The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1916-01-21
Emmanuel Hospital Association
Held AnnualiMeeting

j srnm fridays Daily.
During the annual meeting of the
Emmanuel Hospital Association of
Southern Minnesota held at two
o'clock yesterday afternoon in the
German Lutheran church the follow
J ing officers were elected: Rev. A. F.
Winter, Mankato, president; Rev. NJ.
Winter, GAINESVILLE, vice president;
Rev. F. Randi, ST. Paul. secretary;
/ Rev. N. Nordgaard, Mankato, treas
urer; trustees for two years, Her
man knott of Mankato and A. H.
Schweppe, st. James; financial COM
mittee, Chris Steiner, H. knott, Mic
Harris, Mankato; Paul Konkel, Rap
idan;. A. T. Graaf, Good Thunder.
Delegates were present at the meet
ing yesterday from st. James, Lewis
| vile, Good Thunder, Rapidan, St.
/ Clair, Elysian and Mankato, and the
yearly reports were encouraging,
showing success and steady advance
ment.
Secretary F. Randi of st. Paul re-
ported many changes in hospitals, and
also that many training schools had
been put on the accredited list. The
association at ST. Paul has leased a
nurses home, which accommodates
eighteen nurses.
Treasurer N. Nordgaard reported
that the local hospital had passed
prosperous year. The expenditures
had been greater than in previous
years, owing to a number of improve
ments being made, among them being
the installing of an elevator in the
hospital building The paving bills
have been paid, and the painting bill
amounted to about SLIGO or $1,000.
In addition to this the Indebtedness
has been reduced about 81, 00O Total
receipts for the year were about $32,
| 000
! Miss Shingledecker the hospital
superintendent, reported that eight
nurses had graduated during the year
and that at present twenty nine
nurses were taking training course
at the hospital and one taking post
graduate work. Miss Shingledecker,
as superintendent, the surgical nurse
and the trained nurse, has general SUI
pervision over the patients. Miss
Amelia Bauer resigned her position
as superintendent on January 1. Miss
Glazier, the surgical nurse, is a grad
uate of the training school, Miss Cole
has charge of the floors
! Emmanuel hospital took care of
about LOO patients this year, exceed
ing the number of any previous year
by about 1876. -
Having followed up a complaint
received a few days ago from Mrs
Charles Zimmerman, 121 East
| Spring street, that a sweater had
been stolen from a Clothes line in the
yard back of her home. the police be-
lieve they have discovered thieves
den on North Second street in the
400 block.
The sweater was located in this
place, and yesterday Chief of Police
Klugherz and Officer E. V. Waters
placed under arrest at the Omaha
passenger depot, w. E. Coleman,
just as the latter was about to depart
for st. Paul. Coleman had been liv-
ing at the house where the sweater
was found.
Coleman admitted, the police say
that he stole the sweater and also
that he and another man, living at
the same house, stole two robes.
One OF these a gray goat skin robe,
was found in Coleman's possession,
and the other, a brown fur robe, was
found at the house. Coleman is said
to have confessed that both robes
were stolen from a wagon or sleigh.
The robes were taken to the police
station to await the owner.
The police have received complaints
OF late about the stealing of robes,
but up to this morning had not sue
ceeded in locating any of the stolen
| robes, about which complaints had
been received, or in locating the
owners of the two stolen robes that
they found.
Both Coleman and his companion
are married and have, children. Cole
man has one child living with the
grandparents in Minneapolis. Up to
this morning, Coleman's partner had
not yet been arrested but the police
said he worked in the city and they
could get him any time they wanted
him.
/ 1t was thought this morning that
that house on North Second street
was the headquarters of quite a
considerable amount of pretty thiev-
4 ing that had been going on.
| Henry Heinzman a farmer living
north of the city, is one Of those VINO
have complained about losing robes.
/ Coleman. was brought before Judge
Plymat of the municipal court this
morning, and pleaded guilty to a
charge of petit larceny. He was
tplaced under suspended sentence of
thirty days in the county Jail, and
hidden to leave the city without de-
| lay.
His partner in thieving, Reinhart
Heller, alias James Morgan, also
pleaded guilty to the charge of petit
larceny. He was given thirty days
| in the county Jail, but he will be un-
or the charge of Thomas Foley.
county poor relief commissioner, who
| will find him some work to do, and
1.-THE earnings will be paid over for the
benefit of his wife, who has one small
child, and would be in destitute cir
Icumstances, if it were not for some
such care.
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