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Stone County enterprise. [volume] (Wiggins, Stone County, Mississippi) 1916-current, 1922-07-06
SET DATE FOR FARM
MECHANICS COURSE
A. & NJ. College May 81

A. & NJ. College May 81
Announcement is made by Jas.
E. Tanner, assistant State
agent in charge of boys, club
work, that the fourth annual
Short Course in Junior Farm
Mechanics will be held at A. &
M. college, August 8 to IS, next.
This announcement is looked
forward to with great expect
alton by all club boys through
out the States, and it is believed
that the attendance will be well
up to the best previous record
that of 1919.
The course of instructions will
include handling tractors, gas
engins rope tying, concrete mix
ing, pipe cutting, livestock
judgeing, poultry culling, and
other practical branches of farm
activity.
Of course, as the experienced
club boy are aware, there will be
plenty of recreation scattered
along through the period. The
gent and comprehensive in
structions on carburetors, igni-
ton systems, commutators and
enginebuilding, belt lacing, and
line running for terraces and
drainage bitches. This instruct
ion will be give by experts under
the direction or the Agricul-
tural Engineering staff.
Arrangement will be made to
take care of the visiting club
members in the spacious dorml-
tories and there meals will be
served them as usual in the Col
lege mess hall at cost.
All county agents and super
intendents will remember the
date for the Short Course, Aug
ust 8 to 18, and every ambitious
club boy should begin now to
make his preparations to attend
and remain throughout the ten
day period. This Boys, Short
Course will Immediately proceed
that for home demonstration
workers and club members, as
recently announced by Miss
Powell, the two not to conflict
in the slightest.
Stone County enterprise. [volume] (Wiggins, Stone County, Mississippi) 1916-current, 1922-07-06
Ledwith- Harrington.

The following announcement
has been received by friends
here of Miss Nettie May Her.
rington:
"Mr. and Mrs. Cincinnatus A.
Harrington announce the mar
riage of their daughter Nettie
May to Mr.. William Medkirk
Ledwith on Friday, the thir-
tieth of June, nineteen hundred
and twenty-five. Memphis,
Tennessee. At home after July
the fifteenth, 8141 Euclid Ave,
Chicago"
Stone County enterprise. [volume] (Wiggins, Stone County, Mississippi) 1916-current, 1922-07-06
JUDGE GRAHAM TO OPEN
CIRCUIT COURT MONDAY

The summer term of Circuit
Court will be convened here
Monday morning with Judge D.
M. Graham presiding.
Several case, none of much
Importance, will be called and a
short session is expected.
Stone County enterprise. [volume] (Wiggins, Stone County, Mississippi) 1916-current, 1922-07-06
Locals Tie Wit Picayune.

The local Boy Scouts ball
team played the Picayune team
here last Friday afternoon, the
score being 6-6 at the end of the
18th inning. The game was
called on account of darkness.
The local boys will go to Pic
ayune soon to return the game.
D. E. Perry spent the week
end on the coast.
Stone County enterprise. [volume] (Wiggins, Stone County, Mississippi) 1916-current, 1922-07-06
An Invitation

All young men not affiliated
with other classes are invited
to attend Sunday School with
the newly organized young
men Bible Class" at the method
est church. Prof B, F. Hughes
is the capable leader of this
class, and much good is being
derived from his teaching and
subsequent discussions.
Stone County enterprise. [volume] (Wiggins, Stone County, Mississippi) 1916-current, 1922-07-06

W. C. Batson, Worshipful
Master of the Virgins Masonic
Lodge, calls the attention of all
members of the local lodge to
the regular meeting to be held
Thursday night, July 6, when
business of Importance will be
transacted. Every mamber is
requested to be present.
Stone County enterprise. [volume] (Wiggins, Stone County, Mississippi) 1916-current, 1922-07-06

Mrs. Gordon Day and son,
Tommy, of DIG, are visiting
relatives here.
Will Miller is visiting rela-
tives at Silver Creek this week.
Stone County enterprise. [volume] (Wiggins, Stone County, Mississippi) 1916-current, 1922-07-06

