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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-05-03
Kasota

G. j. Carlson of New Ulm visited
over Sunday with relatives here.
MRS. Wallace Grant and children of
Pennington spent last week with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. William st.
John
Miss Bethel Mention is suffering an
attack of erysipelas in her face.
Mrs. w. B. Pulver was quite sick
the fore part OF the week.
Miss Laura Buell. spent the latter
part of last week visiting in Hender-
son.
Mrs. Lettie Rausch and daughter
OF st. Peter called on Kasota friends
last Sunday.
Clarence Ream and family of Fair
mont were guests last Sunday at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. J. R.
Ream.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Babcock were
twin city visitors over the week
end
B. o. Rinkle of Winona visited
! over Sunday with his family who are
spending several weeks at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. o. p Buell..
Mrs. Harry Johnson entertained
the Larkin card club last Monday
evening.
Superintendent White spent the
latter part of last week in the cities.
Mrs. Mary Stebbins still remains
very poorly.
F. J. Klaseus purchased a new
piano last week of P. A. Strom of
Mankato.
! Mr.. and Mrs Frank Edwards of
ST. Paul visited at the home of the
Pulver several days the latter part
] of last week.
! Mrs. Marie Peterson was called to
| Waseca last Friday by the illness of
J her daughter, Mrs. George Pulver.
She returned home the first of the
| week.
The Ladies' Aid society of the
Presbyterian church will meet on
Thursday afternoon of next week at
the home of Mrs. T. S. Wilcox.
Miss Esther Apell is spending a
! few days of the week at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. J. w. Bennett in
the country. She will go to Man
kato the last Of the week to begin
|
Miss Freida Tyrich, teacher in the
Brown district will give box social
and entertainment in the school
house Saturday evening. The pro-
ceeds above expenses will be given
to the Red Cross.
Miss Isabel Trowbridge returned
last Saturday from a visit of several
weeks with relatives at Rice Lake
Wis
i A daughter was born last Wednes
day, April II, to Mr.. and Mrs. Ira
Pettis.
The Juniors entertained the Seniors
and the faculty in the gymnasium
last Saturday evening. Lunch was
served and all present report good
time.
Albert Davis of ST. Peter purchased
the Apell property last Saturday. Il
will be occupied by his son, Super
intendent Melville Davis and family
Il Miss Edna Warrant spent las
week with her sister, Mrs. E. L
t Vernon.
\ Mrs. c. Christensen and daughter
) of Minneapolis are visiting relative.
in town this week
Mr.. i.IlI Mrs. Bert Adams of st
: Peter visited at the home of Mr. an(
Mrs. Frank Komers last Sunday
: Lieutenant Frank Clapp of Battle
: Creek, Mich, is home this week OF
/ a furlouSh.
, Mrs. E. E.. Boutwell, returned
home last week from visit will
2 her son Marshall at jefferson
5 Barracks, st. Louis. Enroute sh,
, visited with relatives in Iowa.
}, The Jolly 16" club was enter.
/ tanned last Saturday evening by Mr.
and Mrs. Charles r. Swenson.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-05-03
JONES' NEIDT.

JONES-NEiDT.
Waseca Herald: Last Saturday
afternoon occurred the marriage of
Mrs. Ellen Jones, daughter of Mrs.
John Anderson of this city, and Mr..
Albert Neidt at Mankato. They were
unattended. They left the same even
ing for Chicago, where they will visi
relatives. and will also visit at Mime
apolis, after which they will return to
this city, where they will make their
home. The groom is employed in the
Northwestern shops.
Both bride and groom are well
known in this city, and their many
friends wish them happy welded
life.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-05-03
WAS SMUGGLING PEPPER
Carpenter On Swedish Ship Paid
Heavy Fine For Act

Heavy Fine For Act.
London, March 22.-[By Mail. -
John OLSEN, carpenter on a Swed-
ish ship, was fined $4,000 at Hull for
concealing seventy pounds of pepper
in the vessels cargo of coal. OLSEN
claimed he wanted it for preserving
fish, but the judge explained that
pepper was in great demand by the
Germans for making tear shells. John
Ingemarson drew $500 fine for hid
ing twenty eight pounds of soap and
four other members of the crew got
$125 fines for concealing coffee, pick
les, jam and other commodities.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-05-03

Clarence Pond who accompanied the
remains of the late Louis Klages to
Mankato from Camp Cody, returned
to Camp Cody yesterday.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-05-03
Yesterdays Loan Drive

ASSOclated Press DiSpatch.I
Washington, April 27.--The result
of yesterdays loan drive amounted to
over twenty one hundred millions of
dollars.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-05-03
Send Reports to S. 3. Wilson.

