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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1915-04-16
Society Of Equity Has Strong
Hold On Farmers
.rom IhursdaY.s DAILY.

srom thursdays Daily.
! II. A. Fuller OF this city. represents
ing the American Society OF Equity.
Is meeting with good success In
forming local unions of the society
throughout the farming sections OF
Minnesota. When seen this morning
by Free Press reporter Mr.. Fuller
expressed himself as well pleased
with the outlook.
II have been engaged In this work
since last November" said Mr.. Full.
Ter. "and am more than ever Impress
cd with the value OF the plan for
farmers. The farmers clubs take care
OF the social side of a farmers life.
and the local unions of the equity so
ciety are designed to take care Of the
business side. their organizations
giving the best facilities for MARKET
ing their crops which the farmers can
have. Some sections of the state have
good crops of potatoes on certain
years, while nearby sections may be
practically barren OF the same crop,
w I'LL the tut tiuttg
societies the sections having a scar
city may be easily and quickly sup
piled by the section having an album
dance. without the intervention OF
sharpers, who make an immense
profit ON shipping such crops. Farm
produce of all kinds can be market
ed in the same advantageous way. We
expect to organize a county union in
Guiding all the small unions at date
I'm the near future"
Mr.. Fuller organized n local union
at Pemberton last week Friday. with
n membership of twenty. Frank
Cords was elected president. and Ar
thur Wilson, secretary, OF the union.
Tuesday night I'm the Morrow
school house. four miles from Maple
ton, successful meeting was held by
Mr.. Fuller. and a union formed, the
officers elected being Fred Koeppen,
president and NJ. vauble secretary. a
union has been organized at st.
Clair. and there are now eight unions
wtthon five miles of Mankato. Mr..
Fuller will speak before the union at
Waldorf on Saturday night of this
week.
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From Thursua,.s psIIv.

Suit In the sum of 100000 has been
instituted against the Chicago, Mil.
waukee and st. Paul Railway com.
paDy or Michael Germ of this city.
Mr.. Germ claims that amount on ac-
count OF personal injuries he alleges
he received recently, while using the
railroad TO move some household
goods and horses from Kenyon TO
Mankato. He relates in his complaint
that he rented car TO transport this
property and was I'm the car when
tue train was at Pennington.
a locomotive. he asserts I'm the
complaint. backed up and hit the train
hard. The horses were knocked down.
Mr.. Germ lifted up the horses and
stepped to the door TO ask the train
crew not TO back up SO hard. The re-
suit was that his head was caught
between the door and the door frame,
the complaint says. and he was pin.
ned there until help came. He claims
to have been injured permanently.
Ills left leg, he says, was bruised be.
tween the ankle and knee.
John E. Regan of this city Is at.
torney for the plaintiff. Suit has also
been instituted on account OF the
same affair against Engineer Branard
OF the Milwaukee.
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From Thursdays Daily.

That there vii! be fight for the
position of city attorney is evident
from the fact that several candidates
are now said to be fairly in the field
and their friends are now active In SO
Letting support from the councilmen.
II Is understood that City Attorney
Schaub will try to retain the position
and he is said to have the backing of
Mayor A. G. Meyer. Against this as
set is the opposition OF Councilman
A. G.. Lack, SO II was learned from
reliable source today Mr.. Lack
did not give his vote to Mr.. Schaub
two years ago. and IL is said that the
councilman will not change front now.
So far as can be learned G. Il. Phil.
lips Is receptive candidate for city
attorney. Many friends arc urging
his election. e. J. Laurisch and IIar-
~ Johnson are said TO have their
eyes on the position. c. o. Daley
has been mentioned, but 70 Is not a,
all likely that he will become n can
didate. Others may get into the race.
There probably will be no radical
changes In the police or other city
departments. Councilman Lack stat
ed today that with one or two excep-
tions there will be no changes made
in the park and fire departments.
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Vernon Center
From thursdays Daily.

