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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1903
Page
4
Fragmented record shows schedules for American and Loyal orders lodges in Austin with meeting times and officer names. References Woodman Hall Masonry hall Meron and dates the first and third Wednesdays, with officers John Robertson and Ed Carter.
Cedar Camp No 205 RB 8 meets 2d and 4th Mondays in Woodmen hall. Oracle Anna B Rowle, Recorder. C. B. S. No 2% meets 2nd and 4th Mondays each month in Masonic hall. Mrs Wm McFarlane, WM. Jane Todd, Secretary.
Aust n Cosel re 53 meets on second and fourth Tuesday by month at p.m. iv Woodman hb vintth neighbors Pea Herbert St Ledger Samaritan J. 4 scovell, Scribe. Austin Lodge No55 K of P meets every Monday evening in Ells Hall. Visiting Knights welcomed J C Soyder C U Wd Urbaven ERS
Meets 1st and 3rd Tuesday evenings in M W A hall under Mrs tia Ames Lady Commander Dr Jannie Feister Record Keeper. COURT OF HONOR No.414 meets 1st and 3rd Tuesday evenings in Ellis with Kev Miler W C Mrs Sarah Foster Reynolds.
McIntyre Post No 66 GAR holds regular meetings on the first and third Saturdays of each month. Visiting comrades invited. Austin Lodge No 8 A U U W meets on the second and fourth Thursdays at the new Kilns ball on Main Street. C M jialt. M W Harris, Recorder.
Austin lodge No 414 and Royal Arch Chapter No 14 hold stated meetings on the second and fourth Fridays at the new Kiks hall and Masonic hall in Austin Minnesota. St Bernard Commandery No 13 meets first Monday evenings at the Masonic hall.
In a local notice, church events are listed for the Pastor residence area at 107 St Paul. Sunday preaching at 10 30 am and Sunday School at 66 675 bee pm. A junior program named BY PU YPSOE is noted for Thursday prayer and teachers meeting. Oakland Sunday School plans preaching and midweek prayer on Wednesday and Friday with additional activities.
Corner St Paul and Mill Streets hosts Special Interest services each Sunday at 10:30 am, 12 m, 6:30 pm, and 7:30 pm. Free seating and welcome to strangers, with emphasis on devoted gatherings.
Sunday schedule lists Holy Communion at 8:30 am followed by Morning Service, 9:30 am Sunday School and Bible Class, Evening Service at 6:30 pm in winter or 7:30 pm in summer. St Cecelia Guild meets Tuesday 7:30 pm and Ladies Guild Thursday 2:30 pm. Choir rehearsal Saturday evening.
The Minneapolis and St. Louis R R reestablishes Homeseekers' Rates to Minnesota North Lakota Montana Idaho Washington and Oregon along with western regions. Applies on the first and third Thursdays of April May and June 1903. Fare is one fare plus $2.00 for the round trip, valid 21 days from sale. Inquiries to M and St L ticket agents or A B Currs GP TA Minneapolis Minn.
The M and St. L railroad offers one way Colonist Excursion tickets at very low rates through June 15 1903 to California Washington Oregon Montana Idaho and Arizona. See local agents for details on rates through tourist cars and services. A B Cutts GP&T.A. Minneapolis Minn. Also Iowa Central Railway in on same terms to California and western states.
A widespread strike spreads through Chicago as workers at hotels are called upon to quit work, signaling escalating labor unrest and potential service disruptions across the city.
The Iowa Central Bay reestablishes Homeseekers Rates to Minnesota North Dakota Montana Idaho Washington Oregon and western areas. Valid on the first and third Tuesdays of April May and June 1903. One fare plus $2.00 round trip, limited 21 days from sale. Inquiries to any Town Central ticket agent or B Overs GP TA Minneapolis Minn.
Low summer tourist rates advertise round trips via Chicago Great Western to Minnesota resorts including St Paul Minneapolis Superior Ashland Duluth and more with tickets on sale June 1 to Sept 30 and return by Oct 31 stopover privileges to Colorado Utah Black Hills New Mexico and Texas points. Information available from Great Western agents J P Elmer GPA Chicago Lil or A B Cutts G P A Minneapolis.
