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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-11-19
GRAND FORKS WORKS FOR PLAN
North Dakota City Wants Commission
System of Government.

Grand Forks, N. D., Nov. l6.-The
initial movement in Grand Forks to-
ward putting the commission plan of
city government to a vote of the peo-
pie will be taken next Wednesday
evening, mass meeting having been
called for that date by number of
advocates of the commission system.
The commission plan of city govern
ment has been discussed considerably
in Grand Forks during the last few
months, largely due to the utter lack
of system in the carrying out of the
civic improvements which have been
attempted in the city. Delays in get
ing paving work started, the tying up
of De Mers avenue, one of the main
thoroughfares of the city, for the sum-
.mer months, and other similar incon-
veniences have given the advocates of
the commission plan good ground for
complaint against the present form of
city government.
The various committees necessary to
formally starting the movement will
undoubtedly be chosen at Wednesdays
meeting, and the commission plan will
be fully discussed for the benefit of
those who are not familiar with its
provisions. s~esa
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-11-19

forced to kick The remainder of the
first half, neither side could gain and
the game became a kicking contest,
Mankato getting off six punts in fine
style, with the ball dripping with mud.
The first half ended with the ball in
Mankato's possession in the center of
the field
In the second half, Austin kicked off
to NIankato, the ball went across the
goal line and was brought out to TWEEN
ty-fve yard line and put in play by
Mankato, who advanced the ball fifteen
yards and was forced to punt. Austin
made fifteen yards with an onside kick,
failed to gain through the line and
were forced to punt During this half,
Austin got within striking distance of
Markato's goal, but were held on downs
both times. The half ended with Meth
err side scoring and the ball in Man
kato's possession on Mankato's two
yard line. The halves were twenty min
utes and the game was umpired by
Coach Crawford of the Mankato team.
The friendliest of feeling existed be-
tween the two teams and the Mankato
boz were substantially and pleasantly
entertained by the domestic science
department of the Austin school, who
served both teams one o'clock dinner
that was a very enjoyable and amicable
affair
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-11-19
Nov. 49, 26. Dec. g.
ORDER FOR HEARING ON CLAIMS
STATE OF MINNESOTA. County of

STATE OF MINNESOTA. County of
Blue Earth.-ss. In Probate Court.
In the matter. of the estate of Jane
L. Cookson, deceased.
Letters of administration on the es-
tate Of said deceased being this day
granted unto john H. Cookson of said
IT IS ORDERED That all claims and
demands OF all persons against said
examination and allowance, at the pro-
bate office in the City of Mankato in
said Blue Earth county, on the follow
ing day viz: Monday the 21st day of
February A. d. 1910 at ten o'clock in
the forenoon of said day.
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED, That
three months from the date hereof be
allowed to creditors to present their
claims against said estate. at the ex-
piration of which time all claims not
presented to said court, or not proven
red unless for cause shown further time
be allowed.
ORDERED FURTHER, That notice of
the time and place of hearing and ex-
animation of said claims and demands
shall be given by publication of this
order for three successive weeks prior
to the day appointed for such examina-
ton, in the Mankato Free Press a week
~ newspaper printed and published at
Mankato in said county.
Dated at Mankato, the 18th day of
November A. d. 1909.
BY the Court
VIM. F. HUGHES.
Judge of Probate.
probate Court Seal.)
Thos Hughes,
Atty. s
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-11-19
STOP FLIRTING; END DIVORCES
Cause of Our Social Evil; the Fumes
Scandal

Chicago, Nov. l6.-''It is a long dis
lance from Irritation on a corner to
what has become infamous at Newport
and on the Rivera, but He who looks
down from heaven has given but one
name to the whole road and that name
is destruction. When Irritation becomes
less common, popular and fashionable
the number of divorces and blasted
homes will diminish
That was Rev. Frederick E. Hop
kins' introduction to his sermon in the
Pilgrim Congregational church Sunday
He said:
Filtration is the cause of our social
evil. 1t undermines the home. 1t
makes marriage look like failure
The rapidly increasing number of wo-
men who drink and smoke in fashion,
able restaurants shows where sta
lions on the route are and the men in
the big swift touring cars accomplish
the rest of the trip with merciless
brevity but leave behind the fumes of
scandal that fill the land.
'When men and women are loiter-
ing about through life wondering what
they will do next, a serpent not far
away is apt to lift it's head and sight
the bird. From the garden of Eden
to the present hour snakes nave loved
Eve in a snakes way. Sampson has
lied and joked with Delilah, Sapho has
loved the young student as the devil
loves the world.
"The love of the fiirt is love that
makes men and women forget their
honor, their vows, their ambitions, their
talents, their fathers and mothers, hus-
bands and wives and all the great
hopes of time and eternity. The first
steps may lead down the marble steps
of palace of pleasure. But look at
the end"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-11-19
PLAN TO TEACH SAVING OF CROP