Mr.. J. C. Kelley will leave to-
day for an extended visit to his
sister, Mrs. T. G. Smith at Los
Angeles, Cal.
Stone County enterprise. [volume] (Wiggins, Stone County, Mississippi) 1916-current, 1922-07-06

Rev. H. D. Wilson, pastor of
the Baptist Church, announces
that his subject for the morn
ing service Sunday will be Ell
nancing the Kingdom" the
subject for the evening service
being Remember Lofts Wife"
Stone County enterprise. [volume] (Wiggins, Stone County, Mississippi) 1916-current, 1922-07-06

Mr.. and Mrs. G.. w. Eighmey
and family spent the Fourth in
Biloxi.
Stone County enterprise. [volume] (Wiggins, Stone County, Mississippi) 1916-current, 1922-07-06

There will be no preaching
service at the Methodist church
Sunday, July 8.
Stone County enterprise. [volume] (Wiggins, Stone County, Mississippi) 1916-current, 1922-07-06
Ellsberry-F y-FerreH.

Mr.. Clyde L. Ellsberry Of
Hovey and Miss Tennie B. Fer
rell of this place, were quietly
married at the Baptist pastors
home here Sunday afternoon by
Rev. H. D. Wilson, when a few
friends of the contracting par
ties were present. The newly
weds left on the evening train
for points north for a short
honeymoon.
Stone County enterprise. [volume] (Wiggins, Stone County, Mississippi) 1916-current, 1922-07-06

Mrs. w. R. Boone and child
rem spent the past week on Big
Level with relatives.
Stone County enterprise. [volume] (Wiggins, Stone County, Mississippi) 1916-current, 1922-07-06

FOR SALE-One buggy in good
condition. J.D.Patrick.
Stone County enterprise. [volume] (Wiggins, Stone County, Mississippi) 1916-current, 1922-07-06

The Enterprise is equipped
to give the best of service
in Job Printing. 1t in
vites the patronage of the
business concerns of
Stone County.
Stone County enterprise. [volume] (Wiggins, Stone County, Mississippi) 1916-current, 1922-07-06

AS an advertising medium
the Enterprise can afford
to solicit business Of the |
highest grade. Its sub
scription lists are open for
inspection always.
The Mankato free press., 1922-12-01
JUDGE CRAY SPEAKER

kiWanians Listened To Interesting
Talk On Early History of Mankato.
Members of the Mankato Kiwanis
club at their noon day luncheon
meeting were entertained with an ex-
temperaneous talk by Judge Lorin
Cray on the hardships and privations
which the early settlers of Mankato
and Blue Earth county had to over
come at the time he first arrived in
Southern Minnesota in 1859. The
judge was the principal speaker at
the meeting and kept his audience
attentive during his hours talk, re-
lating scenes and adventures of the
early days in this neighborhood.
His talk was mainly review of
the early history of the city and
county, although he touched on the
outbreaks of the Indians at that time
and told of the tension of the set
tiers during that long period when
the redskins were threatening the
early white settlers. Judge Cray
stated that he came here in 1859,
and at that time Mankato was a
thriving village of 1900 people. The
chief occupation at that time was in
saw mills, he said. Many of the
homes of the early days here were
of the log cabin variety although
they were rapidly replaced with
frame buildings following the oper j
alton of the lumber mills.
The Mankato free press., 1922-12-01
LEGAL FEES CAUSE STIR
Charges Made BY Lawyers In c.

