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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1908
Page
2
A spring mood fills town as a popcorn aroma lingers while a Sunday night scene shows thirty boys loitering near church doors waiting to see who accompanies the girls home. C W Brown’s Dakota land investment freshened by praise—he bought at $10 an acre and has now refused $25 a acre after two years, despite early mockery from friends.
District court judge Cant rules under section 1524 that no person or surety company already on a liquor license bond may serve as a surety on another bond in the same county. The ruling clarifies bonds cannot come from the same entity across multiple licenses.
In Austin the greenhouse displays vast rose beds with cream pink and red blooms. About two thousand five hundred roses open under sun and warmth while fifteen hundred were harvested yesterday and today’s yield is large. Mr and Mrs Kinsman lead a proud thriving operation inspiring local amateur rose growers.
E Joseph returns to Austin after a two month trip through several states. He extols Austin for fine houses, good streets, and splendid walks, arguing no other place compares. He contrasts harsh conditions in Montana with Austin’s relative comfort and declares home remains Austin.
Geo Stevens of Mason City Iowa manager of the Mason City Cement Works was shot by T A McDonald a time keeper at the same works following a money dispute. McDonald fired two shots from a staircase which lodged in Stevens head. Stevens is not expected to live.
The spring millinery opening at M S Fish store drew about six hundred attendees. Mrs. Yarber supervised the millinery department where many beautiful creations were shown, and Mesdames Hans and Doven served coffee and wafers to guests.
Dry goods and clothing merchants in Austin who belong to the Merchants Association vote to close their stores at 6 20 during the month of April.
The Democratic caucuses and convention named a full city ticket led by Mayor George Sutton and Alderman at large Peter Johnson. Votes were cast smoothly with 21 ballots for mayor and three top posts. six members were absent. Delegates named from three wards and the Central Committee elected. The meeting ended amicably with a cigars moment as the session closed.
Chairman Thos Riley picks for the Republican City Committee with A Smith Ward Two J W Scott Ward One and Charles Opie Ward Three. Joseph Fitzthum a 20 year Austin veteran businessman and former six year council member at Wykoff aims for city best interests. John E Malloy withdrew from the Democratic alderman nomination.
Eunice C Mandeville Lewis died Sunday evening at her brother W T Mandeville’s home on South Chatham Street after a brief illness. Born January 27 in Coventry New York in eighty years, she married Henry Lewis and lived in Southington Connecticut before moving to New Haven and finally Minnesota. She is survived by brothers W T Mandeville of this city and John Mandeville of Brocton Massachusetts.
Kenneth Flanigan aged one year eight months sixteen days son of Mr and Mrs Thomas Flanigan died last night at home on Railway Street after an illness of little more than a week of measles which developed into bronchial pneumonia. Funeral services will be held tomorrow at one o'clock at the house with interment in St Augustine's cemetery.
The four days old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Feeley died Saturday night at nine o clock. Burial took place Sunday afternoon at three o clock.
Mrs S L Young and family visited the M Seavey home north of the village Saturday for a birthday surprise honoring Mrs Seavey whose birthday fell that day. Miss Rachel Josephson and Morris Henderson, whose birthdays are today, joined the celebration. An elaborate dinner was served around 1 30 with children seated separately and enjoying their own birthday dinner. A very pleasant day was noted by all attendees.
With just seven days remaining, candidates race to rally voters as endgame events and last minute ads amplify key messages. Local organizers note mounting activity from both parties and intensified outreach ahead of polls.
Latona the contortionist, who has drawn crowds at the Cosmo last week, will remain for two additional performances. He appears tonight across all three shows. Also on the program are new pictures including Military Prison Policeman's Idea For Love of Lucy Algy Becomes a Hero Her Rival's Necklace an illustrated song Good Bye Dolly Dear sung by Mrs Groesbeck.
The April American Boy presents Jimmy Jones on the Mississippi and That Dillingham Boy as ongoing favorites. It concludes Mr. Weir's Canal and Jungle and adds poems and short tales, articles on Easter, golf, education, and cleverness, plus magic and trapping hints. Includes 2 illustrations. $1 per year.
Orville Boultoh, a young packing house employee, was severely burned on the face and shoulders when he slipped carrying boiling tar to roof repair workmen. He fell and spilled the tar over his shoulders and head, then was rushed to Dr. C. C. Leck for treatment.
A. N. Kinsman, owner of the Austin greenhouses, has materials to add another house to his five. Because demand for roses is high he plans to build two rose houses this year, and he will double the size of the office and shipping room.
We thank friends for time sympathy and floral offerings and the Scullin Borrow Brothers family for opening their doors to aid us in our time of loss.
