The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1911-06-02
Kasota
D. w. Carpenter is on the sick
list

Hist.
II. S. Wilcox transacted business
in ST. Paul last Monday.
The usual exercises will be held
here on Decoration day morning
| Miss Mabel Mason will graduate
from the Mankato normal next
Thursday.
Mrs. c. w. Babcock and son, Cliff
ford, made a trip to the twin cities
on Tuesday last.
Porter Bayse has ordered five
passenger, forty horse power auto
mobile from parties in Ohio.
The firm of BabcOck, Wilcox &
Co. shipped a car load of stone to
New York city last Monday.
Miss Laughlin spent last Satur-
day in Minneapolis looking up prices
on domestic science apparatus.
The Misses Mabel Buell. and Nellie
Ream attended the graduating ex-
ercises at Shakopee last week.
| George Larson received the second
degree in the order of Knights of
Pythias on Monday evening last.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Bland arrived
from Washington, Ohio, to make
an extended visit among relatives.
Miss Ester Appel closed her
school in the Kirby district last
Friday with a picnic for the schol-
ars.
Miss McGovern has resigned her
teacher. Her successor has not been
named.
S. A. Granger left Sunday for
Hadley, Mimi, where for week or
more he will be engaged in eleva-
tor building.
Pathmasters w. r. Skipton and
Henry Pettis are doing considerable
fine work on the country roads in
this vicinity.
Mrs. Celia Randals of Doyleston,
Wis, who has been visiting her
brother, w. B. Pulver, returned
Tuesday morning.
Both stone quarries will give their
employees quarter day off next
Thursday on account of the gradu-
ating exercises at the village hall.
Miss Elsa Meister closed her
school near New Ulm last Friday,
which was a week earlier than in
! tended on account of the measles.
| Mrs. F. Bondurant has been enter
tanning her father, George S. Max
field of Kensington, Mimi, and his
brother, L. Maxfield of Portland,
Ore H
Rev. Nelson, pastor of the Con-
gregational church, left Monday for
Minneapolis to attend the North
| temple.
Mrs, w. r. Skipton and Mrs. John
Adams will entertain the Ladies Aid
Of the Presbyterian church at their
next meeting at the country home
of Mrs. ,Skipton.
Master Tommy Bartel is seriously
i'll. He went in swimming a little
prematurely and consequently is
suffering intensely with intiamma-
tory rheumatism.
Mrs. wv. B. Pulver and Mrs. Celia
Randals left last week to visit their
old home at Elkton, S. d. They also
made short stops at Tracy and San
born, returning home last Sunday
evening.
DR.. George E. Vincent, president
of the University of Minnesota, will
be the speaker at the graduating
exercises next Thursday afternoon.
DR.. Vincent is an orator of national
reputation.
! Little Howard Zimmerman was
operated upon last week by Dr..
Hughes at Emmanuel hospital. Mrs.
| Zimmerman returned with the lit
tie boy last Wednesday and their
| friends will be glad to know that
he is now doing nicely.
Mrs. James Turrittin was agree
ably surprised on her sixty-eighth
birthday, which occurred last week,
by a host of relatives invading her
home, and prepared to spend the
day. They brought bountiful din
ner with them and the day was
most happily spent. Mrs. Turrittin
received many dainty souvenirs of
the occasion from the invaders and
was also handsomely remembered by
Professor and Mrs. i. Johnson of
Virginia, Mimi.