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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-12-13
RETURN TO THEIR f|ELDS|
German Soldiers Are Taking Up
Farm Labors; Factories
Getting Busy
WEBB MILLER

With the Americans In Prussia,
December 5.-Hundreds of thousands
of German subjects are now under
the rule of the American troops of
the army of occupation. There is 10
attitude of hostility on the part of
the Teutons but rather as general
thing Z great amount of as.Onish
nellt at the fact that the Yankees
a.e not harsh and that they are
lrure than willing for affairs to
shape themselves back to normal
without hoping TO deprive the work
ers of the fruit of their toll.
Flowing is going on in the fields,
factories are humming and in a Won
derfully short space of time Germany
had stepped toward firm peace
footing. Discharged soldiers pass
through the American lines constant
lv and are to be seen in their old
uniforms at work in the fields. In a
short time it is considered probable
that the Americans will take over
the postal, telephone and telegraph
system in the country they have &C.
cuDied
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GRANTING OF DIPLOMAS
Graduates of Kato Normal Viii
Be Presented Document
Tomorrow

Informal exercises will be held at the
normal school hall on Friday morning at
11:15 O'clock, when the normal school
graduates of the fall term will receive
their diplomas. There will be special
music and a short address. The diplomas
will be presented by John c. Wise, resi-
dent director. Following is list of the
graduates:
Bahnsen, Clare, st. James: Banker
Grace Irene, North Mankato; Bailey, Del
la Luella, Amboy Bouchard, Amelia Ger
trude, New Ulm: Davis. Edna Frances
Hector; Davis, Florence Leone, Taopi
Dennison, June Eve, Appleton; Elton, Ella
Josephine, New Richland; Engel, Drusilla
Ernestine, Kenyon; Gerlach. Minnie Agnes
Good Thunder; outset, Hannah Annett
Madison; Kelly, Evelyn Agnuse, Mont
gomery, Kempton, Evelyn Phyllis, Vase
ca: Kohlmeyer Mae Alma, Blue Earth
Lcckerby, Florence. Faribault; Long
Lydia Emily, Smiths Mill; Mcguire
Mary Josephine, Slayton; Mccarthy, Ruth
Mildred, Madelia; Osborne, Grace Marie
ST. Peter; Peace. Mamie Elizabeth, LII
verne: Rieff, Florence Mason, Sprins
Valley; Roberts, katherine Eleanor Man
! kato; Ruedy, Majorie, Waterville; Shrope
Edna Mae, Northfeld; Schulz, Elizabeth
Faribault; Wiedenmann, Naomi Emmelin
Mankato; Weaver, Roba Beatrice, -Iaple
ton: WALL Mabel Caroline Albert Lea
Yeo; Mary, Mankato; McInerny, Margare
Veronica, Austin; Nickel, Margaret Helen
| Dodge Center
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Good Thunder

Mrs. Paul DEWITT and daughter were
Saturday shoppers at the county seat.
The st. Johns Lutheran church
took up collection last Sunday for
the fire sufferers in the northern
part of the state and as a result sent
in Sis which was generously donated.
Miss Clara Billet spent Friday with
Friends in Mankato.
Miss Esther Beise of Alexandria,
Mimi, is visiting with her aunt,
Frieda Mielke and other relatives at
this place
Mrs. Carl Sohre spent Thanksgiving
with his sister, Mrs. Jessie Meyers at
Minneapolis.
Luella Daullege spent Thanksgiving
with her cousin Verona Bunde.
Oscar Wendtland, one of our sailor
boys, spent Thanksgiving with his
wife at this place.
Miss Gertrude Morlock spent
Thanksgiving at her home. in this
village.
Mrs. Lyle Murray, a former resi-
dent of this vicinity, died of influenza
at Delavan She leaves husband and
three small children to mourn her
death.
Possin Bros. finished threshing No
vember 25. Rosin Bros, having had
| the longest run finished Monday, De-
cember Q, their last job being at the
Charles Linton place.
Miss Gladys Good spent Thanksgiv-
| ing at her home in Vernon Center
Emil Wohlschager, a former Vernon
Center boy, but now soldier at Camp
Grant, visited at the Will Ziemke
home Friday. he be home on short
furlough.
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ROLL or HONOR

