The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-08-31

this state was in Mankato Saturday
evening while enroute for Santa
Anna, California. Mr.. Baxter spends
his falls and winters in California
but comes to his old home, Winnie
bago, for the spring and summer
each year. Saturdays trip was the
fifteenth time Mr.. Baxter has been
back and forth on his singular year
ly journey. He is seventy nine
years old and is enjoying the best OF
health.
John Van LEW of Los Angeles
California, has arrived at Point
Pleasant, Lake Madison to spend his
annual outing at his summer cot
tage there Mr.. Van Lew is pio-
neer visitor at Lake Madison and
comes regularly about the same
time each year. While enroute here
Mr.. Var Lew stopped in Canada
where he had some fine fishing. His
many friends here are pleased to
again see and meet Mr.. Van Lew.
The Misses Lydia and Signe Shell,
who have been spending two weeks
vacation with their parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Alfred Shell, returned to
Minneapolis.
Miss Ella She'll has been spending
three week vacation at home and
week.
S. Brainerd the genial handy man
editorial and news writer, printer and
dissemination of types and we'll
written and newsy items Of The
Plaindealer. st. James. was in Man
kato last week the guest u G. X.
Mayer at his Madison Lake cottage.
While here he also made q short
call at the editorial department Of
The Free Press. AS a wielder Of pen,
epnobling editorial thoughts and
interesting news items prepared in
pleasing and readable way Mr..
Brainerd has few equals among
newspaper men. He is gentleman
whom II is pleasure to meet, and it
Is hoped he will drop into the Free
Press sanctum whenever in Man
kato.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Burkhart
and Mr.. and Mrs. G.. L. Williams
motored to Fairmont yesterday and
spent the day.
Emil Raster, employed in the silk
department of the Brett store, has
purchased a new model, Buick coupe
and expects to do lot of "vaga-
bonding" on Sundays over Mime
sofas fine roads.
Miss Gladys Miller, cashier of the
Penney store has returned from her
vacation to various points in the
state.
Miss Elsie and Edna Riley and
tteir guest, Miss Jesse Shannon Of
Des Moines, Iowa, have returned
from visit to Minneapolis.
Miss Agnes Kurkowski has re-
turned from New Ulm where she
was guest of DR.. and Mrs. o. Sci
fert, several days.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred v. Dickey Of
Pine Bluff, Ark, are here visiting
Mrs. Ida Belle Scarf and children,
Dorothy and Curtis. Mr.. Dickey is a
sister of Mrs. Scarf.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Gaffey are
spending a, few days at Hutchinson
with relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. d. Willard and
sons, John and Harold, have return
ed from an enjoyable motor trip OF
2,37s miles. They spent several days
in the Black Hills, then crossed over
to Laramie Wyoming, where they
visited friends of Harold Willard,
who is professor in the University
Of Wyoming. From here they went
to the Rocky Mountain National
park of Colorado, where they joined
| Misses Caroline and Alice Robbins,
of this city, who are spending the
summer there, and will return home
| in another week. Harold and John
Willard and Miss Robbins, climbed
Longs peak which is $4,000 feet
and Mr.. Willard and the boys, with
| Miss Robbins climbed Hallet peak
which is 12,725 feet. They returned
| home by the Lincoln highway and
made the trip in three weeks. Mr.
Willard says the roads were good
but they found none as good as
those in Minnesota.
| Emil Boie of the National Bank OF
| Commerce left this afternoon for
| Fargo, N. D., to attend a meeting oil
| the American Bankers Association
to be held In the State Agriculture
School in that city tomorrow. Mr.
Boie has been appointed as chair
man of the agriculture committee OF
| the Minnesota State Bankers asso
citation. The purpose of the meeting
Of bankers at Fargo is to decide
upon a tangible and dfinite plan for
! bringing assistance to the grain
growers Of the northwest.
Percy e. Vellm left last evening
Miss Flora Hodson OF ST. Paul
spent the weekend with her parents
MIR. and Mrs. George Hodson.
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. Cedardahl Of Lin
coin. Neb., are the guests of Mr.. and
Mrs Alfred Smith.
| John Sullivan, who has been
spending the past three weeks al
| Window, returned home yesterday.
Miss Mildred Chamberlain Of MIN
neapolis, the director who put on
the musical comedy here Leave II
To Gloria, this spring, for the Elks
/ club, is a visitor in the city today
| Miss Chamberlain has just returned
| from Rochester where she put on 9
historical pageant of Alstead county
and has been asked to come here BY
one of the progressive clubs OF the
city to see about putting on his
torical pageant of the same kind II
/ 1924. Miss Chamberlain feels Il
would be great success as there Is
much material to select from.
! Mss Nondas Hurst will leave mex
week to attend the Villa Marie
school at, Fond du Lac which is &
private school for girls. Her bro
Their, Norman Hurst, will leave abou
the same time for the Nazaratt
school at Lake City.
Mrs. Alice Stonebreaker of Lo:
Angeles, Cal, is a guest of her sis
ter, Mrs. A. M. Madison, and othel
Mr.. and Mrs. f. l.. Austin, have
returned from a vacation trip u