The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1922-10-20
Death of Former
Cleveland Citizen
J. o. Ransom Passed Away In
Bryan, Ohio; Was Pioneer
In Minnesota.


end with his SON H. b. Sonnabend
and family at Lake Emily. J
English services will be held at
the German Lutheran church east
of here Sunday afternoon. ~.
Mrs. c. A. Mott has been quite i'll
the past three weeks with an attack
Of lumbago. H... "
Miss Amelia Hunter and DeEtte
Hunter of Cleveland were callers at
the Shney home Monday afternoon.
enroute to st. Peter.
The Pettis Five Hundred club
motored into st, Peter Thursday
evening and pleasantly surprised
Mrs. Ella Weber at her new home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Fechter and
daughter Marguerite and son Rus
sell motored to Mankato last Sat
urday and spent the day with the
formers mother, Mrs. Sam Wey
gandt. .
Mr. and Mrs. John Dobie and son
Kenneth were guests Sunday of Mr.
A large number from LeSueur
Cetner were in attendance last
Thursday at the National Dairy
show, it being LeSueur County day
at the state fair grounds.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Laue and
daughter Teresa entertained at a
six o'clock dinner Thursday. Mes
DANES Margaret Block, Mary Kra-
mer and Mrs. Mary Hurst, old time
friends. ~ ...
Mrs. Glen Livingston and little
daughter spent the week end with
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. j. A. Lee.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed stangler and
Sunday at the Fred Fechter home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Grennig after
spending the past month at the
John Livingston home, have return
ed to fneir home at Kasota.
SherIff Hugo Blake of LeSueur
Center was a business caller here
enroute to Cleveland Saturday,
where the sheriff and Mrs. Bake at
tended the bazaar given by the la
dies of the Lutheran church.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter A. Pettis
and daughter Nadine and Mrs: Alva
Pettis were guests last SUNDAY or
Herman Lurth and Miss Mary
Lurth.
funeral of the late Jay d. Ransom
at Cleveland Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Dobie and son
Kenneth were guests last Monday.
at the J. L. Lindstedt home at st.
Peter.
Charles and August Trebesch Of
Mahnomen, Mimi, are guests OF
their sister, Mrs. H. B. Sonnabend
and family.
Clarence Wendelschafer left for
the northern part of the state, Mon
day, where he has employment for
a few months.
Noryal Rairdon of Anacortes,
Wash, a former resident of Lee
Sueur County, arrived last Thurs
day on a few weeks visit to friends
and relatives.
w. o. Layton, genial mail car
rier on route four, out OF st. Peter,
has resumed his work after a vaca-
ton of fifteen days.
Mrs. B. Eilingsworth and daugh-
tiers of st. Peter, who were guests
few days of Mrs. John Elligs-
worth, have returned home.
julius Meyer, a former resloens
this week at his home there. Word
was received by his niece, Mrs.
David S. Turrittin.
Leon Conner made business
trip to Mankato Friday between
trains.
Misses Edna and Ella Baynes and
mother Mrs, Mary Baynes were
guests of Mrs. John Kluntz last
Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Kendall of
Kasota were Pettis callers Sunday
evening. 49,.
Wash, was a guest few days
this week OF his nephew Mliton
i'A MI and Mrs. Peter Morton of
Winthrop attended the funeral OF
the late Edward McGrath Tuesday
and were guests of relatives In this
vicinity.
Mrs. Joseph Hardegger. OF Point
Pleasant was christened at Man
kato last Sunday, receiving the
name of Jane Lois. Mrs. Hardeg-
ger is spending a few days with her
parents before returning home.
MIR. and Mrs. Roy Farrell of Man
kato were guests last "Wednesday
of Mr.. and Mrs. James Farrell.
Word was received here Monday
of the death of an old friend ana
neighbor. J. D.. Ransom formerly
of Cleveland. who but a year ago |
with his wife moved to Bryan,
Ohio. He had been in poor health
the past year, but the past four
months failed rapidly until Satur,,
day. October Z, when he passed
away. Death was caused by heart
disease. He was seventy years old. |
Mr.. Ransom came to Minnesota Ill |
the pioneer days with his family,
clearing up a farm about three and
a half miles east OF Cleveland. For
a number of years he farmed sue
cessfully. retiring several years ago.
He moved to Cleveland. He was a
faithful member of the Christian
church from. early manhood, re-
spected by all who knew him as an |
honest, upright man in all his deal
ings. The remains were accom-
panied by his son Orlando Ransom
from Ohio, arriving at Cleveland
Monday. The funeral services were
held from the Christian church |
Tuesday afternoon, where a large |
of friends nd gathered to |
pay their last respects to the de-
and Mrs. Roy Farrell of Man
kato offieiated. Interment was made |
in the Savage Lake cemetery. He
leaves a wife and SON Orlando Ran
som of Bryan, Ohio, and two daugh-
ters. Mrs. Ben Dane of Pemberton |
and Mrs. a.. Hurst of Cleveland.
Jennette Kendall little daughter |
of Mr.. and Mrs. Lon Kendall, Is
slowly recovering from severe at
tack of summer flu.
Last Wednesday, October 4, at
the Catholic church at Marysburg |
the marriage of Miss Emma Vaughn
and Floyd D. Mulvehill was solem-
nized. Rev. Father McDevitt ofh
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