The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1919-02-14
STORIES FROM VERNON
MAKING PLANS FOR HEALTH
TOURNAMENT FEB. g
Number of Events In That VII
Iage; Personal Gossip and
News Notes
Especial to Free Press.l

Especial to Free Press.l
Vernon Center, February Ga
meeting of the parents and other
patrons of the schools will be held
Friday evening al eight o'clock in the
| assembly of the high school, the main
purpose to acquaint the parents with
the health tournament that begins
February 9. Other topics of mutual
interest will be taken up, especially
that Oh recreation. A short musical
program has been prepared in which
Mr.. Wasserman viii play on the
violin and community singing be
part. After this four minute speeches
by d. Thew, C. NJ. Warren. Mrs.
A. c. Gray and Mrs Robert Sewers
will be given and then the meeting
will be thrown open for discussion
in which all are invited TO join. A
cordial invitation is extended to all
those interested to come.
, Letters from Miss May CornishA
overseas with Base hospital No, 26
say that she is packing for home,
awaiting the final word as to the date
Of departure. At the time of writing
she had just returned from a glorious
ten day furlOugh which she spent on
the French Rivera at Nice and other
places.
Miss Valaria Patrich will enter the
high school at Mankato next Monday
where she will complete a course
which will take about six months.
w. L. ZuInwalt has broken the
record Of cash renters by paying SO
per acre for the next three years for
the Dick EboThart farm containing
800 acres
Everybody missed their Free Press
Monday evening and did not learn
the cause of its nonappearance until
they read it in the city papers Tues
dav.
II. c. Kraus is going some
these days, being one of the largest
stock buyers in tho county. He buys
NEST Of the stock all along the line
from here to Kato. making large
shipments to the cities nearly every
'"v fnr the past several weeks. Fred
Flemming of North Vernon is un-
loading several carloads of steers
which he has been feeding during the
past fall and winter.
W. l.. and c.. A. Roberts and Mrs.
Mabel Faley of Mapleton visited from
Friday until Sunday on Strawberry
Point
L.. wructe and Lewis Graham of
Good Thunder are among the butter
makers. who have applied for the po-
sition of buttermaker at the Vernon
Center operative creamery. A
buttermaker will be hired at the an
nual meeting which will be held at
the hall Saturday, February s.
Mrs. Thorne has returned to her
home in LETTERS after visiting her
parents and sister in the village for
several days.
Mr.. and Mrs A. NJ. Felnlee of
Ceresco have the sympathy of all in
their great bereavement in the loss
of thei" eldest son Luther. a fine
roanly bow of eighteen years. The
funeral which was private was held
from the home Monday. interment
was made in Vernon Center Union
cemetery Rev. W. w. Brown of
ficiated. The Felmlee family with
the execution Of the father are all
down with the flu. five being confined
to their beds. Two trained nurses
Lave been in constant attendance and
this morning we are glad to report
favorably in their behalf. All are
holding their own and a marked i'm
rrovemcnt is noted in several of the
children and the attending physician
expects all will soon be out of dan
ger and the building up process be-
gun.
Rev. and Mrs. w. w. Brown and
little son Archie took the early train
Tuesday. Mrs. Brown stopped off
in Mankato where she expects to stay
for month. Mr.. Brown and little
son went on to Window. He return
cd Thursday evening, leaving Archie
with his grandma and aunt where he
will remain until Mrs Brown returns
to her home here.
Mrs. HUGH Frances and her mother.
Mrs. Boughton have returned from
their visit at Horizon, Wis.
Mrs. Bert Barnes has sold the barn
on her town premises to Gene Frances
who viii move the same to his farm
two and half miles north of town.
Joe Robinson is getting the barn in
shape for removal. The cupola has
been taken down. A builder moving
outfit from Amboy has the job of
moving the barn which will be quite
an undertaking.