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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-01-11


Fairmont Sentinel: DR.. Martha
Jones' mother, Mrs. R. M. Hawley,
Mankato, and her sister, Mrs. Minnie
Baker, Mitchell, S. D., have arrived
for a visit. Mrs. Hawley will re-
main until spring. Mrs. Baker will
leave the first of next week to visit
her daughters, who are attending col
lege in Nebraska.
]. M Kremer, cashier of the State
Bank of Madelia, was in Mankato this
morning to enlist in the quartermas-
ter's department, u. S. A.. Mr..
Kremer heard the address of Lieu
tenant Perigord at New Ulm last
night and is determined to enlist and
show his loyalty. He was greatly i'm
pressed with the address of the lieu
tenant, driving to New Ulm in order
to hear him. Lieutenant Perigord will
speak in Mankato tonight.
Rev. Father H. McKenna of Win
dom was guest in the city today.
Mrs. H. F. Bailer of Waseca was
shopping in the city today.
Misses Mary and Ruth Wiberg of
Lake Crystal were calling on frieno
in the city today.
M. F. Sullivan will leave Sunday
night for Chicago, where he will at
tend the convention and style show
of the National Shoe Retailers as
sociation.
Captain ]. A. Hielscher arrived
home from Fort Smelling last night,
on ten days furlough. The captain
has been quite ill, and has not made
much improvement in health
NJ. E. Teeter of Fairmont, emery
ency organizer of farm bureaus, is in
the city and is registered at the Ben
Pay Hotel.
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LETTERS FROM THE
BOYS IN ARMY CAMP
From Mondays Daily.

From Mondays Daily.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Mayer are in
receipt of the following letter from
their SON, j. w. Mayer, who is in the
naval service:
ION board the United States Ship
Florida, December Is, 1917.-Dear
Parents: l think it is about time
that / should write and let you know
how am. Well, we left the states
November 25 and dropped the anchor
over here December T. 1t was a nice
trip, only for a storm that we ran
into about four days out.
Il don't know how long it will be
before l see you again, but l hope it
won't be very long.
"How are all the folks at home?
Are they all well? AS there is not
very much to write about, will close,
wishing you all Merry Christmas
and a happy New Year. l remain as
ever your son, j. w. Mayer"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-01-11
LAKE CRYSTAL PARTIES WED.

Lake Crystal Union: The mar
IMAGE took place December % in
st. Paul of Miss Helen Phillips and
w. Scott Hunt The groom is the
son of w. S. Hunt of our city and is
a conductor on the Omaha division
of the Northwestern. They will
make their home in st. Paul. The
couple made a Christmas visit at the
parental Hunt home here and re-
ceived the best wishes OF many Lake
Crystal friends.
A quiet wedding took place New
Years eve at the home of Mrs. /.
Cole in Lake Crystal, when her
daughter Lottie E. Stevens was
Joined in the holy bonds of matri-
mony to Mr.. Neil X. McGibbon, the
ceremony being performed by Rev.
William w. Brown of the Methodist
Episcopal church. Both OF the par
ties are from st. Paul, the groom
being owner and manager of the
Ryan Taxicab company in that city
The couple remained in our city sew
eral days, leaving the fore part Of
the week for st. Paul where they viii
be at home to their friends at 551
Dayton avenue. They have many
friends here and in their home city
who extend best wishes for Ions
and happy married life.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-01-11
AUXILIARY AT KASOTA
Branch of the National Safety
League Is Organized In
Village

The extension committee of the
National Safety League of Mankato,
consisting of John Bowen, M. F. Sui
Ivan and Thomas McGovern, drove
to Kasota last evening and organic
ed an auxiliary of the league. TO-
ficers elected were: T. S. Wilcox,
president; Fred Manske, vice presi-
dent; o. p Buell., secretary, and M.
]. Kirby, treasurer.
After the organizing of this aux
iliary Loyalty meeting was held at
the opera house. Rev. R. w. Hobbs and
]. E. Regan of Mankato were the
speakers and Professor White pre-
sided. Both meetings were success
full ones.
r. E. Brown took the speakers
down in his car and the Perrin ga
rage donated the use of one of their
cars which took the extension COM
mittee down.
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pie wood through the town at Sc. so per
cord.
Wheat ranges from 81 sS to 50 10. rye
cents to 81 10, old corn, white, 81 40;
old corn yellow, 81 50;' potatoes, 81 .00
The days are thirty minutes longer
now since the HOLIDAYS
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Misses Marion Davies and Mabel
James of Lake Crystal are guests at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. w. Wigley.
Miss Frances Smith of ST. Clair
was in the city today, en- route 10
Delevan, where she teaches school.
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Boys Learning to Knit.
TtJnited Press Dispatch.l

ST. Paul. Mimi, January Boys
at the state training school at Red
wing are learning to knit for the SOL
diers They are making wooden
knitting needles for their work.
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call oil Court Cases.

