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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-06-04
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Correcting a Mistake.

Through an unavoidable mistake in
the account of the class reception OF
the North Mankato high school the
name of Byron Ball was omitted from
the list of reception committee, and
one of the officers of the alumni as
ISOLATION was not mentioned. The Off
GERS are as follows: President. Miss
Alma Wachtler; secretary, Jay Sherk
treasurer, Forest Blyler.
Tickets for the commencement exer.
cises on Wednesday evening, are ready
and may be obtained of Professor Me.
Cormick at the school building, fol
which there will be no charge
DIR. Young of the normal school is
to give the address on efficient Edu
cation" and an invitation to be pres.
ent is extended to those interested in
the school work and the young PEG.
pie
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-06-04
enjoyed until a late hour.

enjoyed until late hour.
The whole affair was one of the
pleasantest outings that the club has
ever had and great credit is accorded
the hosts who so ably planned and
managed the evenings pleasure, which
certainly could not have been improved
upon and was delight from beginning
to end
High School Class Play.
Class day is the high school event
which occurs this evening at the high
school building, when the class play,
Zone Night Only" will be given by
the members of the senior class and
also the usual class day functions
will take place, all of which are of
much interest to large number, es-
pecially to those who are acquainted
with the members of the graduating
class. The evenings program is as fol-
lows:
Professor Justinian Babbitt Earl King
Arthur Vale, M. D., his son-in-l law.
James Baker
Jack Mulberry, with "Snaps Theatri-
cal Combine ton Herbert Hodson
Lord Mulberry, in pursuit of Jack.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. George Pond
Mrs. Babbitt, professor of conjugal
management in professors house
hold ............. Birdie Thompkins
Marjorie Vale, her daughter. ........
Observation-Disclosures. Eleanor Pfeiffer
Sophonisbe, the youngest ''imp".
Nellie fOTu
Susan, the maid -. Hazel Schoelkopf
Time, the present. Place, nearby.
Act |. Professors study. Class pa
per, John Weed
Act. Same as act l, next day. Class
prophecy, Mable Schoelkopf.
Act B. Same as act l. evening of
March first. Class will, Ada Reed.
Act. 4. Same as act l, next morning
Class song, written by Eleanor John
son.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-06-04

The largest single claim paid was
$3.50 ,O83, in Haverford, Pa.
Paid Claims in Minnesota.
The total amount was $3,90O,000, di
yidod &c fellows.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-06-04
Pre-Nuptial Shower.

Miss Emma HIM of Mankato was
the recipient of -nuptial shower
Friday evening given by her sister
Mrs. Edward HIM, at her home 1910
Lyndale avenue south, Minneapolis
Lunch was served for eighteen guests.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-06-04
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'icnic to Sunday School Class.

Today Professor Mccormick enter
tanned his Sunday school class at
Wachtler, Rev. and Mrs. Mccormick
and Mr.. and Mrs. Rhode, composing an
auto party who left this forenoon as
guests at the picnic outing.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-06-04

Preached Annual Sermon.

Last evening Rev. Mccormick preach
ed the baccalaureate sermon to the
graduating class at the Belgrade
Methodist church. A very large au-
dience was present and the church was
deliberately decorated with flowers and
greens. The chorus furnishing special
music.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1909-03-24

brought up the prince and made him
take an oath that he wouldn't get
mad or tell the secrets of the order
of "Who-Whos," and then we seated
him on the plank and I said, Enc
meme, money N.Y." and gave him a
shove, and he went down that plank
like it was creased, and struck with
a splash right in among the goldfish,
his blindfold came off, and saw some
ladies coming across the lawn to visit
the fountain, and yelled to the
prince to cheese it," and he squirreled
back up the plank, and was going to
paste me one in the nose, but told
him all freshmen in college had to
take their medicine that way and
while we were picking the slivers out
of his drawers he asked if Roosevelt's
son had to be hazed when he entered
college, and I told him they were haz-
ing young Roosevelt yet, and the
prince said, "Vell, if Roosevelt got his,
l will took mine, and schmile all right,
but dey peter look a little Quit"
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1909-03-24

