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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-04-27

We're entertained az the Charles
Cheadle home at dinner.
The following were guests Sun
day Of Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph Flow
ers. the Clay Rogers family, Mr.
and Mrs. Martin Flowers, Mrs
George Flowers, Mr.. and Mrs. VIII
liam Radke, Mrs. Anna TreSmer and
son Edwin.
Luther Hurst has his residence
listed for sale in the village.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gilbreth of st. Peter
were guests at the Knott home one
day the past week.
Mrs. (. Z. Thomas has recovered
from her recent Illness.
Sunday at the Knott home.
Mr.. Kitchenmaster of st. Petel
visited Sunday with CLEVELAND
Mr.. and Mrs. Warner Davis anC
w. c. Davis were guests at dinnel
Sunday at the Louis Davis home.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Davis and little
grandson and Mrs. Bert Ecl1lund o
St. Peter were entertained at ths
Knott home Tuesday.
Mrs. I. w. Watt, who has spen
the past couple OF months In Florida
is expected to return home the lat
ter part OF this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Neal Rogers spen
Sunday afternoon at the Georg'
Davis home east OF town.
Mrs. Flora McPeck, who has beel
taking medical treatment at the STATE
hospital for the past several months
returned home last Tuesday.
A company Of friends were enter
tanned Sunday from Mankato at thu
Weiss brothers home.
The Cleveland senior class pla.
will be given in Kasota Saturday
April IS, instead of April %. as re
ported last week.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-04-27
Epworth League Convention
ISpecial To The Free Press

Montevideo, Mimi. April 90
Plans are being made to entertain
$50 delegates who will come to
Nontevideo from forty three churches
to attend the annual convention Of
the Litchfield district of the Epworth
League which will be held June g.,
9 and 10. Of. Frank Doran, superin
tendent of the Winona district and
DR.. J. w. Taylor, superintendent of
the Marshall district OF the Metho-
dist church, will be among the
speakers at the convention.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-04-27

State of Minnesota, on the 18th day
OK May, 1928, at ten o'clock a. m,
why said petition should not be
granted.
Witness, The Judge of said Court,
and the Seal of said Court, this 18th
,ay OF April, 1923.
Court Seal) -
HARRY A. JOHNSON.
Probate Judge.
Philip J. Meighen,
Attorney for Petitioner.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-04-27
Ditch Contract Awarded

Especial To The Free PressJ
Olivia, Mimi, April 26.-Contracts
have been let for the construction of
judicial Ditch No. Is of Renville and
Sibley counties. The combined con-
tracts on the job amount to approx
imately S1,500,0C0 There will be
seventy miles of open ditch and 436
miles of tile. The several contract
.ors who have taken the work are
given 500 working days in which to
have the ditch completed.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-04-27
Sunday School Parade

Especial To The Free Pressl
Candy, Mimi. April 25.-Canby' s
annual Sunday school parade will be
held on May and plans are now
going forward for the event. 1t is
expected that between 400 and 500
children will participate in the
event. There will be elaborate floats
representing Purity" Hope
Faith" Peace" obedience,
Brotherhood" Courage" and
Temperance"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-04-27
Tree PLANTING Campaion

IOptCIdI TO ne TItB FTH55J
Candy, Mimi, April ga tree
plsnting campaign similar to that of
last year, is to be carried on here
again this spring. Last spring sever
al hundred black walnut trees were
planted one hui Id ID feet apart along
the highways. Now thousand green
ash trees have been asked for and
they will be planted along with the
black walnG:s : citizens committee
hoe ohar. IT,. A.k
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-04-27
Churches Will Celebrate
Especial To The Free Press

Worthington April 26.-The month
Of May marks the fiftieth anniver-
sary OF three OF Worthington's
churches and ali are making plans
for elaborate golden jubilee celebra-
tions. The Union Congregational
church was organized on May IS.
1873; the Methodist Episcopal on
May 20, 1873, and the Indian Lake
Baptist church On May %, 1873.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-04-27
Will Raise Sugar Beets

Especial To The Free Pressl
Jackson, MINI, April 26.-Twenty-
one jackson county farmers have
signed contracts to try out the cul-
tuTe of sugar beets this season and
over 500 acres Of land will be seed
Cd
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-04-27
All The =

Az The Fun
Half the fun of fishing is know
ing Won nnght TO. he working.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-04-27

Evan Hughes, Attorney.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-04-27

Evan Hughes. Attorney.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-04-27