Charges Made BY Lawyers In Con
i1ection With Murphy Estate
Faribault, November Probate
Judge NJ. M. Shields at the present
time has under consideration bills OF
the estate of George w. Murphy to-
falling $4,000, for attorneys fees i'll
addition to the other expenses incl
dent to the litigation of the case.
None. of the bills has as yet been
allowed according to a statement
made by Judge Shield.
Hopes for a new city hospital in
Mortified from the bequest of the
late George w. Murphy took a de
cided slump the past week when it
became definitely known that a big
portion of the estate would be- con-
sumed in lawyers fees and the pay
ment of bills, says the Mortified
Independent.
Lawyers fees in connection wien
the litigation over the estate during
the past four years will total 5000,
If bills now before the judge of pro-
bate at Faribault are allowed. OF
this amount, $500 is the amount of
the bill of w. w. Pye, for legal sci :
vices and $500 taht of George T.
Simpson, former attorney general.
In Addition to these fees there are
amounting to several hundred dol
lars, about $500 of which has al
ready been advanced and paid by the
city council
Other obligations of the estate
which must be paid before the city
receives anything for hospital pur-
poses are 1920 in claims incurred
by Mr.. Murphy before his death and
a bequest Of $4,000 to John B. Car
law.
All told, obligations amounting 10
at least $4,000 must be settled be
fore the city of Northfield can re-
ceive any thing as beneficiary OF
Mr.. Murphy's will In these obliga-
tions are not concerned the usual
administrators fees.
The estate is appraised at SIS, ,0VU
but many people hold this valuation
altogether too high, and claim that
the real estate will not return to its
appraised valuation for many years
to come, and that at the present
time istrators to pay of these claims
was it would not sell for much more
than half of its listed value. The
farm consisting of 300 acres. is ap-
praised at $4,000. -s.
The Mankato free press., 1922-12-01
PAY INJURED FIREMEN
State Industrial Commission Hands
Down important Decision
IAssociated Ircss I,ispatoh1

Associated IicsS ilspaIonl
st. Paul, Mimi, November %
Volunteer firemel who may receive
injuries while performing their du-
ties are entitled to the same con-
sideration in the settlement of their
compensation claims as regular full
time employees, the state Industrial
commission ruled today, in the case
of Armand ]. Loken against the city
of Crookston and the Travellers In
surance company.
Loken, a member of the volunteer
fire department of Crookston, in
which capacity he received So for
each call, was injured last August,
during a fire. tEhe insurance com
pany contested his claim for the
maximum compensation during his
period of disability, alleging that in
Asmuch as So week was the aver :
age wage he received from the city,
he was entitled to only two thirds
of that amount during his disability.
The commission held that "the
injury which he sustained prevented
him from earning his total weekly
wage, and that compensation is
primarily and fundamentally tntend
ed to provide an indemnity ey the
wage loss which the injury ce-2ses.
=.
The Mankato free press., 1922-12-01
OFFICER KILLED SELF
Dead Body Lieutenant Charles Clal
Found At Fort Smelling.

Dead Body Lieutenant Charles Clay
Found At Fort Smelling.
SHOT through the head with his
service pistol. which lay at his side.
Lieutenant Charles e. Clay. twenty
five year old. was found dead in his
quarters at Fort Smelling Monday.
1t apparently was case of suicide,
but the motive which drove the army
officer to take his own life is a mys-
terry the investigating board OF Of
ficers Monday night had yet been
unable to solve. Officers OF his mess
said he had been melancholy for
months. But the reason was un-
known to them. The man had not
been in ill health. 50
Lieutenant Clay was last seen alive
at breakfast Monday. At noon his
roommate found his body in the
quarters the two officers occupied.
Clay was first lieutenant of Com
pany B. Third Infantry. He Joined
the regiment about a year ago, COM
ing to the army from civil life, a
graduate of a Kentucky, educational
institution. He was a member of a
family prominent in Louisville, Ky.,
and is survived by his parents.
The body will be sent to Louisville
today or Wednesday.
The Mankato free press., 1922-12-01
Coal Tax Is Upheld;
Has Bearing In State
important Decision; Similar
To Gopher Fight.

