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ready been cut and it is good quality.
Rev. Czamanski and wife of West
Henrietta, n. Y, are the guests of Mr..
and Mrs. Petrich. They will spend
several weeks visiting relatives in and
around Vernon ere returning east. Rev.
Czamanski was formerly pastor of the
German Lutheran church at Lewisville.
The Knights of Pythias picnic held at
Frank Fernald's Tuesday was attended
by good crowd and very ENJOYABLE
time had. All did justice to a turkey
dinner which was furnished by the host,
after which game of ball was PLAYED
by the members who were present.
The recent fire at Cooper & Days hard
ware store has had the effect of stirring
up the fire department and Chief Francis
says that hereafter he intends having
regular practice of the volunteer COM
pany The council has ordered new hose
and other apparatus so no fear need be
felt if only the boys get out and hustle
a short time once or twice a week. A
little encouragement would also "help
some"
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Bloody Draga.

1t has come to. light that Queen Draga
had not been painted half bad enough.
That she was deep designing woman
with heart as black as night no one
could doubt, but it was not suspected
that the late queen of Servia was plot
ting the death of persons connected with
the government. An official tells the
story that Queen Draga was directly and
personally responsible for the blood bath
of March %, when seventy-four citizens
were killed. heard her harangue the
King by phone as follows: Death to
the rebels; let no mothers son escape!
Do not repeat the errors of Milan, and
have recourse to the courts; l want no.
courts. The rifle is the thing" As she
said this she whistled through her teeth,
initiating the kissing of bullets. In the
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BELGRADE NOTES.

Mr., B. Wallace has purchased horse
OF Thomas Maher
John Monsoon and family were Manka-
to visitors Sunday last. 3
NJ Lundeen's infant child has been
quite seriously i'll recently.
Andrew Johnson of Mankato was in
this vicinity last Sunday.
Mrs. Maggie Ref has suffered from
blood poison in her right hand recently.
Miss Emma jacobson of Oshawa is
visiting her sister, Mrs. August john
son.
Mrs. August Swanson and children of
Bradley were visitors at j. Johnson's last
Tuesday.
. Mr.. and Mrs j. Johnson and daughter
Miss Esther were visitors at John John
sons Sunday.
Rev. Carl Lindberg held services at the
school house Sunday. Quite a number
from Mankato attended. Services will
be held August l6, 3 o'clock p. m. Every
one cordially invited to attend.
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The Grade Teachers.

There is growing demand that the
grade teacher receive more consideration
at the hands Of the school boards than
has been awarded her. The grade teach
er is hardworked. She is poorly paid,
must perform the arduous duty of pre-
pairing the pupils for the higher depart
meents, and it is while they are in her
care that the characters of many of them
are being formed. The Minneapolis Tri-
bune comes to the support of the grade
teacher. The Tribune has been keeping
an eye on the proceedings of the National
Educational association in session at
Boston, and it sees in them the indepen-
dence that has been asserted by the grade
teacher. The Tribune maintains that
the grade teacher is tenderly treated
everywhere as the victim of a system,
which first turned her out of school i'm
perfectly taught and then made it impos-
sible for her to teach the following gen
erations any better. Everywhere in the
American public school system lower
grade teachers in primary branches are
underpaid and overworked, smothered I'M
der great unwieldy classes in too narrow
space, driven mad with all kinds of trivial
and pretentious faddery and tied hand
and foot with the red tape of senseless
routine.
The wonder is that even worse work
is not done in the lower grades. The truth
is that these overworked and underpaid
grade teachers support on their bowed
and slender shoulders nearly everything
of the American public school system
that is worth preserving, besides holding
up the foolish stage on which high-priced
faddists dance and large salaried princi-
Piles pose. They have suffered in 81
lence for a long time; but they are be-
ginning to speak out in their own meet
ings, to ignorant and careless boards of
education, to sympathetic press and to
a public that begins to be less blind.
They are getting hearing before the
National Educational association. Some
OF the liveliest papers read at Boston
were those exalting the work of the low
grade teacher and protesting against the
miserable pittance she is paid under the
present system of spending all the money
at the top. 1t is demonstrated that 95
per cent of the citizens of the country
get no other education than that given
by the grade teachers. In the face of
this, her pay is squeezed below 5000 per
year, she is given classes three times
as large as can be taught to advantage,
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SOME SHORT THINKS.