Those who have surplus of food
stuff, flour, more particularly, should
mail their reports to s. B. Wilson,
Mankato.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-05-03

F. e. Morse is home from Camp
Dodge to spend a short furlough with
mis- relatives
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-23
A CARRION CREW

From the New York Herald.
 "God only knows what may happen in this country in the next year or two We have the same conditions they had in Germany and Russia. Stand by your colors-the flag-your ideal; and when 1 say flag I mean the international flag :" Victor Berger at Chicago.
 What should happen in this country is the immediate incarceration of this apos- tie of anarchsm, behind bars and with an efficient stopper in his bolshevist mouth. Despite the fact that he stands convicted of crime, a pro-German and bolshevist constituency elected Berger to seat in the lower house of Congress. There should be no place for him in that body, no place for him or "the likes of him" anywhere in this country. What bolshevism has done for and to Russia furnishes an object lesson of value to Americans-oGe the import of which they have not missed "All socialists are pro-
 bolshevist today" declared Berger in his Chicago speech Why not take his word for it and send the whole crew of them to Russia or Germany where their hearts are?
 1 That goes not only for the Chicago crowd of fsmalcontents-who may be court l ing another Haymarket-but also fol such brainless persons as the New York 1 imitator who, at q gathering of shal- 1 low pates held in the parish house of the
 Church of the Ascension on Sunday night
 extolled Lenine and Trotzky and boastet
 that ..he had remarked recently that h'
 would just as quickly believe President Wilson was German agent as that Trot,
 zky was"
 l Every preacher at bolshevism in Amer i ica is a traitor to the soldiers of Amer ica, who have given their lives to sav' liberty to the world.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-23
MUST MEND OUR SPEECH

From the New York Telegram
 Among the many, many good things we are going to do when the war Is over" it occurs we might as well in- clude the cutting out of cuss words.
 We've all gotten bit careless, even some of the women.
 Early came the story of the British officer. asked by kneeling woman scrubbings hospital floor to fetch a pail of water, who replied, Dammit. ma,am, I'm an officer" and was an- swered by majestic woman, rising to her feet and full height:-"Dammit, sir. I'm duchess!"
 There's a heap of them but the last is of the American general, in a far ad- svanced position, who, called by tele- phone and asked if he understood that hostilities were to have ceased at II O clock in the morning, replied, "Yes. I did; bat at 10.5S we were going like hell'
 Before the vernacular reform starts, however, we would ask permission to say that it is strictly. within tho bounds of possibility that two minutes after time for the armistice has ex- pired we may again be going like hell.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-23
London Is Afraid
 Wilhelm Means Trouble

~ REAT BRITAIN views the stay M2l of the former Kaiser in Holland with uneasiness. The London corres- pondent of the Associated Press writes: "There is everywhere agree nlent in the idea that the ex-Emperor's presence in Holland is intolerable, and it is insisted that he must somehow be made impotent to do further mis- chief"
 Other reports indicate that Holland eyes Wilhelm with suspicion and finds herself in an increasingly awkward predicament because he sought refuge there and is apparently biding his time until it is propitious for him to return to Germany. Naturally, he is regard ed as rallying point for reactionaries who may be trying to foment count CT revolution in Germany with the purpose of restoring the Hohenzollerr dynasty.
 The London Daily Express fears the possibility of plot to trick the allies
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-23
A GOOD SOCIALIST
From the Washington Star.

