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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-09-24
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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-09-24

The evangelical hour was led by Mrs.
Mary Harris Armor of Georgia, the
subject for which was "The Power in
Service"
Diamond Medal Contest.
Saturday evening a diamond medal
contest was held under the auspices
of the state organization at the First
Presbyterian church. The beautiful
medal was won by Miss Mayme Louer
of Amboy. The five other contestants
We're presented with books. These
We're Miss Eva Smith of Beardsley,
Hugh Wallace of Fairfax, Albert T.
Westfall, Minneapolis; Miss Esther
Ballard, Warren; Miss Mary Holm
berg, Beardsley.
The contest was in charge of Mrs
Jessie John of Garden City. Mrs.
Scovell, the retiring president, made
the presentation, while Rev. Campbell
Coyle of the First Presbyterian church,
delivered the presentation speech.
Last evening the convention was
closed with an address by Mrs. Mary
Harris Armor, president of the Georgia
state w. c. T. u.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-09-24
WILL NOT CLEAN THE DITCH
County Board Decides Against Doing
Work on the Canal.

The county board adjourned yester-
day afternoon to meet Oct. 81. 1t
decided that it was unnecessary to
clean out the branch drain of ditch
No. 5, and it will not be done until
it is considered necessary. Five men
and letters from two others were pro-
duced against the cleaning.
G. f. Phillips of DanvilIe urged the
grading of a county line road con-
corning which an appropriation of $3.50
has been made, and he was assured
that when the proper drainage and
grading is done the county will pay
the amount appropriated.
Commissioner Schultz reported dam
age to the Dodd ford bridge five miles
west of Amboy, and asked for COM
mittee to investigate it. Commission
ers Schultz, Jones and Hansen We're
appointed the committee.
An estimate of $6lSlS was allowed
John Mccall on ditch No. 81.
TIE town boards of Mankato and
South Bend will meet at Kerns bridge
Oct. 20 at 3 p. m. to talk over the
extensive improvement of that bridge
The county board, or committee of
it, will meet there also.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-09-24
Kerns and Hebron

From TUESDAYS Daily.

From Tuesdays Daily.
l.. B. Steel is on the sick list and
is confined to his ROOM
Corn is out of the way of frost in
this vicinity and is a bumper crop.
w. w. Jenkins, formerly of Jud-
son, called on friends last Saturday.
B. E. Drake and daughter, Mrs. Tut
tie, returned from their visit at Glen
dive, Mont, last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. Burrill of Mankato
spent several days on the farm last
week, returning last Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse Keene, who are
visiting in the eastern states and
Canada, expect to be gone six or eight
weeks.
Mrs. E. H. Conklin of Mankato spent
several days last week at the home of
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Z. Hodson,
in Hebron.
w. II. Sharp is having the time of
his life with assesses under his arm
He went to Mankato last Sunday for
another operation.
Rev. Bacon of Kerns preached an
interesting sermon at the Hebron
church last Sunday afternoon to a
good audience and will preach again
in two weeks
Mr.. and Mrs. +. e. Jefferson and
daughter Irene went to Cleveland last
Saturday in their auto to visit over
Sunday with their parents, Mr.. and
Mrs H. S. Eldred
Miss Florence Hodson went to Blue
Earth last Friday to visit with her
sister, Miss Una, and also was Wis
itor at the Faribault county fair at
that place, returning last Monday.
TIE youngest sister of Grandma
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-09-24
GOOD ROADS A TOPIC
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION IN SEES
SION IN CLEVELAND.
Number of Notable Advocates of I'M
proved Highways Are on the Pro-
gram; Pearson Hobson Is One of
Them; Logan Waller Page Is Co.
ing to Show Some Things; How
Narrow Tires Cut Up Earth.

