The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-08-23

and took the opportunity while SO
near to call on old time friends at
this his old home.
Good Thunder Herald: Miss Flor
ence Sheldon of Mankato was the
guest of her aunt, Mrs. E. M. Call,
yesterday. She expects to leave soon
for Washington, where she will teach
near Spokane. She was accompanied
by her brothers wife, Mrs Guy Shell
don, and daughter Margaret, of
Wichita Falls, Tex, who used to be
frequent visitor here before her
marriage, when living in Mankato,
her maiden name being Miss Ella
Karmany.
The Elysian Fire department has
been organized with the following Of
ficers: Chief l.. G. Keene; assistant
chief H. A. Lehman; secretary,
Frank Root; treasurer, John Lange;
foreman hose company, r. H. Schaf-
fan; foreman hook and ladder COM
pany, E. Ellingsworth.
Winnebago Enterprise: Paul Brown,
formerly of Winnebago, and we'll
known as baseball pitcher, was re-
Gently married to Miss Helen Thes-
bach of Milwaukee at Sioux City, Ia
Paul is the star pitcher for the Sioux
City team in the Western league. He
lived here for several years, and got
his pitching start in Winnebago.
Mapleton Enterprise: C. l.. Sellers
wired James Wills new house for
electric lights. This is being quite
generally done now in the country
districts with the thought that some
day they may be able to secure
lights from the power plant at Rapi-
dan, while in some Instances pri-
vate motors are being established,
driven by gasoline engines
Mapleton Enterprise: Mrs J. N.
Mullin will entertain the Christian
Science gathering next Sunday after
noon at 2:30 o'clock There are quite
a number here interested in this
movement and during the week Mrs.
Emily Smith of Mankato conferred
with some of the leaders in regard
to the work here and the possibili-
ties of forming an organization at
this place.
Gilmore Eye: X. o. Sandum was
in town last Monday, disposing of
his stock of furniture to two land
men, one from North Dakota and one
from MankatO. This stock has been
the cause of much speculation and
there may be those who sigh with re-
lief at the bargain. We spoke to
the buyers, some time after the bar
gain had been made, and they were
very well pleased with the deal
Amboy Herald: The first new
wheat brought into this market was
by H. o. Thompson on Monday. The
yield was about fifteen bushels an
acre. Grade No. /. Later i'm the
week few hundred bushels were
delivered by Albert Pegors Grade
No. l, yield not certain but estimated
to be about 16 bushels. George
Keinholtz also reports yield of
about seventeen bushels to the acre.
From this report it Will be seen that
the yield is not what it was excepted
at one time. There are some fields
that will go much better than those
mentioned, but on the other hand
there are thousands of acres that
will fall far short.
Good Thunder Herald: A certain
carrier boy for a certain Mankato
daily is worthy of mention for his
honesty. A short time ago, while
driving out from Mankato, your cor
respondent had the misfortune to
drop. handbag near the end of LIE
Sueur street, from the buggy, which
contained besides some articles of
less value purse in which there
were several dollars. This young lad
found the bag and Immediately took
it to a nearby grocery store where
it was examined, the owners name
discovered and the owner notified by
telephone. AS there were probably
fifty carriages passing over this
ground during the aft noon, the &C.
cupants of any one of which might
have picked up the bag and kept
IL, VIC lcel Clldt IillS yOuHS dClcu
nobly in making an effort to restore
it to the owner-X.
st. Peter Herald: Lake Emily
had their first experience
with the terrors of fire on Saturday
evening last when blaze was dis
covered in the George T. Olsen tent
at Johnson's resort. Mrs. Olsen had
gone to the Johnson house for wa
ter for supper and was returning
up the hill when she saw a column
Of smoke rising above the Poetz
cottage. Arriving at the tent she
dashed her pail of water on the con-
Migration which had already made
Roadway. She gave the
alarm of fire and in a short time
her neighbors had come to the res
cue; bucket brigade was organized
and practically all of the camping
clothing and utensils were
rescued. The tent went up in smoke.
The confiagration originated from
gasoline stove, on which Mrs. Olsen
vas cooking vegetables at the time.
Their tent burned from over them,
Mr.. and Mrs. Olsen moved into town
he same evening.
The Pasadena Daily News of Pasa-
lena, Calf, contains in part, the