Washington, d. c., December s.
The war department issued casu
lily list today in which 1850 casual
lies were reported. The Minnesota
men are as follows:
Killed in action, Private Anthony
Friauf, Glencoe; Private Ivan E. Kay,
Little Falls; Private Edwin Wilke,
Parkers Prairie; Private John A.
Dahlgren, WILDWOOD; Private Levi
Lefto, Henderson,; Private Frank St
Anthony, Bowerville.
Died of wounds, Private Henry ]
Bender, Chaska; Private John L
Loss, Minneapolis; Private Peter
Schmit, Rose Creek.
Died of accident and other causes
Private Henry Lindblom, Islo.
Died of disease, Private Harry G
Morrison, Heron Lake; Private w. E
ROCKFORD, Minneapolis; Private Err
win L. Pinney, LeSueur; Private
Peter Sorenson, Hutchinson; Private
Lewis Timm, Sanborn; Private Law
renee l.. Guimon, Minneapolis
Private John A. G. Sederburg, Nortl
Branch; Private Henry r. Sjoquist
Dassel; Private Clarence v. Strutz
Whitewater; Private Steffen ID
Thune, Zumbrota; Private Charlie
l.. Voss, Hokah.
Wounded severely, Corporal Edwin
P. Eichten, Wanda; Private Oscar
M. Peterson. Minneapolis; Private
Edward w. Shell, Beltrami Co.; Priv
ate George Savelkoul, st. Paul.
Wounded, degree undetermined
Private Dan Ruths, Minneapolis
Musician Ralph l.. Smith, Gilmore
| Private Frank D. Boorman, Buffalo
Private Miles l.. Boyle, Minneapolis
Private Oscar Faue, Minneapolis
Private Leonard j. Hassler, Perham
Private Peter Kerr, Minneapolis
Private Jacob Alsaker, Fergus Falls
Private Albert L. Bogen, st. Paul
Private Herbert j. Groetsch, st
Paul; Private John Maertz, New
Prague; Private John Vandezande
| Preston.
Wounded slightly, Private Edward
! Lackawitzer, Perham; Privat
George Schanemann, Arlington
Private Fred G.. Hass, Perham; Priv
ate Axel Ecklund, Mahtowa; Privat
John Halverson, Audubon; Privat
/ Walter H. Turner, Minneapolis;
1 Private Tomas Tolleff, Cyrus; Priv
ate Frank Morgel, Avon; Private AL
phons Shepens, Client; Private Al
fred O. Thompson, Lansing; Privat
William H. Weiner, Hatfield; Privat
Thomas W. Helstom; Private Gust
ave G.. Knoll, Minneapolis.
Missing in action, Private Waite
A. Buchholz, Holland; Private Thede
G.. Larson, Garland. & p
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Baltimore, December ga big
Baltimore concern believes deeds
rather than words are effective in
building UP the much desired morale
among workers.
The Baltimore Shipbuilding and
Drydock company is the firm in ques-
ton whose action has won the ap-
plause of the United States employ
ment service. During the "f1u" cpl
demic here, hundreds of the 1900
workers of the big plant were
stricken.
The management believed some
thing more practical than speed up
posters was necessary just then. 1t
engaged five of the best physicians
| in the city who gave their entire time
to treating the employees free OF
charge. What's more, the company
established special fund to be spent
at the discretion of the doctors to re-
lieve distress in workers homes.
can ounce of such practical hui
manitarianism is worth many pounds
of speed up posters without any
thing tangible in the way of helpful
ness to back them" is the interest
ing comment ir the official plablica
tion of the employment service
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Red Cross Society Will Furnish Joy
to Injured Soldiers

IUnIte6 Press Dispatch :
Washington, December 6.-There'u
be a Red Cross stocking, filled with
holiday cheer, hanging over the cot
of every wounded American soldier
in France, when the whole world cele-
brates the gladdest merriest Christ
mas in all history.
Plans announced by the Red Cross
show that the wounded Yanks will
have full share in the jubilee. These
men, lying i'll in the land they helped
to save, will be cheered and enter
tanned by the Greatest Mother in
ire World" when the Christmas bells
ring out that peace has come at last.
Every nurse, patient and enlisted
man in the French hospitals will be
remembered IE. every ward a
Christmas tree, ablaze with candles.
will throw it's light about the room.
The socks that are to hang over the
cots will be Red Cross socks, filled with
fruit, candy, nuts, figs and a pretty
Christmas card.
There will be entertainment in
plenty for the boys. Famous singers
bave volunteered their services
There will be moving pictures, games
and appropriate songs.
The children of France will visit
the hospitals on Christmas day, to
add their mite in appreciation OF the
american soldiers, who did so much
to make peace possible.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-12-13
Well Known Democratic Leader Picks
Bride in Chicago.

