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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-08-09
st, Clair.

A. B. Preston was a passenger to
Albert Lea Saturday.
Mr.. Luedke has accepted posi-
ton as butter maker at Holloway to
which place Mrs. Luedtke shipped
their goods Friday.
Mrs. Luedtke and children enroutc
to Holloway will visit Mrs. Luedtke's
parents near Waldorf for few days.
Mr.. Charles Pagenkopf left Friday
evening for Camp Vancouver to visit
his son Earl.
/ Mrs. Belle Helm and two daugh-
tiers of Minneapolis came Thursday
to visit Mrs. Helms mother, Mrs,
Grignon of this place. Mr.. Helm join
ed his family here Saturday evening.
The stork recently passed through
our vicinity and left boy at each OF
the following homes: August Beccue,
Ray Lind and Henry O'Brien.
Rev. Zeiske and family and two
nieces and sister enjoyed an outing
at Lake Balaton the first of the week.
Misses Zeiske returned to their
home at Minneapolis Friday. Miss
Iona will teach in the local school
the ensuing year and her sister has
accepted the position as teacher IN
the Hodapp district.
Mr. and Mrs. Steve Foster and
daughters LaJune, Fern and Vera of
Mankato were guests at the home of
Mrs. Jake Chase Friday evening. Mr..
Foster and LaJune who are attend
ing school at Davenport, Iowa, are
home for weeks vacation.
Mr. and Mrs. Dick Schultz enjoyed
Ia pleasant visit from Mr.. and Mrs.
Schultz and four sons from Fairmont
from Tuesday until Thursday.
Mesdames Schultz, PagenkOpf and
Hilton were hostesses at a farewell
dinner given at the Hilton home
Friday in honor of Mrs. Luedtke.
Mr.. Westby went to Heron Lake
Saturdayto visit his family over Sun
day. Mr.. Lang has charge of the lum-
Der yard during his absence.
Mrs. Edith Chase entertained the
w. c.. T. U. at her home Friday
afternoon. 1t being the annual meet
ling the reports read for the year
showed a good financial standing for
the past year. The old officers were
re- elected except the vice president
and Mrs. George Hubner was chosen
to fill that vacancy. A very interest
ing and instructive paper written by
Mrs Axtel who is now visiting her
sons in Dakota was read. The ladies
are preparing to dedicate the COM
munity service flag as soon as the
repairs on the hall are completed.
Threshing machines are heard
once more. Mr.. Rath started at Louis
Timmerman's Saturday afternoon
Mr. Chase at Mr.. Kruse's Friday and
Mr. Campbell is threshing north of
town. The yield SO far has been re-
ported as good.
Mrs Jorgenson and daughters OF
Pemberton were guests at the Hilton
home Saturday.
Mrs, Franska and son Henry are
spending a few days at the home of
Mrs Franska's daughter Ida near
Smiths Mill and Mr. Franska is as
sisting Mr. Knoll through harvest
Mr.. and Mrs. Gerlach of Mankato
spent the week end at the home OF
John Zimmerman of this place.
Jennie Grignon, who has been TAX
ing few days vacation, returned to
her work at the telephone office
Monday.
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stationed at Washington, owns a
farm near Grand Rapids, where Mr..
Cashier had gone to supervise the
harvesting of the crops. He had been
on the farm less than week, it was
said. No further particulars concern
ing his death were available last night.
Mr.. Cashier served one term as al
derman from the ninth ward, during
the administration of Mayor James c.
Haynes. He was past grand master
of the Minnesota Odd Fellows and
at the time of his death was grand
scribe of the Minnesota lodges. His
widow, two sons and three daughters
survive. He was wellknown to Odd
Fellows in Mankato.
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From Wednesdays Daily.
Gathering Addressed Last Evening