A, decision by the United States
Supreme court, announced In Asso.
ciated Press dispatches Monday
by the state of Pennsylvania on an
thracite coal mined there, is expect
ed to play an important part in ar
gument starting next Monday before
the national tribunal on constitution.
ality of the Minnesota iron ore oc-
cupation levy. ~ h<
States may impose a tax on pro-
ducts produced within their borders
before such products enter interstate
commerce even though other states
are large consumers of the products
and do not produce them, the de-
cision, rendered by Justice McKenna.
held, according to the Associated
Press dispatches.
Similarity Admitted. t
That the Pennsylvania anthracite
case and the Minnesota occupation
tax case are similar was admitted by
attorneys familiar with them. But
the degree of similarity in the two
cases, and the extent to which the
decision Monday will serve as a
precedent in Minnesota's fight to es-
tablish the constitutionality of the
occupation ieEy likely Will De the
subject of much of the legal battle
to start before the supreme court
next week. The state will contend
that the similarity in many ways is
close, while the opposing counsel will
hold that the similarity, IL there is
any. is slight and inadvertent.
The Importance of the decision was
emphasized by New York, New Jer-
sey, Delaware and the New England
states denouncing the tax as giving
Pennsylvania a monopoly and as
levying tribute upon those states
which do not produce but must have
anthracite as fuel, the Associated
Press DISPATCHES said
The Mankato free press., 1922-12-01
STUDY CLUB HELD
MEET LAST WEEK
Vernon Center Society
Gave Program
SOUTH AMERICA, TOPIC
II. G. Kraus Had Narrow Escape
From Injury In Auto
Accident
Especial to The Free Press ]

Vernon, Center, November Is
Last weeks meeting of the Study
club proved a very interesting af-
fair. Mesdames ChampIin, and Han
sen were the nosIesses. About thirty
were present which included sew
eral visitors. The regular study
topic was South America, but some
time vas also spent discussing suit
able books for children. The sub
ject for the next meeting will be
thrift
Mrs. Robert Champlin received
q phone message last Sunday from
her brother John telling of the ar
rival that morning of a baby boy
at their home. John has many old
friends here who will join us in
congratulations to himself and wife.
A. c. Gray returned Sunday from
a business trip to Minneapolis. Ro-
bert drove to Lake Crystal to meet
him.
Miss Mae Robinson visited Win
nebago friends the latter part OF
last week.
EIucian Ashley, H. C. Krause.
Frank Cooper. Jacob Nelson and
Mrs. c. NJ. Warren were passengers
to Mankato on the bus Monday
morning.
H. c. Krause met with a car ac-
cident one day last week, which for
tunately did not turn out seriously.
While driving his Nash at a speed
of twenty FIVE miles alone the state
road in front of the old Dilley place
near Garden City osmething broke
about the steering gear and he lost
~ VI
carried him into the ditch before
coming to a standstill. Mr. Kraus
escaped without injury, but the car
suffered a broken axle.
Rob Champlin is in Minneapolis
a few days on business.
W. l.. Bush OF North Vernon is
having an auction on Wednesday,
November 90. and expects to move
back to- Virginia. A sister of Mrs.
Bush Is here visiting and expects to
return with them.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cotherman and Mr.
and Mrs. John Bowen were in Man
kato Tuesday afternoon.
FLOYD Thompson of Mankato was
calling on friends in Vernon last
Friday.
Mankato visitors last Saturday
were Mrs. Emma Brown and Philip,
Mr.. and Mrs. A. G. Halverson. Mrs.
Frank Schwan and Miss Watts.
Miss Ida Bowen was home from
Jordan last Saturday.
DR.. ]. S. Holbrook was called
here Tuesday for consultation in
regard to Mr. and Mrs. Bates.
A delegation consisting of F. e.
Cooper, C. F. Redfie1d. A. W. Pc
trich and A. C. Gray went to Fair.
mont TUESDAY er the hearing in
regard to putting the train services
back to its former schedule.
Miss Sasse spent Sunday at her
home in Blue Earth.
Miss Doris Slater was in Amboy
Monday. havin> dentist work done.
Mrs. c. NJ. Warren is in Mankato
caring for her daughter Miss Alice,
who is i'll with the flu.
The Mankato free press., 1922-12-01

