The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-08-30
STORIES OF VERNOI! !
PICKED FOR real R
DEATH HAS TAKEN AN AGE D
LADY MRS MORRIS
Scho0! Board lust Elected An
Additional Teacher; News
Notes of Village

ma Morris, who has made her home
with her son Aaron in the village for
| the past ten years, passed away Sun
day evening She has been confined
to her room for several weeks, death
was due to old age. Mrs. Morris was
born In Oneida county, N. Y, Noveni :
be, 8, 1888, and died at Vernon Cen
! ter August %, 1918, aged eighty -four
i years, seven months and seventeen
days. She w. married to Mr.. Nor
ris in February, 1852. To this union
| four children were born. Her bus
band precoded her in death in 1905,
also che child, Alkaline, who died at
the age Of six years. Those who
survive her are Aaron Norris of this
place, Mrs. Carrie B. Tyson of Ore
gon and Walter Morris of New Jersey
and several grand children and great
grand children and many friends. In
| 1856 they came west settling in
Michigan, later in Wisconsin and in
! 1876 in Minnesota, Garden City. In
| 1902 they moved to Oregon where
they lived until the time of Mr.. Nor
ris' death Since that time Grandma
Morris has lived among her children.
! The funeral was held from the
! Methodist church Tuesday afternoon,
Rev. B. F. Koch officiating. Inter-
ment was made in the Union Gene
| terry.
Mrs. Robert Alton, Grand Rapids,
Mimi, is visiting her cousin, Mrs.
Agnes Spence and other relatives in
/ tho village.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bert Barnes, Hugh
Frances and son Howard were Man
kato business visitors Wednesday,
going down in the formers car with
Mr.. Francis at the wheel.
Mr.. and Mrs Arthur Matson have
| been entertaining several house
parties of relatives and friends dur
ing the past two weeks. Some Of the
parties were Mrs. Funk of Duluth,
| George Hoag, Jr., of Kelly Lake, Mr..
and Mrs. H. Madison and family of
Mankato and Miss Soreson of
Madelia
Mr.. and Mrs c. H. Burrows and
little daughter of Minneapolis and
the formers father of Lake Crystal
motored to Vernon Saturday after
noon calling on their former friends.
Everybody was delighted to see them
again.
Fred Annis and Arthur Matson
drove to Tyler Sunday, starting from
the village at four o'clock in the
morning Mr.. Matson has relatives
who live near Tyler.
F. l.. Cooper and wife drove to
Mapleton Sunday afternoon, spending
the afternoon at the Roberts home
Of l.; NIL
and Mrs. John Morris and their
mother, Mrs. Sharp and Mr.. and Mrs.
Ira Tipler of Amboy We deemed it
a great pleasure to greet again
Grandma Sharp whom we had not
seen for several years and to find her
in such good health for one of her
years. She has still the same sun
shiny, optimistic, lovable, neighborly
traits that endeared her to all the
children of the neighborhood in those
long ago years of our childhood. We
learned that Mr.. and Mrs. Tipler
have rented their farm and will spend
year at least in California and
/ travelling through the west
Mrs. J. H. Moore and daughter,
who have been visiting Mrs. Morris
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. A. G. Wilbur
in the village, left for her home in
Davenport, Iowa, Friday evening. On
Thursday evening Mrs. Moore enter
tanned nine of her old schoolmates
in honor of Mrs Ferris, nee Bessie
Reed of Oklahoma. The evening
was pleasantly spent in reminis-
cences, an apple peeling contest and
the fortune of the only single one
present, told by the seeds; then a
period of school when all wrote let
ter to an absent one. Candy being
passed "as sweets to the sweetest"
as their merry laughter rang out, it
was hard to believe them a company
of married ladies'.
The Baptist Aid served a ten cent
supper at the parsonage Wednesday
afternoon. The hostesses were
Mesdames French, Guppy, Conrad and
FerriX. This was the second of five
teas to be given by the aid and proved
a very happy affair. Nearly eight
dollars was added to the treasury.
The excessive rains of this month
have wrought untold damage, not
| only to the grain in shocks but to
gardens, corn and potato crops. The
starting to grow again.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herman REEVES Sun
! dayed in Truman, going out to help
their aunt, Mrs. Reitz celebrate her
eightieth birthday.
Lawrence Butler spent the week
end and part of Sunday with his
mother, Mrs. Sarah Butler at Cen
trail
Vernon Center was well represents
| ed at the circus in Mankato Monday
The day was ideal, either the per-
Torrance was not up to expectation
or circuses are getting to be back
number, for folks who attended the
, show Monday did not enthuse to any
great extent.
Mrs. Mary Cornish and her daugh-
! ter, Mrs V. C. Armstrong, are nicely
located in the formers new modern
bungalow which Mrs. Cornish recent
~ purchased from DR.. T. G.. Clement.
Mrs. Armstrong is the principal OF
Vernon Center schools which will
open September 8.
A letter received recently from
Frank Pfeffer by his brother, Andy
Prefer, says that he is on a seven
days Through and had taken a trip
to Southern France. He writes: 81
am in the dispatch service now The
weather has been bit miserable and
| have been sent out in the rain
great DEAL. but well protected with a
rain coat. rubber boots, etc. have
just spent an enjoyable half hour