Mower County transcript., 1896-08-19
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AUSTIN, WEDNESDAY. AUG. 10, 1896.

AUSTIN, WEDNESDAY. AUG. 10, 1896.
-Plums are getting plenty.
Frost is due next month.
-Threshing is crowding this week.
Austin city schools commence the
fall term on Monday, Sept. 2.
Parker W. Kimball is steadily
Improving and will soon be out again.
-Revord & Holmes are headquarters
for the best paints and oils ofall kinds.
District court convenes in this
city Tuesday. September Is, for the
regular fall term.
Get your ioe-cream for parties,
socials and entertainments at Grip
mans. They sell cheaper than you
can make it.
Buy your lime, cement, brick.
sewer pipe, etc., of A. n. Decker, deal
er ia coal and wood, Franklin and
Maple streets. loft
Clarence A. Palmer, of St. Paul,
after spending a pleasant weeks visit
with his parents at Brownsville, re-
turned home Monday morning.
Why doesn't Sam Harrison print
that report of his Fourth Of July
finance committee? 1t is earnestly
called for and the weeks are flying.
Golden rod social at the Baptist
chapel in Oakland village next Tues
day evening. Ice cream and cake
served. A cordial invitation is ex-
tended.
The year 1896 will long be not
able one for the abundant apple crop
in Southern Minnesota. Such a
yield pays for a good deal of disap
pointment and failure in some other
years.
Miss Bessie Hunt, of Brownsdale,
accompanied by her sister, Mrs. c. W.
Gillian, of Window. Minn., who is
visiting the home of her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. J. j. Hunt, visited Austin
Monday afternoon.
An addition of twenty-four feet
is being put on the rear of George
Hirsh's clothing store, giving him a
total length of los feet from Main
street. The addition will be for his
tailoring department..
Frank Raymond will temporarily
move his harness shop into the build
ing just vacated by Pooler's drug
store on Mill street. Mr.. RaymOnd's
new brick block on Main street will
be fine improvement.
Mr.. and Mrs. D. II. Griswold, and
two little children, who have been Wis.,
iting the home of Mrs. Griswold's
father, w. II. Palmer, at Brownsdale
for a short time, returned to their
home at Harrison, Neb., Monday.
Prof. and Mrs. J. F. Giles, Of
Moorhead who have been spending
the summer at Chatfield, are enjoy
ing delightful outing in the Lake
Superior region. at Two Harbors and
other points. They return to Moor
head the last of this week.
DO not fail to enjoy the fine bene-
fit concert to be given Friday evening
at the opera house by Ti,che's Cornet
Band. You will hear something we'll
worth hearing and you will be helping
the boys toward getting new uni
forms. Buy your tickets today.
Thomas J. Lightly of Oakland
brought us in samples Of fourteen diff
ferent varieties of his apples last
week. Many Of them are seedlings
and several promise to be good keep
ers for early winter. He will proba bly,
make an exhibit at our county fair.
Invitations are issued for the
wedding next Wednesday afternoon,
August 26, of Roy P. Ingmundson, of
St. Paul, and Miss Kit q. Ellis,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. A. v.
Ellis, of Austin. 1t will occur at
Evergreen farm. We wish them both
great happiness.
Miss Mary L.. Frost, one of our
popular city teachers, returned from
the Chautauqua Assembly Thursday
morning. after spending two delight
full months there. Miss Fannie Gtes,
who accompanied her, will return this
week and Miss Libbie Corneveaux
will remain east for some months to
visit relatives. They visited Niagara
Falls and other points OF interest.