The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1920-03-26
|NEWDERRY EC0NVIcTED STORIES FROM VERNON
AID SOCIETY is NICELY
ENTERTAINED
Girls Society Doing Some Ex-
celient Work; Topics of the
Village
Especial to Free Press

Vernon Center, March S0.-Mrs.
Blanch Mertersdorf, president of the
Methodist Aid society, with the as
sistance of several members, enter
tanned at the home of Mr.. and Mrs,
Leslie Cooper Wednesday afternoon
The affair was in honor Of Mrs.
George Brown, who will move TO heI
new home at Albert Lea the first OF
April. About sixty-five were present
which included the school faculty and
several intimate friends not connect
ed with the Methodist church or Aid
Following the business session ir
charge of Mrs. Rev. vice president
for March, short program was CIV
en-, opened by the assembly singing
1.-THE Wearing of the Green" Mrs
Liefie Warren In her own charming
way made a few remarks appropriate
to the occasion. Friendship remem.
arances had been selected from diff
ferent authors and poets and neatly
written on white cards and given to
each lady excepting the honor guest
who after reading aloud the senti-
ment and authors name, wrote heI
name on the back of the card. The
cards were collected and strung OF
narrow green satin ribbon to form q
,ooklet. On the outside of the first
cards was written Vernon Center
March II, 1920, and then was pre-.
sented to Mrs. Brown, which will be
treasured as keepsake and remind
her in future years OF her friends ir
he old home town where she spent
Ter happy girlhood and early mother
iood days. Aud Lang Syne was suns
while the cards were being collected
A nice lunch was served and the re.
mainder of the afternoon spent So
cially.
The townspeople keep dropping ir
at school to view the serving of the
not lunch. AS next week is the lasi
of March it Is planned to discontinue
serving them it being the origina
intention to serve it during the colo
weather from November to March
inclusive 1t is hoped that the par.
,nts of the rural children for whose
-pecial benefit the hot lunch was
established, will be able to come II
and see how it is done before the
close so they may the better judge
whether it should become definite
policy. A little error crept into the
report of the first visiting delegation
last week in respect to the freedom
of the lunch period for the pupils
they are encouraged to make it {
pleasant social hour by conversation
;tories, ETC., under the supervision O.
he teachers. No doubt the children
we're rather awed by the presence O..
so many visitors and gave the i'm
preston of unusual quiet.
The Girls Sewing club of the Boys
md Girls club organization are doin:
inc work under the excellent leader
ship of Miss Bernice Davis, Their
teacher. The splendid exhibit nov
on display is worth seeing. The mem
oers of the club are Ella Schwartz
S,rienda Bode, Helen Caven, Eliza
,eth Weir, Vera Chadsey, Marie
petrick, Lillian Nelson and Eleanor
Mack.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Comnich are in
the Lakefield packing up their house.
hold goods, preparatory to moving
.hem to their farm in West Vernon
where they expect to become firsi
lass farmers and enjoy country life
% the utmost.
H. G.. Kraus received the first OF
the week a fine carload OF hard coal
ind several have bought their nexi
winters supply from this car and Art
Bates and George Boughton have put
in a busy week filling the various
bins. We all hope that it will not be
necessary to use up all of next win
o,s- hafD hn non oil
summer time" puts in an appearance,
and old sol, instead of furnace, sup
plies us with wal NTH.
Mrs. Ed Lee returned on the noon
train Friday from Mankato where
she had spent several days visiting
with friends while having dental
work done.
Miss May Robinson accompanied
her cousin Miss Esther Reed of
Wadena to Winnebago Thursday
where they visited until Friday aft
ernoon with their aunts, Mesdames
Graves and Roe.
Mrs. Emma Robinson is spending
some time in Mankato, helping tc
care for her SON in law, who is very
sick with influenza.
Mobiles left Saturday morning for
Texas, where they will inspect the
oil fields, expecting to invest in few
wells should the proposition at
close range look as good as it sounds
from the smooth tongue of the adver-
Using agent.
Annie Weir, who stays with her
grandfather and aunt, Henry Weir
and Katie Weir, is out Of school this
week, suffering with mumps and
scarlet fever in very mild form.
The four children of Mr.. and Mrs.
w. C.. Merritt, who just recently came
up from Wester City to take posses
sion of their farm which they bought
from John Keinholtz, having the
whooping cought and it may be sew
eral weeks before they can enroll in
the village school.
Owing to bad weather recently Al
berta Weir has not been able to go
% Mankato for medical treatments
which are proving very beneficial,
and she is fast regaining her health.
During the past three weeks in
the hurry and confusion of moving
from the farm into, her new home in
the village the correspondent asks
pardon for emitting several items
which would have been of interest toI
Free Press readers, one of which was
the annual mid-winter meeting of the
Methodist church and congregation
last Thursday afternoon. Those who