The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-07-27
But Show Will Not Be Held
There Next Year
HOLD OFF FOR THE WAR
Many Interesting Happenings
In the Village; Personal
Gossip
Especial to Free Press. ]

Vernon Center, July 21-Vernon
Center has closed it's sixth season
with the Jon6s chantauqua system,
Tuesday evening. The two last days
were fully up to the four days previ-
GUS standard. Mondays entertainers
were the Ruth Runner company,
whose program of story and song, in
mirth and humor, obtained great
and good message. Edgar S. Kind
ley founder OF the Citizenship Build
ers of America, puts him as the fore
most boy Problem" man in the
Hand. His lectures instead of dis
Icouraging the parents by merely
pointing out the evils which lie in a
boys pathway, solved the problems
In plain logical way. Mr.. Kindley
impressed his audience at once by
the genuiness of his makeup and his
two lectures, Motive, Act and Con-
sequence" and Boys and Their Faith
ers,"' were certainly great, and no one
can fathcm the many refOrmations
which his lectures have produced
The Tolbert MacRae singing party
gave an excellent CONCERT in the aft
ternoon,' which was fine and consisted
lof southern melodies, folk song, and
the late popular ones. Tuesday even
ing was "Joy night" and light op-
era, taken from one OF. Gilbert and
ISullivan's famous operas was certainly
fine, very prettily played and cos
tuned very handsomely. The per
sonnet of the company are Faustina
Ankeny, soprano; Altha Sherlock,
alto; Clifford Bloom, tenor; Tolbert
MacRae, basso, Veda Briggs, reader
and accompanist. To the regret of
the whole community owing to pres
ent conditions of the country, and the
necessity of SO much work and money
needed to carry on the great and no.
BILE work of relief for war sufferers,
| it was decided to abandon the Tauqua
for a year, when it is hoped to re-
sumo the pleasure of Jones' tauqua
iagain.
! Mrs. McMonagle and daughter,
Mrs. Agnes Spence, entertained a
house party of relatives over the
week end and Sunday. The party
included Mr.. and Mrs. Fink and son
iof Sanborn, Mrs. Nora Gresham Of St.
Peter, Mss Edith Johnson of Eagle
Lake and DR.. F. A. Belts and Mosher
| of Truman,
| Mrs. McMonagle and her grand
daughter, Grace Spence, are spending
a week with relatives in Sanborn, go
| ing with the Finks via the auto trail.
| Mr.. and Mrs. w. w. Griffith and
-four children started Friday morning
lvia the Buick trial for Pine City, for
la Sundays visit with Mrs. Griffith's
tbrother, A. F. Larson and family.
| Vernon girls who solicited for the
Red Cross, during chautauqua. wired
1.-THE Vernon soldiers at Mortified the
great success they had met with yes
fterday. The girls received return
message from the boys, congratulate
ing them and thanking everybody for
1.-THE interest they are taking, and then
Isaid that everybody was o. K. and
happy. Herald Bowen, who was on
the waiting list to entrain in the Of
fcers' training school,, to which he
passed the examination over two
months ago, decided not to wait
longer and Thursday enlisted with
Company H.
| Tuesday morning at four o'clock on
1.-THE departure of the boys for North
field, many of the citizens gathered
| at the hotel to bid the boys farewell.
F. H. Barnes, who with his unlimited
means, has been able to do so much
j for this community, presented each
lof the BOYS with solid gold initiated
iring, which the boys highly priced. Z
Mr.. and Mrs. Steiner and son,
!. Frank, Miss May Steiner, Mrs. Stock
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