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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1908
Page
3
Special bargains in city property and in Mower County arise with notices of potential sale and bids. Local authorities urge bidders to review terms and deadlines as transactions surface in public records.
A fragmented dispatch lists times and places including Council Bluffs Omaha Fort Dodge and Mason City. Mentions Lyle Jason and Aliens Canada and notes arrivals and travel between cities with specific times.
Partly cloudy tonight and warmer Friday. Old papers and various notices advertised at the Herald office. Local items include health updates on Ed Friend, rentals, sales of furniture and land, and community events throughout Austin Minnesota with many short notes on residents, trades, and errands.
Henry W. Rogers of City offers to clean carpets rugs and windows. He can perform heavy house cleaning and uses a rug cleaning method that protects fine rugs.
Readable sale items include Calumet soap 14 bars at 25c, Baker's chocolate 1 lb at 36c, vanilla and lemon flavors bottles at 10c, catcan corn 6 oz 1c, pears two for 25c, and 20 percent discounts on lace curtains and ready made garments. Store says always the cheapest in Austin Minnesota.
Seven rooms in the south half of the house at 100 S Chatham street for rent. Gas furnace and electric lights available. J. M. Hall and W. W. Ranney are agents.
Mrs. Mitchell of Medford and Mrs. Davis of Owatonna return home after visiting Mrs. Herbert Warfield. The L A to the O R C will meet tonight. George Merriman improves and can be up. Sam Swenson goes to Lanesboro for work. Haze Thornton ill with stomach trouble. The Gullickson child with pneumonia shows signs of recovery. Mrs J Burns and family visit from St Paul to see Mrs Burns mother, Mrs John Herzog. Miss Margaret McShane returns from St Paul. Mrs Umhoefer packs to move to Miles City Montana where Mr Umhoefer resides, leaving next week.
The record notes a sequence of party meetings with dates and places: April 15 Republican congressional convention in an unspecified city, April 16 Republican state convention in Minneapolis, and June 16 Republican national convention in Chicago.
E H Smith Land and Loan Company of Austin Minnesota announces acceptance of applications for farm loans at 5 percent interest with liberal pre payment privileges.
B. E. Shutt offers first class hack service for trains with prompt phone orders. Call phone number 10 26 for arrangements.
Illinois counties move to dry state with 36 fully dry and 19 mostly dry areas after Tuesday elections. Istes returns show 86 townships against saloons and 394 in favor. total dry townships rise to 1,028 and wet to 323. Estimates value saloons closed around 1,100 with wet majority 28,660 across the territory. Chicago did not vote on loser option.
We Lead, Others Follow offers Peerless Flour and assorted staples priced by the sack or unit. Pure Bohemian Rye, Home Brand Rye, Corn Meal, Lard, Soda Crackers, Johnson's Crackers, potatoes, dried apples, olives, cabbage, and fresh fish in season are advertised with daily Lent offerings and seasonal produce.
The Ladies of the Lutheran church host an Easter sale at the church on Saturday April 11. A dinner features roast beef mashed potatoes brown gravy and fish balls with white sauce plus macaroni and cheese salad pickles and pie with coffee bread and butter for 25 cents. An afternoon coffee and cake sale offers cakes and coffee for 10 cents. Supper includes spare ribs potatoes baked beans fruit gelatin bread and butter fritters and maple syrup for 25 cents.
One hundred dollars reward for any catarrh cure failure. Endorsements from Walding Kinnan Marvin of Toledo praise F J Cheney and his firm. Cure taken internally, 75 cents per bottle, testimonials free, sold by druggists. Also Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
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