Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-11-21

gentleman.
Last Wednesday and Thursday nights
were the coolest of the season. Mercury
several degrees below zero. The weather
since has moderated somewhat, and all
in all November has thus far been the
pleasantest month OF the fall.
Friday evening, about fifty of the
young friends of Forest Schleuder were
hidden to his fathers residence, and the
little lads and lasses babe the hours go by
right merrily, games and refreshments
adding to the evenings pleasure.
| Austin is improving, and is growing.
AS in other places there are those among
us who grumble, and these same persons
would grumble if they were going to be
hung but we tell you now, Austin is
going ahead.
there will be a Sabbath School concert at
the Mission Chapel. 1t is to celebrate
the fourth anniversary of the organiZa-
ton of the school. Mr.. Seller expects to
be present, and very pleasant time is
anticipated.
Somewhere in Georgia there is a
church, which is called ''The Sisters
Church :" all the members are women.
The chief work of their missionary soci-
ETY. is to send DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup to
the Indians, who suffer largely with
coughs and colds.
Last Saturday, as Charles Rens-
berger, in the employ of H. 0. Basford,
was sliding off the roof of shed, where he
had been placing straw, he lit on a cows
horn, which entered his body about three
inches. He is now convalescent, but
must confess to close call.
Benz. Mason left Austin last Wednes
day for Florida, where his real estate
interests at Daytona and Holly Hill will
keep him during the winter: Mr.. Mason
is very much pleased with Florida invest
ments, and says the coast towns are boom
ing more and more every year.
For the benefit of the few readers Of
! this paper who do not. already know that
DeLand's Saleratus and Soda is kept to
the highest standard of excellence, we
| would say that such is the case, while the
price is no higher than second. rate goods.
Use DeLand's only.
! We learn from private source that
Will, only son of our former townsman
| A. A. HARDWOOD, is still in failing health
| and that consumption is slowly but sure
ly doing its fatal work. We are sorry in
deed to learn that his parents consider
his case almost hopeless.
Rev. Stanley has now ''rhe Three
Graces" at his house. The third one arriv-
ed last Wednesday morning, in the form
of bright little girl If the old custom
of giving Bible names was not out of
date, we would have suggested they be
called Faith, Hope and Charity"
Sometime during Saturday night,
burglar forced an entrance into the home
of John Engle He found Mrs. Englc's
purse, containing about 81 in cash, and
after lunching on the best the premises at
forded, silently took his departure. No
clue has been found as yet to the thief.
-"Keysor e. Davis is the new law
| firm in Omaha-Wm. w. Keysor and Fl.
J. Davis-both graduates of the St. Louis
law school, and the two highest in the
class. Any law business Entrusted to
| their care will receive prompt and sklllful
attention. Direct to Room 10, Creighton
Block, Omaha, Neb.
We learn from letters written to
friends in the city that Mrs. Mate Ather-
n-Bletso is now at Colorado Springs,
and is given up to die by her attending
physicians. Mrs. Bletso was resident
Of Austin not many years ago, and old
acQuaintanceS will sorrow to learn of her
illness and probable death.
Miss S. L. Stocking lectured last
Wednesday and Friday evenings at the
Universalist church. Her next lecture
will be given, by the consent of her class,
in the reception rooms of the Windsor
House this evening. at z o'clock. Miss
Stocking is we'll read, and an enthusiast
in her department OF study.
Il. A. Pierce has secured, and elegant
ly furnished, rooms at the Windsor
House, for himself and family, where he
o1~ ~ 1>~ Co. Il Who
Windsor House is steadily gaining
ground in the public esteem, and holds
| out superior inducements for those who
desire an orderly and well-kept hotel
home
| w. Fl. Lannegan of High Forest
| township, was arrested on the complaint
| of John Rowley, of Pleasant Valley,
! Mower Co., for attempting to obtain
| money on forged paper. 1t seems that
| Lannegan has been at the business for
some time, and several merchants have
at different times had orders presented
for So, IS and $40, purporting to be
| drawn and signed by H. T. Horton OF
| Rochester.
| For hardware, stoves and tlnware,
| go to Jones' old stand, where the stock is
being closed out at astonishingly low
prices. The stock of cook and heating
stoves is large and varied. Everything is
marked down to bottom, as the stock
must be closed out. The genial and &C
commodating Eugene Wood presides as of
! sistant. Now is the time to buy your
hardware.
Il. A. Pierce, of the firm of Richard
his law library with large number of
! standard works, making his collection
one of the largest and most complete in
Southern Minnesota. Mr.. Pierce is
bound to make his mark in his profession,
| and has the sagacity to know that large
| outlay in standard works is indispensable
to the highest success.
wilkins & Smith have moved the old
Kyle house, which stood for many years
on the bank of the river just south of
Engle's mill; to lot on north side of
Water street, very convenient to depot.
They are repairing and rebuilding the
| house so that it will be very good and
| comfortable residence. 1t will be for
! rent when completed, and Mr.. Wilkins
! says he has already had several applicants
for it. Good houses are in demand in
Austin.
Register, after its serious fall, manifests
| its old-time vitality by appearing last
week with a colossal annex, twice its
| original size. The boom sheet" is a
good specimen of typograp hical work,
fairly written up. and finely illustrated.
The average resident of Mower county
can form no adequate idea of the advan
tages he enjoys by way of facilities for
| schools, churches, immunity from bur-
densome taxation, coed health, and the
like, until he reads the boom sheet Of
Bro. Basford's.
The tendency of the youth of the
present day to use tobacco, both chewing
and smoking, is surprisingly on the in
crease, and that it undermines the con-
stitution, entailing diseases of various
kinds, IS a self evident fact Recently
Mr.. Lord, superintendent of St. Peter
schools, paid visit to the several rooms
under his supervision, and in one room
he found seven boys under twelve years
of age who chewed tobacco. Nervous
ness, emancipation looks, and tendency
to catarrh are among the most apparent