The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-08-31
Vernon Center
From Saturdays Daily.

Will take possession as SoOn as MS
| time expires on the farm he has been
working for the past eight years.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Starbrick ar
rived today over the auto trail from
, Nevada, Ia, to spend week or ten
days looking after the threshing and
other work on his farm northwest OF
/ town.
From many of the mems hat bands
protrudes card on which is printed:
81 Have Given to Hospital Corps Mess
Fund" Ninety dollars has already been
raised for this purpose. There are five
| Vernon boys in the hospital corps. 1t
! is hoped to raise one hundred dollars.
Have you subscribed to the fund? If
not just drop into the Rev and
Champlin land offices and leave your
/ bit. Do your duty and show your pa
triotism
Mr. and Mrs. F. S. Hemingway and
daughter, Mrs. Clara Guppy of North
/ Vernon, have enjoyed a short visit
during the week from Mr.. and Mrs.
Rydeen and Miss Warran of Kasota.
Sheriff Anton Osten and several
/ deputies from Mankato and several
members of the local safety board
numbering in all eight auto loads were
at the F. c. Mertesdorf school house
where it was rumored that three men
from North Dakota would hold an anti
| draft meeting There had been three
men in the neighborhood representing
themselves to be machine men and
someone in the neighborhood had
heard that there was to be a meeting
at the school house that night. The
men started to hunt for the would be
speakers but could not locate them.
Mr.. and Mrs. Eli Meirs of Huntley
were calling on their many neighbors
and friends in this vicinity this week,
! coming down by auto and brought Mr..
and Mrs. A. G. Halverson and Harold
who had been their guests for few
days.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. F. Force returned
Monday evening from their visit TO
the formers brother, George and fam
lily at Clear Lake, S. D. Mrs. Harold
Powell formerly MARCIA Force re-
/ turned with them as far as Mankato,
where she took the train for Ro-
chester where she will submit to an
operation for goiter, her husband &C
companied her.
Mr.. and Mrs Bert Barnes enjoyed
visit Wednesday between trains with
their mother, Mrs. Dredge of Lake
Crystal.
During the past week E. w. Wash
burn has had installed in his general
merchandise store pure food counter
for groceries, which adds greatly to
the convenience of the grocery de-
partment. The counter is made of solid
oak and very attractive in appear
ance. The sample of the various gro
ceries, teas, coffees and dried fruits
are displayed in glass slides. The
patrons of this store are assured OF
the best goods obtainable and kept in
the most sanitary conditions.
Mrs. Mary Wagon is up from Man
kate to remain over the week end
with her brothers, Henry and Lou
Kraus and families.
Rob and Dick Jones who have long
been citizens of Vernon Center have
decided to quit farming and locate In
Idaho where their sister and brother
reside.
Reka Patterson, who has been visit
ing relatives in Collins, Ia, and Ruby
Lee in Nevada, Ia, for several weeks
returned to their home in West Vernon
this week.
Mrs. Armstrong who has spent the
past six weeks with her daughter, Mrs.
A. D. Patterson returned yesterday
afternoon to her home in Austin.
Mrs. Sarah Butler is enjoying
two weeks vacation from her duties
as central Mrs. Agnes Spence the
night operator, is doing day work and
Florence Biggs is attending to night
calls.
Mrs. Charles Force and her eldest
daughter, Mrs. Mabel Halverson were
hostesses at a six o'clock dinner FTl-
day afternoon at the formers home in
honor of Mrs. John Moore. The guests
were the aunts and cousins of Mrs.
Moore and included Mrs. Eva Wend-
Jandt, Ada Wilbur, Myrtle Gray ana
Grace Cornish.
In compliment to Mrs. Myrtle Muir
laugh of Granada, Mrs. May Moore OF
Davenport, Ia, and the Misses Grace
and Bessie Cornish of Minneapolis,
who have been visiting relatives here
ana WHO lClI III IiiSAA ASpB
homes this morning, a porch party was
held Thursday afternoon at the
Claude Meixell home. 1t proved very
happy affair ending with splendid
supper.
At the request of county sheriff and
Public Safety Commission, Vernon is
organizing a company of Minute Men,
Who offer their service to the govern
ment and agree to respond promptly
to the call of the sheriff or his depu-
ties to aid in maintaining peace and IN
preventing injury to persons or prop
erty. About forty men have already
offered their services. By Saturday
night the list is expected to reach the
desired number of fifty.
HI. C. Kraus and j. Mobiles re-
turned Thursday from Omaha where
they purchased several carloads OF
sheep, hich will be fed on farms in this
locality.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. W. Sanford OF New
Prague. Mimi, former Mankato peo-
pie. are in the city with their little
daughter for medical treatment at