The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1920-01-30
STORIES FROM VERNON.
GEORGE r. GRAY NOW
PASSED CRISIS
Everybody in the Village Came
To Mankato Today to Visit
Carnival
United Press Dispatch.]


Vernon Center, January 20.-Mr.
and Mrs. Matt Weir took their daugh-
ter Alberta to Mankato Monday where
she will receive treatment in one of
the local hospitals of the city. Al.
berta has not been well since she had
the flu last year and for the past two
months she has been out of school
and confined to her room part of
the time. We all sincerely hope her
stay in the hospital will be short and
that she may soon regain her health.
Mr.. Burke of Western Montana,
brother in law of Clarence Howe, is
spending few days at the Howe
home in Old Town Mr. Burke is on
his way to Rochester where he will
subTint to an operation on his knee
which has long been troubling him.
Monday Griffith and Mobiles drove
in several carloads of fat steers which
were shipped out by H. c. Kraus.
There much sickness in the vii.
1age, many of the children have bee2
absent from school during the past
week with colds and sore threats and
many of the grown ups are afflicted
with the same epidemic.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Halyerson and
little daughter Irma have been quite
i'll for several days. Their mother,
Mrs. Lodie Warren is assisting in car
ing for then: and C. F. Force is in
charge of the restaurant.
The Lou Kraus neighborhOod is
having measly time, nearly every
family has one or two cases of this
dreaded disease. Mildred and Will
bur Kraus have been very sick, es-
pecially Mildred. "A little girl of one
of their neighbors, is also sick in bed
with the measles at the Kraus hom~.
Mrs. Wilbur Robinson of Lake Crvs-
tai is helping her daughter take care
of the youngsters and this morning.
we learn that all are making a good
recovery.
Editor Harold Burdick last Tuesday
left for his old home in Maynard, Ia,
on Thursday. In company with his
where he entered one of the local
hospitals, where he, submitted to an
operation for appendicitis with which
he has long been sufferer. Mrs.
Burdick received a telegram Satur-
day afternoon, saying that success
full operation was performed Friday
m orning and that everything seemed
very favorable for a rapid recovery.
This listens good to his friends up
in his old home town.
Walter Mobiles son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Jesse Mobiles of Ceresco came home
from Mankato Commercial college a
week ago somewhat under the weather,
and since then has beer confind to his
room and under the doctors care.
On Wednesday his sister Ethel, who
teaches in the home district, was
taken down with the same symptoms
as her brother, and the next day their
mother, all of whom are confined to
their rooms. The family physician
says they have the grip, which doesn't
sound quite so bad as flu, although
they are pretty sick bunch.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. L. Tucker and
family of Hampton, Iowa, are nicely
located in their new home on their
farm which they purchased last
spring from G.. C. Cornish. Mr.. Tuck
er's car of household goods, stock,
machinery, etc., arrived last week and
lieighbors assisted in the unloading.
Mrs. Tucker and children remained
with Mrs. G. C. Cornish in the viii
lage during the morning process.
Don Cooper has resigned his po-
sition at the Cooper Hardware and
Implement company establishment
and accepted position in the Deere
and Weber company in his home city,
Minneapolis. liver Nelson, who held
this position before he Joined the
colors and served with the A. e. F.,
has resumed his old place. Iver al
ways makes good and Cooper and Co.
are to be congratulated in securing
the service of such competent young
man.
Mr.. and Mrs Herman Swanson
were called to st. James Thursday by
the death and burial of an uncle of
Mr.. Swanson's.
Thomas Johnson was down from
Colman. S. D.. the latter part of the
past week, attending to business mat
tiers Mr.. and Mrs. Johnson and
daughter Jessie are spending the
winter at Colman instead of Long
Beach as they had planned.
Mrs. J.. T. Lane and baby daughter
Lois Janet of Huntley are visiting her
brother in law and sister, Mr.. and
Mrs. A. K. Cothernan. Mr.. Lane is