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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1922-11-10
MINNESOTA LAKE NEWsLETs

Minnesota Lake, November A.
Mrs. Marie Engebritson entertained
a number of young people at her
home Monday afternoon in honor OF
Byron Lutz' sixth birthday anniver-
sary. Games were played after which
refreshments were served. Byron
received several gifts as tokens OF
friendship.
at Mapleton Monday evening.
Miss Elizabeth Stencil went to
seek medical aid
William Wendt was business
caller at Mankato Wednesday.
Father Daszkowski was Wells
caller Wednesday afternoon.
Rev. Edward Lee of Wells con-
Quoted the services at the NJ. e.
church Tuesday evening.
Joe Hodge. WILLIAM Wendt and
Harlow 0stoboe were Mankato call
ers Monday @ .-.
Mrs. NJ Eggerstorf of Minneapolis
went to Mankato Wednesday after
spending the past few days at the
A. Eggerstorf home.
John Scheid returned home Wed
nesday afternoon from an extended
visit with relatives at Chicago.
]. A. Zimmerman of Minneapolis
was business caller here Monday
and Tuesday.
John Bachtle of Blue Earth was
calling on friends at the Lake Tues
day.
Miss Edna Cent? returned Tues
day from an extended visit with rel
atives at MaSkato Bobbie Cent?
returned with her for q short visit
at the Albert Cent? home.
Mr.. Ed Smith, who Is employed at
Greenwald's Tonsorial shop. LEFT
Tuesday evening for Ellsworth, Wis.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1922-11-10
FOUND GUILTY OF CONTEMPT
Floyd v. Kulas Is Hailed Before
- District Court At Winona

Winona, November 3.-Floyd v.
Kulas, defendant in a divorce ac-
ton brought by his wife, Marie.
scheduled for trial today in district
court. was brought into court by
Sh sriff George Huck on an order for
his arrest issued by. Judge c. e.
Callaghan, tried for contempt OF
court, found guilty, and sentenced
to ninety days in the county Jail.
The sentence was suspended,
however, until the special term of
court on November q, when he Is
to report to the court, and If the
order for the payment Of $40 a
month temporary alimony directed
in August, along with attorneys
fees of $40, has not been met by
that time. the sentences suspended
today will become effective.
The trial of the divorce action set
for today was continued. 1t was
asked on the ground of drunken :,
ness and cruel and inhunian treat
ment.
Following Judge Callaghan's or
ders given in August for the pay
ment of the temporary alimony. Ku-
las wrote a letter to his wife in
which he stated that he would not
nav the money and that he would
20 to fail before doing 30. The let
ter was read in the contempt pro-
ceadings TODAY.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1922-11-10
CAMPAIGN OF THRIFT INSTRUCTION
in THE MANKATO PUBLIC SCHOOLS

economy Of making and repairing,
in sewing. !,
Interesting illustrations are given
OF how savings accounts grow. For
example: In 1853 someone deposit
ed 500 in a bank in Lowell, Mass,
and about year later another 500.
No other deposits were ever made.
In 1898 The account had increased
through interest to $l400."
The local banks are co operating
in the thrift campaign by installing
thrift stamp machines in the var.
ious buildings so that every pupil
has q convenient method provided
for saving part of his money. The
stamps dispensed by those ma
chimes are pasted to cards which
the banks provide. When a card Is
full, it taken to any bank selected
by the pupil and bank account is
opened. N
The teachers are trying to educ
cate the pupils. to save part Of their
own earning of the money they
would otherwise spend II is point
ed out that If child simply asks
his parents for an extra dime with
which to purchase a stamp, one OF
the essentials in thrift education is
lost. 1t means just one more in
diligence on the part of the parents
The whole program of the schools
in this direction is to be discussed
at meetings of parents and teachers
in the near future.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1922-11-10
sTEEN BANK RoB6ED
Bonds and War Saving Stamps
Number of Pennies Taken

