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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-01-18
Tri-State Association Holding
| Its Yearly Session
BIG men ON PROGRAM
Herbert Hoover May Address
Convention; Many Topics
Are Booked
UNITED Press Dispatch.l

From Mondays Daily.
Fargo, N. D., January 14.-What
promises to be one of the largest and
most interesting conventions of the
year just commenced in the north
west will open here tomorrow morn
ing when grain growers from the two
Dakotas and Minnesota convene here
for the annual session of the Tri-
State Grain Growers association. The
meeting will continue through Fri
day of this week.
Definite announcement has been
received by President G. B. Waldron
that Carl Vrooman, first assistant
secretary of agriculture who has ex-
pected to attend the meeting, cannot
attend on account of pressing bust
ness at Washington.
United States Food Administrator
Herbert Hoover, who has previously
expressed his desire to attend the
meeting and talk before the north
west grain growers, stated he would
not know until the last minute
whether or not he could attend. Pres
ident Waldron, is expecting a wire
from Mr. Hoover before the conven-
ton opens.
The Principal Address.
The principal address of the four
day session will be by Sir Roderick
Mex enzie of Winnipeg, president of
the grain growers and marketing as
sociation of Canada, who will speak
on the associations work in Canada.
This organization handled 90,000,000
bushels of Canadian wheat last win
ter. Mr.. Mckenzie and other mem
bers Of the Canadian association will
tell what Canada is doing to solve
the marketing problems. Half day
is to be given over to these men.
Food conservation and marketing will
be the subject to be death with by the
convention in general and all talks
will border on some angle of these
topics.
John Burke, United States treasur-
er at Washington, D. c. has given
positive assurance of his attendance
and will give the administration S
view on the subjects before the con-
yention. Mr.. Burke is nationally
known as a speaker and will outline
to the northwest farmers the work
ings of the administrative machinery
at the nations capital.
Paper BY {. e. Laid.
Among other speakers of promi-
hence will be Professor E. E. Ladd of
the North Dakota Agriculture college
who will have paper on the 'Im-
portance of and Methods of Feed
Conservation. Professor Ladd, also
state food administrator under Her
bert Hoover, has given much time in
the past few months to food con-
servation and other win the war
movements-now chief among the
people.
Dr. Stakman of the University of
Minnesota will talk on Potato
Diseases" and ]. N. Hagen, North
Dakota commissioner of agriculture
will speak on "The Seed Grain Sit
uation in North Dakota"
The Fargo Commercial club has
made arrangements for the enter
tainment Of the visitors on large
scale.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-01-18
DRIVE FOR FARM BUREAU
Committees Selected For This Very
Important Undertaking.

Committees Selected For This Very
Important Undertaking.
In accordance with the action at a
recent meeting at Commercial club
headquarters of the executive COM
mittee of the club and a number OF
citizens, F. E. CranG2il, chairman of
the meeting, and c. e. Phillips, vice
president of the Commerce club have
appointed eleven committees of two
members each to canvass the city
tomorrow and place one hundred men
of the city on the roll of membership
of the Blue Earth County Farm Bu-
reau association.
Members of the committees are: J.
C. NARROW, A. L. Veigle; w. B. Falan-
Ger, Roy Bates; L. L. Wood, Henry
Sperra; A. E. Quimby, T. x. Jones;
w. M. Taylor, Malcolm Morehart; j.
A. Farmer, Conner Jones, M. F.. Sulli-
van, d. M. Jones; J. J. Flachsenhar,
Chris. Zotalis; F. M. Otto, Herman
Szamet; P. M. Ferguson, George
Black; c. E. Phillips, F. E. Crandall.
The committees are requested to
attend the Commercial club meeting
at the Heinrich hotel tonight, when
Judge Frank Wilson of Saltwater will
explain the desirability of having farm
bureaus.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-01-18
Rev. William Mckinley Died
AT Winona Saturday
LONG IN GOPHER STATE
He Wrote One Of the Most
Authentic Acct UNITS of Early
Minnesota
From Mondays Daily.

