The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1919-04-04
STORIES FROM VERNON
MEETING OF CREAMERY FOLK
DATED FOR APRIL z
Appeal For Clothing Made By
The Red Cross; Personal
Notations
Ispecial to Free Press

CicoihSry mSetlnS Will De nelu at
the opera house Wednesday, April 2.
beginning at eleven o'clock. The
purpose OF the meeting. so the notice
reads, is for the election of a but
termaker and other business that
may come before the meeting. There
may be other business in view. 1t
behooves every patron to be present
Wednesday. April 2.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lucius Ashley and
son visited this week at the Lee Cox
home in Garden City.
Mrs. Leonard Zumwalt and two
children Alice and Harold are the
latest country people to be enter
tanning the flu.
Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Cornish and
two children departed Wednesday for
Long Beach. CAL, where they expect
to make their future home. They
take with them the best wishes Of
the entire community
Louise Tom went to the Emmanuel
hospital Wednesday where later in
the week she submitted to an oper.
alton for the removal of her tonsils.
Her sister, Miss Martha Tom, a
trained nurse, is with her.
Attorney C.. J. Laurisch was up
from Mankato Tuesday attending to
legal business in the village.
A. A. Johnson of Winnebago.
president of Shelby Farmers Mutual
Insurance company, was in town the
first of the week comforting with G.
c. Cornish. one of the directors
Mr.. Johnson, who has four sons
with families, who live in the terri
tory covered by the Huntley consoli-
dated school district, knows the ms
and outs and the ups and downs of
the system from A to z, and those
who desire to post themselves on the
subject of consolidation for Vernon
Center would receive valuable infor-
maticn from Mr.. Johnson
Earl Griffith. book keeper in Vern-
on Center State bank, returned
Monday from a visit over the week
end and Sunday with his home folks
in Swea City. Iowa.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. III. Dredge, who
have been spending the past four
months with their daughter, Mrs.
Bert Barnes. have returned to their
home at Lake Crystal.
Little Helen Frances, who lives in
the country and attends the village
school, is staying with Mrs. Bert
Barnes in the village this week =
All the folks in the Charles Brown
home in West Vernon are down with
the flu except the two daughters
'&Dorothea and Virginia Mr. Brown
and Herbert are very sick A trained
nurse and DIR. j. E. Merrill are at
tending them. All are reported to
be on the gain with the exception of
Herbert, who is threatened with
pneumonia.
Robert Henderson, in a recent let
ter to his parents, Mr.. and Mrs A !
Henderson, states that he is still in
France with the prospect of getting
home as vague as ever. The regular
routine of about seven hours drilling
is very, montonous and in his case
very hard work as he still feels the
effect of being severely gassed and
his long stay in the hospital.
A short business meeting of the
Vernon Chapter Red Cross h~,acl
was held at the home of Mrs F. H.
Barnes Thursday afternoon. Plans
were completed for a successful Old
Clothes drive for Europe's destitute
during the week of May 81 to April
S. c. G.. Cornish was, elected direc-
tor to represent the Vernon branch
at the annual election of the Manka-
TO chapter which will be held in that
city sometime during April.
1t is hoped that everybody in the
Vernon Center Red Cross territory
will respond to the appeal for old
clothing for the destitutes across the
seas. The needs are great, greater
we believe, than ever before. Our
branch. has always gone way over the
top in every worthy cause and we
are confident that we will continue
in Glass A as heretofore. We have
pulled off the braves and fishes stunt
several times and emptied our closets
and attics to the uttermost we thought
in relieving the fire sufferers in the
northern part of the state, but new
ertheless we expect to find several
substantial articles of clothing that
we can dispense with, thankful that
we are the donor instead of the re-
cipient. All those having stout gun
ny sacks are requested to put their
clothing in them and deliver the
same to the usual collection place at
the Mrs. Mary Cornish residence.
Bags instead of boxes will be used to
pack the clothing in for shipment.
The F. s.. Hemingway sale one
mile north of town Thursday was
well attended and everything sold
well. Mr. Hemingway has rented
his farm to Ross Annis, who with his
family are moving into the tenant
houses across the road. from the old
homestead where Mr.. Hemingway
and his daughter, Mrs. Guppy will
continue to reside. The old home
witb-,its pleasant memories covering
nearly sixty years is too sacred to
leave and this grand old man whose
life has been filled with kindly
deeds and honest aspirations will
happily spend the sunset days in
pleasant "reminiscences intermingled
with the joys of tie present.
Mr. and Mrs. George Gray and
Master Douglass will soon be resi-
dent of our happy little village, one
of the best on the map. The Tay-
lor house is being painted and re-
papered and when the work is com
pleted the Grays will take possession
A. most cordial welcome will be
theirs.
Frank and Leslie Cooper enjoyed a
visit this week from their cousin, Ed