The Mankato free press., 1917-11-09
Vernon Center

Iuioo DidilCu DuTUlCh LOOK the IOuT
o'clock train Monday for the cities
where she will spend few days Wis
iting friends.
Miss Lucy Gates spent Monday with
her aunt, Mrs. Leafie Warren.
c. M. Warren and son, Lawrence,
have purchased a Dodge car. The
sale was made by Bowen & Son.
Vernon Center is to have another
garage. Will Nelson Of Amboy has a
crew of men at work getting the
building ready, which will be opened
for business in a few days.
Julius Borchardt and son, Roy E.,
were business visitors in town yes
terday.
Mrs. Charles Force is slowly recov-
ering from her recent illness.
Frank Hartwick was reported on
the sick list Monday. President F.
H. Barnes took his place at the Ver-
non Center State bank.
Mrs. Ella Stoner is expected home
this evening from the cities, where
sch has been visiting relatives and
friends for the past ten days.
over subscribed it's quota of Liberty
bonds to the amount of about $500.
w. w. Griffith and H. E. Kraus are
checking up at the banks today, and
could not give the exact amount. In
canvassing the town several slackers
were found who could but would not
buy Liberty bonds, and blue cards
are the result, but on the whole ev-
erybody was glad and willing to do
their bit to help the government in
its time of need.
The Mack brothers are having ce-
ment floors laid in their barn and in
other farm buildings. Charles Red
field is doing the work. There are
many wanting concrete work done
this fall, but by the looks of the
weather, it does not look as though
there would be any more work of
this kind done before next spring.
Mrs. Porter accompanied her
daughter, Mrs. Frank Clague, to her
home at Redwood Falls, where she
will spend the next month.
Mrs. Owen McElmul and children,
Catherine and Eugene, who have
spent the past two months here and
in the cities left Tuesday for their
home at Great Falls.
Miss Hulda Block, who has been
staying with Mrs. Porter in the vii
lage for the past year, is having
three weeks vacation which she will
spend with her parents at Willow
Creek.
The Queen Esther circle will be
nj n oil fYin dc OF
their Halloween social Wednesday
evening, at the hall program. Re-
freshments 15c.
Frank Schwan is enlarging his barn
and laying cement floors.
Mrs. James Lowell and Stanley
spent the week end with the Porters
in Mankato.
Mrs. Stella Clague is down from
Redwood Falls spending a few days
with her mother, Mrs. Ellen Porter.
Farmers who have started husking
corn are greatly disappointed in the
crop. One man in picking load Sc
cured about four bushels of hard corn
and another reported that he didn't
find one.
The Misses Cecilia Russell, Veron-
dys Good were among the rural
teachers who attended the institute
at Mankato last week, all report a
very profitable meeting very largely
attended.
Sam Cornish, who has been con-
Quoting a moving picture theatre in
Great Falls has disposed of his in
terest there and invested in a like
business in Grand Forks.
Miss Rosetta Hendrix, state presi-
dent of the w. C. T. u, who is max
ing a tour of ten days visiting the
various unions i nthe southern coun-
ties spoke to full house Sunday
evening at the Baptist church. Miss
Hendrix Interestingly told in an able
address the progress of the past year
in the temperance cause. She left on
the noon train for Winnebago.
Mrs. Clifford Jones of Cedar Falls,
Iowa, and Miss Elizabeth King of
Onro, Wis, are visiting their cousin
G.. G. Cornish and wife and also other
relatives in the village.
Mrs. H. Turk of North Vernon re-
turned Thursday evening from Ro-
chester, where she took her mother,
Mrs. Herman, who is taking a two
weeks treatment for gallstones after
which she will submit to an opera
tion.
c. M. Warren, Tom Hays and Clyde
Uptograft were among those who
were witnesses in the garnishee case
of Anderson versus Irwin Swanson,
Regan appearing for Anderson and
Porter for Swanson. The case was
not settled as the papers were not
made out right and the case is post
poned until November 1.