Bonds and War Saving Stamps
Number Of Pennies Taken
Luverna, November 4-The Steen
State bank was burglarized. About
s15O in bonds and War Saving
stamps, and from SIS to $40 in pen
Eies, besides certificates of deposit
and other yaluables which they
found in >the safety deposit boxes
were secured. Church money,
amounting to about SIS, which had
been in the vault for temporary safe
keeping, also disappeared 1t is be-
lieved- that the robbery was commit
ted at two or three o'clock in the
morning, but 1t was not discovered
until theNfollowing day when the
cashier of the bank, A. HI. Steil,
came to open the building. The
gang lad solen their tools from
the railroad section house, aud gain
ed entrance to the bank by break
ing through a side window. The com
binations of both he inner and outer
doors of the vault were blown of,
and the safety deposit boxes pillag-
ed in a way that left them nothing
more than a worthless heap of scrap
metal. The robbers took the pre-
caution of piling number of sacks
of earth around tile doors to deaden
the sound of the explosion. The mon
ey safe had not been tempered with,
the $40 in pennies mentioned above
having been left outside of the safe.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1922-11-10
PLANS BY SKATING CLUB
Program To Be Outlined At Meeting
On Monday NiQht

On Monday Night
To prepare for this winters skat-
ing season the Mankato Skating
club will hold it's first meeting Of
the year Monday evening at eight
o'clock 1t is sought by the club
members to make plans whereby
outside competition in the skating
events of the year will be met. A
program for the season will be
mapped out and the plans for car
rying it through will be made at the
meeting.
Fred S. Hanson, president of the
club, extends an invitation to all
students of the local schools and
colleges in Mankato to join the local
skating organization. Club mem
bers are urged to attend the meeting
and assist in making the prepare
tons for a successful season.
II is planned by the club to get
races with teams from other cities
and towns during the winter. Near
y'towns will be asked to organize
Skating clubs to compete with this
city. Present plans call for a skating
carnival to be put on at the local
rink during the winter Fancy skat-
ers from the Hippodrome Kinks in
the Twin Cities will be invited TO
attend at that time. This will give
Mankato people chance to witness
some high class skaters.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1922-11-10
RAPIDAN AND pEcoRIA

Rapidan and Decoria, November
4.-Mr. and Mrs. ]. R. Anderson, Sr,
were visitors at the Pete Bredesor
home Sunday. A...e.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. M. Hitler and
family we're callers at the Carl Carl,
son home Sunday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Otto Marks and fam
lily we're callers at the Bindig home
Sunday evening.
/ June Tarjeson spent. Sunday with
Marie and Mae Tarjeson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Tarjeson and
family were visitors at the Carl
Carlson home Saturday night. -
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. r. Anderson, Jr.,
spent Sunday at the Hans Erickson
home.
Anna Erickson visited at the Ed
Tarjeson home Sunday afternoon.
Carl H. Jepsen has a carload OF
potatoes
w. F. Peters has been shredding
corn for the past week.
Mr. and Mrs. G. P Hoiberg were
visitors at the Carl Carlson home
Sunday afternoon.
Bert and Myrtle Carlson were
callers at the Ed Tarjeson home
Sunday afternoon.
Some people in this neighborhood
found their buggies on top Of their
straw stacks. and the wagon hanging
in the apple tree after Halloween.
Leonard Peters, w. +. Peters and
Carl Carlson were Msnkato callers
Tuesday evening.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1922-11-10
XMAS CHEER FOR POOR
American Boys and Girls Will Aid
Poverty Stricken Children oversee
ta,l Drasa niapafch1

American Boys and Girls Will Aid
Poverty Stricken Children oversee
Associated Press Dispatchl
Chicago, November More than
lie, 900 children in Hungary Aus
tria, Albania and other coun-
tries where dire poverty prevents
the usual Christmas festivities, will
be remembered by American school
boys and girls who are members or
the Junior Amei lean Red Cross, To-
cal headquarters announce.
That number of gift boxes are be-
ing filed and will be sent to Europe
in time to be distributed to the des-
titute children at Christmas. In
many cases this will be their only
Christmas cheer.
The boxes will contain such arti-
Giles as hair ribbon, rubber balls,
rag or celluloid dolls, marbles, tops,
dorninoes, picture books pictures,
puzzles, mittens, stockings, handker
chiefs, combs, wash cloths, soap.
tooth brushes, tooth powder, and
These gifts, all contributed by chill
dren. will be packed in paper cartons
ten by four inches and on the lid
will be printed a Christmas greeting
from the donors. Many school plan
the collection of home made candies.
nuts, raisins and other simple sweets
which will be wrapped in oiled paper
and packed in quarter pound bak
ing powder or cocoa tins, sealed
with parafin. Immediately after the
distribution Of boxes last Christmas,
letters of thanks and appreciation
began pouring into Red Cross head !.
quarters to Paris and many boys and
girls in America.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1922-11-10