BY Messrs. Cray and Hatcher.
An enthusiastic and well attended
county option meeting was held last
evening at the Baker school house in
Lincoln township. The meeting was
the regular gathering of the Lincoln
Farmer club but was turned over to
dry gathering. So many people were
in attendance that it was impossible
for them to all crowd into the build
ing and many were seated in cars Just
under the windows outside.
Judge Lorin Cray and O. M. Hatch
er were the speakers of the even
ing. The Ladies Lyric Double Quar-
tet of Mankato gave number of Sc
lect1ons which were well received
Four cars from Mankato drove to the
meeting and number of local people
were in attendance Those who drove
cars were Judge Lorin Cray, H. A..
Patterson, A. G.. Carlson and o. M.
Hatcher.
S. B. Wilson will be the speaker at
a county option meeting which will
be held in Butternut Valley town hall
on August 16 and on the same even
ing Judge Cray will address a gath
ering at the Congregational church
in Garden City. Sunday evening DR..
j. w. Andrews will speak at the Ger
esco town hall. I,
One of the biggest meetings of the
campaign will be held at the Mankato
opera house on Sunday evening when
Senator julius Haycraft of Fairmont
and Senator Frank Putnam of Blue
Earth will speak. A special program
for the meeting will be arranged and
the drys plan that it will be one of
the biggest gatherings before the
election.
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f7ifyoH'

In the recent Tivoli items it stated
$3.50 was raised for the teacher, Miss
Schmidt for a nine month school. 1t
should read $3.50 was voted to be
raised for school purposes and Miss
Edna Schmidt, teacher for a nine
month school beginning September 8.
Miss Lottie Bennett and brother
called on relatives at st. Clair Sun
day.
Misses Anna and Bertha Tacheny,
Eva Barton and Eleanor Barton call
ed on the Misses VanBuren Tuesday.
Miss v. Russell visited Miss Esther
Wilkinson Sunday afternoon
We are glad to report good at
tendance at church Sunday. G. Stowe
is an, excellent speaker and Tivoli is
pleased to- have him.
Mrs. c. Barton visited Mrs. B. L.
Miller Tuesday.
Some farmers are through cutting
their grain.
The Sunshine club ice cream social
will be held next Tuesday evening at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. George OFT.
Their place is on the Mankato and
st. Clair road about two and half
miles north of st. Clair. Don't forget
the time and place. Come and help
the 'Sulshiners.
Recent word from some of our boys
in the service is that they are feel
ing good and enjoying their work.
B. Miller and daughter were Man.
kato shoppers yesterday. =.
Lester Mosher, who is in the serv-
ice in Oklahoma, says water is very
scarce there and that the soldiers are
kept drilling all day.
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Mapleton

Louis Paetzold, the Mapleton boy
reported in German prison, has
been heard from again. He is still in
the prison and wishes Elmer Klint to
send him tobacco and soap. The Red
Cross will try to send these to him
through the war department of that
society.
The Mapleton Red Cross has gone
over the top and completed it's knit
ting quota and more to date and still
they are coming in. The surgical
dressings department wish for more
workers for Tuesday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Borchert have
returned from Rochester. Mr.. Borch-
ert is suffering from tuberculosis and
will leave Immediately for Colorado in
the hope of being benefited.
John Penhiter of Pine City is the
guest Of his brothers, Tony and Frank
Penhiter, of this place.
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Address, Rev. E. w. Griffiths.
Sounding of Taps.
Benediction.
Rev. E. w. Griffiths' remarks were
partly as follows:
'The whole civilized world has
learned at last from diabolical acts
which will stain the name of Ger
many while time shall last, that nc
laws, human or divine, bind her for
moment, and no promise, however
sacred, is considered by her any
thing but empty words. The most
solemn obligations Of international
compact have been torn in pieces;
liberties solemnly pledge by the
nations have been wantonly tramp
led under foot-women ravished,
peaseable men slain-ancient cities
given over to loot and arson. These
things have involved us in the most
severe struggle of warfare the his
tory of man has known. The shad-
dow of death has lowered at last
over the families on our land, through
this one mans blind ambition.
"Now, if ever, is there necessity
for calm and patriotic devotion. The
nations pulse must be kept steady.
If ever integrity, unselfishness, hon.
orablness and the readiness of sacri-
flee were needed, they are a dire
and stern necessity today. We must
even-for defeat means a world in
bondage to the cruel oppression of
q blindly arrogant military autocra
cy. But before victory can be ac-
complished it may mean the sacri-
flee of almost all that we hold dear
and precious. Yet we must be ready
for it, for only over our bodies slain
can such, a disaster as our defeat
would mean, issue into reality. We
must face the work and the needs
of our country, Yes, we are living
in strangely solemn times. Some
who went from us are now lying un-
der the sod of France-and some
have found a grace in the great en-
quilting waters. Others have come
home, not as they went out. They
have returned MANNED and marred in
body or in mind and it may never be
with them in the days to come as
once it was. And constantly new
men are coming forward ready and
eager to take their places in the kha-
XII line. From our shores they are
cheerfully proceeding to the redfields
of pain-young men with life and
love and the world before them, of
fering to give their lives on our be-
half. That is the haunting thing and
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-08-09
BRAND new SOLDIERS
make DANDY.F|GHIERS
Those Doughboys Do Not Have
Attack Of Cold Feet
TROD mo MANS LAND"
They Are Boche- Getters lover
There; to Put "Kibosh" On
Wilhelm
FRANK ]. TAYLOR

