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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-05
BRIEF MEETING OF
CITY Government

The September meeting Of the city gov
eminent was a short one but considerable
business was transacted. There was
nothing Of importance passed. the chief
business being a request from the Sisters
hospital for an abatement of taxes. back
ed by the physicians of the city, the re-
quest being granted and an increast in
pay for the single team street aborers.
Roll of accounts No 400 was passed as
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-05

WOODROW WILSON. "
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-12-28
THEFT OF BEER IS LAID
upon COUPLE OF BOYS
One of the Lads Had FiveQuarts
On His Person When
Arrested

Xonia Klinge, boy of eighteen,
living in the north end of town, was
arrested by Waterman of the
Chicago. and Northwestern railroad
late Thursday afternoon not far from
the north outskirts of town. The
young man, who has been working as
section laborer fer the road, had a
very peculiar appearance, his pock-
cts containing five quart bottles of
beer.
He was questioned by the authori-
ties, and it was soon discovered that
the beer had been stolen from a box
car Eight more bottles were found
under q wooden board walk that is
on the company's property in that
neighborhood. Three more were found
under chute in a quarry. The case
itself was discovered in a ditch, with
two empty bottles in it. This ac-
counted for eighteen bottles. Six of
the twenty -four that were in the case
had not been accounted for.
Klinge was closely questioned, and
according to the story CLEANED, Cliff
ford Manning, aged seventeen, also
living in the north end of the city,
and already under probation on ac-
count of another box-car theft, was
the one who took the beer out of the
car. According to the story, Manning
ran alongside a moving train, opened
| the door and took out the beer.
Manning was also arrested and
strenuously denied that be had any
thing to do with the stealing Of tie
| beer.
Both boys were taken before Judge
Comstock late Saturday afternoon.
After some conversation they were
/ allowed to go home, but were in
formed that their cases would again
be taken up on Monday morning.
The railroad men are sure that the
seal was broken on the car in order
| to open the door and get out the
| beer.
Box cars containing flour on that
same road have of late been found
broken open and it is suspected that
| flour has been stolen. More facts in
connection with the flour cars may
come to light, when reports come
from the consignees.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-12-28
WOMEN OF GAY FRANCE
PERFORM BIG SERVICE
They Are Doing Their Bit In
Various Ways; Painters of
Camouflage

Behind British Lines In France, De-
cember 15-[Correspondence of The
Associated Press. MANY Thousand
French women and girls, ranging in
age from fourteen to we'll past sixty
are employed by the British army at
various kinds of work behind the
lines. One line at which they excel all
other workers is the painting OF
camoufage on guns. They also make
very good packers at the various army
storehouses and ordnance dumps, thei1
deft, active fingers making it possible
for them to do this work with fifty
per cent more efficiency and speed
than any other class of worker.
In many of the clerical sections OF
the ordnance department they work
side by side with the uniformed Eng
lish girls belonging to the 'Waacs," as
the members of Women's Auxiliary
Army corps, are called and in these
departments numerical system OF
facilitate sorting, as most of the
French girls have no knowledge OF
English.
More than 1000 French women are
engaged in the receipts and salvage
department" where their work in
cludes the repairing of respirators and
other equipment, the scrubbing and
renewal of harness and leather ma
terials in an oil bath, and the sorting
of recovered cartridges and water
bottles. In the boot and shoe repairing
department at one base 1900 French
women are employed in bootmaking
and repairing. In the armorers' shops
French girls clean oil and test bayo-
nets. In the wheelwrights' shops they
clean and straighten bolts and paint
wagons and travelling kitchens. In
work at piece rates, the output of the
French girls has been found to exceed
that of German prisoners by more than
so per cent.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-12-28
FARMERS IN brown
COUNTY FOR BUREAU
Decided to Organize After One
Meeting Had Turned
Plan Down

At the county convention held at
Sleepy Eye it was decided by vote
Of forty to thirty-four not to favor the
appointment Of county agent. This
action, however, was counteracted by
another meeting of farmers and bust
ness men held Immediately after adj
journment. A temporary organization
was then perfected by electing George
Berkner of the town of Home as
chairman, and Carl Olstad of Lake
Hanska as secretary. One organizer in
each township was selected and it was
agreed that the necessary number of
farmers and business men to the
number of at least 200 should be Sc
cured at once, who will agree to pay
$3.50 in annual dues during the
next two years as members of the
Brown County Farm Bureau associa-
ticn. The membership must be COM
posed of at least fifty per cent actual
farmers and the required number must
be secured on or before February LIST,
1918, in order to secure government
aid.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-12-28
AGAIN BEFORE THE COURT
Joseph n. Lang Must Support His
Wife, Says Judge.

