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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-12-21

to date 4l5 members have been secured
reports from the Boy Scouts have not
been received and Chairman Woodrow
asks that all new members who have
not paid their dues to have their money
ready for the Boy Scouts when they
call, as they are making a house-to-
house canvass for the collection of these
funds. The Superior Manufacturing
company of this city went 100 per cent
for the American Red Cross Christmas
drive, while rs of the Long-Lewis Hard
ware company's employees sent in their
memberships without being solicited.
The Grand theatre booth will be occu-
pied by Mrs George Davies, while the
booth at the Realty building will be
filled by Mrs. L. L. Read.
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To Cure a Cold in One Day
Take LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE
Tablets. Druggists refund money If 1t
fails to cure. e. w. GROVES sigma
ture is on each box. soc.
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CROMWELL BROS. GET CONTRACT

The Crotwell Brothers Lumber COM
pany of this city has received con-
tract from the Sloss-Sheffield Steel and
Iron company to build 40 new houses at
Lubucka, mining camp near Mulga.
The houses will be residences Of the
standard type adopted by this company,
but of much better material than that
used heretofore The work on these
houses viii start within short time.
This same company is now finishing a
contract calling for the building of 10
houses at the Sloss companys mines
at Flat Top.
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The Lewis-Reid Drug company is maxi
ing a specially on E1mer-s and Whit
mans fancy candies and bon-bons in
holiday boxes. They also. have SPLEEN
did assortment of toilet articles suitable
for gifts. They carry a complete line
of fancy writing paper in holiday boxes
ADV.
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AIS MEMBERS SECURED
DOLLY DALRYMPLE

The Red Cross Christmas drive for new
members continues in this city and up
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A Christmas tree and musicale will be
given at the twenty seventh Street
chapel Sunday afternoon at 2:S0 o'clock
The interesting programme prepared for
the occasion is as follows: Opening
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Kress store is crowded to it's doors
with shoppers, but there are enough
salespeople to give every one attention.
One can almost find just the gift they
want for Christmas, such an array
of novelties are being shown.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-08-24
SAINT PETER COMPANY
WILL co TO Fl. RILEY
Orders to That Effect Have Been
Received BY Captain W.
F. RhinoW
From Thursdays Daily.


Captain w. F. Rhinow, military
secretary to the governor. last night
received orders from the central de-
partment, Chicago, directing that X
company, Second Minnesota infantry,
stationed at st. Peter, and H COM
.pany, Third infantry, of Olivia be sent
as soon as possible to Camp Cody,
Deming, N. M, to lay out camps,
pitch tents and perform other neces-
sary preliminary work in advance of
concentration there of other Minue-
sofa troops, says The St. Paul Pho
neer Press.
The orders were forwarded to the
companies last night but no departure
details were definitely worked out. .
The order was regarded by mii:-
tary officers at the capitol as an in
dication that further delays in the
leaving time for the main Minnesota
force, probably September 1, are not
likely. ..a,,xssa
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HELLO PEOPLE WILL
HAVE MEET in CITY
Plans Are All Made For Session
Of Managers and the
SRI Operators
From thursdays Daily.

EF0tu iHuTS0dyS bduys
Arrangements for the meeting of
telephone managers and operators of
the Independent telephone companies
OF this district are about completed.
1t will be held in the Masonic temple
in this city August % and %, COM
mencing at 10 a. m. the first day.
Forenoon and afternoon sessions will
be- held, and the meeting will close
with banquet the last evening.
!. Representatives Of the public safety
commission, the state railroad and
warehouse commission and the state
labor bureau will be present and adj
dress the meeting on subjects that re-
late to their departments and In
which the telephone companies are
interested. An expert telephone OPP
orator will be present, to teach the
newest methods of operating.
1t is likely that the meeting will be
presided over by D. C. Kaft, Mime
apolis, secretary of the state associa-
ton. Probably hundred people from
out of the city will be in attendance
upon the meeting. P. M. Ferguson has
made the local arrangements.
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ELECTRIC RAIL EXTENSION
Not Determined When Track Will Be
Laid In North Mankato.

