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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-03-13

rector. The gentlemen left yesterday
AFTERNOON for Minneapolis.
| Chris H. johnson went to Winona
this morning. Mr.. johnson returned
: from Chicago the first of the week.
The milliners, the Misses Shook,
have rented the house of G.. Nj. Fiero
| on Clark street and will move there
in few days.
Miss Grayce Turner of Wells was
in the city today. She was arranging
for the appearance here of concert
company.
Aladelia Messenger: Mrs. A. j. Ho-
dapp and little daughter, Lucille, went
to Mankato last week for short visit
with her parents and friends. She
left her little daughter, who has been
in poor health for some time, at the
st. Joseph hospital, in the. care of
the sisters. At last reports she was
contented and doing nicely.
| Ira Bishop of Mapleton was in the
city yesterday and today.
| Miss Severson arrived yesterday
from Chicago and was the guest of
MIR. and Mrs. c. J. Lauriscll until this
AFTERNOON when she went to Mapleton.
;, Mrs. Clara Rinehart of Amboy is
visiting friends in the city.
Mrs. w. r. Warwick and her two
sons departed at noon today over the
Omaha line for San Diego, Cal, where
| they will be guests for several weeks
at the residence of Mrs. Warwick's
mother. They were accompanied by
Miss Edwards, who will visit princi-
pally at Redlands. Cal.
Frank Clague of Lamberton was a
local visitor today.
Paul Nef of Lake Crystal was in
|, the city last evening visiting his
friends
Ferdinand Walser of Minnesota Lake
| is spending few days i'm Mankato
as a guest at the home of his broth
ler. Martin Walser.
Miss Mile Hockstejn of Minnesota
Lake is spending few days with
friends in the city.
l.. s. Hall of Winnebago City is
transacting business in Mankato.
J.. E. Swensen of Lake Crystal
called today on his local acquain-
tances.
Carl Ludke departed today for Ia
coma, Wash, where he will make a.
visit of indefinite length.
c. c. Wheatfield who has been spend
ing few days with friends in Man
kato and vicinity left this afternoon
for Sioux City.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Ochs of Fari-
bault arrived last evening to sepnd
several days in Mankato as guests of
numerous acquaintance.
l.. E. Leighton of GAINESVILLE was
visitor in the city yesterday and to-
day.
L. r. Hall of Winona transacted
business in the city yesterday and
today and called on his friends.
p. Stenson of Granite Falls is max
ing short business visit in the city. |
DIR. j. w. Meighen, who is practicing
at Ulen, Clay county, was recently
the guest of his sister, Mrs. +. r. |
Volk, of Cliff Inn., Lake Washington. |
Mr.. and Mrs. Volk have been COM
PEELED to remain at their lake home
this winter because of the enfeebled /
condition of Mrs. Volk's mother.
r. w. Bates of Menomonie, Wis.,, is
visiting his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. G. |
b. Bates of Minnesota street, over !
Sunday.
Mrs. E. A. Hike departed this after.
noon for Luverne to join her husband |
Mr.. Hike was recently elected to a
position in the bank at that place.
Sleepy Eye Herald: Mrs. w. r.
White of Mankato was in the city a
few days the past week visiting at
the home of her daughter Mrs. A.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-03-13

From Wednesdays Daily.
| The Presbyterian thimble bee held
at the residence of DIR. z. G. Harring.
ton yesterday afternoon was very
pleasant affair. The gentlemen arrived
70 tea, and the attendance was large.
1. !. 1.
The j. G. f. club was entertained
by Mrs. George M. Phillips last even
ing. The members enjoyed trip over
a large tract of UNEMPLOYED territory
to Indianville. Mrs. David Terwilliger
being a very good traveller, was the
first to reach her destination, followed
closely by Mrs. Joseph A. Eckstein,
winning the honors.
Refreshments were then served to
the weary travellers. The guests from
abroad were Mrs. Joseph A. Eckstein
and Miss Tillie Heyrhan of New Ulm.
!. !. 1.
d. j. Severance and family moved
to Mankato from Belgrade township
Friday last. Mr.. Severance has de-
cided to study for admission to the
bar, and has entered C. L. Benedict's
office
The Misses Laura Finnigan of Bag
ley arriver her Monday to visit their
mother, Mrs. NJ. Finnigan, for a few
weeks.
Oliver Duane was over from st.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-03-13
IMankato Commercial College Ahead.