A hailstorm followed the course Of
an electric transmission line in Van
cluse, France, last June. AS reported
by an observer, this storm swept over
an area about mile and a qr,aitel
wide and nine miles long. Tbs storm
started to follow a narrow valley in
the side of mountain chain, but on
meeting the electric line, which cuts
at right angles across series of such
valleys, the hailstorm joined it and fol-
lowed it until exhausted. The effects
of the storm were most violent close
to the line and decreased toward both
sides. Hail fell near the line, rain on
the edges of the storms path. An
other observer reports that three balls
Of globe lightning appeared near the
cables at one point, bursting just be-
fore the hail fell. There seems to be
no doubt that the line conducted the
storm, but probably the presence of
the electric current had nothing to do
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1909-03-24
DIDN'T REALIZE
How Injurious Coffee Really Was.

Many persons 60 on drinking coffee
year after year without realizing that
1t Is the cause Of many obscure but
persistent ailments.
The -caffelne-in coffee and
tea, Is very like uric acid and is often
the cause of rheumatic attacks which.
when coffee is used habitually. become
chronic.
A Washington lady said, recently:
Il am sixty-f1ve and have had good
deal of experience with coffee. I con.
slider 1t very injurious and the cause
of many diseases. I am sure it causes
decay Of teeth in children.
when drank coffee I had sick
spells and still did not realize that
coffee could be so harmful, till about
a year ago I had rheumatism in my
arms and fingers. got so nervous I
could not sleep. and was all run down.
AT last. after finding that medicines
old me no good. decided to quit cot.
Zee entirely and try Postum. After
using 1t six months I fully recovered
my health beyond all expectations, can
sleep sound and my rheumatism is all
gone" There's a Reason"
Name given by Postum Co.. Battle
Creek, Mich. Read the famous Attic
book, "The Road to MELVILLE" in pkgs
one appears from time to time. They
are 9ensjnes true, and full OF human
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1909-03-24
He Interviews the Kaiser

It is q good deal like breaking a
broncho to ride, to prepare a German
prince for an American college, and I
may have got my foot in it by promis-
ing the kaiser to teach his boy all the
things he ought to know before he
goes to America and runs up against
the college gang, but I will prepare
him for the worst If it kills us both.
The kaiser took me into his private
den one morning and asked me If I
thought I could get his son wise to
what would happen to him as fresh
man when he went to America, and
said, "Sure, Nike" and the kaiser said
his name was NOT Michael but Will
helm, and I told him that didn't cut
any ice. He seemed relieved that his
son would not have to cut ice.
Gee, these Germans are pretty
dense. He asked me how much he
must pay me for polishing up the
prince, and when told him would
halter-break him and fix him up so he
would stand without hitching, and
when gave him his diploma he would
eat out of my hand and woman
could drive him, and it wouldn't cost
a 500 markee, the kaiser held his head
and looked as though he was going
to have fit, and he said he wanted to
think it over. told him would give
him time to think it over If he would
think sort of sudden like. and he went
into sort Of trance and l guess he
was thinking, for when he came out of
It he said he supposed it was proper
for the prince to be led around with q
halter, like a horse, in America and
he Endorsed that proposition, but he
could not believe that the dignity of
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1909-03-24