A campaing of thrift instruction
was begun in the Mankato public
schools on Wednesday, and is to
continue indefinitely According to
a bulletin sent out by the superin-
tendent to all teachers, this cam
paign is to stress not only the saw
ing Of money. but a great many
other things as well.
The bulletin quotes from a gov
eminent pamphlet the following
five principles of personal thrift:
One. Learning how to keep
healthy
Two Learning how to work eff
GENTLY.
Three. Learning how to save time,
energy, money and materials.
Four Learning how to spend
wisely.
Eve. Learning how to invest
rooney intelligently.
Thrift is to be emphasized in sew
eral different subjects of the course
OF study. For example. conserva-
ton will be emphasized in geo.
raphy; opportunity, in biography
and other literature; earnings. saw
ings and investment in mathematics
economy in construction and use OF
materials, in shop work; economy
and right use of foods, in cooking
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II. r. CASE AND BRIDE ENJOYED
WEDDING TRIP WHEN OK TEAMS
WERE MEANS OF TRAVEL

he had erected a comfortable log
house and had cleared considerable
land. One bright morning in the
spring of 1866 he wrote his sweet
heart that he had a home ready for
her and to meet him at the ter
minal of the railway at Owatonna.
Mr.. Case says that he was very
DESTROYS OF putting UP as good a
showing as possible when going out
to meet his bride to- be and went to
Horace Kinney who had just
brought in a 1ne span of horses.
the only ones in this part of the
state at the time. Being then young
and bashful, he asked Mr.. Kinney
for the use OF his horses to drive
to Owatonna, but did not inform
him for what purpase. Case was
turned down, but was not discour-
aged. He went home and yoked up
his patient team of oxen and made
his way over the roads of those
days to Ow atonna. Miss Thomas
was there 70 meet him. He piled
her trunk into the wagon and they
started back for Shelby. When
passing through Faribault they were
married that afternoon, and then
PROCEEDED on tnelr wedding Trip TO
their home in the big Woods" in
Shelby. It was with a smile and a
PARKWAY look in his faded blue
eyes, that Mr.. Case admitted that
that wedding trip drawn by the slow
moving oxen, was as pleasurable If
not more so than trips made in au-
tos and airplanes.
Mr.. Case says that he got the
best calling down OF his life from
Horace Kinney later for not telling
him why he wanted his team of
horses. He could have had the
team and welcome, If Mr.. Kinney
had known that he was going out
to bring home his bride. Mrs. Case
died in 1889 She was a highly
educated woman, and one beloved
by all of her neighbors. \
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1922-11-10
NEW SORGHUM CANE
University Professor Develops New
Strain With Increased Tonnage
Associated Press Dispatch.1

st Paul, November 4.---Maturing
FIVE days to a week earlier than the
original strains of Minnesota early
amber, a sorghum sugar cane, has
been developed by DR.. ]. j. William,
of the division Of biochemistry,
University farm, after exhaustive
Investigations and analyses. that
gives sugar increased content and
.onnage.
Since farmers receive a fat rate
for sorghum cane when delivered
at the mills, increased tonnage
lives them bigger returns. Also,
he earlier maturity lessons the
,rost danger.
DR.. William conducted much Of
his Investigations at Waconia, cen.
ter of Minnesota sorghum sugar
cane growing. About 1,700 in
dividual stalks were analysed for
their yield and sugar content, be.
fore one was left which was found
to mature quicker and hold greater
This new strain will yield from
two to four tons of stalks in excess
of the sorghum cane commonly
grown in Minnesota, according to
DR.. William. The sugar content,
he says, has been raised by his ex.
.periments from an average of 16
percent to an average of 10 per cent.
Since each per cent of sugar
cane is practically equivalent to
one gallon of syrup per ton of
cane,"' he said. "the figures mean
an increase of about three gallons
for each ton of cane worked up by
the mill. The advantage to the far
mer from this improved variety can
be seen from the fact that cane
growing around Waconia this year
averaged 8 one half tons to the
acre, while the university's best
selected strain produced Is tons of
stalk of increased sugar content"
Although this was a disappoint-
ing year for sugar cane growers in
the state due to smaller returns,
DR.. William believes the industry
can be probably extended in Min
neSOta ..-.-
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1922-11-10

