Vol XLVIII—No, II Austin. Mower County, Minnesota} Wednesday. May 19,1915 •£-

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FARMER BEN'S COLUMN

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Women CAD show their selfishness in the use of the telephone about as quick­ly as any where. In lots of ways they caD impose on. others and play hogs, l^ere'i no earthly reason for anyone to spend half an hoar in notdin' in for idle gossip when somebody else is wait* in'to Use it on something of account. And the wbrst trick is to insist in bav­in' friends come down stairs or in from kitchen work to listen to some silly question that might just as well keep a whijp. Youtf think sometimes these insistent calta were so important they could not wilt when the opposite is found true, Now the civil real lady won't l|e about «uch matters, if she calls up a friend and that friend is lyin' down, or|« hands in the dough,

'Ojr is up stairs 'she can easily be told that it will be perfectly agreeable to wait until convenient access to the phone. Whenit comes to bores deliver us from the telephone gossip that tells over and over and then some trash not

'worth repeatin' until it gets to be a regular nuisance. You get so you can spot these and you just wish they would use discrimination eo fur as you are concerned. I notis that a telephone line can do lots of service and as a rule furnish ample facility if it is used for something reasonably Important and then hung up for.the next one. When I subscribe I don't buy the line or a monopoly of its use but simply my proportionate share and that is granted very liberal.

• • • I spose these big international ques

tioDB won't get Bettled rite until Par­mer Ben renders his decision. This sinsin' of the splendid British passen­ger ship the Luisitania drownin* 1200 was as heartless a act as was ever com­mitted with no excuse. In broad day light and within ten miles of port down she goes in a few minutes. N o wonder the world is horrified and inexpressibly

• -mattr~Tbe coroner's^jury - .returns, a verdict of willful murder and no pun­ishment is ample enuf to cover the guilt. But that ain't sayin* that tha German government can be technically

•d right and sufficient and fine. If I'd ben in a dry irrigation country I tell you It would hav ben lots of work and expanse for the same. We liv where the rain fall is Just about right average 29 inches for the year and it comes about as we need it,never sufferin' from big lack or. big flood. They tell me that ont In the ditch countries the ex­pense of water right and of gettin' it on your land is- fierce and you hav to pay it whether you crop the land or not. It would make our Ifower County farmers squeal to pay 8800 or (300 tax on every quarter section of land. The right supply of rain fall annually ought to be figgered in ail land values and locations as a big benefit and value. And when this goes along with the best kind of soil in the world and With a climate that grows stuff quick, we can't be beat.

• 9 • I notis that all the tourists who go

away from here for the winter are glad to get back. Thev find that all Is not paradise somewhere else even in zero weather here. It's cold and dismal In California and Florida part of the winter days so you suffer really as much from the cold or more. Folks as a rule don't build to keep warm in winter and it ain't more comfortable to shiver in California than it is in Min­nesota. Then when spring comes here I tell you it's like a fairy tale to see how8tuff grows and comes on. The ground is bare and frozea one day in March and a few days later the pie plant apd sparagus are grown for use and natur has washed her face and cleaned up ao spick and span that everything is new life, fresh and sweet and desirable. A drink of our clear water is like a tonic and to breathe in the invigoratin' air is a notable differ from the stuffy oppressiv air of the warmer section. So those who go away on trips are glad to get back here agen. I never could see the fun in lots of this tourin' business anyhow, tucked up in leetle hotel rooms and berths and restricted in every way m&ted of havin' the freedom and room and ease and comfort of your own home when you are sensible enuf to stay home to enjoy it.

. FARMER BEN

CIVIL WAR MUSICIAN DEAD " v, "£

Landsman, Printer, Stage Owner and Newspaper Man, Resided in Sever­al South Dakota Towns. Former Austin Resident.

held guilty for the drownin* of 180-ot land ^ near YVauwukfe, in Marinette ® ' AAiinfrv Ann vilt-navAiAn a. Hqipv r ft, fro the passenger list. The ship was own­ed bv the English, and they had fair warnin' that the sea was full of sub­marines and not to take any risks on such trips and yet they took their chances with their eyes open and hap­pened to get engulfed. Thousands are takin' just such risks daily, probably 2500 this mlnit. United States citizens had no special right on an English ship to be protected from the German sub­marines except the larger rule of hu­manity that would never stoop to such brutal and inhuman murder.

