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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-12-07
November 81, December 7-140
ORDER LIMITING TIME TO FILE
CLAIMS, AND FOR HEARING
THEREON.

STATE OF MINNESOTA, County of
Blue Earth, In Probate Court.
In the matter of the state of Ernest l..
Chapman, Decedent.
Letters of Administration on said
estate this day having been granted
to Elizabeth A. Thayer
1t Is Ordered That the time within
which all creditors of the above
named decedent may present claims
against his estate in this court be,
and the same hereby is, limited to
three months from and after the date
hereof; and that the 26th day of
February, 1913, at ten o'clock a. M, in
the Probate Court Rooms at the
Court House at Mankato, in said
County, be, and the same hereby is,
fixed and appointed as the time and
place for hearing upon and the exam
nation, adjustment and allowance of
such claims as shall be presented
within the time aforesaid.
Let notice hereof be given by the
publication of this order in The
Mankato Free Press as provided by
law
Dated November "a, 1917.
EVAN HUGHES,
Judge of Probate.
probate Seal)
S. B. Wilson, attorney.
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MAHKATO boy WRITES OF THE HORRIBLE
ATROCITIES COMMITTED IN BELGIUM Land
H. L. Ross Pens Letter to His Mother In Which
He Substantiates Reports That Have
Been Circulated

Mrs. Albert Roos of ia North
Fourth street is in receipt of the
following letter from her son, H. L.
Roos, who is serving with the United
States forces in France. This letter
is doubly interesting from the fact
that Mr.. Ross confirms the stories of
the shocking and diabolical atroci-
ties which were committed by Ger
man soldiers on their helpless vic
Tins in France and Belgium.
Somewhere in France, Sunday,
October 30, 1917.-Dearest
Mother: | received your let
ter of the tenth of October and
was sure glad to hear from you.
| am we'll and happy and expect
to remain that way all the while
/ am over here. We were in
formed that pay day is today but
| guess they have changed their
minds again.
about the Germans and their aw-
full tricks. 1t is and worse than
you can imagine. l would not
dare to tell you in this letter
because it would not be proper.
But as for some minor things
they do-when the Germans in
vaded OF Belgium and Northern
France they cut off the hands
and sometimes the feet of the
little children ard injected dis
sease germs into, the women
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LEGAL NOTICES
NOV. 2-9-16-23 -30-Dec. ~
NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S ExECU-
TON SALE.

Notice Is Hereby Given, That by
virtue of an execution issued out OF
and under the seal of the District
Court in and for the County of Blue
Earth and State of Minnesota, pur-
docketed in said county on the Sth
day of November, 1916, for the sum
of Five Thousand Four Hundred Six
ty-three dollars and Fifty-nine cents
($5, 463 $50, in an action wherein F.
H. Barnes is plaintiff, and Otto
Peterson and Martha l.. Peterson are
defendants, and upon which said
judgment one thousand $4,000. 00)
dollars was paid December %, 1916,
did on the 30th day of October, 1872
levy upon all the right, title, and in
terest of the said defendants in and
to the following described Real
Estate, situated in the County of Blue
Earth, State of Minnesota, and de-
scribed as follows, towit:
Government lots five. six, and
seven 6, and y, and the southwest
quarter of the southwest quarter
(SWA SWA) all in section eleven
I'D in township one hundred eight
NlUOJ llOlIu, VI IWcnty -DNC
west (25W), Blue Earth County, Min
nesota, and all the interest in said
premises appearing of record in the
name of said Otto Peterson on Nov
ember s, 1916, and since.
Now, Therefore, Notice Is Hereby
Given, That I will sell the above de-
scribed Real Estate to the highest
bidder for cash at public auction at
the easterly front door of the Court
House in the City Of Mankato, Mime
sofa, on Friday, the 18th day of De-
cember, A. d. 1917, at 100 o'clock in
the afternoon of that day, to satisfy
the said execution, together with the
interest and costs thereon.
Dated this 31st day Of October, A.
D. 1917
ANTON OSTEN,
Sheriff, Blue Earth County, Minnesota.
S. B. Wilson,
Attorney for Plaintiff.
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Nov 30-Dec. ia
ORDER FOR HEARING PETITION
TO CONVEY LANDS ON
CONTRACT.