We heard normal graduate call a
freq tadEo,e. In natural science we
have porwiggle, purwiggy, polliwig or
pollywog. We think it was frog.-Lake
Crystal Union.
A corn doctor visited Lake Crystal,
gathered crowd and then proceeded to
deliver a harangue, after which he sold
his medicine at fifty cents per bottle.
The number of people in Lake Crystal
who have corns is surprising. Every
body except Colonel Neff bought.
There are newspapers in this state that
will have cause to wonder where they
are at when the campaign really opens
up. Considerable sidestepping and back
ing up will be INDUCED in.
The pope is supposed to be dead, ac
cording to the theory of the attending
physicians. But the physicians are con-
fronted with condition and not
theory.
Where are Hord. and Keator?
The Mad Mullah appears to have lost
his press agent. Mullah has not occupied
a top-of- the column position for several
days.
By the way, how does this Kara
georgevitch fellow stand on the Kansas
City platform Chicago Record Herald.
Recently testimony before the inter-
state commerce commission in New York
shows the average cost of anthracite at
tidewater to be 1920 ton. Consumers
wonder why they are required to pay so
much more for the additional transporta
ton st. Louis Globe Democrat.
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VERNON CENTER NOTATI0NS.

/. Frank Carpenter is among those on the
sick list.
Miss Millen of Mapleton is visiting
Mrs. A. E. Quimby.
Mrs. F. NJ. Rich and son of Willow
City, N. D., are spending few days with
relatives in Vernon.
Mrs. John Porter returned Tuesday
from Lamberton this state.
Roy Quimby visited the twin cities. this
week, returning Wednesday.
DR.. Andrews of Mankato made a pro-
fessional call to Vernon Tuesday
Miss Marjorie Lowell is suffering from
a mild attack of diphtheria, and her
many friends hope for her. speedy re-
coyery.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leeman of Mankato
made an auto trip to Vernon Tuesday.
Mr.. Leeman is the travelling representa-
tive of the Peavey Elevator company.
Harvesting of rye and barley is wei
under way in this vicinity and from re-
ports, the outlook is good for very
fair crop A good deal of hay has al
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and she is prosecuted with fads and-rou-
tine until the wonder is that she can do
any work at. all.
The primary teacher does the most i'm
portant work If competition prevents
giving her the highest pay, she should at
least be treated with most considera-
ton. 1t is devoutly to be hoped that
some good may come from the present
lively discussion.
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shop

"a INTO lumber
oIUn League had a picnic at
nome of Karl Conkling Monday.
A number from Garden City attended
the circus at Mankato last Thursday.
Mrs. Lila Thompson went to Mankato
Tuesday on business, returning Wednes-
day
Mrs. L. A. Barton of Vernon Center
visited her daughter, Mrs. A. w. BiXby
last week
The Misses Verna, Blanche and Callie
BiXby visited relatives in North Manka-
to last week.
Miss Martha Miller and brothers, Wal
ter and Roy, visited at L. Rockies in ST.
Peter last week.
Mrs. Newell and children of Oshkosh
Wis, are visiting the formers sister,
Mrs. f. Z. Norton.
The young people of the Presbyterian
church at Lake Crystal had picnic on
the fair grounds Monday.
Miss Stella Terry went to Triumph
the first part of last week to make
her brother Everett visit.
Miss Alice Church who has been visit
ing in Garden City since her school closed
went to Fairmont to visit relatives Fri
day.
Bert Wilson, who has been visiting
relatives in this vicinity the past three
weeks, went to his home ,at Grove Lake
Wednesday.
Misses Emma and Maud Campbell
went to the Christian Endeavor conven-
ton at Denver. Mr.. Hood will also at
tend the convention after which he will
90 to the coast.
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GUN CLUB SCORES.

