The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-11-12

John C. Wise went to st. Cloud
today, and from there will go to Moor
head, on normal school business, and
will return Thursday.
Henry Thielman and Asa Andrews
of st. Clair will leave in a day or two
for the northern part of the state for
! their annual hunting trip.
Charles Guth and Frank Pohl re-
turned Saturday from two days duck
hunting trip to a point near Tracy
They brought back eleven ducks.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. P. Jones of Fulton
street have returned from Mortified.
They will make their home with Mrs.
Jones' father, John Jones, of 81 Full
ton street, for the winter.
w. H. Denison and George D. Secrest
of Amboy and Ed. Bartholomew of
Pleasant Mound have started for the
northern part of the state, equipped
with licenses and paraphernalia to
hunt big game.
Walter Sanborn of st. Paul was in
town Saturday. Mr.. Sanborn is a
veteran piano dealer. He was for
merly of Faribault and the tallest
man in Rice county. For MANY wears
he headed the Faribault band as the
drum major.
! Mrs. J.. L. Osborne mas returned from
Fort Collins, Col, where she has been
visiting her brother, j. T. McClelland,
who is very sick. While Mrs. Osborne
was away, her brother, III. McClelland,
died at mis- home at Urbano, Ohio, at
! the age of eighty years.
Deputy County Auditor C. l.. Ken
nedy spent yesterday at Faribault,
visiting his family, who are spending
some time there. His son, Gordon,
came to Mankato with the football
team Saturday and accompanied him
back to Faribault yesterday
| Mrs. Carrie Jacobs Bond arrived in
Mankato on the noon train today from
st. Paul, and will be the guest of Mrs
H. A. Patterson while in the city. To-
morrow morning Mrs. Bond will give
d short recital at the normal school
which will be exclusively for students.
President C. III. Cooper of the nor
NAL school left today for La Crosse,
where he viii attend the dedication of
the new normal school building and
also the Inauguration of the president
of the school. President Cooper will
also spend day at Winona before his
return.
Raymond Hughes Winfield Smith and
Miss Mabel Haynes returned last night
from lie Sueur, where they represented
the Congregational C. E. society at
the district convention Friday, Satur-
day and Sunday. Mr.. Hughes was hon
ored by an election as president, and
Miss Haynes as secretary. The next
meeting will be held at Lake Crystal.
A compaign of early Christmas shop
ping will be carried out in Winona
during the coming holiday period,
with the idea of doing away with the
eleventh-hour crush and the strenuous,
nerve-racking period for the shop en-
ployes in this city. Steps were taken
at a meeting of the executive commit
tee of the Winona Merchants and Bust
ness Mems association looking to the
working out of systematic movement
in Winona, to result in morning shop
ping, to begin early in the coming
month and carried on steadily, vet not
violently during the few days preced-
ing Christmas, throughout December.
The details of the plan will be left
in the hands of committee of three
to be appointed by President j. N.
Weir, with power to act. Mankato
merchants should organize some plan
to induce buyers to shop early.
Minneapolis Tribune: An effort is
to be made to revive the existence of
the oldtime Republican State league,
in its day, one of the most powerful
political organizations that ever ex-
listed in this state. A meeting is to be
called soon, either in ST. Paul or Min
neapolis, to formulate the bylaws of
the body and to elect officers w. W.
IHeffelfinger of Minneapolis or Ripley
Brewer of st. Cloud are the most like
ly candidates for the presidency of the
organization, and James w. Nash
chairman of the Hennepin county cam
paign committee, is likely to be made
secretary. The reasons for the reor.
ganization are many. The republican
party has again come into power, and
it is thought by republican leaders
that this is a ripe time to put into
effect the old-time organization that
formerly made the republicans irwin
lcible in the state.
"Tom Nowsal," the ST. Paul CORE
spondent of The Mortified News, writ
ing of the withdrawal of Mr. Grasty
from The ST. Paul Dispatch and Pho
neer Press, gives this interesting in
formation:
"Another theory reminds one of the
ancient myth of Pegasus yoked to the
pillow with an OK. This represents Mr.
Grasty as really the reformer and jour
nalistic argonaut he confesses himself
to be. The story goes that Grasty in
tended to go in for real, thorough
going reform in state. and especially in
municipal affairs. With that end in
view, an expert in municipal account
ing had been employed, who, in the
guise of an ordinary reporter, had for
some months been engaged in delving