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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1919-09-12

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Rev. George q. Brown Of Humboldt.
s. D.. has been visiting relatives and
friends in the neighborhood the past
week and preached very fine sermon
the churh Sunday morning. 1t seems
at the church Sunday morning. 1t
seems like old times to see Rev.
Brown at church again.
The Aid society met with Mrs. H.
Parry Friday and was well attended.
Rev. George Fields will soon move
here and expects to preach at the
church Sunday morning.
School will begin in District No 8
next Monday morning.
Mrs. Jessie Lindsay and daughter
Amy and sons Arthur, Leslie and
Leonard went to Minneapolis Sunday
afternoon to attend the state fair
Chester Puriaer has bought farm
in Becker county. While up north he
visited with NJ Purrier and family.
Miss Lucy Jefferson Of Bingham
Lake is visiting, Mr.. and Mrs. F. e.
Jefferson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Burrill and
baby of Tracy visited with Charlie
johnson and children a few days ago
and Louis Johnson went home with
them for a short visit.
Kenneth Eldred of Mankato visited
his aunt, Mrs. F. E. Jefferson last
week.
F. E. Budde and sons Ben and
Garrett have gone to the northern
part of the state to look at land.
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Burnett visited
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer
Burnett Thursday evening.
Waterbury Bros. have purchased a
carload of sheep and carload of
cattle. SO
G. Yetter gotta carload of sheep from
Sioux City Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Bode and Mr..
and Mrs. August Eppke Of sCourtland
and Mr.. and Mrs. Guy Trask spent
Sunday afternoon at the Budde home
Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Rist spent Thurs
day evening at the Burnett home.
Frank Loueks was in the sneighbor-
hood Saturday rand took dinner with
his brother Charlie. ~
Evard BuddeEtook dinner with Bert
Hanson Sunday sd
Sherman Batcheller spent Saturday
night and Sunday at Anoka.
Jane Parry spent the week end at
home.
Mrs. w. Sharp. Mrs. ]. Grice and
Mrs. Paul Sharp and son of North
Mankato attended the Aid society
Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. A. Hanson and
children, Irene, Florence, Jesse and
Junetta, Chester Steel, George Cole,
Archie Cole, Clarence Grice, Mrs. Au-
gust Johnson Mr.. and MRS. c.. ].
Johnson and lson Fred attended the
Livestock BREEDERS association picnic
at New Sweden last~week "Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Grice and Mr..
and Mrs. PAUL. Sharp and baby at
tended the state fair Sunday and
Monday. 9es
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Sharp and
sons drove to Carlos Sunday. They
will return in a. few days.
Hazel and Edna r. Sharp returned
from their trip to California week
ago Sunday.
L Evelyn Budde started to Normal
school Tuesday. y
At the Aid society Friday the fol-
lowing officers were elected: Presi-
dent, Mrs. Oscar Door; vice presi-
dent, Mrs. Alfred Evanson, secre
tary, Mrs. Jessie Lindsay treasurer,
Mrs. Frank Jefferson. Go
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1919-09-12

Fred DeMars Of Slayton was tran
sacting business in the city today.
Nj. Kendall of Smiths Mill was call
ing on friends in the city yesterday.
e. A.. Doese of Lake wilson was a
business caller in the city yesterday.
Mrs p. H. Hansen and mother, of
Waterloo, Ia, spent yesterday in the
city. -.
Nj. and Mrs. L. P Peterson Of
Westbrook u ere gaests the city yes
terday.
Charles I Gri,. Of Ncnras City,
Mo- was In he c.iy on business yes
Mr.. and Hrs. Matt. Ciarice OF St
James ibotcre6 to Mankato today on
business,
NJ i,ssf3.y ,di.,t, CO MY n 'rral
agent. IS spend ng the week at the
state fair.
Mrs. Wiiliam Flamme and Clarence
Flar1me of Kingsley, Ia, spent ycster-
day IN Mankato.
Andrew Halyerson of Delavan was
in the city yesterday attending to
business affairs.
Mrs. G. D. Wells and son. Nathaniel
of Redwood Falls were calling on
friends IN the city today.
w. III Ulrich and w. E. Terry OF
Worthington transacted business in
the city yesterday.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. w. Benedix OF
Kingsley, la. transacted business in
the. city yesterday.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. T. Thompson CT
Ruthven, Ia, were calling on friends
in the city, yesterday.
Miss Florence F. johnson will leave
tomorrow for Sacred Heart, Mimi,
where she will teach school.
Miss Bessie Strom Of Blair, Wis,
is visiting in this city at the home
of her aunt, Mrs. O. j. Lee.
Sheriff' Anton Oston returned to
Mankato today after having been in
Minneapolis on business matters.
Mrs. Lee R.. DeRosia left this morn
ing for Chicago and will visit friends
in that city and at points in Michigan
Attorney John e. Regan returned
home today from a business trip to
New York and Washington, D.. C.
Mr.. and Mrs. G.. w. Eichsteadt have
been spending the week in the twiI
cities and attending the state fair.
Miss Ora Immel of Blair. Wis,
and Miss Lula Young are Visiting
at fhe L. J. Lee home in this city
Phil Fiannery of Lake Wilson wa.
in the city between trains yesterday
afternoon attending to business inter.
ests. =
Clifford Eckhardt of Blue Earti
was guest in the city yesterday
while on his way to attend the state
fair.
II. i. Fsrssmaa and familyecf Wat.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1919-09-12
LABOR men TO De TRIED.
Echo of Troubles In Winnipeg
Will Be Heard In the
Court Soon
IAssociated Press Dispatch. !

