Dr. M. J. Hardy Leaves Bank Front for New Office
After 57 years above the First National Bank in Austin, Dr. M. J. Hardy begins moving his dental practice to a home office, planning a January return from a monthlong vacation with wife Mrs. Hardy. He started in 1905 and has practiced dentistry in Austin since then.
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First National Bank
M. J. Hardy
Lyndale
Mrs. Hardy
Austin National Bank
Dr. Hardy
C. J. Benton
Austin
H. A
Service Medals Now Available for WWII and Korean War Veterans
Frank Dunsmore of the Mower County veterans service office announces medals for World War II and the Korean War are now available. Many veterans have ribbons but not the medals and may pick up application forms at the Veterans Service office in the Mower County Courthouse.
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United States
Frank Dunsmore
Mower County
Dunsmore
Veterans Service Office
State approves 13 member science advisory panel
Gordon Lanning of Austin High School was named to a 13 member state advisory committee aimed at strengthening science and mathematics in Minnesota schools. The panel, asked to present an action plan by the January State Board of Education meeting, includes teachers and professors from multiple colleges and districts. Lanning, in his 10th year at Austin High, earned a 1948 University of Minnesota degree and a 1952 master’s, with prior service on related education committees.
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Gordon Lanning
Austin
Minnesota
State Board of Education
A. O. C. Nier
University of Minnesota
Albert E. Finholt
St. Olaf Lanning College
Jane Johnston
Moorhead State College
G. K. Kalisch
Paul A. Hedblom
Hopkins High School
Mason Boudyre
Minnesota Academy of Science
St. Paul
Ray Dolan
Austin High School
Lonning
State Department of Education
Lanning
PERA-OASI Vote Falls Short in Minnesota Referendum
The Public Employes Retirement Assn. old age survivors insurance plan failed by more than 5 000 votes in a Minnesota referendum last October. In Mower County 235 of 399 PERA employees voted yes with 40 no and 24 abstentions. Other counties showing support included Beeker, Chippewa, Fillmore, Itasca, Steele and Swift.
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Public Employes Retirement Assn
PERA
Harry Gorschel
Social Security Retirement
Mower County
Minnesota
Becker, Chippewa
Fillmore
Itasca
Steele
Swift
Church of Christ to Host 6:30 PM Pot Luck with Speaker
Pastor Herman H. Kooy announced an all church pot luck supper at 6 30 this Wednesday at the Church of Christ Lynn Dietz evangelist for establishing New Testament Churches in Minnesota will be the speaker.
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Herman H. Kooy
Church of Christ
Lynn Dietz
Minnesota
Pastors Called to Promote $100 Prizes in USI Lights Contest
The Austin Ministerial Association urged pastors to highlight the USI cleanup drive in services as USI stands at 81.6 percent of its $62,353 goal. Ministers received letters from USI chair Clarence Smith asking for envelopes with about $1 donations and to publish donors in the Herald unless they opt out. The Jaycees’ Christmas home lighting contest offers $100 in prizes with a top prize of $40 and is open to Austin and suburbs, entries due by December 31.
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Austin
Clarence Smith
USI Drive
Smith
The
Herald
USI
Austin Chamber of Commerce
Pre Christmas Mail Light in Austin Office
Postmaster Elmer Requa reports unusually small Christmas mail volume in Austin and warns the office may be overwhelmed in the final days. He urges mailing early and using off hours to ease congestion and avoid late delivery.
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Elmer Requa
Requa
Bloodmobile Surpasses Quota in Mower County Drive
The Mower County bloodmobile exceeded its quota for the first time in three stops, donating 114 pints Friday to reach 681 pints, 46 over target. Six donors were rejected, 14 donated for the first time, and new two gallon club members include Bertha Cafourek, Kenneth Johnson, Earle Rogers, Arthur Falken, Eugene Gosha, Evely Galbrath, Wilbur Jones, Keith Swallow, Kenneth Heydt, and Ernest Nipling.
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Mower County
Harold Lamon
Bertha Cafourek
Kenneth Johnson
Earle Rogers
Arthur Falken
Eugene Gosha
Evely Galbrath
Wilbur Jones
Keith Swallow
Kenneth Heydt
Ernest Nipling
North Star 4H Club Holds Yale Party
North Star 4H Club hosted its Christmas gathering at the Wilfred Denison home on Wednesday. New members Thomas Murphy Dean Murphy David Murphy and Helen Hotson joined. Leaders and members received awards and first year pins. Christmas gifts were exchanged and refreshments served.
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North Star
Yale
North Star 4H
Wilfred Denison
Thomas Murphy
Dean Murphy
David Murphy
Helen Hotson
Myron Austfather
Five-Year Sentence For Interstate Car Theft
Clifford Ben Kopetska aged 32 from Fort Morgan Colorado received a five year prison term in U S District Court here on a charge of interstate transportation of a stolen vehicle. The sentence was handed down Friday.
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Des Moines
Clifford Ben Kopetska
Fort Morgan
Colo
U.S
Austin Area Servicemen News Roundup
Local service members and family addresses are listed with recent postings and upcoming events. Pvt Keith J Rauch arrives at Fort Richardson Alaska as a postal clerk, CWO Roman A Smith earns senior parachutist wings at Fort Bragg, and Marines support Operation Phiblink in the Philippines amid SEATO observers. Additional notes include recruits at Great Lakes and Fort Carson training, plus holiday greetings from Germany.