Laid In North Mankato.
Just what the Mankato Electric
Traction company will do in the mat
ter of extending it's lines into North
Mankato this fall has not yet been
determined. Some time ago the COM
pany expected to make the extension
without doubt, and attempted to pur-
chase the necessary amount of steel
rails. for the track, but was able to
procure only about half enough, and
had to pay $50 ton for these.
whereas the price of rails before the
war was $27 ton. Unless enough
more rails can be purchased to COM
plete the mile and half to the bluff,
on Belgrade avenue, it would hardly
pay to put in three-quarters of mile
of track. as the traffic from. that por-
ton of the line would not be great
When the entire line is in. it is thought
that this will become one of the best
paying parts of the street railway
system.
Very little remains to be done to
complete the bridge The electric
light standards are also s completed.
and when they are up and connected,
nothing but a little work on the wings
will remain.
It is not thought that the old steel
bridge will be disturbed until next
winter, as the safest and most
economical time for taking it down is
when the river is frozen and men and
teams can walk on the ice. Then the
Widell company, which has built the
new bridge, will take down the old,
mark each piece for, Identification,
and store them away in some place to
be furnished by the city. The old
stone piers will also be taken down.
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Vernon Center
From Thursday,s Dairy.

From thursdays Daily.
F. L. Cooper is the first farmer in
this locality to deliver wheat to ele-
vators. Mr.. Cooper thrashed his
winter wheat Saturday. The wheat
was Of splendid quality and yielded
well.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Force left on
the early train Tuesday morning for
Clear Lake, S. D., where they will
spend week or ten days with the
formers brother, George and family.
Mrs. Mary Cornish and her daughter
Mrs. Thomas Armstrong of Great
Falls returned Monday noon from
Mankato where they had been attend
ing retreat at the Mothers home.
Miss Louise Award, Mesdames
Charles Brown, Gust Nelson, Fred
Annis, Cliff Mead and the Misses
Gladys Cooper, Zelma Petrich and
Julia Nelson were among those who
motored to Mankato last Saturday.
Mrs. Harry Shelby of Buffalo, Mimi,
is visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
c. E. Brown in East Vernon and other
relatives in the village.
Mr. and Mrs. Ole Bengston packed
their household goods which they
shipped to Mankato Friday and yes
terday the family departed for that
city where they expect to make their
home.
George Brown has bought the Reed
property and as soon as the house is
re-decorated the family will move in.
Mr.. Brown bought the barn on Miss
A lx,,o Io x,1o xrhia hoc
to his lot. We are all glad to know
that they will continue to reside in
the village.
Mrs. T. Gage Clement has returned
from a ten weeks visit with her Sis
ter in New Jersey and her parents at
Davenport, Ia.
Arthur Matson motored to Madelia
Sunday and spent the day with rela-
tives. Mrs. Matson who has been
visiting her parents and other friends
in that locality for several days re-
turned with him.
Myron Randall. Jr., Stanford Bow
en-, owen and Clifford Lewis, Vernon
boys of the hospital corps who are at
Mortified were permitted to spend
Saturday and Sunday with their par
ents. The boys are well and are en-
joying their work.
Mrs. NJ. B. Randall spent Monday
with relatives at the lake. Her little
granddaughter, Audrey Meixell who
has been visiting her cousins in st.
James met her grandmother at lake
Crystal and returned with her on the
evening train.
Mrs. Jennie Cook and Alice Warren
is spending weeks vacation in Gar
den City.
Arthur and Lloyd Beland and their
three sisters, Mrs. Lydia Brown and
the Misses Lillian and Louise Beland
an auto party from Two Harbors,
Mimi, have been guests at the Cornish
home since Sunday evening, started on
their homeward trip Tuesday They
had most enjoyable and delightful
trip s-.5f&
Mr.. and Mrs. julius Borchardt and
son Roy and wife of Lyra, and Miss
G. Roberts of Mapleton were callers
at Strawberry Point Sunday afternoon.
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kerns.

