The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1919-09-12
STORIES FROM VERNON
REV. W. w. BROWN GIVEN
UNANIMOUS RECALL
Many People In Village Attend
ING the Stale Fair; Fresh
News Notes
Especial to The Free Press)

| Vernon Center, September Airs.
Laura Coffman of Richie, H., visited
over the week end and part of Sun
day with her brother, George Gray
and her nephew, A. c.. Gray and fam
lilies in the village. Sunday afternoon
the two Gray families and Mrs. Golf
man motored to Mapleton to see Mr.
Julius Stencil, who was very badly
hurt Saturday afternoon by falling off
Of a scaffold while at work on the
Charles Proehl residence. Mr.. Stem
eel is a carpenter and contractor and
it was feared that his injuries were
fatal, but word from Mapleton Tues
day says that he is improving and no
serious results are anticipated.
| Mrs. V. c. Armstrong and Miss Ida
Bowen and the bread team girls, Ell
eanor Mack, Alice Warren, Lillian Mel
son, champion breadmakers in South
ern Minnesota, left on the early train
Monday for the state fair where the
girls will put on a bread making DEM
onstration on Wednesday afternoon.
They now are competing for national
honors. Here's to the hoping that they
will succeed.
! Edwin Kraus, the junior member of
the Kraus brothers dairy business, is
| spending the whole week at the fair,
accompanying his aunt, Mrs Arm
strong and the bread team. 1t is con-
jectured that Edwin will spend the
most of the time in the dairy depart
ment and no doubt he will return with
many new and easier devices of de-
liyering milk, which end of the bus
mess he is supposed to handle.
Mr.. and Mrs. d. H. Thew and Mrs.
Elsie Thew left Saturday morning ON
a weeks vacation trip, going first to
Cedar, Mimi, for a visit with the
formers sister, Mrs. Frank Robinson
and family, stopping off in the cities
on the return trip to take in the big
gest state fair in the United States.
Charles Force returned from the
! fair Monday evening, going down Sat
urday. 1t is the biggest fair witnessed
so the returned visitors say
| Mrs. Kate Johnston has returned
from short visit with her daughter
in ST James.
Charles Wagon and his mother,
Mrs. Mary Wagon of Mankato motor
ed out to the Lou Kraus home Mon
day. Mrs. Wagon is spending the day
with her mother, Grandma Kraus,
Charlie coming to Vernon on business
and incidently called on relatives and
| friends.
! Mrs. Lodia Warren is spending a
! couple of weeks with relatives at
Clearwater, MINI.
/ DR.. F. B. Doran, district superin-
tendent, held the fourth annual con
ference for the year at the Methodist
church last Sunday evening, when
Rev. w. w. Brown received unan-
inous call to return as pastor for an
other year and it is sincerely hoped
! the general conference which con-
venes in st. Paul next week will con-
cede with the request.
I Mr.. and Mrs. Milfred Patterson and
youngest daughter Nedra have re-
turned from an enjoyable motor trip
to Austin where they visited a week
with Mrs. Patterson's mother
| Mrs. Dorweiller is moving back in
! to her own residence with her son and
his wife, from, the Mertersdorf house
which was purchased last spring by
Mrs. Emma Brown, who will have it
remodeled and furnace installed,
| the work will be completed by the
| first of October, when Mrs. Brown
! and family will move into town.
! Mr.. and Mrs. Tom Bowles and fam
lily and Mr.. and Mrs. Jess Mobiles and
+! family and Mrs. Sanford Cornish left
Monday for a motor trip to Faribault
to see Mrs. Bowles' daughter, who
has been in the sanitorium in that
/ city for the past several years.
Arfic chu MI &c -, -,
blowing the Charlie Gilchrist farm
recently been purchased by an Iowa
party.
Willard Busby has been making i'm
provements on the buildings on his
big farm west of town by reroofing
his barn and building a large porch
across the west side of the house. the
, block foundation and floor being built
before the war.
Mrs. Ellen Robinson is back to her
village home after a pleasant visit
Of about six weeks with her sons at
Cedar and Cumberland, Wis, and a
sister at Stanberry Wis,
| Editor Harold Burdick and wife,
accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. James
Lnvell left Thursday for the cities
where they will enjoy several days
respite from their usual strenuous
everyday work, sightseeing at the big
'nir and in the beauty spots of the
| city.
Herman REEVES, who has been rent
ing for three years the farm formerly
owned by C.. F. Force, threshed his
grain which went about six bushels
per acre. and the first of next month
will mpve onto his farm six miles
west of Vernon, which he purchased
last spring.
Lois Rev is spending happy week
| with Grandpa and Grandma Pepper
in Mankato, having accompanied her
. cousin, Margaret Quimby, who had
been visiting at the Rev Home, who
left Sunday afternoon for her home in
! Minneapolis.
| Mrs. G.. F.. Robinson is down from
Window on ten day visit with her
| son in law and daughter, Rev. and
Mrs. w. w. Brown at the Methodist
parsonage.
Miss Fogarty of Mapleton has
/, bought the Claude Meixell house. AS
| yet she is undecided as to whether
she will take possession this fall or
remain in Mapleton where she has
rented rooms in the fat until spring.
1 Last Saturday little Joseph Pfeffer,
tho fbirtoau pnontbc old bohSr IF Mr.