The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1913-07-11

Goodrich of Mankato, former teach
er in the local schools came Thurs
day to spend few days with Albert
Lea friends and is the guest of Mrs.
A. McCulloch.
{ H. A. Cote, manager of the Great
/ Northern Implement company in
Southern Minnesota, left yesterday
on an extended trip through the
east. MIR. Cote will visit the Great
Northern Implement factory on his
{, trip.
Mrs. T. R. Coughlan returned
yesterday from six months so
journ in California and other parts
of the west Her daughter, Mrs.
F. W. Kruse, who has been with
her, will remain in the west until
late in August.
Miss Emma E. Vogel, who for
the past year supervised music in
| the public schools in Grand Rapids,
Mimi. left Sunday for Chicago to
take special work at the North
western university. She has ac-
cepted the position of supervisor of
music in the schools of Eveleth,
Mimi, for the coming year.
Heron Lake: Miss Birdie Dooley
of Mankato visited relatives here
this week From here she accom-
panied her aunt Susie to Sioux City
to stay until her mother returns
home from Wisconsin where she is
now helping to cheer up poor old
, Tom who is there taking treatment
| from specialist for kidney trouble.
Mr.. and Mrs John Sweet and
/ daughters and Mr.. Sweets sister,
Mrs. Emily Johnson of Minneapolis,
| were the guests of Mr.. and Mrs. H.
| E. Hance and the Messrs. Hoerr
on Fifth street yesterday. They
! motored to Mankato and returned
yesterday afternoon. Mr.. Sweet and
| his sister are former residents of
Mankato
John Hubbard returned last night
from Gettysburg and w. F. Jew
son arrived home this noon. Cap
tain George w. Haigh stopped at
Detroit, Mich, to spend week or
two with relatives. The three veter-
ans had a very pleasant trip and
a splendid time while at the re-
union. All of them enjoyed good
!. health while away.
William E. Anderson departed this
morning for Minneapolis where he
he will remain few days before
proceeding to Echo where he will
superintend the erection of a build
ling that is to be the home of the
| Farmers State bank, an institution
of which Mr. Anderson will be
cashier. The bank will be ready
| for business about September
/ Is. Mr.. Anderson is capable gen
tleman and there is no doubt of his
being able to make good in his new
position. His many friends here will
wish him all kinds of success.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Schippel and
| their daughter Mrs. R. F. Smith,
/ returned last night from motor
, trip through Southern Minnesota
and Northern Iowa. They visited
in DEBORAH, Iowa; Burr Oak, Iowa,
| and Preston, Mimi. Mr. Schippel
said this morning that he believed
Mankato has the best roads leading
from the city of any other town
they passed through with the ex-
ception of Owatonna He spoke of
the lack of sign boards in the vi
entity of Mankato and suggested
that it would be good work for
the Automobile club to undertake
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on the whole, although they en-
countered some very muddy roads
! Colonel George w. Neff of Lake
Crystal was in Mankato Saturday.
So was Frank Griffin, editor of The
I Good Thunder Herald. These two
newspaper men dined together Among
other things related by the mayor of
i Lake Crystal was the sad story of
an Intoxicated individual who made
himself conspicuous in that town on
July 4. 1--WE had to put him in the
cooler" remarked Colonel Neff Lake
Crystal is dry town. "Good Thun-
der has had three saloons for many
years." said Editor Griffin, "but at
that we have not had to arrest man
there on account of drunkenness in
the last. ten years. In fact, it has
been so long since an arrest occurred
in the town that everybody has for
gotten where the village bastile is
located"
Mankato people are fiocking to
Lake Washington in great numbers
this summer and many of the cot
tagers there entertained parties OF
friends over the Fourth Mr.. and
Mrs. c. NJ Masters had as their
guests Miss Belle Beatty, Allan
Jackson, Charles Wagon and F. E.
ICrandall. Mr.. and Mrs. H. l..
S'chmitt, who with their family are
So ending a month there, entertain
Led F. E. Browder for the week.
lend. Misses Lucy Schildnicht, AIDE
laide Bierbauer and Ella Bierbauer
|, were, guests of Mr. and Mrs. Albert
Bierbauer, Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Pay
spent the Fourth as guests of Mr.
and Mrs. B. F. Pay at the Fowler
; and Pay cottage. Mr.. and Mrs. Ed.
gar. Weaver and son, Edgar, and
, Mr.. and Mrs. L. H. Carney are
guests at Cliff Inn for this week.