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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-12-14
STRUCK BY c. W.. TRAIN
W. Keobnic Was Driving Across
Track Near EIysian Yes
terday Afternoon

w. Keobnic, an elderly farmer,
about sixty years of age, who resides
about three miles out Of Elysian, was
badly injured yesterday when the rear
end Of the wagon he was driving was
hit by the noon passenger train on
the Great Western road, upsetting the
rig and throwing Mr.. Keobnic a con-
siderable distance, where he struck
the hard ground, receiving the force
of the fall on his head. He was re-
turning from the creamery where he
had delivered milk, and did not hear
the approaching train it seems. The
wagon was almost past the crossing,
known as Clarkes' crossing, about a
mile and a half this side of Elysian
when it was hit by the engine. The
trainmen stopped to ascertain the re-
suit of the accident, and the injured
man was taken to his home by Mr..
and Mrs. Dick Clark who CHANGED to
be motoring to Mankato, and stopped
to give what assistance they could.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-12-14
MANSLAUGHTER IS CHARGED
Ambrose Kelly Under Indictment At
Rochester For Boys Death.


Rochester, December 5-Ambrose
Kelly was indicted for m~anslaughter
in the second degree by the grand
jury. He was arraigned and entered a
plea of not guilty. His trial will come
up later at the present term of the
district court.
The crime with which Kelly is
charged is the accidental killing of
Enos DAILY, sixteen-year old son of
Mrs. Elizabeth DAILY of $50 South
Pearl street. Shortly after midnight
September Is, DAILY in company with
Anna Jorgenson, Hel,ga Hanson, Les
ter Weed, Billy Prinz, and Harry
Bruesch, was returning from the fair
grounds south of the city. The night
was somewhat foggy. The young
folks stuck to the pavement instead
of walking upon the sidewalk. They
were hit by the car driven by Kelly
who was driving into the city, coming
in the same direction as the boys and
girls. Daily was instantly killed. Anna
Jorgenson, Helga Hanson, and Lester
Weed were painfully but not danger
ouslv injured.
When the tody of the Daily boy
was picked up and examined, it was
found that he had received a fractured
skull.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-12-14
WAS ACCOMPLISHED
BY WISCONSIN FARM BUREAU
Statement Issued By Portage County Improve
ment Association; The Things
Done There

Increased production, crops and
fruit, at least $3.50, 900.
Increased value of stock, prob
ably 100000.
Accessible market every day in
the year, cheaper haul, better
prices.
Increased trade for local mer-
chants, less mail order business.
Immense saving and satisfac-
ton to our 1900 automobile
owners.
Indirect economic, educational
and social advantages of great
value.
State laws insuring larger ap-
preparations for road building
and repair and for good roads
connections in other counties.
Portage county known and en-
We'd throughout Ohio and in other
states.
Your trustees believe that it would
be financial folly and a county ca
lamity to permit the association to
expire by limitation on December 81.
Particularly is it important that the
road and agricultural departments be
continued. Such progress has been
made during the last five years in
stock breeding that the need for our
stock department is less urgent, as
it is more expensive relatively to the
association. The agriculturist is sup
ported in part by the state and ma
tional departments of agriculture and
ought by all means to be retained.
Our equipment and organization for
road repair and construction is so
excellent and valuable that discon-
continuance of the association at this
time would be a gross waste as well
as a failure to take advantage OF
exceptional opportunity to secure
state aid in extending our good roads
system.
If our membership of 1850 can be
increased to 1000 we can success
fully maintain the road and agricul-
turaI departments of the association
for three years at least on a member
ship fee of only SIS a year. What do
you say? Get your neighbor to say
"Yes," too. Save our office time and
expense and help to insure the larger
usefulness of the association by sign
ing now the enclosed subscription
blank and mail it at once to G. r.
Sharp, secretary, Raverna, Ohio. Yours
very truly, The Portage County I'm
provement Association, Miner Lee
Bates, president.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-12-14
PEDDLERS WERE FINED
They Had Sold SiIverware Without
Taking Out City Licenses.