Cleveland, Sept 2l.-Automobilists
and farmers, once sworn enemies, join
ed hands today in the comradeship OF
a common cause at the opening of the
second annual National Good Roads
association. The American Automo.
bile association and the National
Grange, an agricultural association
are the leaders in the movement, and
have the cooperation of the Ameri
can Road Makers association, the
United States office of public roads
and the officials of many state and
city governments and highway improve,
ment associations. The delegations
are from all over the country and are
larger in number and more represen-
tative in character than at last years
convention in Buffalo.
Addresses by engineers, motorists
agricultural experts and practical road
builders and practical demonstrations
of highway Improvement will mark the
sessions during the next three days An
exhibit of road making machinery has
been installed in Central Armory.
Governor Harmon of Ohio, Mayor
Tom Johnson of Cleveland and Con-
gresham Richmond Pearson HobsOn
of Alabama are among the notables on
the program for addresses. Among
the topics slated for discussion the
dust problem is prominent. No sub.
ject at the present time possesses such
widespread interest to the motorist
the farmer driving to town with his
produce, and, indeed, everyone on the
highway, as that of dustless roads
Provost Hubbard, the United States
chemist in the office of public roads
will explain the many difficulties in
dealing with this problem, in addition
to showing the degree of success OBJ
tanned in various practical expert
ments in paper on bituminous road
materials.
Logan Waller Page, director of the
United States office of public roads
will bring out some sharp contrasts in
his discussion of the road situation in
the United States as compared with
foreign countries. The farmers in
terest in road improvement will be
presented by the Hon. T. c. Laylin,
master of the Ohio State grange. In
this connection it is interesting to
note that in many sections of the
country farmers are now using wide
steel tires, thus preventing the cutting
up of ordinary roads due by the con-
slant use of narrow tires.
The papers and discussions on these
important road problems will be sup
plemented by many practical thesis on
the highways in and around Cleve-
land.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-09-24
The Hudson-FultOn Celebration.

A concise history of steam naviga-
ton, with handsome colored illustra-
tions of famous boats, has just been
issued by The Prudential Insurance
company of America, Home Office,
Newark, N. j.
The book has been put out at this
time because of the interest in steam
navigation due to the Hudson Fulton
celebration at New York.
The book contains fourteen illustra-
tions, all printed in colors. The picture
on the front cover is especially at
tractive, and shows an Indian viewing
from the hills the discovery of the
Hudson river by Hendrick Hudson in
the Half Moon in 1909.
Portraits of Hudson and Fulton also
appear, and the Half Moon is also
shown on its trip up the Hudson river.
The book contains illustrations of all
the leading Hudson river steamboats,,
from the little Clermont of 1907 to the
magnifcently equipped Robert Fulton
of 1909. With the pictures are in
cluueu QeScIlpIloI VI IliC poe'to'
The record of the progress of steam
navigation in this country is one of
which the Americans may be proud, for
it is said to be one that has never
been equalled by any other nation.
In addition to the steamboats,, a
beautiful colored picture of the famous
record breaking ocean liner Mauretania
is also shown, as she appears when
leaving New York for Europe.
On the last page The Prudential in
dicates its own great size by stating
that a line of it's policyholders stand
ing soulder to shoulder would extend
ever 1000 miles.
The Prudential has over 100000
life insurance policies in force, and,
as there are $3.50 feet to the miles,
it will be readily seen that the line
of policyholders, side by side, would
reach further than from New York
to Chicago.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-09-24
[SPEAkH|SM|ND
REV. BRUCE v. BLACK is TO EX-
PLOT HIS BELIEFS.
He Does Not Propose to Bow to Amy
Denomination; His Sermon, "What
I Believe, Where 1 Stand and
What 1 Will Do;" Denies That
He Was Rebuked BY the Christian
Church Authorities.

Duluth, Sept 1S.-A lecture at
knights of Pythias hall by Rev. B. V.
Black, who decently severed his con-
nections with the First Christian
church, to organize creedless church
of divine healing, was attended by
almost 200 people, mostly women, last
evening.
In a dramatic and forcible manner
he denounced the report that he had
received a communication from the
Christian church authorities, rebuk-
ing him for his actions, and request-
ing him to resign from the brother
hood.
He emphatically stated that he pro-
posed to continue to use his own mind,
and speak his own thoughts, in spite
of all the creeds and denominations
that exist. Next Sunday morning he
will make public, in his regular SER
mon what his beliefs are. The sub
iect of his sermon will be "What I
Believe, Where l Stand, and What I
Will Do"
When His Troubles Began.
The troubles of Rev. Mr.. Black be-
gan some time after his arrival in
Duluth from Mankato, when he took
charge of the First Christian church
here His beliefs on religious matters,
creeds and church discipline were vast
" different from those of many of
his parishioners, and when he intro
4bo IF irit hoa
the patience of many of the members
was exhausted.
But he had many among the con-
gregatiOn who believed in his princi-
pies, and when matters arrived at the
stage where it was necessary for him
to sever his relations with the church,
two factions arose, one of which fol-
lowed him.
Rev. Mr.. Black and his followers
have been continually working among
those who seemed to be undecided, and
in the last few days have succeeded
in bringing some within their fold.
Last evening many of these united
with the creedless denomination.
The lecture last evening was upon
the text MAN, Know Thyself."
Next Friday evening, Mr.. Black will
deliver another lecture on the subject
Realities"
What Black Is Preaching.
Rev. Mr.. Black stated that those
parishioners who rebelled at his doe
trines, have bitterly assaulted him with
Misrepresentation They have spread
the claims, he says, that he is pro-
noting the new idea of spiritual heal
ing primarily, and are using this as
wedge against him. He claims, how
ever, that healing is not his primary
thought in the religious work he is
carrying on. but that he has many
doctrines and principles in religion
which differ from the creed of the
church, which he wishes to extend to
his followers, and that while he be-
lieves in healing, he is preaching that
secondarily.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-09-24
COOK IN new YORK
NORTH POLE DISCOvERER is RE-
CEIVED MY MULTITUDE.
'earyites Sulked in Their Igloos, While
Friends of Doctor Were in High
Glee; Brooklyn Admirers of Man
From Cold Regions Have "Blowed"
Themselves Good and Plenty Pre-
pairing for Return of Hero.