Proposing to save the people of this
country at least $lOOOOOOO each year,
plans for a National Audubon univer-
sity to be endowed with one million
dollars has been announced. Based
upon the known annual crop loss of
one billion dollars due to the spreading
pests that the insect eating bids de-
stroy, the calculations of the National
Association of Audubon societies, which
is putting forth this project, show
that the teaching of bird value from
such an institution must result III
wiping out at least one per cent of
the huge national penalty for popular
lack of knowledge on this subject.
When one million dollars can be raised
for the new university, it is proposed
to at once start it's work, which prom
Uses to eventually contribute hundreds
of millions to American prosperity.
Every man, woman and child
throughout the United States is to be
included as a student in the pro-
posed Audubon university. Through
hundreds of lectures and teachers, who
are to be educated in the science OF
natures checks to the destruction OF
the country's crops and woods, the
economic principles of bird preserva-
tion will be taught to the people OF
every community. By means OF uni
yersity extension and correspondence
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-11-19
PARTY POLITICS VS.. PERSONAL POLITICS

E. j. Henning at the Milwaukee re-
publican love feast Wednesday night,
uttered some wholesome truths that
voters in all parties will do well to
digest carefully. He said: "You must
have parties to get results. There is
place for individualism in our repre-
sentative form of government. A
nonpartisan has no more business in
a republican primary than an Episco-
palian has in a Methodist business
meeting where a pastor is to be
chosen"
1t will be sorry day for this re-
public. says The Milwaukee Sentinel,
if the time ever comes when party
politics are supplanted by personal
politics. At the beginning of our gov
ernmental life, parties were organized
and party lines drawn, and all the
great legislation of the nation has been
put upon the statute book and writ
ten into our federal constitution by
some great party. 1t will be so in the
future or there will be no safe legis-
lature.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-11-19
PENETRATING DARKEST ALASKA

The capitalists who first conceived
the idea of building railroad into
Alaska were looked upon as visionary
enthusiasts whose sanity was in ques-
ton. Yet the road is built and is an
assured success, all of which is an illus
tration that seeming impossibilities can
be brushed aside by the determination
of man. The project was launched
with the idea that the development of
the mining industries, and possibly the
lumber output, would justify the ex-
penditure. Now it is an established
fact that the fertile land will in the
short summer with the twenty two
hours of sunshine in a day yield an
abundance of many temperate zone
products. The Redwing Republican
adds that already, the government has
received $32O,0OO,O00 from Alaska in
return for the $7,2OO,OOO which was
paid for what was then termed
Stewards folly" The mineral products
have paid the cost price twenty one
times over. The fish have paid it
seventeen times over, and seal skins
and other products have repaid the or
iginal sum several times. What the
future will bring forth from this out
of-the-way corner we do not know, but
it is certain that the development of
Alaska is only fairly begun. 1t is a
store house of riches whose inaccessi-
bility only proves the truth of DIR.
Hollands lines: God gives no value
unto men unmatched by need of la
Dor; and cost to worth has ever been
the closest neighbor."
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-11-19
LOOK TO THEIR OWN COMMUNITIES

Those newspapers that are so loudly
proclaiming to the world that Cairo,
H., has disgraced herself by permit
ting the lynching of black fiend had
better look to the conditions that eX-
list in their own communities with a
view to heading off a repetition of
what took place in the Illinois town.
Cairo has made cleanup and crime
will not be so popular in that city
for some time to come. Where the
courts have failed, the people made
good.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-11-19
MARRIED IN A HURRY.
IT'S Hoped They Will Not Repent at
Their Leisure.

