The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1913-04-25
grand opera and to visit with friends.

- ELLSWORTH ana her
mother, Mrs. William Sheehan, are
in Minneapolis to attend grand
opera.
}. Flachsenhar, cashier of the bank
in Vernon Center returned to his
home yesterday after a short bust
ness Visit here.
Mrs. Louis Kuebler returned yes
terday from Duluth. where she was
visiting friends and relatives for the
past six weeks.
Jay Sherk, bill clerk for, the l..
Patterson Mercantile company, is
spending a weeks vacation in Aber-
deem and Groton, S. ID.
DR.. and Mrs. c. H. Nerbovig re
turned yesterday from short visit
in st. Charles, where they attended
ia special Eastern Star meeting.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. Aasleson of Red
wood Falls We're in the city today
on their way home from an ex-
tended trip through the south.
John f. Albreeht village recorder
of Mapleton and B. f. McGregor,
cashier of the Mapleton State bank,
are in the city today on business.
Falrmont Independents Mrs. w.
E. Jones, who has been here visiting
her daughter, Mrs. c. E. Croker
returned this morning to Mankato.
M r. and Mrs. Theodore Engelen
and family left yesterday for their
new home in Springfield. Mr. Eng
ellen was formerly employed by Fow-
Ter and Pay.
st. Paul Dispatch Mr.. and Mrs.
r. l.. Patterson and daughters, Os-
ceola avenue, who have been spend
ing three months in Pasadena, CAL,
will return home May L.
II. E. Whitchurch, special agent
for the Continental insurance com
pany, went to Des Moines today to
adjust about four hundred tornado
losses in that part of Iowa.
Fairmont Independent: Mrs, G..
0. Croker arrived last week from
Mankato to join her husband. They
will begin housekeeping here as
soon as he can get a suitable house
to Nfent.
Mrs. H. A. Patterson went to Min
neapolis this morning to attend grand
opera. She will be the guest of Mrs.
Charles F. Hale while in Minneapo-
lis and will remain there the rest
of the week.
Colonel j. NJ Barclay came in
from Madison Lake last night. Mrs.
Barclay will reach Point Pleasant
on Saturday. Next week Colonel
and Mrs. Barclay will begin making
arrangements to open their summer
resort for the season.
Blue Earth Post: Miss leila
Flanagan, stenographer at the Blue
Earth State bank for three years
past, has resigned and her place is
taken by Miss Cole from Redfield,
S. d. A. Miss Sanborn from Man
kato also comes here to fill a like
position in the law office of Bulls
& Frundt $40
Ralph Burdick, who was for a
number, of years station agent for
the Omaha railway .heret and later
went to Madelia as.agent, is in the
city as Witness in a personal injury
suit against the Omaha railway Mr.
Burdick now lives at White Salmon,
Wash, where he has a forty acre
fruit ranch. He is much pleased
with the country and is in excellent
health. $50 u "a a,
Among the people bwho are here
today to attend federal court are
Postmaster John Schmeltz of Spring
field, Postmaster ]. II. Nichols of
Pipestone, j. M. Edwards of Ceylon,
S. King of Sherburne, C. e. Nutting
of Luyerne, j. T. Johnson and A. E.
Johnson of Worthington, G. M. Ster-
rutt of Wilmot, Albert Hauser of
Sleepy Eye and August Erickson of
Springfield.
Mr. and Mrs. Levi Bennett of Butte,
Nebraska, were in Mankato the first
of the week, visiting Mrs. Millie Hag-
gardN relative Mr. Bennett is a
brother of Charles Bennett( who is
temporarily in the northern part
of the state Mr. Bennett formerly
resided in Mankato and Tivola but
left here about thirty-fve years ago.
He was here during the war and wit
messed the hanging of the Indians in
1864, and while visitor this week
looked up the location of the hang
ing and was pleased to see the mar
blea marker which now marks the
scene of this memorable event.