A call of the court cases of the
district court will take place next
Monday afternoon at two o'clock,
when a special term day will be held.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-01-11
Meat Trust Alleged.

Philadelphia, Penn, January 81
Further proof is claimed to have
been found by the federal trade COM
mission of the existence of a great
meat trust with one of its main CEN
tiers in this city.
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Lecture on Bird Protection.

CeCture on Bird PrOteCtIOn.
Professor Gilbert Traitor will speak
on Bird Protection as a War Measure .
at the public library tonight at f:45
o'clock. The public is cordially in
vited
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Napoleon

\
| ford Wednesday, January 2, by Mrs.
John Oyer assisted by Mrs. Jennie
Johnston, chairman of the Mapleton
branch. The officers elected were:
| Chairman Mrs. John Oyer: vice
tary, Mrs. C. e. Rausche; treasurer,
Mrs. Charles Howley. The meeting
will be held in the church every
Thursday afternoon at two o'clock.
Father Colbert of Wlnnebago spoke
here last evening at loyalty meet
in the Pastime theatre Misses
Beatrice and Everild Troendle fur
nished the music. Meeting was under
the auspices of the Knights of Co
lumbus.
Mrs. w. Troendle has returned from
Rochester where she went with her
daughter who entered the convent of
Franciscan order
Mr.. and Mrs. George Cooper and
i Mrs. Charles, Cramer visited at the
home of another daughter, Mrs. Hall
of Albert Lea over Sunday
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Borchert en-
tertained Miss May Murphy of James,
vile last week
August Keller is home from Camp
Dodge for visit with his mother and
other relatives. Mrs. James Mullen of
Saltwater came to visit with August
at the old home.
B. F. McGregor was elected to a
place on the executive committee of
the local Red Cross. The society will
continue to meet Thursday and Fri
day at the library.
Tho cOuY,oi1 did vy;oo ft;rr wi, ~,
they knocked iout the punch boards.
Now if they acould go alstep further
and enforce the law in other ways
the town would be benefited.
School opened today with a new
zest, after the two weeks vacation.
Miss Crete Gilmore will have charge
of the second and third grades Misses
Taylor and Mills and Whittom were at
their homes in Minneapolis, Miss
| Billiard at Waseca
| At the regular business meeting of
the Mapleton Red Cross, January 8,
the secretary reported $173S22 had
been raised in the six months of the
sOciety's existence. Disbursements,
| $946. So; cash on hand, 1871. so, not
including 105 new memberships not
yet sent in to Mankato chapter
making total membership of AL. A
large shipment is readyito send out to
headquarters. IN 7rF ears
Oren Firth who has been here from
the Great Lakes Station for a five
day furlough during which time he
visited his mother, returned to the
station Thursday afternoon.
| Lawrence Johnston is still at the
Great Lakes although he expects to
be sent out by January 10. Ross
Johnston writes from Newport, r. l.,
that he hopes to get furlough after
January Is and expects to spend it
in Mapleton.
Miss Cecilia Petit went to Owa-
tonna Saturday morning in response to
a telegram announcing the death of
her sisters husband at that place.
| The o. E. s. installed their officers
for the new year at the regular meet
ing Friday evening. Refreshments
were served and social evening was
enjoyed. The officers are w. M, Mrs
/ ". j. Greiner; w. p, William Bor-
ebert, Jr.; A. NJ, Mrs. E. L. Sanborn;
secretary, Sue L. Sprague; treasurer,
Mrs. Hattie Wilde; chaplain, Mrs
Edmund Larke; conductor, Mrs. T. c.
Busse; associate, Mrs. H. M. Berry.
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4 SPLENDID THING