STATE OF MINNESOTA, County of
Blue Earth-ss. In Probate Court,
Special Term November %, 1917.
In The Matter of The Estate of Fred
erick Kron, also known as Friedrich
Kron and Fred KrOn, Deceased.
On Reading and Filing the Petition
of Frank Wandersee claiming to be
entitled to conveyance of certain
real estate from the representative of
said estate, setting forth that Fred
erick Kron, deceased was bound by
contract in writing to convey said
real estate to the said Frank Wander
see upon the terms and conditions
therein stated, with a description OF
the land to be conveyed, and the
facts upon which such claim to con-
veyance is predicted, and praying that
the Probate Court make decree au-
thorizing and directing the said rep
resentive to convey such real
estate to said petitioner as the per-
son entitled thereto.
1t Is Therefore Ordered, That all
persons interested in said state may
appear before this Court, at a special
term thereof to be held on the 22nd
day of December, A. D. 1917, at ten
o'clock in the forenoon, at the Probate
Office in the Court House in Mankato
in said County, and oppose said petit
ton
And it is Further Ordered, That
this order shall be published once in
each week for three successive weeks
prior to said day of hearing in the
Mankato Free Press a weekly news
paper printed and published at Man
kato, in said County,
Dated at Mankato the 2Sth day OF
November, A. d. 1917.
sg-s By the Court,
EVAN HUGHES,
Judge of Probate.
probate SeaD
j. w. Schmitt,
Attorney.
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LABOR men GATHER
CONTINUED From Page One.)

strike is called. The quitting OF
a number of Omaha, ana 500 union
shop men handicapped work to a
large extent on three lines of a rail
way. This one thing alone is
thought will hurry federal action OF
Intervention.
The first effect of the strike on the
food situation was felt today when
250 union milk delivery men went
out on strike.
Driver Had White Hair.
A street car was stopped today near
the state capitol when the union men
saw a non-union conductor in
charge. The conductor DOTTED his
cap which exhibited his almost sill
very white hair, while he faced the
union men and whistled Darling l
Am Growing Old" The crowd fell
back and permitted the old conduc-
tor to proceed with his car.
Fearing that the crowd that is eX-
pected to congregate at the boxing
bout tonight between Benny Leonard
and belmont might raise a disturb
ance the st. Paul Association of
Commerce has petitioned the man
agement calling for a cancellation of
the bout
Governor Refused To Comment.
The governor refused this after
noon to comment on the message of
Secretary of War Baker. The fact
that Mayor Van Lear and Jas. Mana
han are to speak in tOday's sessions
lends the belief that politics are
partly to blame for the present
strike. Home guards from all over
the state were swarming into the
city today. Thus far the home
guard companies from Red Wing,
Winona, Crookston, Duluth and Man
kato have arrived.
1t is estimated that $4,000 men
have quit work. They are about
equally divided between the two
cities. The meeting was addressed
this afternoon by j. M. Clancy who
took the side of the union men. He
touched on the button" problem and
other matters which have been up
for some time past between employ
ers' and employees of the Twin City
Rapid Transit company.
Labor Men Willing to Arbitrate.
The labor committee this afternoon
made the statement that they were
willing to arbitrate their differences
by federal mediation They will not
call any strike which will interfere
with the food control of the coun-
try or in any way do they wish to
retard the progress of the govern
ment in the war, but will fight to
finish for the defense of unionism.
. One demand made by the unions is
the recall of C. W. Ames and John
commission
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AIMS OF PAN-CERMANISM