Joseph H. Lang of Mcpherson town.
ship was again before the municipal
court today with reference to his fail
ure to support his wife and child
County Attorney J. w. Schmitt ap-
peared for the state and S. B. Wilson
for the defendant Judge Harry john
son made an order requiring the de-
PENDANT to pay up the arrears of the
payments ordered by the court, OF
S24, and to furnish bond in the
sum of $500 for the guarantee of the
payment of SIS a month during the
next six months. On failure to furnish
this bond he was sentenced to the
county Jail for not to exceed ninety
days.
Six cases of drunkenness were be-
fore the municipal court this morning
James Cunningham paid fine OF
$3.50. Lee McCollum was deported
William Johnson paid fine of SIS;
Tony Potoff, SO, and George Greeley
$40. G.. B. Nolan was sentenced to
twenty days in the county jail, but the
sentence was suspended on condition
that he get out of town before IL a. m
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-12-28
st, Clair

John Munich of Waldorf is staying
at the home of his uncle, Pete Smith,
while taking up bookkeeping with
Father O'Conner.
The Lutheran church will have a
program and Christmas tree Monday
evening commencing at $50.
Ivan Macbeth who has been staying
at the home of Charles Hilton while
attending school here returned to his
home at Eagle Lake Friday to spend
his vacation.
The school closed Friday for two
weeks vacation The teachers return
ing to their respective homes. Miss
Vornholt, the grammar teacher left
Friday noon, her home is at Lisbon
Iowa. Miss Naylon and Professor
Klaffte remained until Saturday morn
ing, the former going to Mankato and
the latter to Iowa.
Nell Bennett of Tivoli while calling
on friends here Informed rs of ar
auction sale the people at Tivoli held
for the Red Cross society "Wednesday
evening, netting them neat sum OF
S7S.71. Friday evening the teacher al
Tivoli, Miss Edna Smith. gave boz
social and prograr'. The proceeds
went to the Red Cross. They made
$22.
Mrs. Smith returned home Tuesday
from Redwood Falls where she was
called two weeks ago by the death OF
her sister law, Mrs. Amberg. Mrs
Amberg received injuries in an auto
mobile accident from which she only
lived a few hours. She leaves five
children ranging in age from five tc
thirteen.
Mrs. Phillips, who has been assist
ing DR.. Macbeth in caring for his
mother for couple of months, leaves
Saturday for vacation during the
holidays. Mrs Fannie Andrews, wht
has been helping Mrs. Charles Britt {
couple of weeks, will take Mrs. Phil
lips place.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-12-28
MISS CLARA MEME DIES
She Had Been III For Some Time; Flu
neral Tomorrow Morning.

She Had Been III For some ime, fu-
neral Tomorrow Morning.
Miss Clara Meme. who died at one
Of the local hospitals Monday morning,
death being caused by complication
of diseases for which she had been
receiving treatment at the hospital for
six months, was born on the farm
home of the MEME family in Lime
town on March 8, 1875, and was forty
three years of age at the time of her
death. She made her home with her
sister, Mrs. Sophie Beck, 453 Sixth
street, Mankato, until her serious i'll
ness necessitated her removal to a
hospital Miss MEME was a member
of the Ladies' Sodality Of st. Peter
and Pauls Catholic church, and had
large circle of friends. Both par
ents are dead Surviving relatives are
the following brothers and sisters:
Anton MEME, Limetown; William
MEME, Devils Lake, North Dakota;
John Meme, Minneapolis; Father
MEME. Pine Ridge, S. D.; Mrs. AL
bert Beck, Mankato; and sister in a
convent at Chicago. Funeral services
will be held Thursday morning at nine
o'clock, in st. Peter and Paul's Cath
Ollie church.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-12-28
HENRY CONSTANSISDEAD
Well-kn0Wn Hotel Man at Blue
Earth; Long Lived In
That City

