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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-03-26
PREPARE FOR STATE FIREMEN
Meeting Will Be Held in Cloquet Dur
ing Month of June.

Cloquet, March 22.-Preparations for
the entertainment of the state fire
mems convention in this city next
June are already under way. The two
joint committees of the fire depart
ment and the Commercial club have
been selected, the following men rep.
resenting the department: John Mel
son, E. j. Keable, j. A. Fesenbeck
August Johnson and A. Mckenzie. The
Commercial club will be represented
by Isaac Summerfield G. H. Kopp, w
X. McNair, f. S. Schiebe and F. L.
Redfield
The committee will arrange the pro
gram for the three days that the visi
tors will be here, will estimate the
cost of their entertainment and out
line plans for the raising of the money
and anticipate the various other de,
tails the most important of which will
be the providing of adequate sleeping
apartments for the visiting firemen
The entertainment will offer no diff
ficulties as the numerous mills, paper
company, box company, ETC., will I'M
questionably be of great interest tC
the majority. Baseball games, log roll
ing contests, races, etc., will be ar
ranged and the 500 visitors are eX
pe"ted will have the best the city car
offer.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-03-26
Session to Be Held in Chicago During
This Week

ScSSioh " DC HeIQ III CnlCdgO DuIiH3
This Week
From MONDAYS Daily.
The meeting of the normal school
presidents, representing the states OF
Minnesota, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana
Iowa, Michigan, Kansas, Missouri
Nebraska, North and South Dakota and
Wisconsin, will be held this week at
Chicago. Guy Maxwell of the Winona
normal is the president of this Organi-
cation which calls itself the North Cen
trail Council of State Normal School
Presidents, and he has made public the
following program:
Wednesday evening-Dinner at $50
The present and future place of the
normal school in American education
its relations to other departments OF
the educational system. President John
w. Cook, De Kalb, ILL., Discussion
President l., C.. Lord, Charleston, Ill
President Joseph Hill, Emporia, Kan
The academic content of the course
of study, answering the question, "TC
what extent is the inefficiency of the
public schools due to the lack of schol.
arship and disciplined mind on the
part of the public school teacher?'
President f. w. Bohannon. Duluth
Mimi; Discussions: President James III
Kaye, Marquette. Mich; President
Thomas A. Hillyer, AIayville, n. ID.
Thursday Afternoon, 2:30-The kinds
and relative amounts of work i'm a
standard normal school course of study
with Il statement of entrance require
ments, relative amounts of ~ aca-
demic, (2) theoretical or professional
and (3) practice work, assuming that
the normal schools are required to meet
three demands, better trained teachrcs
| for l) rural schools. % elementary
graded schools. so high schools. Presi
dent William W. Parsons, Terre Haute
Ind. Discussion: President John A. Fl
Keith, Oshkosh, Wis; President Fl. II
Seerley, Cedar Falls, Iowa.
Each topic will be open for general
discussion.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-03-26
VS.. BRAz1ER CASE
Action Was Decided BY Judge Pfau
of the District Court.

From MONDAYS Danv
Judge Pau today filed a decision
in the case of j. R. Brandrup against
&c. G. Brazier and the Empire Surety
company. The suit grew out of the
contract that Mr.. Brazier had to re.
model the Lamm & Hohmann block,
for the contract price of $4,000, two
years ago Changes were subsequently
made in the contract that enhanced
the cost 1906, and the time for com
pleting the work was extended ninety
days with the consent of all parties,
especially the bond company. The
court further finds that Mr.. Brazier
gave bond for $4,000 with the En-
pire Surety company as surety, to
protect the plaintiff from liens and
for the faithful performance of the
work.
The findings say that Mr.. Brazier
never completed the work, but aban.
doned it, and that Mr.. Brandrup ex-
pended $l25.59 towards completing it
and that it will take $l74.4l more tc
finish it. Liens to the amount of
$3,SO6.99 were placed upon the build
ing, and were paid by Professor Brand
rup. The latter had paid Mr.. Braziel
S5,49O.S5 on the contract price and fol
the extras.
The court finds that the plaintiff
is entitled to recover from the defend
ants the difference between the contract
price and the extras, or 1896 in all
and the amount paid out for all pur
poses, $5,49O.s5 to the contractor, $500
for the cost of completing the work
and the liens paid, total of $9,307 "a
in all. This difference the court finds
to be $l,7O2.s4, and gives the plain
tiff judgment for this amount. A
stay of twenty days is granted.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-03-26
ATTEMPTED TO ROB GROCERY.
Would Be Thief Pays an Early Visit
to Eckhardt Store.

