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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1909
Page
3
July 5 to 11 events lead with a fair in Chautauqua city. Coller is scheduled in the south and west portions Wednesday, offering lectures and community activities.
A long list of local residents travel visits and engagements appears in Austin notices. People like Mabie Smith, Alta Fisch, Mrs. Williams, Grace Muir, Mrs. Carter, and many others are listed visiting Adams Northfield Albert Lea and Minneapolis with trips to Omaha Seattle and Alaska referenced. Social events at Christchurch and G A R draw attendees as do meetings of B of R T and the Central Baptist delegates.
Born Saturday June 12 a baby boy arrives to Mr and Mrs erry Davison. Craig Hutchinson visits Jackson while Davidson family guests depart for Cigary with relatives. Happy Thought Club to meet June 17 for annual meeting and officer election. Summer surgery coverage noted. Driving horse wanted for summer rental.
Sid Work on the Hope Street sewer was begun today. Leo McCarthy spent Sunday at his home in Laneshoro. Mrs. Conley and Mrs. Archie Lawson of Wykoff are visiting Mrs. George Windus. Hose Co. No. 2 will hold a special meeting Wednesday June 16. All members urged to attend.
A humorous exchange shows a corporal instructing a town recruit on guarding stables and horses. The recruit asks when to wake the horses, displaying inexperience and comic disbelief. The London Tit-Bits excerpt also features a novelist and his wife debating earnings and literary ambition.
A Manns row lake fishing party reports two to four pound pickerel pike bass and crappies with participants Mr and Mrs Hall Mr and Mrs Hawkins Mr and Mrs Verney Miss Tillie Hall and Mr Brown of Waterloo Photos capture the catch and dinner planned at Hawkins cottage at seven tonight Names of cottages Takitez Enjolife and Restwyll provided by Mason City Globe Gazette.
FOR RENT Nine room house with city water on West Alleghany street 15 per month. BOARD and room for summer school four blocks west of Franklin on Oakland avenue. LOST A black and white pig weighing 125 to 130 pounds in Dutchtown. Finder notify F Zunk WANITED A man and wife to work on my farm House furnished Datus Reynolds 35 J WANTED A second hand bicycle Must be in first class condition L M Tollefson 1010 East Water street or phone WANTED A lady clerk in dry goods department None but experienced need apply The Hub WANTED A girl for general house work in small family with good wages Apply at the Herald
The Royal English Handbell Orchestra of Horbury, prize winners with nearly two hundred bells, brings a two program tour direct from Crystal Palace to the Redpath-Vanter circuit. The group boasts champions in Europe and America and promises a wide, high standard repertoire.
A South Africa traveler recounts a caterpillar facing hundreds of ants as they swarm and climb its back. After killing numerous attackers the caterpillar fatigues and the ants employ a ploy sawing through the grass stalk causing it to fall and die.
A Cherokee remedy for rattlesnake bites is described as practical and scientific. An elder recounts that immediate action with a knife to drain the wound, then washing with water from a stream can limit poison spread until medical help arrives. The tale contrasts with scarce physician access and urges prompt wound care.
Dark brown photos offered at 50 cents each for Bucklin residents. Pasture for horses available in the cemetery area. apply to F. Bieily at the cemetery. Eclipse Lumber Co provides lumber lime plaster and cement. call for supplies.
Advert says DeWitt's Carbolized Witch Hazel Salve is the original and best for cuts burns and bruises, especially piles. It warns buyers to request DeWitt's by name and notes availability from all druggists.
The Board of Water Electric Gas and Power Commissioners of Austin Minnesota invites sealed bids for about 3000 tons of bituminous coal to be delivered to the Electric Light and Pumping Station in monthly installments for one year. Bids due 6 pm Friday June 25 1909. The board may reject any or all bids. J L Golden President. J C Todd Secretary. Austin Minn June 14 1909.
There is no substitute for DeWitts Kidney and Bladder Pills for kidney and bladder ailments. They relieve weak back and urinary disorders and may ease rheumatic pains. Send your name to EK DeWitt & Co Chicago for a free trial box. sold by all druggists.
The Independent School District No. 27 of Austin Minnesota invites sealed bids to purchase bonds totaling $25 000 to fund a new Third Ward school house replacing the Lincoln building lost to fire. Bonds of $1 000 each bear 4 percent interest, dated July 1 1909, due July 1 1929, bidders may designate payment location, board may reject all bids, and a $100 certified check accompanies bids. Austin June 14 1909. H A Avery president J F Fairbanks secretary.
An ad warns against catarrh treatments containing mercury and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure by F. J. Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio as mercury free. The notice urges buyers to ensure genuineness and notes availability from druggists and testimonials for the product. It also mentions Hall's Family Pills for constipation and price per bottle.
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