The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1914-11-13


continue the business. Mr.. and Mrs.
johnson are now in Vernon, and resi-
dents of the village hoped that they
would locate here, but II is rumored
that they have decided to make
their home in Amboy.
Clifford Meade and Lyle Cooper
were Mankato visitors Sunday.
Mrs. Eli Palmer, who has been re-
ceiving treatment I'm one of the
Mankato hospitals for the past month,
was brought home Tuesday, and her
friends are very sorry to know that
she received no benefit from the
and returned in a precar.
ious condition.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bert Station and
daughters and Mr. and Mrs. George
Gray and Master Douglass Gray, were
Sunday guests at the Charles Proehl
me in Mapleton, going in the form.
er's car.
vernon's young people who are at.
tending school In Mankato, were
home for Sunday. ,..,
Joe Robinson, who has been some
what under the weather, is able to
resume his carpenter work on tho
rhnmas Caven barn, this morning.
Mrs. Marie Evans and son spent
a few hours between trains Friday
evening with Mankato relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs viii Gririth ard fam
lily autoed to Mankato Saturday on
a shopping trip.
Mrs. Lucretia Butler and children
spent the latter part of the week
with her sister, Mrs. Sarah Butler.
Four generations were represented
at the silver wedding anniversary of
Mr.. and Mrs. George Gray, last Fri
day.
G. c. Cornish returned from Des
Moines, Iowa, Saturday evening.
where he had been on business
trip.
Ole Bankson. Gust Nelson, Clarence
Howe, John Alnaman and Mr.. Pick
EFT were among the Vernon people.
who visited the dam Sunday, on
fishing trip Mr. Bankson was the
champion fisherman, catching three
that averaged nearly ten pounds each.
e. W. and L. l.. Champlin and their
wives spent Sunday evening with
their parents in the village.
Mrs. Flossie Mayette of Elgin.
Mimi, is here on visit to her par
ents. Mr.. and Mrs. Oliver Randall.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Roberts and
son Of Sterling were Vernon visitors
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leslie Cooper and
Mr.. and Mrs. John MacGregor were
Sunday guests at the home OF Eugene
Roberts in Sterling.
. Dr. Ira Bishop of Mapleton was
pleasant caller in town Friday after
noon
From Strawberry Point the electric
light on the Good Thdnder water
tank can be plainly seen. Many in
this village were at loss to know
what the phenomenon tn the north.
east was, until they were 'wised" up.
II certainly looks CHEEKY and its bea.
con light will no doubt guide many
when the night is dark, to the Good
Thunder water tank. Just watch for
the Vernon light, which will shine
about the first of the year.
Rev. W. r. Palmer, grand master
Of the Minnesota Odd Fellows, re-
turned Friday evening from st. Paul.
where he had made an official visit
to Capitol City lodge. No. IS.
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fortune to be in a runaway mix.up
Thursday, when he suffered a bad
break to his arm. The bone was
en- in two places.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lars Grother and
George Thew are in Michigan, having
accompanied a party Of land seekers
to investigate the lands there. II the
land Is satisfactory they will no doubt
invest there.
DR.. Dodds was called to the A. c.
Gray farm Friday to inject the double
treatment in the herd of seventy fine
hogs. Cholera had made its appear
ance in part Of the herd.
Mrs. Charles Kelly was called to
Worth Dakota Friday by the serious
illness Of her mother Mrs. Council
man
Among those from this locality who
attended the funeral services of Chas.
Wagon, in Mankato, were Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Bates. Mrs. Mary MEX
ell, Mesdames Kate Johnston, ALA
Cooper, Anna Kehman. Rob Richard,
John Jones. Mr. and Mrs. Gene Fran
els, and Fred, Ed and John Merters-
dorf.
T. d. Hays has lost $50 hogs from
cholera and many more are ailing.
Several from here attended the fun
eral Of Mr.. Edgar Weaver In Man
kato Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. s. Hemingway gave
family dinner October 80, at their
home mile north OF the village, i'm
compliment to Mr.. and Mrs. George
Gray, whose twenty-fifth wedding an
niversary came on that day. Thirty
OF the immediate relatives enjoyed
/ the four course dinner and a very
pleasant afternoon was spent in hap
lpy "reminiscences OF a quarter of a
century Of by-gone years. Mr.. and
Mrs. Gray are the happy parents OF
three children. a son and daughter
being married and living on farms
near the family roof tree. while Mas