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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1915-03-19

st. Paul, Mimi, March l5.-Not In
the least over-awed by their visit to
President Wilson in the White House
or the white lights of Broadway, three
Minnesota school children returned to
St.. Paul Saturday and announced that
they were glad to get back"
During the past two weeks Roy
Halverson, champion corn grower OF
the state. and Helen Fiergolla and
Margaret Lofgren. the best girl bread.
makers In Minnesota, were guests at
the White House: witnessed the
closing session of the United States
senate; visited Mount Vernon. the
home of Washington. and were enter.
tanned on every hand in New York
city. But when the 500 line train
crossed the st. Croix river this morn
ing, the three sighed happily.
president Wilson is just like any
other man." Miss Lofgren said, though
she admitted that he impressed her
more than anything else she saw on
the trip.
Miss Fiergola thought the closing
of the senate was about as interest.
ing az anything.
But Roy Halverson promptly an
nounced that the thing that pleased
him most was the visit TO Mount Yer.
non
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From Mondays DaIi..

That so per cent Of the fallen WON.
en- in the segregated districts of the
great cities OF this country are not
women who have voluntarily chosen
that sort OF life but have been forced
into II was a statement made again
and again by DR.. r. II. Essert of Den.
yer. lecturer for the World Purity fed
Grafton, at the union service held at
the Baptist church last evening.
All that the church could possibly
hold In its main auditorium and the
adjoining guild room were there. The
general interest was intense. Near the
close Of the address. DIR. Essert asked
all who believed that such facts "a
he has told ought to be known, TO
stand. The entire aggregation arose
with one impulse.
At the conclusion OF his address,
around among the people. DR.. Essert
stated that one dollar would purchase
an associate membership in the feder.
alton.
Pleading For the Girls.
DIR. Essert declared that he did not
, come to plead for the fallen women.
but he had come on behalf of the girls
who wished to go right Those were
tho girls that could be decoyed. The
girl who wished to go wrong
could not be decoyed. II was
| impossible. He even secuted the state.
ment that Il was the financial condition
of girls that drove them into such life.
The american girls were ready TO
fight for their honor. They were simply
forced into such lives. He declared
that ever year $1,000 girls in this
country were sold into white slavery.
They were decoyed from their homes.
They simply disappeared and the fam.
lilies said nothing about II in the vast
majority or eases for fear that the
family name would be disgraced. In
proof OF this he said he had actus,
knowledge OF seven cases of disap.
pesrance OF girls from their homes
within a short period of time In the
little town OF Canyon City. Colorado,
where he used to live. He spoke OF
the disappearance OF $4,000 American
daughters between New York and
Chicago In the year 1911. They were
twelve TO sixteen years old. He
quoted from time to time from the re.
port OF the national vice commission.
headed by Stanley w. Finch. lie said
this report showed the white slave
traffic to be more powerfully organized
In this country than the Standard on
company. "
VIII Give Other lectures.
This was tho second OF a series or
four Lectures to be delivered BY DR..
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REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.
From Mondays Daily.


Register of Deeds Gabler today re-
corded the following reality transfers:
Charles ID. OFT to John +. Peterson.
both OF Blue Earth county. $50. lot II.
block /. Shepard's Sunnyside addition
TO village of Lake Crystal.
Frederick Kron to Andrew Erickson.
both Of Blue Earth county. $500. west
80 feet of lot and east 20 feet Of lot
3. block 8. Givens' and Lewis addition
to the city OF Mankato.
Adam Lortz to William Meeske of
Blue Earth county, sl.i09. east half of
lots and 10 In block 3, Pagenkopfs
second addition to the village OF Ma.
pietbn
Mankato Savings and Building as
sociation, To William T. Todd OF Man.
kato, $50. lot 9. Lindsey's addition to
Mankato.
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Decoria

from Mondays Oa,iv.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Ballard and son,
Paul. Mr.. and Mrs. August Kroger.
and daughter, Agnes, Mr.. and Mrs.
Herman Behnke and daughter. Mar.
sella.. Mr.. Leo Bohlke and Mr.. Charley
Prange were all pleasant callers at
the home Of Mr.. J. Kalbow Sunday.
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Essert during this present visit In Man.
kato. Sunday AFTERNOON he addressed
tho Y. NJ. G. A. mass meeting at the
samo church. This evening nj eight
o'clock he will speak in the same place
on "The Responsibilities OF Parent.
age" His fourth address. in the same
church, will be for women and older
girl only, the subject being "The
Scarlet Man" This address win opel
tomorrow afternoon at two o'clock. lie
said ne was going TO request the SUI
perintendent of schools to make ar.
rangements to excuse tho older girls
from school that afternoon in time to
hear the address.
Rev. n. w. Hobbs opened the serv.
ice, Rev. w. n. Reesey read the scrip
ture lesson and Rev. T. r. Paden led
In prayer. Harry o. lverson played n
violincello solo. 81.
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From MONDAYS osiIs