From Mondays DaHv.
The Mankato Commercial College l.
600 per cent record still remains in
tact. Tolands quint failed to make
good Saturday night. though they
pushed their opponents hard through
out the game. The latter began with
a fine line of team work but became
excited and it was every man for
himself. The score stands 35 to 20.
The normal team presented three subs
in line but gave the Highs u good
run nevertheless. The high school
won, % to H.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-03-13

Peter today. He states that at q
largely attended meeting there last
might plan was perfected for a
Irousing celebration on July Fourth.
A. r. Pau and A. II. Pau Jr. re.
turned today from Waseca, where they
went on business.
Attorney w. w. Smith took trip
to ST. Paul today.
V. J. Grenier of Mapleton was in
the city over night.
a. w. Lonsbury of Cedar Rapids
Iowa, was in the city OH business
today.
Miss Ana NJ. Foster of Sleepy Eye
visited in the city today.
+. NJ. Ryan of indianapolis, Ind.
president of the international associ
alton of Bridge and Structural Iron
Workers, was in Mankato today. He
and Attorney c. o. Daley were room
rates at Ellsworth years ago.
AID. Mahowald is convalescing nicely
from his operation.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-03-13
so LOANS

We are agents for Northwes stern Life
Insurance Company, and other Eastern
money. which we are able to loan on
good Blue Earth and Nicollet county
farms at so. with prepayment privileges.
If you are now paying a higher rate
either call on or write US for particulars.
Our business is to help you save your
money. Why pay a higher rate when
YOU can get money at so.
We pay 40 interest on time deposits.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-03-13
Funeral of Mrs. May.

Fro'u SATURDAYS nsiiv.
The funeral of Mrs. May was held
this morning with services at nine
o'clock at st. Peter and st. PauPs
Catholic church. The services were at
tended by large number of friends
of the deceased. Interment was made
this afternoon in the cemetery at. ST.
Clair where the remains of Mr.. May
are buried.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-03-13
Victim of Pneumonia.

From Saturdays Daily.
j. L. Gable, manager of, the Nichols
e. Sheperd Threshing Machine COM
pany at Minneapolis, died this morn.
ing of pneumonia. Mr.. Gable had many
friends in Mankato who will be pain
ed to learn of his death.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-03-13

From fridays Daily.
Good Thunder Herald: w. A. Whsle.
formerly of this place, but for the past
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-03-13
oFFIcEaS:

OFFICERS:
LORIN CRAY, President +. K MEAeHER Vice Pres
GEO. W. SUDDEN, Cashier. f. DuRoE Asst Cashier
w. ANDERSON and j. N. DEGLMANN, Telers.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-03-13
From SATURDAYS Dailv.

FROM SATURDAY 3 DduV.
Miss Louise johnson, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. c. I'll. johnson, 800 South
BROAD street, the accomplished young
violinist who for some time past has
been the attraction at Wonderland
Theatre, has resigned her position as
violinist there and Monday morning, in
company with her parents will leave
for Duluth to remain two weeks. At
ter that time she will go to Chicago,
stopping in Mankato on her way. Last
evening Mr.. and Mrs. Ruerup, propri-
|etors of The Wonderland, presented her
a beautiful richly studded comb as a
parting gift in appreciation of her ex-
cellent services at the theatre and to
show their high esteem of the young
lady. Miss johnson has rare ability on
the violin and her work is exception
ally fine for one of such tender years.
She has a bright future and her
friends will regret her intended de-
parture.
n. O. Nelson, the ST. Louis mil
lionaire, and his friend f. M. Tousley
of Minneapolis, who were Mankato
visitors yesterday. were guests of }.
G.. Thro, whose brother has been i'll
the employ of Mr.. Nelson at ST..
Louis for many years. MIR. Nelson is
a philanthropist of wide note and a
very democratic gentleman. He was
recently under the spot light in the
middle south because of his offer to
pay one-half the wages of children of
st. Louis compelled to work to con-
tribute to family support on condi-
ton that the associated charities
would pay the other half and place
the laborers in school. Mr.. Nelson ac-
Mr.. Tousley to Good Thur
der on business connected with the
store at that place which is member
of the Right Relationship league, CO.
operative mercantile organization, of
which Mr.. Tousley is the secretary
and treasurer and Mr.. Nelson is d. |
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-03-13
The
National Citizens Bank
of Mankato, Minnesota

