The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-11-01
CITY LIFE ON THE FARM
HOMES THAT HAVE ALL THE
MODERN C0NvENIENCES
How Electricity PIaysProminent
Part For the Average
AgricuIturaIist

The farmers living near Winnebago,
Amboy, Vernon Center, and Garden
City are making history for South
ern Minnesota. They are progressive
and enterprising. Their homes are
of the very best, and they know what
it means to live these days. They
have all the conveniences of the city
dweller, and know how to enjoy life,
as well as having everything con-
venient, and why shouldn't they.
Real estate men say that when
farm is electrified from a high pow
cred transmission line, it enhances
the value from ten to fifteen dollars
per acre. 1t also automatically re-
duceS the fire risk to a minimum,
owing to the fact all lamps, lanterns
and candles are dispensed with.
There certainly isn't anything nicer
than electric lights in a barn, where
it is thoroughly distributed, instead
of the old lantern.
1t wasn't SO very long ago when the
farmers were opposed to the autos
and tractors, saying the horses were
good enough for them, but the trend
of progressive business has changed
all that.
Electricity on the farm is also re-
placing the old troublesome gas en-
CINE. A small electric motor will
do almost everything there is to do
in the way of power. 7
One of the most important things
regarding an electrified farm is the
fat it has great tendency to keep
the boys and girls from leaving home.
The children going to school do not
have to gather around a table to
study, upon which there is one oil
lamp whose light is poorly distributed,
but can spread around anywhere in
the room to study, owing to the
brilliant rays of an electric light and
its natural location.
From information just gathered it
appears nearly all the farmers in this
are installing electric lights
and power, securing service from the
Northwest Utilities company's high
power electric line, and at the same
time becoming interested in the COM
pany. By this method they are Guild
ing up great future for Southern Min
nesota.
understand that over one hundred
farms have secured electric service
from the Northwest Utilities COM
pany. They are as follows: John M.
Chapman, Rhoda !. Chapman, Emil H.
Monroe, Frank Richardson, George
Richardson, H. J. Schultz, M. F. Crane
Frank Thurston, E. M Van Sickle,
I'll j. Gilman, F. o. Howard, S. ].
Kelley, Harvey Gilman, N. P Award,
Estate; M. c.. Busse, c.. w. Travers,
f. B. Nickerson, Richard Eberhart,
Sever johnson, James r. Collins,
George A. Seawright, H, H. Miller,
Charles A. Fleming, Joseph A. Mertes-
dorf, Ed. T. Mertersdorf, T. j. Spence,
Fred H. Mertesdorf, Farmers State
bnak, George w. Mertesdorf, Fred
G. Wilbur, George R. Gray N. P.
Award, Edward Annis, G.. E. Francis,
N. P. Grass, A. F.. Rennpferd, Gale
Bickford, H. S. Muir, James w.
Walter C. Foster, Theodore
Lewis R. Fever, James N.
JdCOoS, I'D d. GdCeS, ". r. GOlQGn-
star, H. A Bixby, C. E. Conkling,
w. H. Gilborne, ]. Caudle, Hartwick
Bros, r. H. Cramer, Thomas Jones,
Ludwig Simonett, P. j. Germsheid,
John Germsheid, C. M. Schwartz,
Joseph Garvin, A. j. Weiland, Felix
Traxler, Frank Tambornino, Wincle
Lang, Louis Tambornino, George
Shippman, William Shippman, James
Janosky S. E. Murray, d. w. Jones,
Busse, Mrs. William Hanni-
gan, Martin Schwartz, Evan Morgan,
john Morgan, William E. Morgan,
Joe Levi, Joseph p. Hagen, A. ]. Han
nigan, j. w. Hart, Harold w. Hart,
James Henry. J. c. Hart, w. F. Wilson,
Paul E. Wilson, C. w. Seymour,
George James, Scott Kepner, Theo-
dore Fleming, Anton Brudeli, Nels T.
Olson, Amandus Norman, John S.
John Luther, Frank Sargent,
6. G.. Bergman, Will Shadd, Frank J.
Francis L. Rollins, Ed.
Brattrud