and in proportion to them, is justified
in asking and must obtain wider room
on earth for development and for work.
ing out the possibilities that are in her.
aScendancy, in spite of themselves still
live and some of them have recovered
from the weakening. she gave them
Now strikes the hour of Ger
manys rising power.
Not only for the territories that are
to feed their children and grandchildren
in thic. warrior host now battling, but
also for the conquering triumph of the
German genius. Now we know what
the war is for: not for French, Polish,
Ruthenian, Lettish territories; not for
billions of money; not in order to dive
headlong after the war into the pool of
emotions and then allow the chilled body
to rust in the twilight dust of the De-
liverer of Races No! To hoist the storm
flag of the empire on the narrow chan
mel that opens and locks the road into
the ocean.
Little na tions are thus disposed of by
Hermann Oncken, eminent professor of
human history at Heidelberg in pub
lication issued in September, 1914. Speak
ing of Be1s\Im he SAYS: The destinies
of the INN ortal great nations stand so
high that they cannot but have the right
in case of need to stride over eXistences
that cannot defend themselves. but sup
port themselves shamelessly upon the
rivalries of the great.
What Germans think of themselves is
shown by Professor Rudolph HUGH in
Berlin publication. He says: There are
races which are incapable of attaining q
high humanity incapable of influencing
the world Such nations are destined to
hew wood and draw water for dominant
nations. If they cannot ill this inferior
office, they must perish.
ITO a far greater extent than the
French and English-races continually
talking of freedom-we Germans have
made such progress in social equaliza-
ton that we may consider ourselves far
beyond the Romans; and this in spite of
hostile western powers
Adolph Lasson in two letters to a friend
in Holland in September, 1914. says:
zone cannot rest neutral in relationship
to Germany and the German people.
Either one must consider Germany as the
most perfect political creation that his
tory has known, or must approve her
destruction her determination man
who is not a German knows nothing OF
Germany We are morally and intellectu-
aIly superior to all without peers. 1t is
the same with our ORGANIZATIONS ana
our institutions. The European
conspiracy has woven around us web
of lies and SANDER, as for us we are
truthful, our characteristics are humanl-
tv. gentleness, conscientiousness. the
virtues of Christ In a world of wicked
ness, we represent love and God is with
us.
DIR. Carl Peters. one of the founders
of the an-German league. says: NOT
to live and let live, but to live and direct
bring peoples under our rational lnf1u-
ence in order to put their aftalrs on
better footing. that is more glorious
power"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-12-07
OFFICERS OF NEW BANK
Farmers State Financial Institution
Organized at Springfield.

The stockholders of the Farmers
State bank of Springfield, recently or
ganized, met for the purpose of eff
fecting their organization. 1t was. de-
cided to have board of nine direct
ors and W. j. Paffrath, J. F. Bauch
August Lipetzky, H. H. Lischefska
Gotlieb Timm, Albert Radtke, Herman
Polkow, George Balbach and Fritz
Kettner were elected as directors. The
articles of incorporation were signed
after which the newly elected board
of directors organized by electing
William j. Paffrath, president, and
August Lipetzky. vice president. A
building committee was appointed.
consisting of William ]. Paffrath, j.
F. Bauch and H. H. Lischefska.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-12-07
HeIpino War Hospitals Work.

What the American Red Cross hos
pital supply service will mean in in
creasing the effectiveness of many OF
the war hospitals in France is shown
in message from Major Harvey
Cushing, in command of American Red
Cross base hospital No. 5, now in
service behind the British lines in
France: when an American OFFICER
could actually walk into warehouse
and find the very things he needed
most for the first time began to
realize what the American Red Cross
might be able to do for waits like
ourselves over here"
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game played at the card party held
at the Loyola club last evening. First
honors were won by Mrs. c. Ryan
and Mr.. Alec Lenertz, and second
honors by Mrs. B. Buchholz and MT.
Henry Never. The affair was large
ly attended and proved a very pleas
ant social success. At the close of
the party nice refreshments were
served. Next Thursday night is the
date for the next social party at the
Loyola clubhouse.
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En.istments in Army.

Authority has been issued by the
adjutant general of the army to &C
cept married men under same basis
as singlel men for all branches of the
service. The regular army cavalry is
open again.
The Congregational ladies will
serve a Hoover supper in cafeteria
style at their church on Friday be-
ginning at $50 and continuing until
all are served. 32Rfff $s
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PARTY FOR j. l.. TALLMAN.
A6nndnu NIGHT Mrs J. j.. Tal


mother of J. L. Tallman, entertained
the faculty of the commercial college,
and thei wives, as a farewell for her
son, who leaves Monday to serve IN
the aviation department of the army.
The evening was spent in informal
entertainment, which was keenly en-
ioyed. A delicious two-course luncheon
was served later in the evening by
the hostess. Before the guests left
they presented Mr.. Tallman, who mas
spent almost nine years with them
as one of the faculty, with beautiful
radcliffe wrist watch, as token Oh
their appreciation of his friendship
and services as an instructor. rms
was a very fitting farewell, and goes
to show the esteem with which ne IS
considered in Mankato, and especially
at his school,
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American Prisoners Cared For.