ASSETS
One Million Three Hundred
Thousand Dollars
UNITED STATES DEPOSITARY
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-03-13

Mr. Evan Olson and Miss Anna
Thorstenson, both of Amboy, were
married at five o'clock yesterday at
the home of Miss Richarda Godager
in this city. Rev. Nordgaard offici-
ated. Mr.. Olaf Thorstenson and Miss
Richarda Godager attended the cou-
ple
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-04-03
SKYSCRAPERs OF ROME.
Ancient Regulations Regarding the
 Height of Tenements and Palaces.

"The skyscraper is no modern in- vention," says St Louis architect, well read in the history of his pro- fession. "In all the ancient cities where brick or stone was available high houses, within the walls of the city were very numerous because of the lack of ground space for build ing.
 Tn the days of Augustus the ten cment houses in Rome became so high as to be dangerous and laws were passed condemning a number of tenement rows and ordering them to be taken down, while at the same time law was enacted limiting the height of all future tenements to 100 feet. For palaces and public build ings there was no limit.
 After the burning of the city in Nero's time the streets, which before were no wider than our alleys, were made broader; some of them, through the business part of the city, were forty feet wide, and some of the great thoroughfares were sixty.
 "The tenement height was lowered to eighty feet, and as consequence the city spread far beyond its walls. The average height of ceillg in a Roman tenement was a little over five feet; the windows were open holes in the wall, stopped in cold weather with board shutters. So the worst modern tenement is palace com pared with the skyscraper home of the poor when the empire was at it's best"
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-04-03
WOLVES IN SIBERIA.
What Will They Do to the Racing
 Automobiles?

A correspondent of the New York Times raises what may prove an i'm portant question about one danger to which the automobiles in the New York to Paris race may be ex- posed. He says:
 While the tutos in Le Matin and the Times race from New York to Paris are speeding onward, I have been wondering what precautions, if any, have been taken against a dreadful peril that 1t Is possible they may encounter in the lonely wastes of Siberia from the attack of wolves that infest that desolate region in untold numbers. Some of my kin are from Russian Poland. and know for a certainty that after nightfall these wolves come forth and seek their prey. Their scent is keen, and only large fires. and sometimes not then, when very hungry, will keep them at bay. They do not fear the sound of rife shot. They will fol- low for miles from twilight to day dawn, and sometimes as many will be met coming toward you as are those that are following, until one is completely surrounded. What If a mischance comes in the way of a burst tire?
 How could it be repaired with hundreds of hungry wolves crowding about the machine? I feel sure all other obstacles will be Eurmounted but the wolves are something to be reckoned with that may bring disas- ter and defeat. The wolves are known to pursue their prey even into the streets of villages. They will be very hungry at this time of the year, and they are strong, untiring and agile.
 ''I most sincerely hope and trust that these brave pioneers are pro- tected most amply in some way from the great and dreadful danger of the wolves of Siberia"
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-04-03
CHEER UP, GIRLS.
Teaches to Be Beauty With Squint
 Eyes and Flat Noses.

