The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1922-02-17
Lake Crystal NetUs
Picked Up By Scribe
Preparations Under Way For
Eisteddfod; Restaurant
Changes Ownership tsts
Especial to The Free Press. !


Lake Crystal, February 16.-Wll-
liam ]. Hewitt and Miss Mary J. He
witt have purchased the Espenson
restaurant and expect to take over
the place in a short while. Mr.. He
witt has worked in this restaurant
for some time and is thoroughly ac-
quainted with the work. Miss Hewitt,
a daughter of Mr. Hewitt, is popu.
lar young lady and has the qualities
OF making a successful business wo-
man.
The farmers in this vicinity are
busy Smelling corn and hauling it TO
marke:.. The Hubbard & Palmer .ele-
vator apparently is getting It's share
of the corn h ,uled in, In face of
competition, The elevator manage
ment is careful TO pay the top price
for corn 1T all times and at present
have one OF its aleya. ors full to Ca
pacity and the bling Of the other ele-
pany, are nearly half full. In addi
ton to this the company loaded and
shipped three, eighty thousand ca
ity. carloads OF corn Tuesday.
The farmers unloaded eighty seven
loads of corn at this elevator Tues
ban Johnson and family, Henry
Johnson and family attended the fun
eral OF w. c. Johnson OF Judson
The ladies >of the Presbyterian
chulc CHI have passed to give a ban.
quet at the new basement Wednesday
evening, February % to all members
of the congregation and others who
have so faithfully contributed by
contributions or Tabor towards the
making of the new basement under
the church. -"
morning of Wednesday, February Is,
which is the last date for contestants
to enter their work. indicates quite
plainly the interest that has ken TAX
en- towards making this eisteddfod a
success. The number OF competitors
on the various topics are. For the
poem "And They Shall Not Learn
War, Any More" not to exceed two
hundred lines, prize $40, six. The
usual to have such competition on u
poem of this length as in the large
eisteddfod held in Utica N. Y, some
time ago only two competitions were
sent in on a poem of a similar char
acter. Poetry, eight lines, Elm Mem
DRY Of Henry R. Roberts, Prize 20,
four. No. Fl "Y Bolshevicki" prize
$1.a0 has probably received the most
attention of ony one number as twenN
ceived to date. Essay, The Peace
say for Ladies only Francis E.
Willard prizes So 90, 1.50, Four
entrants TRANSACTIONS Welsh to Eng
fish "Can A Mawl Prizes SO, SO, six.
Short story not over two hundred
words for those under % years.
Prizes $500. sl.00, three Child's let
ter to Parents prizes $1.o0, Is cents,
with the needle and hook have Eeen
very busy as five entrants of EN-
broidered Sofa Pillows, Prizes So. and
So. and nine entrants on Pillow Slips
with crochet lace, prizes $2.51 and
Up to- the morning of February Is
no competitions have been received
on dressed dolls, drawing, handwrit-
ing, bird house or fancy uubleached
majority of those who are eligible
for competition in these classes have
been unusually busy at school etc.
the committee has decided to extend
the time of competition on numbers
20, 20, 80, 81 and 40 to February %,
All competitions received on the
above numbers will be within tho
competition If received on or before
February %. All competitions in
music, speaking and hem stitching
must send their names to tho secre-
iary on or before February rs. The
competitions already received for
this Eisteddfod indicate that the in,
terest covers a much wider range Of
territory than ever before which goes
to show that the Lake Crystal Els
teddfod IS being widely advertised
throughout the states.