From MONDAYS DAILY .rJ. 81
Former Judge Loren Cray OF Man.
kato Is n member of q committee APP
pointed by the Minnesota State Bar
association that has drafted four bills
that are designed TO regulate the
legal profession. Thdse measures
have been introduced in the senate.
and they cover the following points:
Prohibiting the importation into this
state OF certain damage suits; limit
compensation OF attorneys and others
in certain cases: prevent solicitation
OF damage suits arising from tOrts;
, regulate the conduct of attorneys, and
also settlements in personal injury
, cases.
extending more than a year. found in
! substance as follows:
That salaried solicitors are employ.
ed by certain personal injury lawyers.
ono firm alone having employed forty
five railroad employees in this capac-
| lty. = 3
That hospital and medical STATS
have been provided to give medical
treatment for nonresident injured per.
sons. while awaiting trial of their
, causes In this state
How the State is Advertised.
! That lecturers are employed and
literature distributed TO railroad EN-.
ployes to advertise that the courts OF
/ Minnesota are. the most desirable
forum in which TO try personal in.
jury cases. E
That the reason Is given that juries
here are more liberal than elsewhere,
that fve-sixths of q Jury may find a
verdict, and that results can be reach.
ed more quickly here than In other
states.
| That as a result selr-respecting law.
yers are robbed of their legitimate
clientage. and already overburdened
courts are called upon to accept juris-
diction OF cases that can be and ought
to be tried in Wisconsin, Montana,
| Illinois, Mississippi. and at least a
dozen other states.
That one firm of st. Paul attorneys
claims to have received verdicts in
eighteen months In personal injury
cases amounting TO $4,000, resulting
in fees at the usual 30 per cent Of
/ One Firm Makes Speciality.
That one Minneapolis firm makes
a specially OF this class or classes.
and claims to have branch offices In
thlrty-two cities. That the centraiizine
OF this class of business In Minnesota
is very Unjust to our conrts and tax.
payers. The committee In It's report
submitted the bills which have now
been introduced and also alleged that
IL has the documents 10 prove all the
charges Il made.
Among these documents is a short
hand report OF lecture given In
Chicago. The lecturer Is said to have
. described fully the virtues of the law.
yers he represented. the elaborate
ness or their offices and the distinc.
ton OF their corps of surgeons. On
tho occasion OF the lecture photo
graphs Of checks used In making
settlements and Advertising pamph.
lets we're passed around. There was
also a photograph OF one man re-
celving his pay currency. $1,000 bills.
Would Minimize imrortations.
or the bills introduced The first Is
designed TO minimize the bringing
INTO Minnesota eases which belong
The second Is designed. by hitting
NJ the alleged excessive profits of the
business, TO take away the chief In
centlye for solicitation OF personal IN.
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goods shall be either. requisitioned or
sold by the British. If sold. no pro-
ceeds from such sale shall he paid
out by the court until after the con.
clusion OF peace. The seizure order
also applies to ships sailing for any
enemy port, or ships having. aboard
goods of enemy origin" These re-
talltory measures shall be carried out
without risk to neutral ships, or to
neutral or non-combatant life. In strict
observance of the dictates Of human.
ity."
Son OF Lord Roseberry.
London, March 13.-Neil Primrose.
younger son of Lord Roseberry, who
has been made an under secretary OF
the foreign Office. is charged with the
double duty OF meeting the American
newspaper correspondents and ans.
wering many OF the questions raised
by members of the commons. He Is
only thirty-threc years old and looks
much younger He has been n mem
her of the commons since 1910, and
was educated at Elton and Oxford. He
has visited the United States and met
many of the public men OF that coun.
try. His fathers reputed boast tina,
he would be prime minister, marrs
the richest girl i'm England and win the
Derby, n triumvirate OF achievements
which he realized, whether he ever
made the boast or not, has not been
very conspicuous of late though he has
made a number of recruiting speeches.
He Is said to be n victim OF insomnia.
The mother of Neil Primrose was Han
nah, the oldest daughter and heiress
OF Baron Meyer de Rothschild. and
Neil resembles her greatly in features.
He has ar early start in public life
and his career is watched with inter.
est by his fathers many friends.
r-om Mondays Daily
Rev. Ferdinand Tiede, sixty years
old. thirty-nine years pastor OF the
German Lutheran church al Alden,
Mimi. and for many years president
or the Southern Minnesota conference
of the Iowa synod of the denomina'
tion. died nj the home of his daughter
Mrs. n. e.. Ackermann, wife OF Rev.
n. G.. Ackermann. pastor of st. Paufs
German Lutheran church ut South st.
Paul. al eight Saturday night.
His death was not unexpected. as
his condition has been grave for sew.
eral days. lie was forced TO retire
from active work in June because o.
cancer.
Rev. Mr.. Tiede was born In Radden
ford, Mecklenburg. Germany. Febru
airy 81. 1885 and came to America
when ho was II years old. He was
educated NJ the Wartburg seminary
at Mendoza. H.. and soon after grad
uation went TO Alden.
He Is survived by his widow, vii
helmina, three sons, Rev. William
Tiede. pastor of the German Luther
an church at Pocahontas. Iowa: Rev.
Frank Tiede. pastor Of the German
Lutheran church at lie Sueur Center,
Mimi, and Fred Tiede Of Alden. and
two daughters. Mrs. Herman Albers Of
Walters. and Mrs. Ackermann.
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From Mondays oaIlS.

