The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1916-08-18
T. R. Lowell, at Vernon, Gets
Fifteen Bushels Per
SICK cow IS PUzZLER
Accidents, Social and Personal
Gossip From the Village
Correspondent
Especial to The Free Press.J

Vernon Center, August 15.-F. r.
Lowell threshed his winter wheat
Wednesday, getting a very good
yield. 1t averaged fifteen bushels
per acre on the whole acreage sown
last spring, as several acres were
entirely drowned out.
Earl Pepper of Mankato spent from
Saturday evening until Monday morn
ing with her brother law and sis
ter, Mrs. l.. c. Rev and family, re-
turning to his duties at the North
western depot on the early train.
Tom Hays was passenger Sat
urday for Minneapolis to remain
over Sunday with his wife and son.
Rev. Koch of the Methodist church
conducted the baptismal services
last Sunday morning when one
young lady, six children and two ba-
bies were sprinkled, Miss Zada
Morgan, Lois and Grave Rev, Sum-
ner, Gage, Leila and Irene Sewers
and the baby daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Rob Sewers, Helen Margaret
and Frances Mary, the little daugh-
tiers of Mr.. and Mrs. Girls Hanson.
d. A. Brewer purchased the five
passenger Ford car that his son-in-
law and daughter have been driving
the past week.
Friday morning, attending to a sick
horse at the Fitch barns and a val
liable cow at the Cooper barn. The
cow has been ailing for a little over
a week and in that time has lost
several hundred pounds of flesh. The
case is a puzzling one and in order
to fully determine the disease, the
doctor will begin the tubercular test
Saturday afternoon. Mr.. Cooper
will have the test applied to the rest
of his cattle, so that he may be sure
that no deadly germs are in the milk
that is used by the family or taken
ito the creamery.
The lure of the threshing season
was the propeller that brought Chef
Frances of San Diego, Cal, back to
old Blue Earth county and he ar
rived Saturday evening. He will en-
joy the fall months with his brothers,
Hugh and Gene and hosts of friends
in his old home town.
The; Misses Florence Jordan and
Anna Weicking, two popular young
ladies of Mankato, spent the week
end and Sunday in the village as
guests of May and Ruth Cornish.
An auto party from Mankato con-
sisting of Mrs. Weicking, Ernest and
Emma Weicking and the Misses
Clara and Katherine Kelly and Miss
Thomas, drove to Vernon, where they
spent the afternoon at the Cornish
Kraus home coming up in the form
er's car, a Hudson, with Ernest at
the wheel.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. Ray Cooper of
Truman are in town for short
visit with the formers parents, Mr..
and Mrs. F. E. Cooper.
Miss Lois Mills of Garden City
spent Wednesday and Thursday with
Mrs. Leafie Warren, going from here
to Amboy where she will visit her
sister, Mrs. Ray Thompson.
Wednesday Mr.. Fate received a
letter from his wife, who is visiting
her parents in Lena, Ill, saying that
their little four year old son. Keith,
was out walking with his grandfath-
er when they were run into by a
runaway team, both were quite
severely injured and Keith had his
leg broken Mrs. Fate was prepar-
ing to return home this week, but
now it will be several weeks before
the little boy will be able to make
the trip.
Mrs. George Lang and her little
daughter, Alice, of South Mapleton
who are visiting the formers daugh-
ter, Mrs. Cyrilla Frances in Ceresco,
attended services at the Methodist
church Sunday morning.
Miss Florence Kelly who has been
spending a few days with her friend
Miss Blanche Burdick, started Mon
day evening on her hOmeward trip to
Seattle. Miss Kelly is teacher in
one of the high schools of that city.
Miss Libbie Frances, who for the
past two years has been teaching a
district school, while proving up on
her claim near Roy, Mont, is home
on a months vacation.
Mrs. o. H. Miller, who has been
visiting her brother, Will WithrOw
and family in the village for few
weeks left Monday for Kenyon where
she will visit for few days on her
way home to Sumner, Iowa.
Miss Selma Petrich spent the rest
of the month with relatives and
friends in Rochester and Elgin.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lee Cox and Master
Lester and Charles drove to Lincoln
Saturday afternoon for an over Sun
day visit at the w. H. Thompson
home.
Neat posters announcing the date
of the county fair, August 29, 80 and
81, are much in evidence throughout
the village and country side. Auto
lists are keeping the date before the
public by carrying pennants adver-
Using the county fair at Garden City.
Mrs. Mangus Anderson of Cumber-
land, a former Vernonite, is visiting
at the Martin Halverson and Gust
Nelson homes.
The school buildings are being put
in proper condition for the opening
of the schools. Cement floors have
been put in the coal bins and the
years supply of coal was put in last
week. Painting is completed and
the cleaning of the entire buildings
is the final job on the calendar in
the way of preparedness.
The annual picnic of the girls class
in the, Methodist Sunday school was
held last Thursday at the home o.
the teacher, Mrs. Nellie Cox in Soutl
Vernon Eleven out of the thirteeI
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