The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1916-03-31
Judson
From Thursdays OaIiy.

A large number of the farmers in
in this vicinity are contemplating
building houses and farm buildings
this spring. Among them Chas Bode
will construct a ten-room house and
J. l.. Handley will soon begin the
| construction of a house on his farm
| north of town to be occupied by his
son John and family.
Mrs. John Handley has entirely
recovered from her recent serious
illness. She had -four doctors in at
| tendance. ..
Osborn Shultz has moved from the
Mendenhalr farm north of town to
! the Columbus farm south of town.
Mr. E. E. Mendenhall has come from
Illinois to take charge of his farm
the coming year. He expects to tile
and do extensive improving this
year
Colonel Schloman, president of the
Riverside Stock Farm company,
came up from Sioux City and has
spent the past week inspecting their
| big ranch northeast of town. He di-
rected the repairing of house and
the building of a barn while here.
/ He has done an enormous business
in horse-buying during the course
of the past two years for foreign
shipment and has had success. He
expressed himself well pleased with
| the management of the farm by
| manager j. l.. Albrecht.
Mrs. Theodore Lundine is much
improved in health. The Lundine
| boys report that their brother who
/ was caught in a cave-in at Mankato
was much more seriously injured
than at first supposed, being injured
| internally.
Riverside Stock Farm was on the
st. Paul market with a car of Duroc
hogs Monday. Manager Albrecht ex-
pected to top the market with the
load They will have another car for
shipment in the course of month
or two.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Kansholz and
family arrived Saturday for visit
with Mrs. G. E. Rodekuhr who is
/ reported seriously i'll. Mrs. Kans-
holz and four other sisters of Mrs.
Rodekuhr met at the latter's home
Wednesday for quilting bee.
Mr.. William Morrow and family
spent st. Patrick's eve at the home
of J. l.. Hendley, the occasion of
the event being the birthday cele-
/ bration of Mr.. Morrow's second
daughter and Mr.. Hendley's son,
! besides the memory of Ireland's
saint. Mr.. Morrow, who suffered an
injury while in the employ of the
Consumers Power company, has been
furnished with a comfortable home
at Rapidan and moved there with, his
family the early part of the week.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. NJ. Vosbeck of
Mankato visited with relatives Sum-
| day.
o. F. Jones went on a short
business trip to Central Iowa. He
shipped in a car of Washington fir
and another of northern pine the
| first of the week.
Score another car of stock for
Ralph Thurston and Raw Davis.
Quite a number of citizens of our
community attended the funeral Of
Alonzo w. Rood at Mt. Hebron
Cemetery, the account of his death
appearing in another issue of this
paper. Mr.. Rood was one of our
best citizens and had lived for forty
eight years on the farm where he
died.
A little more of this kind of wea-
Their and the fields will be claiming
the farmers whole attention.
Every person residing in Districts
6. IS and SO in hudson township and
in the school district in Nicollet
township adjoining the town of judi
son should not fail to attend the
meeting to be addressed in the town
hall the afternoon of Friday, March
7th, at two o'clock. Every phase of
the matter of the consolidated school
will be discussed by G.. c.. Swain,
head of the consolidated school de-
partment of the state board of edu-
cation. 1t is a matter of common
knowledge that we must rebuild or
get a consolidated school for these
districts and an open discussion of
the new method might be valuable
ID all of us.
Max c.. Thomas formally opened
his restaurant Tuesday night with a
3,000-foot reel at the movies" for
the pleasure of customers present
and to come. All wish Max we'll and
feel that the venture will prove of
profit and a great convenience to the
town.
Mrs. Norman S. Door of Mankato
was visitor in our town Tuesday
Miss Ethel Korsell, the teacher in
District 6, who has been threatened
with appendicitis, returned to her
duties after a brief Illness
The Judson meat market is prov
ing popular both in the village and
surrounding country
Mrs J. P. Graft of Sleepy Eye
visited with her sister, Mrs. w. w.
White Wednesday.
The snowfall of Tuesday night held
up the eastbound morning train two
hours.