From Thursdays Daily.
The Misses Patch and Award have
returned to Redwing and Ruth Corn.
ish to Norwood. to resume their du-
ties as school teachers. after spend
ing their vacatit ms with rs.atives IL:
the village.
Alex Dorwiller, Than Award and
Harry Thompson OF Mankato were
callers in the village Monday. max.
ing the trip In the formers car. They
found the roads bumpy. and Mr..
Thompson had his hand badly cut by
being thrown against the car.
Following the custom Of tbs mist
several years. the Queen Esther SO
ciety sent thirty dozen crate of
eggs to the Deaconess' home in st.
Paul. as their Easter offering &c that
worthy institution. They also sent
a nice quilt, which the young ladies'
lad pieced and quilted at their reg
ular meetings held once month.
Miss Ruth Austin Of Mankato. who
is spending the week with her sister.
Mrs. Evans. was very pleasantly sur
prised Monday evening, when the
young folks OF the village took pos
session of the house and proceeded
to make merry. A fine lunch ended
the evenings gayety.
Attorney and Mrs. G.. w. Champlin
of Lake Crystal. and Mr.. and Mrs.
Champlin of Mankato. spent Easter
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IL. Soaring and Rev. N. Nordgaard. A
book order was placed. The subscrip-
ton to The New Republic VIII begin
shortly.
The report OF the librarian was as
follows:
To tho Board OF Trustees: Here
with Is submitted the report vi The
Nankato public library FOR March.
1915: The library has been open thir.
ty-one days for reading and reference
and twenty-seven days for the circu.
lation of books. with the following
records OF attendance and circulation.
Attendance of adult readers on week
days. l,l0c: on the four Sunday after
moons. 81: attendance OF Juvenile
readers. T29.
Sixty-seven new adult registrations.
III adult re-reglstrations. ~ Juvenile
registrations and three Juvenile re-
registrations have been taken. or
these. six are from out OF town.
Seventy-two books have been added
this month. or which twenty-six came
as gifts. Twelve volumes were placed
i'm the reference room and one in the
children's room. Gifts have been re-
ceived from Miss Almeda May Jan.
ney. F. l.. Soaring. United States gov,
ernment. Brentano and Oregon Agri.
cultural college Nine volumes have
been withdrawn from the adult book
collection and sixtepn from the iuye-
nile. making net gain of forty-seven
volumes.
The floors In the Office and trus.
tees rooms have been scraped and
vanished. which greatly improves
the general appearance. Of both rooms.
The work was done by the Mander-
field company.
The regular Saturday morning
story hour has been continued through
the month. Respectfully submitted,
Flora r. Carr. librarian.
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West Mankato
Totals ...4..... i.679 1.4f7 35 1908
Vocational Guidanec.

NoCduoUdt outodUCc.
The school board received full re
port from the committee on vocation
nj guidance. This committee was ab
pointed by the superintendent o
schools In September 1914 for Oh,
purpose OF making n study OF voca
tional guidance In relation to the
schools OF Mankato. The personnel o
this committee was as follows: Chair
man, w. c. Bate. principal OF the
high school: and Minnie Bangerter
Emma O'Donnell. Rose Staley. Eliza
beth Jones, Vernon Cooper and jean
Collins. teachers. A preliminary sum
mary OF the report was presented t.
the board at recent meeting and
was published I'm The Free Press the
next day. The committed Endorsed the
six-year high school plan and also
outlined a plan for vocational guild
ance of the pupils.
The aims of the committee were as
follows:
To find out whether or not
Mankato had a problem OF chill
dren leaving school without guild
ance and without proper train
ing TO insure their earning an In
come sufficient for an efficient
standard Of living.
To gather statistics which would
enable the school authorities to
compare from local conditions
the advantages toward occupa-
tional life of high school course
with leaving school before enter
ing the high school.
To find out why children did
leave school before entering the
high school.
To find out what occupational
opportunities existed in Mankato
and what employers demanded In
regard TO the training Of pupils.
To find out II the school was
meeting this demand.
To gather a fund OF information
along vocational lines that would
be useful I'm the work OF vocation.
nj counseling.
Conditions found by the committee
were deemed 10 be such as to call
I'm no uncertain terms for more
effort on the part OF the school TO
keep hold upon the children. either
through better motivated academic
Or vocational work or by personal
work with the parents who were I'm.
different or adverse I'm their attitude
towards the advantages of longer
schooling.
The committee found that below
the eighth grade approximately SO
per cent of those who left dropped
out OF school because they would
rather work and earn money for them
selves or did not like school. The re.
ga per cent left school ap-
parently for legitimate reasons. In the
eighth grade the committee saw the
percentage OF those who were dis.
satisfied increasing to approximately
% per cent. In the high school CS
per cent of those who left school be-
fore finishing did SO for reasons
that indicated dissatisfaction.
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BILL CARRIES BIG SUM.
Prom Thursdays psiis

The departmental appropriation bill
prepared By the house appropriations
committee was Introduced in the house
yesterday, carrying total aproprla.
ton OF s5,213.3s7.45. II also carried
figures showing that the appropria.
ton OF two years ago covering the
same matter amounted 70 s5,327. sso
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1915-04-16
Newlyweds Are Here.

Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Hallgren Of
Minneapolis, n newly welded couple,
are visiting nj the home OF the brides
parents. Mr.. and Mrs. II. Knutson In
Decoria. They will remain there
about a week. after which they will
20 to Minneapolis h.. To make their
home there. They were married In
Minneapolis last Monday The maiden
name Oh the bride was Miss Ella Kuut.
son.
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Farewell Party.

William Lever. who spent the win
ter teaching In the commercial col.
lege, was guest OF honor last evening
at farewell party given by a num-
Der of his friends. Eight guests we're
present, and the time was devoted to
playing five hundred, after which
dainty lunch was served. Mr. Lever
left today for his home In Waldorf.
where he will spend the summer.
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On Their Wedding Trip.

Rev. o. J. Arthur. pastor of the
Swedish Lutheran church. last Tues.
day afternoon united In marriage
Miss Hilda Forsberg OF Kasota and
Mr.. August Heglund OF ST. Peter, Mr..
and Mrs. Heglund are now taking q
wedding trip through the south.
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Girls Mission Circle.

Miss Margery Dayton entertained
the Girls Mission Circle of the Chris
tion church last evening, the affair
being held at her home. The regular
study program was carried out and
nice refreshments were served by the
hostess.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1915-04-16

Routine business was transacted by
the library board Tuesday night.
Members present we're DIR. J. A. Han
cock, Father Robert Hughes, F.
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Gard Party.

Mrs. Paul Gcntllng was hostess
Tuesday evening at a prettily ar
ranged card party. held at her home,
112 West Liberty street. There were
three tables of players. and the games
resulted In head honors being won by
Mrs. Dornbergcr, and foot honors by
Mrs. William Hodge. An elegant FIVE
course luncheon was served by the
hostess, assisted by Mrs. J. Pitcher,
and the affair was greatly enjoyed by
all. 90.
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From Thursdays Daily.
Will Dedicate Cooper Memorial Room

Dedication services of the Cooper
memorial room at the Armory will be
held Friday evening. April .. at eight
o'clock to which the public and espe-
cially all comrades. are invited. This
room is used by the woman's Relief
corps In holding their weekly meet
ings. The program follows:
Prayer. ......... Rev. II. w. Hobbs
Land of Liberty" Siege OF Rochelle
Miss Parmalee. Mrs. Evan Hughes,
Mr.. +. ID. Sleight. Mr.. Evan Hughes.
Address Alexander Wilkin
Hon. Loren Cray.
Whispering Hope. Alice Hawthorn
Mr.. r. ID. Sleight, Mrs. Evan Hughes.
"reminiscences OF the woman's Re-
lief Corps F.
Mrs. M. ID. Fritz, department Sec
rotary W. r.. c.. Anna Van
Camper. department president
w. II. c.
Solo. ..s..,... Miss Eunice Hughes
Address. -. Rev. z. Constant
Remarks. j. NJ. williams. Commander
"The Banner of the Free. ....
................. Brinley Richards
Quartet.
Presentation of Tablet. .......
................ Mary e. Plymat
America ..........T The Audience
Pleasant Gathering Last Evening.
Andrew Hclmgren was pleasantly
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1915-04-16

Angercd because the saloons have
been voted out of Fairmont. Henry
Ripe has closed his flour mill In that
city and he declares that the insti-
tuition will not be re-opened. That Is
the report received by The Free
Press from Fairmont today. The clos
ing of the mill throws four or five
men out of employment.
Fa!rmont Is saloonless. The six
thirst parlors that have been doing
business there for years are now
closed and so are the four beer branch
houses. The saloonkeepers still have
large quantities of stocks on hand.
II is reported that sixteen Fairmont.
ers went TO Welcome yesterday and
after having a hilarious time I'm that
village were all jailed. The. village
marshal would not stand for the
rough stun put up by the Fairmont-
ers.
A mass meeting will be held at
Fairmont Saturday night to inau.
gurate the county option campaign.
Petitions will be circulated for sigma
lures requesting the county auditor to
set date for election.
Tho county commissioners of Mar
tin county voted unanimously against
granting a saloon license In the ham.
let OF Northrop.
Judge J. NJ. Quinn Of tie district
court took prominent part In the
dry campaign at Fairmont. He pre-.
sided at the monster meeting held by
the "drys" last Sunday night.
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Entertained at Cards.