Henry P. Constans, proprietor OF
the Constans House, the leading hotel
of Blue Earth and one of the best
known hotel men in Southern Mime
sofa, died Saturday. He had conduct
ed a hotel on the same site for sixty
years.
Mr.. Constans was one of the lead
ing men of Faribault county. He had
resided in Blue Earth since it's organ
ization and assisted in the laying out
of the city and organization of the
county. He had since been inseparably
identified with it's best interests. He
was the first sheriff elected in Fari-
bault county.
Mr.. Constans was born in France in
1884 and came to America at the age
Of seventeen. 1t took the sailing ves-
sci forty-seven days to make the
trip. He landed in New Orleans and a
few months later went to st. Paul. In
1854 he moved to Shakopee and
opened the second store in that town
He came to Faribault county with
former Governor Wakefield, S. Spen-
Ger and Samuel Hibbler They laid
cut the town and organized the county
in 1856.
The following August he built two
story hewn log hotel which afterward
became the Constans House, one OF
the most popular hostelries in the
state.
Mr. Constans married Miss Barbara
Hebeison in 1856 and they were the
parents of four sons, Charles W., a
travelling salesman; Henry E., drug
gist; George F., lumberman, and
Frank E. physician.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-12-28

DIVISION OF SOLDIER
ACTIVITIES IS Object
That's the Goal at Camp
Upton, Said Click
OFFICERS IN Line ALSO
Fifteen Regimental Football
Teams Are Organized;
Other Sports
II. C. HAMILTON.

New York, December Pa divi-
sion of soldier athletes-trat is our
goal at Camp Upton Frank Click
director of athletics at that camp
told the United Press. Click, a former
athlete of renown at princeton, is
working solely to that end, and gain
ing results of the most tangible sort.
working on the assumption that
the man who plays best makes the
best fighter, our athletic program is
so drawn up to reach every individual
in camp, not with the purpose of spe-
cializing in developing champion ath-
letes, but rather so that all may be
given a chance to play-and play
WELL" he continued.
Camp Upton is located on Long Is
land, just a few miles out of New
York. It's quota has been drawn from
the densely populated portions OF
New York and nearby points. AS q
matter of course, there are some very
excellent athletes included in the
camp, and, given these as a basis
there should be turned out most ex-
traordinary set of soldier athletes.
OHlCeFS Are ACTIVE.
Regimental officers, according tC
Click, are the most active in carry
ing out purposes for which athletics
has been introduced into the camp
Fifteen regimental football teams were
in camp. This, however, is only &
small part of athletics in the camp
Baseball was played so long as the
weather was decent. Likewise, soccer
and other outdoor games AS colo
weather came the men were removed
to inside quarters for their games anC
readily took up indoor baseball, baske
ball and indoor sports that run the
whole line.
Think of a relay race" Click said
'in which 300 men PARTICIPATED; an.
other where $40 men ran, a hant
grenade contest with 200 bombers
and in like manner the other event.
featured
And that's only circumstance con
nected with the athletic development
going on in Camp Upton The mel
are given every chance to enio,
themselves at the games they lik
best and there is a certain amour
of recreative drilling, conducted alon,
the lines of athletic training, ever,
day. The old setting up exercises ar,
begrudgingly giving over to scientific
training methods.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-12-28
HOSPITAL CORPS MEN
INSTRUMENTATION
Statement From Captain J. A.
Hielscher of Fort Smelling;
Recruit Work

Captain ]. A. Hielscner, recruiting
officer at Fort Smelling who is spend
ing Christmas with his family. de-
sires to state that the post hospital
at the fort is in need of 100 hospital
corps men. The qualifications are as
follows: Men between the ages of
eighteen and twenty -one and thirty
one and thirty six having pleasing
personality, with good high school
or eighth grade education. Especial
ly those qualified as typists and stem
ographers druggists, cooks, ambu-
lance men and office clerks are de-
sired. Promotion is rapid A period
OF training at Fort Smelling is given
and when proficient are then sent
out as sergeants to eastern base hos
pitfalls or over seas. The above quail
ned men may report to Dr. ,Hielscher
at Fort Smelling for enlistment. Men
over draft age are also desired from
shop work in all branches and trades
including lumber men for the spruce
forests in Washington. These men
must apply at the local enlisting sta
tons in Mankato or in twin cities.
DR.. Hielscher returns to Fort Smell
ling tomorrow. In the past two weeks
600 recruits were passed upon by the
medical department at the fort.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-12-28
WORKS FOR RED CROSS
WHILE IN THE PRISON
Mrs. Charlotte SharpIess, Who
Was Convicted of Killing
Her Husband

