The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1921-12-02
Baby Fractured Its Skull
Condition Serious
TOWN TOPICS ARE TOLD
Family Reunion And The Social
Affairs Are Related In
The Village
Especial to The Free Press

Vernon Center, November 2S.-The
little fifteen months old baby Of Mr..
and Mrs. Meyer fell from his high
chair last week and fractured his
skull. DIR. O'Connor has the case. 1t
is understood that the child is in a
very critical condition. The Meyer
family just recently moved here from
Iowa, and hope to find some farmer
who needs man and wife to help
carry on the farm work. Anyone de-
string such help would confer a great
favor by notifying the above.
| Edmond Good went to Mankato
early Monday morning, where he has
enrolled as a student at the Manka-
to Commercial college, where he will
take business course.
Mrs. F. L. Cooper spent part OF the
past week at the H. e. Roberts home
in Mankato.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Morris and
daughter Gertrude, Mr.. and Mrs.
Richard Jonson and daughter Eileen
and Miss Grace Rosenow of Mankato
were guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Ed
Swanson on Thanksgiving day.
| Robert Sewers and his eldest son
Summer, accompanied by Mr.. and
Mrs. Harry Bates, all or South Yer
non, drove to Mankato Friday, where
Mrs. Bates underwent an operation
on her finger for a bone felon at the
Mankato clinic. DIR. j. S. Holbrook
was the surgeon who did the work
and found that the bone was infected.
| Mrs. Bates is in Emmanuel hospital,
where she will remain for few days
| for treatment.
| Among the Vernon folks, who were
shoppers in Mankato Friday were
Mr. and Mrs. Marion Selby and chill :.
| dren, Mr.. and Mrs. Anil KeitZer and
Mrs. Fred Keitzer and daughter Mrs.
| Ida Komnich and Mrs. H ]. Good
| and son, Edmund, T. d. and Miss Ella
Hays. -,
Lawrence Butler, who Is in the
barber business at Manson, Iowa,
spent Thanksgiving and over the
week end with his mother, Mrs. Sar-
ah Butler at central.
Friends in the old home town here
heard with pleasure of the arrival OF
L2by girl at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. F. Carpenter Lehigh Mont. just
recently. With two sturdy little lads
and this little new arrival Mr.. and
Mrs. Carpenters Thanksgiving day
must have been the best ever. an ana
the cup Of happiness overlooking with
Joy. Mrs. Carpenter was formerly
Ruth Barnes of this place.
Mrs. William KopiSchke OF West
Vernon who returned last week from
IMankato, where she has been taking
treatments, is very much improved
nj health, she is gaining In strength
daily and her comeback to her usual
good health .es expected to. be very
/ rapid which Is good news to her rela-
tives and friends.
Following his usual custom of
years Grandpa Terry had with him
on Thanksgiving day his two daugh-
tiers. Mrs. Frank Nickerson and
family of Rapidan and Mrs. Frank
Grannis and family. Mrs. Nickerson
extended her visit until Sunday af-
ternoon.
One of the largest family reunions
held on Thanksgiving day was at the
home Of Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Merters-
dorf in North Vernon, when twenty
three guests were entertained at din
ner.
i Mr.. and Mrs. R. G. Champlin en-
tertained the Champlin clan at
Thanksgiving dinner. which included
Mr.. and Mrs. G. w. Champlin and
lneu Two ChhuIen Aon anu maiy VI
Lake Crystal, and l. L. Champlin of
Mr.. and Mrs. John Lowell and
children came down from Fairment
to spend Thanksgiving with their
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. F. r. Lowell,
/ remaining until the Monday follow
ing. Friday evening Mrs. Lowell en-
tertained informally dozen or more
old schoolmates OF their son, who re-
CT In 0Id
tally is always found at the Lowell
home and it goes without saying that
all had one fine time, and that the
evening passed all too rapidly in re-
county happy "reminiscences Of the
davs of AUD Lang Syne."
Miss Alice MILLER and Miss Sarah
Malcomson returned here Sunday
evening to resume their teaching in
the public school of the village after
spending the Thanksgiving vacation
with. their parents at St Paul and
Mankato.
Mrs. Emma Brown and Philip and
Charlotte returned home this evening
from an over Thanksgiving visit with
the formers brother in law and sis
ter, Mr.. and Mrs. w. Dedra and fam
lily at Waseca. Dorothea Brown who
SEGA, stopped off in Mankato to re-
sumo her studies at the Teachers
college. ~ r.....
: Miss Nina Rosenberger returned
Friday evening from Henderson
, where she spent a happy Thanksgiy-
ing holiday with the home folks.
!, Cressa and Dorothy Stratton are
spending the winter with their
grandmother Mrs. Mabel Gray OF
North Vernon. The little girls are at
tending school in the Mertersdor1
district.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. r. Mobiles took their
daughter Miss Ethel as far as Man
kato Saturday afternoon by auto
where she took a train later In the
evening for the cities, at which place
she remained over night with friends
Ion the way to Plato to resume her
work in the schools at that place.
Several in and around the village
are suffering with colds.
; Little Stanley Lowell is the latest
Of the little folks to come down with
chicken pox which will necessitate
keeping him out Of school a few
days.
toyed Thanksgiving ! by having with
them their son Sanford and wife
and two children Mr.. and Mrs. J. r.
Mobiles and Walter and Miss Ethel
Mobiles OF Ceresco and Vernon Lewis
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