The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-11-22
STORIES FROM VERNON
EVENTS IN VILLAGE; VARIETY
I OF DOlNGS THERE
Red Cross Unit Has Been Max.
ing Record; Personal and
News Gossip
Especial to Free Press. !

cholera has put in its appearance in
this locality. Henry Good and Frank
Grannis have been heavy losers. DR..
r. P. Dodds of Lake Crystal vacci-
mated hogs at the c. NJ Warren yard
Saturday while DR.. Getty of Amboy
was doing the same work at the
farms of A. c. Gray and d. r. Lo-
veil.
Dwight Cornish had colt badly
cut in barb wire necessitating a visit
from veterinary.
Mrs. Frank Rich was called here
from her home at Willow, N. D., by
the serious illness of her brother, F.
H. Barnes. Mr.. Barnes is gradually
growing weaker, having taken no
nourishment for the past twelve days.
Mrs Newell, trained nurse is as
sisting in caring for him.
c. NJ. Warren last week received
a letter from Rex Briggs from Some
where in France, having arrived
overseas the first week in October.
Mrs. Lorenzo Carpenter left Sat-
urday for ST. Louis, Mo-, where she
will spend fhe winter with her
daughter, Ms. Lulu Austin.
The village school which has beer
closed forymore than three weeks, re-
sumed york Monday morning. Miss
Halvo,Son is in charge of the pri-
maryjfoom and will hold the position
untT Miss Bailey completes her nor
msf course sometime in December.
There were services in all the
churches last Sunday morning but
owing to the very inclement weather
the attendance was very small.
Mrs. Ware has returned to her tome
after a visit of several days with
Mrs. Glen Lowell.
carload of salt was CD the track
Monday for patrons of TIE creamery.
G.. C.. Cornish, president and A. q.
,Halversen, secretary of Vernon Cen
ter Co. operative creamery were in
charge of the unloading. Patrons
paid fifty cents per hundred for salt.
Anil RoIoff, our buttermaker, was
in Manksto Monday on business con-
necte9 with his QUESTIONABLE of the
last draft. Lon Wyman, an ex but
,ermaker, looked after the creamery
affairs for that day.
Did anyone ever before see such
abominable weather? The cornfields
are a perfect quagmire. Farmers are
praying for freeze up so as to en-
able them to get on to the fields.
Roads are almost impossible and in
some places quite SO.
Threshing is not finished in this
locality and it now looks as if it
would remain in stacks until spring,
if labor has it's reward. l wish some
one would show, me when, how and
wherefor has not the farmer been
putting in sixteen hours of the hard
est work into every day for the past
eight months while other laborers
with double the pay have been work
ing eight hours daily and no reward
in sight yet.
Mrs. Ed. Annis is at home again
after several days visit with her
brothers, George and M. Keith in
Sterling.
Misses Selma Petrick and Julia
Nelson returned Monday to their
studies at the state normal at Man
kato.
Miss Blanch Burdick of Maynard,
Iowa, who has been assisting her
brother Harold for the past two
months in publishing The Vernon
Center News and Amboy Herald, has
returned to her home.
During the flu epidemic Vernon
Center Red Cross branch has been
pursuing the even tenor of it's way,
although the Red Cross meetings have
been abandoned for the past month,
home service work has been going
steadily on. Red Cross work room
was re opened last Thursday and
about twenty members were present
and the afternoon was mostly spent in
sewing labels on finished articles and
in remodeling our second allotment
of fifty army shirts. Friday the ship
ping committee spent busy after
noon packing five large boxes, ane
box containing eighty four pairs of
socks and thirteen sweaters was sent
to Red Cross chapter at Mankato
Two boxes of clothing and one box of
shoes to the fire sufferers. Vernon
Center Red Cross branch has receiv-
ed several letters from fire zone head
quarters thanking them for the large
amount of splendid clothing and
shoes sent them besides the generous
checks received from the branch and
Mr. and Mrs. F.. H. Barnes. Seven
boxes of bedding, clothing and shoes
weighing nearly a ton has been sent.
The first boxes were sent by express
as the clothing was so badly needed
Miles Porter of Mankato, who was in
the village at the time this shipment
was made paid $12 or over half of the
express bill. The check of $1,000
from Vernon Center branch and a
check of like amount from Mr. and
Mrs. Bert Barnes speaks well for the
loyalty and generosity of the COM
munity and if only number of Ger
man sympathizers and Huns which
contaminate the village and town
ship could be exported to the Father
land of the Huns, this neck of the
woods would indeed be an Utopia in
every sense of the world. Let's make
America safe for democracy by
Graduating the undesirables. The
German slogan, "Hoch der Kaiser"
should be put into execution. 1t
means High is the kaiser" The best
way to "high' him is to hang him.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Bowen return
en- Monday evening from Rochester,
where they have been for just eight
weeks. Mr. Bowen shows the effect
of his long illness and confinement in
the hospital after a very serious op-
GRAFTON. Everybody is rejoicing to
know that ne is on the road to COM
plete recovery and that ere long he