The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1919-01-24
STORIES FROM VERNON
GREAT HOG LOSS TO 7. D.
9 .sss. q HAYE THIS WEEK
Animals Valued at Over One
Thousand Dollars Die of
Cholera

Vernon Center January 1S.-Mrs. Anil
Roloff left this morning for Pennington
where she WIN spend few weeks with
her parents. Mrs. and Mrs. C. w. Soon.
Mrs. Newell. who has been nursing at
the NJ. Keith home in Sterling is expect
ed to return in Il few days.
Harold Burdick was taken suddenly sick
a little afttr midnight last night DR.. j.
II. Merrill was called and diagnosed his
case as appendicitis and ordered him to
remain in bed all day, but Friday noon
Mrs. Burdick took the train for Amboy
where he hopes to be able to get the Am
boy Herald published on the usual sched-
uled time.
When the news reached this little viii
lage late Thursday afternoon that the
United States had completed the legiSa-
tive process of voting itself dry and that
Nebraska the thirty sixth state had rati-'
fled the prohibition amendment, there was
great rejoicing intermingled with shame
and regret in knowing that this great state
did not get on the United State dry honor
roll. 1t did not take the knowledge of n
Daniel to read the handwriting on the wall
that John Bareycorn was doomed and his
ignoble career at an end. and why the
Minnesota saloons did not get on the
water wagon sooner is beyond the COM
prehension of a great many people ana
will ever remain blot on its fair pages.
\. c. Gray, cashier at the Farmers
State bank, is in the cities today on
business.
Charles Redfield has returned from
Chatfield, Mimi, where he was called to
attend the funeral of Il sister. Who passed
away in Rochester and was taken back to
the old home town for burial. Mrs.
Schwartz, who accompanied him, remain
ed in Chatfield when she will visit rela-
tives TOR few weeks.
T. ID. Hays has had the hard luck to
LOST over $1,000 worth of hogs by Cholera
during the past three weeks. Mr.. Hays
had the herd treated with serum when
the hogs were first effected, but it was
then apparently too late to check 1t, and
he lost almost half.
Mrs. Il. S. Armstrong, principal of the
Vernon Center schools, is spending the
week end with Mankato friends.
Hugh Frances had a valuable horse
badly. hurt being cut in a barb wire fence.
"Wednesday afternoon the Ladies' Aid of
the Methodist church held it's semi
monthly meeting in the country at the
pleasant home of Mrs. Fred Mertersdorf.
There was a good attendance of members
and several visitors, and the afternoon
was spent most profitably and pleasantly.
Mrs. Agnes Spence, vice president for
January, presided with ease and ability.
The meeting opened by all rising and
singing America. Mrs. Spence read for
the scripture lesson the one hundredth
pSdlill MIS-. EVA "enulanQI gave the
invocation. Items of interest were given
in response to roll call which were every
interesting showing that the ladies were
Keeping abreast with the times, and the
doing at home as well as in foreign lands.
AT the conclusion of the literary part of
the program n short but very enthusiastic
business session was held. Plans were
partly made for their annual February
dinner. The adoption of little Armenian
orphan by the society made this n red
a n a in = hn 1c Of dc
for does not the good book say I'm SO
much as yea do it unto one of these little
ones yea do 1t unto Me-" Tie hostess
served a very appetizing lunch at the
close of the meeting.
Rev. Father Colbert of Winnebago, who
steps at the Weir home when attending
to his pastoral duties in the village, was
most pleasantly surprised on his last visit
here by having several families from the
village and three sleighloads of his coun-
try friends drop in to spend the evening
which was spent very happily with music
and cards.
Miss Lena Kramer has returned to her
home in Fairmont after spending a couple
OF weeks at the home of her brother-in-
law and sister, Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Stoner. Miss Kramer is very pleasant
young lady to meet and while here made
many friends who hope she may repeat
her visit in the near future.
Joe Turner, who received an honorable
discharge from the aviation department in
the Canadian army just before Christmas
and spent the holidays with Vernon
friends, left Monday morning for VOL
worth, n. d.. where he has a splendid
position as manager of the Salver Lumber
company, the same position he held before
the war.
If it is necessary. and no doubt but what
1t is, for Uncle Sam to make the Fifth
Liberty loan drive in April. why not ''go
to it, in a sane and sensible way and as
economically as possible. The idea of
going to the expense of bringing to and
having this fair land polluted by lot of
kaiser junk consisting of $4,000 huns he'll
NETS captured by General Pershing's
troops by fSle supreme sacrifice of precious
lives. to be used as prizes for campaign
achievements, seems ridiculous. How any
one would care to have a souvenir of
those dirty huns is beyond my compre.
henslon. y woman's idea for disposing of
all this hun junk Is to deport as quickly
as possible to the Internal regions ex-
Kaiser Bill and his associates and pile
all the captured junk on top of them.
saturating the rubbish with that deadly
gas that Uncle Sam expected to use in
making the world safe for democracy and
which is causing so much concern in re-
gard to its disposal. Whizz- bang, Exit all
TO the music of There's Hot Time in
the Old Town Tonight"
The following letter was received by
Mrs. II. s. Armstrong and shows the ur-
gent need of clothing. etc, by the people
IN pie iIe HoHe ulStT1ct vernon Center
is packing several boxes of bedding this
week which will be sent there.
My Dear Mrs. Armstrong: / can dispose
OF clothing. have had boxes from sew
eral places and it goes very fast. It
seems like it goes as dew before the SUM-
FEEDING is in great demand. l have writ
ten to South Dakota club women to make
a drive Tor sheets for us in South Dakota.
Very few of our women have sheets Our
teachers are living here in the school
building with us in cloak rooms They
need bedding. I can place any number
OF quilts among needy. people. And cloth
ing all you can send can be given out to
worthy folks and needy. You see the dew
astation was so complete and over such
a vast area that no matter how much is
given 1t seems more is needed. We ap-
preciated so much the boxes the children
sent from all over the state, and we gave
Christmas cheer in this building to over
Thousand children. / wish YOU might
nave seen on Christmas day all the chill
dren under six who came here to find
Santa. 300 of them with their mothers and
fathers. Our tree was beautifully trimmed
by the Minneapolis club women. We gave
seven different Christmas programs so all
had Christmas. Our children have
written letters to all children from whom
they received boxes. The letters are so
pathetic. They always read thus 'If you
children had not remembered us we
wouldn't have had much of Christmas"
Your school children have helped to make
others happy. OU~ ~rCple have suffered
much but they are very brave Yesterday
looked out and saw twenty men at work
on houses, some, on the roofs shingling,
zero. With kind wishes for the New Year