The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1910-01-21
From Saturdays Daily.

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From Saturdays Daily.
! The eighteenth state conference of
charities and correction of Minnesota
is TO be held at Mankato, Feb. lila.
This will be an occasion of real i'm
portance to Mankato as this is the
first time the meeting has been held
in this city.
| Til conference is an educational
body. Its purpose is 10 disseminate
information conserving effective treat
mcnt of the sick, insane and all need
ing care. including paupers and Grim
mails. 1t is Il sort of institute III
matters of this kind. Those WHO at
tend arc representatives of many diff
fercnt classes of workers. County
commissioners constitute the largest
factor; they have a great responsibility
in matters Of iails. almshouscs and
out door relief. Supcrintendcnts and
workers in the state institutions form
another element. Professional work
crs supported by private bcncvo!cnce
in the larger cities are another class.
Then the teaching profession is sradu
ally charging its representation II the
conference. This year two joint se>-
sions will be held with the SoHth,rn
Minnesota Teachers association.
| The most distinguished person per
haps who will visit this city at that
time will be Rev. DR.. c. Il. Henderson.
formerly president of the National
Conference of Charities and Correction.
and now president of the International
Prison association. Governor Ebcr-
hart will attend and is to speak OH
Sunday evening, Feb. l3 Mr.. McEwen,
state labor commissioner, will speak
on that occasion also. Saturday even
ing. Lincoln's birthday, Mr.. Schultz,
state superintendent of education, will
speak, as will also Professor jerks, of
the department of sociology of the uni
versity of Minnesota
The state child labor committee, af-
iliatcd with the conference, will have
chiefly to do with the program on Sat.
urday afternoon. The chairman, Father
Ryan, professor of ethics at st. Paul
Seminary, ST. Paul, will speak. MIR.
Sheldon, physical director of the Wi
mona Y. NJ. c. a. will discuss Boys
Clubs. Sunday morning it is planned
to have prominent members of the
conference speak in the various churches
of the city. The educational feature
lof the conference is its dominant note.
Sunday afternoon the State Anti-Tu
bcrculosis association will be promi
nent. DR.. Tomlinson of ST. Peter, presi
dent of the association, will speak.
On Monday morning, Mr.. Eckstein
Iof New Ulm, will discuss the inspection
of the work of county officials. Mr..
hue county, will talk about out
relief, and Judge Hughes of Mankato
will deal with probate law and pro-
Icedurc. A theme of the conference
which will appear i'll more than one
session will be the social development
of the rural community. Senator Sc
ward of Marshall is expected to be
present and discuss good roads. Mrs.
Andreas LELAND of Minneapolis will
offer suggestions as TO the place of
the home in this development, and an
Important contribution to the con-
alteration of the subject will be made
by Professor Coulter of the state uni
yersity.
1t is planned to have the audience
lat the meetings chiefly drawn from
the city in which the conference is
held. SO that Mankato people are in
vited to take part in this interesting
event. There are no membership fees.
All who attend have the right to take
part.
Kcokuk, Ia, Jan. lJ.-Tease by
other girls after being embraced by a
young man working by her side in a
Wholesale house, twenty-year Lily
Nygren was plunged into deep melan-
choly and now is violently insane.
| Today she WAS committed tn the