The Mankato free press., 1918-07-12

Iowa, is visiting here for the week
end with friends. She was formerly
a student at the Mankato Commercial
college
Heron Lake News. C. X. Willard
and family and Miss Marie Germo,
motored to Mankato Wednesday to
spend the Fourth at Lake Madison
at the home of DR.. j. 8. Holbrook.
ST. Peter Herald: Mrs. o. j. Duane
is expected home in few days from
Spartanburg, South Carolina, where
she has been visiting her husband,
Major Duane. at Camp Wadsworth.
Carl Carlson of Pemberton was in
Mankato Wednesday on his way to
Cottonwood, north of Marshall, to
visit his wife's folks. He was sup
piled by the Automobile club with a
strip map to his destination.
]. w. Armstrong, William Pohl, Lee
Schendell and Harold Waas all left
cities where they intended to enlist
in the navy and continue TO the train
ing station at the Great Lakes.
L Waseca Herald: Mrs. H. S. Ma
bee of Mankato is visiting her daugh-
|ter, Mrs. H. C. Van Lob. She has
three sons in the service. One of
them, George, wired that he would be
in ST. Paul Monday en- route east
from Camp Lewis. Mrs. Mabee went
to st. Paul to see him, waitel all day
in the apology for union depot,
only to learn late at night that her
sons regiment had been sent east
from MINNEAPOLIS.
DIR. Marken and William Thiede of
Minneapolis were in the city We'd
nesday on their way to Fairmont and
called at the Commercial and Auto
mobile club headquarters for strip
map to take them to their destina-
tion.
Mrs. A. A. Handy and daughter,
Miss Ida May, from Fairmont, and A.
w. VanGent, instructor in the Avia-
tion Mechanics school, Minneapolis,
were guests at the home of Mrs. E..
r. Fitzgerald, North Fourth street,
July A.
Winnebago Enterprise: M. S. Foss
of Mankato returned home Friday,
after a pleasant visit, with his son, M.
E. Foss and family. Mr.. FOss is an
old time resident of Faribault coun-
ty and sees many changes through
out the county
Miss Doris Curran left Wednesday
night for New York, where she will
take a six weeks course of study at
the Y w. C. A. training school. Next
fall Miss Curran will take position
as Y. w. G. A. secretary at the Min
nesota State Agricultural college.
Manager F. d. Sleight of the
Gamble Robinson Fruit company and
daughter Beatrice are spending a
| few days on the farm with relatives
at Redwood Falls. Mr.. Sleight will
| stay only few days, while Miss
Beatrice will spend two weeks there.
| Mrs. F.. H. Fricke and daughter,
Esther, and son, Walter, of Jasper,
are visiting A. H. Silber and family.
They have been supplied with in
formation at the Commercial and
Automobile club headquarters for a
trip from Jasper to Fargo, N. D.,
and Detroit, Mimi.
Misses Lucy Taylor and Lila Short
left today on a trip to Camp Jackson,
Columbia South Carolina, where they
will visit Miss Taylor's brother, Clar-
ence Taylor. who is in training there.
Mrs. o. w. Walker and sons, and
Mrs. T. H. Summers, motored to
Madison Lake yesterday and spent
1.-THE day.
G. o. Daley and family and Mrs
Frost and son and daughter drove to
Hubert, Mimi, north of Brainerd
| Wednesday, where Mrs. Frost and
children and the two daughters OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Daley will spend q
month or more in a summer cottage
/ in the pine woods. Mr.. Daley was
Supplied with a log of the road from
Minneapolis to st. Cloud by the Com
Imercial and Automobile clubs, as the
party desired to go via Minneapolis
Their strip map takes them the rest
of the way, and also the direct route
home, which they planned to take to-
day.
j Mrs. George Sheldon, who has been
i visiting in Minneapolis since Mr.
Sheldon was selected for service and
sent to Camp Lewis, is now in the
city spending few days as the
guest of relatives. While at Mime
apolis she heard that a troop train
] from Camp Lewis was expected to
pass through the cities enroute east
4 and was fortunate enough to be al
the depot where she saw Mr.. Sheldon
when the train bearing the troops ar
= rived. Although only having been in
training four weeks Mr.. Sheldon ad-
vanced rapidly and is now with G
J company, 316 Ammunition train
which, has been in service nine
months. The company was on the
! way to Camp Mills, New York, an(
after months training there it is
rumored that it will sail for service
J in Italy with the 91st division. Mr.
Sheldon brought news of several 9th.
er young men from Mankato, in.
cluding R. Hamilton, who is now a
; Camp Merritt, New Jersey with sup
| ply train No. 1862; Ed. Omuth ant
Walter Miller, who are still at Cam
Lewis. The North Mankato boy.
have been transferred to Camp Kear
ney, California, near San Diego.
[ Lieutenant Joseph Stein, who is nov
, an instructor at Fort Sheridan, is hom
, on short leave of absence.
II Misses Carrie and Alma Almquist spen
; the Fourth at Madelia, guests of Mr.. an
) Mrs. e. N. Almquist and family.
3 Frank Demmin. who has been engage
4 in contract work at Lake Park, Ia, re
, turned home yesterday.
} Guy Cahoon, who is employed in
munition plant at Anoka, and who spen
S the. Fourth at .the home of his parents
4 I last evening.
1 Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin F. Cahoon @
S Cambridge, Minn., accompanied by Mrs
Clara Scencer of Gilmore and Mrs. Georg