Bids for eight cords of hard wood
and two soft for school in district
number eight will be received by the
clerk on or before August %. AL
wood must be body wood, delivered
sawed and piled in the basement Of
the school house by September 1
Bidders must specify the kind Of wood
F. e. Jefferson, clerk.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. C.. Peart and three
daughters visited at the HodgsoI
home last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clifford Cole and Mr.
and Mrs. Floyd Cole of Rapidar
visited at the Cole home, Sunday.
Bernice Hendley of Hebron is
visiting Pearl Parsons.
Alfred Lind of New Sweden has q
new Mitchell car.
Joe Hodgson and niece, Luella
Hodgson went to Minneapolis Mon
day noon to visit friends for a few
days.
Cards have been received announc-
ing the marriage of Miss Martha Pur-
rier to Mr. Benjamine Reed on Au-
gust II, 1917, at Camas, Wash.
Mrs. George Cole and son Archie
Eva Lind and Gladys Miller spent
Saturday in New Sweden with Mr.
and Mrs. Lind.
Mrs. H. A. Hanson returned from
Sheldon, ILL.,, Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gust R. Peterson and
daughter Ethel took dinner with Mrs
NJ M. Cram Friday.
Viola, Harvey and Ester Michels
and George Loucks were entertained
for the afternoon and supper at the
Budde home, Sunday.
Mrs. Meurer is visiting her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Robert Busby.
A baby boy weighing nine pounds
arrived at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Charlie Smith Monday morning.
Blanche Swenson is spending the
week with Evalyn Budde.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Grice of North
Mankato spent Saturday night and
Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Goodridge.
Mr.. and Mrs. Archie Parsons and
family Of Traverse and Clayton Par
sons of Company HI, spent Sunday
with Mr.. and Mrs Walter Johnson.
Cora johnson went to Nicollet
Saturday to visit friends for few
days.
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Cleveland.

Miss Jessie jerks was business
caller in Mankato Friday.
Miss Ruth Hurst was a week end
guest of Miss Mable Cheadle.
Mrs. Helen Goldsmith and grand
daughter Annabell Cheadle, arrived
home the fore part Of the week from
several days visit with Minneapolis
relatives.
Mrs. T. ]. Lloyd entertained the
choir of the Christian church at he1
home Friday evening.
Jay Ransom returned home Monday
from few days visit at the c. B
Osgood home in Mankato
The Misses Ida Woehler of Gay
lord and Helen Bohemian of st. Peter
spent the past week at the Herman
Ponwith home.
Mrs. Charles Cheadle spent We'd
nesday and Thursday with Judsor
friends.
Twins. boy and girl, were born te
Mr. and Mrs. C. D.. Davis of Lake
Emily, Friday.
Chester Jackson returned to Mime
|apolis Monday evening after spendins
fortnight with his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. D. c., Jackson.
Mrs. D. G. Jackson left Monday
evening for Vergas, Mimi, on short
visit with her daughter, Mrs. William
Peach and family.
Mrs. o. L. Ransom spent Friday
in Mankato,
Mrs. R. B. Keough spent a few
days the past week with friends al
Lake Jefferson.
Cards have been received announc.
ing the marriage of Miss Hannah Gull
dickson of Granite Falls, Mimi, t.
Harry w. Wendelshafer of Watervillt
on Monday. August 6, 1917
Mrs. E. Swenson and son of Nicol-
let spent the first of the week at the
George, Bower home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence Henschel
spent the weekend at the home Of
Fred w. Wendelshafer.
The Cleveland Christian Sunday
school will give an ice cream socia
at the town hall next Tuesday even.
ing, August 81, for the benefit of the
Red Cross. A patriotic program will
be given. Everyone come and help {
good cause. 80
David Hunter Of Mankato spent the
past week with his brother, William
Hunter, and family.
Miss Blanche Shuey of Pettis was {
guest over Sunday of Miss Grace
Mathews.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Davis and daugh
ter, Orabell, Mrs. A. Rohlfing an(
Mrs. Charles Block motored tt
Mankato Friday.
A. D. Wharton Of Dannabfook, N
Oak. was a social and business cal
Ter here Thursday. Mr. Wharton en-
listed in Company K, Seventh Min
nesota, here during the Civil war
He found that only four of his oil
comrads are. still living. They arr
y. W. Chambers of iMankato, G. B
Jameson Of st. Peter, George McCon
key of LIE Sueur Center and Home
Hallock at the Soldiers Home.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. e. Morley ant
! three daughters of Alderman, Wis.
motored to Cleveland Tuesday ant
visited at the G. B. Hurst home unit
| Wednesday.
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MANAkTO FREE PRESS

