The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-11-01
STORIES OF VERNON
LISTED FOR READERS
NUMBER EVENTS RECORDED
IN THAT VILLAGE
Many Men Show Their Kindness
To Sick Neighbor There;
Personal Mention
Especial to Free Press.l

dom visiting her son law and
daughter, Rev. and Mrs. w. w.
Brown at the Methodist parsonage.
Mrs. Harry Shelby and little son
Clement of Oaks, N. D., arrived
Tuesday on the noon train to visi
for few weeks with the formers
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Brown OF
West Vernon Mr.. Shelby expects to
be called to the colors most any day
Mrs. Lorenzo Carpenter, who has
been staying in Rochester for sew
eral weeks, arrived home Sunday
evening.
Willard Busby received two car
loads of cattle today which will be
fed for the spring market.
Louise Tom, who stays with her
sister, Mrs. Herman REEVES in North
Vernon and attends the village school,
was taken i'll while at school Tues
day morning Mrs Roloff, the train
er nurse, who was in the building at
this hour, found that the child had a
high fever and badly infiamed
throat She was taken home at once
and put to bed and this morning is
feeling much better. In all probable
ity she is having nothing more SER
ious than the grippe. Terry Spence,
also of North Vernon, is quite sick.
DIR. Williams of Lake Crystal is his
physician.
Will Griffith, Will Sewers, Henry
Weir, Jack Bunce, Enoch Swanson,
Tom Hays, Ed Tetum Leslie Cooper,
Carl Warren and James. Lowell made
up a bee Monday and stacked ten
80 foll g.. ~ a. til.
Dor. Clate Kelly, who is very sick
with influenza and threatened with
pneumonia.
G. c. Cornish received word Sun
day morning of the death of Floyd
Jones, a former Vernon Center boy
He was the son of Mr.. and Mrs. Jake
Jones, VINO lived in West Vernon
until about ten years ago when the
family moved west where both his
parents died and were brought back
to the village cemetery for burial
Floyd was here about two years ago
bringing back his youngest sisters
body to be laid beside her parents
He was a fine young man about
twenty four years old. He was
Somewhere in France with Uncle
Sans army and he died of bronchial
pneumonia. Floyd arrived in France
September 4, and died September 2S
Mrs. Sarah Butler received a checf
of $50 from HI. C. Kraus a few DAYS
ago for the famous Red Cross pig
which had been in the lime light
since the big Ceresco auction in June
The last scene in the pig drama il
a happy one. The curtain falls OF
the exit of piggie into one of Uncle
Sans gilt edge bonds
Mrs. S. Schiller and Mr. and Mrs
ID. r. Schiller and daughter, Mis-!
Mildred who is home from the state
university owing to school beins
closed and Don B. Jarvis, all of Blu,
Earth, were Sunday guests at tn,
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Rob Sewers
Mr.. Jarvis, who is a friend of thu
family came to bid them good by,
as he expects to embark fo~ owe
seas work in the near future I'd /
home on a short ia Mrs. S
Schiller is an aunt OF Will and Rol
Sewers and stayed for more ex
tended visit.
Mrs. Robert Sewers received a let
ter yesterday from Miss Helen Cur
rier, who was former principal O
the Amboy high school and is wei
known to many Vernonites, sayin
that her brother Clifford left las
Thursday for across as chief wireless
operator Mr.. Currier is an exemp
larry young man who has earned hi
promotion to this responsible posi-
ton and he will sure make goo
along with millions of other bows i
Uncle Sans army who are maxim
Kaiser Bill and the rest of his dirt
tribe realize that the sun is about t
set on their career of crime, cruelt
and obstruction, and that the Who'll
Hun army who have already got col
feet will soon be hot footing it bac
to Berlin in double quick time [
the tune of Yankee Doodle.
Mr.. and Mrs. Miles Porter of Man
kato are spending part of the wee
IN the cities on business and pleas
ure trip while their little daughter
Stella, Joyce, Barbra and Patriot
are having most delightful time {
the homes of Grandma Porter an
Lowell at Vernon Center.
Mrs. Sarah McMonagle receive
this morning very optimistic an
cheerful letter from her son Georg
who with his wife and four childre
are among the fire refugees at Moos
Lake. He writes. "I'm back again q
the state job" His two daughter
Mabel and Helen. are again at the
Old work as telephone operators
Lumber is being shipped in ar
much building is being done in
crude way. Sacks large enough
hold two or more families are b,
ing built to house the people durir
the winter. Farmers will be give
lumber to rebuild, no one thinks
leaving. The way the Red Cross
handling 1.-THE situation is certain
wonderful. Everybody has bee
clothed, fed and their wants proyid,
for in way that is trlrely miraculou
There had been up to date one hu,
dred bodies brought to Moose I.al
for burial.
Rather tardily we note the arriy
of a fine baby bow at the home of M
and Mrs. CLYDE Uptograf in Gard.
City. The little chap is week O
today. The UDtografs formerly liv,
here and their old neighbors Al
friends will be glad to hear this.
Mrs. Alex Dorweiller return,
Wednesday evening from Manka
where she had been helping in Il
care of her daughter Sylvia, who h