The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-07-26
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IucIc Will NC CliuiC R ~ IL .oO lC(AI
Sunday instead Of in the afternoon.
There was, a good attendance at the
lied Cross society last Thursday.
The Christian Endeavor society
will have a box social at the home OF
Arthur Sharp Friday evening. Every
one welcome.
Harry Evens IN writes often TO his
people from the camp at Rockford,
Ill. He is getting along fine.
The Sharp families and Mrs. Joe
Grice enjoyed picinc dinner at
Sibley park Sunday.
Claude Buick of Fort Riley was
home on a short furlough slast week.
He attended the Red Cross meeting
Thursday. aoHi o
Mr.. and Mrs. G. w. johnson and
daughter, Cora, and Mr.. and Mrs
l.. B. Steel have been spending their
vacation in Hubbard county. They
lnotored there in the johnson car.
Haying is coming along fine and
this week grain will be cut. Farm
ers are already making their plans
for threshing.
number Oh relatives of the Even
son family met at Sibloy park week
ago Sunday and enjoyed picnic Gin
ner. The Pleasant occasion was in
honor of the birthday aofiCMrs. Alfred
Eyenson.sy ,ff1g sefnsye ist .9o
] M. and MI ". ". Hytt and Al.
liel lHytt bf Webs er City, Iowa, yis-
tied Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Buick last
week. The former are parents of
Mrs. Buick. 5ffooeas4frssE y.
I: Lillian Nsary of Madison Lake Wis
tied Mrs. Ray Rist last week
Fern Johnson-and Mildred Lowry
Of Mankato spent a few days with
Beulah and Carrie Busby. ,y,4e,.
Maud Severance OF, Crosby has been
visiting her UNCLE and aunt, Mr.. and
Mrs. Charlie Severance.
Viola Miel1els entertained Mary and
Evelyn Budde for supper last We'd
nesdaN evening. 't nv 31i ~
Little, Maurice Wallm, five years
old is doing his bit to help. Uncle
Sam. He goes to the hay field every
time his father and Mr., Busby does
and leads the horses oil the stack
er which is certainly wonderful tor,
a boy Of that age. y5i9 f3 IS Hpf'
Mr.. and Mrs. J. s r. Michels and
daughter, Viola spent Sunday after
noon with Mr.. and Mrs. H. A. Han
sen and family.
Mrs. Milo Johnson and babies spent
the week end at the Culp home
Leonard Lindsay is home from the
hospital and getting along fine.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kort Currier of Swan
Lake spent Sunday at the Rist home.
Mrs. Eldred is spending the week
with her daughter, Mrs. F. E. Jeffer-
son.
Mr.. and DMrs. Charlie Lind enter
tained their children and grand chill
dren Sunday for dinners The gath.
erihg was in honor of the BIRTHDAY
OF their SON., Alfred who lives at New
Sweden. III r. 50Tot sgt
George Cole and sons are busy
picking and selling their fine rasp-
berries. a1l
letter recently came to the home
people from Claude Bachelor, who
was at enc time on the ship San
Diego but IS now in France. He said !:
! am goign to leave this depot with :
in the next few days for some where
near the front, up where there is a
little excitement OF course there is
some here once in a while but there
1T will be different. Something do
ing all the time and not only that
but also chance to get a shot at a
few dutchmen, a chance we are all
waiting for. Then of course there is
a chance of them getting US but that
is what we are here for. / hope this
won't last much longer as have had
about AL the war l want and have
been away from good old u. S. A.
long enough. But if we want that
place to go back to we must fight
met a couple more boys from Man
kato here and whole company that
enlisted in st. Paul and Minneapolis.
A card written June Is. said "You will
see l have moved. Am now about
five miles from the front line trench
IS and it seems a lot better than
here was before. We are quarter
ed in an old barn, rather our work
shop is. Many cows and chikens and
everything that goes with a farm
Marcella Parsons, Marie Wussow
George Loucks and Edward Budde
were entertained by the Michels
young people Sunday.
F. M. Washburn of Lake CRYSTAL
called at the Busby. home last week
Reuhen Purifier has been Spnndinp