The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1920-01-02
STORIES FROM VERNON
SCHOOL WORK HIGHLY
PRAISED
Day Before the Holiday Vacation
Was Given Up to Splendid
Program
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nesday). The five teachers in the
Vernon Center public school and their
116 pupils will enter upon their mid
winter vacation with the same vim
and enthusiasm that they have mani
tested in their school work since the
opening of the school year In Sep
TENDER. The faculty which is an
unusually strong one is composed OF
Mrs. Armstrong, principal and the
Misses Bernice Davis, Ida Bowen
Della Bailey and Carrabel Louer
Harmony and unison are the keynotes
that have enabled the work OF the
school to attain it's high goal and put
our school among the very best in
the county. The past four months
have been unusually full and busy
ones. Besides the every day routine
of work and schools have been
able to take up and complete most
satisfactorily the state work which is
now urged as part OF the regular
work. Several special programs and
drives have been successfully carried
out. Achievement Day was one OF
the big red letter events and was very
largely attended = and showed the
splendid work accomplished by the
various teams. Club work Is a part
Hof the broader and better education oi
Athe present day and Vernon Center
schools are progressing fast because
of this work. Mr.. Coe and County
Superintendent Detamore were pres
ent and gave splendid talks along the
J line of work they are engaged in
Mr. Detamore congratulated the COM
munity upon the teachers they had
and upon the team work which exist
ed among them and especially upon
having principal such as Mrs. Arm
strong i'm their schools. He remind
ed them that they should feel for
tunate in keeping Mrs. Armstrong
with them as she was capable and
could have much larger and better
position We feel that the teachers
will be rewarded for the work they
are giving gratis in organizing and
maintaining the various clubs and
that their splendid work will reach
farther and farther out into the com
7munity and draw in new territory,
and the results will be a consolidated
school in less than two years. Mr..
kDetamore said further "the time is
now ripe for this achievement. The
boys and girls of this community are
deserving of better cationa III
facilities than they are getting. The
greatest duty OF American citizens to-
day is the education of the future
citizen. Boys and girls must be train
ed right and to live and think cor
rectly and only in that way can
America be safe In order to receive
the training they deserve and the new
and broader education so important
to America at the present time the
dignity of labor should be taught and
communities should be united. Each
community should put his house in
order and meet the needs of the
present day land in this way there
need be no worry over the future.
Lets all think, talk, dream and pro-
phesy consolidation for the remaining
winter months and the results will be
a consolidated school with its bene-
fetal results reaching forth to future
generations" Many and various have
been the stunts pulled off by the
school in the interest of the Junior
Christmas Seal paign which
closed last Friday afternoon with a
program, lunch and toy sale held at
the school building. A large number
of the patrons and friends of the
school were present. That all were
deeply interested in the events of the
afternoon vas evident in way the
guests submitted themselves to be
packed like sardines in a box during
the program. Consolidation spells
an auditorium and a community CEN
berg is teacher.
School district No. CT with Miss
Ethel Ericsson as teacher gave a pro-
gram and had tree and pie social
Saturday evening. What is the mat
ter with having other pie socials?
Roy Currier of st. Peter spent Sun
day at the Rist home and his brother,
Clarence visited the Severance fam
lily.
Fred Melvin, formerly of this neigh
borhood, died at his home in West
Mankato last Thursday. Funeral serv
ices were held Saturday.
Mrs. Reed, nee Bulah Busby, spent
two afternoons with Naomi Randall
in Boston, Mass, short time ago.
Master Delford Stats now of North
Mankato, but who lived on the Strad-
er farm and attended school in Dis
trict No. s, a few years ago, was the
first boy to enter his dogs in the dog
contest, one of the events of the Man
kato carnival.
Mrs. ]. F. Bacon. wife of the form
Ter pastor. is spending her winter at
Melbourne Beach, Fla. She is well
and always likes to hear from her
old friends at Kerns.
Mrs. Charlie Severance and sons,
Will and Charlie, Jr., attended the
school exercises in North Mankato
Friday.
Archie Currier has gone to Suther-
land. Ore.
Ed Parsons of Spokane, Wash, is
visiting with his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. l.. p Parsons.
The students who are home for the
holidays are Earl Rood, state 'univer-
sity; George Loucks, Carleton col
ege; Evelyn Budde, Mankato State
normal; Ralph Coggeshal, Burton
Burnett and Vera Kempernolte, Man
kato high school and Charlie Sever
ance. Jr., and Gwendolen Rast OF
North Mankato school.
Walter Johnson was pleasantly sur