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

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%~r $^im: ^S c*V, w^r^ Page Two MOWER COUNTY NEWS, AUSTIN, MINN. Thursday, Dec. 28,1922. {j ^, MOWER COUNTY NEWS Perhaps He'll Overtake It On This New Road up to it a little better than you have Is There a Disenting Opinion? is no accident—it is either suicide oir in .the past. That covers a multitude j||:' Insurance companies with double plain damphoolishness. In either casethe of sins. "THE COMMUNITY PAPER" indemnity accident clauses declare result is the same.—OwatonnsJournal-Chronicle. Published every Thursday at Austin, that death from drinking moonshine Wonder if the failure of congress IB Minnesota. to provide the usual free seed will "cause any crop failures next summer? Northwestern Advertising Representatives: Minnesota Select List, 215 South Sixth Street, Minneapolis The Faribault Daily News is waging 709 Exchange Bank, St. Paul. Eclipse Echoes I a campaign against inhuman horse owners who allow their animals ROE & PRESTON, Publishers. to stand uncovered in severe journey cold weather. As a suggestion we'd P. PRESTON Editor-Manager C. say take off their coats and mitts, L. W. MARSHALL City Editor Rive them two feet of rope and make them stand for a few hours at a Per Year, in advance $2.00 Weekly Shavings. Edited by stretch. It would make them break S Months $1.00 them. Volume 45G December 27, 1922 Splinters. Entered as second class matter at the postoffice at Austin, Minn., under WELL, DID YOU I the act of March 3, 1879. The Great Virtue of The Holiday EVER?— heard a lot of conjecture as to We whether Christmas Day would be a In politics as in driving an automobile Season, Is That It Reminds white one or not. Who would have it's best to keep to the middle thought that it would be a green of the road. Extremes in either case one? With the snow gone and the are dangerous.—Waseca Journal. moisture making the grass as green friends of the kindly loyalty they bear to one another in the as in the spring, one felt as though No Experience. spring were here. Sometimes we all talk best on subjects ordinary days, and gives them all the privilege of expressing^ in which we have had the least experience. The man who wrote Congratulations to May Walker the Good Will which exists unspoken throughout the year. The- "Home Sweet Home" never had a Ollie Homestead, Austin's World's home. The fellow who wrote "The championship cow, to heir /owners, Old Oaken Bucket" was a boozefighter entire staff of the Eclipse Lumber Company uniter officers and the Minnesota Holstein Company, to while the young man who her manager, Verne S. Culver and to wrote "I Never Raised My Son to her trainer, Vaughn Drumm. Austin in extending you their best wishes for Be a Soldier," never had a son. This ani Mower County are proud of should comfort the politician who them all. A HAPPY NEW YEAR has to make a speech on subjects he doesn't knew much about.—Waseca Journal. THE DISAGREEABLE TRUTH. Because a man has a reputation of Very Good Present. A telling the truth is no indication that can, which exploded with terrific encouraging that some pressure has As a Christmas present to your his truthfulness is in all cases commendable. force, throwing the burning contents been brought to bear on the Rice J. J. CLEMENS home town—give a few hours each about the house and over Mr. Boures, County commissioners to provide for week of the best service there is in Some people with even the best of OR burning his clothing entirely away. PIECE A CAR LOAD ONE the needs. Then, surely, there will no you, and the rest of the time give intentions do not know how to curb There was but one place on his body, longer be any excuse for the eliminating the old town your loyal backing. It their tongues. They blurt out the a spot on his left foot about the sije DIAL 2047 Local Manager- won't cost anything and will be the names of women from the truth upon all occasions, and particularly of a dollar, that was not burned. His worth a whole lot. And the town deserves jury lists.—Northfield News. at the wrong time. watch tells the silent story of the Prediction for 1924. it.—Levang*'s Weekly. There are times when the cause of time of the accident occurred. Political "experts" have it that justice and humanity requires the Mr. Boures was conscious up to the Patience and Good Roads. Judg-e Oscar Hallum intends to show suppression of the truth until the time he died. One of his last remarks the people of Minnesota how much Let's all get together and hold up psychological moment for divulging was, "I've done this for years better he would have run than Frank the hands of our highway department. it. Any other course would result and this is the first time it ever happened." B. Kellogg- this year by entering* the Don't tear down build up and in a m'scarriage of justice. Fire Marshall Bulletin, campaign for election as Minnesota's A wise tongue knows when not to State of Minnesota. Minnesota will soon be the star of all junior Senator when Senatoi* Knute wag.