Richard T. O'COnnor, well known
democratic leader in st. Paul, was
married Monday in Chicago to Mrs
N. H. Stone of the Edgewater Beach
hotel, Chicago, according to word
which reached St Paul.
The wedding took place in st
Georges Catholic church, and was
witnessed by a small group of friends
including Roger Sullivan, democratic
leader of Illinois.
Following the wedding dinner
for the party was served at the Edge
water Beach hotel, at which john
Corbett, the proprietor, was the host
Mr.. and Mrs. O'Connor left Chicago
Monday night for a honeymoon Of
several weeks through the south.
Richard O'CoEnor is well known
throughout the northwest. He j:
sometimes called the cardinal"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-12-13
Trial Of Steinhauser Is Put Over
Until Next Nav,

When the case of the department
Of justice against Albert Steinhauser
came up yesterday morning in the
federal court at st. Paul, Commits
'sioner Jacques informed the presid-
ing Judge that he was not ready for
trial and that it had been arranged by
stipulation between the attorneys to
allow the case to go over to May,
1919, term of court, says The New
Ulm Review. This agreement had
been reached between tn attorneys
for both sides something more than a
week ago since it was impossible for
either side to complete their inves
LEGATIONS in the short time elapsing
between the Mankato term of court
and the present term in ST. Paul.
The defense expected to prove that
the article which was published in
The New Ulm Post in it's issue of
July 6, 1918, was news matter re-
iceived over the cable from foreign
sources and had passed the United
States censorship board and that
therefore such article could not
possibly be violation of the es-
>pionage law. The article is said to
nave appeared Ill Inc CleNoldHu
Plaindealer and The New York Times
previous to it's publication in The
New Ulm Post and reached The Post
only through the channels of the
plate house which secured it's per-
mission from United States authori-
ties to prepare such matter for it's
customers. 1t was necessary to
trace this matter to the beginning and
locate the original source which is
supposed to have been correspond
ence from The Hague. 1t was prac !.
tically out of the question to secure
necessary dispositions of witnesses
residing in various cities throughout
the United States in time to present
them at the trial.
Commissioner Jacques is also
making an investigation on his own
initiative of the source of the article
and it was at his suggestion that the
case was continued until next May.
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Ruling of Minnesota Supreme Tribun.
al la Mankato Case.

Among the decisions handed down
by the state supreme court today was
that of Forman- Ford & Co., versus +.
B. Madigan, appealed from the dcci-
sion in the municipal court in Man
kato. The supreme court affirmed the
ruling of the municipal court. The
case was a suit brought by the plain
tiff Forman Ford G Co., against F. B.
Madigan for the sum of $3.50. The
defendant admitted the bill of SIS. so
but established counter claim of
$3.50 against the plaintiff. The
municipal court ruled that the defen-
dant- Madigan should receive the
counter claim of SIT. so less the plain
tiffs claim for $3.50 and that the
plaintiff should pay the costs Of the
action. The supreme court affirmed
this ruling of the lower court.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-12-13
INFLUENZA CUT INTO RANKS
OF THE PEOPLE
Disease Found Most of Its Vic.
tins Under Thirty Years
Of Age
Associated Press Dispatch.l

New YORK, Cecemper u.-fhe Span
ish influenza epidemic which swept
this country during the autumn
sole" millions of the best years of
life from American manhood and
womanhood, Henry Moir, an insur-
ance authority of this city, declared
here today.
The average economic loss of life
in each case of death from the NAL
ady or it's aftermath was at least
twenty FIVE years, said Mr.. Moir,
emphazing the popularity of the cpl
demic, which found most of it's vic
tins under thirty years of age, as
compared with the average life OF
fifty five and sixty years of persons
insured in we'll established com
panies.
Addressing the association of Life
insurance Presidents, Mr.. Moir, who
is president of the Acturial Society OF
America, described how the epidemic
had dislocated the standard mortal
ity experience of the insurance COM
panies in the past fifteen years
With no pestilence taking toll OF
lives in the United States and Can
ada during that period, he said the
standards of health of persons under
fifty were found to be much better
than at any recorded time in the
past. But the influenza epidemic
causing 86,S2S deaths in forty -four
large cities in eight weeks, or an
average of four Of every 1000 of the
population, he added, had brought a
new element into the situation. In
vestigations of claims before several
large insurance companies, he de-
clared, showed that thirteen per cent
of the deaths were due 20 influenza anC
eighty seven per cent to pneumonia
following influenza, while less thar
two per cert were of persons ovel
fifty-fiv years as against eighty
per cent under forty and sixty pei
cent under thirty five.
From these figures, the actuarI
said, it was apparent that the age o.
maximum virulence of the epidemic
had been under thirty, taking the
young ard vigorous-"those whom
we expected to undertake much O
the worlds work"
Mr. Moir warned the public tina
there is no assurance that the
danger is past. 1--WE learn" he sait
"that influenza is now revisiunt
Europe and this time there are in
dications that it may be more Obj
jectionaple than the milder form o
midsummer. We should therefore
take warning from this recurrence
and observe Watchful care to proven
further infection, since the disease
has distinctly decreased and seems u
be dying out in this country"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-12-13
OLD RESIDENT IS DEAD
Mrs. Margaret ZenopoIski Sue
cumbed To Paralysis Early
This Morning

