The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1921-07-01
PERTAINING TO PEOPLE

Miss Vera Holmes OF LeSueur
Center returned to her home after
being the guest of Miss Ida Martin
Of Willard street for few days.
Miss Holmes made the trip by
auto.
Miss Blodwen Richards, who has
been teaching in Seattle, Wash, the
past year, returned home Tuesday.
Miss Richards expects to leave Sat
urday for Faribault, Minnesota,
where she will take up special work
during the summer.
M. D. Fritz and R. r. Hamilton
went to the cities yesterday to visit
the boys in camp.
Mrs. Lewis Janda of Saltwater, who
has been visiting in the city and her
two grandchildren, Eleanor and
Charles Weyer of this city returned
to Saltwater yesterday.
Winnebago Enterprise: Mr.. and
Mrs. Ivan Bowen of Mankato were
In this city Saturday afternoon, while
enroute to Fairmont to spend Sunday
with Mr.. and Mrs. Troy Zimmerman.
Mr.. Bowen was recently appointed to
the Railroad and Warehouse Com
mission by Governor j. A. 0. Preus.
He states that he likes the work very
well. We predict that Mr.. Bowen
will make most valuable member
of the commission.
Amboy Herald: WILDER Award is
at his home in Mankato again after
spending the past year in attendance
at the Blake Electrical School at
Washington, d. c., where he received
his diploma and graduation honors
at the commencement the first of
the month. He, in company with his
parents, were down from Mankato.
friends here.
Mankato is being represented at
the thirty second annual convention
of the Minnesota Bankers Association
at the Curtis hotel in Minneapolis by
T. G. Nicholson of the Mankato State
Bank. George w. SugJen of the Ma
tional Citizens Bank, w. D.. Willard
and M. H. Nicholson of the First Ma
tional Bank, and A. L. Veigel of the
National Bank of Commerce. Last
evening the delegates to the conven
ton had theatre party at the Schu
bert theatre, and this afternoon a
line to the Minneapolis automobile
club house, where game of base
ball between the bank clerks of St.
Paul and Minneapolis was taken in.
A. G. Bierbauer accompanied by his
daughter Vera was present at the
graduation of Miss Lillian Bierbauer
from the University of Wisconsin
yesterday evening. The trio men
toned are making the trip back to
Mankato in a Kissel Car ordered from
the factory at Hartford, Wis, by
K. K. Evans, the Mankato represen-
tative Of the company, who had the
car sent from the factory direct to
Mr.. Bierbauer at Madison. Wis.
Fairmont Independent: Miss Eliza
beth Evans of ManKato is assisting
Miss Eliza Morrow in the office work
of the Fairmont Canning Company.
Dr. Helen Hughes Hielscher has
just returned from Albert Lea where
she addressed the auxiliary of the Leo
Carey post of the American Legion,
on their celebration of their first an
niversary. A supper was served to
the members of the Legion and the
Auxiliary last evening. The guests
of honor were four gold star mothers
and one gold star wife. The relations
between the Auxiliary and Post are
very admirable.
Mrs. Catherine Alexander has just
returned to her home in Redwood
Falls after an extended visit with
relatives in the city.
Miss Letitia Jones of Cambria, Wis.
was in the city yesterday visiting
with friends and relatives.
Mrs. John Neal of Maryville, Mo-, is
the guest of relatives in the city.
Mrs. George Gale and children of
Sanborn are visiting at the Louis
Lille home on West Fourth street.
Mr. and Mrs. Otto Persig of Blue
Earth visited friend in the city.
Miss Hulda Robson of Minneapolis
is visiting at the Louis Lille home.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. c. Rector OF Gar
den City visited with their daughter
Mrs. M. L. Van Slyke yesterday.
Miss Ida Klages is visiting friends
in the cities. ...
Mrs Anton Osten and Mrs. Philip
Landmark took Ellen Henderson to
Sank Center yesterday where she will
serve for an indefinite time.
Miss Helen Patterson, State street,
is visiting at the summer home of her
uncle and aunt, Mr.. and Mrs. ]. F.
.ytterson at White Bear Lake, and
will remain the rest of the summer.
Good Thunder Herald: G. A. Graf,
of this place, his brother H. R. of
Mankato, and Alfred Grieger also of
Mankato, returned last Thursday
from their trip through North Dako
ia and northern Minnesota. They en-
countered some very bad roads owing
to a heavy rain and did not make, as
long an outing as was at first plan
ned. They enjoyed very pleasant
time at the. Albert Graf farm near
Bemidji and We're successful In
catching some fine pickerel. Mr..
Crafts farm is right on the edge Of
large lake and tourists come there
from far and near every year to take
advantage OF the beauties of nature
and the excellent fishing. While at
Bemidji they met the Schneiderhan
and Schlesselman families who were
spending several weeks in the. lake
region.