The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1922-09-01
NEWS OF VERNON
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VISITORS FROM AFFAIR SEE
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LATE NOTES BY SCRIBE
comings and Goings and Gener,
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Vernon Center, August 30.-EarIy
Saturday morning Emmett PurvIs
and children Margaret, Lyle. Ruth
and George hit the trail via the mo-
tor route for a weeks vacation,
which will be spent at Ames and
Nevada, Iowa. At Am@s Mr.. Purv1a
will take the children over the
campus and, through the agricultur-
al college buildings.
Mr.. and Mrs. McGregor and little
daughter and Mr. and Mrs. Al Var
wood and daughter Phyllis motored
up from Mankato Sunday afternoon
calling on their aunt Miss Louise
Award and other relatives in this
vicinity.
A. c. Gray, cashier at the Farm
ers bank was a business visitor at
the county seat yesterday. Mrs.
Gray and their daughter Mary &C
companied him. -
Mr.. and Mrs George Brown and
two children of Albert Lea visited
over the week end with relatives in
the village. On Sunday there was
gathering of the Brown clan at the
old farmhouse of Mrs. Emma
Brown. This was the last get-to-
gether of the many that have been
enjoyed during the summer since
the arrival in June of Grandma
Brown and her daughter, Mrs. Myr-
tie Johnson of Portland, Ore. 1t
was a very happy day for all from
Grandma down to the third and
fourth generation. Mesdames Brown
and Johnson departed Monday noon
for their home by way OF the Can
adam Pacific.
Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Wendlandt
motored here from Northfield Sun
day for a short visit at the home OF
the formers uncle Godfrey Wend-
landt and wife.
Miss Doris Slater visited this
week with relatives at Winnebago.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. G. Sewers were
Mankato visitors Monday. i
Mrs Jennie Dedra has returned
to her home at Waseca after visit
ing for a few weeks with relatives
in the village
Mrs. Frank Clague and her moth
err Mrs. Ellen Porter of Redwood
Falls, accompanied by Misses Stella
Barbara and Patty Porter of Min
neapolis and Virginia Taylor OF
Mankato. motored here last Wed
nesday. where they visited at the
F. R. Lowell home and with other
friends. and of course took in the
Garden City fair. Mrs. IClague and
her mother will not return TO
Washington until late fall
Mrs Margaret LaRue Of Rhame,
N. D., is here on a visit with her
sister, Mrs Mary Cornish. Mrs. La
Rue will go from here to Brooklyn.
n. Y, to spend the winter with her
daughter, Mrs. Ruth Roman;
Mrs. Lily Washburn Sanger and
three children, Marion Franc and
Alice. Mrs Edith Grannis and Mr.:
and Mrs. Leslie Cooper enjoyed
a delightful auto ride Monday
afternoon, which took them to
Amboy. Lura Lake, Mapleton,
thence to Mankato via Beauford,
arriving home in time for supper.
The distance travelled was about 50
miles.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hartwiek and
little boy of Mankato were Sunday
guests Of Mrs. Marion Iousr..
William Follen of Arpin, Wis,
and his son and daughter, Mr.. and
Mrs. Herbert Follen Of Chicago
were guests last week of their
daughter and sister, Mrs. Robert
Brown and family.
Ed Barnes and Charles Grannis
motored to Sherburn Sunday, re-
turning Monday afternoon, accompa-
led by Rev. and Mrs. Russell, who
Will SpSDQ WeSh dnOnS LuSlL I'LL
mer friends here.
Mr.. Stevens and the Misses Le-
: hey, Wright, French and Mrs. Ma
RE Evans, all of Plainview motored
to Vernon Thursday afternoon,
where they were guests until Sat
urday morning at the Joseph Rob
Inson home. The ladies' Of the par
ty were former CO. workers of Miss
May Robinson in the GAINESVILLE
schools.