The C M St P Ry runs a special train from Austin to Blue Earth City on June 9 1903 for the Modern Woodman Picnic. Departure is 6 30 A M and round trip fare is 1 75. For details contact C W Snere Agent.
Indianapolis based Travelers Protective Association lists a June 9 to 14, 1903 trip with one fare plus $2 for a round trip. Tickets on sale June 7 to 8, good to return June 18. For more details contact any Great Western Agent or J. P. Elmer G. P. A. Chicago.
The June Fair and Carnival runs June 1 to 13 in Minneapolis. Round trip fare to St Paul or Minneapolis via Chicago Great Western Railway is $3. Tickets go on sale June 2 4 8 and 11 and are valid for three days. For details contact any Great Western Agent or J P Elmer G P A Chicago.
The new coaches added by the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul railway between here and St Irans and Minneapolis improve travel comfort and raise the line’s popularity.
Chicago Great Western Railway offers travelers a choice of three through tourist cars to California. Ask any Great Western agent for details on schedules rates and connections available for the trip.
Chicago June 12. Cooks and restaurant employees strike disrupts dinner with ministers present. Cooks and waiters union vows a citywide hotel strike. The restaurant keepers association deposes president G W Walton amid accusations of mediation for a 7000 payoff to settle the strike, including 2900 to a labor man and 1000 to five board members. The motion to expel Walton passes unanimously amidst heated scenes.
In Morenci Arizona 1900 miners and Mexicans seized the Detroit Copper mill disarming guards. They overwhelmed the town before the militia moves. Western Federation of Miners delegates urged restraint as Arizona militia camps form at Metcalf Morenci and Clifton. Five cavalry units from Roosevelt are en route to bolster forces.
In St Paul on June 12 the A. O. U. W postponed a new ritual for at least another year after six proposed rituals failed to secure a verdict. The drafting committee was discharged and a new committee was urged. Most findings were handed to committees by the distribution group while the finance report by W Warne Wilson was approved.
Indianapolis reports the murder of George Duyer a wealthy farmer at his home by masked robbers They bound Mrs Duyer after entering demanded all money and after receiving several hundred dollars shot him and escaped The incident occurred at night in Indianapolis on June 12
Clarendon Ark June 12 seven people drowned when a houseboat capsized on the White River at Aberdeen The victims were W B Moneymaker and wife J M Clark and wife two boys and a girl They were gathering mussel shells at the time of the accident.
Manila reports the constabulary has captured Faus tino Guillermo, the island of Luzon s most famous outlaw, in Rigal province.
Philadelphia June 12 The granting of concessions in four mills and the operatives coming out revived hopes for an early settlement of the strike. The day saw a possible extension of the settlement to the engineers working in the mills as another feature.
In criminal court No 1 Justice Pritchard lowered bail for J M A Watson from 30000 to 20000 on charges of embezzling District funds.
The May's Lick business heir lost about $100,000 in a Thursday blaze. James Dumas killed Sarah F. King in Indianapolis and died by suicide. Ora Copenhaver and William Jackson were hanged at Michigan City penitentiary. The Elks reunion in Baltimore begins July 20. James C. Monaghan of Wisconsin University was named editor of the foreign commerce reports by the state department.
National League: Cincinnati 0 New York 2 in eleven innings. Pittsburg 9 Brooklyn 9. American League: Boston 2 St Louis 0. Philadelphia 2 Cleveland 3. New York 4 Detroit 3. American Association: Columbus 6 Minneapolis 4. Louisville 1 Kansas City 2. Toledo 2 St Paul 6. Indianapolis 13 Milwaukee 10.
Minneapolis June 11 grain notes show cash wheat at 79 3/4 cents. July futures at 84 1/4, 78 3/4 for September. Track No 1 hard 84 0 3/4, No 1 Northern 79 1/4, No 2 Northern 78 3/4, No 3 Northern 76 1/2.
In Duluth on June 11 wheat prices show No 1 hard 81% cents, No 1 Northern stock at 76 cents, No 2 Northern 76 cents with July and September bids. Flax in store and incoming tracks at 1.12 to 1.14 dollars for July September October and Navy futures 1.14 dollars.
