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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1908
Page
3
A fragmented advertisement offers properties near town including 209 acres with a house and barn plus a well, 14 acres for sale, a house and barn on Winona Street, a threshing outfit, a cottage with a small barn on Mos Cow, a two story brick building in Austin's business district, and two good lots in the 2nd Ward.
Fair tonight and Friday with rising temperatures in the south and west. Local visits include Rev F A Cone a guest at the Fred Fenton home and Miss Blanche Empey returning to Fargo. Public notices show sales, meetings, and missing items while flood and tornado scenes are advertised by Fairbanks Bros and Bucklings.
East side residents note John Maurek back at his place of business today for the first time since a lengthy illness. Mrs. John Crown and her son plan to move to Lind, Washington to join Mr. Crown. Jake Herzog arrived back from Rochester this morning.
Mrs Joe Laufie returned from Flan dreau North Dakota this morning with sister Patricia Hart. Mrs Frank Harmacy and two children came back from LaCrosse yesterday. Louis Diley of Calmar visits his sister Mrs L Fisher. Mrs Lyck of Brownsdale arrived at noon.
The Gentry Brothers Famous Shows, in its 21st year, earns wide praise as the grandest in equipment and acts. It will exhibit on Monday June 29 at 7 and 8 pm with a monster parade at 10:30 am the same day. The troupe plans to relocate its stud stock to a farm in this state from Indiana.
In Justice Court Cornquist faced Justice Fairbanks on a disorderly conduct charge and was jailed 20 days due to lack of funds. A second intoxicated offender on the black list was fined 25 and 40 days on costs, then jailed 40 days for nonpayment. A printing department foreman at Shedd Wright Co. was attacked by a printer. officer Brown stopped the fight. Both sides paid costs, fines suspended, case dismissed.
The officer bridge and mill dam failed during Tuesday’s high water with the dam going out about 11 a.m. and the bridge at 6 p.m. The Kilgore owned dam will likely not be rebuilt.
The Austin Steam Laundry suffered a severe loss from the storm but will call for work and deliver promptly as usual. Patrons will not be inconvenienced.
Car ad notes petroleum coke burns like wood and is available from Mower County Lumber Co. C. E. Helsey handles orders.
Street foreman Barney Bushman badly smashed his right thumb Tuesday while removing tools from the city store room. He was helping move a large scale when the thumb was caught between it and a plow handle.
Miss Mabel Briggs formerly of Austin married Friday June 5 at her aunt Mrs N W Chance's home in Little Falls to L C Merritt of Duluth. Reverend W H Farrell assisted. The couple will reside in Duluth where Merritt works with his dredging contractor brother.
Owners S A Smith F H Mitchell H D Fairbanks H E Catlin A B Hankings and Roy Holmes plan a cooperative launch house across from the park east of the bridge. A substantial structure is to be built on the lower Cedar after every launch house was destroyed in the floods but the launches were saved.
An insurance agency advertises liberal policies with strong companies and reasonable rates. It offers combination Fire Lightning and Tornado policies for farm property and stock, promising peace of mind during storms. Contact KE H Smith Insurance Agency at 20-1mo.
The Austin Minnesota board will accept bids until 4 p m on July 7 1998 for about 3000 tons of bituminous coal to be delivered monthly to the Electric Light and Power station Austin. Bids may be rejected in whole or part. J L Gulpen president J C Topp secretary. June 25 1908.
Latest styles in ZMission Cathedral and Holland shades for chandeliers and drops. Stand and drop lights available. Wallaces Gregson, Electrician, offers estimates on house wiring. 121 West Mill Street.
Due to demand for extra papers the Herald published an extra edition this morning with full details of the wind storm hail and flood. Copies available at the Herald office. Telephoned orders now filled. Will not be held after tomorrow.
Classified notice lists houses on water and near a bridge, railway, streets including Oakland avenue, town lots and farms near Austin and in the northern part of the state. Call and see me for details.
Sealed bids for the construction of an 8 inch sanitary sewer on Grove Street, about 1650 feet, with one flush tank, five manholes and five lampholes, concrete vitrified pipe, must be received by July 3, 1908 at 4 PM in the City Recorder's office. Bidders must name a gross sum and include 5 percent certified check. T. M. Foster, City Recorder.
Readers are told Hall's Catarrh Cure cures catarrh as a constitutional disease taken internally. The ad claims it acts on blood and mucous surfaces, builds constitution, and offers 100 dollar reward for any uncured case. Sold by druggists at 75 cents. Includes payment offer and testimonial prompt.
For sale a seven room modern house with furnace city water electric light gas and bath. Inquire of S D Catherwood. 16 71 Veeve vil pet.
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