Winnipeg, Man., september s.
Preparations for the trial of eight Ia
Dor leaderssof Winnipeg on joint
charge of conspiracy, growing out OF
the famous strikes here, were being
made today by Dominion authorities.
The assize court meets early in Oc-
tober and it is planned to call up this
case soon after it opens.sp
The defendants are: Rev. William
Ivens, Aldermen A. A. Heaps, John
Queen, George Armstrong, R. E. Bray,
r. ]. Johns, r.. b. Russell and w. A.
Pritchard. eta
At the preliminary hearing, which
was concluded August Is, more than
one hundredSwitnesses were heard and
over 1850 exhibits were, produced in
court ky.
Sensational disclosures are looked
for at the coming trial. At the re-
cent hearing, the crown read into the
record, notes alleged toy have been
written by Rev. Ivens. which stated
the defendants had favored" direct
action, revolution either bloody or
bloodless."
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1919-09-12
STATE BUREAU
County Farm Organizations In
Minnesota Are To
Federate

st. Paul, September ga proposed
plan of organization for Minneso-
Ia Farm Bureau federation was adopt
ed at a conference of $50 delegates
representing the farm bureaus OF
the state, at the University farm yes
terday.
The organization will he perma
nently effected at another meeting
to take place at the University farm
after the delegates have obtained
the approval of their bureaus.
1t is expected that the Minnesota
organization will be complete in time
to take part in the foundation of The
National Farm Bureau federation at
Chicago, November u, and 13.
Silas Allen Of Faribanlt county
presided over the meeting yesterday.
The purposes and advantages of a
state organization were outlined yes
terday as follows:
To develop more profitable and
permanent system of agriculture.
To foster local CO. operative orga-
nization among farmers.
To make a comprehensive study
of rural life.
To deal in a nonpolitical way with
such state and national agricultural
problems as are pertinent to the
field of farm bureau endeavor.
To unity these objects and furth-
er efforts as will result in the devel-
opment Of agriculture as a funda-
mental public need.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1919-09-12

REM Rist and Ray A. Rist of Man
kato, and Mrs. Dorothy Moses, Mrs.
Anna J. Owen and Robert Moses of
Lake Crystal, have gone to Column
bus, Ohio, to attend the fifty third an
nual encampment of the Grand Army
of the Republic.
DR.. w. G. Wits and family have
returned from three and half weeks
trip in their car. They visited their
farms in Dakota, Bemidji and other
points and found the crops better
than expected. The price of land is
high. On their return they stopped
in the cities and attended the state
fair three days.
Sleepy Eye Dispatch: Frank EN-
merich of Mankato came up Sunday
for a visit with relatives and friends
over Labor day. Frank is an old
resident of Sleepy Eye and was
among the first to go. to France
where he spent year and half in
the railway department Of the war.
He was frequently under fire on &C
count of being one of crew that
hauled. food land supplies to the SOL
diers in the front line trenches.
Frank is we'll and his friends were
glad to see him.
Miss Louise S,,eberg anil Miss Ag-
mes Nicholson left Thursday morning
for Burlay, Idaho, where they will
teach the coming year.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1919-09-12

