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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1910-08-05
Kerns and Hebron

Mrs. A. II. Cali OF MankatO is spend
ing two weeks with T. Ilodson's family
in Hebron.
The rain Sunday night did lots OF
good. although it put stacking back a
day or two.
The Ladies' Aid OF the Kerns church
will meet with Mrs. Alfred Evenson
north OF the Kcrns church, next Fri
day afternoon.
Stacking grain and threshing is the
order of the day George Peterson
started up his machine last Monday
for Frank COult.
Mrs c. r. Weller and children of
Marshall are visiting with Mrs. Weiler's
parents. Mr. and Mrs. J. a. Tidland
in Hebron. and other relatives.
Miss Grace Norster of Illinois is Wis
iting with the Hanson family at Kerns
Miss Norster is from Mrs. Hanson's old
home in Illinois. Mr.. Hanson recently
bought the Fletcher farm.
About fourteen of the young people
of Hebron after attending church last
Sunday morning at Hebron drove out
TO +. f. Gleason's home at Swan Lake
to enjoy sumptuous dinner. Mr.
and Mrs. Gleason are great entertain
ers. Rev. More, the preacher at lie
bron and Nicollct. was one of the com
pany.
Chris Burmeistcr has moved his fam.
lily onto the Pelton farm. NJ. Bur
mester has a half interest in the re-
cent purchase and is now busy making
hay. He expects to have a hundred
make a good many improvements the
coming year Miss Alice Dobbn has
been ont to spend several days with
the Burmeister girls, and Mr.. and Mrs
| Dobbin drove out on Sunday last tc
spend the day. The new flowing wei
recently put down by Messrs. Sepp
man is fine and throws Il beautiful
/ stream. The water is splendid.
| Mrs. Bacon. wife of the pastor al
Kerns, departs on Tuesday night for ;
visit with her sons and other relative,
in the east. She expects to attend
the one hundredth anniversary of he
old home church at Waterford. Penn.
at which time she will give an ad
dress on the Sunday school of he
girlhood days. The trip is to Include
visits to Boston and Washington city
During her absence the parson will I'll
the home and all are invited to cal
and see how he does it, Those VIII,
stayed away from church last Sunda,
morning missed an excellent sermon
by Rev. Bacon on the influence of tn
family altar on the home and othe
individuals, taken from the story O
Obededom. Chronicles l3-l4, and the arl
of God being left in his house, the or,
blessed The home of ObededOm.
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OARSMEN TO
HAVE BIG INNING
National Event In Washington
to Be Record Breaker.
BY TOMMY CLARK.

The eyes Of the rowing men just now
are centered on the national cha mpion-
ships which will be held at Washing
ton Aug. u and 3D. Crews from the
big boat clubs Of the United States and
Canada will compete in the events on
the Potomac river. The entry list this
year is bigger than ever before.
New York. Boston. Philadelphia, Bal
timore and Detroit will be we'll repre-
crews. Toronto and Halifax crews will
uphold the rowing prestige Of Canada.
The Canadians doubtless will be rep
resented by half a dozen crews.
Detroit has an eight cared combina-
ton which it is expected will make
New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and
Boston. The westerners have shown
excellent form in several of the sea-
sons regattas, and rowing experts are
looking to them to carry off one Of
the prizes.
But New York will have several
eight cared crews which must be reck-
oned with. The combination of the
New York Athletic club and the Mas
sau Boat club are both locked upon
as likely winners. Then, too, Philadel-
phia and Boston are reported to have
fast combinations, and there are sew
eral speedy crews from Toronto and
Halifax that will finish well up.
The New York Athletic club, which
won the eight cared championship Of
last year. has been in earnest train
ing for the purpose of uphOlding the
blue ribbon event Of the regatta. the
senior eight cared championship. This
year they will have the greatest field
to beat that has ever lined up at the
start in such a contest. and the crew
that wins will surely break all world
records for the distance. In this race
will be the Argonauts of Toronto, Win
nipegs of Manitoba. Minnesotas of st.
Paul. Wahnetas of Flushing. n. Y.
who this season have won all the big
regattas: Unions of Boston. all ex-
Harvard Oarsmen; Nassaus, Atalantas
and Harlems of New York; Mattas OF
West Philadelphia, Vespers and Bache-
iors of Philadelphia, Arundels and
Ariels Of Baltimore, and last, but not
least by any means, the POtomacs Of
Washington. ~
Durando Miller Of the New York
Athletic club, who won the senior
championship last year. is to compete
again. His practice spins have given
satisfaction to his teammates. and they
look to him to land the prizes this wear.
In this class In which Miller will
compete will be Scholes and C0sgrove
of Toronto, now in England at the
English Henley; O'Neil of Nova Scotia.
Shepherd and Feussell Of the Har-
lens, New York; Dick Mann, also of
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TO SCULL FOR
WORLDS TITLE.
Widespread Interest Being TAX
en- In Arnst-Barry Race.