nutty caused the sweat to pour down
his face.
The stamp kept going up the wall
till it came to the ceiling and he
watched it 60 across the ceiling and
disappear in q crack in the plaster,
and he sat glued to his chair, pale
as death, and finally he got to his
feet, tore the letter into pieces and
threw them in the waste basket, and
said aloud to himself as he felt of his
burning temples: Three weeks, bunk, l
won't get out of this asylum in q
hundred years." and he began to weep
all over himself.
If he had followed that stamp and
found the cockroach he would have
been cured.
The kaiser laughed like he would
split, and then he said after this he
would always chase cockroaches and
never be crazy in the head any more,
and for me to go ahead and give the
prince all his hazing, enough to make
him sick, and he went off looking in
all the corners for cockroaches.
1 told the kaiser that if had half
dozen of American boys we could
initiate the prince all right, but he
was bigger than me and I ought to
have help, so he detailed four servants
to help me and told them to do just
what told them to do.
Well, we didn't do a thing to the
prince the first day. First we blind
folded him and put him in box stall
in the barn, and took off all his clothes
except his undershirt and drawers,
and we fixed plank from the second
story window of the barn with one
end in a fountain Of goldfish. and we
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1909-03-24
WHAT WIFE SAYS "coEs.~
But Il Sometimes 10 Bad for the
Painting.

Wien q property-owner knows moth
ing about paint It is bad for the
property-owner, and bad for the paint
er. It would not be 80 II the property
owner would always hire a skilled
painter, and then really leave every
thing to him. But the HORSEPOWER SO
often fools himself on one or the other
Of these things.
The skilled painter in every commu-
nifty has some Of the most incompetent
competitors that ever vexed a consci-
entious workman or contractor, and
the incompetents get Jobs generally by
working cheap. In the next place,
when the skilled painter is hired, they
do not leave everything to him, as SO
many property-owners boast they do.
They interfere most ignorantly and
most fatally. They insist sometimes
on using paint materials without in
vestigating whether they are good or
not. Or perhaps they insist on the
painters hurrying the work.
I'm not going to have that painters
mess around my house a MONTH" the
wife says, and what wife says goes
at the cost of lot of wasted painting
money.
If the painter stays away a few
lays to allow the paint to thoroughly
dry the owner says: "That painters
neglecting this work-guess he's side
tracking me for Jones' work. I won't
stand it."
What chance does painter have to do
good work for a man who is continually
nagging at him and otherwise handi-
Gaping him without meaning it, of
course)? A poor job is the inevitable
result Of such interference.
Poor painting costs the houseowner
money-don't forget that. It might
pay you to get the practical paint
book, painting specifications and in.
strument for detecting paint adul-
terants, which National Lead Co. are
offering under the title of House
Owners Painting Outfit No. 40. Ad-
dress National Lead Co., 1902 Trinity
Bldg, New York City. This company
do not make paint (they leave that to
the painter to do) but they make
pure white lead ("Dutch Boy Painter"
trademark kind, and they can tell
you how to save money by securing
durable painting.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1909-03-24
He Needed y,

A travelling man told q southern
Kansas editor one OF his experiences
.ke other day. ESo said he was riding
in the smoking car of an express train,
reading his paper, when a man rushed
in from the car behind the smoker
evidently in great agitation and said:
Has anybody in the car any whisky?
A woman in the car behind has faint
ed" Instantly dozens of TASKS were
produced. The man who had asked for
it picked out the largest one, drew
the cork and put the bottle to his lips.
With long satisfied sigh, he handed
1T back and remarked: That did me
a lot of good. | needed it, for it al
ways makes me feel SO queer to see s.
woman nt."-From "What-to- Eat"
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1909-03-24

