The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-06-22

raided today in the city hall park.
Three hundred women attempted to
hold such a meeting here, but the po-
lice had squad on hand to break it
up. The women fought furiously and
many of them used their hat-pins
freely.
From Saturdays Daily.
| Miss Bessie Mccarthy of Madelia was
! shopping in Mankato yesterday.
! Mrs Henry Murray of Blue Earth
was shopping in the city yesterday.
Mrs. Herman Held and sons of New
Tim are visiting relatives in Mankato.
Attorney j. W. Schmitt spent the day
attending to legal business in st. Peter.
! Miss Mollie Knaub has gone to Mon
| tana, where she expects to visit for a
| month
Mrs A. c. Gray of Vernon Center is
| visiting in the city at the home of
| Mayor l.. l.. Champlin.
| Miss Anna Callaghan returned to her
home in Ivanhoe today, after a visit
| with relatives in this city.
| Mrs. Daniel Derham leaves today for
Faribault to attend the funeral of her
uncle, Donald Grant of that place,
Architect Fl. G. Gerlach has returned
! from a business trip 10 Germania, Iowa.
where he was commissioned to prepare
plans for the remodeling of a German
! Lutheran church.
Miss Elizabeth Deuser, who taught
| school at Miles City, Mont, is visiting
| friends in ST. Paul, and is expected
home the first of next week to spend
V. Ferk and E. W. Goldenstar, civil
| engineers, will leave next Monday for
| Prairie du Chene, Wis, where they will
| investigate for sewer-ways, and take
| soundings of the Wisconsin river for
| the construction of bridge near that
| place.
/ Wianebago Enterprise: Haibert Mer-
/ rifield, manager of the Commonwealth
Power company, was here Monday while
| en- route to Buffalo Center, Ia. Mr..
Merrifield is getting franchises in many
towns of Iowa and Minnesota, and his
concern is growing to be one of con-
siderable magnitude.
Vernon Center News: Mrs. Lulu Aus
| tin and son, Earl. arrived here Friday
parents, Mr.. aud Mrs. Lorenzo Carper-
ter. Earl returned to his work as ex-
press messenger for the Wells Fargo
Monday noon but Mrs. Austin rename.
for more extended visit.
st. Peter Herald: The Boy Scouts of
Mankato are doing their bit of pa
Harold Nelson of Crow Patrol, Troop
No. !. was in st. Peter selling Liberty
bonds. He also said that other mem
bers of the patrol had gone to the
neiShboring towns for the same reason.
G.. w. Chamberlain of Minneapolis,
general manager of the American Amuse-
ment company, is spending the week in
Mankato attending to business affairs at
the Grand theatre during the absence
of Manager II. B. French. an account
OF whose marriage appeared in The Free
Press yesterday, and who is now away
on his wedding trip.
Sherburn Advance Standards: a card
from elsie Lee, who went to Manlzato
last week to pass examinations for the
Second Minnesota Military band, states
that he was, successful and is now a
member of that organization. Gisle is
fine clarinet player and a splendid
young fellow, and his friends in sher,
burn will be glad to hear of his good
/ fortune. The band boys here, of course,
would rather that his membership be-
ionged right here with the local organ
/ e; A.. Brinton of Brighton, Iowa, was
in Mankato last night en- route from
! Mapleton to Winthrop, where ne spoke
quay. Mr.. Brinton lived in that section
OF South, America for five years; also
he spent a long time in Argentina. He
isl thoroughly familiar with conditions
road and steamboat travel in those
countries is far more modern than in
the United States and that the stores
are more. up to-date. He stated that
Buenos Aires is a fine city in which to
live, However he is content TO reside
in the United States the balance of his
DR.. and Mrs. c. J. Holman and Miss
Virginia . Lossow, returned today from
New York; City, where the doctor at
M SSeded rs sessions Of the american
sentiment in the east" said Dr. Hol-
man today land that is for the United
States, There is not a sign of divided
association was presided over 'ta f by Dr
Charles Mayo Of Rochester Returning
surgeons from the battle fronts stated
that had the Daken and Carroll methods
of treating the injured men been used
at the start, the lives of from $50 900 to
ll5.O0O soldiers could have been saved
MRS MRS; Holman made an inquiry into the
Miss Agnes Caller of Madison Lake
was in the city today, shopping and at
tending to business matters.
Mrs. A. Mayer and daughter of Lam
Derton We're Mankato shoppers vester-
day.
Melvin Keith of Sterling was a guest
IN the city yesterday.
Mrs. N; d. Baker of Marshall is tie
guest OF her mother, Mrs. L. F. Burdick.
Mrs. c. E. Keith left yesterday for
an extended visit with relatives at La
crosse and Milwaukee, Wis.
Mr.: and Mrs. Harry B. French. new
IyWeds succeeded in escaping from plot
tiers Yesterday afternoon and they left
Tor the east in an automobile. The
Mrs. French to the Northwestern depot
IN a carryall Of ancient make Mr..
French was wise and left the house by
away in a waiting auto.
c. l.. Young, freight claim agent of
the Chicago and Northwestern located
at huron. S. D., was a visitor in the city
yesterday |
Miss Florence ]. Nelson and Miss FL
la Hoppe, trained nurses, left last night
for Mare Island. CAL. to enter into the /,
naval service there as nurses Both
nave been nurses at the Emmanuel hos |
pital ~
Miss Mildred Fritz returned home
from Madison. Wis, today to spend the
summer with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs, !
M ID. Fritz, 121 Clark street. She has
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