From the Washington Star.
 Victor Berger of Milwaukee, who was recently elected to Congress as so- cialist, was introduced to meeting in Chicago as "a good socialist, because he can show his indictments" If that is the test of "a good socialist" what is the status of those other radicals who have escaped indictment? Socialism has not heretofore been based upon the prin- ciple of lawbreaking. If that is now to be the test of the partys followers, the courts will be kept busily occupied. It logically follows that if an indicted person is "a good socialist one who
 has been convicted must be the best sort. It would be truly accommodating If the courts were to expedite their pro- cesses and hasten to trial all who have been accused of violation of the acts passed for the protection of the nation during war crisis Meanwhile the positorF Mr,fsEerger as q prospective
 mcmbeff the House : -ss Representatives
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-23
+ x Ban Is Lifted From Construction w ork

1.-THE removal of all remaining re- U st1ictions on nonwar construc- ton work, as announced by Chairman Baruch of the war industries board, will cause unprecedented building ac- tivity throughout the country. Projects involving many millions of dollars have been held up for the duration of the war.
 The action of the war industries board comes at critical moment in the return of the nations industries to a peace footing and will provide places for thousands of men who are being released from munitions plants and other war work.
 The fear that there would not be enough jobs to go around, particularly when the soldiers return home, was lHtlC VIII DC CihployiiJti' for all with equitable pay. Private concerns and individuals have given loyal support to the government 1T eliminating as far as possible nones- sentials in order that the nations en- crgiss might be concentrated on win ming the war. The losses have beer considerable and the delays caused il many cases have been vexatious, bu they were borne with commendable pa triotisnl. 1t was realized that selfisi interests should not be allowed to in terfere with tho mighty task to whicl America addressed herself in declaring var on Germany.
 Public Improvements have been sadly neglected, in Birmingham and in al cities of the country. Work of thi kind should now be resumed and car Tied to completion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-23
LUKE M,LUkE SAYS

Funny how girl admires a mus tache when she doesn't happen to be raising it herself
 And you may have noticed that it is the fellow who has nothing to say WhS takes so long to say II.
 And what has become of the oid- fashioned Chinaman who used to wear a pgtail?
 If nays to be cheerful A grouch doesn't get you anything and 1t inl- pairs your digestion and wrecks your nervous system. It is hardtfor married man to be- have himself. If he sticks around the house every night he IS nenpecked'
 and if he doesn't he is 8 brute. The reason why they are so happy during the engagement Is because the parties are not as we'll acquainted with each other as they will be later 1 on.
 If a simp believes in dreams 1t Is I an easy matter to sell him stock in oilless oil wells and copperless copper 1 mines.
 1 There are fe wbirds on eevry jury who first make up their minds and then listen to the evidence.
 Every soldier who has just received ! a gift wrist watch believes that there is no time like the present. { 1 Leave it to the woman who hasn' any to call your attention to the fact 1 that diamonds are vulgar and out oi style. l We are cowardly about a lot oi l things. The engineer who gets killed in a railroad collision Is always blamed for the wreck because be can'' 1 deny it,
 The other fellows peck of troubis
 looks like gill. But your peck ol
 trouble looks like 10 bushels.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-23
OLD SHOES ARE VALUABLE

From the Boston Globe.
 The old boots and shoes that are cast into the dustbin in England have consid- erable value. They are soaked in water threads are picked out, and the leather is reduced to thick pulp, from which wall papers, screens. etc, are made. The finer the original quality of leather the better it takes the bronze and old gold of the designs which make these hang frame makers also know the value of this pulp, and carriage builders press it into sheets which are invaluable for the roofs of the most luxurious vehicles
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-23
Learn Business Methnds.r

Don't ever tell me again that women who have had no business training can not learn business methods said w. H. Nichols T had occasion to go into the headquarters of the women's war saw ings co.hmittee the second time within & week. The first time l was informed that they were getting out some sort of campaign to Alabama teachers in re- gard to war savings work. They had sev- eral girls addressing cards. Two or them were sealing letters, others were folding. Two machines were busy. Mrs. Johnston, the state director of the wom- ems division, was busy at her desk, while Mrs H. l.. Philips, the county chairman, was just as busy doing her part of the work.
 seven or eight Boy Scouts folding, tying and sealing literature. What Is it this timer I asked. Oh, just helping the mems committee said Mrs. Philips. The women are through for the present, but the men needed help, so we and the Scouts are just finishing up little piece of work for them don't know whether women have always been as live and Ibusinessike as-they are now. If not this war has surely worked wonders with them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-23
McAdoo's Resignation
 Matter of Regret