T1tfn Mondays DAILY.
Mrs. Eekhardt's grocery store on
South Front street was the scene OF
an attempted robbery early last even.
ing, that certainly was very nervy
Mrs. Eckhardt and daughter were in
the store at seven o'clock, on their re-
turn from drive, and discovered one
of the rear windows slightly raised, al
though Miss Eckhardt had securely
fastened it upon closing the store
Mrs. Eckhart fastened the window
catch, and upon her return home a
The latter ut once went to the store
arriving there half an hour after his
mother had left, and discovered the
window up again, and the glass of the
upper sash broken above the catch and
the latter turned. A piece of a brick
that had been used in breaking the
glass was found. So far as could be
ascertained, nothing was stolen from
the store, but it is possible that some
articles may have been stolen. Mr.
Eckhardt believes that his timely ar
rival may have prevented robbery
OF considerable proportions. He at once
informed the police, and the officer:
kept watch on the store and it was
not again molested. Mrs. Eckhardt will
take steps to prevent entrance being
gained to the store again.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-03-26
HOW WOULD We live IF
MEN were TO keep HOUSE

Ghe Chicago Sunday Tribune has
printed the following by Mrs. Ellen H.
Richards, professor of sanitary science
of the Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology, who has asked the following
very startling questions: How wonld
we live if men were to undertake the
housekeeping? and she adds "Ths is
not joke" Mrs. Richards feels that,
should men assume the housekeeping
problems, they will not lose prestige
because they will be assuming the
most difficult problem of the age
that of keeping the home together.
Housewife Has "Fallen Down."
AS Tor the housewife, she has fallen
down completely in changing the unda-
mental faults of things which the man
Will have to take hold of when he
once undertakes to run the house on
the same business principles that he
does the factory. "ln what other bust
ness would the coal supply be dumped
on the sidewalk to be shoyeled and
wheeled into the cellar, only to be
Drought up again; or the ashes carried
down only to be brought up and carried
away! How few of the really valuable
appliances are to be found i'm house.
how little attention is paid to the
saving OF labor. The heaviest kettles
are always on the lowest shelf. and
articles of daily use are so placed as
to require miles of travel. House archi-
lecture is fifty years behind shop build
ing and factory construction. The ignor-
lance of the housewife as to what is
possible and her traditional conserya
|tism are the causes of these Things.
"The women who are nominaIlv at
the head of households take the ready
made plans of landlords and decorators
and only stipulate that all shall be as
stylish as Mrs. So-and Sos. This is
proof of their low ideals of what q
home means and their unfitness tc
preside there"
Zone of the counts against woman al
a scientific hOnsekeeper is that she
declares that the expenses of births
deaths, marriages, and children's sick
nesses can't be reckoned on. Mrs. Rich
ards thinks that they can be, and thai
they will be when men take mp house
keeping problems in the same scentifi,
way that they have already taken M
business problems.
Mrs. Richards feels that food eater
outside will not bear the test of the
home that is truly helpful, for she adds
lit is around the quiet family board
that the members of the family gel
their best strength and equilibrium
THE home dining room must be kept
! Is decision made by this sanitary
scientist, but whether the nome would
bear the cutting off of the kitchen is
one of the questions to be settled by
the men eventually.
So far from being detrimental tC
masculine prestige or his business abil
ity in other directions, the business OF
housekeeping would only 90 to max,
men superior in other directions, anC
to prove this the Enelishman is quoted
as an example. "The Englishman'
house is not only his CASTLE" says Mrs
Richards, but it is small world il
itself. In its management he has learn
ed to rule larger things. 1t is con
!ceded by so able an observer as Ed
mond Demolin that this is the secret
of Anglo Saxon superiority. The Eng
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-03-26
YOUTH WAS TOO AMBITIOUS
Wanted Rapid Promotion in the STAN
dard Oil Company.

