Duplicate Bridge

Tournament results for Aug. 26, four tables played: First place, Jim Fisher and Larry Crowe; second place: Vandy Newman and Bud Higgins; third place, Dave Ring and Orrion Roisen; fourth place, Joyce Crowe and Millie Seiver.

Duplicate Bridge is played each Wednesday at noon at the Mower County Senior Center in Austin. All Bridge players are welcome. Call Dave Ring at 507-434-4189.

 Brownsdale Supper Club

The Brownsdale Study Club met on Aug. 19 at the home of LaVonne Skov. The Collect was read and 11 members answered roll call of ‘what pet did you have in grade school?’ The July minutes and treasurer’s report were accepted.

We were all in agreement that our outing to the Jay C. Hormel Nature Center to hear Allen Batt, tour the Austin ArtWorks Center and lunch at Torge’s was enjoyable.

For new business we planned our calendar for 2015-2016 and the election of our officers was held. President is Fern Paschke; vice president is Shelley Vogel, secretary-treasurer is Mary Gallaher.

Leone Peterson had the main topic on an article written by Don Peterson, “The Clock.” The clock was made by his friend George. After retiring from two businesses while spending 40 years in a wheelchair, George needed a hobby. He took up the tools to become a clockmaker. Don saw one George made that looked like an old country church and told of the many travels that clock made as they traveled in their trailer from Minnesota to Kansas, Texas, Florida and North Dakota.

Leone also read an article by Rebecca Kessler on “Bringing Back Native Prairies” yard by yard in the midwest. Leone told of their own many wild flowers, native grasses and displayed an assortment. They have worked hard to restore the area north of the new home they built.

Shelley Vogel had the outside reading on “The Weed That Won the West” from the National Geographic. The lovely tumbleweed. How did this weed from the Russian steppes become a symbol of the American west. The gathering tumbleweed can be small or as large as a compact car. Since 1880 it began appearing in South Dakota. From Canada to California, in 1885, it spread quickly. Not they are sold for $15 to $25 as decorative items. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.