boards policy to find these men, if
at all possible, to go for them to
any part OF the United States and
bring them back. Lapse of time
does not diminish the boards vigil
ance. In some instances parole
violators have been returned after
having been outside the state so
long as ten years. The effect on
other inmates is most wholesome.
1t impresses them with the folly of
attempting to get away. Without
being invidious, II is proper to say
that some states do not follow so
strict a policy in this regard as
does Minnesota.
Discharge From Parole
The length of time an inmate is
kept on parole is determined, prin-
cipally by his conduct during the
period. and. to some extent, by the
nature of his offense. The rules
provide that in ordinary cases. ap.
plication for discharge will not be
considered by the board until the
inmate has been on parole for one
year. If at the end of this period
he has shown himself competent to
take his place in society again, to
exercise suitable self f-restraint upon
his irregular impulses, Will - will
lingness to obey the laws and TO
respect authority. the board of pa
role is disposed to consider favor
ably his application for final dis
charge. and, therefore. will set him
free at such time as, under all the
circumstances. his liberty is deem
ed best for all concerned, including
the man himself, his family. and
friends. and the general public.
The Mankato free press., 1922-12-01
RED WING SCoRCHED
Loss of Business Buildings Will T
tai over S1OO. 600

TAI over S1UU,UOO
A burning kettle of grease result
ed in a fire, which caused loss,
which will probably reach $780,
in the clothing store of A Joseph
son and the shop and bakery of the
Red Wing Baking company on Bush
street Monday afternoon. The stock
in the clothing store was practically
ruined by fire. water and smoke
and the interior of Thea bakery and
its contents were also damaged.
The fire started when a kettle OF
grease, which James Ritchman, bak-
er was purifying, caught fire.. The
burning grease overfiowed onto the
floor and in an instant the bake
room which is located in the rear OF
the building, was mass of flames.
Much of the flaming grease ran
down a leather belt running from
the mixing machine to the base
ment and soon a fire was raging
there. The flames, in almost an in :
slant, had eaten their way through a
wooden wall and underneath a
stairway between the Josephson
Clothing store and the bakery and
had entered the rear of the clothing
store proper.
The Mankato free press., 1922-12-01
Shipstead Asserts
His Mind Is Oper,
Senator Elect Declares He Is viii
ing To Cooperate In Con-
structive Course

Senator elect Shipstead issued the
following statement before going to
Washington to attend the confer
ence of the Progressive group:
Il go to Washington with an open
mind, will to co operate with any
group that offers a constructive
course of action, a course that will
give expression to the new forces
that are aroused and are striving to
restore the government to the peo-
pie.
Economic Chaos Alleged.
Il am free to participate in any
action that bids fair to relieve
America of tha economic chaos in
which we have been cropping since
1917.
ITO be sure, | go to Washington
only in an advisory capacity tor |
do not take Office until March. But
| shall lay before Congress as occa :
sion offers, conditions as they exist
in Minnesota.
1--WE are facing grave and immed %
late emergencies. Even as | leave
Minnesota comes more news of the
disastrous ana unprecedented Coh :
ditions on the farms. Unless i'm
mediate remedial legislation is en-
acted BANKRUPTCY, like forest fire,
" ill ruin farmers, business men and
the small bankers, and will result
in conditions so bad that it will take
generations to recover from the
losses.
Would Restore Cars.
First something must be done to
expedite transportation. Cars OBJ
viously must be restored and the
first obvious thing to do is to put
Skilled workmen back to work and
repair them. The railroads must be
c, mpelled to do this even if it takes
government action. Ii is a grave
thing to clog ZIP the arteries of
transportation in order to break up
the organizations of skilled workers.
Second, Congress should get busy
and draw legislation to stabilize
farm prices. We are facing very
unusual condition. The conventional
discussion about the barberry bush
will not believe the situation. We
Snust meet the condition with cour-
age and must not be afraid of un-
usual methods of procedure"
The Mankato free press., 1922-12-01
Friendly Visit, Was
Claim of Young Men
Nothing Out of the Way; And No
Liquor At "Nieger Jim's"
Domiciie

