The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1920-12-03
W.C.T.U. WORKER SSCK
MRS. ADDIE WILLMERT
SUFFERS STROKE
Condition Serious; Many Acres
OF Sugar Beets Are To Be
.. Planted
Especial to The Free PressI

Blue Earth, Mimi, November So
Mrs. Addie Willmert, q well known
w. @. T. U. worker and q Christian
lady of much influence suffered q
stroke OF paralysis on Thanksgiving
Day. Mrs. Willmest suffered the
stroke Just after she had asked the
blessing at the table She lies In a
serious condition. ...
frank Newell, one of the Ave bank
ers OF Fenton. Iowa, who were injur :
ed last week In an auto accident, Is
dead. His three brothers are still In
o serious condition.
Albert Jacobson, q former super
visor in Kossuth county, Iowa, and
tor several years the\rresident Of the
Ringstead bank, Is dead at his home
in Ringstead. following stroke OF
paralysis.
BY soliciting the farmers in the i'm
mediate vicinity Of Sherburn, 1t has
been ascertained that over 1000 acres
Of sugar beets will be PLANTED there
next spring.
The building of the Auto Supply
company Of Estherville, Iowa. was en-
tered by burglars and robbed OF 5000
on Saturday night =
During the past week the farmers
IN the vicinity OF Farimont have re-
ceived $26,400 for the sugar beets
which they have raised the past year.
The business men Of Esthervilie as
well as the surrounding farmers are
making an effort to have q beet sugar
factory located at Estherville.
Clarence Odell Of Farimont Is suf-
fering from q serious case of blood
poisoning. His mother at Bancroft,
InUa hoo g. L. a.
Grant Griffin, whose father was
found piled In with some cordwood
with his skull crushed, In the base
ment OF his home, which had been
set on f1re, after strenuous question
ing has admitted that he was at his
fathers home the night of the
tragedy, but says that he discovered
his father dead at the foot Of the
stairs whore he had fallen down stairs
and fearing that they would accuse
him OF the crime, ran away. His at
torney will make q defense OF insan-
ity when he Is tried at Baskerville.
Absalom Hesthenes. Anton Hesthenes,
Lars Gredung, Hans Thorson and
Absalom Gudahl left Bricelyn on
Saturday for New York where they
VIII sail for Norway and expect to
visit for the next three months with
relatives.
Mrs. E. l. Malmfn, mother OF ]. III.
Malmin and grandmother OF the NAL
min brothers, who are large hard
ware dealers Of Blue Earth, had the
misfortune TO fall down cellar IN her
home where she lives alone, and
break her htr. It was only by acct
dent that Mrs. ]. NJ. Malmin called and
found her laying at the foot Of the
stairs and saved her life.
Carl Haase Of Blue Earth, who
was SO badly gassed while serving
In the army In France that an abcess
0rmed back Of one Of his eyes and
the swelling Of which had pushed the
k,all entirely out Of the socket SO that
/ 1t lay on the cheek bone, was obliged
to have the eye taken out. He is In
hospital at st. Charles, Iowa, where
he 10 receiving the best Of medical
aid. M. ]. Haase, banker, who took
him and his two brothers from an or
phan home when they were little and
raised them, was with him at the time
Of the operation.
Helen. the little daughter Of Mr.
and Mrs. @. B. Holly OF Wells, was
seriously injured while on what is
called the Chicago slide on the play.
around sat school. The nurse, Miss
Sylvia Look. is helping care for the
child