Thomas Hughes.
Attorney for Petitioner.
The Washington times., 1923-04-10
u. S. DRY LAW
ATTACKED BY
WRITER
cOpyrisht. 1898. By star Company.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS is anti
Christian and anti-social, and be-
cause America has prohibition she
must not hold herself up as an
ideal for the rest of the world,
G. K. Chesterton declares.
Chesterton asserts that he was
given wine and cocktails in large
quantities when he last visited
America and on all sides he saw
secrecy hypocrisy and treason
against the law.
I'VE are asked to follow with
reverence Americas example.
They burn negroes alive in that
country, and, although / am not
pharisaical about that, I refuse
to admit that a society in which a
vast crowd of people can meet to.
gether while a man in evening
dress sets fire to a negro and
roasts him alive, has the right to
set itself up as the eXemplar of
morality to the world.
prohibition is the sacrificing of
a mass of normal people to a lot
of abnormal people"
The Washington times., 1923-04-10
WORDS FROM
THE LIPS OF
WISE MEN

nASSIONATE expression and
vehement assertions are no
- arguments unless it be of
the weakness of the cause that is
defended by them, or of the man
that defends it.
1t is often more necessary to
conceal contempt than resentment
the former being never forgiven,
but the latter sometimes forgot.
There is not much difficulty In
combining the mind to contem.
plate what we have a great de-
sire to know.
Call not that man wretched
who, whatever ills he suffers, has
3 a child to love.
Too much confidence in success
is the likeliest to prevent it be-
cause it binders us from making
the best of the advantage which
we enjoy.
Better be silent than speak i'll.
That is the happiest converse
ton where there Is no competi-
ton, no vanity, but only a calm,
quiet interchange Of ideas and
sentiment.
1t oft times happens that we
deem ourselves much deceived in
others because we first deceived
ourselves.
A speculative despair is I'M
pardonable, where it is our duty
to act.
1t Is not advisable to reward
where men have the tenderness
not to punish.
Whatever you dislike in an.
other pc on take care to correct
it in yours Elf.
Frugality may be termed the
daughter of prudence, the sister
Of temperance, and the parent of
liberty.
Let your child's first lesson be
obedience, and the second will
be what you will.
Variety alone gives joy,
The sweetest meats the soonest
cloy. Prior.
What the fool does in the end
the wise man does in the begin.
ming.
Copyright. 1929. Newspaper Feature
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1923-04-10

DUSSELDORF.-One of the
first actions OF the French
II in the occupied territory
was to set up soup kitchens
where food could be distributed
to those in need. Those who at
tend are referred to, in the neat
French idiom, as Amateurs de
la soupe populaire."
In the same way. the horde OF
distinguished special correspon.
dents who are living here and
spending enough marks in tele-
graphing to the four corners of
the earth to pay the whole of the
separations total daily may be,
and are, referred to as Amateurs
de la dope populaire."
Before a gun was in position or
coal train even threatened, the
French set up their dope
kitchen" in Dusseldorf. Sessions
are held twice daily in a girls
school in the Kaserne Strasse.
Here the special correspondents
meet to specially correspond. The
company includes most nationali-
ties. two black beavers and one
pink one. They are all charming
and quite disillusioned men.
SABOTAGE?
We all sit round at schoolroom
tables. We have generally two
lecturers, one an economic ex-
pert with a black mustache and
a most disarming air of sweet
reasonableness; the other a round
jolly robin Of a man who had a
mustache when he first arrived
hII t~ 4 hEAHp
Der the other day.
Whether 1t was definite act
of sabotage or just a mistake
will never be known, but he is
clean shaver now.
There is a branch dope kitchen
at Essen presided over by
jovial Frenchman from the Midi.
Perhaps you will imagine him
more easily If l explain that he
is generous in build and has
written a book on the cream of
the Paris restaurants which is by
way Of becoming a classic.
| met him just after the Essen
boycott had broken out, and all
you could eat in the town was
pea soup and sausage. have
seldom seen a sadder man.
j understand that General De-
goute was so much impressed by
the story of his suffering that he
gave him three days leave and
he made at once for Paris.
That's the kind of man for
dope Enthusiastically essen
TALLY human.
RECIPE FOR REAL NEWS.
The Germans have not really
set up a permanent arrangement
on these lines. There are GER
tainly two government officials
who appear at intervals and are
always ready to give information
when they appear. 1t has always
puzzled me that they have not
requisitioned another girls school
and starred an organized opposi.
ton dope factory.
The usual plan adopted here for
turning the official or semi official
dope ration into real news Is
rather complicated. You take as
much OF the French issue as you
The Washington times., 1923-04-10
TRAGEDY AND COMEDY RUB
ELBOWS IN RUHR DISTRICT
German Barber Commits Sabotage on Frenchm
Observation-Disclosures Active

