The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1914-03-06
From thursdays Daily.

From Thursdays Daily.
For the first time in the history
OF the Mankato high school, the
junior and senior girls have decided
to limit the expense of the dresses
to be worn at the junior-senior ban
quet. The girls recently decided to
limit the cost of the materials to be
used in making these dresses to eight
dollars per dress. 49,.
Each girl will either do the sewing
herself or have II done by someone
else, as she sees fit. In former years
the dresses worn on this occasion
have been very expensive indeed.
The senior girls have placed the
same limitation Of the expense to be
incurred for the materials of which
their graduation dresses are to be
made. This was done for the first
time by the girls of the class that
graduated last year.
William Detamore of Good Thunder
has received as a gift from his SON.
Rev. Frank Detamore of Singapore,
India, now visiting at the home of
his parents, cane made of ebony
from the city of Colombo on the
Island of Ceylon. The head of the
cane is carved in the form of a
dogs head. Rev. Detamore has
brought back from the old world
| quite a collection of such curios.
William Detamore is the possessor
Of a considerable collection of canes,
One that he prizes highly is a hick.
DRY STAFF from the Jewett farm near
Good Thunder This farm is famous
for Indian war history. II will be
remembered that with the exception
o. a son the whole Jewett family
was killed by Indians In 1862.
Murray Payne, the fourteen-year
old boy, who recently came to Man.
kato from San Antonio, Texas, look
ing for his father, Is still stranded
here, and is staying In Lyman
street. Hans Jorgenson, who takes
I care OF some OF the family's prop.
erty interest in Mankato, has re
ceiyed a letter from the boys aunt,
Mrs. ID. +. McGraw of San Jose,
Cal. addressed to Bert Payne, the
boys father. It is thought that this
letter may contain information on
the matter to which Mr.. Jorgenson
wrote to Mrs. McGraw some days
ago. in regard to the question OF
getting the boy a ticket back to
San Antonio. The letter. however
will have to be forwarded to Bert
Payne at Webster, sask.
Captain F. B. Buyer, OF the Saliva
ton Army, who has been iii for
some weeks with nervous prostra-
ton, as the result Of overwork, and
for the past week has been re
ceiving treatment In sanatorium
at Hudson, Wis.,, is now so far re
covered that he is able to write
letters. Two letters have been re
ceived from him by the Army corps
at Mankato during the last three
days. one for Mrs. Buyer, and the
other for. the local adjutant. The
letters were about business, and had
to do with the management of the
affairs OF the Mankato corps. II
Is expected, however. that the cap
tain will remain at the sanatorium
for two and perhaps three weeks
more.
An increase of $S,6OO,O0O in taxes
collected in Minnesota in 1913, com
pared with the figures of the previous
year, is shown in the annual abstract
OF tax lists for the eighty-six counties
prepared under the direction OF Sam.
uel G. Iverson, state auditor. This alb.
stract shows that the state collected
for all taxes in 1895 the sum of s14,.
7IO,S6f. in 1903 a total OF s1s,s26, 1s7
ard that the taxes in spite of the
vast increase In gross earnings and
other special taxation. have more
than doubled in ten years since being
$45,763,3s2 In 1913. The average tax
rate increased nearly six mills in 1918,
compared with 1912. ,''.- t'.
A delicate surgical operation was
performed by Mankato physicians
at the Emmanuel hospital yesterday
on a five-year-old girl from Web
ster, Mimi, Enda Dodes. A year
ago the child was severely burned
about the front Of the neck, her
clothing having caught fire, while
she was playing with matches. The
scar drew the head forward and
distorted the face. In order to re.
store the freedom of movement OF
the skin Of the neck. the surgeons
grated strips Of skin from the chest
to the neck. The child will be
obliged to remain at the hospital
for some days to come.
Petition In Probate,
A petition TO probate the estate
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