The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1915-01-15


wire TO Speaker Clark OF the house.
, No action by that body win be neces.
cary.
The usual procedure To follow
would be for the governor TO cali q
special election, but rs the time Is
SO short 10 March 4 when +. Il.
Ellsworth will replace Mr.. Hammond,
the governor decided to waive that
action,
Prom Thursdays Daily
Mrs. Carl Leo, 1928 Third avenue.
died yesterday afternoon ut the I'm.
manuel hospital after n brief illness.
Mrs. Leo had not been feeling well
for years, having some digestive
trouble, but she was not In q serious
condition until lately. She was thirty.
three years old. Her husband was
killed q rear ago last July. being
crushed by q falling derrick, while
at work in the Mcclure quarry.
Mrs. Leo is survived by three chill.
dren, two girls. and q boy, ranging in
age from thirteen TO six years. She
is survived by her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Alfred Ahlstrom OF 7Mankato:
three brothers, Alfred, Lincoln and
George Ahlstrom, of this city and
three sisters. AIRS. Peter Anderson
OF Kasota, Mira. Charles w. Swanson,
hving six miles from Mankato in the
direction of Lake Crystal. and Miss
linda Ahlstrom of Chicago.
The funeral will be held on Satur-
day from the family home at 1870 p.
N. and from the Scandina Wan Bap-
list church at two O'Clock. The serv.
Ice will be conducted by Rev. G. A.
Eindahl. Mrs. Leo vas a member OF
that church.
Rev. and Mrs. Clark w. Comstock
mourn the death of their little daugh.
ter Martha Eleanor, who passed
away yesterday from the effects OF
pneumonia, having been very III and
under the doctors care since Sunday.
She was born June IL, 1914. and
was 10 months and n day old at
the time or her death. Deceased
n a bright little girl the joy and
pride OF the household, and her sor-
rowing parents have the sincere
sympathy Of all in their sad bereave-
ment. The remains will he at the
home of the parents from 10 n. M.
until 1890 p. m. Friday, where they
may he viewed by friends. The
funeral will he held al the Christian
church al 2:3O p. m. Friday. and
the seryice will be conducted by
Mr.. Leslie Wolfe. a Christian church
missionary, who Is home from the
PHILIPPINE Islands on f%urlough.
Mrs. Mary leavens Dead.
Mrs. Mary Leavens, once head OF
the W.. II. C. of Minnesota. died at
her home in Faribault. aged seventy.
six years. -. 49,
Groom Seventy; Bride Fifty.two.
Clerk of the Court Krost today
issued n marriage license To Joseph
u. Grave Of Villa Grove, Douglas
county and Carol +. Day OF Amboy.
Two were issued late yesterday to
VIII =. pohl ami Ella A. Glaubitz,
both Of Vernon cenler. and to Albert
u. Balcom and ver}lpa Spring. both
Of Amboy. The Iasi.named couple
were united In marriage by Judge
Hughes. The groom Is aged seventy
and the bride ffty-two.
Sheriff Anton Osten returned to-
day from Rochester, Ind. bringing
with him ]. \. Sewell. the young
plumber. wanted ut Mankato on the
charge OF wife desertion. lie was TO
be brought before the court ut four
o'clock.
Edward Mccain left late yesterday
with his father. j. +. Mccain. for
their home at Luxembourg, Iowa, the
young man having been placed under
probation by Judge Comstock of the
district. court. lie pleaded guilty to
the charge of passing q $50 forged
check on the s%aulpaugh hotel. His
! father squared up this matter. Just
os at Eairmont he was recently
placed on probation having made a
clean breast of his ~swindling as q
pseudo.buyer of hides for u Chicago
house. II will be remembered that the
youth was captured at Mankato n
short time ago. when wanted on that
charge. Mccain is to report to Judge
Constock next February, and his
! conduct for the meantime win be
looked into y@ ~
Econ, Thursdev's osrv.
Honors For Professor. koehier.
Professor G. F. Koehler Is guest
Of homer this week ut a series of
celebrations being held at Aberdeen.
South Dakota. On Monday evening
he addressed the Social Science club
which he founded there in 1902, on
Tuesday evening he delivered the
principal address ut the normal five
/ hundred mark commemoration exer.
cises. On Monday afternoon Mrs.
w u. Johnson entertained for Mrs.
i Koehler. =
Charles r. Koehler. FIRST president
OF the Northern Normal and Indus
trial school. at Aberdeen and now