prince of the Hollenzollerns, or
something like that, could be main
tanned properly if his boy could be
hitched up to a buggy and driven by a
woman, because he knew the blood
too we'll to believe that the prince
could refrain, If the woman was an
American and handsome, from kicking
over the traces and climbing into the
buggy. But he said I could 60 ahead
and give the prince few degrees and
see how he caught it onto. already.
The kaiser asked me upon my honor,
If l thought he was crazy. He said
lots of his subjects thought he was,
and he wanted my unbiased opinion.
as sometimes he saw things that
scared him. l told him thought he
looked nutty, but looks did not count,
that when he thought he saw things
to Investigate them and he would find
he was all right, but if he let things
go with no investigation he would be
like man I knew who was sent to an
asylum and got crazy because he did
not investigate an alarming occurrence
and the kaiser wanted me to tell him
about it.
told him it was an old story in
high circles in America, but it showed
how to deliver the goods, and he in
sisted on hearing the story, and told
him of man whose friend sent him to
an asylum to have the doctors look
him over, and after a week of exam
ination the doctor told him he would
be all right again in three weeks, and
he could write his folks he would be
home again before Xmas. He went
to his room wrote the letter, sealed it
up and licked postage stamp to
stick on. when he dropped the stamp
on the floor and it fell with the sticky
side on a cockroach, which the man
did not see, and the unseen cockroach
walked across the floor with a stamp
on his back, the man watching the
stamp going away with no visible
means Of locomotion. He watched the
stamp reach the wall, and start up
the side and his eyes stuck out and he
felt of his head to see If he was in his
right mind, and the fear that he was
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1909-03-24
What He Lacked,

It Is related of q South American
general, who was extremely we'll
pleased with himself, that once, when
about to sally forth to grand dance,
he surveyed himself contentedly in the
mirror, and then soliloquized thus:
"Ah! Thou hast all-bravery,
wealth, position, good looks. All, what
dost thou lack?"
Whereupon his orderly, who, I'M
known to the general. was close at
hand, remarked:
Sense, general, sense!"
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1909-03-24
PROVING His Caution.

Elder w. H. Underwood, chaplain
of the state senate, was walking down
a street at his home at Clay Center re.
Gently with friend. Another friend,
with whom Underwood joked a good
deal, met them and said: ELDER.
thought you we're careful Of the com.
pany you keep"
Il am" replied the chaplain, walking
right on. I'm not going to stop
Kansas City Journal.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1909-03-24

Then we put on his uniform and
made him get down on his hands and
knees, and got piece of board and
stood back of him and told him the
council was ready to confer the spinal
meningitis degree on him, but if he
was afraid and wanted to back out
he could, but if he was willing to 60
on and become sublime and perfect
devil, he should repeat after me the
grand hailing sign, Let 'er go Gala,
gher," and he said, go ahead, Mister
Gallagher" and soaked him one with
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1909-03-24
The Council Was Ready to Confer thu
Spinal Meningitis Degree on Him.

The Council Was Ready to Confer thu
Spinal Meningitis Degree on Him.
the board on the place where his Pants
were not creased, and he yelled, :Och,
fader, I will never do it again. and
one of the servants who was helping
to confer the degree said the prince
thought the kaiser had caught him in
the act.
We took of the blindfold, and he
looked around for his father, but
told him that was all in the degree,
and then he wanted to fight, but told
him if he wanted to turn traitor now,
they would kill him when he struck
an American college, so he Gained
down, and then I said I was a sophie
more, and what the deuce was he, a
freshman, wearing a hat in my pres
ence, and l made him take it off and
carry it under his arm.
He was learning humility all right,
so l decided to have a class rush,
cause he said he wanted one.
We went down to a little lake back
of the palace where there was a dock
where launches landed, and I placed
him near the edge of the water, and
told him that when they had a class
rush on the college campus, the game
was to see which class could throw the
other class in the lake, and that some
times one class got soused, and some
times the other, depending on which
was the strongest, see? He said he
thought he saw, and I guess he did.
I got the prince fixed just right, with
his back toward me, and l gave a
running jump down the dock, and was
just going to give him shove, when
he side-stepped and all got hold Of
was one of his legs, and went in the
water and dragged him with me-
When we came to the surface he
said, ''Vich class was in der votter,",
and I said, ut is tie you chump,"
and we will have to play it off," and
then we looked up on the bank and
there was the kaiser and his wife, and
the prince said, "Och, Gott," and
said, Come in the water is fine" and
the kaiser said, "Vot kind of a fool
business is dot?" and the kaiserine
said, der prince will catch NIT his
DEATH and l got out first and made a
run for the barn, and the prince said,
Il will not catch a cold, but I will
catch dot American Yankee softmore,"
and he caught me by the hair, and
gave me left hook in the jaw, and a
right punch in the eye, and landed
one in his stomach and damned him
in the nose, and the servants took
us off of each other and separated us,
and my eye was black and his nose
was bleeding, and the kaiser said,
"Vich degree was dot?" and his wife
said, 20, such nonsense. the prince
should 60 to convent" and the
kaiser laughed and said l had better
put cockroach postage stamp on my
eye, and then we went to the palace,
and washed up and put ON clean
clothes and played billiards, and the
prince apologized for getting mad, and
l said, Don't mention it I will get
even when you take the degree of
Royal Bumpers" That's the one
where the candidate gets his neck
broke
Copyright. 1909. by w. G. Chapman)
Copyright in Great Brittany
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1909-03-24
Wanted Longer Sermons.