Away with your powder and paint, girls ;cut out envious glances and cease spiteful chatter ;think only beautiful thoughts and every last one of you, even the actor lady who stands at tthe extreme end of the last row of the chorus and once said the leading lady for Charlie Frohman will immediately become the personification of all that Is beautiful.
 Mrs Ivah de Chipenham Berg, aes- thetic physical culturlst, just arrived in New York from Chicago, assures that all this is true, every word of 1t
 When her pupils are exercising Mrs Berg gives them beau ,iful phrases to say. Each phrase con- tains a beautiful thought and if you think this thought while exercis- ing, your muscles will assume beauti- full proportions. Here are some of Mrs Berg's own thoughts uttered yesterday at her studio, No 19 East Fifty-ninth street:
 Not to be beautiful is to cry to the world that one has lived dis cordant life.
 "Women are like the trees of the forest. If they become dwarfed 1t is because they have been robbed of sufficient space and sunlight.
 Beauty is the God-given right of every woman. True beauty consists of three parts-physical, mental and spiritual. A woman may possess one of these attributes and be with out the other. Hers is not a rounded beauty,
 "To retain her beauty woman must always think of pleasant, sweet beautiful thoughts. If she sees a dead rat, it is not a pleasant sight. and her face assumes a disagree able expression. She should do her best to think of something beauti~ full on such occasions: look at fine painting, or if she be musical play something on the piano. Then her mind will not be affected and her beauty of expression will not dis appear.
 Ut is impossible to play sonata on a piano that is out of tune, and it is impossible to become beautiful if ones thoughts are not pure and sweet"
 Here are few "don'ts" that Mrs Berg gives for the fair ones who wish to improve their beauty of face and figure:
 Don't look at the soft bloom on a beautiful woman's cheek and won der if it is rouge or attribute the sparkle of her eyes to belladonna. Such thoughts are as detrimental to your own beauty as the rankest poi son is to your health.
 Don't worry over your troubles; conquer them.
 Don't fret over lack of success; attain it.
 Don't envy another's happiness: know that you may equal it.
 Don't grieve over disappoint- ment; live that down by a realization that your desire was mistake"
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-04-03
CAMPAIGN CIGARS.
Opinion Wrong About Their Quality,
 q Manufacturer Thinks.

"I sec that a member of the Ohio Legislature is trying again this year to have the bill passed he introduced two years ago to prohibit the giving of tobacco in any form for campaign purposes" said a Pearl street cigar manufacturer. Tt is clear enough this is q direct slap at the campaign cigar, but even if the bill went through in Ohio and in every other state in the union the cigarmakers wouldn't lose any sleep over 1t.
 Tt is a peculiar fact that although 1t is we'll known that in every cam paign, whether it is for the election of school trustee or a president, a great quantity of cigars are dis tributed by the candidates, the man. ufacturers never observe an increase in their business. On the contrary presidential election invariably has a had effect on business.
 ''One of the mysteries of the trade Is why so much Olium should be attached to what is popularly called the campaign cigar" I have never heard that manufacturers turned out peculiarly evil brands of cigars fin presidential years.
 Isn't it possible that these are the ordinary five cent cigars of commerce which are having their reputatiOns dragged in the dirt by professional jokesmithsE Anyway. why do canii- dates hand out campaign eigarSE NohoS1v ever hparf that nm. rfs-sr a-. even a whole box of them ever changed a voters attitude toward an office seeker
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-04-03
CORSETS MENACE THE ARMY.
Woman Inventor Said to be Making
 Progress With War Department.

The design for a soldiers corset, which will make fat soldiers slim, and keep slim soldiers from getting too fat, has been submitted to Sur; geon-General O'Reilly of the United States army, by the woman inventor.
 This same enterprising person has also informed the surgeon-genera that the corset, if adopted, will make the American army officer the most athletic-looking and spryest military man on earth. The surgeon-general according to the information received by army officers in New York, is dis inclined to consider the corset ques- tion seriously, but the inventor is not without influential support.
 The inventor of the military corset Is a French woman, who is now in Washington pressing her claims foI recognition before the war depart. ment. She is accompanied on her rounds of the department by trim French maid, and between them they have managed to interview most oi the higher officers on duty in Wash ington.
 On Governors island, at the Army and Navy club, at the coast artillery posts hereabouts, everybody was talk ing corset yesterday. The slim off cers thought the matter huge joke but it was exactly the opposite with the portly ones.
 They could be detected every now and then taking squint at them selves in the mirror. It was plain tC see that they were trying to frame a mental picture of themselves when remodeled by the corset.
 'T do not want to be retired just yet" said an officer whose waist measurement does not tend to de- crease the price of clothes, "but fl anybody tries to get me into one oi those things. we'll, it's the cinder path for mine."
 'Me, too," a sympathetic brother answered, who was almost as portly "The very idea of such a thing! may be a little above the average when 1t comes to weight, but what have got is mine and don't intend to insult nature by losing it with the aid of a thing that only women arc supposed to wear. New York Times.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-04-03
BUILD \ CHURCH AT NIGHT.
Work of a Congregation That Could
 Not Afford to Pay for Labor.

