The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-04-12
Pretty Lily Sold For Goodly
Sum at Auction Sale
OSTEN SACKEN SPOKE
Address Very Well Received
BY Large Audience; Fifty
FiftieS Absent
Especial to Free Press.l
From Tuesdays Dairy.

Vernon Center, April 9.-Mrs. Mary
Cornish, who has spent the past win
ter with her youngest son, S. P. Cor
nish, in Grand Forks. N. d., return
ed to her home in the village where
she will stay several months and
possibly longer
The Misses Barnice Davis, Ida Bow
en- and Ella Russell have been re-
elected and have accepted their posi-
ton in the public school which they
! have held for the past several years.
These young ladies are very success
full teache S and the board showed
their appreciation Of their work by a
substantial increase in their monthly
salary Ms. Vesta Cornish Arm
strong of Great Falls has accepted
the principalship of the school at
salary Of $100 per month. The board
felt that they are fortunate indeed to
be assured of SO splendid faculty
at a time when there is as great a
scarcity of competent teachers.
/ Charles Dunbar, a commission man
from Chicago, who spent few days
with the Busbys in West Vernon, left
Saturday evening for his home. Mr..
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where he departed on the late train.
B. Z. Berry, the Vernon Center I'M
dertaker, was in charge of the flu
neral Of the late Charles Clark which
was held in the Baptist church in
Good Thunder Sunday afternoon. Rev.
B. X Koch of Vernon Center Officiat-
ed. 'rhe Masons were iii charge OF
the services at the grave. Lodge
memaers from here who were present
included G. C. Cornish, f. H: Barnes,
VIII Griffith, Herman King, H. c.
Kraus, F. L. Cooper, Andy Anderson,
Olaf Peterson, George Seawright, d.
A. Wyman, Fred Thorn, Will Denni-
son and A. C. Gray. A delegation of
Masons from Amboy and Mankato
were present.
Miss Veronica Good, the popular
teacher in the Sterling Center school,
spent the week end holiday with her
parents in the village.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tom Caven are the
happy parents of a fine baby daugh-
ter who came to brighten their home
April f. Mr.. and Mrs. Caven now
have a quartette Of youngsters, two
boys and two girls OF which they are
extremely proud. Their many friends
are rejoicing with them and extend
ing most hearty congratulations.
H. D. Blanchard who resides in Old
Town is i'll and is Threatened with
pneumonia. Owing to his advanced
age his condition is considered crit
ical
All are glad to know that Tom
Boles OF Ceresco has nearly recover
ed from an illness of almost three
weeks duration.
Mr. and Mrs. Arts Busby and little
daughter, Laura Margaret, motored
to Madelia Sunday and spent the day
with Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Keitzer.
The Misses Selma Petrich and Eth
ell Mobiles resumed their stduies at the
Mankato normal after spending the
week end holiday and Sunday with
the home folks.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sievert Larson, new
lyweds from Fort Dodge, Iowa, spent
part of their honeymoon at the Mil
lard Busby home Mrs Larson is
niece of Mrs. Busby.
Rev. B. F. Koch and eldest daugh-
ter, Miss Florence, returned Friday
evening from a motor trip in the vi
cinity of Northfield where Mr.. Koch
was finishing work pertaining to the
Parker college drive. MRS. Carpenter
of Mortified who is sister of Mrs.
Koch returned with them for a visit
of few days.
The Misses Julia Nelson and Lydia
Annis, seniors in the Mankato high
school, returned to their school work
this morning after spending the Eas-
ter vacation at their homes.
Everybody is admiring the beauti-
full Perchion Norman horse that AL
bert PAIL recently purchased in Wis
Iconsin. The animal is coal black in
color and is considered one of the
very best horses ever Drought in this
part OF the country by men who are
authorities Of. horses.
Mrs. Sam Nelson is over from Ma
pleton looking after renting of her
residence which has just been vacat-
ed by the Richard family.
Friedrich Osten- Sacken was greet
ed by capacity house and then
some last Friday evening at the OPP
era house where he spoke in the in
terest of the Third Liberty loan. He
was well received and his address,
although somewhat different than
some expected, was timely and many
good points were brought out which
merited the applause The only re-
greet expressed was the conspicuous
absence of SO many of the $3.50 class
or less. pretty little Red Cross
istunt was pulled off at the close of
the speech. Mrs. Willard Busby of
West Vernon had beautiful amarylys
lily which WAS in full bloom. She
made up bouquet of these which
were on the stand during the even
ing. At the close of the talk A. C.
Gray auctioned off the ten branches.
Each branch contained two or more
lilies. The whole bunch sold for
S1S.15, none of the branches going for
less than a dollar. Many men who
bought put them together into a bou-
quet and these were resold to the
highest bidder. Miss May Robinsons
being the highest, paid $2.15 and be-
came the possessor of the lilies. Their
, beauty was enjoyed by worshippers
lat the Methodist Episcopal church