The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-08-24

taking a vacation trip in Wisconsin
state that from what they heard the
Judge say they do not expect him
back before about the first of Septem-
Der.
Mrs. o. E. Plowman of Mortified
is spending the week in the city, an6
is in charge of the Builders Exchange
office in the Coughlan- Hickey build
ing during the absence of Mr.. Berg
She will return to Mortified about
September 1.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Jost of Lincoln
Nebr., have been visiting friends ant
relatives in the city They will leave
for Nebraska tomorrow and Mrs
Will Macbeth will accompany them
and will be gone for couple of weeks
on touring trip.
Rev. and Mrs. J A. Gustafson anG
daughter, Miss Ebba of South st
Paul, are spending several days as
guests of Rev. and Mrs O. j. Arthur
and DR.. and Mrs. A. j. Wentworth
Rev. Gustafson is an uncle OF Rev
Arthur, and Mrs. Wentworth.
A. E. Berg is spending the week at
tending the convention of the Retail
Merchants association in Chicago, the
meeting of credit men in Cleveland. o.
and also visiting other cities on bust
ness. During his absence Mrs. Bers
is the guest of relatives at Altura
MINI. Mr.. Berg will call there for her
and enroute home they will visit a.
/ Mortified.
Mrs. Lou W. Geddes returned las
evening from Minneapolis, where ,sht
spent several days, and consulted
with Miss Peterson, head of the de-
partment of labor for women ant
children, in regard to the duties per-
, tanning to the chairman of this dis
trict. which position was recently Of
fered to Mrs. Geddes, but which she
has not definitely decided to accept.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Culver o
field, Mimi, are in the city. The.
will accompany Mr.. and Mrs. w. r
Spornitz to the Fit Ridgely celebra'
ton tomorrow. Mr.. Culver was {
boy thirteen years of age when Fit
lgely was beseiged by the Indians
He was the Drummer Boy of Ft
Ridgely" This will be his first visi
TO the scene of the Indian outbreal
since he left there years ago.
Rev. and Mrs. o. J. Arthur re-
turned Saturday from their old HON,
at Gibbon, Mimi, where they spent ;
weeks vacation. During his absenc,
Rev Arthur officiated at the funera
of DR.. ]. Fremling, one of the pio
reer pastors and head of the Swedish
Lutheran churches of the state TO,
many years. Funeral services were
held at Belle PLANE, and intermen
was made at Norseland, Rev. Arthur
preaching funeral sermons at boil
places.
Louis Lewis and Rudolph Huett
spent Sunday at Faribault. where the.
/, were guests of Clarence Phillips, cor
netist of the Mankato Second Regi
ment band. They report that the bant
! is doing splendidly, and is now will
the mounted scouts. In an interview
with DR.. r.. w. Lowry, director o
the band, he stated that the band hal
taken a seventeen mile. hike las
Thursday, covering the entire distance
in four hours and twenty minutes
, with twenty-five minutes for rest. Thu
band now has the state championship
for record hike in the time stated
and the boys are quite happy over it
DR.. Lowry stated that the band be-
longed to Mankato all right, but, a:
lit was with the mounted scouts i
, would have to stay with them during
service.
Mrs. ". E. Holmberg of St. Pete
/, is guest at the home of Mr.. ant
! Mrs. J.. A. E. Johnson on Pleasan
street.
! Miss Alma Buchholtz is spendin,
her vacation with friends at Bell,
PLANE and Jordon.q '8 z g. ~
D. EIibbard and family of Dakot;
! City, Ia, who spent several days II
the city, returned to their home yes
terday afternoon, travelling in thei
/ touring car. They have been on ;
seven weeks camping trip, spendin,
part of the time at the lakes between
Mankato and Faribault, and called a
the Commercial club office to Obtain
strip road map to follow on thei
| return trip.
| farm five miles from the city, in Bel
| grade, threshed his winter wheat Sat
urday, and obtained 35 bushels to thu
acre. This is a good showing consid
ering that he was tempted to pillow hi
wheat up this spring, as it looked quit,
poor. Another farmer is reported t.
, have obtained ,ninety-five bushels o
wheat from two acres of his land OF
the Eagle Lake road
George w. Scherer, Jr., of thu
Mankato Second Regiment band, wa
! home from Faribault to spend Sunday
Miss Elizabeth Brennesholtz lief
yesterday for New Ulm and Fairfa,
where she will visit relatives.
ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCEMENT.
Miss Frances Mildred Frankson
daughter of ietentnetaoin shrdlu Il