TT is a splendid thing to bo man. just
now E9f tr. ~
A man with Drawn and courage. who can
fight.
Or one with brains to make the proper plans
victory.
Again it is wondrOus thing to be
a man of means---with money to push on
And aid and speed the work IN every way II
Where funds are needed am not q mae.
And yet it Is n splendid thing today
To be womaii-one with Drawn to 60
Right in the face of our inhumap foe u
And nurse the soldiers, feed the fighting
host. #
Drive ambulances. and do everything
one sees needs doing, 1t is also fine
To be a woman with sufficient brain "a
To help the men in all they undertake
And then suggest another thing or two
Worth undertaking! And again. the last,
a womans money is a. needed thing.
And it is something well worth living for,
To give fortune TO suffering world.
That in the future years it may be free
From every menace that would dare repeat
This wars grim horrors! 1t is wonderful
To be alive and part of this great work
OF helping on n true democracy
One that shall be a pure, unquestioned state
Wherein no trace of past injustices
TO man or woman. humankind or beast.
Shall ever more defile the Stars and stripes.
The chosen emblem of our liberty.
And, whether we be born man
Or born n woman we have chance to die
True patriots, ail---and this. perchance may
be g
More precious even than our splendid lives!
--Lurana Sheldon. in the New York Times.
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THE BOOMS THAT BLOOM IN JUNE,
IRA, LA!

sTyORMER GOVERNOR RALSTON, of
- Indiana, seems to have forgotten that
the frosts of two hard winters must inter-
vene before the fragile third-term boom for
NJ. Wilson which he exhibited in flower
pot In Indianapolis can become hardy
plant.
Prcmatureness is sometimes as fatal to
pOlitical booms as too-lateness.
There is no occasion to get excited over
the matter. The country is not yet facing
the presidential campaign of 1920. Many
solde-s will cross The sea-and many come
back again--before the national conyen-
tions are held. Many new regulations will
~ made and some old ones may be un-
made before that time. If the war is still
4 IN progress the issues before the country
will be very different from those which it
must consider if peace has been made.
n 1t is prudent for the politician at the
present time to cut the future in very thin
slices, then he will be certain not to bite
on more than he can chew.
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GOING TOO FAR

sTHE motives of Mr.. Lewis, fuel adr,inis'
traitor, are good but his judgment is
bad when he threatens to prevent the de-
livery of coal to any house from which a
tenant has been forced to move by a
profiteering landlord.
There are not houses enough in the city
for any of them to be kept empty for the
purpose of Furnishing the owners And
the Innocent purchaser of house that has
been vacated because the tenant refused
to buy at the demand of his landlord has
right to coal. He should not he punished
for the sins of another. And he does not
become a partner In the offense of the
owner of the house when he buys it in
good faith.
lf there is no other way for punishing
The greedy and grasping protiteers than
by visiting upon the innocent the guilt OF
the offender the prohteers would better go
unpunished. If Mr.. Lewis cannot find
better way perhaps some real estate lawyer
who understands the nature of leases may
bo able to help him out.
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CERMANY's FRIENDS OUR FOES

TT is hinted that conviction of our neces-
sity for making war on Turkey will be
forthcoming in an investigation of her al
legged outrages against our consulate and
hospital in Tabriz. But however damning
the evidence may prove. TO be- such pro-
cedure seems very elaborate method of
approaching a simple issue.
1t is much easier to open school ge-
ometry and renew therein acquaintance
with the pregnant axiom that things
which are equal to the same thing are
equal TO each other" The spirit of govern
mental forces in Turkey is the spirit of
Germany. Germany Is our foe. The
mathematical deduction is obvious and un-
answerable.
In the case of Bulgaria precisely the
came logic 4 applicable. and. curiousiy
enegQ ~ xezx NE q sFospsept vhief
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A SIGNIFICANT RESEMBLANCE

