The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-01-12
Services Were Held On Thurs
day at The Center
NEWS NOTES OF TOWN
Personal Gossip and the Many
Social Affairs of That
Community
Especial to Free Press.l

from Saturdays DaIy.
Vernon Center, January 9Th
funeral services of the late Mrs
Eliza Hollenbeck was held from the
Fred Flemming nome Thursday after
noon. Rev. ]. G.. Olmsted of Garden
City officiated. The services were
very nice and appropriate, at the re-
quest of the relatives Mr.. OlmsteC
took the 9, 10, II, 13 verses of Chap
ter IL of First Corinthians, as a
theme and delivered a most splendid
discourse. He also sang Beautiful
Valley of Eden" and Jesus Love-
My Soul" playing his own accom-
paniments on the guitar. The Nicker-
son trio sang two very pretty selec
tions. Interment in the Good Thunder
Union cemetery beside her husband
Eliza A. Rector was born in Cape
Vincent, Jefferson county, N. Y,
November II, 1882, where she
was married June z, 1852, and where
she and her husband resided until
the summer of 1882 when they move
to Minnesota, settling in Vernon Cen
ter, where they resided until Nj
Hollenbeck's death. For the last ten
or twelve years she made her home
with Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel Flemming
being sister of the late Mrs. Daniel
Flemming. One adopted son and q
brother, Charles Rector, survive and
three nephews. Those from a distance
who attended the funeral of Mrs Hol-
lenbeck were Mr.. and Mrs. Hen
Long of Sterling. John Flemming Of
irt
more and Mrs. Will Flemming and
son, Frank Of Mankato.
Mrs. E. D. Compton and Missn"
Jessie and Elsie Compton of Mawer,
Sask., and Miss Liza Wilson ar
visiting the formers sister, M "
Warren.
Miss Clara Carlson, who has en-
ployment in Fairmont, returned yes
terday after visiting for week W.
her mother and sister in the w
Miss Dorothy Barnes, primar'
teacher in the Blue Earth school 70
turned to her home last evening fror~
Garden City, where she had be"
visiting a former school girl grien3
Miss Roda Chapman.
Mr. and Mrs. Will Farmer of
neapolis left Friday after Ch"'e+
for Arizona. where they will spend
the winter months. The Farmers
lived here several years ago, M
Farmer being sister of Mrs. Fro
Wilbur,
Several former Vernonites
spending the winter in the South
being a far more delightful place for
a winters sojourn than SUNNY c
fornia, which until the past few year
has been the mecca of winter tou~i"-
Hugh Frances was a business visi
or in Mankato Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Gray accn'>r
ed their guests, Mrs. Erickson an
Mrs. Floss Gray and son to Co
Thunder Wednesday and took the
evening train to Mapleton, where the
will visit Mrs. Gray's aunt, Mrs. LII
liam Barnes and daughters. They w
be back to Vernon before thev r."
for their home in Clay Center, Kan
sas.
Matson Mercantile comnanv
invoicing today, evidently the O
year used the prcf hietor o. K, as thu
week he added to the convenience o.
his establishment a fine large of
desk and chair.
Rev and Champlin, the popular
hustling real estate men of Vernon
Center, with their usual generosit'
presented their friends with splendid
large thermometers, unique an
very appropriate advertisement .
their growing business. Their New
Years greeting was greatly appreciet
ed by the recipients.
Miss Laura Haslip of Mortified is
spending the mid-winter vacation
from her school work with her cousin
Miss Ella Hays.
Mrs. Ellen Porter leaves today for
Redwood Falls, where she will sp
the next two months with her son-in
law and daughter, Mr.. and Mre Fran
Clague. Miss Hulda Block, who he
been staying with Mrs. Porter will e
also.
Lawrence Warren, who has hoo
troubled with cold in his head since
he returned from a visit with his
cousins in Columbus, Ohio, has been
quite poorly for the past week, suffer.
ing with an abscess under his ear
which is responding satisfactorily to
DR.. Clements treatment and it is
thought he will be able to resume his
school work at the opening of the
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