| Mrs. Margaret Zenopolski, re-
spected old resident of the city, died
at Emmanuel hospital at three o'clock
this morning, death resulting from
paralysis. She suffered a severe
stroke in June, 1917. and since that
time was in helpless condition, and
was cared for at the hospital. Sun
day, while being visited by her son,
Warner Zenopolski, the second at
tack of paralysis came upon Mrs.
Zenopolski, and she became uncon-
scious, and did not regain conscious
ness again before death came.
Her maiden name was Margaret
Graeber, and she was the daughter
of the late Mr.. and Mrs. Nicholas
Graeber of Redwing, Mimi, and was
born at that place on October q, 1858,
being sixty years of age at the time
of her death She lived in Minnesota
all her life and lived in Mankato for
about thirty five years.
For many years past she made her
home with her son, Warner Zenopol-
ski, and was living at his home, S22
I West Front street, when stricken by
| the illness that made her removal to
hospital necessary. For about eigh-
teen years she had followed the vo-
cation of practical nurse, and was well
and favorably known throughout the
community She was member OF
| Superior Lodge No. Degree of Hon
or. Surviving relatives are four chill
dren, as follows: Mrs. w. j. Mahn-
/ Ike, of Idaho Falls, Idaho, who came
| to Mankato some time ago TO visit
her mother, and who is now very
I'seriously ill with pneumonia in the
detention hospital on Broad street;
Clarence, whereabouts unknown; Mrs
John Bartsck, Appleton, Mimi, ane
Warner, 1922 West Front street, Man
kato.
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Twenty two Employees Killed And
Many More Injured.

l'JnlteH treSS 1NSra tcn.1
Pompton Lakes, December g.
Twenty two are dead, eleven seriously
injured and many more hurt while
damage estimated st millions was done
in an explosion in the detonator de-
partment of the shell cap plant located
here today. The country for miles
around was shaken. Four thousand
workers were in the plant at the time
the first explosion occurred. There
were four distinct explosions, The
origin of the first blast is being in
yestigated.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-12-13
Charge is Laid at The Door Of Ger
man Officials.
IJJnited Press 1oiSpdtch,l

washington, December Ger
many tried twice to bride Sweden
to join the Central Powers in the
war it became known today. At first
Finland was offered the Swedes and
later the north part of Schleswig
was added to the first offer Sweden
was not threatened with invasion if
she did rot enter the struggle. Dur
ing the war, it has come to light
that the Teutons practically mon
opolized the Swedish export trade
and made that country sell on credit
which will now never be collected.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-12-13
Record of Coinage.

: United Press Dispatch.I
Washington, December 6.-The rec
ord for coinage in any one year was
reached during the past year Raw Baker
head of the United States mint, de-
clared in his annual report today.
Baker said that 714,OOO,OOO coins be-
low the denomination of one dollar
had been made.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-12-13
Warning Is Issued BY Secretary Of
the Treasury McAdoo.
limited Press Dispatch.l

United Press DSpatch.J
Washington, December 6.-Warning
the nation that the period of greatest
expense had not yet been reached
Secretary McAdoo today called on the
people for greater savings. He urged
that War Savings certificates be given
greater attention and that all pledges
which have been made be filled be-
fore the first of the year. More Sc
curities of the government should be
bought by those who have money to
invest, he stated.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-12-13
Judge Comstoek appoints Alfred
knaub to the Position.

Judge Comstock has appointed
Alfred Knaub as court reporter in
the district court to fill the position
made vacant by the death of w. B.
Davies. Mr.. Knaub has filled this
position for several months past
and is a capable and efficient young
man, well qualified for the work.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-12-13
Trials and Tribulations of Mapleton
Man on His Travels

Mapleton Enterprise: Talk about
train service, a Mapleton business
man had occasion to visit Albert Lea
last Saturday. In order to get home
before Monday morning he was
compelled to take the Minneapolis
and st. Louis road to Waseca, the
Northwestern 20 Mankato, getting
home on the late train from the
latter city at an expense of fully
four times as much as it would have
been under private ownership OF
railways.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-12-13
Earthquake at vaIIenar.

