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JW mufti ounce* of SSSt l~t THE TRANSCRIPT AUSTIN, "WEDNESDAY, OCT. 15.1902 AUSTIN NEWS IN BRIEF —Good dairy cows for bale or rent. F. W.Kimball. 30-3t —La Fayette Alexandre real Kid Gloves at reasonable prices at WEST'S. —Handsome new Golf Gloves for ladies, misses and children at WEST'S. —The state federation of Women's Clubs opened its meeting at Albert Lea yesterday. —Wanted a good second hand light single road wagon. Must be cheap for cash. Inquire at this office. 31-32 —Civil service examination in this citv next Saturday for positions of clerk and carrier in postoffice service. —For sale or rent, a hotel and livery barn in one of the villages in this county, doing good business. Inquire at this office. tf —Miss Harriett Snyder came over from Albert Lea Friday evening,, to spend Sunday vt^i relative, re^ttifj^hg Monday morning. —For rent—The Oliver Jones resi dence property io£ Main, street, two door south' of Oakland Avenue. In quire of F. A. Ticknpr. —For sale trade or rent my 18 acres of land with house and good barn one half mile south of fair-grounds. Will trade for city property. T. F. Avery. —I have found all but one of my calves that strayed away from the D. W atkins place, Cedar City about Sept. 23. The one btill missing is a red spring bull. Finder please notify me. Harry J. Austin. —Miss Elizabeth Hormel went to Minneapolis Thursd.-iy to attend the Presbyterian synod. Rev. B. H. Kroeze was also in attendance, omitting his Sunday appointment here. —Be sure to attend the sale Tuesday, Oct. 21, of C. A. Williams, 5 miles northwest of Austin. He has 11 fine graded dairy cows, no Jerseys, and a complete outfit of nearly new farm machinery beside sheep and hogs for sale. 2-t —P. A. Bartlett has closed out his tailoring business here and will locate at Brush, Col., where his son Arthur is, both going into a drug store together. He left for Colorado Monday and Mrs. Bartlett will visit her relatives in Red Wing before going. —The Austin school board has voted a tax levy of $18,000, the same as last year and 32,000 less than two years ago. They have appropriated $120 for the general school library. They also voted favorably to take into this district the south River street section, this being within the city limits. —Dr. V. J. Hawkins of St. Paul, son of J. C. Hawkins of this city, was here Thursday evening. He is grand medical examiner for the Minnesota A. O. U. and came to inspect the local lodge. |H. R. Hare of the state finance committee accompanied him. Both gave very interesting addresses to the local lodge. —The U. S. Civil Service Commission announces an examination at Austin Saturday, Oct. 18, for the, positions of clerk and carrier in postoffice service. Here is a chance for active, bright young persons to work for Uncle Sam on sure pay and steady work. For full particulars, inquire at once of Chas.I. Riley, clerk, at Austin post office. ^Tg7Fred Bair^dfofThis city, president of the Minnesota Funeral Directors' Association, returned Sunday morning from Milwaukee whither he went Wednesday as a delegate to the Na tional Funeral Directors' Association which held a five days session there. The program was a technical one but of great benefit and interest to under takers and embalmers. The Embalm er's Monthly of Chicago issued a daily edition during the meetings. The mem bership of the Minnesota association was reported' as 143, 47 new members being added last year. The National Association will meet at Minneapolis next year. pun tafm to «w pound, knows how mwk «offM and, bow re is in ooated ooffMT Lion Core* is aU«off— never gland. Maled paokaa* keeps It fradi aadptue. lands alone, wers above. There's no other, its na ture's wonder, a warn ing poultice to the heart of mankind. Such is ROCKY MOUNTAIN TEA ASK YOUR DRUOQISTW #i ft —Make year: wife, happy by Cannel coal. Austin Lumber 'Phone 16. G. M. Emmons, our Fuel Co. manager." My quotations on country produce hold gpod $or the rest of this week. McBnde tliie grocer. You can get the'best 25-cent meal in the city at Hunziker's, the farmers' Friend Restaurant Mill street. Meals at all hours —Every subscriber who pays up for the