The following were the scores made at
Tuesday afternoons gun club shoot:
Bierbauer Handicap Trophy-Lewis Is,
Brooks %, Lulsdorf %, Nyquist 20,
Merchant Is, Smith IA, Saulpaugh IA,
Benack Is, Kent Z.
Badge Shoot-Lewis Is, Brooks II,
Lulsdorf l6, Nyquist IA, Lord 20, More
hart 10, Saulpaugh 4, Benack IA, Kent 2,
Masters G, French Is, Smith Z.
Messrs. Lord and French represent the
Winchester Arms Co.
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SQUEEZED AT BOTH ENDS
Position of Mankato as Regards the
Present Freight Rates.
From Tuesdays Daily.

FROM tuesdays Daily.
Working both ends against the mid
de-" This is about the position of Man
kato as regards railroad freight rates.
The rate into town is against the in
terests of those who are compelled to
import goods and like condition exists
with the wholesaler and the manufacture
er who is shipper out. In fact every
citizen of Mankato is paying tribute
to st. Paul and Minneapolis and those
cities receive the benefit of the rat"-
paid by local merchants. Urf;'
distance tariff schedule
condition of afr
A cco-- =
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Hon. G. n. Baxter Of Faribault sailed
oil Saturday for Caracas, Venezuela. to
present the claims of the Orinoco COM
pany before the boald of arbitration.
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New Sweden Voted 5000 Bonds to
Aid the Road.
lettings From hudson and Other
Towns Near Here.
News Notes and Gossip From Neigh
borhood Correspondents.
KERNS AND HEBRON.

Mr.. Abel Keene is visiting friends and
relatives in this vicinity.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. w. Rood visited y"
latives in lie Sueur last week
III. d. Trask visited
family in La-~
this
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SWINGING AROUND THE CIRCLE.

Up in Duluth man named White
was refused license to do business
because he was not citizen of the
United States and never intends to be-.
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suar cream.


: Tue Kerns creamery.
Mrs. Adair and daughter, who have been
visiting with Mr.. brakes people in He
bron for some time, will return to their
home at Lisbon, \. d., this week.
David Purrier has rented John Keene's
farm for next year. Mr.. Keene will 60
to Wisconsin to start a saw mill, he
having bought tract of timber land
there.
W. f. Clark and daughter, Hilda, of
Frankfort, Ind, are visiting with his
brother, William A. Clark, the old veter-
an whom he has not seen for about TWEEN
ty years.
The Minnesota Central is buying the
right of way north of Nicollet, having
agreed with several parties to pay $50
per acre. New Sweden voted $4,000
bonds last Monday
Mr.. and Mrs. G. NJ Jefferson, who
started for Vermont the first of last
week expect to be gone ABOUT two
months They will visit friends and re-
latives at their old home.
A petition of about 200 names from this
section of the county was presented to
the county commissioners of Nicollet
county on Tuesday asking them to APP
propriate $500 towards constructing a
bridge across the river at Judson. They
voted to give $1,000 to this bridge and
$500 to Fort Ridgely bridge. The fol-
lowing persons went before the commits
sioners with the petition: I. Hodson,
o. K Door, j. A. Tidland, Arthur Nc
Carger, Charles Goodell, John Bruins,
Henry Viking, Henry Whitcomb, c. S.
Thurston
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John Carlson of Aitkin went to Mime
apolis and fell among thieves, who re-
lieved him of SIS. Up to date no Good
Samaritan has taken care of John.
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An Uncle Toms Cabin company visit
ed GAINESVILLE last week, and The Argus
hopes that another of the same kind
will not put in an appearance there very
soon.
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Horse thieves the active in the neigh
borhood of Redwing.
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Society,".
From Wednesdays Daily.

