Robbins Marks 27th Year Grand Opening in Austin
Robbins Home Interiors celebrates 27 years in Austin with a grand opening at 216 First St NE featuring new departments such as a custom furniture gallery Color Keyed Designing service and full color room schemes. Expanded to 10000 square feet the store adds a large custom carpet studio a drapery color bar and inhouse workrooms with special grand openings prizes including a free Princess Canopy Bed.
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Austin
Eli
Lee Robbins
Robbins
First St. NE
Custom
Austin Area
Robbins’ Decorating
Upper Midwest
St Olaf Hospital births and local funeral notices
At St Olaf Hospital many residents report births from Christoperson Apold Deutsch Njos Macal Pike and a former Peters. Funeral notices list Fimil Naatz Maynard Blowers with services in Austin and Walham. Expressions of thanks from Albert Jansen and Ruth Fowler note hospital experiences and a $10 city police fine for improper change of course.
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St. Olaf Hospital
Friedrich
Elliot
Anderson
Albert Jansen
Ruth Fowler
Red Stocking Fund Appeal Lagging Early Returns
Early returns for the annual Little Red Stocking fund lag behind last year. Mrs. James G. Huntting Sr., Mower County Chairman for the Minnesota Children's Home Society urges donations to support adoption services and counseling for unwed mothers. Total to date is $638.20. funds are urgently needed. Donations may be mailed to the Austin State Bank.
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Little Red
James G. Huntting
Mower County
Children’s Home Society of
Minnesota
Children’s Home Society
State Department of Public Welfare
Child Welfare League of America
Huntting
Children
Austin State Bank
Ambulance Runs Between Local Streets and Hospital
Ambulance runs noted at 10:07 a.m. from 208 4th St SE to St. Olaf Hospital and at 9:30 a.m. from 303 1st St. through the local streets system.
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St. SE
St. Olaf Hospital
Two Fires Reported At City Homes Early Morning
At 10 55 p.m. a fire damaged a rubbish burner at Chris Becks home 906 4th Ave SW. by 5 30 a.m. a furnace blaze at Mrs Bertha Napps home 1008 13th Ave SW burned out the motor in the furnace.
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Chris Beck
4Th Ave
Bertha Napp
13Th Ave
Judge Vogel Handles DWI Pleas Under Huber Law
Judge Fred Vogel presiding sentences Donald I Peterson to 30 days with day work under Huber law for driving while intoxicated and George Zahradnik to 15 days for cruelty to animals with sentence suspended. both cases charged by city police. James B Kemish of Taopi pleads guilty.
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Fred Vogel
Donald I. Peterson
Lyle
Huber
Peterson
George Zahradnik
Austin
James B. Kemmish
Taopi
AR PANEX Tablets Offer Fast Relief For Minor Pains
An ad describes AR PANEX tablets as a scientifically formulated remedy for rheumatism arthritis neuritis and neuralgia. It claims quick relief by acting through the bloodstream to ease joint muscle and nerve pains.
Construction Value Decline in November
The Office of City Engineer Rog er Nelson issued 27 building and moving permits in November with total valuation of $146,500, down $53,230 from November 1959 though 24 permits were issued then. Five residential permits totaled $91,200, up from last November's $46,000 across three permits. The highest permit was $30,000 for a self service food system at 306 Oakland Ave W by Lawrence Dewey for lease to a restaurant chain.
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Roger Nelson
Lawrence Dewey
Oakland Ave
C. E. Hallman
Sth Ave
Dennis Austin Rt
Village of
Mapleview
R. Norman Miller
Sterling Shopping Center
Robert Clark
8Th Ave
Louis Austin Rt. 3
Erwin Kilase
1Th St
Kenneth Hofland
Agnes Kotosky
4Th Ave
L. H. Pint
7Th Ave
Norbert Regenscheld
14Th Ave
Richard Storry
5Th Ave
Bernard Kroc
Irene
4Th St
Mary E. Jibks
2Nd Ave
Fred Tottenham
6Th St
Frank Sete
R. Norman ‘Miller
Mapledale Hatchery
Dennis Seberson
Austin Rt. 2
Leo C. Weis
1St Ave
Austin Area Breeders Set Annual Meet
The Austin Area Consolidated Breeders Cooperative annual meeting will be at 8 p m Friday in Brownsdale School with R W Seath as main speaker. Freeborn County meets Tuesday at 8 p m in Freeborn High School auditorium. Fillmore County gathers at noon Dec 14 in Wykoff Village Hall. Steele Rice Goodhue Dodge Winona and Olmsted counties have held their meetings.