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I wonder if young America don't wonder sometimes at the continued interest the Veterans take in the ob­servance of Memorial' day. Here it is over fifty , years since the war closed and yet the old Boys hold the day just as sacred and revered as ever. They try to win the attention of the young generation to the principles for which they fought and bled in '61—'65. The fact is nobody who ever was actuually in war wishes any more of it. They know of its awful sufferings and coat We are a nation of citizens and not of soldiers and in keepin' of Memorial Day we do not glorify war but peace and patriotism. When we think of the thousands of dead heroes and of the tattered ensigns pierced by shot and shell gn many a bloody battlefield and all the woe that war brought we would hive peace and not war. Memorial Day is intended for a great patriotic day as well a3 a time to remember and honor tbo courage and heroism of those who saved our country from disunion, it will profit only as it is generally kept and honored. It ought to be differin from any other day of the year. The flowers we strew on the graves of our fallen comrades ought to tell of love and appreciation, and the young should receive new lessons in patriotism to consecrate their lives to the defense of the best country and the best flag the sun ever shone on.

I thought the other mornin' when the shower drove me under cover from hoein' my garden and 1 watched the rain come down so even and plenty and steady that we hav a wonderf ul method of irrigatin' and waterin' that beats- ail the artificial methods to a finish. I tiled to flgger hew many p|iu of water l'd hav to pomp to eatry far just * little pleee of garden and

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Buys Farm iii Wisconsin. W. B. Card of Grand Meadow,Minn.,

has purchased 440 acres of cut over

county and wilt develop' a dairy He bas commenced the erection of a house and barn and other buildings.

FORBID FOREIGN SIGNS. The reform proposed by the police it? abolishing street signs in Berlin, or other inscriptions in French, Eng­lish and German is intended to be thorough. Even the signs "on parle francais" (French spoken) and "Eng lish spoken here," often seen on 4shop windows, are to be taboo.

Shopkeepers will not be permitted to^ announce they are "purveyors to His Majesty the King of England, or of any other hostile court. Bar­bers will still be permitted to call themselves "friseur," but the word must be spelled German fashion, "frisoer."

For the word "parfuemerie" (per­fumery) the word "Dufterzeugnesse" is proposed.

See Dodge Bros Car at Moreland & Anker's, $785.

Dodge Bros, car is the equal of any $1000 car on the market. We invite inspection. Moreland & Anker.

110 inch wheel base, flneet leather enamel body, electric lights and starteri 35 horde power, for how much? $7 The Dodge. Why pay more for a car a car when you have evervthing in the Dodge? adv6-^

Best Hour for Reconciliation. A police justice in speaking before

the Woman Taxpayers' league of Mich­igan said: "For some reason I find it easier to reconcile a man and his wife between the hours of eight and nine in the evening, rather than the same hours in the morning. Just why I do not know—perhaps there is a mellow­ing influence at that time—but it's fact."

Yes, Why? Why is it that the last words of the

great are so much wiser than any they uttered while in good health?—Ex­change.

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The following account of the death of Sparhawk Hutchins is taken from a Sioux City paper: Sparhawk Hutch-ihs, a musician and printer, who liyed in Sioux City for seventeen years, died last night, May ioth, at his home in South Sioux City, Neb., where he has lived since 1911. Death was caus­ed by Bright's disease. He was 75 years old.

Mr. Hutchins retired from active work as a musician and conductor of

band three years ago. Prior to that time he was in charge of num­erous musical organizations in Sioux City and South Dakota cities. For many years he worked as a printer in Milwaukee and St. Louis. When the linotype came into vogue he quit the printer's trade.

Born August 13, 1840, in Bath, N. H., Mr. Hutchins spent his early life in that vicinity. When he was 12 years old he moved with his parents to Fox Lake, Wis. He resided there until the outbreak of the civil war, when he enlisted in the Eighth Wis­consin volunteers as a member of the band. He served one enlistment and then became a printer.

