The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1921-05-27
STORIES FROM vernon.
FEDERATED CLUB FUTURE
COURSE OF STUDY
Events In Village; Social Notes
And Letter Written BY
Mrs. Clague

Vernon Center, May 21-The Fed
study course for the next two months
will take ten demonstrations in the
care of the sick. The meetings will
be held every Thursday afternoon at
three o'clock at the Mertersdof
school house. Anyone whether a
member OF the club or not are in
bel Johnson, Blue Earth county Red
Cross nurse will give the demonstra-
tions, which are free. Mrs. Effie
Frances. president.
Mrs. Gene Frances returned Thurs
day for q stay OF several days with
her daughter, Mrs. Fl. II. Sodergren
in Ceresco. Mr.. Sodergren has been
quite poorly for the past week with
an attack Of appendicitis Of which
he has been sufferer for some
time. 1t is quite probable that he
will go 20 Minneapolis in the near
future for an operation.
Gardie Mead has returned to bis
home after spending a couple OF
weeks with his daughter, Mrs. George
Brown in Albert Lea.
A. J. Partridge is again quite poor
j..
Merrill. He is suffering with quite q
bad attack Of pleurisy.
The Misses Hazel Butler OF Cedar
Rapids am Katherine Quinn of Fort
Dodge, Iowa, have returned to their
respective homes after very pleas
ant visit at the T. d. Butler home "a.
Northwest Vernon.
All will be sorry to hear that
Grandma Halverson has had a set
&c in IN hAr
room. For the past two days she has
Rev. W. w. Brown of the Metho-
dist church was in Mankato Tuesday
and secured Rev. DeLoss Tompkins
to deliver the address Memorial
Sunday. DR.. Tompkins was for some
years preacher i'll some vi the out
standing pulpits of Chicago, but fol-
lowing an automobile accident was
compelled to retire from active work,
and is now living in North Mankato.
Those who have heard DR.. Tompkins
tell us that we may expect an ad-
dress of rare intellectual quality.
We're Fleming was recently mar
ried to Miss Briggs Of Iowa. We
have not learned whether Mr.. and
Mrs. Fleming will locate in Kato or
My advice to the newlyweds would
be back to the farm, it is the only
est" place in the world to begin
homemaking.
Emmett Purvis, one of the pro-
gressive farmers of West Vernon, re-
Gently made a trip to Good Thunoti,
returning home with fine new Fora
touring car. 1t is sure that Mr.. and
Mrs. Purvis and four children will
over the country Sunday afternoon
or in the evening after the chores
are done.
Mr.. Pamby. who bought Mrs. Por-
ter's residence, was quite i'll several
days last week. He is recovering in
good shape and for the past two days
has been able to resume his accus-
toned work.
Washington. D. c., May 16, 1921
On the morning of the 9Th of May
we took the B and D train to Har-
pers Ferry, West Virginia. Mother
was much interested in this trip as
she well remembered when John
Brown OF Ossawatamie with twenty
armed men as prelude to Civil war,
entered Harpers Ferry and took POS
session of the arsenal there in order
to !lberate the negro slaves on tile
night of September 6, 1859. These
negroes refused to take advantage
of this and Brown with most of his
companions were captured or killed
after two days Of hardest fighting on
Bolivar Heights just back of Harper.
Ferry. The arsenal and old armory
were destroyed in Civil war. Har-
pers Ferry is located at the junction
rivers and as one enters Washington
in day time we can see from the
train near station the John Brown
monument and war tablets which
mark the spot where the John Brown
Fort stood originally. This fort has
been moved to the top of one of the
surrounding hills where schools are
located and utilized now as library
for high school for whites and a
college called Stoner college for col
ored. Autos meet you at the depot
and we passed by the old stone man
! sion that was once the old HARPER
home and saw the opening canal that
was used as the ferry in the early
days. There are about eight hun
dred people in Harpers Ferry and
Bolivar together. We rode up to
the tops Of the heights overlooking
the village and down again into the
valley along the waters edge of
both the Potamac and Shenandoah
rivers. From the Hill Top House"
where tourists dine we viewed the
exquisite beauty surrounding and be-
low US. On the Lett flowed the .Poto-
mac, on the right the Shenandoah
and the two met a short distance
in front OF us. At this junction of
these rivers three mountain heights
meet representing three. states.
Maryland heights at left, Virginia
heights at right and we stood on the
West Virginia soil. Two long bridges
meet at this junction, one from
Maryland heights to West Virginia
an5 one from West Virginia to Vir-
ginia. Along the Potomac you see
! the old Chesapeake and Ohio canal
built in Washington time and still
in use. Jefferson rock just out of
the hillside overlooking the Shenan-
doah river and twas here that Tho.
mas Jefferson once stood and said
twas worth a trip across the contin.
ent to have the privilege of standing
there and viewing the beautiful
Shenandoah valley. From Bolivar
heights where the hardest fighting
took place we beheld a pinnacle cut
ting the horizon in the distance.
! This pinnacle marked the spot where
John Brown was hung at Charles
ton, Virginia, ten miles distant. His
body was taken to New York for
burial. Autoists drive out from
Washington on Sundays to Harpers
Ferry over a seventy five mile road