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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1907
Page
27
Local items list visits and travels of residents from Austin to nearby towns and cities. Christmas gifts featured at F O Hall's grocery, Tollifson's, Williams' cigar store, and Bucklin's studio. Notices include arrivals, returns, and household sales plus local events and prize coupons with insurance.
J H Skinnier visiting his brother Jim Skinnion with Frank Lauffleis listed as sick. Eugene Beers staying with sister Mrs Miles Smith en route to Spring Valley then Van Couvre on the Pacific coast. Conductors and wives to hold joint officer installation next Sunday at German Hall with a ladies banquet at Depot Street. Irwin Treat from Blooming Prairie visited J B Howell home on Sunday. Frank Plam to the cities. Tolbertson on layoff. Mrs W S Plammer and daughter Kate visited LaCrosse. Mrs John Kickard of Wells and Mrs Phillips of Jackson guests at James Kickard home Saturday.
The Oberlin College Glee Club plans a winter concert in Austin as part of a Western tour. Twenty performers travel in the Rainbow car under Prof. J. F. Peck with a varied program including classics, costume numbers, humor, and college songs. Admission 50c. reserved 10c. students and children 35c. Kate McShane returns home for Christmas.
Frank Cronon, a young man described as smooth shaven with a collar and necktie, brown hat and black overcoat, operates a cigar store about ten blocks west of No. 2 Fire house. He boasts of a chesty stock of Xmas candy and cigars and says he has rivals on the run to sell all his mas packages while offering safer, better cigars and candy to locals.
A Kiester Minnesota resident Mrs. K. P. Gottschling reports eye tests by Chicago specialist Dr Addison Jones. The test yielded satisfaction and improved vision, though the account reads fragmented and unclear.
The Oberlin College Glee Club performs Friday evening January 3 at the Baptist church. General admission costs 50 cents, students 35 cents, with reserved seats available at one extra cent.
Santa Claus will be at Stormer's Pro vision Market Christmas morning at 9 o'clock to meet children under 10 and hand out packages sent ahead by express.
Herman Hormel creates a yearly Christmas display at his metropolitan market a large tree adorned with sparkling items and a base piled with 350 food packages. On Christmas morning a Santa will distribute a package to every child who visits. The gesture brings joy to many children and satisfies Hormel’s spirit of giving.
Patient reports very poor vision in one eye and severe headache eased by glasses fitted after thorough examination by Sir Ad dison Jones. Advertisement for Sale of registered Short Horn bullock Pure Bates milking strain 6 months to 2 years old. Inquiries to T Jobbing on J W Scott farm. laterstate phone.
A 1907 program scheduled for 7 30 on Tuesday evening December twenty fourth features a series of readings solos and recitations by Dorothy Evison Phylis Jenson Mildred Boyd Lois Gibbons Blanche Mahachek and others blended with songs such as Rejoice Oh Ring the Bells and Obrist Has Come The program includes scripture readings prayers and a pantomime by seven young ladies with Santa Claus distributing candy bags and other holiday offerings
Burglars broke into the Rose Creek meat market and restaurant on Sunday between 11 30 and 12 by prying a back window and breaking a door panel. They were seen inside and fled with a box of cigars, with witnesses suggesting the owners were the shopkeepers, John Alwelling.
The Christian Brotherhood meeting Sunday afternoon drew strong attendance and deep impressions from L. H. Stiffler and other speakers. Despite doubt it would last six months, the earnest group remains on course with increasing participation.
Christ Church Sunday School hosts a Christmas festival in Woodinean Hall on Wednesday evening at seven thirty. Scholars are asked to bring their advent boxes to the hall at that time.
Mrs H Robbins and her daughter Hortense have gone to Spencer Iowa to spend the Christmas vacation.
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