The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1922-09-15
NOTES OF THE FAIR

grounds last evening and ate their
supper at one of the various boothes.
The Bethlehem Lutheran. Swedish
Lutheran, First Church of Christ
and the North Mankato Methodists
were represented by large booths
busily dishing beans, potatoes, ham,
burgers, coffee and pies. All of the
churches represented seemed to be
doing thriving business about six
O'clock Besides these various
churches there were many individ-
ual stands that dealt especially in
chicken sandwiches, ice cream dain-
ties and other tempting delectables.
Probably two of the most popular
places at the fair yesterday were
the Red Cross Room and the w. C.
T. U. Rest Room. The Red Cross
conducted their room in the house
10 usually used for a rest room. Miss
Olive Krogstad, city Red Cross
nurse and Miss LYDIA korsell, sec
rotary of the Red Cross had charge
of the room. Babies were brought
and left and were cared for while
their mothers visited parts of the
ground. A free check room proved
TO be a most desirable thing. The
nurse stated that yesterday there
were 10 accidents. The w. c. T. U.
Rest room was conducted in a large
rocking chairs and several touches.
Members of the organization took
care Of the room at various times
YESTERDAY
Today was to have been a full
day for the boys and girls who have
( club work on exhibition in the tent
devoted to that purpose. The Man
kato, Judson and Lake Crystal clubs
have certain sections where their
work is shown, but there are in
Vulnerable individual exhibits, en-
tered by children from all over the
city and county There were to be
three canning teams present today
to demonstrate their work and the
international bread team composed
of Leopa Peterson, Myra Jones and
Evelyn Cuddy were to be the fea-
ture of this afternoons program in
the Boys and Girls Club tent. l. E.
McMillen, county agent, and w. E.
Durbahn, who has charge OF the
club work were in charge of the
tent.
The George E. Brett company,
changed its booth at the fair today
showing fall costumes. Yesterday It
had a display, of furs. The Brett
company always has a very fine ex-
hibit at the fair.
The ]. C. Penney company yester-
day had in their booth in the Floral
Hall a display of the beginning of the
institution and the gradual growth
into its present capacity. The moth
er store which is Kemmerer, Wyo.,
was represented by a small old fash
toned store building typical of the
small store of years ago. In one cor
ner there was large office building
and on this was printed the names of
the cities where stores are now con-
Quoted by this company. There are
$40 stores at the present time. This
was arranged to show the growth
s from one small store into the great
string Of stores now spread an over
the country To more realistically
show this an imitation OF a check is
sued for a bill of shoes was shown.
This was the amount of s1,671, 6S3. So.
Today the Penney company displayed
merchandise.
The Central ". c. T. U and the
North Mankato union have set UP a
comfortable rest tent on the fair
grounds just east of the Christian
church ladies eating tent. The tent
is nicely fitted up with easy chairs,
couch, drinking water and other
.conyeniences for the comfort of Wis
itors. There are attendants present
all the time to take care of the
wants of visitors One hundred and
fifty people availed themselves of
the privilege the first day.
This afternoon the baseball tour
nament at the ! fair grounds makes
further progress when the victori-
Gus Madison Lake nine will be
called upon to face the formidable
GAINESVILLE outfit for the second
elimination contest Thursday New
. Ulm will face the winners of to-
days battle for the final honors of
the week. There will be no game
Wednesday.