From Mondays oaIIv.
Senator ]. w. Andrews has intro
duced bin fixing upon the .qualifi.
cations for county attorney. No
county attorney in Minnesota will be
permitted 10 prosecute In court over
which his relative presides as district
Judge, says the bill. =. .
II the w. A. Campbell bill is enacted
into law, all first class cities win be
compelled to double their fire depart
ments. The bill provides that no fire.
man shall work more than twelve
hours a day and shall not be subject
to duty on his of hours.
Senators p. A. Hilbert and Andrews,
both physicians, have presented a
hill increasing the fees of the medi-
cal examiners from SO to 500 day
while in session. .... .-..-
Fixina Women's Hours.
The house labor committee has In.
troduced bill Saturday appropriate
ployment of women for more than
nine hours a day or fifty-four hours
a week. II applies to women en-
ployed in any business or mercantile
esta blishment, factory, workshop, res.
taurant, lunchroom or eating house,
or kitchen operated In connection
or I'm any telephone or tele-
graph establishment. Women employ.
ed at night work. except In telephone
cannot be made to
work more than eight hours day or
forty-eight hours a week. .
The house state fair committee In.
PRODUCED n bill Saturday appropriat.
ing 100000 to aid county and dis
trict agricultural societies.
State Print Plant.
A bill to establish a state printing
office was introduced in the house. All
public printing is to be done under
the direction OF the state printer I'm
this Office. An appropriation of $685..
900 Is provided for with which to
acquire a suitable building for print
ing plant and presses.
The senate committees on town
and counties has unanimously voted
out the Jones bill taking from all
sheriffs in the state the privilege OF
boarding prisoners. Although the
bill provides that the county. COM
may" contract for the
boarding OF the prisoners, Il is recog.
nized both by friends and opponents
of the Jones bill that boards of county
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VIII Give Other Lectures.
This was tho second OF a series or
four LECTURES TO be delivered BY. DR..
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1915-03-19

London, March 15.-An Athens
dispatch to Reuters says: "The
epidemic of typhus fever In Ser.
bia Is reported to be diminishing.
Many doctors died from the dis
ease, and the American Red Cross
units suffered. One American
doctor committed suicide while
in his delirium."
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1915-09-28
OMAN
Said To Have Obtained Money
For Fake Death OF
Husband