TRANSCRIPT to 1903 gets a fine new up-to-date map of Minnesota abso lutely free. Call in and see them. Send in your subscriptions at once while this offer holds good. tf —Will F. Day and family moved to Minneapolis Monday.' —Miss Kathryne Gahagan of Lyle, spent Sunday in Austin. —160 acre farm for rent nearWal tham. Inquire at this office. tf —A baby girl was born to Mr. and Mrs. E. Joseph Saturday evening. —Miss Daisy Maxwell spent Sunday with relatives near Blooming Prairie. —Miss H. A. Cook is very ill at her home in the northwest part of the city. —William Bonnallie of Lyle sold thirty bushels of Wealthy apples from fourteen trees. —Pay the last half of your real estate taxes this month. Penalty goes on after Oct. 31. —The K. K. K.s were pleasantly en tertained Wednesday evening by Miss Clara Mandeville. —The celebrated Munsing Under wear in sizes for ladies, misses and children at WEST'S. —S. M. Gloyd of Elkton will have his big sale of blooded horses and cattle Wednesday, Nov. 12. —They have a nice line of new Room Rugs worthy of your attention before you buy, at WEST'S.' —Rev. F. L. Anderson was ill with the grippe last week and held only morning service on Sunday. —The grand lodge of the Elks was entertained at asocial session by the local lodge Friday evening. —The G- A. to the R. of L. E. will give a ball at Music hall Wednesday evening, Oct. 29. Tichy's orchestra. r—Henry Bagley and family expect to leave for Cedro Wopley, Wash., about Oct. 25 to try residence there for a year. —For sale, about fifteen spring calves, half and three quarter blood Herefords. Peter Jacobson, two miles south of Sar geant village. 32-3 —John W. Scott has a number of fine registered Shropshire rams and ewes for sale, ewes mostly imported and all lambs from imported sire. 31-4t —The Austin syndicate is selling off several farms from the big Taopi tract recently purchased. Here is a splendid chance to get a fine farm reasonable. —J. A. Carter of Nevada brought in a fine specimen of Wolf River apple weighing 13 ounces and having a cir cumference of 12 inches. —A steady rain commenced Sunday morning, and continued twenty four hours turning into a snow flurry Mon day morning, the first snow of the sea son. —The trustees of the Congregational church will give a reception in the church parlors Friday evening for their new pastor, Rev. Arthur Dascomb and wife. —Wanted a young man to drive milk wagon. Only those who will attend strictly to business and will give good references n©ed apply. F. W. Kimball Austin. —A total eclipse of the moon will be visible here tomorrow, Thursday, night before midnight. The total length of partial obscuration will be about 2% hours. —Rev. S. G. Briggs, deputy auditor, has been assigned to take charge of the M. E. churches at Rush City and Rock Creek on the Duluth road in Chicago county. —About thirty students from Dodge county are already in attendance at the S. M. Normal college, mostly from vi cinity of Hayfield, and there are more to follow. —Mrs. Chas. Hall of Minneapolis, formerly Mrs. R. I Smith of Austin, is in attendance at the Women's Federa tion at Albert Lea this week and is ex pected here Friday as the guest of Mrs. D. H. Ssimson. —The October apportionment of state money to public schools netted just 82 a pupil and Mower county re ceives $9,446 on 4,723 pupils who at tended the time required by lp,w to receive benefit of the state fund. —W. D. Rosbach on Thursday sold his tobacco and news stand next south of the post office to John Frank and his son-in-law Will D. Bassler and the latter has taken charge as manager Mr. Rosbach will'look more fully after his Minneapolis interests. —The October American Boy, with its eighty pictures and its thirty-two pages of reading matter for boys, main tains the Ehigh standard set by its publishers that ever made it so justly popular where there are boys. All the special usual departments are well covered in this number and there area number of higb class stories for boys $1 a year. Clubbing rates with Trans cript.