TfOHI HtoH0dy Cdtiys
Rev. William Mckinley, dean of
Minnesota Methodism, active as
lecturer, author and divine in vari-
Gus parts of the state since 1854,
died late Saturday at his home in
Winona, where he has lived since his
retirement from active ministry ten
years ago.
DR.. Mckinley was eighty four years
old and was known prominently
throughout the northwest as an au-
thor and preacher. In the Civil war
he gained his early experience as
chaplain among the Union soldiers.
His first pastorate was at Hastings,
where he lived as a boy on farm.
Subsequently he was pastor of Ham
line Methodist Episcopal church of
st. Paul, Central Park church and of
the First Methodist Episcopal church
of Minneapolis, besides serving as
district superintendent of the st.
Paul district He was an intimate
friend of Edward Eggleston, the
famed minister-author, in whose
church New York city he served for
year.
A native of Scotland, Rev. Mr.. Nc
Kinley came to the United States in
1841 at the age of seven years
History of The Church.
This veteran Minnesota divine be-
came well known as the able chron-
icler of Minnesota Methodism. In
1911 he published "A Story of Mime
sofa Methodism.' Dr. Eggleston, in
commenting on the work at the time
of its publication said.
Or. Mckinley has succeeded in
giving to the public an exceedingly
vivid and interesting description of
the early days Of Minnesota, the So
cial conditions and the leading per-
sonages in the settlements of that
state" The book was the witness
ing of one who knew and who saw
the panorama of the days gone by in
the northwest
This is what Dr. Mckinley said
about his landing in the state
When Stern Necessity Moved Him.
when navigation opened on the
Mississippi took the first steamboat
up the river and landed in Mime
sofa, April 13, 1856. The ice was not
out of Lake Pepin SO we left the boat
at Reads Landing. There was an
other boat at Redwing to take the
passengers to ST. Paul and there were
wagons to carry the women to the
head of the lake.
"But with 700 passengers, mostly
men, there were not enough wagons
to carry them and they had to walk
Rather than do this another young
man and ! decided to start overland
to Faribault. We tramped all day
across the prairie without anything
to eat.
Neither of us ever had done a
days walking and before night we
were used up, but stern necessity
compelled us to trudge on. We saw
no house nor signs of human habita-
ton compelled us to trudge on. saw
lions all day."
In graphic descriptions Rev. Mr..
Mckinley wrote one of the most au--
thentic accounts of early Minnesota,
a book consulted frequently by his
torians and chroniclers.
The funeral services for the aged
clergyman will be held at Winona on
Tuesday.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-01-18

F. III. Groom, pastor of the Chris
tian church returned yesterday from
Oklahoma where he has been on
business for the past two weeks. He
will again occupy the pulpit of the
Christian church Sunday morning.
Miss Esther Larson, who has been
spending the holiday vacation at her
home in Tracy, visited relatives in
the city today, while en- route to Sun
Prairie, Wis, where she is assistant
principal in the schools.
Adjutant General Rhinow, Major
John Snyder, and Lieutenant Mills of
the state board, and Captain Edwards,
the generals aide, who were in the
city last night to attend the inspec-
ton of Company G, Home Guards,
were in the city today and visited the
district and local exemption boards.
M. F. Sullivan returned yesterday
from a trip to Chicago, where he at
tended fashion show and convention
of shoe retailers. Styles in shoes were
decided upon, and it is whispered that
one style this year will last all sum-
mer, which will be welcome relief
from the frequent changing styles
last year.
Ed Davis of Minneapolis, agent for
the Security Insurance company of
New Haven, is spending a couple OF
days in the city on business.
John A. Hanson of Minneapolis,
special agent for the Milwaukee
Mechanics Insurance company, was
in the city attending to business mat
tiers today.
Misses Dora Dybdah1 and Esther
Johnson, who spent the holidays at
Bookings, S. D., have returned to
Mankato to resume their studies at
Mankato Commercial college.
Mrs. William S. Hughes and daugh-
ter Jean, of Lake Crystal were call
ing on friends in the city Tuesday
and Wednesday.
R. E. Brown returned last night
from Minneapolis where he attended
meeting of managers of the North
ern States Power company.
George F. Stromberg of Fairmont
was in the city visiting relatives for
several days, and returned to his home
yesterday afternoon.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-01-18

Ole M. Larson of Odin was in the
city on business yesterday.
Louis Wilson was business caller
at Odin, Mimi, yesterday.
Mrs. A. Hofenlock of Kasota was
shopping in the city yesterday.
Mrs. A. Bixby of Garden City was
shopping in Mankato yesterday.
Dr. III. A. Alexander of Redwood
Falls was visitor in the city today.
Misses Marie and Inga Paulson,
nurses at the st. Peter hospital, were
business callers in the city yesterday.
H. H. Tompkins of Aberdeen, So.
Dak., is visiting his brother, I. N
Tompkins and family, Van Brunt
street
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-01-18
From Mondays Daily.