—Wadena Pioneer Journal. states. Just a little patience is needed Nelson quits his seat 'in the upper and every locality will get its road house in 1924.—Owatonna Journal BOOZE ISN'T FUNNY. in due course and rough riding will Chronicle. OPPORTUNITY MEMORIAL CANDLE FOR William Allen Hoyt gives up a be over.—Farmington Tribune. CARUSO. large salary and quits as editor of A candle of chemically treated A Real Tragedy. Judge, because Judge is too "wet" for The 20,000,000 boys and girls who bee's wax, five feet in circumference him, and because principle means Thirty-five hundred school children at the base, sixteen feet high and are enrolled in the public schools of more to a "convinced and confirmed at West Frankfort, 111., have been weighing one ton, known as the Enrico prohibitionist" than dollars do. Probably the United States are the unanswerable turned out of school and the school Caruso memorial candle, has it means a little more to White arguments for holding and enforcing houses locked up. for the remainder Many people are unable to grasp exceptional opportunities because just been completed and will be shipped because he feels for these United the Eighteenth Amendment. of the school year which ends in the to Pompeii Italy, in a few days. States a certain sincere devotion that Light the way for this army of young they have not prepared for them by saving. They must continue their spring, because for the second time It cost $3,700[ and was made on the goes deeper than bunc and jest. people. For-, their sakes, work and a bond issue for the payment of the order of an orphan asylum in New Judge is the loser by the transaction. monotonous grind of routine work. vote for candidates who stand for York, of which Caruso was a generous Both of this country's humorous teachers' salaries has been defeated National Prohibition.—Lyle Tribune. benefactor. weeklies are most jocose when discussing by the voters. Here you have a The candle will be placed in the prohibition, if what they tragedy which ranks with the worst. Will this happen to you? Remember th§, old adage, "Opportunity Church of Our Lady of Pompeii have to say about it may be called It's just an illustration why Educational In Idle Moments where Caruso last worshipped. It is discussion, and the most painful Knocks but Once." Be prepared to grasp it whenever offered. Week should be observed in expected to last eighteen centuries, phase of prohibition in its incipiency every community during December burning 24 hours on each All Souls is the joke stage. While this brand News item tells us there are Open a savings account with us this week.' 3 to 9 inclusive.—Albert Lea Tribune. Day which occurs on November 2. of humor is not so old nor so humorous enough autoes in the country to give It bears an inscription in Italian as the drunken-man jokes of the all of us a ride at one time. Wonder The Austin National Bank moning: saloon days, it still is very old and Merits In Both. who has our seat. "Offering to the -most Holy Mary very thin stuff to those who have Selfishness and provincialism, the of Pompeii in behalf of Enrico Caruso." been through it before, as we have curse of any nation, is quite apparent Ran across an editorial the other Five men spent four months in Kansas. The East doesn't understand day in which the writer was reminding Austin, Minnesota. at this time in the fact that while making the candle. this now, but some day it will. his readers that Jesus Christ the Atlantic Seaboard and its adjacent It is when prohibition becomes something MEMBER OF FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM was considered a radical in his day territory' is strong for a ship more than a subject for jest, as and begging greater tolerance in behalf subsidy, but against the Lakes to the "THIS IS THE 'FIRST TIME." it does to those who have seen what of present day radicals. Some J. L. Mitchell, Pres. P. D. Beaulieu, Vice-Pres. W. E. Hopfe, Cashier. On the morning of September 12, it does for humanity, that jesting Ocean plan. The middle west favors fellows could prove anything from 1922, Emil Boures, aged 55, of Currie, about it seems such a sorry business. the latter, but is against the former. the scriptures. Minnesota, was fatally burned What the East needs is to take There is merit in both these proposals while kindling afire in the kitchen it prohibition seriously.