Minneapolis, Nov BE. H. Killen,
dashing conductor on the Minneapolis
and st. Louis railway in South Da-
kota. Miss Nina Ring, owner and
cashier of a restaurant at LeBeau, S.
D. He smiled at her; she smiled back
"Bet you can't win her." said one of
Killen's friends. you're on said
Killen. Followed short talk with
Miss Ring and then a wild 60-mile
auto ride to the county seat and back
with the license. Rev. F. A. Goodin
spoke the fatal words. Mr.. and Mrs
E. Fl. Killen are spending their honey
moon in the Twin Cities. They arriv-
ed this morning.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-11-19

From Wedne sday'5 Daily.
G. E. Crook of Amboy is in the city
for few days.
Charles Newdall of Lamberton was in
the city today.
Alderman Pass left this morning for
Rock Valley, Iowa.
H. c. Carlson of Albert Lea was in
the city over night.
Drs. Beach and Dahl TOOK trip to
Swan lake yesterday, but it was so
frozen and stormy that they could not
get upon the lake to hunt.
Miss Ella Marshall of Castlewood, S.
D., arrived in Mankato yesterday to
attend the Mankato Commercial col
lege. She will take course in book
keeping and shorthand. Miss Marshall
is deputy county auditor of Hamlin
county, ner father being the auditor.
Mrs. F. b. Cowgirl of Lincoln street
has been entertaining for few days
her mother. Mrs G. r. Hall, also her
sister and husband Nj. and Mrs.
Meachum, of Plainville, the latter be-
ing on their way to San Diego, where
they are to reside.
Mr. and Mrs. Mueller of Minneapolis
spent Sunday in the city visiting at
the Walser residence. They were on
their way to the Pacific coast on their
honeymoon. Mrs. Mueller was for
merly Miss Pendergast of Minneapolis.
Mr.. Mueller is practicing attorney of
Minneapolis and cousin of Martin
Walser.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-11-19
PROPERTY LEFT TO WIDOW.
Will of Carl Kruger Filed in the Pro-
bate Court Today.

The will of the late Carl Kruger was
filed for probate today. The estate
consists of $500 of personal property
and $4,000 of real estate. All of the
pronerty is left to the wife, Mrs. Soph-
ia Kruger, and upon her death to the
children and grandchildren, as follows:
81 900 each to the daughters, Mrs.
Mary Pagencopf, Mrs. Emma Dietz and
Mrs. Ella Freedman; and one-ffth of
the balance each to these three daugh-
tiers, the son, William, and the children
of the son, Charles T. The executor
is Charles H. DietZ.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-11-19
APPLE SHOW AT SPOKANE.
Exhibit Is Opened Today: Fine Show
ing of the Product.

Spokane, Wash, Nov. Is. Spokane's
second national apple show was open
ed today, and during the entire week
there will be on display what is al
legged TO be the greatest exhibition of
apples ever held anywhere in the
world The northwestern states are
rapidly forging to the front as apple
producers. and naturally lead in the
quantity and quality of exhibits, al
though New York, Missouri and other
eastern and central states have en-
tered good displays.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-11-19
From Tuesdays Daily.
Party By Priscilla Club.

The Priscilla club held it's first
meeting of the season on Saturday
evening, when they were entertained at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. w. R.
Hammett of Willard street The event
was six-thirty dinner and covers
were placed for twenty guests. The
decorations were pretty arrangement
of yellow chrysanthemums and ferns
and the place cards bore unique de-
signs, emblematic of the Puritan GUS
toms, each of the ladies being Pris-
ella and each of the gentlemen
John. Following delicious menu, the
evening was spent in games, music
and contests. One especially amusing
feature was the making of Puritan
bonnets and hats, the ladies making
an effective Puritan hat for their
partners and the men assuming the
responsibility of fashioning Puritan
bonnets for the Priscillas. The event
was one of the most delightful in
tine history of the club.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-11-19
Surprised Pastor and Wife.

Rev. and Mrs. N. p. Tuleen were
surprised last evening at their home,
2l4 East Main street, by the Swedish
Lutheran congregation of Belgrade. Mr..
G. L. Farm spoke in behalf of the
congregation and handed over a sum
of money to the pastor He in return
thanked them for their kindness and
generosity and related some about
his journey abroad. The. ladies of the
church served refreshments. The affair
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-11-19

Mr.. Nimmerfroh of Eagle Lake was
operated upon at st. Joseph's hospital
yesterday.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-11-19

Mrs. Theodore Just of Byron street
entertained informally this afternoon,
in honor of Mrs. A. o. Eberhart, who
leaves shortly for her new home in st.
Paul.
Mrs. John Nyquist entertained a
large number of ladies on Saturday af-
ternoon in honor of Mrs. A. Q. Eber-
hart. Refreshments were served and
the afternoon was spent very delight
fully.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-11-19
Double Wedding.