From Wednesdays Daily.
Mrs. Mrs. H. L. Schmitt gave re-
|ception and an informal musicale at her
pleasant home on South Broad street at
l0:30 o'clock this morning in honor of
Mrs c. d. Harrison of ST. Joseph, Mo-,
who is guest of Mrs. S. H. Grannis.
About seventy-fve ladies were in at
tendance. 1t was delightful affair,
well planned and elegantly carried out.
The rooms were prettily decorated with
water lilies and nasturtiums. The must
cal numbers were specially pleasing to
the company. Miss Jache presided at the
piano and Miss Josephine Menth render
ed solo beautifully. Miss Jache and
Miss Alice Grannis gave one act from
Richard Straus, "Enoch Arden" which
was exceptionally fine, and the ladies
present were charmed with its rendition.
After the music the ladies were
served with light refreshments.
The Mapleton Thimble Bee, made up
of fifteen ladies, came to Mankato
today, spending the afternoon with Mrs.
Nerbovig, PIP Pleasant street. 1t was a
surprise on Mrs. Nerbovig. They pre-
scented the lady with sewing table as a
birthday present. The following were in
the party: Mrs. John Ball, Mrs. Charles
Schweitker, Mrs. Thomas Taylor, Mrs.
William Strobe, Mrs. Charles Credicott,
Mrs. Martin Schlingerman, Mrs. Dr. Bonn
berger, Mrs. DR.. Kruger, Mrs. Al John
son, Mrs. Anderson, Mrs R. B. Hanna,
Mrs. Josephine Schimmele, Miss Carrie
Bachtle, Miss Susie Sprague, and Miss
Florence Hanna. Mrs. George Keene and
Miss Blanche Keene of Mankato were in
attendance at the happy gathering. The
MaElcton ladies' were to return en- the
$50 o'clock Milwaukee tran.
DIR. Z. d. Steel will depart for NIilwau-
kee Friday afternoon. and on Saturday
at five o'clock he will be married to Miss
Irma Pringel, the ceremony to be per-
formed at her home, SSl Humboldt ave-
nue.. ]. c. Thro will accompany Dr.
Steel to Milwaukee, and will act as best
man at the ceremony. Miss Ella Randall,
a niece of DR.. Steel, will be present at the
happy event DR.. Steel and his bride will
take a lengthy wedding tour. They will
&C to Duluth, enjoy trip on the lakes,
and returning will 60 to the Pacific coast,
stopping enroute to tour Yellowstone
park. From Seattle they will go by
ocean to San Francisco. They will then
return to Seattle and taking the Cana
dian Pacific road will start for the east,
reaching st. Paul via the 500 route. The
trip will cover several weeks time and
no definite date has been fixed for their
arrival in Mankato.
The Misses McMurtrie entertained
party of fifteen young ladies last evening
at their home on Grove street. Various
were provided and nice re-
freshments were served. All present had
a delightful time.
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Duluth is taking on metropolitan airs
One of the aldermen is accused of ac-
cepting a bride
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This from The Boston Globe shows
that electricity is rapidly coming to con-
troll the country and decided decrease
is shown in the number of companies
and trackage of other kinds of power.
Of the total single track mileage, 2l,9l4
miles, or 81 per cent, are operated by
electric power and 4l6 miles, or 10 per
cent by other mechanical traction, while
only 259 miles, or IL per cent, are
operated by animal power, as compared
with 69.7 per cent in 1890.
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REMARKS ON THE SIDE.

