Mower County transcript., 1901-07-03
q Mrs. Hartley of Lond donsis Wishing

in Austin. .s:. ss .53
Miss Edith Weber 81. Lans sing was W5as
in Austin Friday: .Sssssss ass
Cecilia Fisch#is visiting relative
. at Minnesota Lake. s5ss% \ .5* .sSSs sSSS
Mrs. P. Bump has been visiting
relatives in London. %:.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. Al Wolff, a
baby daughter, Wednesday ts==zzz
George H. Litchfeld returned
Monday from his st. Paul trip.
George McKenDa, former. Aus.
tin boy, is visiting friends here.
Mr.. and Mrs. G.. S. Mailman Wis
tied friends in Owatonna Friday. Z =
Miss Della O'Donnel LETT Tuesday
for Clairmont, Ia, TO visit friends.
"A baby girl was born to Rev. and
Mrs. F. L. Anderson Friday morning.
Rev. A Cressey will preach at
Cedar City next Sunday az 1000 a..
Misses Julia and Lottie White Of
Lansing are visiting at John Mee-
hans.
Miss Longfeld Of St. Panl visited
with the Misses Kelly between trains
Thursday.
Mrs. Dixon of Rockford, Mimi,
is visiting at the home Of Joe Furtney
on Water street.
Miss Ella Cook attended the dist
rict W. G. T. U. convention at Owa'
tOnna last week.
Mrs. M. Harrington and daughter,
Irene, LETT Tuesday for Clairmont. La.
to visit relatives.
Sister Ruth Of Dubuque, Ia. is
visiting at the home Of her brother,
Rev. Father Devlin.
"A number OF Austin's young
peOple enjoyed a dance at Concord
hall last Friday evening.
Arthur Becker is home from Des
Moines college for the summer and
will clerk at Thomass dry goods
store.
Mrs. Amy H. Wilbour returned
Saturday from Rochester where she
spent a week with Rev. F. g. Whit
ney'S family.
Jesse Dulhom of Albert Lea has
leased Cronan's Billiard and Pool par
lors for one year. He took possession
Of it Monday.
The pew fire team made trial
run last Friday evening". The team
promises to do excellent work in the
future with more practice.
Miss Genevive keenan,, who has
been attending school at Sinslnawa
Mound. Iowa, arrived in Austin Fri
day to spend her vacation With par
entS.
Phil H. Friend returned yester-
day from Dubuque where be has been
attending to his business interests for
the past three months. Nate Friend
left for Dubuque last evening".
Miss Eva Jones of this city gave a
chalk talk at the district w. G. +. q.
convention at Owatonna Thursday.
Miss Nina Swift OF Brownsdale gave a
paper on 'Clim bing to the Stars
About Is attended the Odd Fell
lows picnic at Riverview Thursday
and as usual had most enjoyable
time. The threatening storm short
ened up the enjoyment Of the after
noon.
Mrs. A. J. Sharpstine and SOD
Ernest and Mr.. and Mrs. Will Wells
will leave for Buffalo next Sunday
evening. They will visit relatives in
St. Lawrence county, N. Y, before re-
turning.
The Mankato District Epworth
League Convention will be held next
Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Rev.
J. M. Brown of this city will speak
Saturday afternoon on 1.-The League
as a School for Bible Study.
The following is the list OF girls
who intend to attend the Winona
Normal school from Austin: Misses
Esther Lowry, Ruth Wilder, May
Kenevan, Francis Gilbertson, Hattie
Mills, Elizabeth Kelly aud Agnes
CrOnan.
There we're so few farmers at the
adjourned meeting at the courtroom
Saturday afternoon to consider co.
operation in buying and selling mer.
chandise and produce that only an in.
formal meeting was held aad it was
decided to wait until the busy season
Is over before pushing the move.
ment.
The school board held their regu
lar meeting last evening. Prof. Wads
worth A. Williams, a graduate OF
Carlton college, has been engaged az
principal of the high school in place
of Prof. McWhorter, resigned. The
outlook for our schools for next year
is fine as an excellent corps Of teach.
ers has been secured. -
j. e. Barber writes from Elk
River that he has sold over 800 acres
OF wild and improved lands there dur.
ing the past week and that purchasers
are numerous. Elk River is only
thirty miles north of Minneapolis and
the railroads naturally prefer to take
purchasers hundreds OF m lies beyond
where they can get long haul.
The Austin high school alumni
paper, the Altruist, which made its