PROFESSOR ROSS. OF the University OF
retrograd last December to learn what he
could of the economic program of the Boil
sheviki He has reported the result OF his
interview in one of the chapters OF his
book on Russia. Here is significant ex-
tract from the conversations:
I asked. us it the intention of your party
to dispossess the owners of Industrial plants
In Russa?'
"No' he replied I'VE are not yet
ready to take over all industry. That viii
come in time. but no one can say how
soon. For the present we expect out of
the earnings of factory to pay the
owner or per cent yearly on his actual
investment. What we aim at now is con-
troll, rather than o,onership"
What do you mean by control?
81 mean that will see to 1t that the
factory is rum not from the point of view
of private profit. but from the point OF
view of social welfare democratically con-
ceved. For example we will not allow
the capitalist to shut up his factory in
order to starve his workmen into sub
missveness or because 1t is not yielding
him profit. If 1t is turning out an
economically needed product 1t must be
kept running. If tho capitalist abandons
It. he will lose it altogether. for board of
directors chosen by the workmen will be
put in charge"
The parallel between this statement and
the statements of Mr.. McAdoo, explaining
the returns to be allowed to the owners OF
the railroads and the purposes for which
they are to be operated, is startling.
Either the Bolsheviki are less radical
than we had supposed or Mr.. McAdoo can
not properly be described as conserva-
tive
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BONNIWELL RAMPANT

TIME volunteer fireman who is running
- for the governorship on the Democratic
ticket was at his best at Harrisburg. He
10 acting on the theory, laid down by one
woodrow Wilson when nominated for the
governorship in a neighboring State, that
tho candidate for the governorship selected
~ the party thereby becomes the party
3eader.
e Now Judge Bonniwell wants to know who
- leader II he is not, And he wants it
A26tinctly understood that II he cannot be
8Gcognized as the leader Of the party that
Nominated him he will organize party
which will recognize his claims to direct
: ~ campaign. This is the spirit that VIC
torS are made of-and also martyrs.
Mr.. Bonniwel is at present rampant and
aIso couchant as well as rampant gardant
and salient, not to say conoattant, and
with regard to Mr.. Palmer counter passant.
If he does not know what all these phrases
mean let him consult book on English
heraldry-or Irish. if he likes that better
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SAVE EXPLOSIONS FOR EUROPE

aTyAyING permitted the grant Of fifteen
- hundred licenses to fireworks dealers
4 for the Fourth of July. the ,iayor in the
Name of a 'safe and sane holiday" oblig-
y hRgB expresses his intentions ito look up
: the law ON the subject" This convenient
H1ethod of lodging the issue recalls the
sAlice in Wonderland Jurisprudence,
whose guiding principle was sentence
E0rst, verdict afterward.'
Z, Mr. Smiths stiffness. however. although
Sonaensical. is decidedly unfunny. The
Z |Snyentional regulation regarding the use
<k Explosives on the nations natal day has
toen described as of the familiar Joke"
ylgnviety. But the consequences of this
6fereotyped sham have in the past been
1e3,elly tragic.
Here is situation ia which trifiing is
tFirhinal The Fourth of July shambles
(1a,nt not be repeated this year. As the
1nSynr has in effect disregarded the Fed
e oufhorities' urgent request that both
N ltfs and explosives he rigidly con-
- - Independence Day. It is now up
public TO prevent this senseless
~ Z nn1rio< .Nho dIsobeys this in
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What Do You Kno,v?
QUIZ

QUIZ
I. Who 10 Major General Iigsctt:
2. who Is cdjutant general Of the United statss
army: =
s. What Il the Sigma NJ? ri
T. What II tho capital Of Denmark: "A
8. Name the author Of "Olivsr Twist" @
q Who WAS ArriEo Bolto:
:. wh.s y; meant by the military abbrevlasise
g. Where 10 Camp Hancbck7 :s
o. Who is president Of Bryn Mswr Collegef s
10. Where is the Piave Rivess ~
Answers TO Yesterdays Quiz
I. Arthur r. HadIey Is president Of Yale Uue
: 2. Kentucky Is called tho nIue Grass state.
.. A.-.A r.-nyson wrote ''The Princess" 9.
4. An ..see" In s~rlsi warfare is an ssistefl
w." hSs shat dowp hse OF more eueeQe
o. General b. The hlshe,t rank In the Amsrisa4'
dozen times In the history Of the erWf
O. Wn,n q. Meadoo I. sssretary sf thqs
:. An r,.s Of gsowth Is an epc usnelly centeri9o.
about o. natt0nal hero nnd deye!er440
tnrsush sGIk T.. tale. sos And * E.'ssss; yssrt -
An enlc 81 art 4 an epic .noen! se9:c(Sl9
devsle:'ed and eomposed: Abe "IIi96w ~
,xample q the Arst. "rsrs6ise ussef
.. The cessl.s q K:ss..Isks 4 Gss.ss
sss sss, q sf,.e is = ssiss ~ I. = si: :s;s
- :. - 4. ( = &
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Where They Go

