Local High School Team Finishes Perfect Season
The High School ball team wrapped up their season with seven games all wins and two shutouts under manager S. T. Freer. The squad is praised as perfect gentlemen and the Athletic Association is credited with promoting wholesome school spirit. Engineer Sam Jones reveals a locomotive swap, exchanging whistles on No. 822 and 812, creating the familiar Calmar train sound heard into Austin each morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. T. Freer
High School Athletic Association
Sam Jones
Austin
Jones
Thought insane crime by Jimmie Flood shocks Minneapolis
The Austin boy Jimmie Flood confessed to fatally shooting A. P. Camden in Minneapolis. Police suspect insanity and possible third party involvement, including a woman in a black skirt and white shirtwaist seen near the scene. Flood’s dual feminine and masculine personas are described with dramatic detail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jimmie Flood
Austin
Minneapolis
Camden
Flood
James Flood
Dexter
Roy Flood
White Rock
S. D
Herman
Minn
Nicholson
Jimmie
Roy
William Craig
Martin Anderson
Craig Farm
Herman, Minn
W. L. Wilkins
Mineapolis
Haas
D. L. Coulta
Minneapolis Tribune
Hans Hotel
Chicago
Tenth commencement at Southern Minnesota Normal College
The tenth commencement exercises honored a 60-student class in science, music, commercial, teaching, and stenographic courses. The event featured a green and white canopy, a College March, and speeches by Eugene Benson and Rev. G. W. Lutz, with diplomas distributed by Prof. Boostrom and Harpman Heilman. The ceremony marked the largest class in eleven years as enrollments rise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southern Minnesota Normal College
G. W. Lutz
Methodist Church
Eugene Benson
Benson
Boostrom
Harpman
Pue Heilman
Packers Defeated by High School Team at Fair Grounds
Fans at the fair grounds Thursday watched the Hor mels and the High school defeat the Packers with sixteen runs to their two. The High school played a snappy game throughout while the Packers showed a poor exhibition, quitting after falling behind and drawing sharp disapproval from onlookers. Manager Gorman faces a benching of quitters and a call for steadier effort to build city support.
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Fairgrounds
Hormels
Packers
Gorman
Closing Exercises of 1912 Class at High School Hall
The class of 1912 finished eighth grade work in a large ceremony at the High School hall on Thursday evening attended by many friends. The program centered on Ireland with songs, recitations, and praise for Irish writers and heroes. Certificates were presented by Supt. Geo. A. Franklin to a long list of graduates including Walter Varco, Rollin Alderson, Florence Foster, Effie Newman, Dolly Tyrer, John McShane, Irene McShane, Marcella Brown, Effie Dunbar, Walter Edson, Irene Paine, Florence Vickett, and many others.
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Ireland
Zender
Walter Varco
Ee Clase
Dublin University
Rollin Alderson
Kittie
Coleraine
Florence Foster
Petathlias
Paradise
i _Effie Newman
Dorothy Pooler
Noryne Huser
John McShane
Dolly Tyrer
Isle of Beauty
Cessmenndeel Cook
Gertrude Ellis Skinner
Geo. A
Franklin Alderson
Rollin Kumlin
Clarence Anderson
Cecelia Kinsman
Anna Banks
Belle Mann
Joe Briebach
Edna Miller
John Bandler
Mabel McCarthy
Inez Boyington
Irene McShane
John Brinkman
Emma McShane
Marcella
Social events round up at local gatherings
Mrs J J Hayes and Mrs L P Nelson host a thimble party next Tuesday from 2 to 5 at Mrs Nelsons home. Miss Gertie Gavin entertained the B D club Thursday night. Bay 180 Miss Susie Moe hosts Lincoln building teachers and friends at a six oclock dinner tonight at the K O Wold home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. J. Hayes
L. P. Nelson
Gertie Gavin
Bay
Susie Moe
Lincoln
K. O. Wold
Delegates elected for United Lutheran convention in Minneapolis
A congregational meeting at the Lutheran church elected C. S. Johnson and E. A. Dalager as delegates to the United Lutheran churches convention in Minneapolis, starting June 17 for ten days. The gathering also approved church improvements including steeple painting and adding a cross.
