The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-02-16

Wednesday morning, decided to hold
a big mid-winter meeting In st. Pc
ter on Tuesday, February 30. Topics
of interest to ereamerymen and
dairymen Will be discussed, and "a
number of outside speakers will be
secured. President ]. M. Turner of
Oshawa; Secretary Oscar SWenson
of New Sweden, and David Turrits
tin of Kasota. were in st. Peter
Wednesday and selected the date
for the meeting. Permission has
been secured to use the court house.
and meetings will be held both
morning and afternoon. Members OF
the st. Peter Commercial club have
also suggested that a good roads
meeting be held in the evening. and
this will be decided upon in a few
days. Efforts are to be made to
secure addresses by Joel Winkjer of
st. Paul, state dairy and food com
missioner; F. d. Currier Of CRANKY,
secretary of the Minnesota State
association; Forest Henry
of Dover, the well known institute
worker; James Sorenson, n OF the
state creamery inspectors, and W.
A. Wilkinson of Lake Elmo, an au-
thority on agricultural matters In
this way it will be possible to ar
range a fine program, q that will
be of interest to every farmer In
Nicollet and LIE Sueur counties.
ST. Peter Herald: While the mem
bers of the North Mankato CONNER
cial club we're in st. Peter Wednes-
day evening, a representative of The
Herald was informed that that VII
lage will have a candidate for the
office of county treasurer in the per
Of Emil Rohde. Mr.. Rohde, at
was stated, will seek the nomination
on the republican ticket, and as ne
is very popular, his candidacy Will
carry considerable strength. It was
also stated that North Mankato
would probably have q candidate Tor
the republican nomination for rep
resentative, but his name was moi
divulged. In addition to the above
there have been other political de-
velopments during the week, and II
is now reasonably certain that Osh-
ava, township will have a candidate
for commissioner in the fifth dis
trict. Friends of J. NJ. Turner are
urging him to get into the race, and
there is a possibility that he will
The intentions of the pres
incumbent, Wendell Hodapp, are
not known, but IL the race is be-
tween these two men the voters or
the district cannot possibly go
wrong.
Rev. J. d. Mccormick of Waseca
and Rev. Seldom of GAINESVILLE are
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. o. w. Walk
er during the missionary convention.
Rev. Mr.. Mccormick was formerly
pastor of the Belgrade Avenue
Methodist church.
Tickets have been printed for the
dance to be given by the HOOK and
Ladder company No. J., to be ED
next Wednesday night, February IA.
This dance will be, held at the hre-
mems hall.
From Saturdays Daily.
Rev. J.. B. Trimble d. d., who has
conducted the great missionary rally
in Centenary church during the past
two days, will preach in The. North
Mankato church Sunday morning. Dr.
.Trtmble. has been nrgentlya invited
by telegraph to 60 to Cedar Rapids
to preach in the large ST. Paul VI.
e.. church on this date, but has con-
sented to stay and preach in North
MankatO.
From Mondays Daily.
Mrs, Orlando Simons died yester'
day morning at nine o'clock at her
home in Elysian. The deceased was
eiehty-seven years old and was one
of the pioneer residents OF Elyslan.
She is survived by six. children as
follows: Pheabore and Perry Sim
ons, Mrs. John Williams. Mrs. Rose
Bignel of Elysian, Mrs. Clarence
Thwing of Minneapolis and Mrs.
Patrick Galagan of LIE Sueur Center.
She was also a grandmother of Mrs.
TT. r. Markytan of North
Mrs. Markytan will leave tomorrow
for Elysian as the funeral will be
held tomorrow afternoon at the
Methodist church.
Tickets are now out for the enter
tainment to be given on the Y
ing of Washington's birthday, Feb
rlary %, at the Methodist church
in North Mankato. An elaborate and
pretty program has been prepared
for this evening, using all c
talent.
The Ladies' Aid society of n
Belgrade Avenue Methodist church
will meet at the home OF Mrs. Mary
Anderson tomorrow afternoon. The
ladies are cordially invited to at
tend.
Val Burrill, a son of l.. l.. Bnrriil
of Nicollet avenue, 4. was taken 10
the hospital this morning to ne
operated upon for appendicitis.
From Tuesdays Daily.
The political pot has started 10
boil in North Mankato. 1t is rumor-
that the many friends OF Emil
Rhode have suggested that he De-
come a candidate for county treas
Coming down to municipai
affairs. the friends of Professor e.
q. Ball have urged him to become q
for the presidency OF the
council and Henry Robel, ST., for
They have also suggest
ed that George Cnarland try for
CITY treasurer and William Page for
the city council. The campaign LOT
he spring election win start soon.
Donahue's friends have sug-
him. for the legislature.
A number of friends surprised Mr.
and Mrs. w. e. Stewart Saturday
evening. bringing with them deli
o;o,,c refreshments. A very enjoyable