The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1921-02-18

If egg prices keep on declining as
they have for the past thirty days
they will soon be sold below what it
takes to produce them. Ask my next
had the choice of her flock stolen
last week. if there is any money or
even any fun in the chicken business.
Frank Koenen, A retired farmer.
Another View of the Sabbath.
Woodlawn. r: 5. Mankato, Mimi,
February IA, 1921-To The Free
Press: Referring to the discussion
in your paper, regarding the Sabbath
day commandment, may l be permit
ted to add a thought and few
of Jesus saying we should keep the
Sabbath day holy, as given in Exc
dus 20:S-1 but Jesus does say,
Matt. 1878 For the Son of man is
Lord of the Sabbath" In the Sermon
on the Mount, Matt. 5. 6, & 7
chapters. Jesus gives a most com
plete code of morals. Matt SIT. he
said Think not that came to destroy
the law or the prophets: I came not
to destroy, but to fulfill
Some of the Jews contended that
the Sabbath day was the greatest
commandment. In Matt. 22:35-40 we
have the record of Jesus being asked
which was the great commandment.
Jesus answered Thou shalt love the
with all thy soul. and with all thy
mind. This is the first and great
commandment And a second like
unto it is this, Thou shalt love. thy
neighbor as myself. On these two
commandments the whole law hang
eth, and the prophets"
1t seems to me the more important
thing is not the day we worship, but
John 4:23-24.
l recently read leaflet setting
forth the plan of salvation. as given
in the Bible. The references are as
| follows: Rev. 22:14, Acts 1881,
John 1924 Luke 1873. Acts 2:3S, Matt.
10:32-33 Rom. 1910, Acts %:
Rom. 1910, Acts 22:16. Rom. ga, Q
Tim. 2:15, Phil. PIP. Peter 3:1s,
Rev. 2:10.
Accept my thanks for your kind
consideration of the above, and If
you deem advisable, trust YOU will
give 1t space in your paper. Respect
fully, Bertha I. Pew.
Would Permit the Bear to Live.
Mankato February IA, 1921.-To
The Free Press: A few days ago, the
public was informed through the col
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bear at the zoo was so wild and cross
that she was condemned to death.
Yesterday being a wonderful invit
ing day to be outdoors, l decided to
HE me out to the park and see the
wild animal. Il am an ardent ad
mirer and untiring reader of JACK
London, Oliver Curwood and Zane
Grey.) Pardon me to explain RICH,
now that I am not typist. and this
is not my machine, which exonerates
me, l hope, because of these typo
graphical errors.
j waded through swamp. pond, riv.
ers and amateur lakes to the zoo. and
bless me / could not see any. of the
attractions as the keeper has boarded
them up as well as boarded them
well. r Chats a pun That is the
sight. and believe me, she appeared
ANYTHING but wild. She was fal
more sociable and friendly than many
of the same sex but different species
that one meets in your city every
day. She was eating candy from the
bare hand of young man, or tC
be exact from the bare niger ups
is DANGEROUS. she is to be killed
And my young man answered. "Thai
lis a lot of bunk, the city wants tc
kill her because they need the cage
for the two cubs, and they don't want
to make another cage"
i If this is so, and as the animal is
not wild one, she may resent abuse
mot a partition be placed in the ex-
!tremely large Gaze the bear is occu
lpying? Her cage is almost -four
times as large as the cage at Roches'
ter, Mimi, which holds two of the
toughest, widest roughnecks l have
ever seen in captivity.
This Mankato bear, which has tt
younger bears, is one of the fnes
specimens l have ever seen, and al
|. eleven years is not old for a bear
twenty years is an old bear. -.
4 You have a tag day for your band
} why not have a tag day for your zoo!
A wide awake city should try to ex:
pand and increase its attractions. anc
} to kill off perfectly healthy beautiful
!, specimen is indicative of penury
rather than progress. Why does MOI
the Campfire Girls, the Boy Scouts
and Girl Scouts do something along
1.-THE lines of protecting the Interests
lof natural history?
If the old bear cat is a bad one
she does not show it. and / have seer
lher twenty different times, and yes
lterday she was as friendly: IS collie
lOf course lot of fools go out tc
tease every defenseless thing they
lsee and in case, our bear chaSt1SeS
lone of these our Mankato Clinic Is
prepared to remedy the damage.
| Let, us ask the park commissioners
Ito partition the cage, and kenp all the
bears.-John Mccormack.
Relative to PoIiceWoman.
Mankato, February 14.-To The
Free Press: am going to speak or
several subjects through your paper
First / notice in your paper of Feb
ruary II letter was received by the
Woman Voters league of Minneapolis
asking information about the police
woman. / am opposed to going out
eide of tho city or county for a no.