The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1921-01-14
CUTTING WOOD, INJURED
6. w. QUIGGLE HURT WHILE
IN THE TIMBER
Masonic Lodge At Wells CeIe
brated Its Golden Jubilee;
News Evenls
Especial to The Free Pressl

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Blue Earth, Mimi. January &C.
w. Quiggle, an old and highly honor
ed gentleman Of Blue Earth, was
badly injured while he and his wife
were on visit to a son at Medford
Mimi. H had gone into the woods
with his son who was cutting wood
and in stepping back stumbled aid
fell over a knotty log.
A break in the Commonwealth
high line north of Ledyard put Led
yard and the towns south, east and
west of there, using that kind OF
power. in darkness and without DOW
er Monday and a part of Tuesday.
Star chapter of Blue Earth held a
big banquet, joint installation and
watched the new year in on Friday.
There were over two hundred pres
ent.
The Masonic lodge of Wells cele-
brated the fiftieth anniversary OF It's
organization at that place on Thurs
day evening, December 80. Grand
Master. Judge +. A. Montgomery III
prominent part in the exercises. A
$50 banquet was served to it's $50
members and also to several visitors.
Mrs. Fred Rosenow of Wells, who
is an invalid, had the misfortune to
fall from her wheeled chair and
break leg and otherwise injure her
self. =,
Gus Romas, who figured in the
arturo ard conviction OF two rob-
bers in. Minneapolis recently has re-
lu1ned TO Blue Earth and will work
hrnthnr
here, as he considers his life unsafe
in the cities, as all the crooks have
him spotted
On New Years day the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. Cook, living near Cue
keen. was burned to the ground. Mr..
Cook had gotten up and built a fire
and went to the barn to do the
chores, and within short time he
discovered the house on fire. 1t was
wife and five children, all of whom
were still in bed. Only one dresser
of all the furniture was saved
The little two year old son of Mr..
and Mrs. Fred Hanson of Wells was
very seriously burned on the upper
part OF his body when he crawled
up onto the stove and pulled the tea
kettle of boiling water over his head.
An Elmore married man, Martin
Hagge. and married woman living
just across the state line south of
Elmore, who eloped, were appre-
hended at Blue Earth. The woman
has returned to her home and huS-
band. while Sheriff John Bachtle
took charge of the man.
1t has finally leaked out that Judge
John w. Vance of Blue Earth. a dyed
in the wool Republican, sent Mayor
Larry Hodgson of st. Paul a. Christ
mas turkey. The judge has other
surprises he may soon spring.
The commonwealth company has
evidently decided to give up the at
tempt of raising it's rates in many of
the Southern Minnesota and North.
ern Iowa towns, and wait until the
legislature can pass law giving the
railroad and warehouse commissioners
power to govern transmission limits,
rates. ETC., when they will take up
with that body The people residing
in these towns put up a strenuous
fight against it.
John W. .Swenson, one of the most
promising young men of East Chain
who while in the twin cities attend
ing the state fair three years ago was
either drugged or otherwise mis-
treated until his mind was affected,
later becoming insane, died this
week at the state hospital in St.
Peter without ever being able to tell
what had happened to him.
George McManus. creator of "Jiggs
and Maggie in Bringing Up Father"
as shown in many of the dailies
throughout the United States, was
born in Emmettsburg, Iowa, a half
century ago. and now plans on Wis
iting relatives there in the near fu-