The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1920-08-20
PICNIC AT HAYS FARM WAS
VERY FINE AFFAIR
Property Changes Hands In VIII
lage; the Notes and News
Collected

Vernon Center, August 14.-Mr.
Mrs. John Mountain or Portland,
Ore, who are spending a two weeks
vacation with the home folks al
Good Thunder, were in Vernon last
week guests of Henry Weir and
daughters Misses Katie and Lucy
Weir. Their mother, Mrs. Alice
Mountain Of Good Thunder accom-
panied them.
The Bill Muske bungalow in the
west part of town will be competed
this. Three carpenters from Blue
Earth have been secured to complete
the job. Herman Runge OF Blue
Earth, an uncle Of the Muske broth
ers, is here assisting the carpenters.
Mrs. Minnie Thompson and daugh
ter, Mrs. Beatrice Marks and baby
daughter are up from Mankato spend
ing a week among their many old
friends in the old home town. Mrs.
Marks will teach in the public schools
of her home city the coming year.
Mr.. and Mrs. ThOrne OF LETTERS,
Mimi, are in town spending a two
vacation with the latter's sister,
Mrs. F. H. Barnes.
+. Ray Cooper, who is employed
by Farewell. Oman Kirk and COM
pany spent the week end over Sun
day with his parents, returned to the
cities Monday. His wife, who had
been visiting here for two weeks, re-
turned with him.
Lyle Cooper and his friend Jack
Hinton, who spent their vacation
with the formers parents here, re-
turned to their work in Minneapolis
via motor route early Monday morn
ing.
A large number of Vernonites mo-
tored to Winnet ago Saturday to hear
the Million Dollar band.
G. c. Cornish and Mrs. Mary Cor
nish are enjoying a visit from sister
Miss Josephine Cornish of Mime
apolis.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Beland and
children started on the four o'clock
train Monday afternoon on their long
journey to their home in Balboa,
Panama. Mrs. Katherine Kraus ond
Mrs. V. G. Armstrong accompanied
them as far as the cities.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hobert Petrick
have just recently welcomed a new
baby daughter into their home and
hearts. They now have two little
daughters.
Miss Louise Award is expectec
home this evening from quite an ex
tended visit with relatives in Man
katO.
During the past two weeks Iowans
whom owed to this locality last spring
have been entertaining relatives and
friends from back home" Among
them were Mr.. and Mrs. William
Trafford and daughter Lois, Mr.. and
Mrs. w. MCGEE and son Wayne Of
Klumme, Iowa. Mr.. and Mrs. Werner
Lewis and Messrs M. Restoff and c..
l.. Lewis of Hayfeld, Mimi, guests
Of the Yonkers family in East Vernon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Palmby, have en-
joyed a visit from Mr.. and Mrs. Ell
der, Mr. and Mrs. Nels Swanson and
Mesdames Carl Horn and Ned Olson
of Webster City, Iowa. The Merritt
family, who moved from Iowa last
spring onto their farm adjoining the
village on the west, have been en-
PERTAINING a house party of rela
tives and friends.
Joseph Robinson has sold his pro-
perty in the west part of the village
known as the Wyman house to
Charles Pahlsen, who will take pos
session the first of October. The
Patterson family who has been oc
cuping the house since last spring
and working the Lowell farm, will in
all probability move into the farm
ton in the village. At the present
time there is not a vacant house ana
there are at least three families wish
ing to locate here.
Mrs William Perrin of San Di-
ego, Cal, who is spending several
months with her son Charles Cham
berlin, and other relatives in Amboy,
was a welcome guest this week at
the A. G. Wilbur and Godfrey Wend-
landt homes.
Miss Marguerite Wilbur, after
spending two weeks vacation at
the home of her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Fred Wilbur, has returned to
Minneapolis where she is taking a
nurses course.
Mrs. Mary Willard after a two
months visit with Mrs. Nellie Rambo
in West Vernon and other friends in
the village and in Garden City, left
yesterday for her future home in
Sioux Falls, S. D., Mrs. Willard has
been making her home with son in
California for the past several years,
who last spring moved to Sioux
Falls.
Mrs. Nellie Rambo took the noon
train Wednesday for Winnehago
where she will spend several days
with Mrs. Ida Marston and other
friends.
, Stacking is quite generally finished
in this locality. Shock threshing of
wheat has been in progress for over
a week. The yield is small and the
quality very inferior. The general YER
dict among the farmers is that very
little wheat will be sown next spring
as it is losing game all round whether
thdy get a big crop or none at all.
r. B. Hays has returned to his
home in New York city after a short
visit at his old home. Several car
loads of his intimate friends motored
out to the Hays farm and enjoyed a
picnic supper on the bluff south of the
house. The men were the hosts on
this very happy occasion and plan
ned, cooked and served the splendid
repost, equal to train cheds, which
elected much praise from the guests
Coffee and wieners were cooked ov-
er the campfire and served piping hot
with bread and butter sandwiches,
cheese and olives, second course con-
consisted Of ice cream, doughnuts,
grapes and onions from the Hays
onions from the Hays oeion patch.
After supper huge bonfire was
made around which all gathered and
several hours were spent in remin
SCIENCES Of past years when there
were no silver threads among the gold
and the intervening years that have