With the American Troops in
Alsace- Lorraine, July 20.-[By MALL
by the dim light of the moon you
could barely see the stream OF
doughboys pouring out of the shell
tering woods, and scraping over the
dusty French road toward the
trenches. They said very little and
trudged along with that, measured
swinging tread which enables
Europe's veterans to carry their
heavy packs almost unheard of dis
tances.
The stream seemed unending, as
the United Press staff car picked its
way from squad to squad without
using lights, without falling in bitches
and without touching single dough-
boy. Finally one section of the
human stream halted in a ruined
village The press car stopped, too,
for beyond this point everything ex-
cept ammunition and food goes on
foot.
The officers gave the order to
rest, and lot of packs dropped to
the ground, followed by doughboys.
= hO 1.-Two ShCy hSFCl ulOppSO. III tnC
moonlight you could see the ground
covered with resting soldiers, mostly
sitting. There was a clicking of
rifles, and sounds of tightening packs
and bits of gossip which could come
only from a group heading for its
first night in the trenches.
Our Citizen Soldiers
These were Uncle Sans citizen
Soldiers, new men just over from
''the States" as they have a habit of
calling home when over here. A
few questions revealed the fact that
a year ago these boys were clerks,
carpenters, students, and whatnot,
in civilian clothes. Six months ago
they were in training camps Now
they were soldiers in France, and
tonight they were making their gen.
uine debut into the war for civiliza-
tiOn
There was 10 wild enthusiasm nor
any evidence of fear or even appre-
tension among these citizen soldiers
as they rested before making the last
lap into the trenches There was a
matter Of fact sort of confidence
prevalent, and every man was max
ing the most of the breathing spell
to see that he was 100 percent ready
for battle. Interest and talk CEN
tered around the clicking rifles and
other equipment
Z ''This old guns sure going to do
some work from now on" said one
'doughboy to- his PAL as he played
with the rifle fondly, Its the best
gun is this army"
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LETTERS FROM THE BOYS WHO
ARE NOW IN The ARMY CAMPS

| Ny Dear Mr.. Hatcher: Your favor
of March IA and the duplicate mailed
March 81 reached me in the same
mail. l was very glad to hear from
you, and thank you for the interest
you took in explaining the situation.
Some of the boys got letters recently
that were several months old; other
mail seems to have gone through
without delay. l asked Y. M. c.
A. man, about to return to America,
to write to my father to make sure
that he knew / was all right in case
| he did not hear from me. He was
doing that for a large number of
us. The weeks pass very fast here,
and we are repaired for long siege
of it,
When it was suggested to move
our regiment to place where 1T
would more directly serve the Amer
leans, q French general replied 1t
would mean government crisis.
They have particularly warm feel
| ing toward this regiment, for the
affect il mad on their troops to see
American soldiers operating trains
up in one of their worst sectors
when there were scarcely any Amer
| leans in France can hardly be over
estimated, he said. @
Being 10 kilometers north of any
town where the Power Hammer is
sold, it would be hard for me to
make any of the calls at present, but
hope to have the pleasure of doing
so later on. One of our boys re-
members of having frightened bolts of
a Little Giant" used on a river and
harbor expedition on the Mississippi.
We have received, the past week, a
lathe from the Minneapolis Steel and
Machinery company which we are
installing in our shop here. I am
glad you are able to increase the
output the way your report indicates.
You are certainly doing your bit to
help win the war;
Being detached from the American
army, we did not see many Americans
preme command has been vested in
General Foch, the Americans, the
italians, the English and the French,
are all mixed up, as you know; and
it may be that some of the boys of
Mayer Brothers you mentioned will
now be able to pass an opinion on
the Paris Berlin" R. R. l will be
on the lookout for them. It was a
great excitement when we began
transporting Americans soldats." 1t
took the allies nearly four years to
get together, and now we hope for
big things-and we are here to stay
Nuntil they do happen. Sincerely
yours, Logan Rose, Company G
thirteen Engineers Railway. A. E. F.
France.
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France. May Is. 1880. M. Hat
cher, Manager. "Mabro.% Mankato.
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FULTON ACTS AS GUARD
Fighter Has Quit His Ring Business
Durinu War
limited Press Oispatch.1

