The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1913-01-10
CHURCHES HOLD THEIR
ANNUAL; THE REPORTS
From Saturdays Daily.

From Saturdays Daily.
] The Seventh Day Adventist church
held its annual meeting yesterday
and elected officers for the year
| 1913 and transacted other busienss
OF Importance The clerks report
! showed that the present member
4, ship of the church ia sixty-eight.
The treasurer reported that $2,.
3G1.28 had been received during the
year. or this amount $1,502.2S was
f., received from tithes for the support
of the ministry; $451.99 for for
eign missions in Africa, China, India
and South America. where the church
has schools; s346.4S for home mis-
sions. A large quantity OF books
and papers were also given away.
! The children's mission band con.
tributed 1920 OF this money for mis-
sions. Last spring nearly all the
children of the church had gardens
or did some sort of work from
which money could be realized
j Three little girls in West Mankato
raised flowers and vegetables. They
received 81 in premiums for their
flowers from the Civic Improvement
/ league, and So in premiums ON their
vegetables at the Mankato fair
: The officers elected for the com
ing year were elders, NJ Leather
j man and l.. f. Camp; clerk Abbie
Mercle; mission secretary, C. NJ
Yaeger; treasurer, L. F. Camp.
! Swedish Lutheran Church Meeting.
The annual meeting Of the Swed.
ish. Lutheran church was held last
night when reports were read
which showed the church to be in a
fourishing condition. The treasur-
er's report showed that he had han
died nearly $4,000 of the church's
money during the past year. A par.
sonage was built at cost of $4,000
with but a small Indebtedness. Dur
: ing the past year there has been
an increase in membership of for
ty-fve.
: The officers were elected as fol-
lows: Secretary, Carl Engwaldson;
! deacons, John A. Peterson, Alfred
Sangren, Charles w. Johnson of
Judson; trustees, C. A. Gustafson
and John Farm; organist, w. A.
Johnson; janitor. l.. p. Carlson; SUI
| perintendent OF Sunday school. c.
f. Bredeson; secretary and treas
urer of Sunday school. 0. X. Mon
son, Swan L. Johnson and A. S.
Melgren were elected delegates to
the district convention which will
be held in Winthrop the last week
! in January, and TO the conference
: at Minneapolis on February 25.
! Mayor Charles T. Taylor today
received letter from the coroner
of Richland county Wisconsin, Of
fering to sell bloodhound, Bob
LaFOllette." In his letter the gen.
tleman, T. L. Barto Of Richland
Center, says that this is the ia.
nous dog which found the murder
ed body of Anna Lenbcrg of Madi
son, Wis.,, last year.
The dog Is three years old and
. Mr.. Barto says that he bought him
to guard 4 valuable ginserg gar.
den. His reason for selling is that
one man cannot handle the dog on
fresh trail. During the past two
months. Mr.. Barto claims TO have
had fifteen calls for the dogs ser.
/ vices in running down criminals
The price asked for "RcE" is 5000.
| Mayor Taylor put the letter In
the hands Of Sheriff Anton Oe'
for reference in case the pair OF
dogs which the county has pur-
chased condtionally from Beatrice,
, Neb., do not prove satisfactory.
| Sheriff Osten will leave for Bea-
trice this evening to bring the two
hounds for which tho county has
ne gotiated, to Mankato.
| At the request of friends of Ru-
dolph Mundt OF LIE Sueur, Cover
nor A. o. Eberhart decided TO hold
up a second requisition from the
governor Of Montana for the return
of Mundt to that state. A requisi.
ton was made several weeks ago
and Ora ]. Parker. an attorney from
lie Sueur, appeared for ATundt and
declared it was scheme to collect
civil debt. lie said that Mundt,
WHO was formerly a resident of
Montana, had moved to Minnesota,
bringing with him a blooded stall
lion, which he had not been able
to pay for. The requisition was de-
MED, and few days ago n new one
was presented to the governor.
Parker was notified, and he then
Sdlu ne hlltW lOlHiuts III Tue lUul-
ter and had nothing to do with
the case. The reQuisitiOn was then
ohnored, but when it became known
in lie Sueur, n number. of friends
OF Mundt protested and the COVER
nor decided to give them a hear
ing.
An enterprising moving picture
show manager in New Ulm threw
the town into an unusual state of
excitement last week by advertis-
ing that a live baby would be given
away at the Gem theatre on Sun.
day evening.
Everyone discussed the matter
seriously and there was consider.
able protest against such n thing
being carried out in the city. There
was even some talk of arrest.
! But Sunday evening found the
theatre filed with such crowd as
had never been there before to see
what was really to take place. As
the drawing took place everyone
waited anxiously to see whether
some hapless bachelor or some fair
maiden might be the winner of the
baby. 1t was bachelor, Henry
Neuwirth, clerk of the Dakota
house, was called to the front of
the theatre to receive the baby.
He went and was handad a hahv-a