The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-11-29
GARDEN CITY STORIES
EVENTS IN THAT VILLAGE
PAST FEW DAYS
Personal and News Gossip;
Baptist Bazaar Dated For
December 7
Especial to Free Press.1

lOpSCldl u FREQ 1ICSS.1
Garden City, November 26.-Mrs.
Eastman of Delavan was in town Fri
day calling on old acquaintances.
Miss Irma Yates, who is attending
school at Mankato, spent Saturday
and Sunday with her aunt, Mrs. c. w.
John.
A union Thanksgiving service will
be held in the Christian church at 8
p. m on Thanksgiving day. A COM
sermon. A large attendance is urged
as a spirit of great thankfulness
should be in every heart at this thine.
Remember the hour, p. m.
M. F. Crane and family and Mr.. and
Mrs K C. Crane spent Thursday eve
ming at the L. d. Mills home.
Little May Thurston, who has been
ill for so long with pneumonia following
influenza, is pronounced much better
at this time.
Miss Bertha Cole returned Friday
sisting the r. r. and H. o. Thomp-
son families.
There is some change in the an
nouncement made in regard to the
Baptist bazaar. The bazaar will be
held in the Farmers store instead of
iat the church as understood before
Dinner will also be served in the
store at noon December Z. This is to
be thirty cent meal. Come and en-
joy the dinner and bazaar which will
be open to the public at two o'clock
on Cot 1r.6o oh0r + ho
Farmers store
G. w. John was Lake Crystal cal
Ter Thursday.
Joe Turner, brother of Mrs. Bert
Gates, arrived from Chicago enroute
from Toronto, Canada, on Wednesday
last. Mr.. Turner had been ill in Tor
onto and as soon as able started home
on ferlough. However, on reaching
Chicago he suffered relapse and was
unable to continue his journey after a
week there. He is confined to his bed
at present. He has been granted an ex-
tentiOn on his furlough
DR.. John Williams has made a mum
Der of professional visits in town
lately
H. Yahnke of Clemie, Iowa, was in
town last week completing the ar
rangements for the S. H Thurston
property. Mr.. Yahnke and family will
move TO Garden City in January, and
will occupy the Dunbar house until
March when they will take possession
of the farm @5R a9s#oAh ~
Next Sunday, December l., at the
Christian church an offering fol-
American missions will be taken
During the past few months the chill
dren have learned much that the
American missionary is doing and
since realize the need of a substan.
tial offering at this timeloo1 NO ITO
+ l.. r. Fleming has erected shed
at Grover Wilson's to accommodate the
horses used in hauling gravel. Mr
Fleming IS at this time using five
teams. These teams haul from the
Rapidan pit.
l.. Erwin Mills gave very inter
esting talk to the two upper rooms al
school Friday on the work of the mo
tor school in Indianapolis.
A carload of potatoes and some
other vegetables was shipped from,
here Monday morning. A number OF
farmers helped fill the car Mr.. A. D.
Mccormack left at noon Monday and
will go down into Iowa where he ex :
poets to find ready sale for the pota l.
toes.
Miss Blanch Randall of Vernon
was in town Sunday.
Roy Thompson and family visited
at the home of L. d. Mills Sunday.
Master Clarence Duffield is suffer
ing from an attack of jaundice.
/ Mrs. General Baker of Mankato and
Mrs. Cowgirl of California were guests
Of Mrs. Frank Thurston last Thursday