Mower County transcript., 1903-05-20
THE TRANSCRIPT
AUSTIN, WEDNESDAY, NAY 20, 1903
AUSTIN NEWS IN BRIEF

Umbrellas recovered while you
wait, at Vests.
Mrs. Dick Lewis and children and
Mrs. H. Greenwaldt of Waltham spent
Sunday at the home of Mrs. Nemitz.
Bring our eggs to the Cold Storage
and get highest cash price. One cent
above on monthly market day. Ed
Barr.
Wanted, school teachers and stu
dents who are open for travelling po.
sition for the summer. Write to J. II
Murphy, Rochester, Minn., general de-
livery. IL
DO not neglect your real estate
taxes. May 81 is the last day before
the penalty goes on but that comes on
Sunday and the day before is Memo.
rial Day. Get around at once and pay
them.
The state summer school for teach
ers will be held at Austin commencing
July 6; conductor, L. S. Overholt, Roch-
ester; instructors, Kathlyn Libby, AL
bert Lea; Joana Scott, Theilman; E.
H. Nichols, Worthington.
-Supt. Andrew Nelson of this city
is appointed conductor of the summer
school which commences at OWatonna
July 6. Prof. George E. keenan, of
Grand Meadow is one of the instruct
Ors at the Granite Falls summer school,
-"Bargains in Thermometers!' the
enterprising merchants advertisement
ran. ave purchased our stock last
winter when thermometers were ex-
tremely low. Buy now! They are
going up! Bound to be higher and
higher as the season advancesw
"A. L. Palmer, formerly an Austin
merchant, is now located at Ladysmith,,
British Columbia, engaged as civil en-
gineer and superintendent Of con-
struction of a logging railroad for one
of the largest lumber companies. He
and his wife send regards to Austin
friends.
The Great Western has recently
completed survey from Lehigh to
Des Moines, and it is believed to be
the intention of the road to extend its
Fort Dodge-Lehigh branch line to that
city. Besides giving an air line from
Fort Dodge to Des MOines, the pro-
posed extension would tap a country
rich in undeveloped coal deposits.
e. w. Decker, vice president of the
Northwestern National bank, of Min.
neapolis has bought the George n. Ly-
man house at 1414 Harmon place, Min
neapolis, for $22,50O. The house is 215
stories high, the first story being OF
white stone, the remainder of shingle
A large stable is included in the sale
The property has frontage on Har.
mon place of 100 feet and is $50 feet
deep.
This years class of graduates from
the State University will number 448
The college of literature, science and
the arts has 161 graduates; the law
schools 92, and the medical department
81. There are also large number of
graduates from the technical schools
Among the graduates are Augusta E
Baker and Jessie B. DinsmOOr of Aus
tin with degree of b. A., and F. w
Davis of Taopi, degree of Nj. D.
"A travelling man was writing his
name on a hotel register in Chatfeld
when abedbug a put in his appearance
and slowly meandered across the page
The travelling man gaZed at it mo
ment or two in SURPRISE and then ex.
pressed his disapproval in this manner
"Well, Pm beatl. / have been bled 10y
St. Louis greybacks and,concocted with
southern spiders, but I'll be hanged if I
ever slept in hotel where the bedbugs
came up and examined the number OF
my room. guess I'll 20 down and
sleep on the railroad BRIDGE"