The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1913-05-02
transacted business in Mankato Sat

TRANSACTED business in Mankato Sat
Iurday.
III. S. Noonan of Madelia visited
with friends here Saturday evening
i Alfred Stubstad of Winona was in
the city yesterday calling on friends
/ ]. C. Jackson and A. F. Ellis o.
Morgan were in the city yesterday
| Mr.. and Mrs. II. Bendixen OF
Springfield visited over Sunday ir
Mankato.
| Attorney George T. Olson of ST
Peter was in the city Saturday or
business.
| f. Wagner and o. ]. Duane of st
Peter were in the city Saturday on
business.
Superintendent Thornburgh OF
,Owatonna was in the city on bust
mess Saturday.
Attorney II. L. Schmitt returned
Saturday night from business visit
in the twin cities.
! Joseph Groh, bill clerk at the
Northwestern freight depot, visited
l Will iiICi1uo III bCSOlid yColCludy.
Linn Thro returned yesterday from
Omaha, Neb., where he has been at
tending the Creighton Medical col
lege.
Miss Ardice Gilmore of Mapleton
is the guest of her sisters, Mrs
George Nerbovig and Mrs. P. w
Barney.
DIR. and Mrs. c. H. Nerbovig are
in Winona today and will take part
in an Eastern Star initiation there
! this evening.
| w. B. Harrison of Redwing, as
sistant superintendent of the Chicago
Great Western Railway company, was
in the city this morning on business
Arthur Johnson, who is with the
Widell company at Stockton, Mimi,
spent Sunday with his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Swan Johnson of North
! Second
John H. Hohmann returned to Min,
neapolis this morning after spending
Sunday at home, to continue in his
work in behalf of the Mankato to
Bloomington federal post road
S. Batchell and family returned
yesterday from Los Angeles, Cal,
and will again take up their resi-
dence here. They left Mankato to
live in California about year ago.
Mrs. P. J. Leerschem of Client is
the guest of her daughter, Mrs. J. w.
Martin of South Fifth street. Mrs.
Leerschem and her husband cele-
brated their golden wedding ami
versary four years ago and are both
in the best of health. They have
three great grand children.
Mr. and Mrs E. M. Zuel motored
to Waterville yesterday and visited
with relatives. They were accom-
panied as far as Elysian by w. B.
Davies, who has a cottage there,
and Mrs. w. w. Zuel and daughter,
Miss Grace, accompanied them to
Madison Lake. They all returned
together last evening.
Members of the Congregational
church of this city at the church
service yesterday passed the follow
ing resolutions showing their great
regard for their former pastor, Rev.
b. l.. Heermance, who resigned his
pastorate here to take up missionary
work in the northern part of the
state with his headquarters at Inter
national Falls.
1.-The First Congregational church
of Mankato, Minnesota, bears the
following testimony to its recent and
much beloved pastor, Rev. Edgar L.
Heermance:
Brother Heermance came to this
church fresh from Yale Theological
seminary in June, 1902, and con-
tinued as it's faithful and energetic
pastor until March, 1918, when, at
his own special request, he was re-
luctantly released to take up a.
larger and more pressing work of
our Master in the northern part of
the state.
During his stay with us he had
our old church building remodeled
at cost of about $4,000, practically
making a new edifice of it. He built
fine new parsonage costing about
$4,000. He went forth into the
country districts adjacent to Man
kato, where there was no Sunday
worship, and started and maintain
ed regular religious services in half
dozen rural communities-buil
ing a new chapel at one point and
new parsonage at another, and
repairing and reopening three desert
ed places of worship at other points
and finally organizing three of these
into regular church or
CARNATIONS.
Brother Heermance also went
forth into the Mankato conference
and put into it new life, spirit |
and energy and every church therein !
las profited by his splendid counsel,
help and leadership. He is known
20 all our churches not so much |
by what he has said as by what he
has done, while his courage, optimism |
and push have ever been an inspira-
ion to us all.
AS preacher, Rev. Heermance is |
scholarly, logical and SPIRITUAL safe
md true teacher of Christian doc