whose picture is being displayed on
Front street in Mankato are not out
at sea yet but they were the frst
volunteers from Mapleton and are
seventeen years Of age.
During a drive from Mapleton to
Mankato one cannot but notice the
crops. Small grain is all cut and in
the shock. Some fields are thin while
in others the shocks are very thick.
The corn, however, is the poorest.
Mrs. Ed Week and little son Of New
Ulm are the guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Andicott.
Mrs. Joe Geminder and Miss Rose
Hatch of Henderson we're in town a
short time Monday.
Miss Grace Ellis will teach in the
James Will district Miss Bessie Wes-
ton will teach in the Sanborn district,
Miss Hazel Johnston the Pat Nc
Gregor district, Miss Macbeth the
Johnston school and Mrs. Ed San
born the Old Mapleton.
Archibald Lang son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. George Lang has given up his
position as superintendent of schools
at Cambria and will enter the officers
training camp at Fort Smelling, Sep
TENDER ].
Rinehart Bluhm, son of Mrs. Bluhm
of Mapleton, has been selected for the
ambulance corps. He has had con-
siderable experience along this line at
Rochester where he is at present in
the employ of physicians.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Hall are
spending some time visiting friends in
Minneapolis.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Pratt Of Mil
waukee, Judge Pratt and daughter,
Mrs. Cornish of Fairmont are the
puests of Mr.. and Mrs. E.. E. Hadley.
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Anlaboy

| Rev. T. r. Paden of Mankato. spoke
in the Presbyterian church Sunday
morning.
Threshing has commenced in this
locality although the farmers are not
Dragging about their large yields per
acre.
J. E. Winter was called to Illinois
Wednesday of last week to attend the
| funeral of his eldest sister.
r. N. Parks is taking in the fairs
of Iowa.
l. Collins who has been in South
Dakota for some time has returned to
Amboy.
Mrs. Luidemeyer and children OF
Illinois are visiting her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. H. o. Thompson.
H. o. Thompson has made some
| improvements on his residence in
Amboy.
Elder Olmsted of Garden City spoke
at the Christian church Sunday even
ing.
]. E. Winter has purchased new
tractor and small threshing machine
so he can do his own threshing and
blowing as he is farming on large
scale.
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ST. Clair

Mrs. George Hubmer and mother
Mrs. Currier. recently returned from
Painsville where they have been
visiting Mrs. Curriers' daughter
Another daughter Mrs. Charles Lin
ton and child of Seattle, Wash, are
now visiting at the Hubmer home.
Mrs. John Fields has been visiting
at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
r. c. Dalton of Mankato.
Jake Chase recently unloaded his
newly purchased threshing separator
at the depot here and is now busily
engaged in using it.
LaJune Foster of Mankato has been
visiting relatives here,
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Chadbourn at
tended the Battle of the Somme" at
the Grand Wednesday evening.
Miss Liela Fitzloff of Welcome is
spending short vacation at the
home here.
An indelible mark of priceless
friendship was evidenced Friday
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-08-24
WAS NOT IN THE ."COOP"

Story Was Made Up BY Imaginative
Twin City Reporter.
The Fairmont Sentinel says that
Superintendent Wolfe of that city
wasn't in Jail. The story was purely
hot air-the Pigment of reportorial
Imagination.
episode with which Superintendent
Wolfe was so creditably connected,
is given by The Minneapolis Tribune
in an interview, as follows:
s 81 came up to the cities on an Oma-
ha train this morning. AS we stopped
in Shakopee, Gundelach got off, went
to a saloon and returned with bottle.
/ saw him offer it to three men in uni
form. / understand two of them are
Guy G. Lewis and G. Kupp, privates
in the Thirty sixth infantry.
81 don't like to see the law violated
at any time, any kind Of law, but
this particular kind of law violation
at this time appeals to me as peculiar
ly fragrant. So spoke to the conductor
about it. He agreed with me and
asked il I. would appear as a witness
If he caused the arrest of the, party.
assented. 49, ~ 49,
= %The conductor notified the roads
investigation department and officers
at the st. Paul station made the ar
rests on our arrival. A third man in
uniform walked away before he
could be held Gundelach is said to
have, told the officers that he was
nineteen years old. He is not a sol
dier, so a charge of selling liquor to
a minor might be in order against
the saloon man." .,,-, ~
The Pioneer Press which published
the fake story of Superintendent
Welfe's Imprisonment says in Tues
days issue: ~
..Mr. Wolfe was not arrested, nor
was he detained at the police station,
as reported yesterday"
+ Mr.. Wolfe is quite firmly of the
opinion, considering the unpleasant
notoriety, the erroneous published re-
ports, the lack of results and two days
delay in ST. Paul that kept him from
keeping important business engage
ments. that it doesn't pay to try to
uphold the law.
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E.gleLake