Widespread Interest is being taken
In the coming match between Dick
Arnst of New Zealand. the worlds
champion professional sculler, and
Ernest Barry, holder of the English
title, to be held on the Zambezi river,
South Africa, Aug 1S. The purse to
be rOwed for is one Of $1,000. sub
scribed by South African sportsmen,
$3.50 of which, with the title OF
champion of the world, goes to the
winner and $3.50 to the loser.
The men have been practicing hard
for the event for some time and are in
good shape for a hard contest. Arnst.
according to all accounts. is the big
gest marvel in sculling boat ever
seen. He possesses enormous muscu-
lar strength ana an extraordinary
chest development and has all the fine
points of the art Of sculling at his COM
mand. Many men who know Arnst
and have seen him scull have express
ed the unanimous opinion that Barry
has not the ghost Of chance. How
ever. as these men have never seen
Barry scull. but have formed their
opinion generally on what has appear
ed in print, it cannot in the present
case have any value whatever.
There is also no doubt that owing to
his enormous strength Arnst can pro-
pei Il boat at Il great pace. And. again.
this is no proof that he can stay. AS a
cyclist it was known that he could stay
all day, and he may possibly do SO as
sculler. but if Barry takes him be-
yond his pace in the last mile he will
be beaten man. And why? Because
Barry is a waterman to his finger
tips. AS a sculler. quite apart from
any other athletic exercise. he is in a
class by himself He knows all the
finesse of the game He is as much
at home in chOppy water as in smooth.
He cannot only go at a great pace.
but can also stay at it. although his
greatest pace may perhaps not be
quite so fast as Arnst's. All the ex
perts who have seen Barry at work
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Good Thunder