If any Americans are so unfortu-
nate as to become captives in Ger
many. the American Red Cross is
prepared to look after them. The
American Red Cross has estaDllsneo
a bureau at Berne, Switzerland, WINCH
will maintain communication between
prisoners in Germany and their
homes in America. The bureau Will
forward focdstuffs and clothing to the
prisoners. Five American bluejackets,
now prisoners are being cared for
by the bureau
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LETTERS FROM THE
BOYS IN ARMY CAMP

| Camp Pike, Arkansas, Company B,
S4Sth Infantry To The Free Press.
Mankato, MINI: Please change my
address from Supply Co. 351st In
| fantry, Camp Dodge, Iowa, to Com
pany B, 34Sth Infantry, Camp Pike,
Arkansas. Was transferred down
here. We left Camp Dodge, Iowa at
$50 Monday morning and arrived
here at eleven Tuesday night. 1t
was a fine trip and much enjoyed
by all of the boys We all expected
to find sunshine in tho south but so
far it has been all rain. We hope
| it will clear up soon. Camp Pike
is very nice camp as there are
| lots Of trees in it. We may be able
10 find our way around later but at
i present it looks hopeless as the
streets run every direction
William Eberline of North Man
kato is the only boy in my company
from up there. Hoping to get my
paper soon. Sincerely, Glare V.
Fowler
The following is letter written to
Mrs. C. w. Jessup, 400 Poplar street,
by her son Lloyd:
Camp Joseph Johnston, November
20, 1917, Jacksonville Florida: | ar
rived here this afternoon at 1:30 with
out any Thanksgiving dinner and
have to wait till supper time to eat
don't know how | will like my new
home and the south. This is a new
camp and isn't near finished yet.
When finished it will hold between
/, H. Il
men. There are only two thousand
here now and about two to three
thousand laborers that are civilians,
so you see mother there is going to
be lot of work for us to build this
camp up for the others.
Mother everything is green and the
garden truck is growing The weather
is warm enough to be without our
coats. We had fine trip on the way
down here and had berths to sleep
in. Two men to the lower berths and
one in the top one. had a top berth.
We went to bed at $50 and got up
at $50.
We had to stay in our own cars and
couldn't go from one car to another
or get off the train. We were ordered
off the train at Nashville; Tenn, for
a thirty-five minute march through
the streets for exercise. On the way
down we went through Missouri, Ar
kansas, Tennessee, and a corner of
Alabama, Georgia and into Florida.
We ate in our own cars three men
from each table placed between the
seats. We waved at everybody on the
way down, even the aged negroes
around their old cottages. We have
two story buildings to sleep in and
am on the second floor
l think l have told you all the news.
l will go down to the postoffice to-
morrow to see if there is any mail.
l will now close for this time. With
love to all, LLOYD.
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| Conquest and kultur, TINS 'of the Ger
mans in their own words is a book
! complied by Wallace Hotestein and Elmer
e. Stoll. professors of the University Of
Minnesota and issued by the committee
of public informatio at Washington. 1t
consists wholly of quotations from Ger
man kings, educators, manufacturers and
statesmen carefully documented self
revelation of German ideals, showing
how the pied pipers of Prussianism have
i led their people to conquest and lSnoml-
ny and infamy.
rejuvenate the exhausted members OF
Europe by a diffusion OF Germanic
school children. tbs quotation is, from
| 'The School and the Fatherland, a
manual Bfor school deaildren by Vergnet.
| That war was necessary to fulfill Ger
many's mission is shown by F. Won Bern
! hard, German cavalry leader, who wrote
| in his Germany and the Next War,
! in 1911, as follows: I'VE Germans nave
| far greater and. more urgent duty to-
ward civilization to perform than the
great Asiatic power. We can
| only fulfill it by the sword.
Bernhardi's book has FREQUENTLY been
referred to in the reichstag debates and
! in the newspapers There can be no doubt
! that he expressed the feeling OF large
part of the influential classes in Germany
| according to the Minnesota compllerS
1--WE are the salt of the EARTH, said
| the kaiser in a speech at Bremen, Maren
| 90 1905 Further confirmation OF the
| chosen people" idea which perVaues
German officialdom, and which has been
| instilled in the lower classes through
years of instruction, hardly seems heces-
Sary.
That the present war was for the
conquest of England is shown by Maxi
milan Harden, German free lance ana
editor of Die Zukuft, who says in a keen
| and incisive manner what many Ger
mans are thinking:
cease the pitiful attempts to excuse
! Germany's action. no longer wall 10
strangers who do not care to hear you,
: telling them how dear to us were the
smiles of peace we had smeared IKE
rouge upon our lips and how deeply we
Regret in our hearts that the treacheIy
of conspirators dragged US unwlilingE
| selfishness does not seem duty to you,
/ but a SIM is something you must con
! ceal from foreign eyes. Nol do
weak willed blunderers have we uhaSI
taken the fearful risk OF TINS %ait Wa
| wanted it Because we had to wish It ana
could wish it. May the Teuton deVll tnrot-
| tie those winners whose pleas for eA-
cuSes make us ludicrouS in these iloui
! of lofty experience. We do not STAND, anu
shall not place ourselves before tne
| court Of EuroDe Germany strikes If 1t
conuuers new realms for its genius, tle
| PRIESTHOOD of all he gods VIII sing SONGS
of praise to the god war. we az
| waging this war not in order 10 pun
ish those who have slnned or III ofuS. 20
| free enslaved peoples and Thereafter 10
comfort ourselves with the unselnsil ana
useless consciousness of our own flSnte-
BUSINESS We wage it from the lo1ty poiht
of view and with the conVlction lnal
| Germany as result of her achievements
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and men, And on their retreat
out of Northern France the
Germans destroyed everything
from trees, soil, HON es, roads
and everything with a spark of
life in it. have seen some of
the things they have done and
the rest of the news l got from
Australian, English and French
soldiers who have actually seen
them. AS we have seen and
heard these things you can be-
lieye it for sure.
We do not expect to go to the
front very soon because we are
learning our parts and how to
play the war game. We are
training for actual service on the
big guns on the railroad One
of our officers made the state
ment that we would be about ten
miles behind the trenches. l
have written several times before
this so | am all out of news ex-
cept that all of the Kato boys
in the Cs A. brigade are all o. K.
AS every your son, Love to all,
H. L. Roos.
If there are any doubling Thorn
ses still left in Mankato and the
rown on the reports of atrocities, sho,
hem this letter from a Mankato DO
Who knows whereof he writes.
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SUNDAY SCHOOL TEACHERS