IT'S, RESIDENT WILSON has been l fortunate in the personnel of his cabinet. His official family as now constituted is in thorough har- mony with his policies and has worked wholc-heartcdly for the country.
 w. G. McAdoo, Secretary of the Treasury and director general of the railroads, has proved one of the ablest of them and his resignation will Icause widespread regret His services in these trying times have been in valuable. Not only is he financier of broad vision, but his practical knowledge of transportation affairs qualified him especially for the com |plex problems of railroad administra- tion.
 The two offices which Mir. McAdoo lhas been holding will probably be di- Ivorced. The President might look the country over and not be able to find a man who could fill the post of Sec retary of the Treasury and the post of dire ctor general of the railroads equally well.
 He is likely to place man of w
 P. G. Harding's poise and experience
 at the head of the treasury depart.
 ment, and man of large railroad ex-
 perience in charge of transportation
 MT. Harding would make an idea Secretary of the Treasury. As gov lernor of the federal reserve board ht lis performing service of the highest importance. The President, it may b' Iassulaed, would not willingly give hin up as member of the board, but as
 the Secretary of the Treasury is c,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-23

officio member, his transfer to the cabinet would not disturb in the least the operation of the reserve system.
 $ % T patriotic duty of Americans to eat turkey on Thanksgiving Day. It is also the pa- triotic duty of the dealers to sell those birds at price that can be met by the ultimate consumer
 Iron crosses bestowed by the former Kaiser are now being sold in Germany for five pfennigs each, about one cent in American money. Even at that price, dealers, are open to a charge of profiteer- ing.
 Certain congressman seem to fear that President Wilson doesn't want their voices heard in Europe. The President knows we have reputation for statesmanship to sustain.
 Sightseers in Europe are not wanted at present Continental hotel keepers will have to wait while longer before Ue- ginning to reap the rewards due them. ! The late Joseph Smith, with five living wives, 4S children and 91 grandchildren, must have found his Christmas shop ping something of d nightmare. | It is proposed to erect a statue of Mar ] shal Foch in Washington. Surely, the solid south" will not be criticized if it heartily indorses the movement. # # * l Those nations which preserved merely a benevolent neutrality" toward the al- lies are doubtless wishing they had shown little more favortism. | # # # l It was General Petain, now marshal of I France, who first said, They shall not pass" Historians will please make a note of this.
 A Philadelphian who ran down an American flag and shouted. "Hurrah for the Kaiser." was doubtless full of schnapps.
 l
 According to the veracious camera, Admiral Sir David Beatty of the British navy. is still wearing his cap at rakish Eangle
 King Albert may not have a large do- main to rule over, but he's welcome guest in every nook and corner of it. l Viennese composers are presumably in no mood just now to dash off one of those rollicking viennese operettas.
 + # #
 Since General Pershing is noted for his common sense, he will probably not take his presidential boom seriously.
 # < # While hostilities have ceased along all the battlefronts, George Greet is still under fire,
 l # x #
 The German grand fleet suffered even less from the war than the Hohenzol- Tern sons.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-23
THE WOMEN OF FRANCE

Lyman Powell in the Designer.
 neglect none of the arts that attract men. Even in intuition plants the woman worker knows where the mir TOT hangs, often has her powder puff at hand, and gives unconsciousIy the delft touch to the hair. If it has some times seemed to us that the French wife overlooks too easily the uncon- sciousness of husband. 1t Is because we have failed to understand that French women are expected to keep themselves so attractive to the mate after marriage as well as before that he will not want to wander over fields.
 If it be asked what woman is suf. ficient all through life for the double duty of being a good wife and a good mother. I name you France, and add that French women are in this regard the marvel of their sex and the strong est bulwarks of monogamy.
 <anu all IdlR dpOuI Lnp tNN SY EeFf B rate in France is beside q. ns child is held so precious r ae Ersna < mind that Ae usually re eaa.ss1s R s4 child till tke right cor .iaas sre .ss sight for his .upbringirs 4 alic4 be made for that firing ot fas vlss ductive found in evre snds & doubtful whether the bi ta -ata m. sn
 the high minded and esponsiple is lower over there than over here.
 The F'renchwoman cannot be summed up in phrase. Contrarysto the general opinion, she is simple, practi- cal, sensible, tenacious, deliberate, eau !. tious, farsighted and affectionate. She is sensitive but not superficial. She is ebullient but enduring. She is a compound of heart and head which ex- plains Joffre, Petain, Foch and the poilu, who have fought these four years past our battle as well their own and have been the surprise of ev- cry friend as well as the exasperatiot of the foe.
 If Waterloo was won on the playing < fields of Eton, Rugby, Harrow, certain ly the Marne, Verdun, the Somma were won in the French houses where the Frenchwoman lives and manages, smiles and plans, suffers and "carrieu on.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-23
THE PORT OF ADVENTURE

