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COLUMN Mr. and Mrs. Ben Johnson During the many years Ben Johnson has lived in Blooming Prairie he has had many contacts with the community life and of them have been useful and helpful. As farmer, as cooperator in his local creamery and other farm organizations, rector in the oil company or worker the Lutheran church he always been loyal and His faithfulness and his pendable. common sense have made his counsel highly valued. His consideration for others has made him well liked in the munity. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson are the type of people whose names are seldom featured in the headlines but who do the days work and who do well. Their friends and relatives were glad to join with them the celebration of their 50th wedding anniversary and The Times, too, extends hearty congratulations. Community Chatter Lots of people this week began to wonder if money is worth all the grief and trouble it causes Of course anybody decides isn't worth while to bother with, telephone number 70 People talk of the unhappy rich but would be willing to be half happy as now rich Since on the sucklist of an investment company now making sucker out them. They are sending me daily letter urging to buy tain stocks. just wasting their for when am cured money stay cured The beer question causing nearly as many hairs locally as the bank gray uation Down in Iowa people regard Blooming Prairie another Hurley Anyway the Blooming Prairie idea on prohibition became nationalized 20 bankers from Approximately other towns in Southern Minnesota attended the bank meeting night learn the Wednesday There 225 state banks ropes. are still unopened and the Farmers and Merchants State bank was one of the first five to go through re-organization Grover has joined the Hoffman Rysavy Sales Service and is helping to put on sale at Lanesboro A with rich, natural brouge always interesting. always talking with the enjoy Swedish shoemaker at Nelson's for this reason Two of the prettiest and cutest girls in town and Bebe Thurston Albert Wanous who will sell Hamm beer at Prairie Due Chien. Wisconsin. will get carload of the amber fluid Friday morning o'clock Iowa won't beer for time Neither will Austin Will the new beer take the out of the hurrah? The Central Cooperative Oil company has stalled some new pumps which show the amount of gasoline chased to the tenth of gallon and the cost to the last penny W. Peterson wants to scalp the writer of Column Left. heartily in favor of the moveThe blood of the martyr the seed of the church This is the year plant my garden. The county board going to catch out on limb Mrs. Sam me Rask won the electric bridge table given by the Nash coffee away company during recent Tim and Tina program. We hope she loans it to the local Democrats who are the New Deal practicing Irvin Thompson visited friends here the fore part of the week enroute to his home in Minneapolis from California, where he had the past While spent the coast he spent some time with uncle, H. H. Skagen, Kent, Washington. He left the Sunny state two weeks before the earthand traveled by way of the quake, southern route, the Sante Fe trail. Conditions the Pacific coast, he reported, were about the same here, but the southern states to be plenty hard hit. Miss Mildred Thompson, Newry, Saturday and Sunwith her brother Alex and wife. Thompson and Mrs. Ernest Butterfield Mr. Sunday visitors at Austin, were Hillson home. Mrs. Butterfield aunt.