Medic is to have double wedding,
among the young people of three OF
the most prominent families in the
township. The marriage licenses were
issued today, to John c. Severson to
wed Miss Cleo M. Atcherson, and to
Edward Oscar Severson to wed Miss
Ida Amelia Beise
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-11-19

was a pleasant one and all had a
good time.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-11-19
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Given ENJOYABLE Surprise.

Miss Caroline Wild of North Man
kato was given very enjoyable sur
prise party on Sunday evening, in
honor of her birthday, about thirty of
her friends being present. The evening
was spent very delightfully."- and re-
freshments were served
The Washington herald., 1909-02-07
CALAMITY CORNERS.

Gale Hooker took a bath last week
and ketched 4 awful cold or his lungs
Gale has took vow that # he recovers
from that bath he won't take another
until next July.
Ezekiel Snodgrass, while girthing I'D
his trowsers last Sunday morning prior
to going to church, busted his suspen-
ders, which was just a new pair he had
bought at Hen NeathcTsby's store II
Bingville Zeke saws they don't begin 10
make suspenders nowadays Ike they
used to when he was a boy-he SAYS
suspenders OF them times used to be
strong enuff 10 hold up a dozen pairs
of pants If necessary.
Sam Snider, who has been keeping
company with Miss Hetty Green OF the
Corners didn't start home last Satur-
day until nearly 10 p. m. It is 4 little
mite late for you to start home, Sam,
unless your intenshions lords Hetty IS
serious.
Jake Homans IS suffering from fel-
ion on his thumb Your correspondent
asked Jake if II gave him any pain.
Jake says, you know how much boil
hurts, | reckon" and We says Yes.
"Well," saws Jake, ''this fellon hurts
more'n Il boils-
This is ali at this writing News are
very scarce in our midst this week, but
we hope TO hear OF something important
By next week.
PRO BONO PUBLICO.
The Washington herald., 1909-02-07
Abe On a Spree

Abe Withcrow. who IS one OF Il.
staachest members OF the Binrville
church and has heretofore been regarded
as one OF our most respeckted citizens,
IS now in disgrace. Abe made a trip 70
the county seat last TUESDAY on busi-
ness and pleasure, and judgin' By the
condishion he was IN when he returned.
We should say he devoted most OF the
day 70 pleasure instead OF business.
To make a long story short, Abe
come home fuller than Bill Hepburn
generally does. On the way returning Re
lost his whip, his cap, one NIT and al
the groceries he had purchased at the
county seat for home consumption
When Abe net his wife at the door
and she seen the condition he was in.
she made for him with floor mop and
in a few nlinites sobered hin up more n
time could OF done in several hours.
Abe says that hereafter he IS going to
let liquor alone and endeavor 10 live
down his oonduckt last Tuesday II pos
sible.
The Washington herald., 1909-02-07
The Leading Paper Of the County
Bright-BTeszy-Bsllicose-Bustiing

Bingville amt heard much from
/ the outside world recently and the
outside world amt heard much
from Bingyille owing to the fact
that this town has been what YOU
might call SNOW bound for moren
two weeks. In other words, the in
habitants of Bingville mas went into
their holes and sort of denned up
until spring opens
There IS more snow on the
ground in Bingville and vicinity at
/ present than there has been during
/ the past many years. Most places
it IS four feet deep and in ether
/ places where its drifted, its over a
! persons head. Dad Henderson, our
Oldest inhabitant says that he re-
members during the winter of 1859
when the snow was much deeper
J than It IS now, but then Dad is old
and childish and he has q poor
memry for deep snow or anything
else.
What has Our road commission
ers did concerning this snow with
reference to their dooties as road
! commissioners? Answer = they
have did nothing-the road in the
vicinity Of Bingville has not been
broke out according to their swore
I dooty and as a result nobody cant
/ get into this town nor out of It nei-
ther. Some of our most respected
( citizens amt even cleaned the snow
often their sidewalks and when a
tperson desires to 60 to the postofice
Ior anywhere else, he has TO waller
In snow up 10 his arm pits.
| About the only place in town
(which can be reached is Hen Wealth
lersby'S store-there our citizens
Icollect night after night FOR social
lintercoarse and flow of souls TO dis
ICuss the current topicks of the day
land make vallyble suggestions as
to how the L. S. government could
| be run to a better advantage.
Hen. Weathersby, prop. of the
general store, says that sinct the
snow has been so deep he amt sold
enuff goods to pay for the wood he
burns in the stove IN order to keer
the loafers warm.
Miss Sally Hoskins, our talented
poet writer. recently has rote fine
poem for the BugIe entitled Beau
Itiful Snow" which we declined tc
lprint with thanks being as we cal
Ikilated it would rot meet with The
Iapprooval of our subscribers. Snow
lin small quantities may be boot
Ifewl, but when there IS so doggone
Emuch OF II, it becomes monounus.
| Subscribe for the Bugle which is
ia good thing TO while away these
long winter evenings and your sub
The Washington herald., 1909-02-07
Country Correspondence
ZION CROSS ROADS