They Had Sold SiIverware Without
Taking Out City Licenses.
Twenty-Five dollars and costs was
the fine imposed this morning upon
each of the three men who yesterday
tried to sell silverware in the city OF
Mankato without a license. The costs
amounted to $3.50 in each case, max
ing the fine of each $30.25. The
three men are w. o. Jennings, Brian
Surber, and Philip Mendelson.
Attorney Charles Gilmore appeared
for the defendants. He pleaded for
l~eniency on the ground that the young
men thought themselves in the right,
and had no desire to evade the law
in any way. City Attorney Philips In
his stand was willing to admit the
bows thought themselves in the right,
but stated that he believed they had
used some very ingenious methods to
eyade the law. The method of sales
Of their ~silverware was introduced, TO
show that the company n their
agents were endeavoring to evade the
law wherever possible, and escape
the payment of the licence.
When the fine of S25 and costs was
pronounced, it was taken very non
chalantly. The attorney for the de-
tense merely asked for a stay or pro-
ceedings, so that the fines might De
COTTON from Minneapolis in order that
the young men might not nave 10
begin their Jail sentence. They were
given their liberty until ten o'clock
Saturday morning, when their fines
will be paid.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-12-14

to enable them to resume the con
struction Of interrupted and post
poned public works. Borrowing by
the federal government will by thai
time have ceased, but the necessities
of agriculture, commerce and trans.
%portation will compete, and all Of
those are of fundamental importance
to us individually, communally, anC
nationally. Cities have a peculiar
claim upon life insurance funds, for in
u cities dwell a very large proper
ton Of the policyholders. A whole
some and prosperous city inspires
thrift, and an efficient health depart
ment lowers the death rate"
Increase of investments.
Mayor Mac Vicar referred to the
increase in the investments of life in
surance companies in state, county
and municipal bonds from $685. 900 200
in 1904 to 1884, 600, 900 in 1914, or 227
per cent. ITO this notable record of
contribution to municipal develop
ment" he continued, should be added
upward of a billion of dollars more
invested by the trustees of life in
surance funds in city mortgages.
Thus, in the past, have been COM
bined soud business judgement with
high civic patriotism. May we not,
therefore, look forward to a very
special consideration by the life in
surance companies of our cities
needs, when it shall again become
fitting to resume and necessary to
finance these projects which tend to
make life therein better worth the
living?
Housing, sanitation, transportation
and city planning are the municipal
problms of today and of the future.
The solution of these problems is
most intimately related to the o
ments for the improvement of public
health and the prolongation of human
life. Their connection is direct, and
vital. 1t is, therefore, important to
the companies that the cities be en-
abled to proceed in these and allied
lines; and proper that they should
aid in this work to the utmost extent
of their ability.
And following the war, when the
available resources of the world will
be called upon to reclaim and rebuild
these European cities SO ruthlessly
devastated, where will the war
stricken nations turn for aid, if not
to America? And it is not beyond the
possibilities that it will not alone be
Lille, Louvain, and the other cities OF
the allies that will need Americas
assistance, but p%erchance the Mace
edonian call will come from that land
of efficiency and kultur for American
engineers and American capital to
reclaim Berlin, Dusseldorf, and those
other cities made famous by German
efficiency"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-12-14
LETTERS FROM The
BOYS IN ARMY CAMP