With the light from a dozen lan- terms helping them to see where to place ioists and how 70 nail on weather boards. ten members of the Yecker Avenue Baptist church worked until after II o'clock last night on their new church building
 The Yeeker Avenue Baptist church was organized about three years ago. Until recently the congregation wOr- shipped in a small frame building. Additions to the eongreEst!On made a larger building necessary and it was decided to build a church
 Bnt the congregation sas not a wealthy one. and the members felt that they could not give money enough for a new building. Then the Rev William l.. Harms. pastor of the church. had an idea.
 We can afford tO buy material for a new building and s1eh one of us can give a little of his time in work" Mir Harms said. The conzre- gatiOn agreed and the material vas bought.
 Every day and many nights. under the direction of some 1f the mem bers of the congregation Who are carpenters. the work C0es on Those Uho cannot work hy day -ise little of their time at night lnI the wo- men Of the church have aoTee ready for the men when the work Is over. .-Kanszs City Tines.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-04-03
WAITING FOR THE WHISTLE.
Varied Assemblages of Vehicles That
 Bank Up at Crossings.

When you drag net you get al sorts of fishes in 1t; when at tra- fic regulated street crossing the policeman holds up his hand there bank up in the halted line along the street all sorts of vehicles.
 What the major part of these vehi- eles may be would depend somewhat on where in the city the policeman stood; but there are streets in the town, thoroughfares of varied traf- fic, in which the vehicles thus held up might include pretty much everything on wheels, as here now in such a bunch in such street stood a hearse.
 In the front rank of the halted procession, ranging across the street us by the crossing and waiting for signal to go on, stood big Fifth avenue motor stage, and then a double truck, and then a light de- livery wagon. In the next rank back stood, behind the stage, a ham, som cab, and next to that hearse and next to that an automobile tour ing car, and back of this came other ranks of trucks and cabs and wagons and automobiles, until the short block had come to be filled with ve- hicles of all sorts thus held up with the ,hearse standing there in the midst of them.
 It had glass panelled sides, through which you could see, resting on the rollers within, an oak burial ,casket; the driver of the hanson cab, on one side, could look down from his high perch upon the roof of the hearse; the people in the automobile on the other side could look through the glass side of the hearse upon the casket, while upon the box seat, all in black and with high hats sat the hearse driver and the under taker waiting like everybody else, for the policeman's whistle.
 And when that sounded the hearse driver started up his black horses with the rest, the whole waiting bunch seemed to get into motion at once, and in a moment they were passing over the crossing in ranks and attachments, the cabs and the automobiles and the trucks going on their various errands in their various ways with the living, and the hearse following it's way with the dead.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-04-03
ORIGIN OF MOVING PICTURES.
Result of Experiment to Show Both
 Sides of a Coin at Once.

The beginning of the moving pic lures was in this wise: Sir John Herschel after dinner in 1926 asked his friend, Charles Babbage. how he would show both sides of 2 shilling at once. Babbage replied by taking a shilling from his pocket and hold ing 1t to a mirror.
 This did not satisfy Sir John. who set the shilling spinning upon the dinner table, at the same Ime point ing out that If the eye is placed on a level with the rotating coin both sides can be seen at once. Babbage was so struck by the experiment that the next day he described it tO a friend. Dr Fitton, who immediately made a working model.
 On one side of a disk vas drawn a bird. on the other side an empty bird cage: when the card was re- vOlving on a silk thread the bird ap- peared to be in the cage. This model showed the persistence of vis- ion upon which all moving pictures depend for their effect The ere re tains the image of the objects seen for a fraction of a second after the object has been remoFed- This model was called the thaumOtrops-
 Next came the zOetrope. or wheel of fife. A cylinder vas perforated uith a series of slots and sithin the cylinder was placed a band of draw inEs of dancing men On the appa- Fatus being slowly rotated the fig ures through the slots appeared tO he in motion The first systematic photograph taken st reEu-ar intervals of mea and animals were made by MuybTidge in 1S77.-ChisagO TTfb- v1a.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-04-03
FIo~sr Better Than Fly Paper.

Mignonette a substitute for ny paper! Surely. of any remedy for any bad con dItion that announcement has a de- lIghtful sound. says the New York Press. A woman living in the country asserts that in a room where pots of mIgnonette are set files will no finger. "InStead of placing those annoying sticky sheets of paper about the room" says an experienced woman. GOT un- derzoing exhzusting exercise of driv- ing the pests out of the place through windows. the blessed plant just seems to blow them out on a wave of what you and I us-'d ~-I It's fragrance.-
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-04-03

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