Mower County transcript., 1902-12-24

The term of O. w. Shaw as director
of the state school expires next month
will Nichols and wife of Fargo is
spending the holidays with relatives
here.
DIR. julie w. Smith of Austin has
opened a dentists Office at Madison,
MINI.
R. Hobson and Myra, left this noon
for Sparta, Wis, to visit relatives and
friends.
Geo. Corneveaux and Harry Offic-
er have bought out the Palace Bowl
ing Alley.
The East Side Sunday school will
hold it's Christmas entertainment Fri
day evening.
M. V. Cartwright returned Satnr-
day from a two weeks visit with his
son, M. j., at Fertile, Mimi. !
&C. H. Thomas and wife went to
Independence, Iowa. Saturday to spend
the holidays with relatives.
The. Episcopal church edifce
caught fire just before service Sunday
evening and had close call: ,
II. F. Cummings is at the Roches-
ter hospital receiving treatment for in
juries received from a refractory cow.
-RaZors, shears, scissors, knives and
tools ground right. Work guaranteed.
Mitchell, the grinder, POI w. Water St.
The city schools closed Friday for
two weeks vacation. Christmas eX-
ercises were held in several of the
rooms.
The Austin Masons have raised a
subscription fund for the relief of the
worthy and distressed at the Christmas
time.
Grand Chancellor James Robert
son of Minneapolis officially visited the
Austin lodge, Knights of Pythias,
Monday evening.
The Austin Brotherhood of Train
men and the Ladies' Auxiliary held
joint installation Sunday, followed by
fine banquet.
Joe Pollock has recently sold
thoroughbred Aberdeen Angus bull,
"Rowdy Boy, to j. G. johnson, Jr. to
put on his Marshall farm.
The Ministerial Association will
meet Monday Dec. 29th, at 1890 a. m.
at the home of Rev. Miller, 303 Cedar
Mrs. Hart and children, of Redfield,
S. D., and Mr.. and Mrs. w. III. Odell, of
st. Paul, are spending the holidays, at
the home of their parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Jerry Ingalls,
Miss Grace Baird closed the fall
term of her Kindergarten Friday after
noon with interesting Christmas exer-
cses by the children. The Kindergar
ten will not reopen until spring.
The twenty-third annual meeting
of the Minnesota National Guard AS
sociation will be held at St. Paul Satur-
day, and various matters of interest to
the guard will be discussed. Major
Fred B. Wood, Austin, is president.
II desire to- purchase a number of
first class new milch COWS or COWS
about to come in. The COWS are wanted
for dairy purposes and will be bought
subject to test. If you have what you
think I want, please let me know and
at same time state your price.
r. E. SHEPHERD.
&C. A. Jones, one of the substantial
farmers who have recently moved here
from Iowa, has bought the Chris Brown
farm south Of Brownsville: He moved
about ten days ago from Clarion,
Wright county. He is breeder of pure
bred Hereford cattle and Ohio I'm
proved Chester White hogs and is just
the kind of newcomer we specially
welcome.
We print elsewhere an extended
article from the Minneapolis Times on
the Austin colony in that city. Ac-
companying the article was fine group
of pictures of the following Austinites:
Mabel A. Wheeler, Anna Whitney,
Annette and Minnie Cotter, Nettie
Belden, Mrs. IN. McWhorter, Stella
H. Smith, Lulu Merrick, Ethel Wold,
Marian and Jessie Dinsmoor, Jennie
L. Teeter, Anna Wheeler, Mary S.
Cotter, Gertrude I. Jackson.