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Austin Area Consolidated Breeders Cooperative
Brownsdale
R. W. Seath
Freeborn County
Freeborn High School
Fillmore County
Wykoff
Steele - Rice
Goodhue
Dodge
Winona
Olmsted
Bethlehem Zion Luther League plans Christmas party
Myrtle Minnesota Bethlehem Zion Luther League schedules a Christmas party for December 28 at the Bethlehem Lutheran parish house south of Myrtle during the Sunday meeting. Beverly Schuhmacher Mary Staehling oversee Christmas boxes for servicemen from Bethlehem and Zion congregations.
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Myrtle
Minn
Bethlehem - Zion Luther League
Bethlehem
Rose Creek Honors Five A Students in Second Six Weeks
Rose Creek Minnesota reports five students earned the A honor roll after the second six week period. Seniors Ruth Westmoreland Janet Mumm lead the list, with junior Helen Ballantyne and others Kris ten Ulven Bonnie Gomer among the five A students.
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Rose Creek
Minn
Ruth Westmoreland
Janet Mumm
Helen Ballantyne
Kristen Ulven
Bonnie Gomer
Grand Meadow to Host Christmas Concert Display
Grand Meadow Minnesota grade and high school students present their annual Christmas concert on December 14 at 8 p m in the high school auditorium. The program features the junior and senior bands brass quartette the senior high girls chorus and eighth grade mixed chorus with fourth through eighth graders performing under directors Paul Schulz and Myron Hokensness.
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Grand Meadow
Minn
Paul Schulz
Myron Hokeness
Coin and Stamp Club Elect Officers
The Austin Coin and Stamp club with 77 members elected officers for 1961 at the Sterling State Bank Community Room. New officers are president Don Kinney, vice presidents Harvey Peters and Charles Robinson, secretary Elmore Greening, treasurer Don Hanzlicek, and historian Mrs Marjory Creegan.
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Austin Coin and Stamp Club
Sterling State Bank
Don Kinney
Harvey Peters
Charles Robinson
Elmore Greening
Don Hanzlicek
Marjory Creegan
College Enrollment 385 for New Term
Austin Junior College Dean R I Meland reported winter quarter enrollment at 385 students, down ten from the start of fall term. He called the drop typical for the period as fall enrollment briefly rose above 400.
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Austin Junior College
R. I. Meland
Meland
Rangers 4 H Hold Musical Club Meeting
The Red Rock Rangers 4 H club met in Brownsdale school for a musical gathering led by an accordion quartet formed by Carol and Linda Zeiner. The group discussed plans for a Thursday roller skating party. A stray sentence about a bear and a squirrel appears in the text.
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Rangers
Brownsdale
Minn
Red Rock Rangers
Carol
Linda Zeiner
Meadow Lutherans Plan Pot Luck Dinner at Noon Sunday
Grand Meadow Lutheran Church families will host a potluck dinner at noon Sunday before viewing part of a film series The Living Christ. The other films will be shown during Lent with similar dinners in January and February. In Ann Arbor, City Council rejects Churchill as a street name saying it is too august for a 1 500 foot long street.
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Grand Meadow
Minn
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William Christopherson
11Th Ave
David Apold
West Lincoln Ave
Milwaukee
Wis
Frank Deutsch
Paul Njos
Blooming Prairie
Daughter
Richard Macal
Warren Pike
Clear Lake
Son
Bernice Peters
Lida Peters
Riceville
Blowers
Maynard Blowers
St. Olaf Lutheran Church
Arthur L. Swenson
Grand View Memorial Gardens
Jordan Mortuary
Oakland
Myrtle League Plans Party
Karol Bendtsen
Elaine Brinkman
Joanne Brown
Robert Bulson
Sharon Gomer
James Maerus
Suzanne Schammel
Daphne Hesselgrave
Ronald Nelson
Schammel
James Schmit
Theresa Dinneen
Barbara Fenske
Lawrence Landherr
Gary Lukes
Linda Michels
Mary Reagan
Betty Riles
Marilyn Levy
Joyce Ballantyne
Dorothy Blahnik
Ariene Brown
Liss Holm
Nicholas Majerus
Gaylord May
Coin and Stamp Club
Yano
Aan
Meadow Lutherans City Council
Reneme Street
Ann Arbor, Mich
City Council
Service Drive
Churchill
Penney
Penney’s
Oxford
Towncraft
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