THE PORT OF ADVENTURE
 Norman Springer, in the San Francisco
 Bulletin.
 There are men walking the streets of
 San Francisco who remember the days
 when the clippers, those marvels of
 Yankee ship construction, came tearing
 into port from the Cape Horn passage
 with records smashed, with sheets pad
 locked and mast sprung, with casualty
 lists of dimensions, with iron willed
 gazing in battles royal with crews of desperate men fed up with reckless sailing, and belaying pin soup, and mutinous. They remember the days when the great wheat fleet rendez- voused here yearly, filled sailor town with life and strife, and departed. Flu rope bound, with the harvest of the valley. They saw the birth, the growth and bloom and decay of crimpdom they knew the boarding master when The was a force in the community, a man with gold seals upon his waist coat and voice of authority; man whom politicians placated and judges listened to; a man who held in his I fighting fist the destiny of countless sailormen and who wanton1y used his fist; a man whose power and influ- ence extended the world over, for no | ship might enter or leave this port without paying toll to the crimp. San Francisco has produced many famous men of various sorts, men who scaled high the peaks of respectable success and whose names became fa- miliar to a nation. But no jurist, or statesman, or writer, or& merchant from our town ever gained a tithe oi the renown attained by these old time lordly bullies of our waterfront. The Chicken, the Knitting Swede. Shang- hai Brown-these names, and others are written indelibly upon the waters of the world; they are spoken in Stock holm and Hongkong; they are the he | roes of the dogwatch; they are legend ary in every fo'c'sl afloat. Brutal | bloodstained heroes. mostly; men O! vain and subtle tricks who made their | own law, and feared not God, nor man nor devil artists in rascality-not ths
 sort of heroes to parade before Sun-
 day school class; not the sort of fame to impress a young ladies' seminary
 But real fame, none the less; world
 wide and enduring, already folklore l in dozen tongues.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-23
HuGo,s pREpIcrIoN

From the Mobile Register
 Victor Hugo, back in 1871. declared the day for the return of Alsace- Lor- raine would come and the French would stand on the left bank of the Rhine; but that France would come as a sister republic to declare, "No more frontiers! The Rhine for All,'' That, no France and the allied nations, but first they must be sure that Germany wants to be sister and will go through the ordeal of repentance and penanca that will prove the sincerity of that desire.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-23
PROMINENT CLIENTS.

PROMINENT CLIENTS. "Bootlegging is not exactly what you would call respectable profession" Certainly not.''
 However, there is bootlegger in this town who deals only in the best brands of whisky"
 What is that to me?" Nothing. but he has calling list that would open your eyes,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-23
Newspapers, Splendid Work

q do not know of any force, power or influence that contributed more to the united war work campaign than did the newspapers of Alabama said w. Carson Adams, who. as chairman of the state executive committee, had an excellent opportunity to judge of the relative effectiveness of those factors that made the drive successful.
 "The newspapers of the state, both great and small, gave something more to the campaign than space and white paper. They threw the full weight Of their influence into the drive and iii many instances were 100 per cent con tributors in the money end as well.
 Statistics of the result show that in those communities where the press was strongest the response was great est; that at such points erronious ideas were promptly corrected and the real needs of Americas fighting men were correctly presented.
 If there was a single Alabama newspaper that laid down on the joD, this fact has not been brought to my attention-and I feel safe in saying that there was no such paper