The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-04-27
Vernon Center
From Thursdays Daily.

From Thursdays Daily.
Sunday guests at the Hugh Francis
home in West Vernon were Mr.. and
Mrs. G. E. Francis and family, Sher-
man Thurston and daughter, Miss
Jessie Of Garden City, Mr.. and Mrs.
Chef Francis and son and Mr.. and
Mrs. Lyle Thurston of Ceresco.
Dean Barnes and James Clement
motored up from Minneapolis Sun
day spending the day with relatives.
Miss NVinifred Graham spent Sun
day in town as the guest of Gladys
Cooper.
A. C.. Gray and wife were Mankato
visitors Monday, also Mr.. and Mrs.
James Neel, Lyle and Gladys Cooper
Mrs. Willard Busby of West Vern-
| on was passenger on the early train
| Monday for Mudbaden, where she
will spend couple of days visiting
her son Arts who has been there for
some time taking treatment for sciatic
rheumatism.
Sanford Cornish of Ceresco is
| driving new Ford runabout, which
he recently purchased from the Ford
agent, Will Nelson of Amboy.
| A. c. Wilbur received a telegram
Monday noon from Oakland, California,
informing him of the death of his
niece, Mrs. Anna Gayland, who passed
away late Sunday evening. Mrs. Gay
land has frequently visited relatives
here and has many friends who will
sincerely regret to hear of her death.
She was a double cousin of Mrs. Eta
Tallman of Mankato. Mrs. Gayland,
whose maiden name was Anna Parker,
was born in Wisconsin. At the age of
| ten she came to Blue Earth county
with her parents, settling on farm
near Garden City. She was married
to Brainard Gayland in the summer
of 1874. The family moved to Cali
| fornia about twenty-five years ago.
| Her husband died about six years ago
and since that time she has made her
home with her son, the only child,
who is a prominent lawyer of San
Francisco.
w. H. Griffith of East Vernon In
cranking his car last Saturday had
his wrist badly sprained, being much
worse than a break would have been.
1t will be at least three weeks be-
fore he can use his arm. Being the
most busy season, with seeding only
fairly begun, the accident seems doub-
ly hard to bear.
Messrs. Tom Boles, Jess Mobiles
and Ben Charters of Ceresco, and G.
C. Cornish. H. A. King and F. l..
Cooper of Vernon Center motored to
Winnebago Sunday to attend the
double Masonic burial services of Mr..
George Weir and d. Sargant, two
veteran Masons, who were past ninety
years of age at the time of their
death.
Mrs. Mable Halverson will repre-
sent the M. E. Sunday school at the
state convention which convenes in
. Minneapolis this week. Mrs. Halver-
son left on the early morning train
| Wednesday and will remain during
the entire session. 1t is regretted that
the Baptist Sunday school will send
no delegate Owing to the busy time,
no one seemed to be able to get away.
Mr.. and Mrs Alvers Francis are
the proud parents of fine baby who
arrived Monday.
The last of series of parties which
the married peoples class of the
Methodist Episcopal Sunday school
have had during the past winter, was
held in the hall Wednesday evening
1t was very pretty affair, nicely
planned and much enjoyed. Each
guest wore something to represent
their hobbies and also brought a baby