The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1916-05-26
More Than Twenty-Five Hun
dred Dollars Deposited
REPORT AT W. C.T.U.MEET
Children in Three Towns Make
Most Excellent Showing;
The Village News
Especial to Free Press.)

! Vernon Center, May 24.-At the
recent W. C. T. U. district convention
held in Vernon Center Mrs. Sina
Wilbur, superintendent OF the
Schools Savings bank, gave SPLEEN
did report of the splendid work that
is being accomplished along TINS
! line, and the three schools that nave
taken up this work. Letters were
read from the three principals OF the
schools and ali told of the enthusiasm
| Of the pupils in saving and deposit
! ing their pennies to their account IN
| the local banks. The children in the
| lower grades are the main deposltors,
only very few eighth grade pupils
have opened accounts. In the Vernon
| Center schools the work was first
started in 1918, and have in the
Vernon Center State bank Sll2Ioo.
Garden City school got into line IN
1914 and have Q bank deposit OF
S12S316. Amboy recently started IN
the good work and has SlO2 40 IN
the two banks of the village making
total of $251316 1t is hoped that
School Savings banks will be started
in every village and city IN the
district before another year, for it is
one of the most important and far
reaching measures ever adopted by
this great organization. 81
Mrs. Ed. Warren attended the
funeral services of Mrs. T. II. An
dreWs in Mankato last Saturday. The
Warrens and Andrews family have
been intimately acquainted for many
years, and the news of Mrs. Andrews
death was sadly received.
1t is presumed that the Kruse Dollar
sale accounted for the many Vernon
people going to Mankato last Satur-
day, all going via auto route and
getting home before the rain. Of the
many the following were"lamong the
visitors: Hon. and Mrs. E. t.
Champlin, Mr. and Mrs. Rob Champ
lin, Frank Hartwick, Harold Bowen,
Mrs. 7. Gage Clement, the Misses Ida
Bowen. Faye Stones, Dora Furnald,
Mary King and Mabel Bowen.
Depot Agent Charlie West re-
turned Monday morning from an
over Sunday visit with his family in
Mankato He reports that his wife's
mother, Mrs. George Nichols, is in
very poor health. Mrs. Nichols was a
former resident here and friends will
regret to hear of her illness.
Mr.. and Mrs Champlin were pass
engers On the four O'Clock train
Monday for MankatO, where they
will visit for a few days with their
son, Lee, and wife.
H. G.. Kraus is attending a meeting
Of the county board in Mankato this
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Fate and son,
were visiting at the lake over Sun
day.
Mrs. Albert Pap and daughter,
Miss Ella, returned last Saturday
evening from Rochester, where they
had been in hospital for the past
three weeks. Mrs. Pap took her
daughter down, where she was to
submit to two operations, one for the
removal of her adenoids, and the 9TH
er for cancer on the breast. Soon
after their arrival the girl was taken
sick with scarlet fever and was re-
moved tt ihc detention hospital, about
mic from town. They will return
cupcrates little.
Mrs. Sina Wilbur is spending few
days with her daughter, Mrs. Eva
Award and family in Mankato.
c. NJ. Warren is laid up, suffering
with an abscess on his foot. Chris
Hanson is head man now, and being
very competent in all phases of farm
work, Mr.. Warren is indeep fortunate
to have so good and trustworthy a
man, at the head of the ship of state.
Miss Marie Brown, student in the
Mankato normal school, spent the
week end vacation with her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. G. E. Brown in West
Vernon.
Miss Frances Buttle went to Amboy
this evening to be dining room girl
in the Call hotel for a few weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Swearingen will
leave this evening for their home in
Clarmont, Mimi, after visiting FOR
three weeks with their son-in-law
and daughter, Mr.. and Mrs. Will
Stelter in North Vernon
Union Memorial services will be
held in the hall next Sunday morn
ing at the usual preaching hour. Rev.
Eastman OF the Baptist church will
preach the sermon and the Methodist
choir will furnish the music. This
service will be followed by Sunday
school, which will convene in their
respective churches.
Fred Mertersdorf is having a large
amount of thing done this spring
Weather conditions are such that
unless a farm is tiled, the farmer