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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1911-12-01

From saturdays Daily.
Miss Fannie Klein delightfully."- en-
tertained number Of her friends
last evening at her home, 311 Elm
street in honor of her seventeenth
birthday. The rooms were beauti-
fully and artistically decorated. the
color scheme in the parlor being
green and white and in the dining
room red and white, Numerous
games were played throughout the
evening. Prizes were awarded to
Misses Emma Waters, Lucy Tren-
hauser, and Pearl McGovern.
One of the unique features of the
evening, was that the place cards
were the baby pictures of the in
vited guests.
An elegant four course luncheon
was served by Mrs. Klein, assisted
by Miss Bertha Hunter Miss Klein
was the recipient of many beautiful
presents.
Gave Successful social.
The Young Women's Missionary
society of the First Baptist church
gave most successful social last
/ evening at the Baptist chapel. A
number of unique features were
presented, each for a penny. One
! of the young women arrayed as a
"spieler," announced the merits of
each department. The soap bubble
stand, the candy booth, the boot.
blacks chair, presided over by a
typical "Dinah,' the fruit punch
bowl, the measuring lady, the brush.
ing lady, the beggar girl with heI
accordion, the popcorn vendor, the
gypsy fortune teller, the double
headed lady, the giantess, the vocal
quartette, the Rembrandtesque pic
ture beauty, all helped to beguile
the pennies from the attendants
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Dance Tonight.
The Woodmen degree team will
give a dance at the A. o. U. w.
hall tonight. The music will be
furnished by Lamm's orchestra.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1911-12-01

The young women are much pleased
with the success of their attempt.
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we have at least ten which are Of 100000
and upwards in size. All these centers
are rapidly increasing in population, and
the increase Is largely made up of the
rush from the farms to the cities. The
smaller cities have grown as we'll as the
larger ones. and the rush seems to be
going on all over the Union. This is SO
notwithstanding the popularity which
farming seems to be having, and to the
increased profits which are coming there
from
We are. in fact. rapidly changing from
an agricultural nation to a manufacture
ing one. THIS Is shown by the figures
which the census employees are now tabu-
lating. Our industrial growth is such
that census OF such matters is taken
pay to take 1t oftener. Within the five
years from 1904 to 1909 the increase in
the capital employed by our factories
was 10 per cent and the cost Of the ma
ter ais used 43 per cent.
The salaries and wages paid for manu-
featuring now amount to more than four
thousand million dollars a year, a sum
which, il it could be divided, would be
enough to give more than 500 to every
family in the United States
Our manufactures sell for something
like $50 O0O.OOOOO per annum, which
would equal $1,000 per family, and this
means an increase in such sales of S., co.,
600 within five years. The increase has
been 81 per cent in ten years and III per
cent in five 1t represents a growth in
million dollars a year for the past five
years. These figures are impossible to
comprehend, but they indicate something
of the progress OF this great billion dol
lar nation.
Do you wonder that the farmers are at
tracted by them? The wages Of the fac
tories are paid without regard to whether
II rains or shines, and they exceed in
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has a coy and homelike appearance,
with its pictures, growing plants ana
ample furn ture. At no time has there
been any cash donat ons of any size The
ladies have resort to quite number OF
schemes for raising money, the first or
which was a lawn fete, where they learn
ed for the first time of the popularity
with which the hospital project was re-
garded by the people of the vic nifty. The
affair was a financ al success. Then
there was a rummage sale, the proceeds
exec ding the hopes of the most sam
gu ne worker. Even a discarded kitchen
hot-water boiler and a disab ed porch
screen found purchasers. as did a con-
signment of old iron Everything has
been grist for the hospital mill. Progress
sve card parties, theatr cal dement's,
luncheons, weekly secondhand clothing
sales, demonstration and other conces-
sions at various ia RS, shows and ex-
habits, recipe book sales. besides the sale
of tickets for other amusements on per
centage. are some Of the many ways by
which this little dispensary has stocked
It's treasury with money for its rent,
gas. coal, paid for its drugs and S proud
Of the fact thai 1t owns all OF the fur-
niture in the building and has no debts
With all that has been accomplished,
there is yet much to do. Several or the
clinics are still waiting for their rooms
to be supplied with the proper para
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had d long talk with Mr.. Z. Dana
Durand. the director of the census MT
Durand is now compiling the millions
Of figures furnished by the census
euumeratorS. He has the latest data
as TO our national resources, and large
part of his most important information
relates to the farms. l have before
me list of the questions which his
agents have put to every FARMER as
they worked their way through the
country counting the people. These
questions are so many that they would
fill q page of this newspaper, and the
answers give all sorts of information.
