The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-06-22
Red Cross Meeting to Be Held
! There Friday Evening
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Vernon Center, June ia general
committee composed Or G. Z. Cornish,
F. H. Barnes and Mesdames Eastman,
Mead and Mabel Halverson, have ar
ranged for big Red Cross meeting
! to be held at the Vernon Center opera
house, Friday evening, June %, at s
o'clock. The meeting will be adj
dressed by prominent Red Cross Or
ganizers, among whom will be Judge
Lorin Cray, Senator J. w. Andrews,
Miss May Fletcher AMI others Ver-
non will not be behind the other towns
in the county, in doing this work of
love and patriotism and although
they did not perhaps get into the
game quite as soon as our neighbor-
ing village, they will certainly do
! their quota in this great work of
humanity. Everybody is a "booster,' -
and everybody in the community is
expected to be at the meeting All
roads will lead to the opera house on
this evening, where instructions will
be given along Red Cross work, whose
slogan is, Comfort and care for the
boys over there
The Ladies' Aid of the Methodist
Episcopal church will meet Wednesday
afternoon in the country at Straw
berry Point. The responses to roll
call will be quotations from nature s
authors, and the program will be along
the same, line. Every member is re-
quested to be present as business of
importance will come before the
meeting. Visitors are cordially well
coined
G. Force and his son-in-law A. C.
Gray are joint owners of new REQ
car They motored to Mankato Sat-
urday morning in the formers old REQ
car, which was traded in part pay
ment.. They returned at noon with a
handsome REQ 35.
j. ]. FlachnSenhar was a business
visitor in Vernon Saturday afternoon.
Mrs. Flachsenhar and son, and Mrs.
George Scherer accompanied him,
spending the afternoon with Mrs. A.
C.. Gray
MIR. and Mrs. Gene Eyer and Miss
Clara Powell motored down from
Madelia yesterday and were guests at
the Gardie Mead home for dinner.
Miss ella Cox spent the week end
and over Sunday with Margaret Den
nison.
DR.. T. G. Clement and Miss Esther
Nelson returned on the late train FRI
day night from Rochester, where the
latter had her tonsils removed.
Mr. and Mrs. Will REEVES and
daughter of Ceresco were shopping in
Mankato Friday.
A. C. Gray and F. c. Wilbur cashier,
and vice president of the Farmers
State bank spent Friday in the cities,
getting fixtures for the new bank that
is in process of erection. The firm of
whom they purchased the fixtures,
furnished second hand fixtures, which
will be placed in the back of the lot
and used as temporary bank, until
the new building is completed.
The ladies of the Vernon Study club
will be the hostess at. an ice cream
social held in the Mertersdorf school
house Friday evening June 30. Ice
cream and cake and waters Is cents.
The proceeds to be used for Red
Cross supplies.
In the tribute to those who have
passed to the great beyond, during the
past year, so. .eloquently given by H.
C. Hotaling, at the old settlers picnic
the names of two of Vernon Center
pioneers were omitted, viz, George
Foster, an old soldier, and one of the
influential men of the village, and
Mrs. D. J. Warren, who was past
eighty -four, and had been resident
of Vernon Center for sixty years.
The Boy Scouts Of Vernon Center
have been busy during the past week
distributing application blanks for the
purchase of Liberty bonds. Lawrence
Warren, the Scouts SCRIBE" took a
bicycle spin to Amboy Friday and
distributed his quota of bonds in that
village, Charles Kraus, loyal scout,
spent few hours Friday afternoon,
working in the interest of Uncle Sam
and sold eight bonds.
Mrs. Avrill of Spokane, Wash, is
spending few weeks at the homes of
F. S. Hemingway and George R.
Gray in North Vernon. She will visit
friends in the. vicinity before she
leaves.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bert Barnes motored
to Mankato Friday, spending the aft
ernoon at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Tom Thompson, former Vernon peo-
pie. Mr.. Thompson's health is not i'm
proving as fast as his many friends
would wish. He is suffering with |