The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-05-03
returned to Minneapolis yesterday to
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returned to Minneapolis yesterday to
resume her teaching.
DR.. and Mrs. d. B. Catlin and child
went to St. Paul Saturday to visit
with relatives. DR.. Catlin returned
last evening, but his wife will re-
main for a short time.
Gardner Bowen of Chicago is at
the home of his parents. Mr.. and
Mrs. John r. Bowen, Clark street.
Mr.. Bowen came home sick a few
days ago. He is connected with the
Reed Murdoch company of Chicago.
#. j. Croker, who was taken i'll
with typhoid fever at Duluth, while
touring with the Carleton Glee club,
has recovered and returned to his
studies at NOrthfield. He is a
brother of C. A. Croker of this
city.
Mrs. T. H. Foley returned Satur.
day evening from Fairmont where
she has been visiting her daughter,
Mrs. F. w. Freeman. She was &C.
companied by her granddaughter. Mrs.
Clarence Freeman, and baby of Rock
Falls, III.
David Marston and his daughter Of
Spokane, Wash, are visiting with
relatives and old friends in Man
kato and other nearby towns. They
resided in Garden City for many
years and about twenty years ago
went to Spokane.
Mrs. James Thompson of the Chill
dren's Home society departed today
for St. Paul with six children that
she took from one family in Yer
non Center and they will be given
Paul. Mrs. Thompson has been
working in this vicinity for a week.
County Commissioner d. P. Young
is much improved and is now able
to be about the house.
e. l.. Patterson, formerly of Man.
kato, has just been appointed chair
nan of the membership committee
of the st. Paul Automobile club.
Charles c.. Seymour and Frank
Hurd were arrested yesterday after
noon for riding motorcycles without
numbers. They were brought into
municipal court this morning and
fined S. each, which they paid. The
motorcycles had been rented by the
riders.
st. Paul Dispatch: Hamline univer-
sity will be without an active presi.
dent part of the coming summer.
Samuel f. Kerfoot, president of South
Dakota Wesleyan, elected president
of Hamline recently to succeed
George Fl. Bridgman. retired, has
notified the trustees that he cannot
take active charge until August. He
will make trips to Hamline, how.
ever, from time to time.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. E. Brown made
an automobile trip to Lake Wash
ington yesterday and they formed
some pretty good opinions of that
highway Mr.. Brown stated this
morning that the road from the Chi
cago Great Western tracks to the
Frank Koenen farm is in much bet.
ter condition than the Madison Lake
road, which has received SO much
praise and publicity. The road near
the volk hill was not in a very good
condition, he said, but the rest of
the highway was very much superior
to the Madison Lake road.
William E. Lee has been speaking
at the villages throughout the coun-
ty during the past few days and to-
day spent some time in Rapidan. He
has had fair sized audiences wher-
ever he has spoken, considering the
season of the year and the fact that
it is so early in the campaign. At
| Vernon Center about sixty people
were present, at Garden City thirty,
Amboy seventy-fve, Eagle Lake, thir-
ty, Madison Lake fifty, Mapleton 1875.
and st. Clair seventy-five. At Gar
den City just as Mr.. Lee was going
toward the buggy an old lady
walked up to him and shook hands,
saying, God bless you. ! am glad
to see one man who can tell the
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