NJ. A. Benedict and family were
Sterling visitors Sunday.
Charles Mccarthy and family of Ma
pleton called Sunday nj the Yohnke
home.
Mrs. Zempke Of Fairmont is visiting
her parents, the Wiedenhefts, for a
month.
Charles Adams and family were
callers at the Yohnke home Tuesday
evening.
Mrs. Gus Wiedenheft leaves next
week for a few weeks visit with
friends and relatives in Wisconsin.
Word was received thOat Mr.. Litfin
died of typhoid fever at the hospital
at MinOt, n. d., last week. Mrs. Litfin
was formerly Miss Martha Bmme of
this place.
Quite a number of young folks en-
ioyed a pearl hunt along the river
Sunday. The pearls were shy and
could not he found. but the yOtng
folks report a jolly time.
Miss Linda Billet is home for her
Linda is making a splendid record for
herself in the Emmanuel hospital at
MankatO, where she is taking the
nurses course.
Mesdames G.. md S. A. Doty ard
Mrs. j. +. Grant called at the Fl.
Gnadke home Sunday. We certainly en-
ioyed looking at Johns six pet coons
and his work rs Il taXidermist is most
excellent. John is quite genius.
The team of Miss Mayme Gainor
caused quite an excitement last Mon
day morning. Miss Gainor had tied
the horses to = post and was gathering
apples at the S. Doty farm, when
the horses snapped the line and started
to run. They passed through several
long strands of loose balbed wire and
never got scratch and finally were
stopped before any damage was done
except some broken pieces of harness.
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agree that he is the best scuiler seen
on the Thames since HanlOn's palmy
days. He holds the record for a full
championship course and also for
every part Of that course. In bad
water it is an eye opener and treat
10 see the manner in which he coaxes
his boat over it.
Since entering upon his training Bar
~ has not been engaged in any con-
test. but Arnst in the early part of the
year easily defeated WEIGH in q worlds
championship encounter and also COM
peted in $500 handicap at Sydney.
On the voyage Barry kept his mus
cles in trim by exercising on sculling
machine skipping. etc.
The race is to be decided over a
three and one-half mile course and is
creating enormous interest in South
Africa generally and in Rhodesia local
ly. Lose or win, Arnst has promised
Barry Il return match on the Thames
as soon as it can be arranged.
- r. 49,
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.
GOOD FORM.
Just now, but this applies particularly
TO the men who lead the American
league teams.
The southpaws in the American and
National lea CUES are having good
year with the bOXmen of the Ban Jonn-
son organization, having slightly the
best of it. Whether it is because the
American leaguers have more puzZling
curves or whether the National bats
men are better against left handlers is
q question for argument.
At any rate, the recent sensational
sale by Manager Jack Dunn Of the
Baltimore club of Lefty Russell to
Connie Mack of the Philadelphia Ath-
letics for $4,000 after spirited bid
ding. in which Manager McGraw Of
the Giants and Fred Clarke Of the
Pirates took part. shows the market
value of promising southpaws.
The American league magnates are
being panned for allowing Southpaw
Bill Burns. formerly of Washington
league. These questions are being fire.
quently asked: Why did Comiskey re-
lease Pitcher Bill Burns? Why did the
other American league clubs waive
claim to pitcher who has since been
very successful for Cincinnati?
The reason given is that, while
Burns is a good pitcher, he is said to
believe himself a privileged character.
He has wealthy parents and doesn't
have to work for a living. For that
reason he couldn't see any use in tax
ing part in morning practice. AS
Comiskey is & great believer in disci-
pine. he could not allow Burns to
shake the morning sessions, AS re-
suit he let him go to Cincinnati
Eddie Karger of the Bostons has so
far made the best record for the south
paws in the American league this sea-
Jim Vaughn of New York, Ed Killian
Of Detroit and Krause of the Athletics
following in the order named.
OF the National league southpaws
Kroh of Chicago, Webb of Pitts5urg,
Burns of Cincinnati, PfeiSter OF Chi
cago and Lush of ST. Louis have wen
more than half of their games. Wiltse
Of New York, Rucker of Brooklyn and
FoXen Of Philadelphia have so far had
an even break. b.
While it is generally admitted that
left hand pitchers have something on
men who hit from the south side of
the plate, the rule is not universal
Willie Keller, could always hit south
paw better than right handler Ty
Cobb, iris Speaker, Easterly and Ed
die. Collins. left handlers who are well
up inst he-A American League batting rec.
ords, are all good against southpaws.
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Anboy and Vicinity

Ed. Schwarz of Amboy reshingIed
the Willow Creek school house in dis
trict l25.
Mrs. Silas Allen and Mrs. Lew
Hemingway were Mankato visitors
last week.
The Ladies' Aid of the Christian
church will meet with Mrs f. p
Wilder on Thursday, Aug. IL.
Will Ludtke of the Faribault Seed
company arrived Saturday to transact
some business and also to visit friends
and relatives in this community.
Elder Osgood of Mankato, who witt
his family will camp on the lake sore
at Lake Crystal, will preach at the
Willow Creek Christian church next
Sunday at IL a. m.
Miss Louise Cray and Mrs. Tibbets
of Lake Crystal spent few days at
the home of Mrs. A. IT, Corbett and
also visited friends in Amboy and Yer
non on their return home
The carpenters have finished work
upon Basey church and the painter;
will commence the first of the weel
and it will only be short time before
regular services will be held in THU
popular church.
Grain was about all cut Saturday
night and stacking and threshing vii
commence this week, although severa
fields of winter wheat were threshaC
several days ago, yielding about thirty
bushels to the acre.
jess Cornish of Amboy has the con
tract for painting the Kinney schoo
honae and not wishing to go back ant
forth to town, secured 4 tent which h,
set up in Fox Bros grove and brought
his family out to keep house for him
Walter jenkins, who has charge o
the machinery in the tile factory a
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BASEBALL BETS y

Tom Jones. the Detroit first sacker,
Is proving that he is not ready yet for
the minors. Tom is hitting and field
ing with the best of them
Fred Merkle Of the New York Ma
tionals is not only hammering the ball
for keeps. but he is playing a nifty
game around the initial corner
Brooklyn has number of youngsters
who promise to shine in the fast set
with a little more experience Tony
Smith, Daubert. Wheat and Dalton are
four of the most promising ball tossers
in the country today.
A Fine Distinction.
A small boy in the village school
when writing composition on ''Quak-
ers" wound Up by saying. "Quakers
never quarrel. never get into a fight.
never claw and never scratch" Then
he added. Paw is 4 Quaker. bnt
really don't think nav is."-Delinea.
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CAUGHT OFF THE BAT

