The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1921-10-28
Sleepy Eye Man Predicts
Hard Winter
DETAILS HIS REASONS
Mankato High Football Team
To Be Given Hearty Recep- !.
ton Friday

iliary of the American Legion was
organized in Sleepy Eye by DR.. Helen
Hughes Hielscner, President OF the
Women's Auxiliary of the American
Legion, Department of Minnesota.
The auxiliary starts out with q menu
oership OF over twenty i've and 1t Is
expected that the membership will
be doubled within few weeks. 1t
will be of great assistance to the
Legion post here, and already its
innuence Is being felt In Sleepy Eye.
Silas Sorgum, who has resided In
the region along the Minnesota river,
north of Sleepy Eye, known as the
OZarkS Of Minnesota, since old Chief
| Ish TAX Ha-B used to enjoy the ex-
citing sport of bagging the shaggy
buffalo, made visit to Sleepy Eye
Saturday, and as has been the Gus
| tom for years he was besieged by q
great number as to his prediction
for the coming winter weather. He
has earned reputation as q weather
prophet and there are scores Of old
timers here who swear that his pre-
dictions always tally true. Among
other things he had the following
significant signs to bear him out In
his predictions. AS he passed through
Sleepy State Park he noticed the
nuts feeding the squirrels and that
there was an expression OF anxiety
in the faces of both the nuts and the
squirrels. He said that this omen Of
| 1t is more pronounced this fall than
since the fall OF 'S3. Another sign
he said that meyer fails Is that
chickens are wearing thinner stock
ings than ever, especially the Sleepy
Eye chickens. This Is promiscuous
sign, for the Sleepy Eye chicken is
a rromiscuous bird. You'd expect
1t to wear mere plumage in winter,
but instead Of that 1t sheds its
that plumbers are buying automobiles
an infallible sign that frozen pipes
will be al common complaint in Jana
uary and February. Canaries are
roosting low, training themselves to
obtain all possible benefit from radi-
ators when the steam Is turned on.
Still more signs. Groundhogs are
very busy storing up lot Of winter
Robert Hose, one of the pioneer
business men of Sleepy Eye, having
conducted a hardware store here,
the past. twenty years died suddenly
Saturday, death being due to heart
trouble. Mr.. Hose has been ailing
for. some months and spent several
months during the spring and sum
mer at "a hospital at st. Paul where
his return home made daily visits
to his store. He had been to his
place Of business Saturday, but feel
/ Ing q little fatigued went home and
upon reaching the house, dropped
dead. Besides his wife he leaves a
son. The deceased was So years Of
ago and had spent the greater part
OF his life IN Sleepy Eye;
afternoon at the New Ulm hospital
where she was taken for treatment,
In her weakened condition not being
able to withinstand the results Of an
operation which she underwent. The
deceased had resided many years In
Sleepy Eye. She leaves her hus-
band and twin daughters to mourn
her demise. Mr.. Hardy is superin-
tendent OF the parks In Sleepy Eye,
which position he has held the past
year.
The Sleepy Eye high school foot
ball team continued its winning streak
Saturday by defeating the Lamberton
nigh school team by the overwhelm-
ing score of108 to o. In tbs five
games played to date Sleepy Eye
mas mace z49 scores 70 their Oppo-
nents fifteen, not having suffered a
defeat. The scores Saturday were
made by straight football, line plunF-
Ing and end runs, the aerial game
being very seldom attempted. Out
side of the huge score the game was
| devoid Of features and the steady
stream Of touchdowns became al
most monotonous.
Next Friday afternoon when the
Mankato high school football team
plays Coach Harrison's gridiron
warriors in Sleepy Eye, the Kato lads
VIII be given q royal welcome, and
1t is expected that Sleepy Eye WIN
turn out the greatest crowd that has
ever witnessed football game here.
The Commercial club has taken the
| matter OF closing the business houses
or the city during the game. and
every place of business will be Glow
ed that the business men and clerks
may attend this game, which prom
ises to be Sleepy Eyes hardest game
OF the season. It is expected thai
the. 1sh TAX Ha Ba Band, which fur
nished music at the State Fair. win
add color to the game by dispensing
appropriate music Sleepy Eve ex7
poets to give the Mankato reonle
everything but the game.