Mower County transcript., 1903-07-01


a big celebration.
AUSTIN NEWS IN BRIEF
Half of the year 1903 has gone.
.-Nels Peterson and wife spent Sun
day in Blooming Prairie. T. = 'ssz1 =
Fourth of July next Saturday.
Come to Austin to celebrate. .'
Registered Birkshire pigs both
sexes for sale. Baird & Page Bros. tt
Heavy showers set in Monday after
several weeks Of dry weather. Bad
time for haying. \,
About thirty of the Co. &. boys
held a picnic and target practice at
Ramsey Sunday.
The O. of Il. C. will give ball at
the armory next Saturday evening.
Music by Tichy's orchestra. l.
The attendance at the S. M. Nor
NAL college is the largest it has ever
been during summer term.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. c. Holmes and
Miss Sue Hopkins returned Monday
from their outing at Osakls. p.
Bring your eggs to the Cold Storage
and get highest cash price. One cent
above on monthly ma rket day. Ed.
Barr. ,st.
FLORENCE sHuser and Rosella
Rosback left Monday for Cincinnati to
spend two months with Mrs. Edna
Huser .Muhlenburg. T. f,,:
Judge and Mrs. J. Q. Farmer re-
turned to Spring Valley Thursday from
their visit with relatives in Austin. Mrs.
Addie Cock accompanied them tpp 1 { = g.
The small boy who was canvassing
Austin residences during therpast week
for gasoline cans to paint red had an
eye to legitimate business and made a
success OF it. His enterprise is to be
commended. Z.
Mrs. Amy Hart is building a resi-
dence north Of A. Galloway's house,
G. Bascomb lis building next south Of
j. E. Snyder's on Kenwood avenue;
Joe Gender is building opposite WIN.
Corbitt's on Kenwood avenue south.
We have sampled the mammoth
strawberries from George Baudler's,
G. C.ODinsmoor's and Chas. Barnitz's
patches during the past week and it is
safe to say that no one ever saw finer
fruit and nowhere can finer fruit be
raised. They would be good for first
premium at a state exhibit.
The Beau-Nots gave a reception
and utensil shower for Miss Moliie An
derson Friday evening at the residence
of Miss Gertie Horrobin. A full line OF
kitchen utensils was presented. Re-
freshments were served and the even
ing was spent merrily. On Monday
evening, the Girls Of '99 gave shower
for Miss Anderson at the home Of Miss
Bessie Hamilton. s.>- Il .
The ''red can" law goes into effect
TODAY and hereafter it will be unlawful
for a:grocer to put gasoline or benzine
in a can of less than six gallons which
is not:painted "a bright red and tagged
in large letters with the name of the
contents. The clerk OF grocer who for
gets this will be liable to fine of 500
Kerosene must be put in plain cans.
The new telephone company com
menced to set poles in the city this
week. The system will be the finest il
the world. Farmers should be sur
and connect up with this line as it vii
be by far the most convenient whel
completed in few weeks. The Dex
ter and Rose Creek lines have made ar
rangements to connect and other line'
are coming in. ..... IS.
New home. grown potatoes ar
plenty in the local markets this week
retailingl at fifty cents q peck. Hom on
grown peas forty cents a peck. Th'
height of the strawberry season CAM
last week when the leading raisefs il
this locality each picked and marketed
500 boxes daily. This week, the marke
is firmer as the berries are not 50 plenti
full. They retailed at ten cents las
week, 1871 asked this week. s;5#
Immense quantities Of pickere
are being caught daily in the Cedar an
tributaries near Austin. The hig
water has allowed the fish to come Y
more plentifully than for years. o
Monday, a company Of the G A. /
veterans spent the day at Kearns' bring
inp in over sixty fine fish. About fou
o'clock, as they were hitching up t
{. come home, the violent thunder storI
struck them. "a stroke of lightnin
B struck the tree under which they Wer
Percy Bump and John B rbanks wei
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