The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-08-23
STORIES OF VERNON
DETAILED BY SCRIBE
MANY HAPPENINGS IN THAT
VILLAGE DURING WEEK SO
Methodist Aid Society Held Very
Interesting Meeting; Fresh
g News Notes
Especial to Free press.l


Vernon Center, August Thames
Lowell received card Monday after
noon from his wife saying she had
arrived in Spokane, Wash, that
morning and found her sister, Myrtle
alive and the doctors thought very
little better in some respect, but
very low and unable to tell just what
the outcome would be for several days
Are all hoping for more CHEEKY news
when the next message comes.
Miss Esther Nelson, who spent a
two weeks vacation with Vernon
friends, returned to her work in
Minneapolis last week. Before going
she received a card from her brother
Ivor telling of his safe arrival over
seas.
Rev. B. F. Koch, who has been en-
joying two weeks vacation from
his ministerial duties, will occupy
the pulpit next Sunday morning as
usual Mr. Koch spent his vacation
mostly in the harvest field, putting
the same vim and enthusiasm in
garnering the grain as in garnering
souls.
up from Swea City, Iowa, for an over
the week end visit at the Will Crit
fifth home in east Vernon.
Among the young people who are
making arrangements to enter Parker
college this fall are Era Griffith,
Avison, Kenneth and Florence Koch,
Velma Frances and possibly others.
These boys and girls have finished
the two year high school course in
the Vernon Center school and took
the third years work in the Amboy
high school last year. Owing to the
fact that the Amboy high will not
open until the first of October and
possibly not then as there are no
teachers in sight yet for the high
school with the exception of princi-
pal, the parents deemed it better and
surer to place the children in school
in this splendid institution than to
wait for the uncertainty of the Am
boy high.
Miss Dorothy Crogen returned
Monday morning to her home in
Plymouth, Wis, after spending two
weeks vacation with her uncle Lou
Wyman and her cousins Mesdames
Ii.
Rex Briggs of Stanberry, Wis, a
former Vernon Center boy, who en-
listed in the artillery department in
u. S. A., July 20 and was sent to
Camp Grant has been transferred to
Camp Thompson at Sparta, Wis, so
says card which c. M. Warren re-
ceived from him Tuesday morning.
Like abbott from clear sky last
Saturday came the resignation of
Will Withrow, buttermaker of the
Vernon Center CO operative creamery,
the same to take effect in thirty days.
Mr.. Withrow, who has been butter
maker for nearly nine years, since
the creamery was first opened, has
proved his worth and put Vernon
Center creamery and it's products
way up in the front ranks of Mime
sofa creameries. Mr.. Withrow has
accepted like position in Moose
Jaw, Canada, at salary better than
$1,000 for the first year and s''h-
stantial yearly raise as lor~ Is ne
stays there. This of looked good
to Will and he end his family are
making arrangements for departing
as soon as possible. Everybody re-
grets their departure.
Mrs. Agnes Spence will resume
her work as night operator at Gen.
trail this evening after enjoying a
vacation of two weeks with relatives
in Truman. Miss Florence Briggs,
who has taken her place, will resume
her work at the Lowell home until
the first of September when she
will go to Sherburn to continue her
high school studies. She will make
her home with Mr.. and Mrs. Albert
HalverSon.
Everybody will be glad to know
that f. HI. Barnes is feeling quite like
himself again and has more than held
his own for the past week. We, look
for bigger gains with the coming of
cooler and more settled weather.
The continued deluges of the past
two weeks are enough to give the
most optimistic the 'hypos" especial
ly the long suffering farmers with
stacking hardly begun. The ground
is water soaked so that ploughing is
an impossibility except on the bot
tom lands.
Our correspondent is in receipt of
a bit of news from Des Moines, Iowa,
which will be of interest to Free
Press readers, from Mrs B. F.
Keables, formerly Miss Virginia
Biggs of this place, who writes that
her husband who has been working
at Camp Dodge since he was rejected
in the army last year, made another
effort to enlist last month and was
successful, passing perfect exami-
nation and was put in Class 1. He
was sent Immediately to Camp Pike,
Arkansas. Mrs. Keables has accept
ed an important and high salaried
position in big insurance office in
Des Moines, a position which Mrs.
Keables is eminently fitted for
Mr.. and Mrs. John Lowell and lit
tie son, who motOred down in their
Ford runabout from Fairmont Satur-
day for weeks visit with their par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. F. R. Lowell, re-
turned to their home Thursday morn
ing.
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Morrow, who
have been visiting their parents.
leave Saturday for Ceylon where
Mr.. Morrow holds a railroad position
T. R. Meixell of Minneapolis, who
accepted position in the Thomas
Halverson furniture and undertaking
department some three months ago,
is now nicely established in the Peter
son house which had been re- dec
Grated and put in readiness for &C.
cupancy. The family and their furni-