The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-08-16
Ben. Peterson of Amboy transacted

Ben. Peterson of AmbOy transacted
business in the city yesterday.
Mrs. Bert Griffith of Sibley, Ia,
was in the city visiting friends today.
Rice Roberts of Canova, S. Oak,
was in the city on business yesterday.
Miss Ruth Mention of Lake Crystal
was visiting friends in the city yes
terday.
&C. w. Hamilton of Waterloo, Ia,
was business caller in the city yes
terday.
Miss Catherine Griffith of Randolph,
Wis, is the guest of Miss Mary
Hughes.
Mr. and Mrs. George Franta of Wa
basso were business callers in the
city today.
Mrs. J. Little and daughter, Ollie,
of Elmore, Mimi, were in the city on
business yesterday.
Miss Margaret Bierie, Mrs. L. Bar
mes and Miss Cardel of Blue Earth
were in the city on business yester-
day.
Miss Ella Wolf, who is saleslady at
the F. w. Kruse store in Fargo, N.
OAK, is home to spend a short vaca-
ton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Olson and Mr..
and Mrs. J. R. Jacobs of Neuman
Grove, Neb., were guests in the city
yesterday and today.
Miss Emma Anderson and party of
friends, from Lamberton, Mimi, mo-
tored to Mankato and spent few
hours with friends today.
Miss Pearl Mann left Sunday
evening for Washington, D. c., where
she has been appointed a clerk in
the war insurance department.
Miss Luella Darr, who spent the
lpast few days visiting at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Jos. Kern near Mad
ison Lake, returned to Mankato yes
terday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Matt Newland and
children of Sioux City, Ia, were in
the city for several hours yesterday
, en- route on an automobile trip to
the twin cities.
Miss Esther Daniels has gone to
Madison, Wis, where she will visit
relatives and friends for several
weeks, and will return about the first
of September
James Johnson, who has been mo-
toring through this section of the
state with party of friends, and Wis
iting at the nearby lakes, started on
the return trip to Wisconsin this
morning.
Springfield Free Press: Miss Ade-
liza Bauch went to Mankato Wednes-
Isister, Miss Eleonora Bauch, who is
| first assistant cashier in the Peoples
, State Bank of North Mankato.
Herbert Kester, proprietor of the
Style Shops in Mankato and Fari-
bault, has returned from a purchasing
trip to the east, where he visited the
leading fashion markets of New York
and selected fall and winter stock for
his stores.
Floyd Wilkins, who is serving in
the United States navy on the ship
Alabama is home to spend a short
furlough with his relatives. He will
return to resume his duties on the
Alabama next Friday. He states that
he is well pleased with life in the
navy.
Professor J. A. Hancock returned
| last night from Camp Grant, ILL.,,
: where he was visiting his son, Charles
Hancock, one of the selected men sta
toned there Professor Hancock
states that the men are located in a
fine camp and are exceptionally well
treated and cared for.
Patrick Homer Jordan, Louis Rel
chel and Lucius Erwin Mills left Man
kato this afternoon on the 4:50 train
for Indianapolis, Ind, where they will
take up special training along me-
chanical lines. The young men were
accompanied to the train by the
sheriff and County Auditor C. L. Ken
nedy and were given a rousing fare
well. They were presented with COM
fort kits before they left.
Business is booming in the west
according to Colonel Gustave Widell
of Mankato, who returned last even
ing from a trip extending to the Pa