Youngstown, o., Sept. 24-Miss
Bessie Beede Strang, twenty-eight
and pretty, was arrested Thursday
night at the farm house Of her par
ents, south of the city, on the charge
OF obtaining money under false pre-
lenses preferred in Cincinnati. She
Is charged with having collected
money from an insurance company
for the fake death of her husband.
man who is believed to be her
husband. Robert c. Strang, was ar
rested today in New Orleans. He is
wanted in Columbus on the charge Of
obtaining, by false pretenses, an
$S,70O bond from the Illinois Surety
Company.
Strang, the Columbus police said,
is a professional diver who posed as
a contractor from Covington, KY,
and obtained the bond to insure his
carrying out contract to build a
Moose lodge temple in Cincinnati.
On a sworn statement by Harold
Sweitzer, of Cincinnati, that Strang
was drowned in the Ohio river when
boat, in which the two men were
riding, capsized the bond was paid to
Mrs. Bessie Strang, believed to be
Strang's wife. 1t is alleged that she
also collected several thousand dol
lars in life insurance.
According to Detective Charles
Foster of Columbus, who arrested
Mrs. Strang here, she confessed that
she had wrongfully obtained s7,40O
for her husbands death, but that she
had used $4,000 of this money to
help pay off the mortgage on the par
entail homestead. Her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Fl. d. Beede, are respected
| resident of the community.
Foster has been here for two weeks
trying to get evidence against Mrs
Strang. The woman was finally
identified by the help of postoffice
authorities here and In Columbus
Mrs. Strang was taken to Columbus
from here Immediately after her ar
rest. 1t is said the Strangs were
married here in 1907 under the name
of Mr.. and Mrs. c. b. Grant.
Mrs. Strang did not know of hel
husbands arrest at New Orlean!
until told by the officers. She pose,
as a widow here.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1915-09-28
MAS0NS
Of Ohio To Meet In Dayton
October 2O.2l

Plans have been inaugurated for
the meeting of the grand lodge of
Masons, which will convene at Day
ton Oct. 20, 81. 1t is expected at that
time that there will be about nine
hundred visitors in attendance. The
programs are now being prepared
and will be distributed within the
next few days
The membership of the grand lodge
embraces all the masters of the var
ious local lodges throughout the
state, past grand masters and pres
ent officers of the grand lodge.
George L. Marshall Of Dayton is
the present grand master, his time
expiring with the grand lodge meet
ing. 1t is expected that Frank H..
Marquis of Mansfield will succeed
him as he is next in line, now serv-
ing as deputy grand master. The
meeting last year was held in Co
lumbus.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1915-09-28
THE COURT
OF APPEALS.
TO Convene In Knox County
On Tuesday, Oct. l9
Twenty.Three Cases Are Now
On The Assignment
Thomas J. Sutton Files Suit
For $4,000 Damages
Against David B. RawlinS In
Common Pleas Court
Other Items Of Interest From
The Court House
Other Items Of Interest From
The Court House

The docket for the October term
,of the court of appeals In Knox coun.
ty shows twenty.three cases UP to
the present time. and there may be
additional cases before the term con.
, venes on Tuesday. Oct. 10. The judg.
es for this district are Hon. II. S.
Shields of Canton. Hon. Louis X.
Powell of Mt Gilead and Hon. Lewis
B. Houck of Mt. Vernon. 1t is likely
that Judge Houck will not sit on the
bench in this county and a Judge will
be sent here from another district.
The following cases are now on
the docket:
Kate Winnie VS.. Louis Benn-Er-
ror.
r. Francis VS.. l.. C. Penn ct al
Appeal.
Thomas McClelland VS.. Noble Weir
et al-Appeal.
Lena Wells ct al. VS.. Samuel Black
-Appeal.
william e. sapp vs.. John Cooper-.
Appeal.
John Cooper VS.. Desault B. Kirk ct
al-Appeal.
William b. Weaver VS.. State of
Ohio-Error.
Eleanor Delano Shealey VS.. Ben
Ames-Error.
w. Scott Rigbtmire VS.. Fred Franz
Error
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1915-09-28


Mrs. c. c. Forsman and daughter
Byrdie, of East Chestnut street are
spending the weekend with relatives
in Centerburg.
Walter Wood departed Friday af
ternoon for Cincinnati, where he viii
study organ and piano at the College
of Music,
Miss Laura Koons of East High
street is spending the day in Colum.
bus
Miss Rose Winters Of Lexington,
who has been visiting with friends
here, went to Apple Creek Saturday,
Mrs. Delsie Butcher is spending a
few days with relatives IN Mt, Lib,
erty,
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1915-09-28
LOCAL MAN
Chairman OF A Committee At
A National Convention

