The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1921-03-11
new CREDIT ASSOCIATION
FORMED AT Blue EARTH
LAST FRIDAY
Attorney Chris Carlson Heads
Riverside Town and Coun-
ty Club
Especial to The Free Press.J

lSpeclal TO The Free Press
Blue Earth, Mimi, March SIN
the Southern Minnesota Basketball
tournament held at Winnebago yes
terday the Blue Earth team came out
victorious. In the afternoon Blue
Earth and Albert Lea played and
were obliged to play off a tie and
the Delevan and Fairmont team
played then in the evening the two
winning teams Fairmont and Blue
Earth played for the championship,
Blue Earth winning 25 to %. This
gives Blue Earth the championship
OF this district and in order to get
the championship of the Second Con-
gressional District Blue Earth will
play Mankato. Coach Hampton Of
the Blue Earth high school is in
Mankato today to arrange a date and
the preliminaries for the game.
A meeting was held yesterday Of
the business men of this place to
formulate plans for organizing a
credit Association here in Blue
At "a meeting of the board of di.
rectors Of the Riverside Town and
Country Club held in Blue Earth the
following. officers were elected for
the ensuing year:-President Attor-
ney Chris Carlson of Blue Earth;
vice president. DR.. M. D. Cooper Of
Winnebago; assistant treasurer. C.
II. Elder of Blue Earth; Secretary,
C. H. Elder of Blue Earth; and as
s1stent Secretary, Robt. Emerson of
W1nnebago. Work on the grounds
will soon begin and when all Is COM
pleted this Club will have grounds
and club house second to none in the
state.
An enterprising citizen of Delevan
has offered to donate lot II some
one will build hospital in Delevan
and business men will make an ef-
fort to promote the building of a hos
ture.
1t has been arranged to hold the
meeting of the second District Edi-
torial association at Mankato on
March 18th with headquarters at the
Saulpaugh Hotel.
The electric high line was COM
pleted to Granada this week and the
electricity for lights and power was
turned on today.
DR.. R. G. Bubeck of Winnebago has
bought out the Osteopath practice
Of DR.. Jorstad Of Blue Earth and will
make Blue Earth on Mondays We'd
The Mid Year Council Of the Min
nesota conference of the Methodist
church will be held in Winnebago on
Monday and Tuesday March Z and 8
at which time that town will enter
tain the $50 ministers of this con-
ference besides many lay delegates
and other visitors. 1t is one of the
big conferences of the Methodist
church.
President Mccormick Of Parker
College of Winnebago who has ac-
cepted the chair Of Biblical interpre-
tation in the Kimball School of Theo-
logy at Salem, Oregon will leave on
March 18th to begin his work on
March Is. The students and faculty
of Parker College gave him a fare
we'll reception on Thursday evening
March 3rd at Lindahl Hall. The new
President, DR.. E. c. Reineke has ar
rived to take control of the College.
A bachelor by the name of Owens
living a few miles south Of Gilmore
set an out of doors fire yesterday
and it escaped from him running over
onto hayland eighty acre farm and
last seasons hay for Bob Young
The case Of Peter A. Selvig. a big
stock farmer living near Elmore,
against his neightor Nick Leners for
dsmages for the loss of bull, came
up in court this week and Leners
has to pay $3.50 damages and the cost
of the suit.
s. P. Haglund, the farm plant cleo
trio light man of Swea City, Iowa,
has been granted divorce from his
wife and a financial settlement was
made out of court.
Mrs. Rev. Bachelor of the Baptist
church of Blue Earth has been taken
to Rochester where she will have to
undergo an operation on her side at
tho Mavn h0snjtal