As TO the farms, they report their
size and their value. They show what
the buildings are, and what the farms
cost. They tell you all about every
tract that is mortgaged, and also the
expense of running each farm and the
prohJ tnerefrom.
others of the answers relate to the
live stock Of all kinds. The census
men have counted the horses. cattle
and pigs, and the mules, goats and
sheep as we'll. Uncle Sam has even
taken count Of the chickens. He can
tell YOU how many fowls we are rear
ing and how many eggs these fowls
urCauce He has full details as to the
food crops even to such vegetables
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talizing their possibilities of the future.
Farming is also more popular now than
ever before, and many men are going
into If with the idea of making t a
profitable business.
Only few years ago it was said that
the United States was blanketed with
farm mortgages. | tai Il with the d.
rector of the census as to this matter. He
says that many of the farms are still
mortgased, but that the present mort
cages to a iarge extent represent i'm
provements or the purchase of more land,
whereas in the past they represented the
debts incurred in going into farming and
to some extent in carrying on the bust
ne s, which was then not so profitable.
The mortgages as now recorded by the
census deal only with farms operated by
the owners In 1910 there were in the
neighborhood of four million such farms
and more than two-thirds of them were
free from debt. | doubt whether any
other business in the United States Will
SHOW better condition.
Moreover the prosperity of the farmer
is evidenced by the increased use of ma
chinery, and by the rise in the value OF
the buildings and other improvements.
Within the past ten years more than
81, 700, 100000 worth of new buildings have
been erected. In other words, the farm
buildings are a. per cent better than they
Were ten years ago, and that notWtth-
standing 6S per cent more machinery Is
being employed These Increases may &C
count for some of the mortgage
The figures of the census as to the stock
upon the farms give some reasons for the
high prices of meats. our farm animals
which so TO the packing house are not in
creasing in the same ratio as orr popu-
lation. In other words. there are more
mouths to feed and less meat to feed
them.
Take the item of cattle outside the
diaries. There has been a falling off of
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TIE r1onRx INVESTED h9EAR11 11AcHnNER1 cREAsED
The PAST DECADE

value the wages paid upon the farms.
The increased cost of living Is not taken
into account until after the man has be-
come settled in the city And so the
Der Of factory employees over 1900 is al
ready more than million, and We have
now working in manufa turing establish
mentS between six and seven million men
per cent over the number employed ten
years ago.
Nevertheless, farming is paying better
than it has ever paid and, strange to say.
Notwithstanding this loss Of labor. the
ever before. Our biggest crops OF all
time were in 1910 Mr. Durand rightly
says. however, that the census figures of
crops cannot be relied upon as indicative
of the exact growth of our agricultural
empire, for the reason that each census
represents but one year. For instance,
the census of 1910 shows the crops Of the
year in which the census enumerator
collected the material and that only. II
it be a fat year the figures will be very
large but on the other hand, IL lean
one, they may be considerably smaller.
The census of 1900 might have recorded
year which had bumper crops, and that
of 1910 one when famine was abroad in
the land Nevertheless such figures are
approximately correct.
AS to the number of farms, these are
not affected by such changes. The CEN
sus shows that we had in 1900 some
thing like 100000 farms, and that just
taken shows that we now have 100000
more. We have altogether over 5000, 600
and the increase is little more than 10
per cent. The figures also show that
the size Of the farms is decreasing. The
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CHASTITY Gratitude.

FRANK COFF1N, the aviator. was
l talking in Detroit about the p,ril- -
flying.
wv hen we aviators hold oar Thanks
giving" he said. there is usually some
thing CHASTITY about IL Were grateful
only to have broken one les or something
of that sort.
"GhastIy gratitude little Like ths
huckster :, in fact
4 hear your wifes i'll. d friend said
TO the huckster.
L" She is that--terrible ill., the huckstor
repl ed
- Dangerous? said the friend Don
tell M. shes dangerous.