Mcsdames !. n. Tompkins. ID. A. Lit
tie. and Donald Roderick entertained
at cards this afternoon mt the home
of the former, 1877 Lincoln street, The
rooms were handsomely decorated
with cut flowers I'm a dainty color
scheme of pink and white. and there
were fourteen tables OF players play
ing auction bridge. Those who as.
sisted In serving the luncheon were
Mesdames S. 3. Wilson. Charles Wy.
att and Chris Laurisch. and the Miss.
es Loretta Olson and Helen Temp.
kins.
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From THURSDAYS Daily.

Work has been begun on the New
Ulm TO 81. Peter division OF the Black
and yellow trail, and the river bluffs
are covered by a vcritable city Of
workmen. Three carloads Of horses
and mules. and four carloads OF ma
chincry were unloaded ut Now Ulm
last Monday and the outfit loaded on
wagons Ey a crew Of thirty men, and
taken across the CORTLAND bridge TO
the first turn OF the road going to 81.
Peter.
Tho contractor Is Allen Tiff OF
Omaha, Nebraska, who has taken q
job of constructing highway, graded
and graveled. twenty feet wide nj the
top. for the twenty.six miles connect
ing ST. Peter and New Ulm.
The contract price Is about $4,000
for the job. OF $1,000 per mile. aud he
expects to obtain his material for
construction right at hand as gravel
deposits are rich all along the route.
II is expected TO have the road finish
ed by Thanksgiving. The present
high water will retard the work some.
what. but the building OF the great
highway will go steadily on.
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From Thursdays oaiiv.

Many relatives and friends of the
young performers attended the Y. NJ.
G. A. indoor circus nj the Y. NJ. c. 4.
gymnasium last night. thoroughly en-.
joyed the fun and enthusiastically
applauded the show. The acts were
numerous, and acrobatic stunts of
difficult and endless varieties were
mingled with the comedy of the
clowns. who caused the large audi.
ence many hearty laughs by their RI
diculous antics. The show opened
with a grand spectacular parade. I'm
which the entire company took part.
\ large number OF young boys and
men wore their gymnasium suits.
others wore regulation circus cos.
tunes. and the star performers were
attended by their well known satel.
lites. The trained animals also pa.
raded the ring in safety. Charles
Chaplin was among those present.
Mutt and JEFF made their usual hit.
Maria and her husband from the
country, with their infant child, the
policeman. the "Cheny" and the Jap.
mingled with the clowns and their
adventures were many and numer-
Otis
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Box Social.

Box Social.
"A box social will be held Saturday
night In the basement OF the NJ. f..
church at Eagle Lake, for the benefit
OF the church. Everyone Is invited to
attend, and enjoy the pleasing pro-
gram.
p. W. Keith is spending the day on
business at st. Peter.
A. A. Bundy of Madelia was In the
city ON business today
J. II. Dewitt of Redwing visited
friends In the city today.
Harold Piper of Minneapolis is Wis.
iting friends I'm this city.
8. II. Winslow OF winona visited
friepds In Mankato today.
r. c. Johnson of Granite Falls was
caller in the city yesterday.
c. Roundestred of Redfield called ON
acquaintance. In Msnkato today.
o. T. Severson OF GAINESVILLE was
In the city yesterday ON business.
@. f. Larson of Redwood Falls
called on friends In the city today.
Mrs. r. e. Jensen and son went TO
Perth. Mimi. to visit friends today.
sMr, and Mrs. John Barden OF Wa
SEGA was visitor In the city today.
NJ. c. Piper of Sanborn. Mimi. was
a guest at the >Saulpaugh hotel today.
F. A. Gray OF Redwood Falls visited
business associates In Mankato today.
w. II. Ruge OF Faribault was a
guest at the Hotel Heinrich last even.
ing.
o. G. Groh went to his home town.
Cleveland, Mimi. yesterday on short
vacation.
Miss Rose Hagen departed this
morning for her home In Bird Island.
having resigned her position as sales
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Birthday Anniversary.