j. E. Reynolds is in receipt of the
following letter from Harry w. Him
melman, who is at Camp Mead:
Camp Mead, Maryland, December
3.-Just completed my Thanksgiving
dinner and after about one hour of
beauty sleep" thought l had better
write you a letter. This army life
is wonderful and l am having the
time of my young and "kittenish"
life. We rise at 5:45 (before
breakfast) and answer roll call. Then
we pile into the mess hall where
260 hale and hearty men from all
parts of the u. S. A. devour the pro-
ducts raised in the middle west. 1t
is our fault if we go away hungry,
and so along the line of food we
never think of Hoover" BY the
way here was our Thanksgiving
menu: Turkey, cranberries, potatoes,
celery, bread, hot chocolate and ap-
| pie, orange and mince pie. l sure
did eat and knew a good thing.
Maryland itself is quite a state, but
1 prefer Minnesota. The soil il of
a reddish sand and almost the only
thing you can raise is an umbrella.
| Oh yes-some mistlestoe, holly and
Christmas trees. This camp is
twelve miles long and seven miles
wide and sure is some place. They
send all the drafted men here so in
all there is about $4,000 lei on
hand. But we are kept separate
from the drafted boys. The last
week has been sort of hard because
two of the fellows got the measles and
we have to stay away from the Y.
NJ. G. A, and different canteens and
| can't mingle with the fellows of the
other companies. Be we have formed
a quartet and give several good
selections before retiring. The
songs we generally sing are cover
There" Good Bye, Broadway"
There's a Girl in the Heart of
Maryland" and "Who Took the En-
CINE Off My Neck" When about
fifty or hundred men get together we
give Maryland quite a treat. One
officer said the music was like
what he read about in story books.
The fellows in general are all good
scouts apd when we don't know
their names we just call them Jack
or Buddy and they answer.
AT present we are under sealed
orders and have to be ready in thirty
minutes to move. This regiment has
a band of thirty pieces and render
some pretty good music at times.
The report is that President Wilson
is going to give us the "once over
this coming Sunday. Washington is
about one hours ride from here. But
we cannot leave camp so do not get
to see these neighboring cities.
The weather gets quite cool here
and some of the men go to bed with
most of their clothes on. We have
had some snow and quite a shower
of rain the last week. Most of the
fellows go to bed at $50 and z p. m
so you see we believe in early to bed
and early to rise, etc. In this camp
Mankato is we'll represented. Jerome
Wiedenmann, Roy Miller and Bernard
Henessey are here. l see them oc-
casionally. They are all well and
enjoying this life. Will close with
best regards to all. l an Private
Harry w. Zimmerman, Company d
Twenty-third engineers, Camp Mead
Maryland.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-12-14

The farmers of Martin county
realize the Importance of the propo-
sition made by the federal govern
ment to place a county agricultural
agent in every county. They realize
it will be of unlimited local value in
increasing agricultural production and
this is recognized as the purpose of
the federal government in making
liberal offers of aid to all counties
showing sufficient local interest in
the matter. Martin county has doubl-
ed the required membership to the
county farm bureau and the county
boSrd made the required appropria-
ton. They do not propose to delay
the matter until the best available
men for the work have been assigned
to other places. What are the farm
ers of Blue Earth county going to do
in regard to this matter?
Testimonial From Wisconsin.
The Portage County Improvement
Association.-To the Members of the
Improvement Association and Citi-
zens of Portage County: Your trustees
themselves are astonished at what
has been accomplished by the Portage
County Improvement association.
Five years ago we hoped the asso-
ciatic1 would be worth all it cost.
The fact today is that the associa-
ton is the best financial investment
and, for the Improvement of living
conditions in both town and country,
the most important enterprise in the
county. The enclosed booklet briefly
tells the story. Read for yourself.
The association has been in
strumer'a al in:
SecuJ '"g an expenditure of
$978,800 On permanent road con-
struction.
Securing an expenditure of
$102,675 on road repairs.
Saving to farmers of
than $4,000 in cost of lime and
fertilizer.
Saving to stock breeders of
SCI, 900 in service fees.
Saved and secured to Jul citi-
zens in these items alone $1,212,-
Ats.
All this has cost the associa-
ton Tin dues) only $81,920. Ito
date.)
But the larger benefits due wholly
or in part to the work of the %associa-
ton cannot be tabulated.
Increased value of farm lands,
25 per cent on the average.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-12-14
STORY TOLD BY Mr.. kLATT
Says That His Chalmers Car Was
Struck BY the Ford.