Bill Woods old cow Spot presented
Bill with a fine caf last week Bill
calcklates he viii raise the caf. because
il It's anything Ike It's mother, Bill
says It viii become = powerful good
mixer.
This has ben hard winter hereabouts
on partridges, being as there Is so uuch
snow on the ground they can't skratch
for a livin'.
Ben Woods ketched a fine mess OF
pikerels through the ice on Gootchie
Pond last Sunday. In addishion 10 the
FISH Ben ketched bad cold in his he'd
from setting around on the ice waiting
for the fish to bite Ben says he never
has good luck when he fishes on Sun
dav.
Miss Jane Trucman has another boi
on her neck. This IS the fourth boi
/ Jane has had this winter, and she hope.
It is the last
Lafe Henderson made a trip to Bing-
vile one day last week and made sew
cTal purchases al Hen Wcathersby'
store consisting OF one pound of smok
! ing tobaccer, one pound OF chewing to
/ taccer and 10 cents worth Of sugar
L2fe said he would of got more sugar
but he can't afford to indulge Il
luxshuries at his house VERITAS.
The Washington herald., 1909-02-07

that hole with a snort Just Ike bullet
comes outen 4 gun. The bear struck
Bill square in the chest and helped nm
about four rods down the mountainside-
Soon IS Lie seen the monster merge
from the hole. he divcd he'd first into
the deep SNOW where he laid still with
his hart going Ike 4 sledjehsmmer and
expeckting 70 be et alive every mint
Wes shot the gun of up into tae air,
then throwed It INTO the snow and elm
free Wes SAYS that from his posi-
ton I'd the tree he could see Bill on
his nccs and hear his voice raised n
su9lilcashion asking 70 be spared from
beng ct up by the bear, but Bill denies
this.
Soon as the bear got his bearings he
headed I'D the mountain and diSap-
peared over the range IN a clowd Of
snow. When Wes come down outen the
tree he suggested that they folIeT I'd
the bear BY MS tracks, but Bill sed that
If they follercd the bear there would be
danger Of them overtaking It, and they
al thot they had better 60 back 10 Bing-
vile, where they belonged, so they
pulled Lie outen his buTTow n the
snow, who was as white as 4 sheet. and
they al three returned TO BingYille
about ; p n
Wes saws If Bill and Lie hadent been
sich awful towards they could have fol
lered up that bear and ketched it-Bill
and Lie SAYS that If Wes hadn't been
such a awful coward he wouldn't have
shot his rifle of straight up into the
-
The Washington herald., 1909-02-07
Late Going to Press

The Bingville Bugle IS d little behind
hand in coming out this week owing to
the fackt that Just as we was about to
60 TO press we tllrowed the sprinklin'
can at the Office cat which was walking
.accrost a page Of type, missing the cat
and pi-ing about a quarter OF a page OF
type which we had 10 60 to work and
set up all over agin. 1t would Of ben
some comfort If we had Of hit the cat,
which had better keep out Of the way
hereafter unless It desires TO partisipate
in { funeral
If there Is anything makes Us sick at
heart and discouraged-makeS Us feel
as If We had lived in vain-it IS to go
and upset lot OF news items just about
the time We are ready to go to press.
Rev. Moore, the beloved pastor of Bing-
vile, Just happened in just after the
acksident and his presence was the only
thing that kept Us from expressing our
.enoshions.
We shall cndeavor to get the Bugle
out in time nsxt week as usual