—The Sprague Publishing Co., Detroit, Mich. 4 fJu- •, & 'U CORNING. V' At the home of her daughter, in Minneapolis, after a brief illness,Friday Oct. 10,1902, of old age, Mrs. Sarah A. widow of John S. Corning, aged 75 years. Her maiden name was. Wolcott. She was born in Roxbury, Vt., in March 1827. She was married to Mr. Corning in St. Lawrence county^ N. Y., Sept. 11, 1850. They lived there until 1855 when they came to Minnesota, settling at Shell Rock, Freeborn county, where he erected the first frame house built there. They came from Freeborn county to Austin in 1867 and at the time of his death, Oct. 10,1879, he was proprietor of the Corning hotel on Mill street. For the past few years, Mrs. Corning has lived most of the time with her daughters. She was for years and at the time of her death a member of the Congregational church. She has been growing infirm for several years but was sick in bed only two days before death. The remains were brought to Austin for interment. Funeral services conducted by Rev. Arthur Dascomb, assisted by Rev. C. D. Belden, were held at the Congregational church Sun day afternoon. Representatives of the W. R. C. and of the Auxiliary tp the Locomotive Engineers were present at the funeral besides relatives and old friends of deceased. Three children survive: Mrs. W. H. Adams of Aus tin, Mrs. Adda Clark, and George Corn ing, of Minneapolis. SIMMONS. At the home of his brother, in this city Sunday morning, October 13,1902, of consumption, Altoin Simmons, aged 33 years. He was born in Grant county, Ind., January 25,1869, and came to Min nesota when young. He worked on a. farm near Dexter and attended school at Rochester and at Hamline University. After teaching several terms in N. D. he came to Austin and for four years had charge of the grocery department in W. R. Tait's store. In April, 1900, on account of failing health he went to California and for a time seemed bene fited. In October of that year his brother Jesse went out to take care of him and they have spent the last two years in ranch life and at different points in Arizona, latterly making Tombstone their headquarters. All last summer A1 steadily failed and on account of his strong desire to return to Minnesota his brother brought him to A.ustin, arriving week before last. He seemed supremely happy to be once more amid the familiar surroundings here and with his.relatives around him, but his vitality was exhausted and death came to end the heroic struggle. During the two days here, his sis ter, Mrs! Lucy Price, of Converse, Ind. his brothers, Eddy L., of Baltimore Dr. R. W-, of Lisbon, N. D. Jesse, of Tombstone, Ariz. and O. J., of Austin, were at his bedside. His sister, Grace, of Rochester, and a brother in Van couver were not able to be present. Funeral services were held Monday af ternoon at the residence of his brother, O. J. Simmons, conducted by Rev. J. M. Brown, and the remains were taken to Rochester Tuesday morning to be buried beside his parents. Deceased was well known and highly regarded here for his excellent traits of char acter. He was faithful to his trust, earnest in his noble purposes and un selfish and devoted to his friends. His numerous friends will ever cherish his memory in their hearts. —A nice line of new Lace Curtains and Draperies just in, at WEST'S. —Waterproof Cravanette Raglans for ladies at reduced prices at WEST'S. —W. H. Philpott, formerly aMain street merchant, was here Monday. He thinks of locating in Western Canada. —The Ladies') Auxiliary to the Loco motive Engineers will give a grand ball at Music hall Wednesday evening, Oct. 29th. —Furnished rooms to rent at low rate, large enough for two and heated. 308 west Maple street, Austin. —Chester J., child of H. J. Austin of Cedar City, died Tuesday of last week and was buried Thursdayr Rev. J. M. Brown officiating. The child was 16 months old and died of spasms. —The Carnagie library board de cided at their meeting Tuesday evening to construct the new building of Ket tle River stone. The contract was let to H. Waterman of this city for $11,486 and is to be finished by next July 1. Work on excavating commenced terday. —The city council has voted a tax levy of $20,645.00 for the -following purposes current expenses, $8,500. in terest on outstanding indebtedness^ $4,645. improving electric light plant, $4,000. Carnagie library fund, $1,500. park improvements, $500 general im: provement fund $1,500. —The state board of equalization raised the valuation of stock and fur niture of saloons, eating houses, etc., in |this city 600 per cent. Several other classes are also raised. The criticism will come on the raise of real estate in the county 20 per cent over what the county board fixed it at. This is general throughput the state and means that the cities and corporations are to tie favored at the expense of the farmersJn the matter off assessments "V 'Wi1 T||S«:.