Mrs. Charlotte Sharpless, one time
resident of Mankato, convicted OF
killing her husband, Leaning Sharp
less, three years ago, is now knitting
and sewing for the Red Cross during
her spare time at the state peniten-
tiary.
Following Mrs. Sharpless' example
an auxiliary organization of the Rec
Cross has been formed in the peniten-
tiary. The membership includes near
ly every woman in the institution.
Mrs. Sharpless began sewing for the
Red Cross even before her commit
ment to the penitentiary for life, she
told her attorney, John p Nash, Min
neapolis, in letter received Satur-
day. Soon after the outbreak of the
war, while Mrs. Sharpless was await.
ing trial, she sewed while in her cell
for Belgian children. After her SEN
tence she continued the work even.
ings and paid for the yarn and clotf
from the small allowance given the
prisoners
Three weeks ago Mrs. Sharpless ap-
piled for membership in the Stillwa.
ter chapter of the Red Cross, sendins
her application through the warden
Her desire to join caused leaders o.
the Red Cross in Saltwater to de-
termine to give every inmate the same
opportunity, with the result that les:
than twenty prisoners in the entire
penitentiary failed to join.
Mrs. Sharpless' trial in the Henne
pin county district court three years
ago was one of the most sensational
of recent years, and while on the wit.
ness stand she was called eth,
Sphinx Woman" and "The Swort
Woman" because of her apparent lacl
o. emotion. She asserted her limo
cance even after conviction.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-12-28
NEBRASKA MAN DIED
WHILE ON WAY HOME
William G. HaggardP assedAway
Today After Making Trip
To Rochester

While en- route homeward from Ro-
chester, Mimi, on a Pullman car OH
the Northwestern road, after medical
consultation that gave him no hope,
William G. Haggard, a farmer Of
Trip county, Nebraska, quietly passed
away in his berth about $50 O'Clock
this morning.
Mr. Haggard was forty-one years
old. He was accompanied on mis-
journey homeward by his father,
James 3. Haggard, retired farmer
Of Saunders county, Nebraska. The
father and another son, Ernest f,
Haggard, also of Saunders county,
Nebraska, had accompanied the sick
man to Rochester.
The deceased is survived by his
wife and six sons, ranging in age from
nineteen to four years. The Oldest,
Arthur l.. Haggard, has joined the
navy, and is now in training at Chi
cago.
About year ago, William G. Hag-
gard had a bad case of pneumonia. lie
seemed to recover from that, but last
March his health began to fail. He
consulted specialists, and at length it
was decided to have consultation at
Rochester There his sickness was
pronounced to be an advanced case of
Bright disease. No hope was held out
for his recovery.
He had borne up well before this,
but when he heard that he could not
get well, he seemed to lose interest in
life entirely. When the sustaining hope
was gone, life quietly ard quickly eb-
bed away.
The case was looked after this
morning by Deputy Coroner G. A.
Dahl. The body was cared for tem-
porarily at Mankato undertaking
establishment
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-12-28

Miss Lucille thinner of Lincoln, Neb.
has been visiting in the city at the
home of her aunt, Mrs. Henry Wiltgen
w. E. Stewart of Van Brunt street
is leaving today for a visit with his
father and mother in Seymore, Mo
This is in the Ozark mountain coun-
try, and is a fine mild climate. He
will be absent few weeks.
Mrs. Nora Russell and her sor
Clifford of Faribault are visiting rel
atives in Mankato. Clifford Russell
is reporter on The Daily News Re-
publican at Faribault
Jack Mueller of the Hubbard Milling
company visited with friends ovel
Christmas at Sherburn.
Mr. and Mrs. B. w. Johnson Of
Bristol, s. D., are visiting at the
home of A. L. Wright.
Harry L. Wright who is attending
the Chicago Dental school is visiting
at the home of A. L. Wright.
E. C. Maxfield of West Superior
spent Christmas day with his mother
Mrs. d. Maxfield on North Third
street.
e. M. Swanson of the Nationa
Citizens bank Office force, spen
Christmas day at Montrose.
Mrs. Mary Noe spent the holiday a
the home of her som in-law ant
daughter, Mrs. James Mccarthy a
Madelia.
H. c. Kroon left last evening TO
Chicago on weeks visit.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-12-28

