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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1902
Page
2
A St Paul undertakers gathering highlighted calls for shorter funeral services of about twenty minutes and a Sunday rest stance for the trade. President Baird and Dr Meldrum backed practical reforms while urging female entrants and broader farming merchant links via a Farmers Line and intercity telephone.
The piece notes that Chinese women have shed bound feet and are embracing corsets, while some men question the difference between the two. It highlights shifting fashion and Western influence on traditional practices.
A recent Woman's Club meeting featured the Appropriate toast Our Husbands God Help Them highlighting playful gender humor among attendees.
The Grand Meadow Record reprints signed communications and a deadly parallel to question the Transcript correspondant's reporting on school district consolidation, portraying him in a bad light.
A meeting of Mower County farmers was held in Elkton on Wednesday to consider a new telephone line. The proposed extension would connect the eastern county network with lines installed by Austin interests, expanding rural communication.
Mrs. Thos. Fagen and Mrs. Frank Lyons of Adime were shopping in Aus tin yesterday. Mee, S L. Coliine who haa been the guest of Mre. T. A. Keating has retuur n to Calmar. D. Ayer of Luverne has been enter tained at the home of the niece Mre Ray Thompson left thie noon for a visit to Mitton Vt. Mrs. E Dickens hase returned from her trip to Owatonna. Mrs. Win Olson has gone to Lyle to visit her mother. Miss Hattie Campbell of Dalmar is visiting her friend Miss Genevieve Cilleece. Mrs. Dan Payne is entertaining her mother Mrs. Lee of Wadeno Iowa.
The next in the Lenten Lectures Course at Christ Church is set for Monday evening. Rev F T Webb of St Paul’s Minneapolis will discuss a historical period showing the struggle between the Stuart and Puritan factions for Civil and Religious freedom. The talk links England’s dissensions to the Pilgrim Fathers’ emigration and early America.
Obas Arneson returned to Tawney Minnesota after a three week stay at St Olaf hospital following four surgical procedures. Mrs K Jacobson of Dexter Minnesota recovers after fever operations at the hospital by Dr Hegge. Mrs Jacobson, 62, long ill but now on the road to recovery. Otto Bath of Northwood and Henry Paulson of Deer Creek are treated at the hospital. J B Dahlen of Hayward operated on for appendicitis and improving. Gordon Danley of Waltham returns home much improved after hospital treatment.
La Crosse March 8 Lars Iverson of Paint Creek 15 miles south of here dies from pneumonia two days before his 60th wedding anniversary. His wife Mrs Iverson dies from an acute attack a day later. The couple were buried the same day replacing their planned celebration.
Patrick McGinnis shot and killed his wife Margaret before taking his own life. The couple, described as troubled by her drinking, unemployment, and ill health, leave four children. The incident occurred in St Louis on March 8.
The Mississippi river began moving in La Crosse Wisconsin on March 8 with huge ice cakes piling up at the Mississippi bridge and damaging piers. The pile driver and several levee buildings were carried away, an early spring break up not seen in 20 years.
The Kempster local report notes Mr Kempeter missed his car and did not reach Austio until one this morning.
Washington March 8 The bill to classify the rural free delivery service and place carriers under the contract system held the floor in the house. By an amicable arrangement the bill will be considered under the five minute rule Monday.
Speaker Henderson presented a Porto Rico house of delegates memorial noting the coffee industry's depressed state and requesting a six cent bounty per pound on Porto Rican coffee produced and exported, to be paid from the U S treasury.
Berlin reports that Commandant Kritzinger, captured by General French in December, was tried by court martial and sentenced to death but commuted to banishment for life.
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