New York, March 24.-In his quest
for occasions for distinguishing him
self and thereby obtaining promotion
which in time would lead to his being
made director of the Standard Oil
company, William Reddy, an eighteen
year-old youth employed in the filling
department of the company, confessed
that on several occasions he has set
fire to the Kent avenue plant of the
Standard in Brooklyn.
His object, he declared, was to i'm.
press his superiOrs by his alertness
In discovering the blaze and later by
his courage and determination in
fighting it.
He was locked up ON Q charge of
arson.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-03-26

There is more Catarrn ~ I'M section Of
the country than all other diseases put
together. and until the last few wears
was supposed to be incurable. For a
great many years doctors pronounced II a
local disease and prescribed local reme-
dies. and by constantly failing to cure
with local treatment. pronounced II in
durable. Science has proven catarrh to
be a constitutional disease and therefore
requires constitutional treatment. Halls
Catarrh Cure. manufactured by +. J.
Cheney e Co.. Toledo. o.. Is the only
constitutional cure Oh the market IT Is
taken internally, In doses from ten drops
to a teaspoonful. 1t acts directly on the
blood and mucous surfaces of the sys-
tenn. They offer One Hundred Dollars
for any case. 1t fails to cure. Send for
circulars and testimonials Address: r.
J. CHENEY e. CO., Toledo. o.
Sold nv druggists. 75c
Take Halls Family Pills for cohstipa-
ton.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-03-26

| lishman easily leads because he has
organizing ability. the young boy who
! by his fathers death becomes the head
of the household develops those quail
ties which afterward show in states
manship or in generalship or in engi-
neering professions"
Happiness Would Be Increased.
81 believe it would be greatly to the
advantage of the health and happiness
of the world if the food part of the
housekeeping were for time done by
men," SAYS Mrs Richards, "for they
would systematic it as they have sys-
tematiZed the various industrial pur-
suits which were once our household
occupations.
! zine American woman has been much
slower than men to grasp the meaning
of the proper setting in which to in
crease the enjoyment of food. The club
table is often a model feast, while
since she no longer cooks the meal
herself the housekeeper has washed her
hands of all care for the essentials and
wasted her energy in the foolish album
dance of entrees, sweets and bonbons
"She has not learned to keep the air
/ of her dining room fresh and cool and
| mas not taken pains to make the meal
an intelligent feast. Above all, she has
not trained her children to eat for life
and health, but allowed them to sacri-
flee both to mere within and habit.
mo man in his senses will set up
any other manufacturing establishment
with as little regard to the purpose of
it all and to the future success of its
operation as he will allow in the nau-
guratiOn of his household. The home
should be operated for the benefit of
the family as railroad is for the
benefit of the public, and the same far
sighted business sense should govern
these expenses if the family is to find
profit in the life, such as the stock
holders of well managed railroad Sc
cure as the result of their knowledge.
Waste Will Be Abolished
when the housekeeping has been put
on business basis" says Mrs. Rich
ards, 1.-The present waste and drudgery
and dirt in the home kitchen will be
abolished and along with the soap
making will 60 the soup and bread
making, the heavy kettles, and greasy
dishes. The cleaning of fowls, the
trimming of vegetables will be done
out of the house and the bette noir,
the garbage pail will be reduced to
manageable dimensions. More refined
ways of doing the necessary tasks will
make the work pleasure, and, as |
believe, will keep the family circle in
tact"
Mrs. Richards says this idea is far
from a joke and many of the ideas
set forth by her are sane ones, still
she evidently feared people would take
it other than seriously, else why did
she preface her article with the firm
assertion that it was not Il joke We
I should like to have Mrs Richards 90
step farther and suggest just what
is woman's duty to herself and her
family. So many reforms are going
on nowadays and so many new ideas
are being put forth which are so radi-
scally different from anything that wom-
en- have done in the past, it is not
surprising that they are in quandary
as to what and where their sphere i'm
life is supposed to be-
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-03-26
National Purity CONGRESS.

