The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-03-29
YOUNG FOLK AT SAINT
I CLAIR Join RED CROSS
Junior Organization Formed
And Ready For Work
ALL ARE ENTHUSIASTIC
News Notes; Personal Mention;
Many Happenings In the
Village
Especial to Free Press.I
from Fridays Daily.

from Fridays Daily.
st. Clair, March 21-The st. Clair
school organized a Junior Red Cross
league last week. All but a few of the
pupils resi- onded Part of Wednesday
afternoon was spent in knitting blocks
for quilts and piecing together the
outing flannel squares for the Bel
gian children's quilt The material
is being furnished by the local Red
Cross branch An endeavor was
made few weeks ago to organize
the Junior league but the required
amount of money could not be raised
at that time.
Agnes Riese is substituting for
Grace Preston while she is being en-
tertained by the measles.
Jake Chase has finished his saving
here and will move his saw rig to
GAINESVILLE as soon as the roads per-
nit
Mrs. Henry Campbell was pass
i enger to Albert Lea Saturday to
visit relatives for short time.
The following article was handed to
! the correspondent too late to enter
| last week but better late than never.
A large number of friends and rela-
| tives gathered at the home of Aug
gust Swanke Sunday afternoon,
March 10, to help Mr.. Swanke cele-
brate his fifty first birthday. Those
present were Mr. and Mrs. Powell
Mr.. and Mrs. Hernans, Herman
| Fitzloff, Mr.. and Mrs frankie,
! Mrs. Ed Miller and family, Brands
! family and Louis Klingbeil. A very
spent Carl Powell entertained the
guests with singing and banjo play
ing.
! Mr.. and Mrs Ed VanBuren and
| daughters, Beulah and Effie of Eagle
Like were guests of Mrs. VanBuren's
mother, Mrs John Bncholtz Sunday.
! Mrs. Charles Hilton and Pearl
Bucholtz were Albert Lea visitors
Monday and Tuesday.
! Dr. McBeth was called to the home
of NJ Y. Hoagland, Frances Hoag-
| land being ill.
Mrs. August Fisher returned Mon
day from a visit to her daughter,
Mrs. Sarah Keiser at Wells.
The St. Clair Red Cross workers are
still Loyalty working with a vim that
shove we havevlo slackers. although Il
! number of our members are being
made conspicuous by their absence
at our Thursday afternoon meetings.
! We are in hopes though that when
the weather becomes settled and the
roads enable automobiles to spin. We
will have :. larger attendance This
branch has sent in the following fin
ished articles: one hundred pairs of
nc
! fourteen wristlets, thirty-twO sweat
ers, nine wash rags, eighteen band--
ages, six helmets, six hot water bot
tie covers, twelve bed shirts besides
completing eight packages for the
/ Belgian children. We have also
large number of knitted blocks and
some block pieces of outing flannel.
Mrs. Matteson is our champion knit
ter, out of the hundred pairs of socks
sent in by this branch, she knit forty
| pair Of them.
Dick Schultz was at Mankato Mon
! day procuring barber supplies. Mr..
Fitzloff tended the barber shop dur
ing his absence.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leo went to Mankato
Sunday where Mrs. Leo had an oper
alton Monday morning at the st.
Joseph's hospital. Mrs. Leo is report
ed as getting along nicely Mr..
Smith has charge of the hardware
store during Mr.. Leo's abence and
Mrs. Smith is administering to the
wants of the children.
The old saying where there is a
will there is way" was very truth
fully demonstrated last Monday when
Mr. Jensen and Miss Oftedabl of
Pemberton started in an automobile
for Mankato to be united in the
holy bonds of matrimony. They
were accompanied by Mr.. and Mrs.
Walter Atcherson also of Pemberton.
They succeeded in getting short
distance beyond ST. Clair when they
found the roads impossible for a
car, SO they returned to st. Clair and
after trying without success to Sc
cure some one to take them to Man
kato with a team, they departed on
the noon train for Albert Lea, Mr..
and Mrs. Atcherson stopping at