The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1916-11-10
These Were the Marked Events
At Worthington, MINI.
CHARGE AGAINST BOYS
This Proved Untrue; Warrant
Gotten Out at Window; What
Happened
From FRIDAYS Daily.

Aldrich evangelical campaign was
marked, the past week. by two
events somewhat out of the ordinary.
One was a mis- statement and a con-
sequent apology by Mr.. Aldrich, the
other the arrest of the evangelist by
Cottonwood county authorities.
Wednesday night Mr.. Aldrich
charged publicly that the members of
the Worthington high school foot
ball team had been gambling in the
rooms over the steam laundry. This
statement started something" with
the result that the town was consid-
erably excited the following day. A
conference was held between Mr..
Aldrich, Superintendent PaIchin and
part of the board of education when
the whole question was pretty thor
oughly threshed out Thursday even
ing Mr.. Aldrich made public apollo
gy in the tabernacle to the bootball
boys, but wanted it distinctly under
stood that he apologized to no one
else. He said he had been misin-
formed, that he had talked with the
boys individually and they had all
told him they had not been gambl-
ing. They admitted, however, that
they had congregated evenings in the
rooms in question where they had
smoked and played cards.
What Evangelist Said.
After the apology the evangelist
went on to say that the investigation
had revealed that high school boys
had been addicted to playing cards
in their rooms from time to time,
and this had resulted in such students
receiving "red marks" The incident
resulted in the closing of the rooms
in question and in the boys. agree
ing to cut out the cards.
Friday night the sheriff of Cotton
wood county appeared in Worthing-
ton with a warrant for the evange-
list on the charge of taking out
hunting license under false pre-
lenses, namely that he took it out as
a resident of this state when in fact
his home was in New York.
The first thing Mr. Aldrich did at
Saturday evenings meeting was to
tell the audience about it. He relat-
ed how he had been arrested, taken
he could go to a private house TO
spend the night and appear in court
the following morning. At the trlaf,
said Mr.. Aldrich, there was large
crowd, most of them his friends. The
case was called before justice
whom the evangelist charged with
being a boozer, who had been told by
the "booze gang" to give Aldrich the
limit, which is 500 fine.
Change of Venue.
A change of venue was granted
and the case tried before justice
who was friendly. Aldrich pleaded
guilty to technical violation of the
law. explaining that when he ap-
piled for a license the county auditor
handed him a blank application and
he filled it out thinking it all right,
Just as he said many others had
done. The court imposed fine OF
$500, which Mr.. Aldrich paid. He
said a friend had slipped him $1,000
before the trial to cover any possible
expense, so he counted himself ahead
on the deal. ae
Mr.. Aldrich charged his arrest to
some Window men whom he mad
been instrumental in sending to Jail
for violation of the liquor laws. 1t
was last year that he conducted
campaign in Window wnen he took
| out the license, and the compliments
had waited until he had come to
Worthington before they got out the
warrant, and did it to embarrass
| him in his work here, charged Mr..
Aldrich. He said the thing had work
ed to his benefit, as after the trial
an invitation came to him to go to
/ Window as soon as he could to con-
(, duct another campaign.
| Mrs. Gus Johnson of Kasota is
| visiting her mother, Mrs. Mary
Sanger.
4 w. w. Goldenstar spent the day on
business at Oshawa.
+, William P. Lewis of Lake Crystal