- I'm very thankful to Say. SAID a."
huckSter that she's too weak Ia 10
dangerous any more
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twenty-fonr hour supply il hcrmetically
sealed bottles is sent 10 the station every
DAY with that particular baby's t1g Oh IL
The mother must deposit the twelve cents
on the s.N bottles so as to insure the re-
turn Of them. When the baby has out
grown the dietary and no longer takes
the milk the twelve cents Is returned.
In summer the milk is packed in buckets
of ice so that in the poorest homes the
childs food will be kept unchanged.
The milk, ice buckets, bottles and mp
pies are all free. The Char-e of | cent
per bottle is made where the parent Is
ah'e to pay.
The laboratory which supplies this mix
sen1s out five nurses. who are pad $50 a
month for their services. They 90 INTO
the homes of the ailing babies and win
the mothers attention. and what is more
difficult, her confidence The nurs" tact
full ana carefully prepares the way Tor
a betterment OF conditions. She batheS
the infant, teaching the mother the neces-
sity of keeping the baby clean. In her
weekly reports the nurse goes INTO the
minutest details concerning the sanitary
cond tons of the houses she visits As II
is the lowest element Of society Wnere
this work is carried on. the houses are
principally mere novels. and no less than
20 per cent of al of the babies are af-
ncted with some specific disease.
From a very small handful OF people the
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furnished and equipped to meet any de-
mand that may arise. While the oper-
attng able, instrument cabinet and all of
the larger surgical fittings We're pur-
chased outright by the ladies. they re-
ceived a great deal of help ON one of
the prominent surgical instrument firms
of the city, which has made repeated do
nations in the shape of Instruments and
many small articles Indispensable to the
surgeon. The medical staff catching the
injection from the enthusiastic women
nave also added many necessary and val
ued articles TO the sursical equipment
so that today this infant hospital stands
ready to take care OF any and all sorts
or emergency operations, and is amply
prepared TO handle all dispense cases
which may call for surgical treatment
not only is the operating room complete
IN It's equipment, but everythin. Is of
the newest most up-to-date description
During the three hours daily, Sundays
ana holidays excepted, when the dis
pensary Is open there have been brous hi
III Tor treatment twenty-five emergency
cases, with = wide diversity OF injuries to
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7" THE CENSUS MEN HAVE
COUNTED THE. HORSES

more than two million in the number &C
them within the past ten years. and this
means almost Z per cent OF the whole.
There has been a dec ease In our sheep.
and, although l have not the figures. tho
same is probably true of the hogs. Tho
cattle have Increased in value less than
ten million dollars. or less than 1 per
cent, in decade. an increase which by
no means corresponds with the increase
in the prices There has been also an
increase In the value of the sheep, and
that of our swine has risen $l66, 900 90
during the last ten yeas s.
The census has not yet completed its
tabulation of poultry figures, but | am
told that those Of the egg crop viii run
high into the millions and that In value
they may almost equal the wheat crop.
April Il. 1910, the enumerators found that
there were in round numbers on he farms
OF the United States 80 10000 chickens
3Wp,O00 turkeys, 3.oU,oo0 ducks and
about 4.oo.oOO geese. and that the fowl,
were worth. all told. something like
sl,o.ooo,pn. These figures might BE com
pa ed with those of 1907 but the day Of
that census was June I, when nearly all
The hens had their broods OF little one
running about them, and when there were
iar more proportionately than there wer.
In April of that year. the time at which
this last census was taken.
Dir. Durand says thai the same cons,d
GRAFTON has to be observed as TO the
neu!es of the two censuses relating t.
hoes. The 1910 census was taken In
april the 1900 census in June which
considering that nearly all of the SOW
or the country have their filters in the
spring, would give a far different re-
suit as TO the hog crop had the 1910 cen
later
The products of our farms are best got
ten from the Agricultural Department
II taxes a census every year. and fl
average, therefore. represents both tn.