^.5^jjh^- A-»-t.'£.jf'/3!T &&£ j$fs$yss& —Ladies' new Wool Waists, elegant and stylish, just received at WEST'S. —Mrs. Beeston, 105 north Franklin street, wishes nursing of any kind. Ex perienced. 32-5t —Penny Photograph Gallery 24 pictures 25 cents. Over the Fair Store. Will be ready for you after Sept. 5. 5-t —Mrs. M. N. Beardsley and Edith left this morning for Crowley, La., to spend the winter with the former's sister. —Born, to Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Car michael, Sunday morning, an eight pound baby girl. Mother and child do ing well, and Dick happy. —Hon. James A. Tawney, candidate for congressman, will deliver an ad dress on the public issues of the day at the opera house in LeRoy Thursday eyening Oct. 16. Don't forget the date. —Ben F. King of Sargeant yesterday bought the Oscar Ayers residence pro perty on Kenwood avenue south con sideration $6,500. We are glad to wel come Mr. King and family as residents of Austin. —The young men of the Baptist churgh,,entertained the young men of the il. E. church Wednesday evening at the Baptist church parlors. Prof. Boostrom gave an account of his ex periences on the plains of the west. "—The Baptist state convention is in session at Owatonna this week,open ing Monday evening. The delegates present from Austin are H. Jacobs, Mrs. Amy H. Wilbour, Mrs. Addie Denison, Miss Neil, Mrs. N. F. Earl, Mrs. G. W. Frisbee, Mrs. Dr. Anderson, Mrs. F. A. Ticknor and Mrs./Chris. Nordland. MARRIAGE LICENSES Issued since October 1st: IngebrijfcI Anderson.................Dena Nelson FrectE Rollins... Blanche Vermilya Jens'Hanson Marta Gilbertson AdtflphG Johnson. ...Norma I*King LudwigGlorun....................Bertha Olson Jpseph Smith............ ......Mary Gilgenbach GeorgeBWilmarth. Lacy Fryer Joseph W Woodard. ..Eatheicine Bnssell Lars Larson. Andrena Olson Milton E Bogers ... ..........—Lydia Hillam Paul GHyniBch..................Louise Fischer V:T^"' vi A\. Farewell Party. About twenty-flve young friends of Calvin Kinsman met at his home on Water street to a farewell party Satur day night. A very pleasant evening was spent in games $nd other aimusements. After Te«freshments were served, they left at a late hour wishing him success in his new work. He left Monday to attendjeollege in Berrien Springs, Mich. & UNDERTAKERS AND LICENSED EFLBALNERS. 100-102-104 SOUTH flAIN STREET, AUSTIN, MINN. We are preparing for the arrival of our HAnriOTH FALL STOCK of Bed Room Suits, Book Cases, Fancy Chairs, Rockers, Couches, Carpets, Rugs We shall show a larger and better selected assortment this season than at any time since we opened our doors. At present time TWO CAR LOADS of goods are on the way and will be placed on sale with in the next ten days at a saving of from 15 to 25 Per Cent For this reason the goods were bought in quantities for SPOT CASH before the general advance in prices took effect. To convince you that we can save you money come and compare OUR PRICES AND GOODS with any dealer'syou may choose. 1 EARL & RUSTAD. GRAND EXHIBITION OF THE GREAT A Representative from the factory will be in our store from Monday, Oct. 13th, until Saturday, Oct. t8th, showing up the MANY good points about the QUICK MEAL? STEEL RANGE During this sale the factory through its Representative will give away to each purchaser of a Quick Meal Steel Range a set of dishes which cannot be bought anywhere for less than $8.00. REMEMBER ONLY DURING THIS SALE can this offer be given. One of the Ranges will be in oper ation during this week demonstrat ing to a certainty that it is superior to any cooking stove now on the market. 7 L... •rv: Hot Biscuits and Coffee will be REV0RD & HOLMES, Low Hardware rchants Tf 3