Mrs. F. w. Bruss entertained large
party OF friends at her home, AS
North Second street, yesterday after
noon In honor of her birthday anniver-
sary. the hours being from $3.50 until
6 D. m. when delicious two course
dinner was served. The table was
nicely decorated with lilies and carna.
lions, and covers we're laid for twenty.
two guests. Mrs. Bruss received gifts
Of handsome table linen and other use
full articles from her many friends as
tokens OF remembrance. and the guests
departed for their homes after an en-
joyable afternoon. wishing their hos
tess many happy returns of the day.
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surprised last evening by a party of
twenty-five relatives and friends, who
called at his home In Belgrade to
celebrate his flftieth birthday anniv.
ersary. An elegant dinner was serv.
ed at 1880 by the Misses Cecilia and
Alma IIolmgren. and the evening was
spent In very enjoyable way with
music and games. At midnight O
handsome large birthday cake, which
was beautifully ornamented. and II.
luniined with fifty candles. was cut
and served to the guests. A pleas.
ant surprise to the entire party was
the presence Of Alfred Johnson OF
Kerns. a nephew OF Mr.. Holmgren.
who has been sick for the past thir.
teen months. hut who. with the aid OF
crutches. was enabled to attend the
celebration. The guests departed for
their homes wishing their host many
happy returns OF the day.
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The financial report follow:
Cash on hand March I. 1876. $6i. a
Fines collected .............. SAC
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Pleasant Gathering Last Evening.
Andrew Hclmgren was pleasantly
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Music BY the Orchestra.


Scherer's orchestra furnished emil
vening music for the occasion, and
toy piano blended i'm with the usual
noises of a circus. Gymnastic stunts
on parallel bars were given by Mess
RS. Kimble. Dethloff. Keith. Jones.
Masters Gerlach and Brown the
young men performing some very
clever feats. A group of tumblers fol.
lowed this act the Messrs. Bolvig,
Gerlach, Kimble, Jones, Shoemaker,
Dethloff. Dowery Hughes Masters
and Brown taking part. An exhibition
OF equilibrium was given by Messrs.
Roos. -Dcthlof, Gerlach, Masters,
Hughes ,and Barnes. after which a
group OF six acrobats gave thrilling
display OF acrobatic stunts on the
steel bar. Those who took part in this
act were Messrs. Dowrey Kimble.
Keesey, Monson. Dethloff. and Brown.
Black Bear wrestIed.
Owing to the fact as announced by
Rlngmaster Coon, that the trained
animals had become unmanageable,
their act was scratched. and an ex-
citing wrestling match between the
black bear and Count Kio Kitamura
took place. both being completely
knocked out" and requiring an am
bulance TO draw them from the floor.
The feature OF the evening was the
tight and slack wire acts by the Hen
messy family, which would rival the
Efforts OF many professionals. Many
difficult stunts in walking the wire
were demonstrated by the perform.
ers. and Ringmaster Coon later In
the evening received telegram from
Ringling's circus, complimenting the
local circus on their clever entertain.
ment, and the wire act In particular.
Very Pretty Act.
The last act was very pretty one
In which twenty-five members of the
junior and miget classes took part, I'm
deeds of daring upon the Roman lad
der posing In pyramid effect. the last
pose being the prettiest. two of the
young boys at the top OF the pyramid
OF youthful performers holding aloft
the u. s. flag.
The management deserves much
praise for the successful manner in
which the circus was conducted. The
Official stan was composed of loyal
supporters OF the Y. M. c. A.. c. A..
Brown was general manager and d.
rector: Henry Gerlach. assistant man
ager; Peral Coon. ringmaster; George
Scherer. musical conductor.
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The monthly attendance report for
March was presented by r. ]. Sperry.
superintendent OF schools. Mr.. Sperry
said the report showed larger at.
tendance in the public schools of
Mankato than during any time for
the past ten years. He called particu-
lar attention to the large number OF
of pupils who had been neither abb
sent nor tardy. The summary Of the
report Is given below. with the num-
Der OF enrolled, average attendance.
cases OF hardness and number show.
ing perfect attendance In successive
columns, as follows: