Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-06-08
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Hayes Brothers are hurrying. up III.
Icomp]etion of their new brick store ad
Joining the Mason block. Boys, you
want to know that jewelry and silverwart
will shine in that handsome brick store
Hurry it up.
! james Keenan, returned Saturday
from long visit 10 his farm in Big Stone
county, having been absent since Dec
10th. He is ready for business now, ant
will talk up the Minneapolis Harvester
till you can't--help but buy.
MIR. and Mrs. Sherwin, of the Aust1r
Railway House, returned from short visi
to Madison, Wisconsin,, last Tuesday
They attended the decoration exercises II
that capitol city of Wisconsin where lie
buried about two hundred Union soldiers
Mrs. E. Odion, late from Michigan
and the sister of Mrs. F. A. CARL of Cdol
pho, died at the home of her sister, three
miles north Of Lansing, last Friday
aged 81. Funeral services Sunday, con-
Quoted by Rev. II. G. Spaftord Of this
city.
Miss Belle Rcdman, of Dubuque, has
made patchwork Quilt, which contains
10000 pieces-and fool she Is, too
When any young woman can find Inc bet
ter way to kill time, than ia sewing to-
gether ten thousand pieces for a bed
quilt, we say, may the Lord have mercy
Oh her poor soul.
John Snyder, of Red Rock, had q
little eight year old son who met with
quite severe accident last Sunday after
noon-the lad falling from tree on the
premises and breaking his arm, and also
quite badly bruising himself. DR.. Wheat
was called to set the broken bones, and
the little fellow is doing we'll.
AT a meeting Of the Iowa editors
recently, the following very pertinent res
olution was adopted:
Resoloed, That we urge merchants and
business men to denounce travelling sales
men for job printing only with the same
v'gor as they expect us to drnounce men
of the class Of travelling grocery men and
cloth peddlers.
The courthouse committee have re-
turned from Wisconsin where they have
been inspecting court houses and plans
for same. Their minds are about made
up, and decision will be arrived al
soon. A new courthouse On the public
squarc-the best and most convenient 10.
cation in town-is now only matter OF
time.
Mrs. Henry Wheeler, who, with her
husband left Austin IN April for, home
in Erie, Pa, is fast regaining her health
which had been so poor the greater part
of last winter. She has many friends in
Austin who will be glad to learn Of her
returning strength, and who hope that al
70 far distant day she will again be "al
home" in Austin.
-Austin's Board of Trade is getting
ready for business. Their meeting ast
Wednesday evening was presided over by
D. B. Smith. On motion the fec for join
ing was reduced from S. to 81. Twenty
four new names were presented for mem
bership. F. I. Crane elected Secretary
Another meeting called for last evening
at the courthouse.
The festival given by the ladies of the
NJ. E. church was a success. The cream
was excellent, and the strawberries fresh
and of fine variety, and both were boun
tifully served, which, with an abundant
supply of delicate cake, made every one
feel that they were we'll used, and woult
be glad to come again when hidden. Ne
roceeds, about $25.
Several of the business men of Aus
tin assisted the Englc Brothers in raising
the heavy timbers for the frame work o
their fine mlll:building, last Friday. They
have one of the very best foundations o.
solid banks of stone masonry, and which
we should think might stand both storm
and freshet, b0tlt by Jim Sargent and Pa
Barrett both boss workmen.
Dick Jones Of Rochester, Mr.. Emo
of Rushford, and Mr.. Batchelder of Fari
bault, were in town last Tuesday to IT,,
the case of E D. Fenton, administrator O
IS. P. ;Thornh1ll estate VS.. French w
Thornhill. Mr.. Batchelder was to act a
judge; Jones was attorney for the plain
tiff and Enos for the defendant The tria
was postponed, a settlement being proba
BILE
Friends, paint up your bull dings ane
fences; trim up the trees about your
premises; cut down the weeds outside o
your door yard, and to sum up the whole
matter, put on some style, and you will
benefit your town and to give to it an APP
pearance of thrift and enterprise that il
otherwise cannot have, beside 1t Will pay
all cost more than double in the increased
valuation of your property.
The Minneapolis Evening Journal
is now furnished to Austin readers early
every morning. News Agent Cronon
receives the package of Journals on the
3 O'Clock A. M. train, so that an evening
paper is of some use to US. The journal
is an excellent paper, furnishing the
news from both the cities of st. Paul ar
Minneapolis, as We'll as the rest of the
world. See advertisement elsewhere.
-=Austln will build new court house
on the public square. That's right; i,
don't look we'll for a city like Austin to
administer justice III tumble down con-
Germ, used as makeshift for ten years
past 1Vinne6ago Getty Press. -.
Well, Mr.. Press, we are to have good
looking county building at last--not ex.
travagant, but handsome in architecture
costing about $4,000. The foundation
is to be built this season, and the court
house completed next summer.
Bert Stoddard, who for about four
years has so faithfully served the public
at the Austin post office, will, after Friday
do SO no more, for after that time, he will