Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-05-31
LOCAL NEWS TRANSCRIBED.
We feel under obligations for these

bright and comfortably warm days.
Pay your taxes to-day, and don't you
forget it. It is the last day of grace.
The cream gatherers for the new
creamery commenced their work Monday
No one observed Decoration Day in
Austin-except the TRANSCRIPT "devil. "
| Jack Frost rather took the juice out
of our garden "sars" about town last
week.
Mrs. Laura Tanner was over from
Albert Lea to spend Sunday with her
parents.
st. Bernard Commandery No. 10, is
in receipt of very handsome new ban
ner. 1t cost $3.50.
MIR. and Mrs. A. H. Loucks spent a
few days last week with relatives and
friends in Spring Valley.
| Henry Jacobs returned last week
| from trip to his farm "out west" He
reports prosperous times there.
Mrs. G. Coon is visiting her daughter,
Mrs. D. J. Griffin, in Rochester. She
will remain two or three months.
-Second-class limited tickets from
Austin to Chicago are now sold at $3.50;
to Milwaukee $3.50. Cheap enough.
j. A. Walters little store will be
known no more in Austin. His goods
We're shipped to Minneapolis Monday.
Mrs. Oscar Shepley Of St. Paul, is ex
pected in Austin to visit friends this week.
She will be the guest of Mrs. Oscar Ayers.
Rub the white spots on vanished
furniture with table salt and kerosene
Gil. You will be satisfied with the result.
Miss Sargent, of Owatonna, teacher
in the Baptist Academy, spent Sunday in
Austin with her friend, Miss Jean Sher-
wood.
j. E. Turner, of Rockford, ILL.,, has
again returned to Austin, and is ready to
pay the highest market price in cash for
butter, as of yore.
Mr. and Mrs. Court" Austin left our
city Monday for Chicago. We were sorry
to have them go again, but we do not feel
that it is for Away.
j. J. Casey is occasionally seen on
our streets. The frost king gave him
close call last winter, but we are glad to
know that he survived the ordeal.
"A fresh new stock of paper and en-
velopes just received at the TRANSCRIPT
office. Our jobbing facilities are unsur-
passed in Austin. Good work at fair
prices.
The Owatonna Journal is responsible
for this statement: Judge Crandall is
the champion QUOT pitcher Of all the ex-
perts who congregate at the county
grounds"
Miss Bessie Clark left Austin last
week for Boston, where she expects to re-
main year with her sister Mrs. F. R.
Cordley. We wish her pleasant and
profitable year.
Samuel W. Hall, brother of r. o.
of this city, and corporal of the First
Wisconsin calvary during the war, has
recently received back pension Of $1,000
and SO a month.
John Frank of LIE Roy, has been Sc
lected to represent Mower County in the
[. S. circuit court as one of the petit
jurors for the June term, commencing on
the 10th, at St. Paul.
The Austin Cornet Band went over
to Spring Valley yesterday to |tpreside"
at the Decoration services. We shall be
mistaken if they do not give our S. "
friends some good music.
The question that troubles the eco
nomical housewife these days, is how to
make the last winter flannels take the
family through the regular second winter
if they have to wear them all summer.
The ladies about Austin covered up
their dahlias, pconias, and other early
plants with bed-quilts and barrels, but
spite of their efforts in some localities,
the leaves were nipped by the late frosts.
Henry Judson surprised his many
Austin friends by making his appearance
in town Monday. He occupies an i'm
portant position in the bank at Morris,
and as we are glad to hear, is doing WELL
Ed. Martin, who has been ill so long
at the Windsor House, is still suffering
very much, and seems to be growing
weaker. A large circle of friends SYM
pathize with him in this long and painful
illness.
The Sir Knights of St. Bernard Com
mandery No. 10, of this city, have been
invited to Spring Valley for three days
camp-out. The invitation has been &C.
cepted, and the: time fixed for June 10,
4and Is. Fall in?'
The Sunday School convention last
week was largely attended, and much in
terest manifested. Sunday the NJ E.
church was full to overlooking, the other
churches being closed to enable all to at
tend the closing exercises of the conven-
ton.
The mammoth barn of A. V. Ellis was
placed in look table position last Satur-
day. We expect they had a good old
fashioned time, at the raising. We just
longed to be there, and, though we are not
much of litter, we thought we might do
our share of the hollerin'.
Bert Sterling left Austin yesterday
for Waukesha, Wis, on recreation trip.
He may be. absent all the summer. His
brother, D. L. Sterling, is manager of the
Bethesda Mineral Springs. Bert is good
boy, and we hope he may have an enjoy
able time. Will NJ French will take his
place at Dunkelmann's.
Judge D. B. Johnson is fast increas-
ing the value and beauty of his pleasant
home just outside the city. New porches
fresh paint and other improvements, are
changing the appearance of the property
and bringing to the surface its real value
1t will soon be one of the most desirable
and valuable homes in Austin.
Seven teams started out on as many
different routes to gather in the yellow