Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-08-10
TRANSCRIPTIONS.

Mercury reached 100 last Friday
GLOW Is that9or high?'
MIR. and Mrs G. L. Chase arc keeping
house at Silver Cliff, Colorado.
Ben Mayer left Austin last week for
Kansas. lie will go to New York soon.
Mrs Geo. W. Robinson of Chicago
spent two or three days in Austin last
week.
Geo. Duffy, formerly in the livery
business IN this city, has located at Candy
in this state.
Jamie Fernald is now practicing
the bycicle act, and is the envy of the
whole neighborhood.
The melon-cholic days have come.
Joe Schwan brought one over from
Albert Lea last week.
If you own a small boy, and wish 10
use him, look where he ought not to be,
and you are sure of him.
*. Knudson, formerly an Austin
merchant, has recently settled at Carman,
Polk county, in tins state.
If silver dime with a hole IN it is
worth five cents, how much is five.cent
piece with two holes in, worth?
She was daisy, but she stepped on
a banana peel, and quick as lightning she
was transformed into a lady-slipper.
ID. NJ Thompson returned Saturday
from Milwaukee, where he has been
arranging for his winters stock OF coal.
The first stain of the hazel-nut has
appeared on the small boys finger. He
is only investigating the crop, you know.
Charlie w. Sawyer and wife, of Eye
olden time," are expected in town today:
They will be guests of Mrs. r. L. Kim
ball.
M. V. B. Scribner was in the city
Monday. He has sold out his Fairmont
paper. and is hunting for new fields to
conquer.
There are some persons IN Austin, we
are sorry to say, who seem to have moth
ing else to do than to talk Of their
neighbors.
-Silas butcher returned from Winnie
bago City last week, and now spends his
leisure hours deciding which is which,
Of those twins.
Rev. G. T. Emerson, formerly Of this
city, is dangerously i'll at Moorhead.
This will be sad news TO tn e many friends
of this dear old soldier in Austin.
Mrs. r. I. Smith aud Mrs. Matt
Miles have rented the pleasant rooms
over Ira Jones' corner store, and will
occupy them the coming winter, taking
meals elsewhere.
Rev. H. 1. Parker, d. D., now sta.
toned at Santa Anna, CAL, writes the
Baptist Herald Of this city, that, though
nearly SO, hs IS still feeling about as
young as 40 years ago.
There is no such thing as an "inno-
cent tlirtation." The sweet girls are the
modest ones, and when young woman
puts on bold face and firts with every
man he meets, she loses all her charms.
! Bird concert at the Congregational
church Tuesday and Wednesday even
ings, Aug. Is and II, given by the child.
rem. Only 10 cents admission. Entirely
different programs for the two evenings.
Rev. F. A. Marsh and wife of Beloit,
Wis, arrived in town last week Tuesday
for a weeks visit with father aud mother
and friends. Mr.. Marsh preached very
interesting sermon at the Baptist church
Sunday evening.
! The post Office thief is abroad. The
Kasson office suffered to the extent Of
$500 last week Monday night. The
burglars blew op en- the safe and abstract
ed therefrom $500 in postage stamps and
$500 in currency.
Calvin Decker narrowly escaped sun
stroke one of the hot days last week. He
has recovered, and will not be so impru-
dent again as to work too long in the
burning rays of an August SUP. AT least,
we hope that he will not
Geo. Baird laid very fine sample
of Scotch Fife wheat upon our table from
his Red Rock farm. The heads were
we'll filed, and the kernels were bright
and hard. The yield will be at least
twenty bushels to the acre.
j. Solner and H. O. Basford left
Thursday for Milbank, the terminus of
the Hastings & Dakota Division. They
returned Monday, much refreshed by the
prairie breezes, and no doubt know all
about the crops in that part Of the state.
Not the old dragon with hoofs, but
dragon flies went flying by toward the
south in tens Of thousands one afternoon
last week. Where they came from and
where their destination we could not learn,
though we know they were under orders.
Col. Mansfield Was serenaded the
other evening, and he responded in a
vigorous and powerful speech. We will
not attempt synopsis, as we could not
possibly do the eloquent Col. justice IN
the brief space We could spare for that
purpose.
just as we were about expiring with
heat and dust last Friday, the loveliest
shower of rain fell upon US, moistening
the parched earth and cooling the heated
atmosphere to the dellghtfulest temper
ature. And as the showers fall alike
upon the just and unjust, we appropri-
ated our share.
There will be a public meeting Of
the citizens Of Austin at jones' hall
Friday evening, to take measures to raise
money for the New Ulm sufferers. A full
attendance IS desired. Austin must not
be behind her sister towns in contribut.
ing for these unfortunate people. AS yet
she has done nothing.
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