The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-12-28
COUPLE At vernon
CAUGHT BY D. CUPID
Married; Back Home Before
Folks Knew of Event
SPRUNG A BIG SURPRISE
Hobert Petrich and Miss Wini-
fred Graham Came to Man.
kato To Wed
Especial to Free Press.I

Vernon Center, December 20-Mr.
and Mrs. G. C. Cornish are out at
their sons home in Ceresco running
the ranch and taking care of their
little grandson while Mr.. and Mrs.
Sanford Cornish are spending a few
days visiting friends in Mankato.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Fate and
Keith left last week for Lena, Ill,
where they will spend the Yuletide
season with the formers parents.
Mr.. and Mrs A. d. Burdick and
daughter left the first of the week
for their home in Maynard, Iowa.
Mr. and Mrs. Burdick have been
here since Thanksgiving to attend
their sons wedding. Miss Burdick
has been assisting her brother in ed
iting The Vernon Center News for
the past three years and during her
stay here has made many friends
who all admire her sterling worth and
ladylike ways. She is a splendid all
around girl and are all sorry to have
her leave this village.
At special Red Cross meeting
held at the residence of F. H. Barnes
Tuesday evening, G. C. Cornish was
elected secretary to fill the vacancy
by the resignation of Mrs. T. G.
Clement, who has been secretary
since last September Miss Burdick
who was the first secretary, resigned
on account of not having time to de-
vote to it.
Hobert Petrich and Miss Winnifred
Graham, a very popular couple with
the younger set, gave their friends a
complete surprise by motoring to
Mankato Monday and being quietly
married, Rev. A. F. Winter perform
ing the ceremony. The young couple
need no introduction in this COM
munity where they have always liv-
ed. The groom is the only son of
Postmaster A. w. Petrich. After
completing the public school he en-
tered the commercial college at Man
kato and had nearly finished the
bookkeeping course when he was
elected assistant cashier of the YER
non Center State bank and began
work Janaury 10, 1917 Mr.. Hartwick.
the cashier and the officers of the
bank, speak highly of his work.
He is attentive to his duties and
courteous and obliging to all. The
bride is a daughter of Mrs. Matt
Weir of West Lyra. After complet,-
ing the Good Thunder public school
she attended the Mankato normal
for couple of, years. For the past
two years she has been teaching in
the rural schools surrounding Yer
ron. At present, she is teaching i'm
the Hays school two miles northeast
of town. She will continue teaching
until the close of the school year in
June. She is charming girl and
has the happy faculty of making and
keeping friends and is very success
full
Miss F'reida Globbitz went to Man
kato Monday to spend a few weeks
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Aug
ust Globbitz
The Sunday schools are all busy
preparing Christmas programs
VIII WithrOw, superintendent of
the Lutheran Sunday school, assist
ed by the Misses Selma Petrich and
Dora Hoeinstein are preparing a pro-
gram which will be given at the
church Christmas night. The program
which will be in English will proceed
the sermon which will be in German.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will PAIL are rejoic-
ing over the arrival of baby daugh-
ter at their home Tuesday, December
IL. This date being the proud papa's
also makes the event more
interesting. Mrs. Globbitz is up from
Mankato caring for her daughter and
her first grandchild. Congratulations.
Alice Warren is one of the happiest
little girls in town being the proud
possessor of beautiful Hallet and
Davis piano, a Christmas gift from
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs C. NJ.
Warren
Mr.. and Mrs. J. H. Robinson. a
highly respected and well liked coup
e of Vernon Center will celebrate
their fiftieth wedding anniversary
December 20, at their pleasant home
in the village. The relatives will
enjoy a twelve o'clock dinner and a
reception will be rendered them by
heir friends in the evening from
$50 to ten o'clock. Both Mr.. and
Mrs. Robinson are hale and hearty
md well and few would imagine that
hey had been travelling together
lfe's highway for half century.