UNITED Press -Oispatchl
Minneapolis, August 7.-Declaring
that he had quit boxing until after the
war, Fred Fulton, knocked out in an
encounter with Jack Dempsey last
week, today took position as guard
at the Washburn Crosby -four mills.
Fulton says he is out of the game un.
til the big scrap in France is over.
Minneapolis, Mimi, August T.
Mothers and their children who per-
haps do not get many outings, were,
guests today of the Salvation army,
at an annual picnic at Minnehaha
Falls. More than $50 mothers and
their children were entertained last
year at a similar outing.
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ardent Americans and they have won
the admiration of the comrades who
can speak the tongue without an
accent. They-are all snappy looking
| soldiers.
! In .HiIIy Country
The new units have dragged their
clean and fresh looking equipment,
such as supply wagons; camp
kitchens, machine gun outfits, and
all that is needed up into the Alsace
up and down steep mountain sides
and across pretty valleys. 1t is
beautiful country, and fine place to
tbe initiated to the front, for the
doughboy must be on the alert all
the time. In this area there is no
she'll swept, we'll wired No Mans
Land across which Germans cannot
come without being easily detected.
Woods and hills and wild country
make the place one in which only
strict attention to business will keep
| Germans out.
| These doughboys in the line have
no hankering to take things easy"
Every man in the line will tell you
in confidential tones that he has a
personal grudge to settle with the
Hun for. dragging the world into
this nasty business, and the sooner
aggressive action is taken, the
sooner Germany is going to be
punished and war made a thing of
the past.
That is the job every doughboy
, figures he has to do, and the conf
dence with which he takes to the
trenches tells the world he will
succeed.
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SERVICES HELD IN MEMORY OF EVAN EVANS,
WHO WAS KILLED IN THE ACTION IN FRANCE
From Wednesday's Daily.

From Wednesdays Daily.
In memory of the late hero, Evan
Evans, who fell in action July Is,
1918, by James D. Price. New Ulm,
Mimi:
Today we weep and mourn again,
For every heart is filled with pain;
Amid the cruel bloody strife,
Our gallant youth laid down his life.
The bitter conflict he did face,
And .strove to save the human race;
In front of cannon shot and shell,
He bravely fought until he fell.
The mourning ones find no relief,
Their aching hearts are sad with
grief;
But don't forget, his life he gave,
AS loyal, patriotic, brave.
You parents gave your loving son,
To fight the foe till war is done;
You could not show in better way,
Your love of country in this fray.
IT'S sad indeed, for you to part.
From one you loved with all your
heart;
To this dear one who bravely fell,
With weeping hearts we bid fare
we'll.
The sad news reached Cambria,
Mimi, last Friday afternoon, August
2, 1918, of the death of Private E..
Evans of the Thirty eighth Infantry.
U. S. A., son of Mr.. and Mrs. E. P.
Evans, who was killed in action July
Is, 1918.
Evan Evans was born at Tracy,
MINI, September 80, 1898. SO at the
time of his death was not quite
twenty years of age. Later on he
moved. with mis- parents to Butter
nut Valley and then to Cambria.
He was of quiet disposition and
clean of habits and he was truly
his mothers boy. One day he
heard the voice of humanity calling
him to~the noblest work of all time
and so he enlisted in the United
States army on December S, 1917, and
bid good bye to his family and a
host of friends so he left for his
training camp December 49, 1917. On
April ], 1913, he sailed for France.
He leaves to mourn his loss his par
ents, four sisters and two brothers,
namely. Mrs. w. c. Harris of But
ternut Valley, Eddie and Johnnie,
the Misses Stella, Gwennie and Es-
Their Evans, all of Cambria. Hearts
are vibrating today in sympathy with
the family. France will never let
the graves of these heroes be forgot
ten. France will water every blade
of grass with her tears
A large condourse of/people from
the surrounding towns attended the
memorial services which were held
at the Woodlands hall, Cambria last
Sunday at 2:30 p. ma. a military
squad under the command of Lieu
tenant Van Ness ofsSMankato, occu-
pied the platform during the serv-
ices.
1t was the saddest service Cambria
and the community ever had and it
brought the war home to the people
who probably had never realized the
seriousness of it before. The serv-
ices were as follows:
Selection, "Abide with Me-"
Scripture Reading, Rev. e. W.
Griffiths.
Selection. 1--WE Shall Meet"
Prayer, Rev. H. T. Owen
Selection by the Cambria male
quartet.
Poetical remarks in honor of the
FALLEN" by James d. Price.
Address hu Dew nxx,o.
en- Mark tenth chapter, ninth verses,
Sacrifice of Love-"
Selection, Safe in the Arms of
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FRANK C. CASHIER DIES )
From Wednesdays Daily.
We'll X novvn Odd EaIIo,u. De-

