The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-04-05
STORIES OF VERNON
LISTED BY REPORTER
Red Cross Continues To Do
Great Work There
EVENTS OF THE VILLAGE
Relief Corps to Be Organized;
Personal Gossip and the
News Notes
Especial to Free Press.l

Especial to Free Press.l
From Saturdays Daily.
Vernon Center, March S0.-Eddie
Bailey, Joseph Bowen, Avison Koch,
Lawrence Warren, Era Griffith, Mar
garuite Wilbur, Velma Frances,
Frances Tyrrell, Valaria Petrich and
Florence Briggs, who are attending
Amboy high school, enjoying a va
cation Thursday and Friday while the
faculty was attending a teachers
convention.
DR.. j. E. Merrill was called to the
A. c. Gray home Thursday to look
after patients with the measles. Mrs.
Laura Coughman of st. Paul who is
visiting there has been ill for about
a week and now Mrs. Gray and young
est son, Donald, have the disease and
are feeling quite poorly.
The Methodist Episcopal Aid will
meet next Wednesday afternoon at
the home of Mrs. Harry Morris. Mrs.
Hugh Francis, the third vice presi-
dent will have charge of the meet
ings for the coming three months,
Every member who can possibly do
Mesdames Fritz and Hughes of
Mankato will be in the village Sun
day afternoon where they will organ
ize Relief corps.
Saturday afternoon the Vernon
Center Red Cross sent 213 finished
articles to headquarters at Mime
apolis including % pairs of socks, II
sweaters, IL pairs wristlets, 10 wash
cloths, 40 bed shirts, 80 suits of
pajamas.
Mrs. Jessie Secrest of Amboy, who
is spending the week visiting her
parents, MI. and Mrs. Thomas john
attended the Red Cross work meet
| ing here on Thursday and was among
| the busiest workers as was also Mrs
| L. Zumwalt, who has lately located
near Garden City. Mrs. Zumwalt is
now working with the Garden City
branch and spoke of the all day work
sessions which are in vogue there
Miss Lulu Young, domestic science
| teacher in the school at Heron Lake
spent her Easter vacation with her
aunt and cousin, Mrs. H. Young and
! Mrs. Hazel Bates. Miss Young left
on the early train Friday for Man
kato where she will spend the day
visiting several of the schools OBJ
serving the work in several lines
which the Heron Lake schools are
especially interested in and give q
report of same to the faculty and
school board of Heron Lake.
R. e. Fate and Ola Klingermar
spent short period in Good Thun-
der Monday evening looking for the
"grooms" they didn't catch
Mrs. G. w. Lassick was a shopper
in Mankato Wednesday.
The Sunday schools are preparing
an Easter program.
| Rev. B. F. Koch who recently SOLD
his Ford car to Will Withrow, is now
driving a new Overland.
4 Mr. and Mrs. julius Borchert OF
Mapleton and Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Bor
ebert of Mankato were callers al
Strawberry Point Thursday evening
Miss Blanch Randall, the obligins
popular clerk of the Matson store
enjoyed a short vacation the first par
CT the week visiting Mrs R. j. JUS
and Miss Selma Petrich and shopping
at Mankato.
Albert Halversoon who is clerkins
in general store at Sherburn visit
ed his wife and daughter in the vii
lage Wednesday. Mrs. Halverson i.
making splendid recovery to goot
health after very serious attack o
pleurisy which developed into pneu.
monia.
The International people will soor
have a fine stock of hardware ant
machinery and we'll equipped store
Day & Kraus of Amboy have rented
1.-THE building of the Farmers state
bank and are busy getting every
thing ready for business. Vernon
will have two splendid hardware
stores. The heads Of the two firm!
were formerly together in business
and the Cooper hardware and i'm
plement company extends a heart.
welcome to the new firm.
i Tom Hays is expected home this
evening from Minneapolis where h'
has been visiting his family for sew.
eral days.
Vacation next week which boil
teachers and pupils will appreciate
There was no school yesterday, GQot
Friday.