The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-08-10
GRAIN YIELDS ARE Fine
REPORTS FROM VERNON
SHOW UP EXCELLENT
Winter and Spring Wheat Good
Average; News From
Village

Vernon enter, August GOOD
reports from the threshing machine
come in daily. The latest are from
H. Yahnke of East Vernon. Winter
and spring wheat averaged thirty
two bushels per acre and oats six
/ ty four. Frank Hanna and Jessie
Winter of South Vernon have very
good yields. Mr.. Hanna threshed
seventeen acres of oats, getting
1883 bushels. Mr.. Winters winter
wheat averaged thirty three per
acre and spring twenty Iour.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. l.. cooper mo-
tored over to. North Sterling Fri
4 day afternoon for short VISIT with
their sister, Mrs. Clare AcKerman
and family. Two other sisters, Mrs.
M. A. Borchert and Miss Z. A. Rob
erts or Mankato, are spending a
week with their sister and renew
ing friendships among whom they
had been associated with all their
lives until they moved to Mankato
TOUR years ago.
Mrs. Anna Mattingly has return
ed home after spending a week
with her daughter Mrs. Will Ware
and family in Winnebago.
/ Mrs. Robert Sewers Is recovering
from a severe attack of gall stones,
which has confined her to her room
for about week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Myron Randall re-
turned Wednesday from a visit with
relatives in various parts of Wis
consin.
Mrs. Albert Halverson and little
daughter Petra. are down from AL
bert Lea visiting relatives.
Miss Joyce Porter of Minneapolis
is enjoying a week with her grand =
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. F. X. Lowell
and family. Her sister Barbara has
been In Vernon. for a couple OF
weeks. .E
/ The Washburn, LANCER and
Cooper families enjoyed delightful
motor trip Thursday afternoon, 60
ing via Lake Crystal, where some
time was spent calling on former
neighbors and friends of the Lang
ers and Washburns, after which
:, they continued on their way to the
County seat, the biggest and best
city in. Southern Minnesota. At
Mankato their ways diversified and
for a couple of hours each one went
where he willed. Mrs. LANCER spent
her time with former friends. Mrs.
Eva Champlin and Mrs. Minnie
Thompson. A motor trip through
the country at this season shows the
different work that is being done
on the farms. Everywhere the yell
low stubble field testified a bumper
;, crop, which the threshing machine
| is varifying. At about seven O'Clock
they started for home driving about
Sibley park, where they were
monarch OF what they surveyed"
but ON leaving. throngs of pedes-
trians and many autoists were
making their way to this beautiful
spot.
Mr.. and Mrs. G.. F. Grannis) and
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Bailey Of South
Vernon with Charles Grannis at the
i wheel, enjoyed a ride in the for
mer's new Buick sedan to Mankato,
Thursday, where they spent the
~ on business and pleasure, re
turning via the old Jones Ford road
at one time. The main road to Man
Ikato, now but little used brought
back to their minds, the days OF
long ago, when the trip to and from
Mankato behind old Dobbin and
Grey hitched to lumber wagon
was an all day event.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Fleming
and their daughter Marie motored
to Mankato yesterday, where they
spent the day shopping and calling
Mrs. Lois Warren was an all day
business visitor in Mankato Thurs
, day.
Nick THU, Vernon Center's but
ter maker, and G. R. Champlin, sec
| NJ The Cra anQrV association
were transacting business In Man
Sato yesterday.
President Davis Crane and other
officers and directors of the Blue
Earth county fair, are devoting
much of their time and making
their plans to make the coming fair
the best and biggest ever. H. c.
Kraus has attended two meetings
at Garden City this week and 1t now
looks as IL "Magnus" would be q
big drawing card the third day.
The Misses Kledythe Violin and
Glenna Lartz, : two clerks OF the
; Woolworth store of Mankato, spent
their vacation at the c. A. Fleming
home in North Vernon.
Miss Sarah Malconsin came UP
from her home in Mankato to spend
, the week end and over Sunday with
/ her frt6nQ MISS ELISE new ,
| Mrs. ], A. Jarvis and SON Jack OF
Minneapolis spent several days last
week at the T. Newell home. Mrs
Newell and Jarvis have been friends
since early girlhood and their get
together is a real pleasure for both
Mrs. Kate Fleming and three lit
tie daughters of Minneapolis, ar.
rived last night where they will
spend their vacation In the country
with relatives at the Charles Elem
| ing home in North Vernon. -.
Mrs. John Mertersdorf and her
niece Mrs. Gladys Thul are enter
tanning the Federated club this Fri
day afternoon at the beautiful farm
home of Mrs. Mertersdorf In North
MT. and Mrs. r., e. Fate and Kieth
of Des Moines,. Iowa, are spending
few days in town as the guests OF
r. r. Newell and family. The Fates
were former residents OF Vernon
Center.
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