The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1919-04-04
Canine TO THE RESCUE.
PREVENTS BULL FROM lNJuR-
ING MAN AND HIS WIFE
Most Distressing Accident Hap
pened To Mrs. William
HoIzinger
Especial to Free Pfess.1

Especial to Free Pfess.1
Eagle Lake, March !, 29.-William
Musser paid his friends q visit last
week He is in the navy and aboard
the Nebraska /battleship which has
been stripped of her armament and
converted into transport for con-
veying soldiers across the seas. He
has made two trips across and is en-
tefing upon his third trip which he
will take in about thirty days. He
has two years more to serve and
seems to enjoy this sort of life and
is looking fine.
The extension on the l. o. o. F.
hall is nearing completion which
gives the lower hall and >the anti
room upstairs much more room.
The ladies of the Red Cross met at
the hall Thursday and had their pic
lures taken by our local photographer,
John Hotaling.
Miss Marian Cummins, who is at
tending Pillsbury academy at Owa-
tonna, spent Saturday and Sunday
with her parents.
The game warden from Mankato
visited the village Thursday and
more fully explained the law relative
to catching fish and shooting ducks
and If in the future anyone is found
violating the law he will be subject
to arrest Not until April can fish
be. speared by artificial light along
the stream and no nearer than 500
feet of the lakes. Twenty five pick
|erel, twenty five croppies and fifteen
bass per day is the limit to one per-
son. This means only a total of
twenty five per day either pickerel or
croppies, half and half, but fifteen
must be the limit of bass. Ducks
cannot be killed in open water Hunt
ers must hide in rushes or wild rice
while shooting.
William Wilcox of ROsemoNpt,
Mimi, invaded the village recently
and selected one of the most beautiful
Reeds by the~name of Della, and took
her to Mankato where they were
united in marriage. Mr.. Wilcox is a
thriving farmer and owns a choice
farm and stock near Rosemount. Miss
Reed has been spending the winter
at Saltwater. The happy couple paid
Mrs. Wilcox's parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Nels Reed, day or two visit. They
went to Smiths Mill on Friday to
visit relatives and friends there They
go from there to their home near
Rosemount where they will live and
care for the farm Their many friends
wish them much joy and a long and
happy life. -
John Rose purchased a nice eighty
acres of land last week from the J. N.
Compton Land company. The land is
situated in LeRay township. Consid-
Grafton was $12,5OO or $157 per acre.
Lewis Rose, who lives on Fifth
street. Mankato, has listed his eighty
acre farm. one mile from Eagle Lake,
at $105 per acre, with the J. N Comp
ton Land company. Owing, to his
advanced age he no longer can attend
to the farm, hence his selling so
cheap. 1t is bargain.
Mrs. William Holzinger, living one
mile east of Eagle Lake. who was
feeling quite poorly, sat down at the
stove to warm her feet and soon faint
ed away. She fell forward on the
hot stove and burned the back Of her
hand and wrist and the left cheek and
chin, also above the cheek bone far
into the hair above the temple. as
large as hand. A little boy about
five years old went to tell his father,
who was nearly half mile away,
forgetting that an older brother was
at the barn. When, they returned to
the house some thirty minutes later.
Mrs. Holzinger had partly recovered
from her swoon and had gone to an
upper room and went to bed with
shoes and dress and when found was
in dazed condition, not realizing
what had taken place. Mr. Holzinger
found the flesh on her hand and face
was cooked deep into the flesh She
Mrs. Johnson, of Mankato township.
1t will be-, a long time before she re-
covers owing to her age. She has
the sympathy of her neighbors and
friends. NJ
Mrs. August Swenson of Mankato
met with !. the Red Cross Thursday
and paid Mrs. A. Cummins a visit
The local lumber yard received a
couple cars of fine lumber this week.
All are now feeling quite sure that
we can lay away cur snow shoyels
and get our lawn mowers in shape
for the new grass.
S. C. Braden was distributing
case of fine maple syrup just made
in Indiana Z
All are glad to seeS Mrs ingalls, out
again after nearly a months confine-
ment to his home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Wilkinson,
living on farm near here, escaped
from possibly being severely injured
or death recently when they were at
tackled by their three year old bull
while they were engaged in unloading
load of corn stalks for the cattle in
the pasture. Their team and wagon
was standing parallel with steep
bluff some twenty feeN higher than a
fat below. This bluff is SO steep that /,
no one would think of driving up or
down. Mr. Wilkinson was throwing
the. stalks down over the side of the
bluff where the herd was feeding
when suddenly the bull came toward
them bunting. into. the horses hitch
ed to the wagon and lifted one Of the
horses off the ground, again throwing
him down. He repeated his rnshes
three times, bunting the horses down
and turning the team partly around
and bunting the team and wagon and
driver down over the bluff whore. they