Tat and the lean years. Secretary Wilson
has made speciality OF farm values. and
according to him, the money that comes
OUT OF our soil is great that If f.
could be saved and piled I'D IL would in
rev years suffice to buy the whole
world lie hgureS that we have RAISED
farm products worth S13.ooa OO0.et0 in the
past twelve years and that we are now
getting In the neighborhood of 50. 900 600
oOo year out OF the soil. We got jus
Under mat figure I'm 1910. when tn
amount was $4,000 900 larger than TO
the year just past. At that time the corn
crop amounted to 3.O09QOopa bushels
and was worth S1,5O0, 900 ep0. The cotton
crop was worth s9o0.0oo.o00 and the ma
over sIoOO0o,0oo. What hay will be wort
this year. the Lord only knows II =
selling here at Washington for $50 a ton
The wheat OF 1910 was worth over $3.50
100000. the oats $3.50, 100000. and tn
value OF the potatoes ran into the hun
dreds of millions. AS to livestock. ths
also brings in its hundreds of million
per annum, and there are a number a.
other Things that the farmers sell eac
or which nets vast amounts Indeec
Ihere seems 10 be no end 10 tie farmer
receipts, and the city dwellers are begin
ming TO wonder as To whether the prirc-
OF his products cannot be cut.
FRANK G.. CARPENTER
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average holding of 1900 was 146 acres,
whereas the average farm of today con-
tains only 1873 acres This is affected
somewhat by the market gardens about
small. They are increasing in number,
and they cut down the average size of
the farm.
Notwithstanding the rush to the cities
and the difficulty Of getting farm labor
the crops are as great or greater than
ever before, and they are bringing more
money. The Increase in the quantity of
food produced. Notwithstanding the loss
OF the labor. comes from the greater
use OF farm machinery This is 'ncreas-
ing enormously. sixtyeight per cent
more farm tools were employed in 1910
than in 1900. and that notwithstanding
the increase in the number of farms was
only 10 per cent. The value of the ad-
d!tional machinery was more than a
half billion dollars. The money invested
7O0.OOO,O0O to I. zoo. OOO. 900 within the past
decade.
The census shows that the value of
the farms per acre has greatly increased.
and this, strange to say, is largely the
case in those states from where there
has been most emigration to the city 1t
Is so in Illinois, Indiana and Iowa.
states which have had a large falling off
in the farm population.
AS to the increase in the value per
acre of land the United States over, that
has more than doubled within the past
ten years. 1t has been over los per cent.
meaning a jump from SIS to SD per
acre. The values in many parts of the
country have been much in excess of the
present income producing power, which
looks as though the farmers We're CAPT
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There are some things, however, that
are very important to know. One IS
that our farm products are not in
creasing as rapidly as our population.
We have got to sell less stuff abroad.
or draw in our belt buckles q hole or
so tighter. The people are increasing
faster than the number Of farms. In
1900 we had a little less than 5000, 900
farms, and we now have only little
over 100000. The rate of increase
has been just about 10 per cent, while
the increase of our population has been
more than twice that amount. It may
be that our farms are raising more.
but If so our consumption has greatly
increased, for our exports of farm
products are rapidly falling. 1t is GER
tain that we have fewer farmers from
year to year.
Mr.. Durand's figures show that there is
a steady growth from the country to the
city. In 1870 about So per cent of our
population lived In the cities. In 1900
more than 10 per cent were away from
the farms. and the city population today
is per cent higher. AS 1t is now. of
every hundred men, women and children
in the United States, more than forty six
are living in towns, and the percentage is
so increasing that 1t is only a question
of time when half of all Uncle Sans
children will be city jewellers. This means
that there are more people to eat farm
products and fewer people to raise them.
1t must mean higher prices.
Furthermore there is no soubt that the
cities are growing at the expense OF the
country. Mr.. Durand tells me that some
of the chief bread lands and market gar
dens of the United States are steadily
decreasing. as far as the number of
farmers is concerned This is so of Iowa,
Illinois and others Of our richest farm
ing states. In Indiana. Iowa and Missouri
more than half Of the counties have fallen
off in population The same condition
holds true of eastern Kansas and others
Of our most important farming sections.
On the other hand the cities are grow
ing faster than Jonah's gourd, which
sprouted UP into shade tree In night.
Those which contained d, 600 and over in
creased more than IS per cent between
1900 and 1910 and this Notwithstanding
there had been an increase of 80 per cent
during the census preceding. Some of the
cities have mad on seven-league boots. The
growth of Birmingham. Ala. has been
more than 245 per cent in a decade. that
Of Los Angeles III per cent and of Seat
tie 194 per cent. Spokane has grown 49,;
per cent in the past ten years, Portland
129 and Detroit s.