Ed Oachs ana another young
man by the name OF Ray Reed, who
also is known as Bossard, who were
arrested FRIDAY night about two
miles west of Amboy at shack
owned by eolored man. known
as .'Nigger Jim," In company with
two young rirIs living between
Good Thunder and Amboy, were
released from custody iate Satur
day afternoon az Mankatu pending
further investigation by County Al
torney c. 10. Phillips. The arrest
was made by Marshal Harry +.
Moore and Constable Walter Kinney
of Amboy, who were accompanied
on the trip of Niger Jim's by
Mayor George c. Kieth of Amboy.
Mayor kieth accompanied the oft
GERS and prisoners to this city Sat
urday noon.
Ed, Oachs who Is a married man
and livings hear Good Thunuer, In
a statement to The Free Press,
said that the fourteen year old girl
in tie party had known "Nigsen
Jim when she was very small
child, and she and the nineteen
year old girl who was also picked
up by the officers wanted to go
down to the colored mans place and
cali on him.
The start for Amboy was not
made until quite late OWING to the
fact that the evening work had to
be completed by the girls. For that
reason, Mr. Oachs said the negroes
place was not reached until late
hour. When the officers arrived 1t
must have been about midnight, ac-
|cording to the best judgment OF Mr.:
Oachs He said that they were all
sitting In room chatting with
the lights on. Mr.. Oachs denied
strenuously that there was any in
|toxicat1ng liquor in the party. Ray
Reed, or Bossard, verih ed the state
ments of Mr.. Oachs.
The fourteen year old girl was
sent to the Blue Earth county jail,
pending a hearing before the juve-
mile court today.
The Mankato free press., 1922-12-01
WINTER HIGHWAY WORK
Contracts For 15o Miles Road I'm.
proxements Awarded Yesterday.
TAssC,ciated Press

IA ASSGcIatcQ Press ItSpaICnI
st. Paul, November 29.-Contracts
for about $50 miles of new graveiing
and other improvements under a
winter work program on Minnesota
trunk highways were awarded ten
tatively today by Charles M. Bah
cock, state highway commissioner.
Awards will be made final, the, com
missioner said, on re- checks of the
large number of bids opened yes
terday at the highway department.
New winter work prices are near
ly twenty per cent below engineers
estimates, and compare favorably
with those of last year. according
to John H. Mullen. assistant com
missioner and chief highway engi-
neer.
A new record for wide competi-
ton was made, one project bringing
sixty separate proposals. Commis-
sioner BabcocS said that the much
lower prices and other conditions at
this letting demonstrated further
that with bond issues the state
highway program may be speeded up
now both advantageously and eco.
,nomically.
The Mankato free press., 1922-12-01
Three Were RiILed
In Auto Accidents
Minneapolis Police Resort To New
Methods For Punishment In
Motor Gar Iishaps.
ASSOCIATED Press Dispatch. ]

Minneapolis. November 2T.-Re-
sorting to peu methods of punish.
ment as traffic mishaps killed three
and injured six persons in twenty
four hours, Minneapolis police es-
cortad one automobile driver to the
morgue, today, and compelled him
to view this body Ht collision VIC
tim.
.Ths motorist was w. A. Buck
whose automobile figured in a col
lision in which Jacob Weiss was
fatally injured Saturday.
The three killed in the past TWEEN
ty four hours were Adolph Harthopf,
an Osseo farmer who was found
on the highway near his home with
his head crushed, and Paul Drager
and Richard Demars of Hassas.
Mimi, whose automobile struck a
pole on the road. Drager was
killed almost instantly while De-
Mars, stunned by the impact wan
dered onto a bridge from which he
fell into the Crow river and was
drowned.