thousands of our best citizens "Quennie" and^ then expect her to grandma used in days of yore~! that are also of foreign birth. Its sides are warped and wrinkledL help with the housework-—Preston and its trimming' badly nrussed no If ever you hear anyone knocking There are two vital causes which Republican. usa today for what 'twas purchased the schools or the school system, ask contribute to the present state of ffor if he has visited those in his neighborhood. lawlessness on the part of certain Why Bess! We open up the cover and It, CEeafts—the hinges find' If he has—listen to him. If foreigners now residents in this country. 7 break? There is another dam argument on a pack Qf love notes, tightly bound. he hasn't—deal with him in your own between Minneapolis and Saint Paul. A knitted shawl, a bonnet and a: sweet way. First, our immigration laws are entirely frock of ancient make, are 'mong the We mean that literally—not the way dusty relics are found. too lax. Foreigners are admit- I that it sounds!—Bess Wilson, in Redwood Poultry breeders thruout Mower A love note tells the story of when ted without proper investigation as Falls Gazette. grandma was a girl, and courted by county should not overlook the opportunity to their characters in their own lands, the men about the town. We find to exhibit their birds at the Second, upon arrival in this coun-! Beyond Us. oae from the lover whom she married annual show of the Mower County later on, and others from the these famous men had the same criticisms try the foreigner, unable to speak We confess complete ignorance on standards are necessary in order that Ones on whom she'd frown. Poultry Association which will be Dawgone it—we promised ourselves to make of youth that they our language, is practically turned this clothes proposition. It does The shawl? A faded purple, with we progress is it not worth while to held in Austin December 13, 14, 15, we wouldn't say that again! loose upon an indifferent public, to lacked respect for their elders, were its stitches giving 'way. "Twas given seems strange to see a woman wearing have a proper appreciation of our and 16. This show is expected to be What do you think of the schools her when she was just a bride. And too vain, paid too much attention to become a good citizen or a curse to a pound of clothing going down now we can remember when its the largest in the history of the present condition of adding to the you visited this week? Did you make dress, lacked proper qualities of us—as his inclination and past training town in the wintry blasts in order to owner passed away, 'cause grardma county. any constructive criticisms thrift, etc. may lead him- spirit of discontent by unduly extolling buy three or four pounds of woolen had the shawl on when she died. What we need is a system whereby Now, in view of these facts, let us Don't expect the editor to practice And now that Quaint old bonij^t socks and gloves to keep her husband the past and belittling the present. 'Tis not too early to be thinking which was style back in its day. And take a close up view of the present everything he advocates. He couldn't a foreigner can be taken in.hand warm. As we said before we too, the frock which looks like masquerade. about next year's county fair. "Al" as compared with our own youth. catch up with himself if he did. upon arrival and converted in to a jes' don't understand.—Waseca Journal. Why. grandma wore the Beadell of Austin is th§/ new secretary Human nature is as unchanging as good citizen. bonnet when her hajr had turned to See where Friday was bargain day and he is the kind of fellow that In Idle Moments gray the frock when in the Easter the hills and the main difference between in marriage licenses in Kingsley, la., If we are lax in our method of Day parade. deserves the co-operation of every the present and the past as These little scraps of paper sold for We Were Among the Thankful. treating him when he first comes to Sweet memories, these relics that farmer in the county. His problems we see it is in methods, conveniences only 39 cents on that day. Of course All of us, except possibly the eight are rottin«, sad to say. Just heirlooms, us, we should not be surprised if A neighboring town has a firm are many and no doubt he will appreciate yet we feel that we are and speed and we are a firm believer some hardened old critter will say men whom the Socialists tell us own the criminal element of our population name of Racey .and Racey. Bet that's suggestions from any farmer. blessed lor we can look them over th^t this country of ours is as well or that was even too much. ninety per cent of the wealth of the a fast outfit. gains an ascendancy over him !and enjoy them all today, then gently The Mower County Fair is the better off in all these respects than Wonder what the photographer world, have reason to be thankful Tv Do your Christmas shopping lay them back again to rest. before he has familiarized himself farmer's fair, primarily, and nothing it was thirty, forty or a hundred with the benefits to be derived from gives him as much opportunity years ago. ', good citizenship. to show what he is doing as his exhibits There was, according to population The possession of a foreign name sss ir'r'fflM'iti* 1 at the fair. in this state, probably as much is by no means a badge of dishonor, -—Make This An— crime in the past as today. There either in this or in any other country.—Wadena After all the oratory and rhetoric was surely more drunkenness, more Pioneer Journal. which has been spent in the "back fighting among men and boys. Morals to the farm" movement, along comes were the same then as now altho Christmas THEN AND NOW. Electrical Roger Babson, the statistician par less advertised. (Editor's Note—With all the'tlisconcerting excellence, who says there are too We are much better housed, better tales of hard times, lack of many farmers as it is. He said that fed, better clothed and work much the farmers have been overproducing Prosperity, loose morals, our wayward shorter hours than we did in years youths -and the like, the following and that if there were less of them past. article, written by an Austin business conditions would improve. He believes We are enjoying comforts, conveniences man, serves as a sort of soothing that legislation to increase the and pleasures that a few balm for the ills inflicted by these farmers' credit is not at aH necessary Our Store