The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1911-07-07

likely that he will pass through
Mankato some time tomorrow.
Miss Cora Ennes, who has bean
teaching at Seattle, Wash, for the
past ten months, returned Wednes-
day to spend her vacation with her
grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. c. Nc
Allister. She has been reelected
and will return to Seattle in the
fall
Good Thunder Herald: Mrs. Bros
nahan and two children of Osceola,
Wis, who have been visiting at the
home of her sister, Mrs. P. Gainor,
and brother, Nj. Duff, for couple of
weeks, went to Mankato yesterday
to visit her sister and from there
will return home.
Mr.. and Mrs P. G. Sheldon of
Gentry, Ark, arrived last evening
for an extended visit with their SON.
in-law and daughter. Mr.. and Mrs.
W. H. Gary. They do not mind
heat like this as they have expert
enced 1O8 degrees in the shade this
summer at their home.
Amboy Herald B. o. Killmer Of
Fergus Falls arrived here Saturday
on a business and pleasure trip.
There is no letup in his thriving
hotel business and wont be as long
as he runs it. Mr. Killmer still
owns a residence here and it is not
for sale. 1t is not impossible that
the family may yet come back here.
Peter Lloyd returned last evening
from Redwood Falls, where he has
been looking after his farming in
terests. 1t has been very dry every
where west of New Ulm, with some
of the crops failure, and farmers
have been turning their cattle in
the grain fields, or selling them. Yes
terday morning, however, there was
good rain around Redwood
Falls.
Winnebago Enterprise: Mr.. and
Mrs. John Oxreider and two chill
dren arrived here from India last
Thursday noon, and have been the
guests of Mrs. Oxreider's sister, Mrs.
E. Moore, and family. Mr.. Oxreider
is a former student of Parker col
lege, from which institution he was
graduated, and he also served as
pastor of the F. B. church at Della
van for some time. For the past
nine years he has been doing mis-
sionary work in India, and reports
that Christianity is gaining with
the natives. The people of India
are of about every describable re-
| ligious faith. He tells some thrill
ing narratives of hunts for the ele.
plant and man-eating tigers. Snakes
are not as bad there as often re-
ported, Mr.. Oxreider says. The gen.
/ tleman stated to an Enterprise re-
porter that the work of the Hindoo
fakirs is nothing short of marvellous
and that they completely eclipse the
work of our magicians. The caste
system, Mr.. Oxreider says. is the
curse of India. There, if your ia
Their is carpenter, you are a car.
penter: if he is a juggler, you are
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the line. Going to India, Mr.. and
Mrs. Oxreider departed from Mime
apolis, journeying eastward. visiting
England and other countries. Coming
home, they came by the way o.
Japan and China, thus completing
circuit of the globe. The most
beautiful scenery On the entire
world journey that they saw was in
the Inland sea near Japan. The
steamer ran in this narrow sea be-
tween the main island of Japan and
thousands of small islands. OF In
dias climate, Mr.. Oxreider says that
it is very hot. The cold season
temperature ranges around 70 de
grees, and during the hot season
the thermometer is very high, max
| ing life almost unbearable for white
people. Mr.. and Mrs. Oxreider will
make their home in Winnebago, we
are pleased to state. They have a
| two year furlough, and intend to
return to India for further work al
! the expiration of that time.
From Saturdays Daily.
Moscs-Bugbee.
On Wednesday, at high noon the
! marriage of Miss Leila Lloyd Moses