It was proud boast one clergyman
made to two or three others who were
having quiet chat in his study the
other night-namely, that he had &C.
tually on one occasion been asked to
make his service, both prayers and
sermon, bit longer.
His brethren regarded him with su.
perstitious awe, and one asked. feebly:
where on earth was that?"
"Well, boys" was the frank confes.
sion, ut was with a goal where acted
as chaplain for short time. The
poor beggars dreaded to leave the
church for their cells"
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1909-03-24
What Allied Tommie.

Tommie was eating walnuts. His
mother cautioned him about eating
many, fearing they would make him
sick. Presently he came in. his hand
on his stomach and very distressed
look in his face.
Those ruts have made you sick,
see. just knew they would" said
the mother.
"They haven't. either" whined Tom.
mie. II am not sick; it's just my
pants are too tight" -Delineator.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1909-03-24
Electric Line Conducts a Hailstorn1

electric storms in the same locality
may throw high. on the occurrence
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-21

You don't have to wait at Lont0's Cafe.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-21
RUSH RESIGNS AS BESSEMER'S MAYOR President Lewis of Council Be-
 comes Executive EDMUNDSON IS PROMOTED Knights and Ladies of Honor of State Are Entertained In Royal Manner
 By Bessemer-Grand
 Lodge Meets.
EDMUNDSON IS PROMOTED

Bessemer, April -tSpecial)-F un- usual business. not in the history of Bes- semer has there been SO much as in the one short hours session of the council this evening
 At the opening of the session President Lewis asked the city attorneys opinion as to the legality of his being the presid- ing officer whilef acting as mayor. The city attorney gave as his opinion that a president pro tenn. should be elected, and Alderman Edmundson was elected unani- mously
 The resignation on account of illness of Mayor Rush was read and accepted and President Lewis became by the resigna- ton mayor and acting recorder, and the oath of office was administered by Judge Ben G. Perry. By Lewis elevation to the mayors S office, Alderman Edmundson be- came president of the city council, and a vacancy in the Second ward to succeed MT Edmundson will have to be filled at the next meeting.
 The water question came to the front, and 6 number of warm talks were made by members of the council as well as by citizens, and Alderman Batson, chairman of the special water works committee. stated that the committee was very hope ful of a trade between the city and the Water Works company by which the clty would secure the water works.
 Other business covered a wide range of subjects. and number of petitions and complaints of citizens were taken up and adjusted.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-21
PONTOTOC CASE
 BOBS UP AGAIN

Jackson. Miss, April -(Specal.)- The old Pontotoc case has bobbed up again and this time the state, through Attorney General Stirling, takes the initiative in filing a motion for con- tempt of court against the Mobile, Jackson and Kansas City Railroad com pany.-
 Several years ago the Gulf and Chi cago Railway company was absorbed by the Mobile, Jackson and Kansas City and ran its line around the town of Pontotoc, placing the depot about one mile from the old depot and fall ing to standardtze.
 The citizens of the community pro-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-21
Green Undertaking Go.

E. T. Shaw & Son, Undertakers.