is Fairly Crowded With Gifts, Anyone of Which Would Be a Joy to Find on a years ago we never imagined we stories.) and that it will only serve to would be able to. So in view of these There seems to be a tendency on -get him deeper into debt. Moreover, Christmas Tree, Christmas Morning—Shop Early—Don't Wait Until Assortments Have facts why all this "Unrest" and discontent. the part of many to lay much stress such legislation would attract more on the fact that everything is all persons to the soil and that is just Been Picked Over. Would it not be better to just slow wrong "Nowadays" and at the same what ails agriculture now. Mr. Babson down a bit and realize that we are time infer that in the past we were said that during the war when living in the best part, of the best much better mentally, morally, physically America was feeding the world, overproduction state in the best country on earth. and in fact our past having was necessary, but that WHY NOT A RADIO SET? found us better off in almost every Any on^that will frankly try to period is now past. way. recall the hardships of their ancestors We believe that most of this js and the pioneers of this country A statement given out by the commissioner due to the fact that we are prone to will realize that these finished of the U. S. Bureau of Education, forget the unpleasant things and remember cities, roads, bridges, churches, Radio sets are becoming so popular and John J. Tigert, is most astounding. the bright spots when we schools, and the thousand modern Mr. Tigert declared that the prices for installation so reasonable that enjoying youth and health*and were conveniences that we enjoy in city over 5,000,000 adults, or one-sixth there is really no excuse for not having one in naturally the world looks best from and on the farms are the product of of the adult population of the U. S. that standpoint. our state of civilization and are but your home or place of business. 4* are illiterate. Five million grown Records show that from the present some of the things that make our persons in this land of ours cannot back thru the time of Henry present a better time to live than the One of our sets in your home this winter read or write their names. In this Ward Beecher, Cotton Mather, Martin past. •i"~ great land of opportunity, a sixth of will help pass many a long winter evening. Luther, to the famous Socrates, While higher ideals and higher us cannot read the simplest articles With one you can get concerts, speeches, etc., NEW PERCOLATORS BEAUTIFUL LAMPS in a newspaper or write a simple note. from all over the country and right in your own Is this not our problem? Are we add so much to the homelike A special display of new designs home. |j not our brother's keeper to the extent DREAMS COME TRUE appearance of a place that that we should help him to get enables you to choose a they deserve your mo&t careful at least a little of education? Our helpful service enables the least experienced gift worth while. A large number of Austin citizens attention. HENRY to become an expert receiver in a come under this class. We have in FORD negotiates to luy 195,000 acres of coal short time. $7.50 to $14.00 $10.00 to $32.00 our high school, night classes for lands In the, Elk Horn district of Kentucky and West just such persons. Vou know of Virginia. He has made several such deals already. •*.<p></p>•TTTTTTTTTTTTTVVT •».<p></p>rTTTVTTTT some of them wouldn't it be a good Sets Installed For $50 to $350 A A •. .t. Is he planning to become a big coal operator? idea to induce them to enrol in these Why Not A In the background of everything, you find romance and classes? ,» »,|.»» .i *, human suffering.' VACUUM SWEEPER? START A PURE BRED HERD NOW For instance, in the case of the Elk Horn coal lands Ford OTHER GIFT SUGGESTIONS Not in several years has there been has his eyes on: such an opportunity for the farmer Forty years ago John C. C. Mayo, poverty-stricken country A EUREKA to start in the purebred stock business Electric Irons'from $3.50 to $7.50 school teacher, had enough imagination to see the great as now. Many have held back future wealth that would be taken from the Elk Horn in the past because purebred sires or Electric Curling Irons from $3.50 to $6.75 dams have presented what the farmer lands, then next to worthless. Electric Grills $12.00 thought was too great a price. That became Mayo's life dream. HAMILTON BEACH It cannot be said now that this is Capitalists laughed at him. So Mayo set to work alone. Boudoir Lamps from $4.00 to $6.00 the condition. No clearer indication He pinched, deprived, denied himself—a dollar here, a of the fact that in purebred livestock SURE TO PLEASE Electric Heaters $10.00 and $12.00 Can be bought for as low as dollar there. Finally he began quietly buying options on the present time is a buyer's An Electrical^ Toaster is one Electric Waffle Irons from $12.00 to $16.00 the coal lands. market, than the sale held in Austin $5.00 Down and gift that you can give and be His wife, as usual in such cases, carried half 4he burden. last Saturday. In this sale splendid Flashlights, from 75c to $3.50 certain that it will please. Shorthorn sires sold for as low as She kept the books and looked after details while John $5.00 MONTHLY Desk Lamps, from $4.50 up $90 and from that figure up to $107. taught school to get more dollars'to invest in coal. $7.50 to $8.00 Registered Shorthorn cows sold for Capitalists suddenly sat up with a start, realizing that as low as $60 with bidding ^rather Mayo was on the road to fabulous riches. slow at that figure. Many grade cows They rushed to his aid. have been sold this fall at farm sales Austin Electric Supply Co. Mayo died about eight years ago, age 48. At better prices. The livestock industry is on the He left a fortune of $20,000,000 to his heirs. mend. Next year is expected to be The lesson in this is If convinced that you are on the thfe best since the war. Alex High? right track, stick to it, dou'l let any one or any circumstance land, president of the Stock Yards 121 No. Main. Street. Austin, Minnesota. stop or even Reward comes slowly you. National Bank of South St. Paul, upon a in this life, usually years after do the tasks that create his return fropi trip thru the we it. But it comes surely to (he man who never gives up the Dakotas and Montana, said: "There j, is outlook for better prices for livestock -h w» ad- in the spring and r&S: v,C*