The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1916-03-03
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by his birthdays he would be only
about twenty years of age, and would
need a lot of overseeing to keep him
out OF youthful mischief As 1t is he
has taken the years as they come, and
is consequently seventy five years
old, having celebrated his birthday
anniversary yesterday, February 70,
| the day allotted to February every
four years for good measure to make
up for the three succeeding sights,
when it has been given only twenty
/, eight days and called month. Mr..
! Wiser was pleasingly remembered by
his friends, and received very in
| teresting letter from H. M. Hamilton,
now of Cedar Rapids, Ia, who was
proprietor OF the Mankato hotel years
ago. Mi. Hamilton states that he
and his wife are thinking of visiting
Mankato next spring or summer. last
April they visited New York City and
made a trip from there to Panama,
and through the canal to San Fran
cisco. They spent a day and night at
Palo Alto, at the home of Dr. Lewis,
a former Mankato resident, and also
spent ten days at the Inside Inn in
San Francisco, seeing the exposition.
DR.. Lewis SONS, Irving and John,
were very kind and attentive, and
took them to all places of interest in
their automobiles. DR.. Lewis is now
dead. He fell and was so feeble that
he could not recover from the shock
Mr.. and Mrs. Hamilton spent six
months in California. and upon their
return home Mrs. Hamilton submit
ted to surgical operation at the hos
pital, from which she made a good
recovery, although being quite thin
having lost between fifty and sixty
pounds. Mr.. Hamilton asked for a
prompt reply as he did not know
whether Mr.. Wiser was still among
the living as he had not heard from
him for a long time
Ladies' Society Entertained.
The Ladies Aid society of Eagle
Lake and vicinity were entertained
Tuesday afternoon at the home of
Mrs. G. G. Haigh. The ladies were
received at the door by Mrs. Haigh
and were escorted to the cloak room
by Mrs. Tanner and Mrs. Wagner and
were received in the parlor by Mrs.
Charles Herein, where a very inter-
esting program was rendered as fol-
lows:
Reading, Leap Year Rivalry" by
Mrs. Frank Wagner.
Recitation, by Richard Haigh.
German Song, "Morgen Roth"
(Morning Glow by Mrs. Garry Haigh,
Mrs. Charles Herein and Miss Emma
Arnold
Recitation, Kentucky Philosophy"
by Kathryn Ruth 'Haigh.
Vocal Solo, "a Spanish Lullaby"
by Mrs. Emmett Tanner }4
Each lady was presented with a
spray of sweet peas and smilax and
a delicious lunch was served. Miss
Emma Arnold, Kathryn Haigh and
Mrs. Reuben Anderson assisting in
serving. The occasion was a parcel
shower, the collection to be sold in
the near future, the date and location
will be decided on later There were
sixty ladies present, a number of
whom were from Tiyoli and Hills
crossing. All enjoyed the afternoon.
Pleasing Feature'sat the Grand.
Last evening patrons Of the Grand
theatre were pleased by the music of
the Grand quartet, new feature just
added to the regular programs, which
will be permanent, the nights on which
this special music is given to be an
nounced from time ito time. The
young men who compose the, quartet
are Paul Ford first tenor: Howard
ohnson, second tenor; H. B. French,
first bass; Clarence Parker, second
bass. The feature play last, evening
was southern drama entitled "Aloha
Oe," based on the adventures of
young lawyer who is shipwrecked on
a volcanic island and rescues beau
tiful native princess who is being of
fered to "Pele," the god of the vol
cano, as a sacrifice. The singing of
the quartet formed a pleasing accom-
paniment to the tragic parts of the
picture.
Leap Year Party.
About two hundred young people
were present at the leap year party
given by the Young Ladies' sodality
of st. Peter and Paul's church at the
Loyola club last night. The hall was
very prettily decorated and at either
end large bouquet of carnations
was suspended from flags, the flowers
being we'll scattered through the
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