and Mrs. j. B. Fowler, left yesterday
by car for a visit lat Devils Lake, N
Oak, before returning to their home
DR.. M. e. Jones, who was a guest al
Ethe Fowler home, has returned home
Ito Fairmont.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. w. Walker arrived
home yesterday from a trip through
the Dakotas, having spent some time
looking over the crops on their two
farms near Grafton, North Dakota
While en- route home they spent a day
attending the state fair.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. T. Dillner and Mr..
and Mrs. Alfred Sandgren have re-
turned from an automobile trip to
the twin cities, having spent Sunday
Monday and Tuesday in attendance
at the state fair.
Miss Mary Larson entertained her
parents. Mr.. and Mrs. F. J. Larson of
Tracy yesterday. They were on
their way home after a months visit
with Their son, Elmel Larson in Du-
luth. They also visited their daugh-
ter Esther, who is principal of the
commercial department of the high
school at Cumberland, Wis.
DR.. Myrtle Price of Spirit Lake,
Iowa, returned home after spending a
week at the John Strobel home on
Main street.
G. A. Strobel left Saturday for .te-
phen where he will be instructor in
agriculture the coming year.
M. L. Van Slyke of Mankato and
son, Paul Van Slyke of BriceIyn, and
A. R. Temple of Chicago, returned to
Mankato last evening, after an auto
mobile trip to Cambridge, Mimi.
Alfred J. Adams of Mapleton was in
the city on business today. He was
accompanied by his SON. in law, A. c..
Furnell Of South Vernon, who brought
his little daughter to this city for an
operation for the removal of her tom
sils.
Miss Caroline Poepke has returned
from two weeks vacation visit with
friends in Minneapolis.
Misses Adele Heoffner and Laura
Migelis of Minnesota Lake were shop
ping in the city today.
Miss Lillian Willy of Mapleton was
a shopper in the city today.
Mrs. B. A. Jones and children,
Edith and Thomas, and Mrs. Alvin
Guentzel motored to Lake Crystal
this noon for short visit with
friends.
Mr. and Mrs. Grant Ward of
Garden City spent today in M'ankato.
Miss LoYing of Garden City and
brother Arthur HoAer of st. Paul
visited in Wells, Mapleton and Man.
kato this week.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1919-09-12
John LeppIa, Railroad Superintendent
Very Seriously Injured.

Huron, 5. d.. september 6.-JOhn
Leppla, superintendent of the Dakota
division of the Chicago and North
western railways who has been IN
conscious for the past twenty four
hours following injuries received in
an accident just south of this place,
was yesterday taken bysspecial train
to the Mayo Brothers Rochester hos
pital in hopes of saving his life.
Mr.. Leppla was thrown from a g.s-
oline railroad speeder and struck a
railroad spike which iSfiicted serious
injury to the back of his neck, caus-
ing spinal injuries.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1919-09-12
REVIEW LANDOVERFlOW
MEETING CALLED FOR MAN.
KAT0, SATURDAY, SEPT. 10
Organization Recently Formed
In New Ulm; Commercial
Club Notes

The Commercial club has been in
formed that J. J. Moraarity of Shake
pee, head of the organization recent
ly formed at New Ulm, proposes to
call q meeting to be held in Man
kato nayt week Saturday 10 consider
the food situation in the Minnesota
river valley and what steps can be
taken to get taxes on land subject
to. overflow reduced. 1t is expected
that some of the officers of the
Minnesota Reclamation league will
be present. This league is in favor
of an extensive drainage project, to
reclaim large tracts of land in the
northern part of the state, and to
carry the waters away down the riv-
ers, including the Minnesota. 1t
would also have the, rivers straight
ened and dredged, so as to carry of
this surplus water and at the same
time give navigation for .barges.
The Commercial club has received
q lengthy circular letter from the
Amalgamated Federation of Railway
Mail clerks, lsent from Keokuk,
Iowa, asking a'd in getting wages
of mail clerks increased $1,000 as a
fat minimum, effective July 1, 1919,
and $500 as bonus for each of the
past three years. AS there are $50,
mean $1S0.O00.000 increase in sal
aries and $4,000, 900 to he paid out
at once in bonuses.
The Chamber of Commerce of
Portland, Maine, has written to the
Mankato Commercial club for de-
tails of street fair which it has
been informed was pulled off in
Mankato with great success.
The Saint Paul association ex-
to expend $4,000 in assisting the
various trail associations entering
that city to mark their trails. Among
these are the Jefferson Highway,
Yellowstone trail and the DaniSl
Boone trail.
The second issue of the PerShing
Way Magazine will soon be out. 1t
comes monthly and has sixteen pags.
and Is devoted to the interests of
this highway The Pershing Way
association publishes it, and Secre-
tary McDougal is the editor. The
first number contained letter from
Gen. John T. Pershing, written in
France, in which he accepted the
honor of having the highway named
after him.
Mason City Globe. Gazette: Perish
ing Way clubs are already organic
ed in nearly every town between
Koukuk and Manl;ato, Mimi, and
A M. Schanke OF Mason City, who
is treasurer of the International
Pershing Highway association, and
W. j. Walker, chancellor for Cerro
Gordo county, will see to it that Ma
SON City is duly organized and that
she furnishes her full quota of MEM
bers. 1t is the plan of the local
men that enough members be got
ten together in this city to convince
the association that Mason City is
is the logical point for the Interna-
tional Headquarters,
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1919-09-12
stone THE FARM HOME
MYSTERY SURROUNDS THIS
CASE IN STEELE COUNTY
Sheriff and Posse Have Failed
To Capture Guilty
Parties