From Wednesdays Daily.
WeII-known Odd Fellow; Past Grand
Master of Organization.
Frank C. Cashier, attorney, former
member of-the Minneapolis city coun-
ell and well known member Of the
Odd Fellows, dropped dead late yes
terday while working in the harvest
fields near Grand Rapids, Mimi, ac-
cording to work received at his home
in Minneapolis. Mr.. Cashier was
fifty six years old. ,~.s
Theron Castper,~youngest son of
Mr.. Cashier, who is now in the United
States army, ordnance department,
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MRS. CLIFTON SMITH DIES
From Wednesdays Daily.
This Well Known Lady Has Been III
Iona Time

Long line.
Mrs. Clifton E. Smith, 428 North
Broad died this morning at St. Jo-
seph's hospital after a long illness.
She was born at Indianapolis January
20, 1875. Her maiden name was May
Belle Rowe. She was married to Mr..
Smith in December 1913. They came
to Mankato February 1, 1915. She was
member of the Methodist Episcopal
church and the lodge of Rebekahs
She was an excellent woman and held
in high esteem by large circle of
friends.
She is survived by her husband and
one daughter, Mrs. Esther Wood
Mankato, and son, Ralph Curry.
Mankato; also a grandson, Robert
Wood.
The funeral announcements will be
made later.
Mr.. Smith is connected with the
Armour company as travelling sales
man.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1918-07-17

Thy Associated Press)
NEW YORK, July 17-With the
half way mark reached in the major
league baseball season some inter
esting deductions are possible from
the records Of the various clubs com
posing the National and American
leagues. According to semi-official
figures compiled up to July 6, the
Chicago Nationals are leading the
senior organization in the total mum
ber Of runs made with 2s6, are sec
ond in hits and third in the number
of runners stranded on the bases.
The New York Giants holding second
place in the league race, had amassed
total number Of runs four less than
the Cubs and we're third in hits
The Philadelphia team held first
place in hitting. the total being 500
for sixty-seven games. The PhIllies
offset this laudabie stick work. how
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1918-07-17
ROOSEVELT'SS son
KILLED IN AN AIR
FIGHT IN FRANCE
my Associated PressI


PARIS, July l7-Lieutenant Quen-
tin Roosevelt, youngest son OF the
former president. has been killed in
an air fight, and the semi-official
Havas news agency announces that
his machine fell into the enemy
lines.
Philip Roosevelt. cousin, wit
messed the air battle in the vicinity
of Chateau Thierry in which Quen-
tin was engaged, but did not know
until later that the airplane was that
of his cousin, says lie Journal. The
machine was not IN flames when it
fell.
Roosevelt was last seen in combat
Sunday morning with two enemy
airplanes about ten miles inside the
German lines. He started out with a
patrol of thirteen American ma
chimes. They encountered seven Ger
mans and were chasing them back
when two of them turned on Roose-
yelt, who fought until he dropped.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1918-07-17
MID SEASON REVIEW Of BASEBALL
IN THE TWO MAJOR LEAGUES

ever, by piling 113 errors, the sec
ond largest number for the season
to date in the National league st.
Louis, in last place, vent the Moran
ties the limit in this respect with
an aggregate Of 13t The Cardinals
were second with men left on bases
no less than Asa batters were ma
rooned between first and third. Bos
ton was the most unfortunate in this
respect, having 466 stranded Oppos-
ing teams made more runs against
st. Louis than any other club with
Cincinnati the next easiest combina-
tion 70 score against and Boston
third.
In the American league, the New
York team has scored the greatest
number Of runs, the Yankees total
being sos. Cleveland Is second with
295 and Boston third with 29l Wash
ington leads in hitting with GAG.