The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1921-05-27
BLUE EARTH NEWS
Military Funeral Held For Henry Sasse;
Notes From NegE borhood.


Notes From Neigh borhood.
Blue Earth. Mimi, May 24.--A mill.
tary funeral was held Saturday after.
p Tsrv on 18th, the e 9bn.. goupss e.
home, from France. The American lie.
gion had charge of the funeral and the
Old Soldiers and women Of the w. r.
G. also attended in a body. The town
music.
On the evening of May 10 a silver
medal contest was put on in the high
school auditorium under the auspices OF
and two boys in the contest and the
program was in charge OF the local su-
Mrs. p w. a. Rruss The
anthem and closed with America. After
half of the contestants had finished their
readings. Professor Charles Dockstader
treated the audience to several piano
solos. Miss Melva Willmert won the
medal.
On Friday afternoon. May 20, silver
der the auspices of the w. c. T. U. from
Blue Earth There were eight contest
ants. Miss Eva Caswell won the medal.
After After the e., program a the Ladies Aid 50;
The Bricelyn District Sunday schoo!
convention will be held on Sunday. june
a large number of delegates from other
towns will also be present.
Services in connection with the dedi-
cation Of the Norwegian Lutheran church
day and Sunday. Several hundred peo-
pie and twenty ministers from other
towns and the surrounding country were
present. The fine new church has Just
been completed at a cost Of $4,000.
AID Champny has purchased the res
taurant in Blue Earth. formerly run by
Mr.. Tooth. and has already taken pos
The American legion. c. A. R.. and
w. r; c., are uniting to hold an excep-
tionally fine program on Decoration Day
here at Blue Earth. Rev. Father Col
The Carl Hamre farm, three miles
south of Blue Earth, will be held at
AUCTION Tuesday, May 81;
office of Putnam and Carlson, Miss
Rhody HOMELAND. has had announcements
sent out recently. stating she was mar
son Parsons at Owatonna: Not even her
nearest friends mistrusted such thing
They will make Sheir home in Albert
Lea.
A charter has been applied for. and an
!. Q: o. F.. lodge will be organized here
on Tuesday evening, June g. when a big
time is arranged for. There will be a
Wnhebago On ambo1 snd f5Dm
held in Blue Earth Monday afternoon,
May 20. when several hundred parents
and friends visited the exhibit which was
unusually good.
The funeral services held on the school
grounds for Hervey Owens. whose body
arrived on Tuesday of last week from
France where he died during the war of
hundred people The Sanford Post Of
the American legion. had charge of the
funeral.
The body of Corporal Sam Junian Berg
seth. Company NJ, Third United States
Pioneer Infantry, is expected to arrive
soon in Gilmore: He was mortally
wounded at Mentfaueon and died the
On Sunday afternoon terrible acct
dent occurred near Armstrong. Iowa,
Mr.. and Mrs. Norris and their six chill
dren were driving side by side with a
car driven by Joe Howe and accompan-
led by Will Mitchell: 1t seems that when
in trying to bring his car back into the
road he ran into, the Norris car and
both cars went off the opposite side of the
grade together. Mrs. Norris is seriously
injured. with a collar bone and the pelvis
bone broken. Mr.. Norris had his ankle
ceived scratches and minor cuts. Joe
Howe received dislocated shoulder and
has several bad cuts about his head and
neck. Mitchell lost two teeth and his
shoulder and elbow were injured.
Oil has been noticed at different times
on the water in the Des Moines- river
near the state line and down stream for
several miles. Last week reports from
samples of the oil from the river and on
several springs were returned favorable.
1t is thought that the crude oil exists
in the south tier Of counties in Mime
sofa and in the. northern part of Iowa.
and many are looking for an oil boom
equal to that of Texas or Oklahoma.