—Capper's and they should both be considered The same editor was puzzled over stove to prepare this breakfast. It Weekly. the changing attitude on Senator from a broadminded, non-political had been Mr. Boures* custom to use ^IIBBlllllHMIBIlllHIBllHHHIIillBnnBIBBBillDllllllfflMBMBBIlllllHBIIMtlBnBIIHII Shipstead. Hasn't he learned yet and national point of view. kerosene in kindling his lire. On this At the heart of every sorrow there that the only thing a man gets kicked —Faribault Pilot. particular morning there happened to is a hope beautiful as the rainbow is when he's down. N9W that he be a few live coals in the fiae box has "arrived" why pick on him? that springs from -the storm. from the night before. When kerosene Women On Juries. When Trouble is coddled and watered waa poured over these coals a The November grand jury took occasion Judge Childress rules that signing and nursed and fussed with, it highly combustible gas was generated Where You Can Buy in its resolutions to urge that Andy Gump's name to a ballot does is apt to hang around the house a which ignited from the coals. not make that ballot illegal. That women be chosen to serve on future long time The flame was flashed back into the fellow will be winning an office some Rice County juries and that steps HORMEL'S QUALITY FLOUR of these days. be taken to make provisions for them at the court house in Faribault. After Don't to the bother of making go LIVING LONG every other county in the state a lot of fool resolutions, only to break Right in your own grocery store you will find a plentiful supply of this recognizes this right and the daily them. Get a little more familiar wholesome and wholly satisfactory flour. duty of the new women voters, it is with the Golden Rule, then try to live HALFDr.75. BUY IT FROM THESE MERCHANTS: of »:is live to be CO, and nearly a fourth of us reach This cheerful state of affairs is announced H. O. Wood, Lansing, Minn. J. A. Stephan, Waltham, Minn. by Louis I. Dublin, chief statistician of the Metropolitan •Lansing Larmers Elevator Co., H. Hahn & Co., Sargeant, Royal Welsh 49 LBS Life Insurance Company. Lansing, Minn. SACK GUARANTTLD 'Minn. "ThtTaveragc person at 50," says Dr. Dublin, "may now E. H. Hanson, Lansing, Minn. W. J. Deaver & Sens, Racine, hope to live to the age of 71—or, as we put it, the average G. E. Nelson, Lansing, Minn. Minn. ,- length of life remaining to each one of the survivors at age E. C. Keefe & Co., Rose Creek, W. R. Spaugh, Mayville, Minn. S I N E S 50 Ts 21 more years. Even at 70 there is more than nine Minn. Cruicksihank & Gerbig, Brownsdale, years of expectation and so on in a diminishing degree to H. T. Hawkins, Taopi, Minn. Minn. A. Torjrerson, Adams,. Minn. the end." Oltman & Aykens, Dexter, niNCY PATENT FID© The average baby born in America in 1901 could be expected E. L. Corsan, LeRoy, Minn. Minn. fiORMEL MILLING CO. to live 49 years 3 months. A. L. Shulean, Lyle, Minn.* AUSTIN mN^MiNN. T. -Tergrimson, Grand Mea- The average baby born in 1923 should reach 65, thanks •. dow, Minn. Dahl Brothers, Lyle, Minn. £V. World Renowned Musicians, Now .Touring the U. S. .,.»08MU:S QUALITY ,..r. 9L-° to great strides by medical science, especially in saving Introducing A* All Austin Grocery Stores. the lives of .children during babyhood and early childhood.' EDGAR DAVIES, Great Welsh Baritone As a matter of fact, children born in 1923 may, for all we Any of these dealers will sell you HormePs Quality flour on an absolute .Jcnow, live to an average age of 100,150 or more. Startling guarantee. discoveries, in the way of prolonging human life, may be Assisted by Popular Concert Artists made before many more years, by the use of radium or artificially TRY A SACK and BE CONVINCED At the stimulating the endocrine glands of the body— thyroid, adrenals, etc. M. E. CHURCH Hormel Milling Co. The great strides that have been made in the' last 20 Tears, in prolonging the average* duration of human life, have been mostly by reducing infantile death rate. Sci^ Sat. Eve., Jan. 6 ••Millers of Quality Flour" ence is turning its attention to similar service for mature AUSTIN, MINNESOTA people. Much is possible. And considerable is probable. Some time when you have an idle hour, get out the fam-. ily Bible or whatever you keep the records in, and figure up 'W*:^iE?li Si5i»t 8:lSOXlo^ SfiISP R^RVV.V the average age at which people in your family die. 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