The Duluth News Tribune objects to
Governor Cummins' candidacy for vice
president, declaring that he is from the
wrong state.
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Mrs. Michael McGraw, one of the pio-
neers of Nicollet county, is dead, aged
sixty-eight years.
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He is an Englishman. On the same
ground Cinnamon should be shut out
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Faribault has new butter tub fac
tory.
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Coal is selling at $3.50 per ton in Fart
bault. gsr- 49,
edlsS,ssi;-Ii .&sr 49, '-@Sa '*@sas
Faribault styles itself the ATHENS
of the Vest
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borhood of Redwing.
Coal is selling at $3.50 per ton in Fari-
bault. ssr~ 80
Faribault styles itself the "Athens
of the West"
Hon. e. n. Baxter Of Faribault sailed
OH Saturday for Caracas, Venezuela, to
present the claims of the Orinoco COM
pany before the boald of arbitration.
Faribault has new butter tub fac
tory.
Duluth is taking on metropolitan airs.
One of the aldermen is accused of ac-
cepting a bride.
Mrs. Michael McGraw, one of the pio-
neers of Nicollet county, is dead, aged
sixty eight years.
| Mrs. Marx Schoeb died at her hn''-
iii st. Peter, aged ;...ty year'
Charles H. Hub, .......
OF Minneapolis fm
IL a runaway accid n.r
clan and his band ..
street playing when t,
dashed into the bunch t
wants $4,000
Just for the fun of la
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Fir =.
Peter placed lighted -,Aer be-
tween his teeth. The doctors are now
trying to make the lads fact look ma
tUral.
Hrs. Thomas Hannigan of lie Sueur
county died while riding home in her car
riage. Heart disease.
E. c.. Couplin paid $500 in Justice
Peterson's court for firing off a Roman
candle in ST. Peter.
Trouble is in store for Fred Dummer,
a CORTLAND saloonkeeper, who is accus-
ed by the marshal of running a disor-
derby place.
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Mr.. Willard was Of the opinion that
the people of Mankato were too easy.
They must demand lower rates. He
thought the rate on hard coal should be
about Sl75; on soft coal Sl.40 and the
rate on lumber seven or eight cents. He
felt that everybody should take an in
terest in this matter of railroad rates, as
it was one of vital Importance to the
community. He called attention to the
fact that the bulk of the people in the
twin cities are getting dollar rate on
coal because they have wheat to ship to
Duluth and the returning cars haul coal.
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Mrs. Marx Schoeb died at her hn'>,
iii St. Peter, aged S..,ty year"
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Dover is to have a bank.
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The Misses McMurtrie entertained a
party of fifteen young ladies last evening
at their home on Grove street Various
amusements were provided and nice re-
freshments were served. All present had
a DELIGHTFUL time.
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E. c. Couplin paid $500 in Justice
Peterson's court for firing off Roman
candle in st. Peter.
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Trouble is in store for Fred Dummer,
a CORTLAND saloonkeeper, who is accus-
ed by the marshal of running a disor-
DERBY place.
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Charles II. Hub.
OF Minneapolis fol
IL a runaway accid
clan and his band "
street playing when
dashed into the bunch.
wants $4,000.
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Hrs. Thomas Hannigan of lie Sueu
county died while riding home in her car
riage. Heart disease
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-01-30
Postal Currency.

One OF the measures now pending In
Congress is that which provides for
what 10 known a. Post Check Cur.
rency," which is intended TO furnish a
practical and convenient method OF
sending small sums of money by mail.
A great deal has been written on the
subject and the proposed measure has
the universal Endorsement OF the press
as we'll as the business interests of the
country. The Post Check Currency
is in effect a greeenback in denomina-
tions from 25 cents to five dollars,
which passes current like any other
money until the holder writes in q
space on the back the name of a per.
son to whom he wishes to send it by
mail. 1t then becomes payable to the
payee only, and on his indorsement is
deposited in the bank and gets back To
Washington through the usual chan
nels and is destroyed as mutilated
currency"
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Be99ars by the Multitude

The annoyances to which rich peo
pie who are known to be of a generous
turn are subjected is we'll shown by q
statement which Miss Helen Gould
has caused to be made. A writer in
Ererybody's Magazine says that Miss
Gould's secretary prepared list of Pc
titions received in one week and
mailed copy of this petition to sub.
sequent petitioners as sort OF pro.
test against indiscriminate demands
made on Miss Gould's charity. The
list begins bravely with a request for
81 600, 900 with which to found col.
ony in Cuba, goes on with 241 requests
Tor money, 81 for loans, 149 for sums
to raise mortgages, ETC., shows 5 who
wish to sell manuscripts, who are
anxious to name their little girls
Helen e., one who longs for $500 with
which to erect monument to par
ent, A modest young women who
would like help towards their trous.
seau Zone suggesting $1,000 as a neat
and appropriate sunny, 18 crank letters
and 81 requests for interviews. In all,
the seven days showed 1903 letters,
each asking something. But 1868 oi
the writer's specified the sums desired,
and these alone if obliged, would have
relieved Miss Gould of 81, ,54S, ,502.