The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1915-01-01


department Of the Owatonna high
school will hold Steel county's first
annual corn show. The program for
the convention follows:
Tuesday, January 70.
At 10 a. m.-invocation. Address Of
welcome. ]. II. Adair: response. And.
rev French. st. Paul: presidents an.
nual address. Chris Heen. Osakis:
report of secretary. F. ID. Currier Mic.
ollet: report Of treasurer. J. NJ. Jack.
Northfield: appointment Of commit.
tees. ..a
At 1880 p. m.-"The Employers Lila
bility Act" Don ID. Lescohier. st.
Paul: The Insurance Feature Under
the Act J. A. o. Preus. st. Paul:
Feeds and Feeding" A., J.Glover.
Fort Atkinson. Wis.
"Wednesday, January 20.
At 9:30 q. m.-"Farmers' Clubs" A
NJ. Field. North6eld: 1.-THE Dairy
Herd" George p. Grout. Duluth: 1.-The
Advantages and Disadvantages of
Dairying." +. b. McLeran. Wrenshall.
At 1880 p.m.-Announcing of scor-
es. F. ID. Currier. secretary. Nicollet:
THE Butter Exhibit" o. A. Storvick.
Albert Lea: Dairy Production" Pro-
fessor r. l.. Hacker. University
farm Parasites" John NJ. Walters.
Fargo.
At p.f.-banquet by citizens OF
Owatonna.
Thursday. January a.
At $3.50 a. m.-Address DR.. F. f.
Palmer. Owatonna: Alfalfa" F. W.
Merrill. Fargo: Home Efficiency"
Miss Mary l.. Bull. university farm
At 1880 p. m.-"Co-operation Among
Farmers" Victor s. Knutson. Long
Prairie: Building Dairy Barn"
Professor c. Larson. Brookings. s. d.:
Corn w. V. Gousseff. Owatonna:
resolutions.
At s p. m.-'Todd County's Schools
and Its Dairy Industry" Victor S.
Knutson. Long Prairie. Adjournment.
Prizes Of $25, SIS and $40 will be
offered to the members of the differ.
ent contrasting associations who can
show the greatest percentage of in
crease In net profit or the lowest
percentage of loss i'm 1914 as COM
pared with 1913. In determining this
profit or loss the whole herd under
test each year must be taken into
consideration. Members of contest.
ing associations desiring to enter
the contest must submit complete
herd records for the two years, to be
signed by the contestant and verified
by the ED man. The prizes will be
awarded by a committee of three ap-
pointed by the convention.
From Mondays Daily.
The initiative in military operations
has been left for the time being to
airmen and aerial raids have been
made across the English channel TO
the Lower Thames, over Freiburg,
Nancy, Metz, Sochaczew and Russian
Poland, also on the German naval
base at Cuxhaven, and have inflicted
considerable damage in the aggre-
gate. Details of the Cuxhaven ex.
petition are still lacking, although
Berlin asserts that the British avia-
tors accomplished nothing. II is
said I'm Hamburg that some damage
was done. II is evident, however,
that a heavy fog prevented the Brit.
ish from carrying out fully their
plans.
| Less Activity on Land.
Activity on land and sea is ap.
parently diminishing. Even I'm Rus.
sian.Poland the fighting Is becoming
less severe and without any decision
being reached. Vienna admits that
the Austrians have been compelled
to retreat before the Galician Car.
pathians. In Berlin Il is said that
the attempt TO cross the Bzura river
in advance on Warsaw has been
abandoned. In the west an onslaught
Of the allies would seem 10 have
been checked by counter attacks of
the Germans.
Transporting Refugees.
Washington, December 2S.-The
II
cruiser Tennessee. with the permits.
sion of the Turkish government, and
at the request of American Ambassa.
dor Morgenthan. is transporting 500
refugees of various nationalities from
Jaffa. and Syria to Alexandria. Egypt.
German Official Statement.
| Berlin, December 2S.-A German
official statement issued here reports
that the allies yesterday made an
attack by land and sea on the town
OF Newport at the extreme right oi
the German line in Belgium, but
that no serious damage resulted The
Germans also reported the capture
OF several trenches and a number
Of prisoners to the south of Ypres
also repulsed French attacks in the
regions of Arras. yerdun and Senhein
| Report From Berlin.
London, December 2S.-On the bat
tie lines In both the eastern and
western arenas of war, the onward
movements seemed today to have
lost something, of their Roadway. On
the western front, the allies often
sive momentarily showed lack OF
vigor, while General Won linden
burg, the German commander, seems
, to have come to a standstill on Wis