A memorial service Sunday evening at the Methodist church honored Bishop Fowler. Rev. Alfred Cressey delivered the principal address with Mr. Lutz also speaking. A double quartet provided vocal music and Rollin Lutz sang a corner solo. The service was noted as appropriate and impressive.
James N. Hayes died at Galliopolis on March 17 and was well known in the city. Martin Clark is on the sick list. Ella Peterson of Lyle visited Sunday with her sister Mrs. W. E. Brown. About a hundred people attended a Beecher Moore gubernatorial campaign talk at the G. A. R. Hall Saturday night. The Main Street Fruit store interior is being repainted and wallpapered. For sale good oat straw. New phone 22 J-15 Harland Smith farm tf.
Have you neighbors? Ask them about our painting and paper hanging method. Patrons praise our work. Rosenthal Bros. 280 L. or 569 RL.
For sale houses on Water Bridge and Railways at St Paul streets and Oakland avenue plus town lots and farms near Austin and in northern Minnesota. Call and see me. G Sorflaten, Office 223 N Main St.
A German missionary on Pemote island faced cannibal tribes after a medicine man undermined his work. Cornered, he flashed his false teeth, claimed a miracle, and terrified opponents, leading to the medicine man’s expulsion and the missionary’s restoration as their uplifter.
The Maine Central refused passes to Camp Meeting John Allen until Governor Morrill, in a brusque office moment, relented and issued a pass for “self and wife” after hearing the persistent appeal. The governor urged listing “account of persistence” as the reason, joking parsons may need connections on the road to heaven.
A compact Atlantic reflection argues that speaking the word one truly prefers reveals character. It condemns affectation such as saying trousers to imitate genteel neighbors, comparing it to tight shoes and tasteless olives worn or drunk to fit class pretensions.
The piece traces how many book related words derive from tree terms and bark. It notes boc from Anglo Saxon linked to beech, buchstaben meaning beech staves, liber as inner tree bark for library, biblon as Greek root for Bible and bibliophile, codex as block wood and leaf as obvious.
In Selma Lagerlof's tale The Wonderful Adventures of Nils, the sea and land clash then merge as the sea wears down obstacles and the land yields. In Biekinge the coast forms islands and fiords making a gentler meeting, where the sea becomes harmless and the land safe, inviting small boats.
A first person memory from Lippincott's Magazine recounts a morning ride where an old colored man greets the narrator with respect. The narrator gives the man a seat and a silver gift, feeling renewed kinship with former Virginia plantation memories and receiving a floral reminder in the afternoon.
A five year old girl is invited to lunch with Miss K at a restaurant. When cocoa is offered the child says she likes it but it goes untasted. Miss K asks why she does not drink it and the girl responds I didn't say I wanted it I only said that I liked it.
A humorous exchange features Towne praising sleep and Stubbs declaring a clock-based wake routine. The quip includes a mock salute to rest and a playful line about using an alarm to ensure sleep continues.
A brief Chicago News item notes a busy man declining to help himself and instructing John to open the door and assist the gentleman. The exchange underscores a social moment where assistance is deferred to a porter.
A humorous courtroom exchange features a Devonshire dumpling gag. The lord chancellor challenges a bucolic witness who responds with a drawn out rural lingo, implying lawyers would have been eaten if he had joined in the law.
A reflective piece arguing that true wisdom lies in recognizing one knows nothing. It explores who knows what about knowledge, the limits of self awareness, and concludes that acknowledging ignorance is superior to false certainty. The author emphasizes self knowledge as the ultimate erudition.
In a Miss Simmons boarding school scene, Margaret Durham wins a place among five ushers for a pink musicale. Shy and flustered, she awkwardly offers to seat an elderly gentleman, prompting a comical interruption as five prankster ushers stuff handkerchiefs in their mouths.
An explorer recalls two weeks in a Siberian hut under brutal cold. He describes a brutal menu of frozen weeds with seal oil, raw walrus, thick walrus hide, hot meat, and cold blubber, all eaten on a pie-board table in subzero temperatures.
A historical note explains that powerful explosives do not explode without the right catalyst and oxygen. It uses coal as an illustration, saying there is energy in coal enough to launch a heavy weight, but no explosion occurs without sufficient oxygen. If air supply could burn it completely at once, it would explode as violently as dynamite.
A private soldier, taken to the guardroom for intoxication, argued with the sergeant. He asked if he was drunk, and the sergeant replied yes. The soldier claimed he was only half drunk. The sergeant allowed one boot to come off as a compromise.
A Medora Messenger thought on why houses of men rarely show subordination noting that Bedlam is filled by kings poets and philosophers.
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