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Pvt
Keith J. Rauch
H. A. Rauch
le Roy
Fort Richardson
Alaska
U. S. Army
Rauch
Army
Fort Polk
le Roy Public
St. Cloud State College
CWO
Roman A. Smith
Ft. Bray
N. C
82Nd Airborne Div
Ft. Bragg
Fred J. Smith
Adams
Farmers Union to Hear Sen Holand Minnesota Statehood Talk
State Sen. P. J. Holand of Austin will address the Austin-Windom Farmers Union local at the Enterprise School at 8 p.m. Monday. He will discuss Minnesota Statehood Centennial plans for 1958 and the county-wide observance of the state's 100th birthday. Holand serves as the county centennial chairman and state committee member.
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P. J. Holand
Austin
Austin-Windom Farmers Union
Enterprise School
Fred Gravenish
Holand
Minnesota
Fairgrounds
Mower County
Centennial Pageant Planned for Fillmore County Fair
Preston Minn. officials announce a historical pageant at the 1958 Fillmore County Fair marking Minnesota Statehood Centennial. The Fillmore County centennial committee selects John B. Rogers Co. of Fostoria Ill. to produce it with Moppy Anderson of Preston as county chairman.
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Preston
Minn
Fillmore County
John B. Rogers Co
Fostoria
Ill
Moppy Anderson
Adams School Menu Week Preview
Adams Monday features Sloppy Joes with potato chips and peach cobbler. Tuesday offers Goulash with celery and carrots, peanut butter sandwiches, fruit jello. Wednesday serves Chili with crackers and sliced cheese, ginger bread. Thursday brings Chicken and gravy on biscuits with butter sandwiches and cabbage Apple salad. Friday offers Macaroni and cheese casserole with buttered green beans and doughnuts. Milk provided daily.
Weekly School Lunch Menu Summary
The menu outlines daily meals from Monday to Friday featuring sandwiches such as peanut butter and meat options, with sides like bread and butter, potato salads, vegetables, crackers, and milk. Desserts appear midweek and several days include fruit, jello, or sauces for variety.
Weekly School Lunch Menu Highlights
Monday features goulash cheese carrots sticks sandwiches pudding and milk. Tuesday offers wieners sauerkraut mashed potatoes sandwiches cookies and milk. Wednesday serves sloppy Joes potato chips perfection salad. Thursday includes creamed chicken on biscuits sandwiches cottage cheese celery sticks raisins and milk. Friday provides baked beans peanut butter sandwiches cabbage salad fruit and milk.
Menus for a Week Include Humble School Meals
Weekly meals list shows Monday through Friday offerings with beef stew scalloped potatoes hamburger gravy chicken noodle hot dish tomato soup and desserts. Menus include sides such as cole slaw celery fruit cups pickles and milk with multiple sandwich options and beverages.
John L Sullivan Ate Fifteen Pounds Beef At Once
The famed pugilist John L Sullivan reportedly consumed as much as 15 pounds of beef in a single sitting, illustrating his legendary appetite and larger than life image in early sports lore.
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John L. Sullivan
Milwaukee 1004 painted as Dopita retires after 47 years
Henry Dopita 703 S Main completed 47 years of railroading to cap the Milwaukee Road steam locomotive 1004’s final service. The Austin resident painted the engine at the Mower County Fairgrounds, reflecting a long Chicago to Austin rail career begun in 1910.
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Henry Copita
S. Main
Milwaukee Road
Milwaukee
Fairgrounds
Dopita
Mower County Fairgrounds
South Eighth Street
Henry Dopita
The
Austin
Chicago
North Western Railroad
1958 Mower County Fair Announces Grandstand Attractions
The 1958 Mower County Fair runs Aug 5 to 10 in Austin with headliner the Manhattan Rockets and acts Gene Holter's African Oddities Thrilleade and the Grand Ol Opry. Statehood centennial theme highlights, with a pioneer tribute and teen day added to Kiddies Day.
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Chicago
Manhattan Rockets
Carl Kehrer
Fair Board
Gene Holter
Nashville
Tenn
AHS Festival Set for December 18
Austin High School Prepare Christmas Festival on December 18 with 210 voice festival chorus featuring mixed choirs and girls choir. Selected orchestra provides accompaniment under supervision of Paul Helme Wilbur Funk Ione Bell and James Wegner.
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Austin High School
Paul Helme
Wilbur Funk
Ione Bell
James Wegner
Utilities man overcome by chlorinating gas at pump house
Donald Kolpin of 1613 Park was repairing chlorinating equipment in the Todd Park pump house about 11 45 a m Friday when overcome. Firemen used a resuscitator and he was taken to St Olaf Hospital where his condition was listed as good and he was to be released today.
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Utilities Dept
St. Olaf Hospital
Donald Kolpin
Park
Todd Park
Kolpin
Crane Addition not Trappers Paradise Says Herald Photo
Elmer Freitag and son Lloyd were pictured with many skins but the Freitags say their traps are not set in Crane Addition for mink muskrat or raccoon. They prefer near home trapping.
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Paradise
Herald
Elmer Freitag
Lloyd
Freitags
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