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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1909
Page
3
Sunday visits and homecomings fill the page as residents from Rose Creek to Austin, Minnesota, including Andrew Jensen, George Sutton, Vera West, and Miss Clara Olsen, travel, work, and study. Local businesses push wares at Turtle Creek Nursery and West's Store while civic notes cover Masons, church meetings, and rail travel for state fair events.
A historic grocery ad highlights sweet potatoes rye melons pickling pears and other produce. The list reads like a community market showcase with a focus on seasonal staples and household essentials.
Local residents spent Sundays visiting relatives and friends in nearby towns. Notes include births, trips to Chicago and Minneapolis, and land purchases near White Earth Reservation where prices rose from 11 to 16 dollars per acre.
Mrs Anna Boliou died at her home in Waltham on Sunday from burns received while pouring kerosene on a smoldering tire in a kitchen stove. Born January 25 1851 in Glasgow Scotland she came to the United States in 1855 with her parents. She and Moses Boliou married in 1869 and lived near Brownsdale and later on a farm near Waltham before returning to live in Brownsdale then resuming residence near Waltham where she ran a boarding house for many years.
Nationally known organizer of the American Medical Society Dr J N McCormack will tour Minnesota from November 8 to 13 and visit Austin November 12. He will meet the medical fraternity and deliver a public lecture expected to attract a large audience and be of special interest to the community.
A class of 199 students held their first communion at St. Augustine's church on Sunday morning. The altar decorations featured white, asters, and hydrangeas. Girls wore white dresses veils and roses while boys wore dark suits with white roses in the buttonhole. Special music accompanied the service.
West’s store presents an early showing of new fall and winter coats. Customers can preview styles and fabrics ahead of the season.
An old advertisement promises a one hundred dollar reward for any catarrh case Hall's Catarrh Cure cannot cure. It cites 15 years of acquaintance with F J Cheney and endorsers Walding Kinnan Marvin Toledo Ohio. The ad notes internal action on blood and mucous surfaces, price seven five cents per bottle, with testimonials and availability from druggists. It also promotes Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
Saturday marked the final business day for J E Pitzen in the city. O J Benton purchases stock fixtures and goodwill and will reopen with added stock and a top shoe line. Former Pitzen employee Mr Anderson joins Benton. Pitzen retires to engage in fruit growing in the West.
Owatonna residents held a meeting to discuss retaining the Owatonna manufacturing company. The firm needs 15 000 to 20 000 dollars in preferred stock to cover a doubling of drill production under a Minneapolis sales agreement, with relocation considered if capital can’t be raised locally.
Mr and Mrs Lew Lewis were surprised by about thirty neighbors and relatives on their tenth anniversary in Austin. The evening featured music, social conversation, and light refreshments as friends wished them many more celebrations. Harry Barrett and Leo Rank bid them good bye at T H Barrett home as Barrett heads to Minneapolis and Rank to Albert Lea to lead Minneapolis Brewing branch offices.
The class of 1909 donated a six foot plaster memorial of East of Minerva in the northwest assembly hall and a framed pennant. It cost between $70 and $75, with Boston as the source. The class of 1908 contributed a clock that has served as a reliable timekeeper in the past year.
Firemen were tallying carnival expenses today and could not state exact proceeds. Attendance remained strong with about 2,000 each night, and the firemen’s 10 percent share fell short of expectations, likely wiping out any profit once costs are fully paid.
A reader from Fairbault Minn reports relief after treatment by Dr Addison Jones a Chicago specialist who cured piles without operation with little pain and recommends him.
During the Kline Carnival engagement A W Mills of the Aztec show advised departure to Des Moines on Thursday night breaching his contract with Kline and triggering a writ of attachment served by Sheriff Nicholson. After a confrontation the parties settled by paying two dollars each, totaling four dollars in costs, and Mills agreed to stay until Saturday night. Later Mills canceled plans and wired Des Moines that the show would remain with Kline.
Miss Alma M Carlson and Mr James B Hayes wed at Oakland Presbyterian Church on a Sunday afternoon. Miss Ora Dearmin played the wedding march as the couple joined Rev Heilman for the ceremony. The newlyweds will reside in Moscow.
W J Mahnke presents Sam A Meharry in the western drama Way Out West at the Gem Tuesday night. Meharry plays Sam and Steve Grigsby with Nina Kepheart as Posey Parker. The Minnesota stage standout leads a company in a familiar Minnesotan playbill, drawing on past Lyceum work and praise from the Sunday Tribune.
Adeline Creegan won the diamond ring in the Firemen's contest on Saturday night. Final tally gave Creegan 2306 votes with Miss Jahren second at 2216 votes, a margin of 90. Interest was high as the contest neared its close.
Our corset stock is complete with Thomp son, P. N. Nemo and the celebrated Gossard Corset. Chas. L. West.
The Gem Theatre presents Those Famous Funny Felons Wood and Ward with the American Beauty Chorus in a Tutti Frutti Musical Mixture Two Merry Tramps. The eleventh edition offers an all new musical treat of the season with tickets 25 35 50 and 75 cents.
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