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Lutheran Church
C. S. Johnson
E. A. Dalager
United Lutheran Churches
Minneapolis
Bring in Your Quarters for Garden Fund
The Park board seeks 12.88 to finish a flower garden at the intersections of Lansing avenue Courtland avenue and St. Paul street. Community members are urged to contribute 25 cents each. donors listed include H. E. Shedd Judge J. M. Greenman Mrs. C. L. West Geo. Sutton Senator Campbell and Prof. Boostrom with the note He gives twice who gives quickly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Park Board
Lansing Avenue
Courtland Avenue
St. Paul Street
H. E. Shedd
J. M. Greenman
C. L. West
Geo. Sutton
Campbell Prof
Boostrom
Political Calendar June 16 Republican convention at Chicago
Political calendar notes the Republican national convention set for June 16 in Chicago followed by the Democratic National convention on July 7 in Denver.
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Chicago
Denver
Commencement Tonight at Baptist Church Honors Local Graduates
Graduates who completed high school will attend graduation exercises tonight at the Baptist church. The program features an address by John Day Smith. Attendees include Bessie Irene Allen Lyman Spencer Baird Everett Colby Banfield Don V. Daigneau Ralph H. Daigneau Camilla Franklin Ida Matilda Haseth Glenn Schuyler Hendryx Rae Caroline King Paul M. Krebsbach Alice Marie McCarthy Sadie Anna McFarland Agnes Gertrude Meany Robert A. Moonan Pear B. Nichols Cecile Helen Opie Janie Margaret Taylor Frank I. Scullin Clinton D Smith Katie Evelyn Smith Estelle Marie Stockman Nellie Regina Hanson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Baptist Church
John Day Smith
Bessie Irene Allen Lyman Spencer Baird Everett Colby Banfield
Don V. Daigneau
Ralph H. Daigneau
Camilla Franklin
Ida Matilda Haseth Glenn Schuyler Hendryx Rae Caroline King Paul M. Krebsbach
Alice Marie McCarthy
Sadie Anna McFarland
Agnes Gertrude Meany
Robert A. Moonan
Pear B. Nichols
Cecile Helen Opie
Janie Margaret Taylor
Frank I
Bad Colored Man Creole Johnson Arrested in Austin
From Albert Lea, Creole Johnson drank heavily after arriving Thursday and boasted he was tough on police. He reportedly subsisted on raw meat, bet thirty quarts of beer in thirty minutes, and defied officers. He was fined $20 plus costs, sentenced to 30 days, and released on promise to leave the city within fifteen minutes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johnson
Albert Lea
Austin
Hinman
Brown
Memorial Service for Van Dusky Camp M W A
The annual Memorial service of Van Dusky Camp No 243 M W A will be held at the Auditorium on Sunday June 7 at 2 30 PM. Members are urged to attend and all visiting Woodmen Royal Neighbors and the public are invited. Address by Harry Lund of Minneapolis. 21 O J Stumons Consul.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
van Dusky Camp No. 243
Harry Lund
Minneapolis
Obituary for Sell Woodward Funeral at Varco
The funeral of the late Sell Woodward was held at Varco today with Rev. C. D. Belden officiating. He was the brother of Mrs. J. C. Hawkins of this city. Died in Minneapolis and his body was brought down for interment. His wife and a friend Miss Sprague accompanied the remains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sell Woodward
Varco
C. D. Belden
Mr. Woodward
J. C. Hawkins
Minneapolis
Miss Sprague
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Aestia
BATRA
Smith Bowling
Chatham Street
John Flood
Montague
Southern Minnesota Normal
High School Hall
M. W. A. Memorial Service
O. J. Stumons
Chase West
Cas
F. I. Crane
George Hirsh
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