The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1921-05-06

talent play, honeymoon Town." :,
be given at Worthington Friday and
Saturday, May 6 and Z, will take
place Friday evening.
A. E. Otterson, manager of the
Reading Farmers Elevator company
is SAN to have made speculations
under cover Of the company's name
which hNs resulted in loss OF
$4,000. Just what proceedings will
be taken is Tot known.
Arthur Burnett of LeSueur Center
received broken am and broken
leg Saturday when he was helping to
move private garage.
w. H. Cove, condrc6or on the
Chicago and North Western railway
died at his home in Waseca Friday
afternoon. Death was caused by
Bright's disease.
Rochester's 100000 paving pro,
council at it's meeting Tuesday even
ing. Six blocks around Mayo park
entrance will be paved.
When the Rochester city council
finished it's work it was three O'Clock
Wednesday morning. The session
began at eight O'clock Tuesday
evening. At this meeting it was de
cided to destroy cancelled bonds anG
interest coupons worth thousands
of dollars that have been in the files
for the past ten years.
The senior class of st. Teress
college, Winona. presented the three
act drama, "The Cricket on the
Hearth"
Eugene Henry Olson, four years
old, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles }
Olson of Winona. who was injured
Monday when he was struck and
dragged by street car. died at the
Winona General hospital Wednesday
morning. .,..
Jack and John Jones, the names
given by the two men, who were
arrested on a charge of having rob
bed John Albert Johnson, a farme,
near Comfrey, were arraigned before
Justice Solem at Window last
Wednesday forenoon. Both entered
pleas of guilty. The punishment,
for the crime being beyond the juris.
diction of justice Of the peace, the
case was certified to the district
court
w. C. Miles of Adrian has beer
elected pricipal of the LETTERS schoo
at a salary of $4,000.
Governor J. A. O. Preus has re.
turned to st. Paul. He had planned tt
go to DEBORAH, Iowa, to visit his
parents, but the condition of the
road forced a change of his plans.
Earl T. Parker. former chief o.
police Of Rochester, has been ap.
pointed one of the city patrolmen.
The League of Women Voters o
the Third Congressional district vii
meet in st. Peter May Is and 10. Tel
| counties are included in the third dis
| trict and are as follows: Nicollet, LIE
Sueur, Sibley, Scott. Dakota, Goodhue
Mcleod, Carver, Rice and Washing
ton.
W.. Seybold of st. Peter was elect
ed delegate at large to the Genera
Assembly of the Presbyterian church
Of the United States, which convenei
at Winona Lake, Indiana, May 10, a
the annual meeting of the Mankatt
| Presbytery which was held at Cotton
wood, Mimi. April ID.
j
There are forty nine cases on tn,
docket for the May term Of the dis
trict court, which convenes in the Mic
ollet county court house, st. Pete
next Tuesday. Among the grand jur
ors are w. E. Johnson of Belgrade
Otto T. Anderson, Belgrade; r.
Cornelius. North Mankato; Leo Meur
err, Belgrade and Ole Paulson, Nortl
Mankato. August Johnson and T. S
Johnson of North Mankato are anon.
those on the petit jury.
An inventory of the estate of Viii
! liam Gugisberg, who committed sui
eide at Gibbon last week, reveals thu
fact that his assets will fall consider
ably below the loans he negotiated
which amounted to about 500, 900. HI
was president of the GvgiSberg Tubu
lar Arch company Of st. Peter and las
Friday that was closed bl the sheriff
Owing to the continued illness Of hi.
I wife, William Mallgren, secretar!
turned in his resignation on Friday
st. Peter now has a new park nam
ed after Elk Governor John A. John
son. This was realized through tn,
efforts of the Community league. TIL,
plot is located on Broadway opposite
! the old jail and is triangular in shape
/ At the annual meeting of the st
Peter council it took off $40 from thu
salary of the st. Peter police. Las
Monday night the council met and a
this time re attached the $40, so nov
the police are getting $110 per month
At the annual meeting of the Nicol
| let County Farm bureau Thursda.
August He'd of Bernadotte was elect
| ed president; H. A. Hanson, Belgrade
vice president; Raymond c.. Karstad
Brighton, secretary; Carl Borgeson
Lake Prairie, treasurer; directors
Ernest Kienlen, Ridgely; julius Hag
berg, Lafayette; John Westman, Trav
erse; J. A. Jensen, Brighton; Herman
Turner, Oshawa; o. E. Lokensgaard
Lake Prairie; Levi Gustafson, Bern
/ Gette; E. 0. Knutson, New Sweden;
c.. Bode, Nicollet; Ed. Bornemann st
Peter and e. p. Carnes, Belgrade. A
this meeting the resignation of County
Agent o. 0. Horlamus was accepted
"The Builder OF Bridges" is the name
of the class play of the 1921 gradual
ing class OF the st. Peter high school
1t will be presented in few weeks.
! EDLED IN LAKE CRYSTAL