The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1913-11-14


kopf, 49,; Paul Schweitzer, SO; Oscar
Luebke, SO; Agnes Roerig, 95;
Thelma Andrews, 81; Leo. Schmlts,
81; Viva Cords. SO; Merlin Ryan,
90: Louise Schweitzer, So.
Fourth Grade-Fred Kruse. 99s
Eddie Franske, 81; Lillian Braden-
berg, so; Katherine Gollmar, 81;
Kenneth Gollmar. %; Sylvester, Nal
lon, 81; Eddie Frank, 80; Gene
We've Andrews, SO; Rose Bowe. SO.
Fifth Grade-Bert Ward, 80; Daisy
Cordes, SO; Clara Franske, 80: Lillian
Mohr, so; Lila Matteson. 81. The
following children were neither alb
sent nor tardy during the past two
months: Viva Cords, Agnes Roerig,
Merlin Ryan, Leo Schmitz, Oscar
Luebke, Lucille Pagenkopf, Thelma
Andrews, Kennth Gollmar, Kath-
crime Gollmar. Lillian Bradenborg.
Those who were neither absent nor
tardy during the month of October:
Louise Schweitzer, Clayton Bowe
and Clarence Near
Those in the primary department
who were neither tardy nor absent
during October are: Andrew Bowe.
Vera Foster. Fern Foster, Ellen Fitz-
loft, Roscoe Mccarthy. Allyn Moede,
Amy Moede, Fergus O'Connor, Maur-
rice O'Connor, arcella Pestka, Leila
Schmidt, Vincent Schmidt, Harold
Wilcot
Mr.. Hielman motored to Mankato
Tuesday.
Are there 100 ears of corn in Min.
nesota fourteen inches long? J. j
Furlong of Austin, president of the
state fair board, wants to know, says
The ST. Paul Dispatch.
Mr.. Furlong has promised to send
a bushel of Minnesota corn to the
National Corn show, no ears to be
less than fourteen inches long. He
is confident Minnesota can produce
the required article.
George Atchison of Mankato, q
member of the board, brought Mr.
Furlong an ear today, picked in
Nicollet county, which he and
other members of the board declared
was the largest ear they had ever
seen. 1t measured thirteen and one
half inches long and weighed 26lE
ounces. Mr.. Atchison feared Mr.
Furlong would have difficulty finding
100 larger ears.
New Ulm. Mimi, November s.
/ DR.. ii. NJ. Bracken, secretary of th'
state board of health, delivered al
| address on Sanitary Conditions il
New Ulm," and also explained thu
| provisions of the Federal meat in
| spection law, at mass meeting
Thursday night.
o. C. Pierson of the state boart
of health inspected local slaughter
| ing houses week ago, and hi
report, presented at the meeting
stated that several of the slaughte
houses were in condition SO insani
tary that they were threatened wit
proceedings to close them.
! The massmeeting adopted resolr
tons favoring the establishing of
municipal slaughtering plant With
the city limits.
| Harry Lowering ant Maurice HeW
+, lit, senior students in the engineer
ing course at the University of Min
nesota arrived in town this noon t
make measurements and study tn
conditions Of the present bridge tina
crosses the Minnesota river at Mai
street. These young men are goini
to take the designing of new bridg
for this city as subject for thei
(, thesis this year. City Engineer +
F.. Bloomquist is going to furnisl
them with such data and figures a
they will need for their work. Thei
plans will be for concrete structur
and will include plan fer the az
proaches as well as for the bridg
ITSELF
While Mr.. Bloomquist was huntin
for some OF the bridge charts thi
morning he uneartbed an old pro
file of the bridge which showed
long board approach on each end Q
the bridge. He thought that thes
, approaches were originally built an
the space that they had spanned ha
been filled in later with dirt. TIL
. approach on this side of the rive
!; scaled measurement of 230 feet.
The jury in the case of Williar
| E. Stewart VS.. the Chicago, Milwal
kee and ST. Paul railroad tried i
the United States court. returned
; sealed verdict last evening at min
: o'clock and reported to the coul
this morning at $50 o'clock. Tn
findings of the jury failed to awar
: the plaintiff anything for his allege
, injuries, he having sued for SAL
, 527.94. 1t was a suit for persona
, injuries.
While Phil Phaling was on the wi
| ness stand he testified that durin
, the past summer he had accompar
, led Mr.. Stewart to Spring Island, I
, look at some hay there Mr.. Stey
art he said, had found it necessaI
| to make the out going trip O
! crutches but during the discussion
, the hay he forgot his supports, lai
them under a tree and did not mis-
3 them till he had gone eighty ROD
| from the place where they wer
. Other testimony that was Introduce,