The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-09-16
His Going Was Clearly His
Own Design and Act.
North Mankat0 Teachers Go to
Fair at ST. Peter.
News from NiCOIIet County Sub
urb Across River.
From Fridays Daily.

From Fridays Daily.
No trace has as yet turned ND of
Henry Will Jr., the sixteen year old son
of Henry Will ST., the North Mankato
milkman, living quite a distance out on
Range street not far from the Single
brickyard. The boy was the oldest of
several children. He was last seen at
home on Wednesday night about half
past six o'clock Circumstances of the
disappearance of the boy indicate he left
home voluntarily He was employed
at the Kuehne wagon shop, where he
was learning the trade of blacksmith
On that day he requested to be allowed
to 90 home at six o'clock, as he wished
to be present at the choir practice at the
German Lutheran church that evening.
He did not show up for the practice,
however. When he left home that eve-
ming he was in a great hurry. He was
going, he said, to get bicycle tire fixed
at the Jones bicycle shop.
He left home with the tire It has
developed, however, that he did not APP
pear at the shop.
It is thought that the boy left home
in the hope of securing higher wages
elsewhere. Alfred P. Void, who had
been working also at the Kuehne shop,
used to have great tales to tell about the
high wages paid in Minneapolis. He was
often seen talking with the boy. That
same evening Void was seen pacing the
somebody. IL was shortly after six
O'Clock then. IT is thought that he was
waiting for the boy and that the two
went off to Minneapolis together in
search of work Mr. Wold's wife, who
lives out near the cement works, had
talk with the parents of the missing boy.
She stated that her husband had gone
away to look for work. She supposed
he had gone to Minneapolis. So it is
pretty certain that the boy left home
of his own will and that no harm came
to him. He did not show up at the Jones
shop with the tire at all.
One strange circumstance is that
Young VIII did not take any money with
him. His mother declares that he did
not have cent. He had a gold cased
watch, however, which might bring him
some money in case of need. Perhaps,
too, he could get something for the tire.
He had on his best suit and hat, and
working shirt.
All the teachers in the North Mankato
public school yesterday afternoon visit
ed the Nicollet county fair, driving down
to St Peter together. The party COM
prised Miss Alma Wagon, the principal,
Miss Pearl Wimot, Miss Margaret
Kelly. Miss Lillian Smith, Miss Doro-
thea Funk and Miss Mabel Greenwood.
Henry viii, the milllman, has pc
culiar-looking goose, which might be de-
scribed as a goose without nose. In
the spring, when that goose was but
newly Matched goslin, it happened to be
exposed to a bad rainstorm. 1t was
thoroughly chilled, and Mr.. Will put it
in the oven to get it dry. The oven
was a little hotter than Mr.. Will
thought, and the poor goslin burnt her
nose very badly against one of the iron
walls. Nevertheless it survived and
ran with the other goslings. 1t is now
full grown goose, and looks like any
other goose, except that the upper part
of its bill is half gone. The lower jaw or
bill projects half an inch in front of the
upper one. The goose seems healthy
nevertheless.