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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1902
Page
3
Local business boasts superior cleaning and asks residents to trust its laundry service with a bold claim of industry leadership and a call for new customers.
Markets were quiet with slight declines as traders viewed the government report as a weak guide. May wheat closed at 7.43 and July at 7.51. Corn saw little impact from the report with May at 0.43 and July at 0.421. Weather remains favorable with warmer trends and snow flurries in the north. Trade notes list equipment for sale from T Rochford, drayman.
Mr and Mrs Frank Mitchell host guests tomorrow. Dr G A Stevenson of Albert Lea, eye ear nose and throat specialist, travels to New York for post graduate studies. James Tichy and Charles Stimson visit Austin. Carleton College Glee Club to sing at Baptist church under Austen High School senior class. Prof Boostrom to St Paul to present papers. Various locals and visitors noted with brief health, travel, and social updates. New Year events and sales mark a busy season in Austin community life.
Simon Deneen shows health improvement in Montana. Mrs. Mary Kernes dies in Hayward and will be buried tomorrow. grandfather died ten weeks earlier. John W. Davis and Ray Hoopman visit from Lime Springs, Iowa. The Thompsons return from Lime Springs. Rev. Anderson stops East Side meetings due to poor health. Rocky Mountain Tea ad proclaims its life enhancing effects. Andrew’s Music store offers a special sale of sheet music. Nellie Leslie and Nina Swift visit Austin. Swift heads to Indiana for school, Leslie shops in Austin. Mrs. A. V. Ellis and daughter travel to St. Paul for the Minnesota Educational Association meeting.
Year wishes customers a happy new year and announces a fresh stock. Celery oysters grapes bananas and candy are on hand to make a fine New Year’s dinner.
A Christmas wedding in Anoka united Miss Bertha Schofield formerly of Austin with Malcom Malcomson, farmer of Le Roy township. She is a former Austin High School graduate and former Mower County teacher. They will reside near LeRoy.
Thursday evening a special consecration service will be held in the vestry of the Congregational church prepatory to the communion service next Sabbath morning. Sunday evening Mrs Broad formerly Miss Harriet S Caswell will speak on Women’s work in Home Missions and Mr Broad will discuss the Home Missionary Society.
Be sure to buy a ticket for the Fireman's ball on New Year Eve. Tickets available at Cronon's and Bassler's stores to support the firefighters.
Charles Rosenthal offers painting and paper hanging services. Call 280 for estimates. The ad emphasizes wisdom in practice and practical prudence, noting high quality work at low prices. Also mentions A. Emmons Austin Lumber & Fuel Co as a related contact.
Due to higher labor and grain costs, the Con gregational church Ladies Missionary Society will hold its annual business meeting Friday at 3 PM at the home of Mrs John X Wilson. The notice also notes milk price support in nearby cities from January to May 1903 amid rising costs.
A Wednesday 7 15 p m prayer and song service invites all at Second Christian church. Afterward attendees will remain at ease with songs religious conversation and social intercourse until midnight when a final song prayer and doxology usher in 1903. Quarantine lifted from the Cement Works boarding house on Tuesday.
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