New York, Sept. 2l.-New York s
population is today divided into war;
ring factions of Coollites and Peary-
ties, but the arrival of DIR. Cook on
the steamship Oscar III of the Scan
dinavian- American line has given TIN,
COokites at least temporary advan-
tage. The hero from the top of the
world was given greeting such as
has seldom before fallen to the lot
of any American returning from for
eign shores. All Brooklyn turned out
in force to greet it's renowned citizen,
and the Cookites of Manhattan, New
Jersey, the Bronx and other distant
parts forgot to malign the big bor-
ough at the wrong end of the bridge
in their enthusiasm over the arrival
of 10, the conquering hero.
How the Pearyites Sulked.
The Pearyites sulked in their igloos
and refused to come out, but they
were never missed by the Cook clans,
and their disgruntled growls of sus-
picion and their attempts to discredit
the great Cook tourist were greeted
with derision. Their day will soon
come, however, when Peary attempts
to snatch the crown of the king of the
north pole from the head of Cook.
Then, indeed, there will be ructions,
and the Hudson Fulton celebration
may be disrupted by the battle that
will be waged between the partisans
of the rival claimants. 1t is rumored
that Commissioner Baker is fearful
that bloodshed ant riots will result,
and large additions to the police force
of the city may be necessary to pre-
serve the peace.
Friends Have Blowed Themselves.
DIR. Cooks neighbors out in the
Bushwick section of Brooklyn have
fairly bowed themselves preparing
for the return of their hero. Several
thousand dollars have been spent and
arrangements made for a parade, a
lecture and a reception. Newspaper
explorers who have just returned
from the haunts of the Bushwickites
say that the natives are greatly elated
and that they have erected a trium-
phal arch near Cooks home which
would be credit to any civilized COM
munity.
DIR. Cook was accompanied home
on the Oscar III by large number of
Americans, and so great was the de-
mand for accommodations on the
steamer bearing the Arctic hero that
many who sought passage had to be
turned away. Dr. Cook declares his
confidence in his ability to prove his
claims, and welcomes comparison
of his data with that of Commander
Peary.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-09-24
LONG RIDE IN OZONE
WHAT GLENN CURTISS AGREES TO
DO WITH AIRSHIP.
Start From a Point on Governors Is
land, Sail Up the Hudson to
Grants Tomb, Circle That and Re-
turn to Place of Beginning; Win
ner of Paris Race Is Due to Reach
New York Today.

New York, Sept. 2l.-Glem H. Cur
tiss, the American aviator who won
the speed honors at the recent inter-
national aviation congress in France,
is due to arrive home today and will
be given glorious welcome by the
metropolitan contingent of high fly
ers. One of the first to congratulate
him will be Wilbur Wright, who is
now in the city and will probably sail
one of his aeroplanes over a portion
of the city some time during the next
forty eight hours, if conditions are
favorable to the venture. Interest in
the aviators has eclipsed that in the
other features of the Hudson Fulton
celebration, which begins Saturday,
and is close second to the enthus
iasm over the return of the "polers."
If the proposed flights are successful,
it is safe to prophesy that the entire
population of the city will be look
ing up.
Race Between Curtiss and Wright.
An attempt will be made to ar
range race between Curtiss and Will
bur Wright.
Curtiss has agreed to fly from a
starting point on Governors Island
up the Hudson to Grants tomb, circle
that and return to the starting point
without pausing. In other words he
has agreed to essay the longest con-
orfa l-an NV
aeroplane navigator in the United
States.
The desire as to Wright, should he
and Curtiss fail to come to terms for
the proposed contest is to have him
agree to remain in the air at least an
hour in one flight and on another
trial to break the ten-mile speed rec
ord.
As the Wright brothers have entered
suit against Curtiss on the ground of
infringement of their patents, con-
test between Wilbur Wright and Cur
tiss would be "for blood"
Army Officers Watch the Sailing.
The machine on which Wright will
make his trial spin today or tomor-
row is housed at governors Island
The Wright flights here are to be
watched carefully by army officers, as
they will afford an excellent oppor-
tunity for judging the actual value of
aeroplanes in war. The use of Gov
ernor's Island makes possible great
degree of privacy for the starts, and
yet the aerial navigator has a wide
open sweep in front of him when he
begins his sail.
Eventually Wright is expected to
make flight up the East river to
the Bronz, across the city and back
again along the line of the Hudson
to governors island.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-09-24
THREE LINKS ORDER.
ODD FELLOWS GET TOGETHER IN
SEATTLE THIS WEEK.
Largest Fraternal Society Convention
of the Exposition Year; Forty
Thousand Members of the Organi-
cation Are Expected to be in the
City During the, Meeting; Num-
Der of Prizes to Be Awarded.

