Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-09-03
AUSTIN, MINNESOTA.
Sketch of one of Minnesota's Most Thriving
Cities.

Austin, the thriving county seat of Now
Ter County, continues to grow and indulge
in city airs, regardless of the envious feel
ings of sister towns in southern Mime
sofa. Not satisfied with its $75, 900 Court
House, it's $40, 1000 high school building,
and its numerous fine business blocks and
elegant residences, it is constructing,
which when completed will be one of the
finest opera houses in that part of the
State. The skating rink craze did not
strike the town until recently, but when
it did strike, it struck the tune of a S., 900
building, the finest establishment of the
kind in the State. It was built by the
we'll known agricultural implement deal
or, James Keenan, Esq, and is operated
by Messrs. Briggs & Burr. The people
there arc all delighted with it, and the
newspapers pronounce it daisy The
new post office building is nearly complct.
ed, and it is really fine structure. A
portion Of the upper floors will be occupi-
ed by one OF the Austin newspapers, also
by, .. SlocuM as Photographic and art
gallery. BY the way Mr.. Slocum is also
given to city airs in the style and finish
of his work. The long felt want of a first
class restaurant and ice cream parlor, has
just tcen supplied by r. P, Boyles, late of
Fairbault
| The Austin Canning and Preserving
Company that had their operations cut
short last season by the blowing up of
their works, have just resumed operations,
under very favorable auspices. It affords
employment to about fifty persons, and
John Walsh, its superintendent, speaks
most encouragingly of it's future outlook.
The railway advantages of Austin include
the main line of the Chicago, Milwaukee
and St. Paul, and it's Mason City branch,
with prospects, in the immediate future
of having the Minnesota &: N. w. line
running from St. Paul to Lyle, completed.
This is an Illinois Central enterprise, and
will give that company IN independent
line between st. Paul and Chicago. The
named road Which Affords SaH's empl t9 lent
to about one hundred men. are located
at Austin. Altogether, surrounded as it
is by highly productive agricultural
country, the prospects for the future of
this city is such that it can be excused
for. carrying so high head.
Situated as it is, near the Iowa line,
until recently it has drawn in its direction
quite a large number of Iowaisns who are
opposed to prohibition, and have a weak
ness for beer The conductors on the
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway,
however, all of which arc law abiding
citizens, are refusing to carry the fellows
who come across the line after their teddy
back to their homes in Iowa. AS the laws
of Iowa forbid the transportation into
that State Of intoxicating liquors in any
form, so when a man comes over to Aus
tin, and converts himself into beer key,
he must await the process of evaporation
before he can secure transportation home
on the railways.
Just now the citizens of Mower county
are basking in the smiles of bouuteous
harvest. The steam thrasher is now
abroad within its borders, and the golden
grain is being garnercd up, preparatory
to being cmptled into the greedy lap of
the eastern world.-Minneapolis Tribune.