From Mondays Daily.
Charles Thoebald Of Sherburn is
visiting friends in Mankato.
! County Surveyor Roy Allison went
to ST. James today on business.
! John L. Evans of Lake Crystal
was a business caller in the city to-
day.
j Mr. and Mrs. Grant Lewis of Lake
Crystal were in the city shopping last
Saturday.
Attorney J. w. Schmitt spent the
day attending to legal matters in the
! twin cities.
! j. B. Smith, formerly with the
! American Express company in this
city, now of Minneapolis, visited
friends in the city Sunday.
| Miss Susan Lauterbach of Redwood
Falls arrived in Mankato yesterday
Miss Lauterbach will enroll as stu
dent in the commercial college.
Mrs. NJ l.. Jones and daughter,
Miss Edith of Lake Crystal were in
the city last Friday, enroute for a
visit at Rochester.
Miss Louise Demmin, stenographer
at the Mankato Fruit Commissin of
flee, is spending week visiting
friends in ST. Paul, and at Benson,
Mimi
George Klein, formerly of Man
kato, now of San Diego, CAL, made
arrangements to leave today on his
return to that city, after visit in
Mankato.
Frank Wittrock was called today
to ST. Paul on account of the death of
his aunt, Mrs. Ida Lester, in that
city. Mr.. Wittrock left for st. Paul
at once Mrs. Wittrock will go later.
Grand Keeper of Records and Seals
p W. McAllester, and State Grand
Chancellor J. B. Richards, of the
knights of Pythias lodge, will pay an
official visit to the lodge at ST. James
tonight.
Thomas W. Hart, former county
treasurer, at Mankato, now of Min
neapolis, was visitor in the city
today Mr.. Hart is now travelling for
Foot, Schulze & Co. He spent Sum
day in Mankato with relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. L. Scott, who spent
the past week visiting at the home
of their daughter, Mrs. C. E. Casa
way, at her farm home near lie Sueur,
have returned home. Mrs. Gasaway,
who recently underwent a severe
surgical operation at one Of the local
hospitals, is reported as make good
recovery.
Mrs. George M. Palmer is now in
Minneapolis, taking special course
to fit her to become an instructor of
instructors in making surgical dress
ings for the Red Cross. AS has been
previously statedw in The Free Press
this branch of Red Cross work will
be taken UP by the Mankato chapter
Immediately. The first class is limit
ed to ten, and is already filled. 1t
will take two weeks to complete the
course, and then the classes will be
open to the public. A room in the
basement of the Odd Fellows build
ing, donated by the /. o. o. F. lodge,
has been fitted up as a study room,
and will accommodate twenty five
students at one time. The surgical
dressings will be made with great
care, and utmost precaution will be
used in guarding them. Mankato has
been in the lead in other branches
of Red Cross work and will now do
its "bit" to supply the urgent demand
for surgical dressings.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-01-18
MISTER. In FIRE
commissary and Other Buildings in
Washington Destroyed.

washington destroyed.
UNITED Press Dispatch1
Washington, January 14.-Fire of
mysterious origin today destroyed the
commissary and other buildings in the
Washington barracks. Marines have
been thrown around the quarters
where the fire occurred and very few
are allowed to pass in or out, pending
an investigation. There were no ex-
plosives in the building that burned.
Washington, January 14.-Firemen
today fought the flames at Washing
ton barracks amid exploding am
munition, that flames reached. 1t is
thought the damage of the fire will
reach $4,000. Secretary of War Bak-
er is making an investigation. but
his department has given out the
statement that no one is suspected
of starting the fire. However, the
soldiers declare they believe the fire
was incendiary.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-01-18

