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

place in June. Miss Cooperman is |
sister of DR.. Oscar Cooperman, a !
member OF the university faculty.
John A. Johnson went to Kasson
on business today.
Miss wv. Tillman of Sanborn Wis |
tied here Saturday.
Miss Jessie Johnson of Judson |
visited here yesterday.
c. ID. OFT went to Lake Crystal
today to visit relatives. |
Hans Hanson left today on a bust. |
ness trip TO Hillsboro. N. d.
Miss Edith Quist and her mother
OF st. etPer visited here today.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles r. Long |
went to ST. Paul yesterday for a |
visit.
Attorney Charles Thompson OF Am. |
boy was in the city on legal bust f!
ness today.
Miss Annabelle Ross of Winona |
was the guest of Miss Bertha Hunt |
over Sunday.
Mrs. G. A. Lewis will leave to-
morrow for Seattle to visit relatives
for a month.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bert Austin visited
with the formers parents in Lake
Crystal yesterday.
Mrs. Frank Clague visited here
Saturday while on her way from
Redwood Falls to Vernon Center.
Mrs. Charles hammers, Miss
Elsie hammers and Miss Erna Kruse
of lie Sueur visited in Mankato Sat
urday.
ii. Barton and family, from Sleepy
Eye, arrived in Mankato today, and
will make their home on Fulton
street.
Miss Catherine Jones returns this
evening from Mapleton, where she
has been visiting relatives since Sat
urday night.
c. A. Crooks Of Fairmont, former
ly OF Mankato, returned TO his home
today, after a visit at the home of
his mother-in-law, Mrs. Mary Jones,
on State street.
Mrs. Charles r. Estes Of Tracy
was among those who attended the
funeral of the late w. T. Andrews
at st. Peter on Saturday. Mr.. An !
drews was her uncle.
Minneapolis Tribune: Mrs. J. ]. |
Ioyd and two children left Wed.
nesday to spend n few days with
Mrs. Owen of Mankato. They will
visit In Albert Lea before returning
home.
Miss Lola miller of st. Paul was
In Mankato over Sunday, the guest
OF Miss Grace Reynolds. Miss Mil
Ter was enroute to Flandreau, s.
d., where she will remain for an
indefinite period.
Melvin II. Hanson, who has been
visiting at the home of his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Hanson on
Pleasant street, left today on his re-
turn to Leith, N. d., where he is
employed in the Farmers State bank
Mrs. F. p. Buyer of the local Sal,
vation Army corps left today for
Hudson, Wis, to visit her husband,
Captain Buyer, who is still confined
to a sanatorium there, and Is just
recovering from an attack of ner-
vous prostration. The captain writes
that he is gaining in strength,
though he still sleeps very little.
Malcolm Merchant has left for
Empress, Sask., where he will man.
age lumber yard for the More.
hart-Broderick lumber company
Empress is a new town and is an
inland town, although the railroad
Is building directly toward IL. This
lumber yard Is one of several which
the company owns In that country
Albert Schippel and Henry Ger.
Itch, Sr., have returned from Mime
apolis where they attended the arch
itects' meeting at the university.
Mr.. Schippel stated that morning
that 1t was a very enjoyable gath !
ering and a very profitable one. A
dinner was given Friday night, mark
ing the permanent establishment OF
the department OF architecture In the
university. Later In the evening a |
military drill was given by a squad
Of ~" cadets. There are already
between forty and fifty students en-.
rolled in the new department at the
university.
From Mondays Daily.
That the eastman distance freight
tariff law is having a bad effect on
Mankato enterprises, is evidenced by
the fact that General Gustav WI
dell of the Widell company, contract
ors and quarrymen, contemplates
moving the concerns crushing plant
to point in Wisconsin. not far from
St. Paul, in order to gain an advan-
tage in freight rates that have not
been obtained In Minnesota under
present conditions since the Cash
man law went into effect. Under
the eastman act 1t costs the widell
company something like SIC to haul
a carload of stone from the COM
pany's quarry north OF Mankato. to
the transfer In Mankato. This enor-
nous freight charge places the WI
dell company I'm position where 1t
cannot successfully Compete with
cpncarns of like cha racfer In mr. naar