Owatonna, September 5.-With
shotguns and dogs. posse under the
direction Of Sheriff Leehy yesterday
secured the woods in the vicinity of
the Charles Friske home in Clinton
Falls township in an attempt to round
up the gang of marauders which has
laid siege to the place for more than
a week.
The posse failed to find any persons
after searching for several hours. The
dogs took up several trails but aban-
doned them after going short distan-
ces. A. guard remained at the farm
after the posse gave up the hunt.
Sheriff and Posse.
The sheriff and posse went to the
farm in response to a request from
MI. Friske, who declared that the
lnarauders were around his home all
Monday night and until eight o'clock
yesterday morning. Sheriff Lehy
spent some time at the farm Sunday
night and Monday afternoon. and saw
ste acs. WHICH were hurled by hidden
persons. Strike the buildings and
breaking window in the house.
Trees and shrubbery near the house
prevented him from locating the
skulkers.
Sheriff at Loss.
The sheriff is at loss to account
for the situation. Mr.. Friske declares
that, while attacks are made on his
house every night and sone times
curing the day, he never has seen any
CT the gang. He was molested for the
first time more than week ago and
his house has been stoned every night
since the first raid. Thus far no dam
age has ben caused except the break
ing of windows. The marauders, so
far as the sheriff can ascertain, con-
fine themselves to creeping close to
the house and hurting volleys of
stones.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1919-09-12

The Saint Paul association ex-
to expend $4,000 in assisting the
various trail associations entering
that city to mark their trails. Among
these are the Jefferson Highway,
Yellowstone trail and the DaniSl
Boone trail.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-10-25
u OF Secretary Wilson.

esnn OF Secretary Wilson, that We
|1EYee to enter tngo jolpt conference
.A1thout reservations. having in mind
7kN. best interests OF our people,
THE miners formally accepted
ia, proposition. The operators in
n 1rpretatfon held that II involved ar
NARRATION We accepted the susEes-
Hon to go into conference immediate
2sg for negotiations The operators
Aolted the meeting they took French
3eave, without The consent OF ihe
Decretary
"we have made every honest eff
fort to avert the industrial ratNS-
5trophe which viii be imposed upon
the people hy a coal strike The re-
sponsihility for this action is not
ours We discIaiu the responsibility
We are perfectly willing 10 begin ne
gotiations"
The operations had LEFT the hear
ing room half hour previous and
their spokesman. Thomas T Brew
ster. made only the statement That
sswe have accepted the presidents
proposal in lis entirety
Secretary Of Labor Wilson was
worn and hareard when the miners
departed
II sasa every, hing that could do
he said. 10 bring the two sides 20
gether''
us fhere anything else that can ho
done 80 h W. saskCd
4 haven gwen up hone yct was
his reply
Many q thr miners representa-
ttves returned Ia Their home tonight
TO begin r~er9ratlo-s for tf" @trs&t
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-10-25
Nv KARL II. yoN WT1GAND

Berlin, tftt. at IteIaS cd ny
Weather-The fatal niscalcutaton
Of General LudcnGprr IN regard To
the boats and the speed with
which America would get effectively
int The war was again startiinGly
revealed by Count Johann Heinrich
vo0 BernSorfT. former German am
bassador to he United States at
todays hearing OF the parliamentary
sub-cnmmittee's Investigation into
war responsibilities
Asked to tell OF his conversation
with the German commander when,
after having been kept waiting In
Berlin more than SIX weeks after
nus arrival he was called to tho
kaIsers headquarters May 4, 1917.
the former ambassador quoted
Ludendorn as saying:
You wanted 70 make peace
through America ."
Il told them yes, I did" continued
BernstorG u his testimony. .Luden-
dorT said T}ul we didn't want that.
and now we Will hnish the war with
in three months with the U-boats "
Bernstord said he expressed his
doubts.
.Ludendorff replied that he had
positive Information that England
could not hold out three months.
.Ludend0rff then asked me how
long thought 1t would take America
TO get seriously into the war I re-
Piled one year Ludendorf re-
marked that We did not need a year
that we would get through and
finish the war before the end of the
year
Harr.f,-fffs ror,iyeg -ro.foa d, COZ,
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-10-25
Former Ambassador Bernstorff Tells
How U. S. Speed Fooled Ludendorff
Saws War Hero of Huns Declared Submarine Activities
Would Make England Quit Before America Was Ready
TO FIGHT.

