The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-09-27
CAMPAIGN IN AID OF BELGIANS
BEGINS NEXT WEEK
Activities In Wars Behalf Not
Tagging In Village; News
Events
Especial to Free Press.l

/ suffering Belgians. Ten million men
women and children must be clothed
and 1T is up to the American Red
| Cross to see that the clothins
! is collected and sent without delay
Vernon Center branch is enthusiastic
over the project and is making plans
to "go way over the top" in this
most worthy work Mrs. Mary Corn
ish has most kindly offered the rooms
which was formeraly DR.. Clements of
fee suite for the collecting of the
clothing. Everybody is urged to
bring all the worn or out grown
clothing to this place any time dur
ing the week. All clothing must be
clean and dry, of material to stand
wear. The call is great and we feel
that Red Cross workers will respond
magnificently to the call.
Members of the Vernon Center Red
Cross who have not paid their mem :
bership to the Red Cross for 1918
are urgently requested to do so at
the earliest date possible: 1t does not
speak well for this branch when less
than one fourth Of the membership
dues for 1918 has been received
o. M. Hilton and sons of Iowa
who have rented the big farm OF
Willard Busby in West Vernon, have
been here for the past several weeks
helping with the fall work and getting
the fall ploughing done. This farm is
scientifically tiled, making it possible
to do number one job of ploughing,
even in rainy season like the pres
ent one. The Hiltons will not move
onto the farm until next March or
until Mr.. Busby markets his steers
and hogs. He is one of the largest
stock raisers in this locality.
Fred Wilbur recently purchased
several carloads of Herford steers
which he is feeding for the spring
markets. rs o,i
Miss Marguerite Wilbur, senior in
the Amboy high school, drives to and
firm school in her Ford runabout and
derives much pleasure in driving over
splendid roads between the two viii
lagos. 81 ne
Willie Weir, young farmer of
East Vernon, lost three calves yes
terday, all dying in less than a half
hour after they were first noticed as
ailing. DIR. Dodds was hastily called
but did not arrive until after the
animals were dead On diagnosis he
found deadly poison in their stomach,
of what kind he was unable to tell
unless the contents of the stomachs
were sent to medical college. AS
this would cost Mr.. Weir $25 to have
it done, he did not feel he could send
them there.I AS to how the calves
got the poison or what the poison
was, will always remain an unsolved
mystery. The pasture contained no
weeds of any kind nor had the calves
had access to anything on the farm
that could have caused their death.
G.. J. Hall, a dry speaker who Is
sent out by the State Dry Federation
association, will speak at the Baptist
church next Sunday evening at eight
o'clock. Come, one and all, you will
hear something both new and inter-
esting.
Mr. Ressunsen of Minneapolis, the
Baptist State Evangelist, called on
Rev. Edith French Monday, making
arrangements for the mission service
which will be held in the Baptist
church next Sunday morning. A fine
program along mission lines and
special music will make it worth
while to attend and learn about this
great work.
The following bit of news which
will be interesting to the many Free
Press readers in this community,
reached here this morning from Har-
ward, Idaho. 1t pertains to Mrs.
A f1,,1r FTihhifc xun11 known
Vernonite. At recent town cleo
ton, Mrs. Tibbits was elected clerk
and is filing the office of the clerk
with great efficiency and to the en-
tire satisfaction to all, receiving the
accustomed wages of So per day.
Idaho being a suffrage state, women
are citizens and are entitled to rec
ognition in affairs of the state beside
the men. Mrs. Tibbits is the only
child of Mrs. S. ]. Minis, one of the
best known residents of the village, a
woman prominent in Baptist circles
and an ardent Red Cross supporter.
Every farmer, far and near, is
fully convinced in his own mind that
the weather man" is bosom friend
of Kaiser Bill or a Pro German sym
pdIIlS0I III iC1dSS w. l., iOI uOOo lOI
the good book tell us that 'by its
fruits we shall know them" and "if
yea be not for me you are against
me-" Never, before has the tiller of
the soil been up against the elements
as he has the past season since the
sowing OF the seed in the spring till
the present time. He has toiled and
labored under the most adverse en-
viorments imaginable. 1t is intimat-
ed by the most optimistic that the
continued heavy rain, coming before
the grain was all harvested and con-
tinuing almost daily for month,
caused loss of 25 per cent which
includes the additional cost of
spreading and resetting the shocks
and waste of growing grain. Fields
of corn which is o. X. and large
acreage which would have been cut
up and shredded later, thus affording
much feed, has been laid fiat by the
wind, making cutting impossible.
Other fields which escaped the winds
are so wet that binder and team
would mire on them. 1t has been al
most an impossibility to cut grass or
get it cured suitable for stacking and
much will not be cut at all. Never
has there been so little ploughing
done as this season on many. On
many farms not a furrow has yet
been turned and on even farms that