Des Moines. Ia, March 24-Record-
ing Secretary Mrs. Ida B. Wise states
that the National Purity congress will
be held in Burlington, Ia, during the
first week in October Judge Ben B.
Lindsey will be one Of the speakers.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-03-26

When man takes his wife to the
theatre he thinks it's up to him to 60
out between the acts and telephone
to see if the house is still there
Chicago News.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-03-26

curiosity to be seen at Berlin is a
pair of curtains made or champagne
eorks. each cork being still covered by
the gilt paper associated with premier
brands. The corks hang in lengths of
sixty each. the rows being separated
by strings of Chinese turquoises. The
curtain ties are also made of blue
silk. The value of these unique eur
tains is estimated at $4,000 francs.
Prince Chun, the Chinese regent, ha $
decreed that in their audiences all
princes and ministers will be allowed to
be seated and need not perform the
CEREMONY of prostration before him.
There has been shipped from New
York to Pekin an entire plant for the
manufacture of bank notes to fill an
order placed by the Chinese govern.
ment for new mint equipped on the
most up-tO-date American lines.
In Venezuela there is a great de.
mand for perfumery, even among the
men, while face powder is an absolute
necessity for the women on account of
the climate.
Even as late as the earlier wears
of the eighteenth century mince pie
as an adjunct of the Christmas feast
was forbidden to the English clergy
man.
1t is said that there are 1913 or
! foundations advocating woman suffrage
in the little kingdom of Belgium.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-03-26

When the parlOr gas is turned low
it's safe bet the right young man
is in it.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-03-26
HORSE SMELLS FUMES OF BEER; E
DEVELOPS JAG; FALLS TO GROUND


+ Pepin, Wis. March 22.-While .
+ standing in front of saloon +.
+ in Durand, twenty miles from .
+ here, brewery horse became /.
! intoxicated with the fumes of !
+ the liquor which were waited !
+ toward him by strong wind. !
+ 1t stumbled, became entangled 1
+ with the harness and was nm !
+ hitched. !
! 1t was led to barn, went to .
+ sleep, and when it was arouned !
+ it acted as though it had been !
+ on an all-night spree. !
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-03-26

A successful politician, like the in
terest on mortgage, keeps everlast,
ingly at it.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-03-26

Louisville Courier-Journal: A New
Yorker, made defendant in a divorce
suit, killed himself. 1t was a sad, sad
tragedy. He left nothing that can take
the place of the alimony he might
have paid.
Evening Wisconsin,: The legislature
has permitted the free lunch to stay.
and it will remain as long as hungry
lnnchers will permit. That is the usual
fate of the free lunch in Milwaukee.
Baltimore Sun: Perhaps when the
rebate case is ended, the Judges will
decide that the government owes
money to the Standard Oil company.
Exchange: The Tawney pruning
hook reached around and pruned $4,000
out of DIR. Bishops salary as chief
expfainer of the Panama canal.
Washington Star: Bulgaria's tax
of 50 year on bachelors can make
no practical difference. Any man who
would marry in order to save that sum
is too poor a financier to be worth
while as husband.
st. Louis Times: Under the nine
foot law the Missourian who gets
"three sheets in the wind" will carry
lqnite sizeable original package
Milwaukee Sentinel: Mr.. Stephen
son might take the Chautauqua circuit
with some inside facts about Gre
formers l Have Known" 1t would be
Ia public service.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-03-26

