The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1922-09-15
NEWS OF VERNON
LISTED BY SCRIBE
TOUR OVERLAND BY ONE
VILLAGE RESIDENT
MANY SOCIAL EVENTS
Comings and Goings of People
General Information About
Town Doings


has been spending several days at
the Willard Busby home. Mr.. Will
is a prominent attorney OF that
place and was very agfeeably I'M
pressed with Southern Minnesota.
He returned home by the way or
Rochester and the twin cities.
II. Z. kraus motored to Mankato
Tuesday, taking late train enroute
to Westfield, n. Y, where he goes
on business pertaining to the es
tate OF the late frank Barney, a
former resident of Vernon Center
township.
Tuesday morning at ten o'clock
gram from her daughter, Mrs. o. r.
McElmeel of Great Falls, Mont,
saying the family We're about TO
start overland for Tacoma, Wash,
end inviting her to accompany them.
Mrs. Cornish wired back accepting
the invitation. For about ten years
Mrs. Cornish has travelled extensive
~ through the state from coast to
coast and last fall returned from
years visit with her daughter,
Mrs. A. J. Bell and family in the
Canal zone, and has become accus-
toned to starting on her long jour
neys with short notices. So she
went about her preparations for
this, trip in her usual methodical
calm manner, and when the train
pulled into tue depot Mrs. Cornish
was awaiting 1t, bag and baggage,
pack labeled, ticket secured, all of
this seemingly accomplished with
out any more effort than the writer
uses in getting ready to go the M.
E. Aid society. Mrs. Cornish is
past seventy five and Is certainly
very remarkable woman.
Walter Mobiles, Ray Winters and
the Misses Ethel Mobiles al.
Rosenberger, returned Wednesday
evening from the twin cites, where
they have been visiting friends and
attending the state fair. They mo-
tored down Sunday afternoon. Miss
Alice Miller, who has been visiting
her since the county fair returned
with them to her home in st. Paul.
John Schwartz is up from his
home in Mankato looking after the
larm work while his son John, Jr.,
and family are at the state fair.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Mertersdorf
and Mr.. and Mrs. F. G. Wilbur of
morning in the formers car for the
cities to attend the fair. Messrs.
John Kienholtz and Lewis Brown
went down Friday.
Mrs. Alice Marie Brown and little
son Kermit left last Friday for
Chaska where Mrs. Brown will re-
sumo her teachings in the high
school, after spending the summer
vacation with her mother, her Sis
ter. Dorothea. who last year at
tended the Teachers College at
Mankato. This year she will teach
in the rural school south Of the
Willow Creek church.
Miss Selma Petrich for the fourth
year, has accepted a position as an
instructor in the Duluth high school.
She left the city last Sunday even
ing.
Miss Julia Nelson will teach in
Lamberton this year and left for
her work last Saturday.
Tom Hayes is expected home
this evening from weeks stay in
Minneapolis. Tom, Jr., who has
spent the summer with father and
Aunt Ella on the farm, returned to
take up his studies in the Haw-
thorne school.
Shoppers in Mankato Tuesday in
cluded Mr.. and Mrs. Godfrey Wend-
landt, Mr.. and Mrs. F. E. Cooper,
Mr.. and Mrs. F. L. Cooper and Mes
danes Liefie Warren and Jessie
Barnes. Notwithstanding the in
tense heat the city was thronged
with people. Autos lined both sides
of Front street and parking places
were unavailable. We cant ina
CINE anyone going to Mankato for
the mere pleasure of going, there;
fore we imagine the county seat
At nof n
business in every line. I.
During the past week a large
house party or relatives have enjoy
ed the hospitality of the Charles
Bates home. The guests included
Mrs. Arvilla Lathrop, Landowne,
Calf, and her brother Ed Flayte
OF Hancock, Wis, Orrin Bates and
sister, Mrs. Eta Bigelow of Toma,
Wis, Mr.. and Mrs. Austria Chris
Jensen and children Lyle and Cath
crime of st. James. Mrs. Bates en-
tertained at big dinner party Sun
day. Others besides the house
guests present were Mr.. and Mrs.
Harry Bates and two children, Mr..
and Mrs. Anil Kietzer and daughter
Maurene of West Vernon and G. c.
Mead. @.
Willard Busby of West Vernon is
expected nOult ILLS SNChih6 alOhi
Chicago. where he went last Satur-
day with two car loads of fat steers.
Mr.. Busby is one of the big farmers
in this locality and makes a speciality
of stock feeding He puts a large
acreage into corn and oats and
raises bumper crops. Fifty acres of
oats averaged seventy five bushels
per acre.
Vernon boys and girls who have
left for other places, where they Will
attend sch3ol are Vera Chadsey,
who will complete the high school
at Winnebago. She Will stay at
her aunt's, Mrs. Ida Marston; Sum-
mer Sow ers, Virgil Griffith and
Alice Warren, Parker College;
Charles Krause, st. Thomas; Law
renee Warrent to the State Univer-
sity for the third year, We've Grit
Nth, University. Those who are
going to attend the Consolidated
school in Garden City are Edwin,
Mary and Dora Kraus, Robert Gray,
Lois and Grace Rev, Marie Petrich
and Lillian Nelson and Herbert
Brown.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. o. Nelson who
have been guests at the home of
the latter's brother; A. R. Coher-
man will visi relatives in Winnebago
and Albert Lea before they go to
Baroda, Mich, where Mr.. Nelson has
accepted the pastorship in the Bap-
fist church in that city.
Miss Ida Bowen left on Labor
for Jordon, where on Tuesday morn