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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1906
Page
2
The Austin Daily Herald lists JOHN H. SKINNER as editor and prop, with BTRUDE ELLIS SKINNER as associate. The note indicates entry at the Austin Minnesota post office as second class mail.
A sunny day and cheerful work lift spirits as paving continues and a petition for council action gains momentum. Farmers praise the improved streets while a Dexter township road association forms with about thirty members aiming to expand countywide road reform before spring. The article notes interest in Prophetstown happenings and local civic engagement.
Wednesday evening marked the county district W C U convention closing at the East Side Presbyterian Church. Despite a small attendance, the program impressed with singing led by Mrs Sloane and Mrs Campbell, a Susan B Anthony paper by Mrs Boostrom, and a close gold medal contest won by Norma Harpman. Ella Cook received a berry spoon gift after seventeen years as district president.
Rev C A Marshall of Oresco died Tuesday morning. a pioneer of Howard county and seventy years old. retired Congregational minister and landowner. he pastored Clinton and McGregor churches. beloved in Austin, often supplied the local congregation after Dascomb’s departure. Mrs C N Denny and her children returned to Sioux Falls after three weeks with uncle W H Martin.
An Austin group of Herald carriers visits the Cos mopoltan Carnival with 18 boys and two younger brothers. They tour the American House meeting point at seven, view Nebraskan Queen the tallest horse, a magical Zurich like Alps scene, a Crazy House misadventure, Ghost House illusions, Katzen jamer Castle, and a 116 foot high dive before the carnival stays open through the week.
Prophetstown, once a worldly village with thriving saloons, experienced a moral upheaval as Billy Sunday preached powerfully. Mayor Padock and the town council publicly confessed sin and vowed reform, followed by many residents. A movement seeks refund of liquor licenses and closing of saloons, possibly converting the entire village before Sunday ends. Sunday’s meetings drew wide attention, with four sermons heard by 15,000 people.
The Stoddard reading circle enjoyed an unusually fine program with Mrs. Frank Mitchell presenting at the Mitchell-Crane camp two miles east of town on Wednesday. After an hour’s reading on Canada the ladies relaxed with a woods retreat and a six o’clock picnic supper for the group and their husbands on a hospitable table called Old Faithfallon.
A. V. Bacon and family express gratitude to friends and neighbors for kindness during their bereavement and for the floral offerings.
Jehiel Woodward of Rose Creek died suddenly at his home Wednesday near midnight. A Civil War veteran aged sixty four, he had lived in Rose Creek twenty years and served on the school board and in local offices. He leaves wife and two sons Har lan of Rose Creek and Leon of North Dakota. Funeral and burial planned in Austin with time to be announced.
Mower County Agricultural Society seeks bids for raising Floral Hall on the Fair Grounds Austin including cement block underpinning every eight feet and a one ply tar paper roof for the livestock shed covering about 70 squares. Bids due July 7 at 2 PM. Committee reserves right to reject all bids. NorM Dunkleman secretary.
Recruiting Station Austin will be converted into a United States Marine Corps sub station. Assistant Postmaster John Carr received the notice this morning. The exact opening date is not specified but is expected soon.
The poem humorously contrasts old and new school fashions and social rituals. It notes seniors and freshies, costly hair ribbons, pleated skirts, and class colors, then shifts to reminiscence of a simpler past and a graduation in a Henrietta gown.
In a historical note, the term Cannibalian as a name for a people is discussed alongside Carib heritage. It explains how cannibalism-related terms overlap with Carib groups once flourishing in the West Indies. It cites Columbus and language variants where I n r and other spellings shift in aboriginal American tongues. The piece reflects on early colonial naming conjectures.
A garbled OCR snippet mentions tig grédt Mehidi and old slapdash philologists debating the term catia dog and asserts carib once meant brave and daring. The passage lacks full context but hints at linguistic disputes and etymology.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer quip notes a freckled Thompson daughter and a young man, debating a newfangled privance that promises big gas savings. The old man had visited yesterday to purchase one, prompting remarks on the couple’s steadiness and practical savings.
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