Says That His Chalmers Car Was
Struck BY the Ford.
E. c.. Klatt stated to The Free
Press that some misstatements were
published in regard to an automobile
collision which occurred at the inter-
section of Front and Elm streets
last Friday evening. He said today
that instead of his car colliding with
a Ford driven by Frank Hennessy,
the Ford ran into his Chalmers. Mr..
Klatt's story follows: II was driving
in from st. Peter and came south at
the rate of ten or twelve miles an
hour on Front street. At the inter-
section of Front and Elm my car was
struck by another car which came
from the side street. That car struck
the rear right wheel of my car and
both autos were turned around, the
Ford striking the lamppost. My car
was dashed against the curb. The
steering devise was broken. | have
made no statement that could lead
anyone to believe that / would pay
for the damages sustained by the
Ford car.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-12-14

w. R. Hammett, the local agent for
the Chalmer car, who enlisted some
time ago in the aviation corps will
leave Wednesday for Berkeley uni
versity, Cal. He enlisted in MinneapO-
lis and was examined there and then
he was sent to Chicago where he
went through an examination that
took two DAYS. Thirty others took the
same examination with him and out
of the thirty only four passed. The
doctors there pronounced him a per-
feet specimen of young manhood.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-12-14
Mankato Township
From THURSDAYS Daily.


Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Evans and laugh
ter Helen and niece. Joyce Wood, went to
Delevan to take Thanksgiving dinner with
the ~latter's parents.
Miss Ida Wilson spent Thanksgivlng
vacation at her hon in Garden city. :.
The program given at the town hall
Wednesday night by Miss Evans and the
young ladies' and men of district NO. Z
was well attended and the play was a
decided success, each one doing their part
exceptionally well. After the program
dancing was enjoyed for the rest of the
evening. -
Alberta and Fred Stanford are on the
sick list.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hanel and daughters
spent Thanksgiving with their daughter
and son-in-law, Mr.. and Mrs. Jaeger.
Miss Vera Baker who spent her Thanks
giving vacation at her home returned
Sunday to resume her studies at the high
school at Owatonna.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. A. Cate and daughter
Lola spent Sunday afternoon and evening
of last week at the H.. Foelster home.
Mr.. n Mrs. Horace Powell are NOV
ing to Mankato to spend the winter.
Il. Salet has returned from the twin
cities, where he spent several days at
tending to business matters.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-12-14
CUPID VIOLATES THE LAW
Sometimes Little Dan Swears t
Things That Are False.

Sometimes Little Dan Swears to
Things That Are False.
Attention has been called by the
clerk of court to the state law in ref
ence to the issuance of marriage
licenses, owing to the fact that many
persons have been violating the law
and perjuring themselves in order to
get licenses in other cities.
Occasionally Mankato and Blue
Earth county young people have gone
to n of the twin cities for the pur-
pose of obtaining licenses and having
marriage ceremonies performed, es-
pecjally those who are avoiding the
Formally of waiting their time.
In these cases it is necessary for
them to swear that the girl is a resi-
dent of the county in which the Ii
cense is issued. Thus they swear false
ly in obtaining their license and they
are liable to prosecution under the
law.
The statutes in respect to this reaa
as follows:
Before any persons shall be Joined
in marriage a license shall be obtained
from the clerk of the district court of
the county in which the woman re-
sides, or, if not a resident of this state,
then from such clerk of the county
where the marriage is to take place in
this state."
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-12-14

New Ulm Review: Andrew Daily, FOL
many years yard master of the Local
North Western yards and who has fol-
the past year had a passenger run on
the Marshall branch, stopped in New
Ulm recently on his way to Winona
where he expected to spend a brief va
cation.
Mrs. E. M. Krings, manager of the
Viavi company for this district is
arranging her business interests II
preparation to return to Chicago tt
make her home.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-12-14
HIS BIG PROFIT ON VEAL
Farmer Tells How Butcher Sold
Meat at Forty Cents Per
Pound
From Thursdays Daily.