I Henry Ireland, one of the well
known boys in this vicinity was one
Of those who passed the physical
examinations.
George Jacobshagen threshed ten
acres of winter wheat and got forty
two bushels
julius Seltenrich has disposed of
his Inc eighty acre farm, receiving
ne-hundred and ninety dollars an
acre, Mr.. Mahoney of Mankato
being the purchaser.
Miss Mildred Powell returned to
her home at Fort Dodge, Ia, after
spending some TINE at the Powell
home.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. Huebel were
Mankato callers Monday.
Master Roy Hoffman entertained a
number of his school mates Tuesday
eIeA lueseId esoqL 'saJIS> GlleId
10 Ieqmnu p9AI9oeI OH fgpqlIIq
qlueAeI9 STU 10 Iouoq III uoouI9lJp
Fred Alberta, Olive and Ernest
Stamford, Mary and Edna Edwards
Louise and Genevieve Powell, Lola
I Cate, Earl and Ethel Schmidt and
Helen Evans.
Albert Peterson visited at the W.
Edwards home one evening last
week.
Harry Wenner and Frank Elfert
will move on farms near st. Clair
this fall
Theodore Frantz has returned
home after being gone nearly week
with a party Of land seekers in Mon
tana- Mr., Frantz likes the country
very much and brought back punches
of alfalfa and wheat also different
pieces of ore and minerals.
Mr.. Julius Honel and daughter
Lydia motored to Mankato Monday
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evening when sincerely and merri-
ment actuated the many friends of
Miss Hattie Fitzloff to give surprise
parcel shower in the Hugunin apart
ments. The rooms were decorated
beautifully for the occasion with an
artistic profusion of flowers and
streamers of ribbon so arranged that
| it gave the occasion an added tinge
Of joy. Well known local people con-
Quoted mock wedding that forced
healthy laughter from all for a long
time after which the many valued
gifts of silverware and art needlework
were admired by all. Musical selec-
Kurth and Miss Liela Fitzloff after
which dainty luncheon was served.
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Miss Augusta Schellbach, a grad
uate of the Mankato normal school,
and now a teacher in the Chicago pub
lie schools, and her brother, William
Schellbach, who is in the banking
business at Hoffman, Mimi. are spend
ing a couple of days in the city, re-
newing acquaintances. The family
resided in Mankato some years ago,
and are now well scattered.
~ Mrs. .Trephina Hughes, who now
makes her home at Long Beach, CAL,
has been visiting in the city for a
couple of weeks, but has now re-
turned to st. Paul with her son, Tom
my, who was in Mankato the first of
the week, packing few household
goods at the old home on Pleasant
street. Tommy holds good position
with the Omaha Railway company.
Mrs. Hughes daughter, Of Stockton,
Cal, who came with her from the
west, is still visiting in Mankato. Mrs.
Hughes likes 1t very much at Long
Beach. and has gained in weight and
is enjoying excellent health.
!, Mr.. and Mrs. F. Desormeaux re-
turned yesterday from ten days
business trip, to Chicago and Milwau-
kee, where they met the representa-
tives of the large eastern and Kansas
City jobbing houses and had a splen-
did selection of latest style goods to
buy from. They made purchases for the
fall and winter seasons They found
many changes in the styles, some of
them being rather decided, and their
new stock will show these On the way
home, on the Chicago and Northwest
ern road, night before last, east of
La Crosse. they were awakened by the
derailment of two cars on their train,
which caused a three hours delay.
They were met at Chicago and accom-
panied home by Mrs Desormeaux's
mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Ginger, and
sister. Mrs, Gertrude Orr and daugh-
ter, all Of ,Maysyille, Ky, who will re-
main a couple Of weeks.