The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1921-08-19
HOLD BASKET PICNIC
Community Affair At
Kerns On August'23
SEVERAL AUTO TOURS
Pie Social Will Be Staged Next
Friday Night; Other
Fresh News

Kerns, August 1.-THE Community
picnic will be held at the school house
in district No. netx week Tuesday,
August %. Everyone is invited to
attend and to carry well filled bas-
kets of lunch and also some dishes.
Mr.. and Mrs. Nettleton left with
their auto last Saturday for Noble,
Ill. They were accompanied by Ar
thur Buick, who will visit at Bloom
ington. The Nettletons will be gone
about three weeks and will have a
seven hundred mile trip.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Waterbury and
children and their neighbor, Mrs. S.
H. Higgins of Storm Lake, Iowa, are
visiting Mr.. and Mrs. Tom Waterbury.
Mr.. and Mrs. Otto Anderson are
entertaining a party OF friends from
Iowa.
Ed Johnson of Minneapolis is Wis
iting relatives in the neighborhood.
Mrs. Fred Forsberg entertained the
Silent Seven last Saturday afternoon.
A good time was enjoyed and nice re-
freShments were served.
Ed Nordgren's two sons with their
wives of st. Paul were down to visit
week ago Sunday.
Adeline Sharp left Monday after
noon for New York City where she
She will alse visit relatives in Con-
necticut.
Irene, Florence and Bert Hanson
and Grit Morris drove to st. James
Sunday to take Jessie Riihl home.
Irene stayed there to visit this week.
John Culp is getting ready to put
up a sorghum mill which he bought
at Good Thunder and took home to
his place.
Corn cutting will begin soon.
Two ladies are holding revival
meetings at the school house in dis
trict No. 81.
There will be pie social and COM
munity singing at the school house
in district No. 81 next Friday evening.
The proceeds will go to the Wild Cat
ball team. Everyone invited.
Mrs. Cora Westbrook and little
daughter Alphea are the guests of the
The ball game Sunday was between
Kerns and West Mankato, and was
won by Kerns. The score was 10 to
in favor of Kerns.
MIR. and Mrs. F. E. Budde enter
tanned Mr.. and Mrs. julius Dahlman
and Mrs. Albert Enter and five chill
dren of Nicollet Sunday. 49,
Inga Knutson of New Sweden is
helping Mrs. Ray Rist during haying.
ter Evelyn and son frankie drove to
Freeborn and back Thursday. Evelyn
will teach at that place this year.
Mr.. and FMS. Elmer Gleason spent
Sunday with Mn and Mrs. Ray Rist.
Week ago Saturday Mrs. W.. Sharp
and daughters Edna and Hazel and
niece Adeline Sharp left North Man
kato early in the morning and drove
to Carlos, reaching there about five
visited with Arthur Sharp and fam
lily. Tuesday the girls drove to Glen
wood, thirty five miles away, where
they met Mrs. Sharp's daughter, Mrs.
George Rash of Kingsdale, who with
her son Robert, also visited at the
Arthur Sharp home. After delight
full visit the auto party left for st.
d paul bs and Ssn enjoyed 0 hs M Rsnc
sippi river between st. Cloud and
Onaka, reaching st. Paul Friday
evening. Mrs. Sharp came home on
the train, but the young people spent
Saturday sightseeing. They reached
Mankato Saturday night. 1t was a
delightful trip.
Mr.. and Mrs G. w. Johnson, Mr..
and Mrs. Albert Peterson, Mrs. Cora
WeStpr0oh anu uausnIer Aipned anu
Philip Budde took a long auto trip
Sunday. They left home about nine
o'clock and drove to Austin, where
they had picnic dinner at the
camp grounds. From there they drove
TO Leroy tosee Cy Thompson's chick
en- farm. The hen houses were won
derful and had large incubators,
which were managed with machinery.
There were three Delco light plants
for the hen coops. They saw the
$4,000 white leghorn rooster. Near