The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1921-03-04
STORIES FROM vernon
LARGE HOG SALE FEATUR-
ED LAST WEEK
Letter From Mrs. Frank CIague
Who Is Now Visiting In
Washington


Mrs. F. C. Wilbur spent Friday in
Mankato where the former trans
acted business. The latter spent a
short time with relatives after she
finished her shopping.
dainty little card announcing the
arrival of Helen Ida at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. John Look of Boise,
Idaho, February Is. Vernon friends
extend hearty congratulations to the
happy parents, also to Grandma
| Brewer.
Mrs. F. r. Lowell left Saturday for
Fairmont where she will spend sew
eral days making the acquaintance
Of her little granddaughter at the
home of her son and daughter, Mr..
and Mrs John Lowell. Little Stan
ley and Eleanor Lowell are being
cared for by Mrs. C. M. Warren dur
ing their grandmother's absence.
Mrs. Charles Stelter was taken by
ambulance to the Emmanuel hospital
! late Saturday night where she expects
| to submit to an operation. DR.. Hill
da Luck of Mankato was in Vernon
Saturday and on her advice was TAX
en- to the hospital Mrs. Stelter has
been very sick since the birth of a
| little son nine days ago. Needed
equipments for the comfort and safe.
! ty of the mothers removal were OBJ
tanned from the Vernon Red Cross
loan closet, which is opened for the
night. Call either Mrs. Gladys Hal
version or Gladys Thul whenever you
| wish to get anything from the closet.
Everybody regrets to learn that
Ben Baumgartner of South Vernon,
who has not heen enjoying the best
| of health for the past several months,
has been conned to his bed the past
week. Neither Mr.. or Mrs. Baum
! gartner have ever regained fully
their strength since very severe
F; attack of the flu over year ago.
! A goodly number from out of town
and many of the villagers were at
the depot Friday afternoon when
! the Elks' special arrived carrying
! 100 Elks from Mankato, who alight-
ed from the train and headed by the
Elks' band paraded up Main street
! to the flag staff where Old Glory
waved her welcome, where fine Sc
lection was played after which they
marched to the depot followed by
spectators, who gave them hearty
farewell as they boarded their train.
H. C.. Kraus was the only Vernon
| Center Elk to go to Winnebago. He
arrived nome dt Three CioCh IL IhC
morning declaring this the biggest
and Test lark ever pulled off by the
big Elks for the pleasure of the
young fawns who matured to Elk
dom estate during the night.
A carload of ice was shipped in
from the lakes Saturday which was
used to finish filing the ice house at
the creamery and at the THU res
taurant.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Baumgartner
left on the noon train for Keister,
Mimi, where they win visit for a
week or ten days with relatives OF
Peter Froling left today for Web
ster City after weeks visit with
his old neighbors, Willard Busby and
family in West Vernon. Saturday
afternoon the Busbys, Mr.. Froling
and H. c. Kraus. motored to Man
kato where they spent several hours
Mrs. Rex Gibbs of Ames. Iowa, is
visiting for a few days at the home
of her aunt, Mrs. Charles Starbuck.
Letter From Mrs. CIague.
Washington, ID. O., February 70,
1921. My Dear Friend: just re-
sure you we were very happy to
know you all were well. We left
Redwood the 18th inst. and stayed
over night with Miles family in
Minneapolis, Saturday at $40 we left
there, arriving in Chicago at $3.50
Sunday. Left two hours later and
arrived here Monday at 1920, a. m.
The snow was from twelve to eigh-
teen inches deep in Pennsylvania and
at least foot deep here. The heav-
lest snowfall of the winter here. We
stopped at the Metropolitan hotel
and all day Tuesday and up to noon
Wednesday we spent finding a place
we might call home for few weeks.
This home hunting is no small job
can assure you. But our efforts were
rewarded Wednesday noon when we
went to the last address on our list,
21O6-O Street. Here we expect to
stay after March 1. Mother and
Frank seem very much at home, but
as for myself the call Of the middle
west has been very strong. could
have easily taken train home as
I'm free to acknowledge that it is not
so easy to leave q good home and It's
comforts for a strange abode. How
ever. I'm here and will feel better
when we are permanently located.
Yesterday we went to the capitol
where a guide carefully explained
the history of rooms and paintings
to us. He was very nice to mother
and always gave her q chair II pos
sible during his explanation. We
went into the presidents room and
he at once gave her the presidents
chair which she was pleased to oc-
cupy. All the presidents, including
and since Abraham Lincoln have
used this room. The table in the
center is the one where the presi-
dent signs the bills passed by con
gress. The paintings in this room
are very beautiful. Mother and lat
err spent several hours in the house
gallery watching and listening to the
house members. There are 435 mem
beers here and they had great num-
Der on the floor yesterday as this
week closes the present session and
they all are anxious to get through
with as much work as possible. An
aisle devides the house into two
equal parts. The democrats on one
side and on the other the republic
can members. Speaker Gillette of
Massachusetts, was in his chair and
with the democrats at the right of
him and republicans at the left of him,
they fought vigorously all after
noon. We saw and heard Uncle Joe
Cannon make strong speech against
the appropriation OF $1,250,000 for
the perfection of air travel. Among
many other things he had to say was
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