All of our biggest cities are growing.
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Hospital Association has grown lntu
includes quite number of prominent cf,
Lzehs. Or. - II Gibbs long rcsideu.
and practicing physician of this sertfor
Is given the credit of being the founde
or the institution. Commodore Georl,. n
Peters. L. :. n, retired is pre- dent 81
the board. The other off ers are Vic.
president. James Lans hurgh. So rotary ]
Clinton Hiatt; treasurer. VII am II
Saunders; board OF directors, George p
Peters, james IT. Ians8urgh Cip.or.
Hiatt William II. Saunders. BE, amin +
Gibbs, M. D: Charles e. Lancaster Emil.
Beriiner. Harry A. Colnlan and Alton d
Carly.
The list of staff physicians and the con
sulting staff contain tho adrHgs of SOM. a..
the best known physicians OF tI.e civ. al.
or whom are not only giving their scr,-
ices free, but helping thc progress az
the hospital in every possible ua3. II tu-
c1udes: Surgical diseases Daui.I T. B.rt-
well. assistant, r Thomas West. Dis
eases OF the eye. George r. I,tmuHaI-.
assistant, Maurice + Miller Diseases o.
the ear. nose and throat, James 4. stone:
assistant, q. S Saff5li. General mediea.
diseases, Frank l.eecll, assistant Charlie
NJ. Beall. Disease Of women. Albert i.
carrico assistant Fraiul : Machen
Diseases of children. Dwight Gordon
Smith; assistant, Francis Nacteu
Genito-urinary diseases. II. A. Fowler;
assistant, William ?. liemlor Diseases
OF the SIX n. T.. ". Watkins. assistant, J
G. E.a h.sJone Diseases ot ta cue-I
Lewis ]. Battle: assistant Clarence NJ
Dol.man. Dental diseases. Frank T.
Nicely. assistant. Lloyd y. Beers.
tu..>4it.r u ~ iarle~ ~ T. i,hari
son u. OIin Leech. Harry NJ Kaufman.
H. II Re.chelderler. II. T. Harding Wade
II. Atkinson. \. l.. Stavely. ~ b Dealr
and :. :. Adams.
Among the assets of this Institution one,
OF the greatest l. It's board of lads man
ayers, who are the driving power which
has started and kept il going Here as
III every other similar Organization, the
work OF the women has been the most
potent element Of is progress. Tho OIL
ears of the board Of lady MANAGERS, ~ .I.Il.
has already enrolled over G.ty or II-
locality consist OF the following. Prr-
dent. Mrs Giles Scott Rattcr first li.-
president. MIS-. II. r. GuSs- second 't.-
pres. dent, Mrs. James I.ausburEh. So. r,.-
tdTy, Mrs. Harry \. ColmaH- assistant
secretary, Mss Dorothy SNYDER treas
urer, Miss Mary Perry Brown.
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OK Million Farmers and
~ What They Are Doing
The Rush to the Towns
Will We Become a Nation of
City Dwel1ers?-The Money
in Farming-Farm Mort
cages and What They Mean
TIL Increase in Farm Val
ues-Our Asset of Live
Stock Enormous Crops
Which Sell for Billions.
Copyright 1911. by Frank G. Carpenter
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS ROOM.

pfernalia: there are as Yet no endow-
ments and the combined efforts OF al in
terested in this worthy charity have not
yet found the way and means OF an am
bulance. One OF the projects OF the near
future which lies very close TO the hearts
of the women is the hope IN an early
establishment OF a milk station at the
hospital for the proper feeding OF the
bah es. Fifteen ailing babies are the first
requisite for the beginning of this work.
Already the ladies have been securing the
byways and alleys and about half a
dozen forlorn little candidates have been
lined up, tagged and listed, and are
waiting for the rest of the milk brigade
to appear SO that they may be started
on the right dietary. The milk charity is
the most far-reaching of all charities. and
the gift of the prepared milk is the small
est part of it
Through the six milk stations of this
city 400 sick babies have been there under
a weekly examination by the physicians
In charge and out of that number only
eleven have died At one station there
were sixty on the list. and only three
were lost When the baby is brought in
ii is weighed and looked over by the ply
stefan and a formula of milk prescribed
which is put up at the laboratory, and d