While working in a newspaper of­fice in St. Louis he joined the Ma­sonic lodge. Shortly afterward he went to Rochester, Minn., where on July 18, 1870, he was married to Miss Mary E. Allen. They moved to Aus­tin, Minn., several years after. There he became interested in the stage' business. He owned a number of stages which in the days of few rail­roads did a good business.

On leaving Austin, Mr. and Mrs. Hutchins and members of their fam­ily took up residence in Lake Huron, S. D., where they lived nearly two years. They then moved to Madison and later to Howard, where they re­sided seven years. Mr. Hutchins while in that town was interested in the Howard Democrat, a weekly newspaper. He moved his family to Sioux Falls, where they lived for nir.e years before coining to Sioux City.

Mrs. Hutchins died May 22, 1910, at the age of 60 years, in Sioux City. To the union were born six children, one of whom died in infancy. Mr. Hutchins was married a second time August 11, 1911, at South Sioux City, to Mrs. Ida May De Long.

Surviving are Mrs. Hutchins,. three sons and two daughters.. The sons are Herbert Hutchins and George Wilbur Hutchins of Butte, Mont., and Sparhawk Hutchins, Jr. of Sioux Sity. The daughters are Mrs. Carrie Martin Hanson,^ wife of L. O. Hanson, of Sioux City, and Mrs. Ethel Peterson, wife of W. Ev Peterson of Sioux Falls, S. D. All are expected to at­tend the funeral.

Mr. Hutchins was a member of Landmark lodge No. 103 of the Ma­sonic order in this city, a charter member of the Sioux City Musicians' union, a member of the Order of the Eastern Star, of General Hancock post No. 22, G. A. R., and 9f the Siimx City printers' organization when he first came to this city. In later years he dropped out of the printers' union.

Funeral services were held at Dest-cott's chapel. Rev. John Welsh, pas­tor of the Williams Memorial Pres­byterian church, assisted by the or­ganizations of which Mr. Hutchins was a member, conducted the servic­es. Burial in the Logan Park ceme­tery.

GOVERNOR FIXES MAY 31 FOR MEMORIAL EXERCISES.

Monday, May 31, was proclaimed a public holiday by Governor Ham­mond yesterday for the observance of Memorial day. The governor sug­gested that flags be placed at half mast on that day and that bells be tolled from noon until 12:05 P- m- >n

honor of the soldier dead. This cus­tom has been practiced by members of the G. A. R. for years and the gover­nor would have it extended to the public. During the' 5-minute period he suggested that heads be bared.

JUDGE ARTHUR H. SNOW. Winona, Minn.> May 16.— Judge

Arthur H. Snow whose resignation as judge of the Third Judicial district to become effective June I, was recent­ly accepted by Governor Hammond, died at his home yesterday from can­cer. The funeral plans will be an­nounced later. He is survived by a widow and two sons. He was a mem­ber of the third district for more than 18 years.

WHY CLEAN UP? 1st. To prevent sickness and dis­

eases during the coming summer. 2nd. To prevent the breedmsr of

.flies. Flies cannot grow without manure or other filth. Flies carry diseases.

3rd. To make a better looking town and less smelling town."

Everybody help! Clean up your yard first, then kick about your neighbor's and have that cleaned. Let's have a clean town.

BECOMES A BENEDICT.

Rev. Edward Nervig, One of Albert Lea's Moat Popular Ministera Wins

Austin Girl for Bride.

At three o'clock Wednesday after­noon, May 12, Rev. Edward Nervig of Albert Lea was married to Miss Hazel M. Williams of Austin, Minn., at 977 Jessie street, St. Paul by Dr. J. N. Kildahl, ex-president of the St. Olaf College,

, Rev. Nervig who is pastor of the Trinity Lutheran church is one of the most popular young men of the city, not,only in his church work, but as an all around good fellow. ^The news of his marriage comes to

all as a happy surprise, although many who knew him best were confi­dent that a man of his character and pleasant disposition would not and could not—conscientiously ride alone in a finefnew car any great length of time, without the feeling that some­one should share the pleasures and happiness along with him.

