The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1915-10-08
erom SATURDAY.. nav.

evenings, IN your homer!
So read a bulletin sent broadcast
through the buckeye state by Ohio
state university officials In charge of
agricultural extension work. month
ago.
More than 500 would be farmers
! signed up. straight of, for the free
correspondence courses. and the
have been writing in at the rate of
fifty o day. .
Instructors in charge estimate that
this winter therell be close to 5000
Ohio farmers who'll give, the college
yell every time the rural route mail
man drives up to the front gate
Many city folk, too, are taking up the
work. ed o..
Twenty-Five courses, are offered.
Distribution began yesterday.
st. Paul, Mimi, October 2.-Laura
Ann Schmidt, who with her husband
Charles II. Schmidt, is serving a life
sentence I'm the saltwater peniten-
tiary for the killing OF q deputy sherfff
at Walker, has made her third ap-
plication for pardon. The pardon
board has decided not to take any ac-
ton on II until the January term.
the woman has always contended
she was innocent, making the state
ment that at the time of the murder
she was I'm the house, but had no
hand in the AFFAIR. She was. however,
convicted OF being an accessory to The
crime.
st. Paul. Mimi, October Given
ty-one public school teachers were
today granted permission to retire on
pension. Included In the list was
Bertha Werethzki of New Ulm for
disability on the nineteen year basis.
A $500 annuity Is allowed based upon
the law passed by the last Legislature.
st. Paul, Mimi, October 2.--E. II.
Bailey, president of the first National
bank owned by James J. Hill, con-
ferred with Hans Grunow, German
consul today, to arrange details for
taking large amounts of the third
gigantic German loan, being sub
schibed in this country. Mr.. Bailey
in this capacity Is acting as Mr.. Hills
agent. Mr.. Hin desires to secure
large portions OF both leans, and
underwrite both offering prospective
purchasers their choice between the
two loans.
The German loan is being offered
by Zimmerman and Forshay New
York bearing per cent, interest and
callable before 1924. The loan, is
unsecured rs in the case of the alli-
ed loan. and Is being offered at $40
for each 1000 marks. which make
marks equal "a cents. Before the
war four marks equalled SO cents.
From Saturday. Daily
Delegates to the lay electoral con-
ference. in connection with the North
ern Minnesota Methodist Episcopal
conference in session at Minneapolis,
passed resolutions yesterday oppos-
ing the rigid rules tof the Methodist
Episcopal church relative to dancing,
card playing and other amusements.
The resolutions , recommend that
the general conference of the church
make certain notifications in its at
tltude toward these things. Those
favoring the resolution urge that the
matter Is one for individual conscience
rather than set regulation. Many
lay conferences over the country are
expected to take the same stand, and
II Is believed that the question will
come before the general conference
Saratoga Springs, n. Y. .-
Rochester, Mimi, October 2.-Dr. J..
Wares Little. president of the Hill
Crest surgical hospital. of Minneapo-
lis was elected president of the Min
neso;n State Medical association,
which held Its annual convention here
DR.. Thomas McDavitt Of st. Paul was
chosen secretary and Dr. Earl Hare
OF Minneapolis treasurer. The vice
presidents are: J. J.. Donovan OF
Litchfeld and C. o. Wright of Lu-
verne; the counselors. n. ]. Hill of
Minneapolis and ID. Dodge of lie,
Sueur.
Paris, October 2.-it Is reported
from Athens that Bulgarian troops
from Sofia are moving In the diree-
ton Of the Serbian frontier, and that
other forces are being dispatched to-
ward the Greek border. This was in
formation forwarded today by the
Athens correspondent Of the Havas
News agency, who asserts that u was
obtained from reliable source. II
10 believed that the principal point Of
concentration will be along the Up
per Strouna river, southwest of Sofia,
near the Serbian border. ~
Milan, italy, Via Paris, October a.
Bulgaria 10 mobiIixins all men up to
the age Of fifty eight. No citizen un-
der forty. five 10 permitted to leave the
country and martial law has been pro-
claimed. Pro- German manifestations
are reported in Bulgarian cities along
the Danube. The Bulgarian artillery,
the correspondent says, 10 being mass
ed along the frontier Of Dobrudja and
that part Of Runsuia bounded by the
Black Sea, and the Danube, which was
taken from Bulgaria In 1879, and Civ
en- to Rumsnia. This section has
cosmopolitan population.
London, October 2.-Within fort
night Bulgaria viii Join the Austria
German forces and they wiz try to
cut path through the Balkan states
TO Constantinople. The Central Bal
kan state faces three hostile armies.
The plan, of the allies seems to be
to attack simultaneously. The Austria
German forces on the western border
OF Servia and the Bulgarian forces on
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