Manager Bresnahan of the ST. Louis
Nationals is catching rs good ball as
he ever caught in his life and batting
800 on the side. Roger has quit fight
ing the umpires.
Brooklyns new outfielder, Dalton,
has all the earmarks of great ball
player-a splendid hitter, fast fielder
and accurate thrower.
Third Baseman Purtell of the Chi
cago Americans doesn't get much puff.
ing or break into display type often.
but he is about as efficient third
baseman as there is in fast company.
Kid Elberfeid of the Washington
Americans has the reputation of be-
ing out of the game with injuries more
than any other player. and it is no
wonder that such is the case. for
where is there player who takes
more chances?
Paskert Of the Cincinnati Reds has
become one of the National leagues
leading base stealers. He has about
rs many thefts to his credit so, far as
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Photo by American Press Association.
ED COLLINS, PHILADELPHIA STAR sso
OND SAuKER. ~
one Of the greatest southpaws In the
game. Chief Bender, at present in
disposed, is this year the equal Of any
other right handler In the league. while
Cy Morgan and Jack Coombs have
shown remarkable ability so far. TO
COombs falls the honor OF rounding
out this formidable array Of box ma
te-ial
None of Mack's pitchers has been
punished very severely this season. 1t
might have been different but for the
phenomenal support afforded them.
Little Eddie Collins is the pivot Of
the inner works. He, is the Johnny
Eyers of the American league. The
best fielding second baseman, Collins,
Is one of the greatest hitters in fast
company. Last season he ran Ty Cobb
a great race for batting and base run
ming hOnors $50
Scarcely less phenomenal and me-
teoric has been the career, of, Third
Baseman Baker. As a fielder this fell
low stands out as prominently at his
position as does Collins Mt second base.
Baker is a heavy hitter and finished
base runner, though in both these de-
partments somewhat inferior to Col
Inns. This young gentleman stands
monument to the managerial ability
of Connie Mack In the spring of last
year he appeared the biggest frost that
ever donned spangles. Yet before the
end of the season Mack had converted
him into: the sensation of the year
Harry Davis first baseman Of the
leaders. is one of the best known and
most highly respected figures in base
ball. He is a veteran of the old
school. man who has been in the
game almost as long as any infielder
now before the public. Davis is of
that type which is fast disappearing
before modern ethics.
49, Frightened Off.
A Washington cur conductor born In
London and still a ;cockney has sue
ceeded in extracting thrills from the
misunderstanding excitement 10 the
names Of the ma tionai capitals streets.
On@a recent Sunday morning be was
calling the streets thus:
'tHaitch."
High
"Jay.v'
"Kay"
"a. IN; a,,, .,S. 80 s..
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the New York Athletic club; Shea of
the Sheepshead Bay club; Bennett
and Warnecke of Springfield, Mass;
Gordon of Vespers. Belcher of Wal
tiers. Allison of West Philadelphia and
Gleason of Vespers. Fred Plaisted OF
st. Louis, who is coaching the Mound
City men, believes they have conner
in Topping, as he has been winning
everything in sight.
The list of events is as follows:
Quarter mile dash. senior single
souls; single scull shells. intermediate;
association senior single souls; cham
pionShip senior single sculls; double
scull shells. intermediate; double scull
shells. senior; quadruple scull shells.
senior; four cared shells, intermediate:
four cared shells. senior; four cared
shells, senior International: eight oQred
Shells Intermediates; eight cared shells,
senior, and a special race. junior eight
cared shells. .------ -~--@-'-. $500
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HIAWATHA is IN BRONZE
PLAN OF MRS L. P. HUNT MAY
BE CARRIED OUT.
Beautiful Statue Will in all Probable
ity Be Located in Minnehaha
Park, Minneapolis