Paris Figaro: At forty man NAV
regret that he married. At sixty
bacnelor regrets bitterly that he did
not take a wife.
Bohemian Magazine: To some men
happiness mean three square meals
day and place to sleep, while to
Others it means getting the proper
color on a meerchaum pipe.
Puck: An allround genius is a fell
low who does everything exceptionally
well except making a living
Washington Post: Marriage is wom-
ans duty" says Harper's Weekly. 1t
also is necessary preliminary to ali
mony.
Galveston News: A pretty woman
can find friends with her eyes shut and
hold them by keeping her mouth shut.
Philadelphia Ledger: Cold storage
men may protest, but the~egg of year
before last cannot be popularized.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-03-26
GRAY MATTER IN CHUNKS.

The wife of henpecked husband i
usually set in her ways.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-03-26

OF course, the preachers aim wasn't
accurate when his sermon hit Won.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-03-26
MIXED WITH .HUMOR.

Life: Cupid figures as the ianitor in
the majority of air castles.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-03-26

Fortune smiles on some men one
day and gives them the laugh the
next.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-03-26
BUNCH OF SHARP STICKS

A baseball team can't win with a
pitcher full of beer.
When stingy man is in love he is
apt to loosen up-but not for long.
wise man never calls another a
iool-no matter what he may think.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-03-26

shall hear the voice of the Ion Z. man
and shall come forth"-the Church to
a life resurrection, perfect and COM
plete; the world to Judgment resur-
rection, gradual raising up under dis
ciplines and chastisements, out OF sin
and death to perfection and everlast-
ing life, during the Millennium; or,
refusing this favor, to be remanded TO
the Second Death everlasting de-
StructiOn"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-08-05
TRAIN OVERTURNS
A. G. L. FAST FREIGHT IN SERIOUS
ACCIDENT.
Engineer Hubbard Davidson and Fire
man w. ID. Hunter OF sIont-
gomery Were Injured Yes
terday at Noon.

While rounding curve at place
Familiarity known as Big Horseshoe"
between this city and Troy. the At
lantic Coast Line freight train No.
s2a, bound for Montgomery. jumped it's
tracks at II o'clock yesterday morning.
completely overturning down the steep
embankment. and severely injuring
Engineer Hubbard Davidson and Fire.
man w. B. Hunter. both of Montgom-
cry.
The FIRST indication of the wreck
was when q touring car passed the
scene Of the accident shortly after
wards and was waved down by the ne
gro fireman, who was badly scalded.
though otherwise unhurt. The car
carried the injured crew into Troy,
where they were Immediately given
medical attention.
Engineer Davidson was at first
thought very seriously injured as he
was taken from the wreckage with
his right arm broken. his right limb
fractured and thought to be inter-
nally injured. Fireman Hunter was
badly scalded and sustained the frac-
ture OF one arm. Both men are we'll
known In this city, the former re-
siding on Commerce Street and the lat
ter boarding at 3I6 Martha Street.
Both men we're brought to Mont
gomery from Troy last evening on q
local freight train. Mr.. Hunter was
taken to his boarding house. while
Engineer Davidson was removed to
ST. Margaret's hospital. At a late
hour last evening the hospital author
tiles stated that his injuries were not
as serious as first supposed, and that
he was resting easily.
The wrecked train was local freight
running from Dothan to Montgomery,
and was due in this city at $3.50 o'clock.
The engine and the first three cars of
the train jumped the track and piled
up on ane another down the embank-
ment in the ditch.
A wreck train was at once despatch
ed to the scene of the accident from
this city and the wrecking crew began
the work OF clearing away the debris
and repairing the damage. The track
was torn up for some distance and the
damage to the train was considerable.
The Atlantic Coast Line passenger
train, No. 1ss. due in this city at $50
o'clock, was delayed at the scene of
the wreck and arrived in the city about
1915 last night.