The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1920-12-31
PROGRAM AND SOCIAL WAS
PLEASING SUCCESS
Another interesting Letter From
E. w. Washburn, Who Now
Is In West

the success Of the venture. A. c. Gray,
cashier Of the Farmers State bank.
auctloned off the boxes in his usual
good natured way which made the
buying brisk. The highest price paid
for box was four dollars Glenn
Frances being the purchaser. Forty
seven dollars and fifty cents were
money will be used for the purchase
OF necessary equipment for the
serving OF hot lunches which will be
inaugurated at the opening Of
school after the holiday vacation.
Mrs. George Phelps, after months
visit with her two granddaughters,
the Mesdames George and Ed. Mer-
tersdorf and families, returned to he:
home in Winnebago Friday afteroon.
Tonsilitis seems 10 be going the
rounds in the village. Genevieve and
Dorothy Stoner, who have been very
sick are now on the gain. Mrs. Ida
Lee Is the latest to entertain this un-
welcome visitor Grandma Stoner Is
confined to her room with Quinsy to
which she has long been subject to.
This attack is unusually severe.
Harold Bowen to Mankato where he
spent the evening with friends.
walter Cox, who came down from
Albert Lea about month ago to help
his father /. l. Cox Of North Vernon
pick his corn, suffered a bad accr.
last week when the team which he
was using ran away. The load passed
over his foot breaking bone and
tearing some of the ligaments loose.
1t was a lamentabie accident .whlc..
Will keep him from activity several
weeks.
Lawrence Warren, a studen. at the
University of Minnesota, will arriv
home Thursday evening for the holi-
days. Warren Dennison, who Is at
tending the State Agricultural COL
lege at Ames, is at home to spend the
holiday season with the home folks.
Miss Ethel Mobiles, who teaches The
| consolidated school at Nicollet will
arrive this evening to spend the mid
winter holidays with her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. ]. r. Mobiles In Ceresco.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. Ray Cooper came
up from Minneapolis Tuesday and
Will be the guests of their parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Cooper over the
Christmas holidays.
Lyle Cooper, who holds a good DO
sition in one Of the Minneapolis
music stores, will arrive home
Christmas eve.
Mrs. V. c. Armstrong, principal Of
the Amboy high school, will spend
the holiday season with her brother.
s. B. Cornish and wife In Faribault.
All the business places have gaily
decked windows appropriate to the
season, and for the last few days
trade has been brisk. Sensible gifts
seem to be the choice Of the majority
Of Christmas shoppers.
Mrs. Rubin Carpenter, former
resident of North Vernon, passed
away last Saturday at the home OF
her son in law and daughter. Mr.. and
Mrs. Fred Wilson, at Sisseton. s.
d. The body was brought here for
burial Wednesday. The funeral SER
vices were held in the Methodist
Episcopal church, Rev. w. W. Brown
officiating. Interment was made In
Union cemetery beside the body Of
her husband whose death occurred
twenty five years ago. Mrs. Car
the time of her death.
Mrs. Frances Is confined to her
bed with a severe attack Of tonsilitis
which seems to be going the rounds.
The two little daughters, who have
been sick for nearly two weeks. with
the disease are making o good re-
covery.
e. w. Washburn's interesting notes
of sights aud scenes in sunny Cali
fornia continue. Dated at Long
Beach, December IL, he says: I'VE
are still at this place and quite busy
tramping and taking trips to various
points and places OF interest. This
city seems to be building and spread.
ing out despite the closeness of
money. I am satisfied that the coast
country has not felt the cramps yet
as in the case of the east and the
middle states, but think they will.
We are already reading that many
men are out of work and are looking
for jobs. The ship yards and various
other enterprises are slowing down,
I am told. The spasm Of specula
ton has simply got to let up and get
back to a more rational basis. 90
down on "the pike" everyt day and
as Benny Pots would say, and about
nine out Of every ten seem to be
here for the winter, the most Of them
from Minnesota, iowa, Michigan,
the Dakotas and so on father east.
We go to church twice every Sun
day, changing our diet so to speak,
! that is never the same place twice.
{. This Is quite a church city and some
/ fine ones. We are enjoying all the
places of amusement we can, con-
sistant with our best judgment and
our pocket DOCKS. we cApSCI 70 ~
over to Pasadena January /, to the
Rose carnival, thing most tourists.
! as well as many residents attend.
F.: My brother and family from Duluth
who are here for the winter in Call
fornia at Pasadena called on US the
other day, bringing also my sister. 80
we had short and pleasant visit. He
shipped car out here and his son
and daughter do the driving. The
roads are SO good out here they can
go, in any direction In comfort"
In last Mondays Free Press a
slight mistake was made in the
printing of e. w. Washburn's letter.
when the word never" was left out,
which would lead his friends to sup
pose that since his sojourn In the
west he had left the plain and simple
life far behind, and was hobnobbing
with the rich or at least wishing to
be In their class. In writing OF Q
/ 81, 000, 900 home they had visited he
closed the description by saying, "Oh
+ can't begin to tell you of the won