FAN T.
Miss Jennie Johnson of North Sec
ond street was hostess last evening
at a pleasant meeting of the Sunday
school teachers of the Swedish Luth-
erail church the affair being well
attended, and considerable business
being transacted. Rev. o. j. Ar
thur, pastor of the church, conduct
ed the regular lesson, the topic for
study being the life of the prophet
Daniel Preparations were made for
the annual Christmas program, which
will be given by the young people,
AMI it was decided to postpone the
next regular study meeting until aft
err the New Year, owing to the many
activities during the holidays. At the
close of the meeting dainty refresh
ments were served by the hostess.
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Fairmont Sentinel: Mrs. Troy Hin

Fairmont Sentinel: Mrs. Troy Him
melman left today for her home in
Mankato after spending several days
with her husband and assisting him
with some of the finishing touches in
decorating the new hotel Mr.. Him
melman's charming family will come
to Fairmont in. the spring to make
their home.
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Oxreider-Co

Oxreider- Cooper.
Miss Ethel Oxreider and Mr.. James
Cooper both of this city were unit
ed in marriage this afternoon at
three o'clock at the home of Com
missioner and Mrs. Thomas H. Foley
Rev. G. A. Cahoon performed the
CEREMONY
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HARD TIME PARTY.

Miss Maude Clarke of 1O2 North
Second street entertained at a hard
time party last night about twenty
of her lady friends. The evening was
spent in playing games and dancing.
And at a late hour delicious lunch
was served. Miss Hilda Lundberg
took the prize for having the most
comical dress.
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viii Have Cooperation

" Un1ted TTeSS IISpdtCIl.J
ST. Paul. December 5.-The state
beard of control today decided &c
have all state institutions cooperate
with the Red Cross association.