there after entirely different from
v hat he had been prior TO that date.
lie believed Mr., Wilson did not have
any moral conviction on the whole
Of the injustices OF tho German
cause, but that after that date he
changed his views and attitude
completely, in the belief that Ger
many had rejected his efforts and
wanted nothing but a German
peace"
Indications multiplied today that
President Wilson's own answer to
Senator McCumber would weigh
he aVtly in the evidence to be used
by Bethmnnn- IiotlWeg, thinner
mann, Ludendorff and others IN
their defense and argument in JUS
tifiCauon of their course, on the
ground that they had no faith in the
sincerity of the presidents inten-
tons.
Properly to understand the i'm
portance OF President Wilson )
" ords in a political sense in Ger
many, it should be said that they
were the most severe blow that the
Democratic and socialist parties
have received since the revolution,
The conservative and nationalist
press charge the Democratic and So
cAalist papers with suppressing the
utteranCe of the president. the po-
litical exploitation Of the incident
giving the strongest impetus TO the
right that the nationalist parties
have had for long time
It was a wen Planned tactical
move on the patc of the investiga-
tors. designed to offset these ma
tionalist activities. to open at thus
+ psychological moment with Bern
storf as i political shock trooper
against the right in order TO hang
tho responsibility for Americas en-
+ trance into the war and Germany q
+ dafeat defnfte1y upon the old re-
ctrue.
Editorial pages OF American
newspapers for the latter half Of
last August are being hunted after
today Bernstorff told of his last
/ conversation with Colonel House
the breaking Oft Of diplomatic re-
lations. his trip home. and arriva.
here, and the six weeks delay prior
to his reception by the kaiser and
Ludendorn.
Asked repeatedly about his ef'
forts to prevent America $ entrance
into the war, he said:
For me Americas entrance
meant the foss'of the war FAR Ger
many AS saw it. the only means
Of avoiding America going into tho
war was to accept President WI.
sons mediation. without Americr
the allies would have had to con9t
20 peace by agreement"
ncrnstorff testified that Beth
mann Hollweg received him TIVE
days after his return TO Berlin
Asked what the teen imperial chan
Cp}lor said the count replied thu
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-10-25
HORACE WRIGHT
IS PURCHASER OF
LEE CAMP HALL

Veterans OF n. L. Lee camp, No. l.,
confirmed last night the sale OF their
hall at 5l4-5l6 East Broad street to
Horace Wright at consideration OF
s112.500. Possession Will be given
within sixty days. except as to that
part in which Il. l.. Christian and
company have their store. The lease
to this does not expire until January
81. 1922.
The sale was made at public auc-
ton last Wednesday by the real
estate firm Of John Thompson Brown
and company The transfer calls for
a cash payment of $l2,500 and an an
nual installment of an equal amount
The whole to be secured by a deed
Of trust on the property.
The final home Of the veterans VIII
be at the Battle Abbey, on the Boule-
ward. Until removal UP there, they
may rent quarters in the building
they have sold, 1t was said last night.
The confirmation vote stood 50 to 0.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-10-25
VISITING OFFICIALS
At SEED LABORATORY

That Virginia is a progressive ag~
ricultural state is shown in the fact
that the commissioner of agricul-
ture Of Ohio and representative
OF this department in Texas visited
Richmond recently to observe the
operation of the seed laboratory
mere with tho view of installing one
III their states
The seed laboratory has been
part of he Virginia department OF
agriculture for six years. lnspec-
tors from the department secure
specimens of seeds wherever they
are held for sale and examine them
to test their power of gerranation
ana general fitness for planting or
sowing. These results are publish
ed in bulletins of the department
The Virginia department also was
enc II the first in the count, to be
gin operation Of a division of mar
kets, an institution to cooperate
with the farmers In placing their
produce on the market to the best
advantage. 1t is now operated by
Ben owen, acting director.
Commissioner George w Koiner
said yesterday that there are at Pen
niman. Va, twenty car loads Of
stable fertilizer. avera cling IS tons
Ia the EAR load. for sale to farmers
Of the state. Information may he
bad by application So the United
states salvage officer at Penniman
Burnt lime may be had at the
same place. Il will be sold in no
less quantity than car lots.