home on a holiday furlough to their
parents and friends.
Miss Opal Stubbs of Gilmore is visiting
relatives and friends in the city.
Miss Clara Bruels, who is teaching
school at Franklin, Mimi, arrived home
Saturday evening at st. Clair to spend
the holidays with her parents, Mr. and
Mrs Hubert BruelS.
James CraWley is here on a five day
furlough from Great Lakes Naval Train
ing station. He spent the day at Albert
Lea and will return this evening. He
will leave tomorrow night for the Great
Lakes.
A. j. Stiever will spend the Christmas
holiday at his home in Minneapolis
Miss Edna Jones of Cambria who is
home Saturday to spend the holidays
Miss Lenore Davies, who is teaching
at Canton. Mimi, returned home Satur-
day to spend the holidays with her par
ents Mr. and Mrs. d. G. Davies.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-12-28

DR.. A. J. Wentworth, now in the
army service with the rank of first
lieutenant, who has been studying
X-ray work at Cornell university,
came to Mankato Saturday and will
remain here about ten days. He will
later go to the aviation camp at
Memphis, where he will be in the hos
pital service. He says a great deal OF
snow has fallen in the east. A foot of
snow fell in New York one night.
Pneumonia is quite prevalent in New
York city. There were fifty deaths
from it in one day. There was great
shortage of coal in New York, when
the cold weather came.
P. H. McGraw left today for Duluth
to remain there over Christmas as a
guest of relatives.
James D. Balm arrived home last
evening from Minneapolis on a ten
days furlough. He is in the quarter
master aviation department of the
navy.
Miss Genevieve Kelly of Sioux Falls
is the guest of her sister. Mrs. l.. W.
Grant on Center street
Mrs Glen Shoemaker and children
left last evening for Jordan to spend the
holidays WIN T6lallNeS anu
Miss Hazel Edwards teacher of BIZ
wabik Mimi, came home to Mankato
Saturday to spend the Christmas holi-
days.
Mrs. Lillian Reed today went to Min
neapolis to spend Christmas with her
daughter Mrs. Bell Coffin.
Miss Ella Wolf of Fargo, North Da-
kota, is home to spend the holidays with
her parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. f. Korsell and Mr..
and Mrs G.. f. Widell and son, Fred
erick. have arrived from Chicago to
spend the holidays with relatives in the
Miss Minnie Bittner of Duluth spent
! Sunday as the guest of her cousin, Miss
! Louise Demmin. and left today for hel
| home in Minnesota Lake to spend Christ
mas with relatives.
Willard Koenen is here from Mime
apolis for a short holiday visit with his
| PARENTS Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Koenen.
Mrs. p. ]. Staley and daughter, Miss
Rose, will spend the HOLIDAYS with rel
atives and friends at New Ulm.
Miss Ethel Hughes. who teaches schoo
DAYS with her mother.
Judge w. w. Keysor, who spent thu
past three weeks in the city visiting his
! mother, Mrs. Clark Keysor. and othe
relatives, returned today to his home IL
Mr.. and Mrs. F. Fl. Ulman of Odir
are spending several days as guests a
! the home of the latter's parents Mr.
! and Mrs. J. f. Bates. They expect t.
return to their home on Thursday.
Earl, Edy and Glen Treanor, who ar
lin service with the United STATES bans
lat the Great Lakes training station, ar
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-12-28
WHEAT AND FLOUR
SUPPLY GRATIFYING
Enough Grain On Hand to Last
Five Months Says
Autht rity
ASSOCIATED Press Dispatch.l

Minneapolis, December 24.-If the mar
keting of wheat from farms should
cease America could exist five months
on the wheat and flour supply on the
market now, according to the statement
of Frank Carey, northwest representa-
tive of the government grain corporation.
Fifty per cent more -four has been ship
ped to the allies than last year yet the
United States has been able to build
up so great a food reserve that no con-
ceivable development affecting the move
ment of grain from farm TO market
could cause distress.