The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1922-08-11
FOLKS ARE VERY
PROUD OF BAND
PRAISE FOR GOOD THUN-
DER ORGANIZATION
NEWS OF THE WLLAG
Social and Personal Events Col
lected BY The Free Press
Reporter

| Good Thunder, August Sine
band concert here Wednesday night
brought hundreds of people to town
from the rural sections and neigh
boring villages. The band plays
splendidly and is a great asset TO
the town Henry Gerlaci is the
leader and director. AS a special
feature DR.. A. L. Schuldt and Paul
A. Darge sang vocal duet, accom-
panied by the band. Great was the
applause and thus the people were
delighted with an encore. Mr..
Darge and the doctor are to be com
phmented for their singing. 1t Is
hoped they will sing again at t1e
next concert.
| Miss Lucille Benedict of Mapleton
came Wednesday afternoon and
spent the week with her aunt Miss
Tillie Meyer.
and daughter Miss Ruth Of Rapidan
were callers here Monday evening.
| Frieda> Mielk and. Clara Ziemke
were Mankato shoppers Saturday
evening.
The state university this year
gives a second summer term, be-
ginning August 1. Miss Marie Nor
lock went to take up a post grad
uate course in nursing at the hos
pitaI of the university Misses Clara
and Martha Kellog entered as stu
dents in the college of education.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Tietz and
nesday morning for Caledonia:
where they will visit With Mr.. Tietz'
relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Raasch.
| Henry Pautsch, daughters and son
came Thursday evening by auto
from Lahoma, Okla, to visit with
relatives. Mr.. Pautsch makes this
trip annually and is well acquainted
with the various trails. Mrs. Pautsch
has been here about seven weeks,
being called here by the serious ILL
ness of her mother Mrs. G.. Bartsch.a
i Misses Alma and Leona Darge left
Monday for pleasure and vacation
trip to Denver, Colo, where they
plan to visit the Interesting places
of the Rockies.
There will be no services at the
st. Johns Lutheran church Sunday
as the congregation is invited to
attend the seventy fifth jubilee an
niversary celebration of the found
ing of the Missouri synod. The
celebration will be-held at the fair
Garbarkewitz of Elizabeth, Mimi,
formerly pastor of this congrega-
ton, will deliver the forenoon SER
mon.u Rev. H. Meyer and. Professor
e. r. Blifernich of New Ulm will
address the audience in the after
noon.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Bruss and
Mrs. Albert Mielke returned home
Thursday from a weeks visit with
relatives at Raymond, Danube and
Wilmar. - ...
4 Mrs. A. C. Bode IL, came home
Thursday from St Paul where she
visited with friends the past week.
4 Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Buck and
I daughter Myrtle left Wednesday for
St Anthony, Iowa to visit with Mr.
! Bucks mother and other relatives.
All feel very fortunate thus far
that the train and mail service on
the Milwaukee have not been cur
tailed.
i During the past two weeks a crew
of men have been employed here by
the Western Union Telegraph COM
pany putting up poles and wire for
the ~-company. They left Friday
morning for Mapleton, where they
will do about the same work.
| \ Walter Ziemke of Fairmont came
the first of the week for a visit with
his relatives the Wiedenheft, Darge
and Bruscke families
/ Miss Emily Pommeranke spent
Wednesday at Mapleton with her
friend Miss Laura Chase.
i Mr. and Mrs. Gustav Wiedenheft
and daughter Helen and son Henry
arrived home Friday evening from
an auto trim tn Duluth and noints in
Northern Wisconsin. Rev. Often and
family of Blue Earth also made the
trip in their car. They were gone
about-two weeks.
Mrs. Frank Wier, Jr., and children
OF Nothfeld are visiting at the
home of Grandpa Weir and other
relatives.
Rev. A. C. Bode purchased new
i've passenger Gardner touring car
TOT the Mankato agency last week
I f. H. Morlock cashier of the State
bank, yeft Wednesday for the cities,
where he met his brother and broth
or in law. They left there on
Thursday for Devils Lake, N. D..
where they will look over farm
interests.
Mr. and Mrs. Otto Meyer left for
their home at Portal, N D., Monday
atfves for several weeks. Mrs. 9.
Mayer, sister of Mr.. Meyer, left
for her home at WATERFOWL, Wis,
on Monday.
Misses Rosalia and Lillian Bal
= Ter and Miss Adams of NNapleton
spent Sunday at the John Wiegert
home.
Mr.. and Mrs. julius PAIL, Mr.. and
Mrs. William Pali1 and children