Mrs. Marie Hutchinson is spending
a few days in the city soliciting funds
for the support of the Orphan and
Rescue Home association of Winona.
Mrs. Hutchinson was in Mankato a
year ago soliciting for the same as
ISOLATION. 81
Former Postmaster Stales of Wells
was in the city yesterday to attend
the meeting of county chairmen of the
Minnesota War Savings committee.
Mr.. Styles is chairman of his county
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-01-18

morrow. according to Assistant
County Attorney Walter III. Newton.
What prices the men obtained for
the cars is not known, but it is be-
lieved the alleged heads of the syn
dictate made small fortune from the
sale of them. All of the men except
Hoppe, the deputies said, refused to
talk
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-01-18
New Rule In ouakerism.
United Press Dispatch.l

New York, January 14.-Quaker-
ism has for the time being ceased
the practice of communicating
members for going into the war. This
statement was given out today by w.
w. Comfort of the Haverford college.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-01-18

Collision Occurred on the Houston
and Texas Central Road.
Associated Press Dispatch

IASsOciated Press Dlspatch.J
Houston, January 14.-Ten to four
teen persons were reported killed and
twenty injured when a Houston and
Texas Central passenger train collid-
ed with a freight at Hammond. Five
soldiers a woman, two girls and a
baby were counted among the dead.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-01-18
caiIIeux Is Imprisoned.

Paris, France. January 14.-Joseph
Cailleux. former French minister of
justice, has been formally imprisoned
in connection with the Bola Pasha
case.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-01-18
Eight Months For Broms.

L <tSSOCIettCQ Ooo
st. Paul, January IA. s. Broms,
state socialist organizer, was sem
fenced to eight months imprisonment.
He was charged with failure to regis
ter
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-01-18
WHISTLER IS Identified
This Was Done In Rather Sensation
al and Gruesome Manner.

al ana GrueSon1e Manner.
UNITED Press Dispatch.l
Camp Funston, Kan, January IA
Kearney Wornall, the one survivor
Of the Ratchet tragedy, was made to
identify the murder this morning in
a peculiar way. The dead body of
Captain Lewis R. Whistler, who COM
mitted suicide, was placed in chair
by the side of the sleeping and badly
wounded man. Wornall, on awaking,
saw the form of Whistler sitting in
the chair, and in an instant ex-
claimed, "That is the man, Captain
Whisler!" Then the wounded man
sank back exhausted Attending
physicians say the nervous shock was
severe, but it will not interfere with
the wounded mans recovery.
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Sim Feiners Taking Referendum.

London, Eng, January 1.-THE Sim
Feiners are taking a referendum on
the question of addressing petition
to parliament for the complete inde-
pendence of Ireland.
Trench and camp. ([Admiral, Md.) 1917-1919, 1918-10-31
MEDICAL CORPS WORKING
TO STAMP OUT PNEUMONIA

/. Pneumonia, as is the case with ty-
phoid. may soon be q disease almost
unknown in the American Army. Ex-
periments with q pneumonia vaccine
have been progressing satisfactorily
for some months, the Laboratory Divi-
sion Of the Surgeon Generals once
has announced.
This. may mean, translating the
guarded language Of medical men,
that q vaccine which will prevent
pneumonia has finally been discovered
and that before long pneumonia in
oculation will be given along with ty-
phoid incubation and smallpox vac
cination to every new selected man.
rendering the Army proof against
this angle Of disease attack.
1t. was learned at Army Medical
Department headquarters that vaccin-
alton against pneumonia was tried for
a period of ten weeks at Camp Upton
last winter. During that period no
cases Of the disease due to the three
types of pneumonia germs protected
against occurred. About 10000
troops, all volunteers, were vaccina-
ted. In addition, the incidence of the
disease from other pneumonia organ
isms was only one-tenth as high
among those who had taken the treat
ment as among the rest of the men in
camp.
Should the pneumonia vaccine now
being experimental with prove sue
cessful, and indications are not lack
ing that it will, once again the Amer
lean soldier will have carved a unique
place for himself not only in the his
tory Of warfare but of medical prog
resS.
Typhoid. trench fever and now
pneumonia are under attack by the
Army Medical Department. Little by
little the outposts of disease are being
gnawed away. Sometimes It is a raid
ing party that goes forward, some
times 1t Is big smash that carries the
line. The present pneumonia vac
cine experiments may only be anal
agous to the artillery preparation of
determined thrust later in the same
direction, but they give fair indica-
ton OF important progress and per-
haps victory over the disease.
At all events. they prove that the
Army Medical Department is alive to
its task, is ever on the alert for q
chance to down disease and in its op-
eratiOns has at its command some of
the ablest medical men in the world.
ample facilities and mountains Of sup
plies.
Trench and camp. ([Admiral, Md.) 1917-1919, 1918-10-31
UNIFORMS no FIT MEN