(The New York District Attorneys office
saws that Chicago, Pittsburgh. Cleveland
and Detroit are the favorite hiding places
of absconding husbandsl
When husbands make getaway. where
do the slackers go?
Where does the pallid henpeck fly? Well,
if he is adrot
He seeks those centers where the visibility
Is low
The cities of Chicago, Pittsburgh, Cleve-
land and Detroit.
But why not Philadelphia, Boston, Balti-
more, Duluth.
When housewives bounce on hubby's
bean a rolling pin for QUOT?
1t seems to me unnecessary compliment in
sooth
For cities like Chicago, Pittsburgh, Cleve-
land and Detroit.
DOVE DULCET.
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that country and Turkey may be legiti-
mately extended as a reason for belliger-
ency. Washington has held that primarily
we are fighting Germany. But we would
continue to oppose, her in wasing war,
already too long delayed, against those sub
iect stool pigeons of the "Near East" mis-
called her allies"
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How Far, Indeed?

To the Editor OF the Evening Public LcdSer' 4
Sir-If the Federal fuel commission ren-s
ders 10 per cent of the houses of Philadei-
phia uninhabitable next winter by refusing
TO allow coal to be delivered to them, how
far will such action tend to relieve the
scarcity OF houses and reduce rents? T. IA
Philadephia, June 20. ~ M
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A Iinauislic Offensive

English will have near competitors
among the languages after the war. for while
we are obterating the German language over
here our boys doubtless are numbering the
French language over there.-Caruthersvilla
Democrat.
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According to a ST. Louis dispatch the
ssnhads" of the late "Gumshoe BIZ Stone
<uow cries Fight 1t is pleasant to learn
that the spirit is willing, even If the flesh
Rasut
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viscount Grey discusses forcibly the rea-
sons why Germany should join the league Of
nations for peace, but nonetheless the
drumming guns that have no doubts have
~ far the best of the argument in that
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Are you aware, Mr.
Very Good, Mr.. Bones that the deal
Bones; Very Good er who demands eX-
tortionate prices is al
ways deaf on one side?" why, no, Mr..
Tan1bo; how is that?" why, because all
cries for relief fail to register in the
rrnfteern
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Our Daily Pome

Mary had a pair of eggs
And a slice of ham, ~
And when the waiter brought her check s,....z
She gasped and murmured. "Good-nights ~s
nurse. - Macon Telegrapns
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The sea pirate off our coast who declined
- attack ship that had cleared for action
doubtless did that just as politely" as he
would have bombed the vessel had she been
unarmed
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A Black Sheep

Pride in feminine attainments makes no
boast of the fact that Bertha KIupp Is the
leading gunwoman Of the world.-Washins-s
ton Star. @
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Why is IL that the photos of lovely
ladies playing tennis go often remind us OF
Broad and Chestnut streets on windy day?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-21

Speaking of army exemptions on the
score of fatherhood, in what class would
Brigham Young have been entered had he
lived to these wartimes?
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Sad but True

There's nothing like getting engaged TO
take the sass out Of man. know lots
of young fellows who talk like INT
among their peers. hut you should see them
COO and molass when friend hancee gets
them on the phone. No back talk then.
PENSIVE.
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wurm is one of Aus
He Will Also tria's generals, and
Turn-Back the obvious meaning
of his name is happily
suggestive of his rate of progress through
Nenetia.
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MOCK BARRACE
BY Lieutenant Leon Archibald
British Royal Engineers
an OUR way to the t,s offenslve on IN

0N OUR way to the big offensive on the
~ Somme in July, 1916. our division was
halted about halfway along the journey
for five-day period. We were to refresh
our memories with extended order and
other movements calculated to add confu-
sion to the Hun when we got him m the
open and on his way back to the Rhine.
One little item out of the many which
served to imprint those f1ve days forever
on the memories of men grown weary Of
months and months OF monotonous grind
in sodden trenches is perhaps worthy Of
some notoriety.
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So far as Austrias
And OF siss Also vain hopes are con-
cernei. that celsbvated
ve,1llca spsa ovsr : llttle canal = tn1e>H,
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rIIST what the enemy thought Of the
81 conyulsivs scenes on the ridge We never
learned but he evidently considered It no
Mac. for self-respecting cavalry