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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1910
Page
2
Mrs. Albert Shubert writes from Grand Junction Colorado about 160 acre claim life in a valley surrounded by mountains. She details irrigation plans, costs, land values and the prospect of peach growing near Taft visited areas, with frost alerts and community smudging to save fruit.
A long list of real estate transfers shows multiple buyers and sellers including Andrew Lybeck to Henry A Kervold and Maria K Hopp to Jacob Hopp. Other transactions involve Pat Brophy to Otis H Dailey, J L Mitchell and wife to Solomon H Waite, and Frederick Billings to W Zimmerman. Prices range from 1.00 to 5760 dollars, with properties in townships 101 to 104, R 14 to 18 W, and locations like Grand Meadow, Lake Park Add, and Brownsdale. The notices catalog lot transfers, tracts and quarter sections, with quit claims and warranty deeds noted.
Funeral services for Norman Dunkelmann were held Tuesday afternoon from his West Bridge street home. Seven ty Elks attended in large numbers. Bearers were Herbert Kendricks Frank Cronon Roy Woodward Ed Schwan Charles Riley Harry West. Rev. F. E. Knopf officiated. Five young friends traveled from the cities to attend. Floral offerings were extensive. The entire procession returned to the house, a notable feature.
Flour and grain prices list for Peerless Flour Mills offering 49 lb sacks of White Rose and Peerless flour at set rates, exports, patent, corn meal, bran, middlings, ground feed and oil meal priced per sack or per cwt. Orders delivered for reasonable sizes with prices subject to change without notice.
Ninth annual Mower County Sunday School association convention scheduled for LeRoy June 22 and 23 aims to have at least one delegate from each Sunday school report on roll call, pledge support for state work, and entertain a large delegation led by F Spring of LeRoy as entertainment committee chair.
The K K K s visited Blooming Prairie today for a day with Mrs Alfred Johnson. They took the nine oclock train for lunch and planned to return this evening. The party included Mrs Althea Robinson Clara Mandeville Bischoff Anna Mc Bride Nicholson Ida Weisel Cora Thon Vera West Nellie Allen Kate Miller Johnson.
Grand Jury completed duties and recommended county board on county buildings. Indictments were issued against Otto Beck of Waltham for a serious offense and Ray Markel for grand larceny in the second degree. Markel pled guilty to stealing a suitcase and clothes from Belknap on April 8 and was sent to the state reformatory at St. Cloud. he had thrown away his own clothes after stealing Belknap’s. Jury roll call saw all present except Ray Pooler who was excused for being a registered pharmacist. The McGee case against First National Bank of LeRoy centers on a forged or genuine check dispute with long deposition and handwriting testimony.
Mrs. Jo Campbell was surprised at home on Monday evening for her forty ninth birthday. Her husband and children presented a ring and other gifts from neighbors and friends after a day at a neighbor’s. A supper for twenty two followed the gathering.
Donald Stuart Hare son of Mr and Mrs J W Hare died this morning after a several months illness caused by a neck tumor. Born June 10 1907 in Elgin Illinois he moved to this city with his family May 1 1909. He was a quiet capable boy with a remarkable mechanical talent and electrical workshop at home. He attended Christchurch and served as a choir boy and cross bearer at Easter. Funeral services Thursday at 3530 o clock at Christchurch Rev C W Holmes officiating attended by relatives from Chicago and Minneapolis.
The marriage occurred at the Jo Sistek home Tuesday afternoon with Justice John Pairbanks presiding. A supper followed at the same residence, and Christchurch choir practice is scheduled tonight for all boys and senior members.
Members of Austin Aerie F O E and their ladies are asked to attend a Thursday gathering at Ellis hall. Ice cream and cake will be served. Frank Zender is the secretary.
A fragment from Boston Transcript presents a humorous exchange on military ties and irony. The lines feature Mark and Miss Innocent joking about Gen Patton Ayres and a brother in the military, reflecting wartime sentiment.
The Village Recorder invites sealed bids by 10 oclock A M June 26 1910 for the erection and completion of a village lock up in Waltham Minnesota plans by BF Keefe Austin Minnesota. Bids must include a 5 percent certified check and the village reserves the right to reject any or all bids. Date June 9 1910. L B Chapman village recorder.
We express sincere thanks to friends for kindness and sympathy during the illness and death of our beloved son and brother and for the beautiful floral offerings. Mrs. R. Dunkelmann Miss Bertha Dunkelmann General and Mrs. Fred Wood
Ellen Tracy aged year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Martin Tracy of Manly Iowa died this morning from infantile paralysis. Funeral services will be held Thursday morning with Mrs John Lonergan and Mrs Lightly, sisters of Mr Tracy, traveling to attend.
Mrs. Charles Brown Mrs. Jo Kain and Mrs. H M Warfield will entertain the sewing society of the L A to O R C Thursday afternoon from 2 to 5 at the O R C hall all members urged to attend.
A Washington mother praises Hyomei as a quick cure for a four year old’s croup. She describes buying an all night drugstore bottle, noting rapid breathing relief and sleep within minutes, and says the complete Hyomei outfit costs $1.00 and cures catarrh coughs colds and sore throat.
In recollections by George Cary Kegiston, Don Piatt recounts taking a risky arson defense promising future client favors. He recalls browbeating witnesses to win acquittal, then a fatal fire at a nearby Negro church after the trial. The ex-client later writes from St Louis praising Piatt’s services.
A historical note on Johann Amos Comenius who proposed teaching children through memory and imagination using visual objects. His Orbis Pictus, the first picture book, paired crude woodcuts with lessons, pioneering a method that transformed early childhood learning and influenced all later children’s books.
A reflection on friendship as fragile when strained by heat or violence or accident. Once damaged, trust cannot be fully restored and the bond’s former grace and ornamentation only highlight its hopeless end state.
A lighthearted quip from the Detroit Free Press notes a husband asking about a late night out. The wife’s reply hints she is still finishing her rebuke, delivering a humorously unfinished domestic exchange.
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