The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1919-05-09
STORIES FROM vernon
TOM HAYS RETURNED FROM
MILL CITY HOSPITAL
Recovering After Operation;
News Notes and Personal
Mention In Village
Especial to Free Press. ]

Vernon Center, May Tom Hays
returned Friday from Minneapolis
where he had been for the past ten
weeks recuperating from a very seri-
Gus operation. He is looking quite
well and feeling fine. and gets
around quite a little by the aid of
clutches. 1t will be several months
before he can resume farm work.
Mrs. Edith French was taken sud
denly i'll Friday with an acute attack
of appendicitis and was very sick
woman until Sunday when she seemed
to be somewhat better. There were
no preaching services in the Baptist
church Sunday owing to her illness.
The electric lights refused to shine
at the Methodist church Sunday ev-
enins, consequently Rev. w. W..
Brown led his congregation to the
Baptist church and preached to the
two congregations.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lester Childs had
for their guests Sunday Mr.. Harry
Burnett and two children of Man
kato, Mr.. and Mrs. r. E. Childs of
Rapidan and Mr.. and Mrs. Walter
Rambo and little daughter Alice of
West Vernon.
Lester Schwartz has so far recov-
cred from, pneumonia that his nurse,
victims in the Will Iker home, who
need the care of a trained nurse more
than Lester does.
Miss Blume of West Vernon is
keeping house for her uncle, Her.
man REEVES and taking care of his
little daughter.
Many farmers are investing in
tractors this spring. Among the lat
latest possessors of these wonderful
labor saving Fordon tractor are
the Sewer brother of South Vernon
and Fred Fleming of North Vernon.
The sad news of the passing away
of Roy Quimby in Minneapolis Sat-
urday afternoon came as painful
shock to Everybody as very few
knew of his illness. He was a
former Vernon Center boy and we'll
known and respected by all. Mrs.
l.. C.. Rev, who is sister of Mrs.
Quimby, left as soon as the message
was received, for Minneapolis. Mr..
Rev and daughters Lois and Grace
went Monday afternoon to attend the
funeral which was held from the
home the next afternoon.
Messrs. Frank Semunich and Pete
st. Tornashek and families have
moved into the two cottages on the
Hays place and this year will put in
fifteen acres of onions on shares in
stead of working for Mr.. Hays as
they hGye done in previous years.
Among the prominent Odd Fellows
from. this section to attend the an
niversary gathering at Amboy were
Messrs. Frank Cooper, Lon Wyman,
Andy Anderson, Earl Griffith and
Harold Burdick. Rev. B. F. Koch
of Albert Lea was present and gave
a most splendid address.
Ray Cooper and his mother, Mrs.
F. E. Cooper and Misses Gladys
Cooper and Bernice Davis were
among the guests.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dan Bowen received
a letter the first of the week from
their son Standish, who is stationed
at st. Aigne, France, saying he had
just had short furlough and had
been to see Harold Cox, another
Vernon boy, who was only fifteen
miles from st. Aigne, and had been
there for the past six months or
more and the boys had just found
out of their close proximity and at
the first opportunity got together.
Standish says they are building their
hopes on coming home in August,
but this is only a conjecture as the
boys are not informed to any great
extent as to their future journeys.
After a two months vacation of
inactivities in The Methodist Aid
circles owing to sickness, bad wealth
er, etc. a goodly number of inter-
ested members braved all difficulties
and met at the very pleasant home
of the president, Mrs. E. w. Wash
burn. The meeting was in charge of
Mrs. Hugh Francis which proved a
very interesting and instructive one,
owing to the fact that Mrs. Lode
who had recently returned from sew
eral months visit with relatives in
the east gave most delightful sketch
of her sight seeing trip. Through
Boston" told so quantity in Mrs.
Warren's inimitable way it was al
most as good as seeing the historical
old places to hear the description.
Mrs. Gossard and daughter, Miss
Alice, are down from Jackson visit
ing the formers daughter, Mrs. EN-
mitt Pervis and family in West
Vernon.