Minneapolis Journal: Hiawatha sta
ten, which occupying space in the Min
neapolis public library for the last
seventeen years, has been the object
OF much controversy among artists and
sculptors, was today shipped east to
be cast in bronze. Ii the efforts OF
Mrs. l.. p. Hunt are successful. the
bronze cast will be erected in a promi-
nent position in Minnehaha Falls park.
Mrs. Hunt appeared before the park
hoard yesterday to ask that suitable
fOundatio OF concrete be built for the
statue, announcing that she had sue
ceedcd in raising funds sufficient to
defray the cost of the bronze cast and
a large granite slab to elevate the sta
tue above the foundation. Mrs. Hunt
said she had arranged also TO have the
plaster statue returned to the library.
c. M. Loring Favors Project.
c. NJ. Loring introduced Mrs. Hunt
and told the board he favored the
project.
Il have heard adverse criticism of
the statue" said Mr.. Lorine, chased
chiefly on the contention that the feat
ures of the figures were too effemi-
nate, but many authorities has taken
issue on the point and pronounced the
criticism false.
The board was given a short history
OF the statue by Mrs. Hunt. The
woman's auxiliary of the worlds fair
at Chicago in 1892. delegated to Mrs.
Hunt the task of raising, through pen
ny subscriptions from the school chill.
dren OF the state, Il fund to procure a
hitting statue to grace the entrance Of
| the Minnesota building. One thousand
dollars was obtained, and the plaster
statue was made by the Norwegian
sculptor, Jakob Fielde, at one time a
resident of Minneapolis. At the close
OF the fair the piece was brought to
Minneapolis and placed in the public
library, but this expense exhausted the
| funds.
| The plan was to have the statue cast
Ill bronze and placed in Minnehaha
park, and to this end Mrs. Hunt has
devoted seventeen years of effort and
finally has been successful in raising
money to defray the cost, except 5000
or $500 required to build the founda
ton.
81 AIT Brink of Falls.
| Because the bulk of the funds had
been contributed by Minneapolis school
children and women, and because she
believed Minnehaha park the hest place
to erect the statue, Mrs. Hunt had
refused requests from other cities for
the statue, and wished the park board
to designate q location in Minnehaha
park, preferably on the brink of the
falls, for the statue and to construct
suitable foundation. The board
referred the request to the committee
on improvements. ,..
Mrs. Hunt and her husband, Lewis P.
Hunt, former publisher OF The Man
kato Daily Free Press. and member
of the Minnesota board of mana GERS of
the Columbian exposition in Chicago
in 1892, wno were guests yesterday
at the Radisson, departed last evening
for Seattle to reside. While Mrs. Hunt
will be far removed from Minneapolis,
she will not permit this to relax her
vigilance over her project.
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SO d y ARE
IN BIG DEMAND
Baseball Clubs Scanning Hori-
ION For Left Handlers.

WANTED.-Crack left hand pitchers In
the American league; good pay short
hours and steady position for those who
fill the bill. ~
If any one happens to know where
a good southpaw twirler is located,
who can make good in fast company,
just let him give the informa ton to
some manager in Ban JohnsOn's cir
cult There is Il craze for left hand
twirlers among big league handlers
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Eaok Lake

Alne Macbeth was in Mankato Sat
urday.
Miss Aline Macbeth went to Man
kato Thursday.
Miss Gladys Heath returned to Lake
Crystal Thursday.
Mrs. Levi Compton spent Monday
with Mrs. Geo. Garrison.
w. r. Enslerth transacted business
in the cities last week.
Mrs. James Millar, who has been
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MANkATo FREE PRESS

Winnebago, suffered an injury. His. left
arm was mangled in one of the ma
chimes so that it had to be amputated
above the elbow He has the sym
pathy of a host of friends in this 10
calitv.
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COMPRESSED AIR BATS LAT,
EST INVENTION.

There is member of-the Kan
sas City team who is expert
menting with bats loaded with
compressed air. 1t has been
proved that an ordinary hitter
can knock ball loaded with
compressed air tc great dis Z
tances. So this player believes
q bat loaded the same: way
would act in the same nlnnner.
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What makes, q man 50 proud he is
going to be married is he won't be six
months after -hp Jfods i
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1910-06-10

Charles w. Bayliss to me known to
be the person described in and who
executed the foregoing instrument
and acknowledged that ne executed
The same as his free act and deed.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF / have
hereunto set my hand m affixed my
official seal at my Office in .Philadel-
phia, Pa. the day and year first a.
boye written.
(Signed) O.. H. Hertkorn.
(Notarial Seal.) Notary Public.
My commission expires January 20,
1913.
ENDORSED:
No. 6460,
Cor. Reed Vol. 6, Page so,
Certificate of Stockholders Non-Lia-
hility of
GYPSI1E CEMENT & PLASTER
COMPANY, Filed in Office of Score
tary of New Mexico. Jun. 6, 1910: 10
A. NJ.
Nathan Jaffa.
Secretary.
Compared C.. F.. X. to, J.. o.