Marriage in Shelby township
away back in the year 1856 were
not without their romances. This
was long before the day of modern
transportation. There was but on5
team of horses in that township
that year, and that was owned by
the late Horace Kinney. That year
two brothers left Pennington,
Maine, and came west to grow up
with the country" They were Eli
jah L. and Henry R. Case, the lat
ter now sixty. six years old. The
first winter the two brothers were
here they spent in chopping cord
wood in North Mankato about
where the Fletcher residence now
stands. They patched" it in a log
house there.
In the spring, attracted by the
great fertility of the soil in Shelby
township, the brothers pre- empted
claims a short distance south of
Amboy ON the Blue Earth river,
Elijah J.. taking claim on the
After they had filled the require
by erecting a log shanty on the
way to Chatfield, MINI, where the
land office was then located and
paid the government price of $1.25
per acre for their land. This was
before the homestead law had gone
into effect.
The life of bachelor became too
lonesome for Henry r. Case, and
letters from far away Boston were
received but seldom. Before leav-
ing his home in New England,
Henry r. had. met and became en-
gagged TO a finely educated young
lady by the name of Miss Tirza
Thomas. While the young man
was battling with the wilds of Min
nesota for a period of nearly ten
years, his boyhood sweet heart re-
manned true to him. BY that time
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1922-11-10
Pet Robin In Family
For Sixteen Years
Story Told Of Two Wandering
Birds, One of Which Settled
@ In North Dakota
ASSOCIATED Press Dispatch.l

ASSOCIATED Press sDispatch.1
Cavalier, N. d., November 81
The story of two wandering robins,
one of whom settled in North Da-
kota and lived there to a ripe old
age, ended recently when Bobbie
died at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
II. B. Spiller here. He had been a
member of the family for sixteen
years. He was a confirmed bache
lor, Mr.. Spiller says.
Sixteen years ago two lads found
two young robins injured-Bobbie' s
tieg was broken--and brought them
to the spiller home where Mrs
Spiller carefully tended them. The
hobbies hurt left him unable to
fly. When fall came to North Dako-
to his companion few away to the
south and left him with the Spillers.
Each spring he would return to
visit Bobbie and the humans who
had befriended him and would stay
all summer about the yard. He
would come into the house and
call on Bobbie in his own cage
which had been provided purely as
a, convenience. Then one day he
few away and never returned.
Complained About Board
Meanwhile Bobbie became so
much at home that he even COM
planned about his board occasionally
II the food set before him did not
appeal he would throw it about in
indignant fashion.
he used to chirp every spring"
says Mr.. Spiller ut indicated to
us that the other robins would soon
be here and it never failed This pc
culiar song of his was only heard
at the beginning Of spring and new
err during the summer or fall"
He could come and go as he
pleased but he never cared to go
far. When his roomy cage was
HI ng out Of doors he would mt
wander any great distance from it
And he never appeared to care to
associate with the other robins who
nestled in the Spiller yard and
which we're also on very good
terms with the family.
Once did he venture on an Odes
sy down the street, but he only got
a block away where Mrs. Spiller
answered her call with his chirp
and appeared very anxious" when
she found him. according to Mr.
Spiller. He never tried running
! away again
He was always on hand when
there was digging going ON in the
garden and "it was surprising, the
amount of wo!-ns that a robin can
eat in a day-apparently no limit,
Mr.. Spiller says. Bobbie knew each
individual member of the family
and hid when there was company.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1922-11-10
TUin City Hard After
Woman Orphanage
They Have Already Put Committees
At Work On This PROPOSE
tion

Efforts to locate the prospective
Yeomen's Orphanage in Minnesota
near the twin cities are being made
by special committee of the subdi-
vision of industrial promotion of
the st. Paul association following
an appeal by a special Yeomen
committee TO locate the site, says
The st. Paul Dispatch.
Requirements for the site are
that 1t shall contain at least 1000
acres. must be on a well drained
location, be near enough to a city
to be easily reached and yet far
enough to be way from its influ-
ences and above all that it be
healthy.
No money is being asked by the
Yeomen, who declare they have
$1O,0O0,000 with which to work. The
site chosen will be developed into
Il community including churches,
banks, stores, schools, cottages, hos
pital facilities, and in fact every
thing that goes into the fabric of a
live modern city.
At present there are nearly 1000
orphans of Yeomen parents who
should be in the care of such an in-
stitution, according to A. M. Farm
err, chairman of the site committee.
The plan, ana request for CO.
operation, was presented to the
board of directors of the ST. Paul
association al their regular meet
ing this noon and was approved:
The committee of the Yeomen
were, in addition to Mr.. Farmer.
Ward F. Semm, supreme treasurer;
w. z. Hatley, state manager and T.
A. Crosse
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KENNEDY BRIDGE NEwseTTEs