Buencs Aires, December 5.--Over a
hundred persons are believed to have
been killed in an earthquake which &C.
Cured at Vallenar yesteruaS. This vii
lsge was completely DESTROYED and CO.
piano was also seriously damaged.
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Soldiers comIna Back.

Paris December Sin addition to the
Emuress of Britain and the Adriatic
which have sailed from Liverpool with
American troops the Canopic set sail for
New York yesterday from Liverpool with
1922 members of the aerial service.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-12-13
Warming Is Made by Paul Warburg
At Atlantic City.
rUnited Press Dispat

TUnILed FTeSS DISpdCCn.1
Atlantic City, December 6.-Warn
ing the nation that the close associa-
ton of the government and big bus
mess interests during the war might
open the greatest fields of graft ev-
er ina gined, Paul NJ. Warburg, vice
governor of the federal reserve
board, today urged that sufficient
safeguards be thrown out to make
certain such condition might never
start
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Dead 10 Be BROUGHT Home.

Washington, Dec m b e 5.-General
March. chief of staff told the senate mil
itary committee that unless relatives of
Americans who have lost their lives re-
quest otherwise all bodies of the Ameri
can dead will be brought home. How
soon the transportation of bodies will be-
gin. General March said he could not
state.
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Turkish Fleet .lnterued.
Associated Press Dispatch.1
London, Official, December 5.-The en-
tire Turkish feet Is In allied hands and in
termed in the Golden Horn.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-03-18

CorrERsMITHs. FIRST CLASS
MEN AFrLN rtTSEN \ loNfS
60
DRIVER for good route Good wagcs paid
70 rig htman Apply Snow Whit" laundry.
IS - NanfieNeT avenue
DRIVER Apply Turner RrcS sundrv,
42l-27 West Second street
EIGHT men or hoys ~ distrihute tolephon"
t,ooks Sin,ns tii3 French street
.ECTRICIANS 60 CENTS an hour. Call
6Srf.
AZ 40 cents. Address r. Every Evening
once
IA>IToR Colored Apply Royal billiard
Psrlors Eighth and Market Sts
JANIToR arply Majestic Theatre.
iApORkRS AppI, The ryrites Go. Ltd
hristiana svenue. near Lohdells
IARORERS- Polish, Russian and coored
Highest wages paid Aprly cmplo! !meni
department. General ChemiCal co. Marcus
Hook Va i5Ht
NtACHlNIST steady work and good wages
for night and tay work Apply master
mechanic of7ce, rcnnSN lvania u. shops,
Thirticth aui Railroad
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-03-18
PFkDf rs
RELIABILITY
RESULTS
noY BRAVES GERMS
Member II Hospital Init In rfsnrs Aid
Trench Fever ufp.

Now York. March ls Tho Amrurtt
Army Medical orTu In Ffannr o.. d.
covered = cure Tor trench fryrf s.rpf,lirf
To- letters received ~ the ciiv from lsf
pold Sirauw. n mcnlrof ~ ihr Prob
teran Hospital unit ~ Franc elo al
lowed himself a. b. mo- ulafcI with thf
germs ca'lsing ths fever. and suleequenNf
vas plii pu the fuad - rrcusrrv
Ntrsura wrote 80 rsriEin 81 thf am.
napo ~ the Rruus ~ ho rrffrrrpst,f
and he father. ponJauu -frauas tlnUI
ing merchant ~ ~ West ii2ih 9frnef
received letter from lH Alvn ~ rap
renhelmer thanking hun 20 ihc Mann
tho medical rncn q uhe army fpf hi- sr
hefoism ~ volunteering frr flr rvrrf
fnont
According - thr younF oan irff.
ihpusaDds ~ srldierr Eill .e -av,i u,
suffering ~ hiu letter. ynung -ireufe .nH
that tho experiment wa4 - if-rr
whether 'hafs. ~ trrnth ltr arrif
infection he ctfrriment prtrri ih.
thoy lid rarry iir infrrf.r
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-03-18
New cen.urr club En,er.aInmsr..

Cmncso prrl untitled The Iraf
~ the Lanterns vrii 30 presented hv H.
music committee ~ 'ho eow icntur.
Club. IN saturday tternnon bnrl
un,icr hc direction 2. Manrisinr 'er
tor he tonch' 20 he Rcd r1s~ Pc for
deli. Ifu sr .lrl.ut customs - ffr.
and ts yer, rrcttr rhnr,si lnriutirs Alf
n II Eogcudauk. irg '1hn 70 uFus
Miss Esther WILSON. Mrs llhn A Hraa
Mrs Earl Comors- 1r lhRn tIfI
Mrs Webster lI-s Vera dw4ra. ~
Mildred DAVIS and rfucrs