To The Free Press: Would like to
say q few words about the high prices
of meat and to tell how one meat deal
er sells and buys veal. On taking two
calves to this dealer l Ca farmer) re-
ceived II cents per pound for one
calf and IL cents for the other, and
while waiting for my check a lady
came in and asked he price of veal"
"Forty cents" the dealer said. That
happened early this fall and if any
one does not want to believe this /
will gladly publish my name and the
meat dealer too. There was % cents
profit a pound for n calf and 29
cents for the other t'ith tie calf skin
to sell besides. We purchased some
of that western roast beef (as they
call it) and hope they will keep on
buying that kind as that was the best
we ever had.-A Farmer.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-12-14

F. j. Holmes. trainmaster for the
Milwaukee road, was here from La
Crosse today. A. s.. Willoughbe, of
Minneapolis. the district freight
agent, was also here, comforting with
him.
DIR. c. H. Nerbovig, l. w. Andrist,
e. Swanson, and Albert Krost, men,
bers of Company G, Home Guards, left
this morning to join the company at
st. Paul. and remain until after the
trouble in that city has been adjusted.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-12-14
Has Joined Aviation Corps.

Paul Hoerr, son Of Mr.. and Mrs. w.
G. Hoerr of this city, has Joined the
aviation corps and will be sent to Italy
where he will be employed in scout
work for the allies. He has been con-
nected with the ambulance corps in
France.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-12-14
FRED E. CRAMER DIES
Unknown Resident Of Beaufort
Passed Away Last Night.

Passed Away Last Night.
Fred e. Cramer of Beauford died
last evening at seven o'clock. He is
survived by a widow and eleven chill
dren. They are Mrs. Emery Healy of
~Grapeland, Mrs. Ralph Healy, David,
Ernest, Mrs. Wesley Ward, Mrs.
James Getty of Beauford, Mrs. Will
liam Prinslow of Mapleton, Charles,
George, Roy and Belle of Beauford.
The funeral will be held at the church
of United Brethren of Beauford at two
o'clock tomorrow afternoon and in
terment will be in the Beauford ceme-
terry.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-12-14

John Eberlein of Gilmore is visiting
friends in the city.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-12-14

'bn1ten Press DlSpafch.
McncOlm, Nova Scotia. December 6.
--latest renorts from Halifax place
the death foil at nearly 400. Doctors.
nurses end supplies are being rushed
on special trains from all points with
in a radius of eighty miles of Halifax.
The entire northwestern part of the
cit~ is in flames.
= nov anpears that tho American
r. unition shin was ran into by an
incoming ship in the narrows and
caught fire. The crew of the Ameri-
cen shin stuck bravely to their posts
using every endeavor to sink the ship
before an explosion occurred.
All buildings for a distance of three
miles from the explosion are practi-
cally demolished. The report of the
explosion was heard sixty miles from
Halifax.
The Monte Vista journal., 1917-10-20
RED CROSS

Major Grayson NJ. P. Murphy,
head of the American Red Cross
Commission to France, has COM
pleted a thu orough investigation of
the conditions of the women and
children, the aged and the sick in the
war stricken districts of France and
Belgium. The National Headquart-
ers Of the American Red Cross re-
Gently determined TO organize a knit
ting campaign to make garments to
help relieve the civilian population
as well as to provide for the needs of
the Army and Navy whenever re-
quired. They have contracted for
enough woolen yarn to provide one
and half million sets, consisting of
one sweater, one muffler. one pair
wristlets, and one pair of socks.
This knitting must be assumed by
chapters throughout the country and
the apportionment for the Mountain
Division is thirty thousand sets. The
Monte Vista Red Cross CHAPTER is
asked to make fifty of these sets,
The yarn for knitting these fifty sets
has already been received and in
order to send these garments as soon
as possible to relieve suffering dur
ing the cold winter we would ask
each woman who can knit, or can
learn to knit to come to Red Cross
headquarters and get yarn to make
one OF these garments. AS this con-
signment of yarn alone will cost the
local Chapter over two hundred dol
lars, any donations Of money to-
wards Its purchase will be gratefully
received.
Each and every woman is asked to
do her bit" by taking part in the
knitting campaign now on. Come to
hed cross rooms and take out warn
10 Knit garments for the suffering