Mower County transcript., 1904-08-17
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AUSTIN WEDNESDAY AUGUST II, 1904

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Mrs. J. G. Moreland is spending
the week with friends in Twin Lakes.
Daniel Grant of Chicago is visiting
Mrs. Ormanzo Benton and other rela
tives here. = 4
Send your orders for fine wedding
stationery to this office. We have the
latest and best.
-Mankato Commercial College,
Mankato, Mimi, gives you two months
free. Take advantage of it.
Mrs. Victor Sanburg has returned
to her home in Owatonna after attend
ing the wedding Of her brother
The Central Presbyterian Sunday
School will give picnic at Lafayette
Park this afternoon. Supper $50.
The Minnesota Territorial Pioneer
association will celebrate Thursday,
Sept. 1, as Minnesota day at the state
fair grounds.
The Presbyterian Y. z. 5. c. E.
will give social Friday evening at the
residence of Frank Dearborn, Winona
St. and Kenwood. All invited.
MIR. and Mrs. Lou Larson, who
have been visiting relatives and friends
in this city, left for their home in Wells
Monday morning.
Mrs. J. D. Beecher was critically i'll
yesterday afternoon with little hopes
of recovery. She was taken sick while
visiting at Faribault and came home
Aug 6.
August Zunk offers for sale at
bargain his place on the Brownsville
road in the northeast part of this city.
There is good house, six acres of
ground, fine spring, stables, excellent
garden etc. Inquire at premises or
write him.
The Minnesota State Fair is held
on the great fair grounds midway be-
tween Minneapolis and st. Paul, and
this year it will open on Monday,
August 20 and close on Saturday,
September 3. Half fare rates have been
made on all railroads throughout the
Northwest.
An order from Washington has
been issued to the effect that all rural
mail carriers who were appointed prior
to July 1, 1904, and who were receiving
the maximum pay Of $500 are entitled
to receive the maximum pay of $720,
irrespective of mileage; all other
appointees to be compensated as per
new regulations which went into effect
July l. =
The Minnesota Veterans Associa-
tion composed of surviving officers and
enlisted men of regiments raised in this
state during the civil and Spanish wars,
will hold it's annual reunion at the new
capitol St. Paul Wednesday Aug. 81.
Regimental reunions will be held in
the forenoon, so. as to give time for a
luncheon and grand afternoon re-
union, at which Senator Clapp, Cover
nor Van SAINT and others will speak.
The Youths Companion of August
18th shows no sign of midsummer dull
ness. Prof. w. H. Holmes, chief of
the Bureau Of. American Ethnology,
contributes an article packed with in
teresting information on "The Earliest
Americans" and there are four first
rate short stories, several character
sketches, and half a dozen of those
brief humorous paragraphs for which
The Companion is famous, and are so
we'll worth remembering and telling
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IS. W. Kaufman, proprietor of
the Hub Department store, is now in
the east purchasing his fall lines Of
merchandise. Mr.. Kaufman is accom-
panied by Mr.. Il. L. Brodt, former man
aper of the Palace Dry Goods Store Of
Spokane, Wash, whom he has engaged
tofmanage the Hub Dry Goods Depart
ment Of Austin. In a recent letter to
his brother of this city Mr.. Kaufman
stated thath he would have somany sur:
prises for the people Of Austin that it
would keep them wondering for
/ 4 good many months TO come.