NJ. II. Rosenthall of the Rosenthall
Clothing Co., who returned Friday
morning from Chicago, H., where he
has been attending the meetings Of
the National Retail Clothiers' AS
sociation, was honored by that body
in being made chairman of the reso-
luton committee in which position
he had full charge of the preparation
and presentation OF number of i'm.
portant resolutions.
Mr.. Rosenthall states that great
portion of the time of the gathering
was devoted to the discussion of do
mestic sheep-raising. 1t was pointed
out that only 80 per cent OF the wool
used in America is raised here. The
association determined to start an
active campaign to induce farmers to
raise more high grade sheep, so that
the clothing and other kindred trades
may use more Of American wool.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1915-09-28

Leonard H. Kelly went to Uhrichs
vile Saturday to spend the weekend
with his uncle, Clifford Hilton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lee Perry and Will
liam S. Longe of Cleveland were in
the city Friday and Saturday.
Miss Sarah Sapp of Gambler was
the guest of friends in the city Fri
day.
w. A. Unroe departed Friday even
ing for California, where ne will at
tend the Panama-Pacific exposition.
r. II. Atkinson left Saturday for
Louisville, KY to make an extended
visit with his sister, Mrs. j. Il. Pears.
Mrs. John w. Mason returned Sat
urday from Dayton, where she at
tended the state w. G. Z. u. conven-
ton.
Mrs. George Hartcnfels and Mrs.
Charles Hartenfels, who have been
guests of City Auditor and Mrs. Ed
ward l.. Parker, have returned home
to Mansfield
Major William Hoey, DR.. II. c.
Larimore, Rollin G. Curtis, Jacob M
Lybarger, Dr. and Mrs. George r
Baker departed Saturday for Wash
ington, ID. c., to attend the nationa
encampment of the G.. A, r.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1915-09-28
KEPT BUSY
Interpreting Road Law Is The
Attorney General

Columbus, o., Sept. 24-Attorney
General Turner has been busy for
the past two weeks constituting am
biguous sections of the new Cass
state highway law. State Highway
Commissioner Cowan asked him to
answer more than fifty questions re-
garding the intent of this statute. In
interpreting the law, the attorney
general holds: That there Is no pro-
vision for either purchasing or fur
nishing means of transportation for
county commissioners; an automo-
bile used as a conveyance by county
road officials may not be purchased
as equipment; township highway
superintendent has control of the
roads in his district and is under the
supervision of the county road su-
perintendent; state roads include
parts of inter-county highways and
main market roads which have eth
er been constructed by the state or
taken over by the state; township
roads include all public highways Of
the state other than state or county
roads, and the trustees or each town
ship shall maintain these roads; the
county highway superintendent is re-
quired generally to approve all road
improvement expenditures, whether
made from the township or county
fund; where a county improves a
road through the township and into
or through a village, the part of the
road in the village becomes a county
road, but the duty of maintenance is
cast upon the municipal authorities
the power of removal of township
highway superintendent is concur.
rent with the county highway super
ntendent and the township trustees;
the county surveyor is required to
give two bonds, one as surveyor and
| one as highway superintendent; /;
county commissioners may not re-
| pair highways without the supervis
| ion of the county superintendent, and
the state highway commissioner may
establish system OF parole main
| tenance, and the county superintend
| ent, under the direction Of the state
highway commissioner, may estab
lish such system on county roads
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1915-09-28
HANGED HIMSELF

Cleveland Sept. 24-Mathias Fab
jan. 80, was found here hanging in Il
shed in the rear of IL st. Clair avenue
saloon where he was employed as Il
porter. He was cut down while still
alive, but died before physician
could be called
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1915-09-28
TENDON SEVERED
In Mans Hand When a Hammer
Dropped on the Member

Winfield Brink of Killbuck, a hoist
ing engineer working in the local
Pennsylvania yards, had a tendon in
his left hand severed Friday morning
when hammer was accidentally
dropped on it. The injury was dress
ed by a physician.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1915-09-28
ONLY OME IN $4,000 THINKS.
Founder Of e New Education School
So Declares.

90 OeCldreS.
Only one out OF $4,000 persons can
think, and from tests have made
know that most persons not only can.
not think. but that they lack Judgment.
imagination and in n great many cases
personality" said Dr. Silas T.. Neff
principal and founder of the School Of
New Education of Pennsylvania. at
Pittsburgh, According to Dr. Nen, the
school aims TO do for the mind what
the gymnasium does for the body. or.
in other words. TO develop all the men
tai faculties equally,
"ln order that II man be successful
In n particular line" said DR.. Neff. "he
must use all Of his powers. mind. per-
Sonality and character. The reason so
Few are successful is that the early
training IN our schools is Incorrect"