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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1910
Page
2
Water Board asks Austin residents to refrain from lawn sprinkling and to conserve city water. Officials authorize notices and possible shutoff for offenders as reservoir levels fall to a foot and a half at midnight. The board warns of fire risk and urges strict compliance to protect public health and avoid using river water.
Mrs. Frank Davison died at home on Garfield street Monday evening after two years of rheumatic illness leading to heart failure. Born Amy Osborn September 7 1865 in Austin township, she married Frank Davison March 6 1889 and left four children Jesse Helen Chester and Loren, plus siblings and a large circle of friends. Funeral set for Wednesday 10:30 at home with Dr. J F Stout officiating. Cedar City cemetery burial.
The Republican State convention in St Paul opens with Brown or Kellar as temporary chair and Frank M Eddy named chair of the resolutions committee. Nominations for state officers are postponed until the resolutions report is ready, a shift from past practice. Judges Jaggard Brown and Simpson are nominated by acclamation for the bench. A motion to endorse Senator Clapp for re election passes unanimously amid a fourth place contest.
P C Tonning, longtime Willmar Minnesota schools superintendent for seven years, is appointed assistant superintendent of public instruction to replace C R Fraser who resigns to lead Everett Washington schools. Tonning will begin August 1 after prior posts at Madison Minnesota and Grand Meadow Minnesota. He is a Carleton College and University of Minnesota graduate, a Taopi native and former Taopi teacher.
Fourteen young guests celebrated Anna May DeGroodt with games lemonade popcorn balls candy ice cream and cake. She received a pin as a memento and the group dispersed at 5 30 p m.
Governor Eberhart presented a solid gold twenty five year faithful service medal to Adjutant General Wood and fellow officers at Camp Lakeview after a parade and elaborate banquet. The governor arrived to a salute of seventeen guns and was received by General Wood and Third regiment officers.
The first Mower county rural school graduation will occur Thursday June 30 at Dexter with seventy graduates. A special train from Austin at 9 30 a m to 6 00 p m will serve west and south parts of the county. The event replaces the Fourth of July celebration and showcases diplomas and patriotic display.
The Little Cedar church north of Adams burned today. It was insured for 1500 dollars with Mower County Farmers Insurance Company.
Mrs Aug Urban and daughters Marie and Velva returned home to Hebron N D after visiting Mrs H W Studer. Rev J Guse traveled to Red Wing for the Lutheran Synodical Conference. Fred Studer is building a barn and silo. Mr and Mrs John M Christgau visited Red Wing to see relatives. Dora and Julia Schlutz of New Richland Minn are visiting local friends. Rose Johanns of Grand Meadow spent time with her parents P and Mrs Johanns. Cora Christgau joined a camping party in Welcome Minn for a week.
London Sunday School met at 2 o clock in the church. The Merry Widow Club gathered with Iva Mahacek last Saturday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Alva Lang visited Saturday night and Sunday with A Fialka. Toderville defeated Myrtle in a Sunday ball game. Ladies Aid to meet with Mrs G P Meadowcroft on Wednesday June 22. Fred Crisman and Fred Albright were Austin visitors last Saturday. Peter Anderson raised his new barn last Tuesday June 21. Percy Dunn, visiting relatives, headed to Austin Sunday and will go to West Brooke Minn.
Lyle Township W B Ames completes machine shed. Dell Roberts finishes cementing barn. Frank Cafourek supervises barn near Marietta Minnesota. Jos Cafurek completes barn and granary. Ellen Moshier marries Joseph McGee at parents home with Rev Belden officiating. They plan to live on the groom's farm.
To the good people of Austin we are in the field with the best flour we can get such as the Big Four Extra Patent Star and White Loaf from Jim River hard wheat P. K. Wilder and Son East Mill Street promote their products to shoppers seeking quality baking supplies.
Cash prizes offered with goods delivered on tea. Prices list white rose flour 49 lb sacks at 1.35 per sack export deas 498 per sack corn meal 10s 20c per sack wheat and bran and middlings priced per cwt or sack. Peerless flour mills promotes numerous flour and feed options with varying bulk rates.
Royal Neighbors request neighbors to meet at Woodman Hall 9345 tomorrow for Mrs Davidson funeral at 10 30 AM. Rigs will be furnished for those attending the cemetery service.
A brief exchange between Tommy and Ardent Suitor about a sister’s planned yachting and a warning to Tim about interfering with her plans. The humorous dialogue hints at family dynamics and a potential romantic complication described in a light serialized tone.
The text describes a Spanish river Tinto with waters as yellow as topaz that supposedly harden sand into stone, fuse stones together in a year, wither plants and tree roots, and support no fish in the stream.
Aristotle notes that in Cyprus the makers of chalcitis burn the stone for days and a winged creature larger than a fly appears, leaping and walking in the flames. The creature perishes immediately once removed from the furnace.
A brief dialogue contrasts perception and realization as a man admires a girl and later discovers limits of his vision. The exchange, phrased in a witty edge, hints at evolving affection and the discovery of unseen truths.
A dialogue fragment asks what exegesis means and notes memory trouble with the term. The speaker muses that it may blend Exodus and Genesis and touches on Deuteronomy as a rough idea, reflecting a casual, reflective tone about biblical study.
For rent a modern room available to a lady. Mrs. A Mellquist listed at 932 Ansing Ave. Contact for details about availability and terms.
The Ladies of the G A R are asked to meet at 10 oclock Wednesday morning at the Garfield home to attend the funeral of Mrs Frank Davison.
Local notice urges attendance for a two day horse race event in Mower County starting Wednesday and continuing Thursday. Organizers promise a strong field of horses and lively racing action for residents and visitors.
The Village Recorder invites sealed bids by 10 a m June 25 1910 for the erection and completion of a village lock up for Wal tham Minnesota. Plans by architect W F Keefe Austin Minn on file at village recorder and architect offices. A 5 percent certified check accompanies each bid. The village reserves the right to reject any or all bids. Waltham Minn June 9 1910.
A colored woman in the east end quits a flat-dwelling family for a higher wage job with a wealthy Euclid Heights household that serves meals in courses. She dislikes courses, saying the dish shifting wastes food. A Scotsman and Gaelic banter notes confusion from language differences. Bananas are planted in rows with suckers, yielding fruit in 12 to 14 months and continuing crops after year one.
The London Athenaeum notes that a book mainly serves as a decorative shelf item in a library, offering color and warm associations, yet at times undergoes a crisis when it is taken down and read.
A humorous exchange in the Cleveland Leader has a speaker asking why someone is mourning and another replying it is for sins, with the second line noting surprise at any loss. The brief quip reflects the era's wry newspaper humor and social tone.
Quote pairing about a barber and hurry, attributed to the Pittsburg Post. Short humorous exchange reflects social wit and casual newspaper quotation style.
Quote from Thomas Carlyle praising finding one’s vocation and contentment in labor. The saying emphasizes self-directed purpose and fulfillment through work.
An English magazine recounts two dream stories where a woman in Ireland finds a lost key at the base of a tree after dreaming of it, and a barrister discovers a missing large check curled around a railing after a late night dream. The piece suggests the mind records what it does not instantly report.
An Australian auctioneer, famed for education over skill, tries selling cattle to farm hands. He boasts the heifers predominate, only to be interrupted by a sharp crowd remark that the animals seem wrong, implying the sale is flawed.
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