Seattle, Sept. 20.-What promises to
be the greatest fraternal convention
of the exposition year in Seattle was
opened today by the Sovereign Grand
Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Eel
lows, and all week the city will be fill
ed with the members of the order who
have come from all over the country
to take part in the annual event. No
less than 10000 Odd Fellows are ex-
pected during the week, and fully
10000 of these, in gay uniforms, will
be in line for the big parade on We'd
nesday. A number of crack degree
teams are here from various cities. A
general reception was rendered the Wis
itors today at the Moore Theatre.
Cash Prizes $1,000 Value.
Cash prizes and cups aggregating in
value $4,000 will be distributed among
the cantons, subordinate lodges, en-
campments and Rebekah degree teams
appearing in competition at the drills
and degree contests that will be a
feature of the season.
For the canton drills there are three
classes, with first and second prizes,
the total cash prizes in the three
classes aggregating $4,000 in addition
to several special prizes and cups.
Two cash prizes are allotted to the
patriarchs militant degree, first
prize of $500, and second prize OF
$500. In addition to the foregoing the
offers first cash prize of
5000 and second cash prize of $500
for cantons in the parade that have
travelled the greatest aggregate number
of miles to reach Seattle.
Several Silver Cups.
In addition to the cash prizes a num-
Der of silver cups will be awarded by
the executive committee for excellence
or display. The cups will be appro-
priately engraved. A silver cup will
be awarded to the canton of the de-
partment of Washington making the
most attractive appearance in the par
ade There is also silver cup do
mated by the patriarchs militant of
the department of Washington to be
for each year by the can
tons of the department.
A battalion drill, open to all bat
talions, has been announced. Each
battalion must contain at least three
cantOns and have a full complement of
officers. Battalion drill will be in ia
tigue uniform.
Prizes for Subordinate Lodges.
There are also cash prizes for SUBJ
ordinate lodges, encampments and
degree teams, in eXemplify-
ing the work of the several degrees.
There are first and second cash prizes
of 5000 and 500 respectively for pro-
ficiency in exemplifying the work of
the initiatory and three degrees. The
encampment teams are offered similar
prizes for the three degrees and there
will be three prizes amounting to 5000
for outside teams putting on the Re-
bekah degree, with special prize of
800 for teams competing from this
state.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-09-24
TROUBLE OVER COUNTY DITCH.
Some Danville Folks Want Canal
Cleaned; Others Do Not.

The county board met this after
noon, and one of the matters to come
up was the effort of some of the prop
erty owners to have the county ditch in
Danville cleaned. There is good
deal of opposition, on the ground that
it does not need cleaning, and all of
the petitioners except Frank Laurisch
have withdrawn their names from the
petition, and under the circumstances
the board is likely to turn it down.
Residents who will be assessed for
the ditch in Lyra have requested the
board to appoint an inspector for the
ditch work. John Mccall has the
contract.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-09-24

Trask, from Wichita, Kas., and a
nephew and niece are visiting the old
lady. She is ninety years old this
month. For one of her age she is in
good health.
Those from this vicinity who attend
ed the Nicolet County Sunday School
convention at North Mankato last week
were Mrs. +. E. Whitcomb, W. G
Clark, T. Hodson and Charles Fam
from Belgrade.
The attention of the towns of judi
son and Nicollet are again called to
the condition of the Judson bridge
which ought to be attended to before
some serious damage is done. Many
of the planks are ready to break
through. Some are already broken.