The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1922-10-06
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Latest Interesting Happenings
Collected By Free Press /
Correspondent

week ago Tuesday while Mr.. and
Mrs. Arthur Beland were busily en-
gagged in packing up preparatory TO
going 10 California, where they had
decided TO locate and establish a
home for themselves and little fam
lily OF three children, Mr.. Beland was
notified that a telegram from Wash.
ington, ID. c., was awaiting him at
the depot. He lost no time in learn,
ing what the contents of the mes
sage were. 1t was from Secretary
of Navy DENLY, informing him of his
ural designer at Mare Island Navy
Yard, San Francisco. Calf. This
was the result of a competitive civil
service examination Mr.. Beland took
a year ago, Just previous TO his
leaving the canal zone, where he had
been in the civil service nine years
doing engineering design work. Mr..
Beland's profession as a mechanical
craftsman is right along the lines
with this new work, making his ap
pointment very desirable, with good
prospects of further advancement.
Mr.. Beland will report for work Oc-
tober 6. As yet they are undecided
as to whether they will make their
home in Berkeley or Oakland.
Ms. Frank Grannis is in receipt
of an interesting letter from her
daughter, Mrs. Helen Lundstrom Of
Lewiston. in which she tells of some
of the features of the county fair"
of recent date. The following ex-
tracts from the letter will make in
teresting reading for Free Press pa
irons. Rich costumes of the In
4 e.. Of
81 1000 each. Village of fifty teepees.
Three hundred Indians in camp with
$50 costumed riders in parade" The
sensation OF the fair this season was
me unique feature of the Indian
spectacle, showing the wonderful In
dian costumes displayed in street
parade and at the fair. Such a col
lection of rich Indian costumes was
never before seen and will probably
never be eQualled again. More than
800 Indians of the NeZ Perez tribe
were established here in an inter
esting and picturesque village OF
more than fifty teepees, costing from
forty TO fifty dollars each. one being
made of all skins. The $50 costumes
worn by the Indians were valued at
100000. The handwork on a single
costume often required more than a
years time. An example of such a
costume was worn by Neg Perez
Indian, who obtained the costume in
Montana at the cost of $1,000 One
or its features is a large gray wolf
--si<iE eight feet long and two feet
wide. With this is worn an Indian
buck skin coat ornamented with
beads. His war bonnet contains
serenity four feathers of the Ameri-
Il -. krrr "a
vest with strawberry and floral de-
sign in beadwork of several colors.
White weasel furs were used as
trimmings and buckskin leggins and
'%.eaded moccasins completed his
costume when he appeared before
the grandstand on his sorrel racing
horse, Young Packline, who wore as
a part of the general costume a
handsome beaded collar. A large
and valuable otter skin was hung in
front of the rider. Describing the
parade she says, Lewiston has lived
for years right in the midst OF the
Indians and has seen them from
different angles, but never before
the parade of this week has she felt
the thrill of appreciation for their
marvellous artistry. AS they filed
down the street astride their ponies
and wearing the gorgeous costumes
of skins, beads, elks' teeth, furs,
feathers and colo-s, oh such colors,
we saw not only the Indians in pa
rade dress, but one saw the skill, the
art, the patience and perseverance
of their ancestors represented in the
~clothes they wore, for they had been
kept from generation TO generation
and when one considers Their mode
1.-a cn,tld hut aT-Vpl AT the
perfectly preserved state Of each
beautiful garment. No two costumes
alike. They were similar in effect
but in detail there was all the vari
atoms of a style that a Paris mo.
diste could hope to keep up with
OF the $50 there were no two pairs
of trousers o. leggins or jackets
alike, even the paint applied to
their faces and bodies showed indi
vidual taste Vernon f1appeTs take
notice). Each Indian wore a fun
arm piece, measuring two feet wide
and eight feet long, over the wrist
and falling almost to the ground
War bonnets of Eagle feathers were
worn by the men, while each squaW
wore a coronet of beads interviewer
among her shiny black tresses
Dressed, painted and parading the
NeZ feTC6S, .Iuc CIudIllioS ohu hh~
Occur d. Alenes created an atmo-
sphere of dignity and impressiveness
and why was it, the 500, 900 value Of
their costumes? Was it the years Of
labor devoted to their apparel? was
it their art? Old, primitive, natural
untaught, but art. Or was II pity
and awe? Pity that such race could
not progress. Awe for the controll
ing power which stopped the prog
ress OF that race.
MIR. and Mrs. Joseph Robinson anc
Mrs. Ellen Robinson are expected
home this evening from Des Monies
Iowa, where they attended the nifty
sixth annual G. A. r. National en-
campment and the Women's Relie'
corps meeting.
Mrs. Lulu Austin and her mother
Mrs. Nettie Carpenter departed OF
the noon train Monday for SAINTS
Anna Lonora, Mexico, where tne!
will stay. for an indefinite time. They
have considerable holdings in tina
vicinity. Mrs. Carpenter thinks tnt
change of climate will be benefcla
10 her health. Mr.. and Mrs: Eugene
Hadley and Mrs. Mark Pratt OF Ma,
pleton and Mr.. and Mrs: A. Z
0uirnby ~and daughter, Flora o
Mankato, were here on Sunday q
bid them goodbye. All Vernon
f-iends unite in washing them
happy sojourn in their far southern
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