Kennedy Bridge. November A.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Laube and
daughter Bernice spent Sunday nj
Lake Crystal.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Hoffman,
and daughter June and Elizabeth
Felber of Mankato spent Sunday at
the Felber home.
Archie Ore is the proud owner
of a Ford, which he purchased
Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Ore of Nit
chell. S. D., has been visiting at
the Ore home for several days.
Sterling Morrison hauled a load
of cattle for Roy Hubmer and sew
eral loads of hogs for Louis Cords,
Will Kruse, Charles Peterson and
Joe Wolf with his truck recently.
Miss Clarice Ore and several lady
friends of Mankato hiked out to the
bridge a week ago Sunday.
Delbert Edwards and Lester Nc
Collum motored to the cities this
week.
Mrs. Edwin Leonard entertained
the Uneeda Rest society Thursday
aftesrnoon. A large number were
present in spite of the bad roads.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Neubert and
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Crippen and
families spent Sunday at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Art Ore
A number from here attended
the funeral of Mr.. Schostag Thurs
day.
Mr.. and Mrs Charles Peterson
were Kato visitors Sunday even
ing.
: The ladies finished the seasons
ball playing Sunday afternoon.
Mrs Sterling Morrison spent
Wednesday afternoon With Mrs.
Howard Hoffman at Mankato.
Mrs. Edith Bennett of Peru, Ind.
who has been visiting her mother
Mrs Goodell. was called home last
week .....
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1922-11-10
YEAST FED TO CALVES
1t Had No Appreeiable Effect Or
Animals, Says Expert


Yeast fed to calves and also to
cows in milk at the Minnesota Ex-
pertinent station, University Farm,
had no appreciable effect on the
growth and development of the
young animals or on milk produc-
tiun by the cows. AS no real ad-
vantage was found in its use, the
conclusion was that the rations
generally fed to calves and cows
contain an ample supply of vitamin
B which is carried in yeast
The experiments were prompted
by the fact that decided advan-
tages had been claimed for the use
of yeast in the human diet. Fore
seeing tremendous demand fol
it's product if it could be shown t.
stimulate the growth and produc
ton of dairy animals one OF the
large yeast companies of the coun
try agreed to pay all expenses OF
and furnish all the yeast necessary
for a thorough going experiment
by dairy division and biochemistry
division men at the Minnesota sta
ton. The trials were carried on
for more than a year under the i'm
mediate direction of Dr.. G. II. Eek
les, chief of the dairy division, and
DR.. /. S. Palmer, biochemist. Two
half time assistants, Vernon VIII
liams, and Harold M. Harshaw,
graduate assistants in dairying and
chemistry respectively, were en-
ployed., IL. ,......-
Forty two calves were used in
four experiments and tests were
made with eight cows in milk. Re-
H.. nnC2fiVP
in character. Yeast was added to
the rations of newly dropped calves
and denied in the rations fed a
second similar group, or. check
group, of dairy calves The effect
of yeast was tried out in this way
in the ordinary ration, in typical
ration under good conditions, in
what might be called a poor ration,
and in a ration-including whole
milk-gen orally fed to promising
purebred stock. Eight cows in milk
were used in an experiment cover.
ing three months. a.
Experiments parallel to those on
the cattle were carried out by using
rats as subjects. These experiments
showed, among other things, that
no advantage is to be derived from
feeding animals a larger amount OF
vitamin B than is necessary for
their, normal development. When
young rats were fed milk from the
yeast fed cows as the sole vitamin
B they grew better for a time on a
smaller amount of milk than when
the milk from the cows not receiy-
ing yeast was used. These results
were the only ones indicating any
to be derived from the
use Of yeast in the ration OF dairy
cows ~ -a p,