'Miss Williams has been attending the Winona Normal school until re­cently and all who know her, state she is a most charming woman and makes friends wherever she goes. Her father and mother died two years ago only. five weeks apart. She is the only child. "Mr. and Mrs. Nervig left St. Paul

Wednesday for San Francisco and will visit Los AiTgeles, San Diego and miany other points of interest along tl|e coast and in the western country before their return to Albert Lea. llhey will be gone six weeks and will bfe at home in this city after Septem­ber first. Congratulations to both l^ev. and Mrs. Nervig.—Albert Lea Tribune.

Do You Know it? fC. J. Myhre does the best and cheap­

est shoe repair work in town. See him. 2$3 E. Mill St. All work guaranteed, Look at the Gilt Boot Si«n. 18tf

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"SAFETY FIRST." Disregarding utterly the right or

wrong of Germany's act in sinking a ship full of noncombatants—men. women and children—and leaving to the president the expression of the nation's opinion of this act, there are at least two things that can be done to avert a possible repetition of this tragic horror.

One is, as the Chicago Tribune sug­gests, to take steps "to discourage or

jyent the transportation of Ameri­can citizens on ships carrying arms and munitions of war."

The other is for American citizens to stay at home.

No matter how much blame may in the last analysis be attached to Ger­many for ]yer_apparent disregard of accepted rules of civilized warfare, the British government cannot be ac­quitted of blame for permitting the transportation of neutral passengers and war supplies in the same vessel.

Nor, putting aside sentiment, is it easy to evade the conclusion that Americans who take passage 011 ves­sels threatened with destruction and inviting destruction because they carry arms or ammunition that are to be used to destroy the enemies of the flag that flies over such vessels, take this step at their own risk.

Americans who went to Mexico when anarchy ruled that land took the hazard voluntarily and there were many who held that they had no right to expect that American troops should .follow to protect them and their investments. This conten­tion is very largely true of those who take their lives in their hands and venture upon the soil of a war-mad Europe.

Europe is no place for a pleasure trip and will not be for many years even if the war should cease tomor­row. Neither is it a suitable place for a business trip except to those who are willing to risk their lives for business. Those who travel to Eu rope on business -do so knowing the risks that attach to the adventure. If they wish to assume these risks, that is their business. They have no right to risk as well the peace of their coun­try.

No more passengers should be "car­ried on vessels carrying contraband of war. We know now what is likely to happen to them. Whether what may happen to them is moral or civ­ilized and whatever one may think of those who make it happen, the ugly fact is patent to everybody. Nobody has a right then to imperil the peace of the United States by facing these perils wantonly.—Duluth Herald.

Notice of County Board Meeting The County Board of the County of

Mower, will meet in special session at the office of the county auditor in the city of Austin, at 3 o'clock p. m. May 25tb, 1915, for regular business.

O. J. SIMMONS, County Auditor

OFF YEAR FOR APPLES. Reports that have been gathered

during the past week indicate that the Northwestern apple crop this year will fall short of the 1914 output to the extent of approximately 14000 carloads. Reports froitt the various producing districts state that |the bloom on the old treear is much ness than last year, but that trees conring. into bearing will have consider-

counteracting effect. Frost and bl arc serious problems being

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into money as a Time Certificate of Deposit. It is true you may receive a larger rate of interest on other forms of investments but just when you need the money most you may be unable to convert them into cash. This is especially true in trying times when money is close.

A Time Deposit in the Austin National Bank, is ab­solutely safe. Three or four times each year it is exam­ined by National Bank and Special Examiners.

4 Per Cent is paid on Time Certificates and on Sav­ings Deposits. Make the Austin National Bank your depositary.

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Capital 50.000.00 Surplus 810,000.00 Resources $635,000.00 C. H.DAVIDSON. JR., Pres. J. L. MITCHELL. Vice-Pres.

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Capital and Surplus Resources

Lumber, Lath, Sash and Doors. Hard and Soft Coal.

We Carry a Full and Well assorted stock of £all grades of Lumber,

: and, as heretofore, our pricee will always : be found to be the lowest. Parties who [contemplate building will save mosey bf [figuring with us before purchasing else , 'where.

OUB2MOTTO IS: Small ;]Profits!and Large£SaIes.

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