St Paul reports cattle ranges with good to choice steers from 4.25 to 7.50, cows and heifers 3.25 to 4.00, veals around 2.50. Hogs bid 5.40 to 6.15, sheep good to choice 5.00 to 5.75, lambs 5.75 to 6.50.
Chicago market notes list cattle prices across grades from prime to calves with ranges, hog prices for mixed, butcher, and heavy grades, and sheep values including native and Western lambs and spring sheep. Prices shown per hundredweight are bountifully varied with regional distinctions and several quality tiers.
July wheat at 75% and 75 8thold figures for Toc Sept 72% 12%c old. Corn June 48%4c July 48%c Sept 474% Dec 2Kc old. Oats June 37c July 3c Sept 33%4c Dec 33c. Pork July 17.02% Sept 16.80. Flax cash Northwestern 1.125% Southwestern 1.11 July 1.12 Sept 1.139. Butter creamaries 15 22c dairies 15 18%4c. Eggs 13% 14%c. Poultry Turkeys 10 11c chickens 10 4 4611c.
A seven year old boy enters a penutieman's chamber before Christmas, draws and flourishes a sword. The man, asleep, is roused and the boy attempts to sheath the blade, striking his belly by accident. Bystanders intervene. one would strike the child, but the gentleman delays. He attributes the act to divine justice, noting the boy's father had killed five years earlier. The gentleman dies during the second dressing.
A writer explains oyster growth stating they are born with shells and grow mainly in summer. The oyster uses its beard as a breathing organ and mouth feeder, opening in June to add a new shell layer by layer with fine carbonate of lime until the shell becomes hard.
In the days of Louis XIV warlords traded epigrams as Grammont’s forces siege a fortress. A governor quips the surrender reveals powder shortages, and Grammont counters with a remark about lacking balls.
A printed card displayed under Jones's sketchy little exhibit bears the phrase Py pot toned with ¢anes or umbrel las. A small boy added a postscript urging Take A Ax. London Tit-Bits.
In Paris Figaro a speaker describes M. X. as writing more nonsense than anyone living and clarifies he is not a journalist but a legislative stenographer. The exchange frames a witty distinction between writing and stenography in the Paris press.
A fragmentary dialogue shows a young man professing boundless love while another character counters that many men say the same thing but not to her. The exchange reflects urban flirtation and skepticism, capturing period banter in a single page note.
An old veteran recalls a Civil War anecdote from the sutler’s department. An Irishman asleep on the Bull Run battlefield meets Confederate scouts who question him. The man feigns confusion, reveals humor and wit, then asserts shared origins with the visitor. The exchange ends with mutual recognition of dialect and state loyalties.
The article notes ivory medicine in 17th and 18th century texts. Schroder's Zoology describes ivory cooling and drying certain pains, aiding jaunce, melancholy, and various ailments. It mentions infusions, powdered forms, and a half dram dose, plus spodium preparations and modern use as a strengthening food.
The piece argues earthworms do not create soil but renew it. They inhabit soils rich in organic matter and, when forced deeper by drought or other causes, bring fresh particles to the surface and fertilize the subshell by opening un.
The passages encourage root growth by excreted matter lining worm paths. Darwin noted worm casts totaling eighteen tons per acre annually on meadow land and about ten tons per acre on good arable soil.
A London man visiting a remote west England village repeatedly asks for deviled kidneys, believing mutton a luxury. After five days the puzzled butcher rebukes him, declaring the sheep have better things to do than supply breakfasts.
A discussion explains that blisters form when serum leaks from injured vessels under the outer skin after scalding. Nerve stimulation alters vessel tone, causing dilation or contraction and eventual serum leakage into surrounding tissue, creating a blister. The term derives from the Anglo Saxon bleestan meaning to blast or puff.
Detroit Freeress notes a bustling social scene with Ethel and Judy drawing attention. playful chatter hints at busy schedules and keen social eyes amid city life.
Dorothy, a three year old, is teased about being naughty while her mother consoles her. The exchange highlights a playful domestic scene with a child’s candid remark.
Dallas News advises readers to focus on earning a stable income before pursuing fame or notoriety. The piece emphasizes practical steps, persistence, and building a reputation through steady work, suggesting that success follows solid fundamentals.
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