Hereafter the uniform will fit the
man instead of the man trying to fit
the uniform, according to the Quar-
termaster Corps. A new tariff OF
sizes OF uniforms has been worked
out by the Clothing and Equipage
Division and 1t provides for not only
the regular sized clothing, but special
sizes for longs, shorts and stouts.
Get your proper size.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-29

then take flight for the purpose of
bombing New York or some of our
other coast cities. 1t was also said
that it was quite within the range of
possibility for a fleet of the big Ger
man bombing planes to cross the At
lantic and bomb New York with tons
of explosives just as they had Lon
don on more than one occasion. In
fact. II was then felt that there was
no telling what the Huns might do.
Now while it was generally supposed
that our War Department had taken
these rumors into consideration and
had provided for any such happenings
by stationng in the vicinity of New
York a sufficient number Of aviators
and combat planes to meet any enemy
air raid on the city on more than
equal terms, at tho same time there
was considerable secrecy in the mat
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this experiment made clear to the
New York police and fire departments
flagrations could be Of invaluable aid
in combating them.
AS matter of fact New York's new
police aviation force is direct out
come of the war in more ways than
one. When America first entered the
conflict with Germany the Huns were
at the height Of their U-boat warfare
and air raids Of frightfulness on Lon
don and Paris and other cities of the
allies were of frequent occurrence,
and there also were many rumors of
super U-boats. which could play havoc
with our commerce on this side Of the
Atlantic, and which might also easily
convey, to some hidden base In Mex
leo or the far north, enemy alrplanes
which could qt,&1sly be assembled and
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thoroughly familiar with all parts Of
the motors. Then they were given
careful instruction in the operation
of the wireless. which has proved Of
ing aviators in touch with their base
The thirty-odd men for this force
were carefully selected. Before
young man could Join he was Obliged
to pass a stiff physical examination,
and those who failed to meet all the
age limit was also put on all april
cants. Only fully developed boys be-
tween eighteen and twenty-one were
accepted.
On certain days the advanced pupils
Of the police aviation school were,
after they had passed all the prelimi-
nary lessons. taken to q flying field
near the city and there they were in
structed in actual flying until they
became proficient aviators in every
particular. '. "
For months these police birdmen
were put through their PAGES, and If
band of Hun air raiders had by any
chance descended upon New York, In
all likelihood they would have re-
cetved very much warmer reception
When the armistice was signed and
the war practically ended, the ques-
ton at once arose what was to be-
come of the police aviation force
mat such an efficient body Of men
should be allowed to return to other
occupations seemed a pity, and it was
decided to keep the force intact as a
permanent branch of the police de-
partment. In a few weeks. as soon
as the proper machines fbr the Dur
pose can be built, police aviators VIII
fly over New York on regular beats.
The plan of having a permanent
aviation section of the New York
police force originated with Special
Deputy Police Commissioner Rodman
A. Wanamaker. This interest In the
police avlators Is natural, as he has
been an aero enthusiast for many
years. 1t was he. 1t will perhaps be
recalled. who in 1914 backed the
construction of the Curtiss flying
boat America, which was to have at
tempted, had not the war interviewed.
to fly across the ocean.
The new force is under the imme.
date direction of Col. Jefferson De-
mont Thompson. who will be the first
flying police deputy" in the world.
Col. Thompson. like his superior. Mr..
Wanamaker, has for years been in
terested In flying. and he was one Of
the founders of the Aero Club in 1905.
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ter and consequent uncertainty so the
police department of New York de-
cloed TO take no chances. but to
organize quickly an airplane force of
Its own, which would be fully trained
and quite capable of meeting the Huns
In the air.
several times week the men en-
listed In the force quietly met, not
TO excite suspicion, at no one point,
put az diTerent aviation schools about
the city, and there, under the direc
ton OF experienced aviators, they
We're given lessons in the handling
or airplane motors and Instructed in
much the same way as military ayia-
Tors IN the management of airplanes.
blackboard lessons were impaired in
attitude ana Hight. while the begin
ners were allowed to tinker with
dummy engines until they became