, can stand, and strain it carefully
through a German sieve, or vice
versa. You then tone down the
residue so per cent and send for a
taxi in order to go and see for
yourself on the spot.
Finally you write your powerful
piece on the subject and send it
to London, where 1t probably ap-
pears side by side with an official
denial issued from one of the chief
dope kitchens in Paris or Berlin.
French acquisitions are begin
ming to give modern German bur-
glars new ideas. At Essen two of
the local light-fingered gentry
called at a bank and informed the
night Waterman that he was un-
der arrest, as advances of money
had been made from the bank to
the disbanded security police.
They ordered him to produce the
books and to open the safe. He
did so, and they were able to
requisition to the tune of several
million marks.
II the morning the Waterman
discovered that the men were only
ordinary burglars.
TRAGEDY AND COMEDY.
Tragedy and comedy walk hand
in hand in the strangest way in
this unreal phantasy, 1.-The Occu-
patton Of the Ruhr."
Out in the country districts
there Is curious mixture of war
and peace. AS you run through a
quiet, sleepy village, you will come
suddenly upon a group of poilus
round a machine gun. No, the
balloon is not going up! The men
are just having a lesson on
What friend we have in the
Hotchkiss," just as we used to do
In the war, to pass the dreary
hours of waiting between one un-
pleasa~tnesS and the next.
The French poilus are very like
our English Tommies. They know
as little of the real reasons for
the occupation of the Ruhr as
our own men knew of the reasons
for the war. One of them was
talking to me, "grousing" as we
used to call it, in delightful
southern accent Look at
SHINES" he said, in an aggrieved
tone. He cheats the Allies Of
a handful of marks. My cam
Grade had the misfortune to give
his sergeant swipe the other
day, in the course of a friendly
dispute. and it costs him a solid
year! There Is no Justice"
Another delightful incident,
which may yet have consequences,
took place in an Essen shop. Two
poilus went in for some shaving
soap. and, unable to speak a word
of the language, made expressive
gestures in the neighborhood OF
their blue chins. The woman who
served them had a pretty sense of
humor; for they left with two pots
Of face cream! Smaller things
have become international Incl.
dents before now.
DISARMING THE SCHUPO.
Then there are the "Schupo,"
the armed policemen in their
greeny.blue uniforms, the true
tragi-comedians of the situation.
They wander about with revol.
The Washington times., 1923-04-10

vers and bayonets, and in any
emergency they are allowed to
carry potato masher" bombs.
The French are in process of dis
arming all these men. AS an ex-
soldier myself l am all in favor
Of disarmament of every kind,
hut the Ruhr will be a duller
place without them.
The action of the French In
requisitioning private cars has
also tended to brighten things
up a little. A certain very dis
tinguished special correspondent
who was leaving for England in
a hurry sent a car to collect his
laundry. The car did not come
back, and after waiting for several
hours the very distinguished one
left in disgust. have since
heard that the car was requisi-
toned and the shirts, socks and
underpants are sunk without
trace"
The Washington times., 1923-04-10
The Middle Ages
And TOday's Science and Miracle.

The Middle Ages and this century contrasted in two
pieces OF news published above the other The first from
the Middle Ages tells of mysterious house in Chicago CON
tanning room in which pious young girl died.
Upon the wall appears those it with ewes
of faith image Of the young girls Those that touch
it cured of their diseases.
The clergy wisely say it is all imagination
Below that an article describing the scientific plans
for utilizing the heat Of the direct The SIMS heat ~
course will take the place of coal and of power long be-
fore the mines exhausted F e "
The coal mine making their hav Will. .b. .
shines and before it is harnessed ~ 1884
The Washington times., 1923-04-10
Who Rules Here?
England or the L. S. A.

In the House of Commons other day Sir Clement Kin
loch Cooke Tory whether British Ad
iralty had noticed the that the United States
proposes to modenize such of her warps
to bring the range the two British and Amer
ean) into complete parity
AT present according to the experts the range guns
the British two miles greater than the United
range that with British and American meeting the
British could sink the American ships miles before the
latter could get within range of the British.
England that Washington four treaty for
bids undermining ships changing angle of eleva
ton or otherwise changing the range Washington Ad
has entered into agreement that compes the
United States to keep within the range guns of Eng
land the people of this country should change that condition
without any delay too much formality
The Washington times., 1923-04-10
Fancy PetticOats
Popular Again

r ONDON-Petticoa of many
designs and hues, are fash
1A ionabIe again.
They are not, however, the
rustling and befrilled wonders of
Victorian days, but are so soft
and slender that they can be
drawn through the proverbial
ring.
For many years, with skirts
tight and short, petticoats were
out of fashion.
This season they reappear in
the glory of silk brocades, flow
cred crepe de chine and jazz
Satins.
Many are in bright colors, have
bodices, and might we'll be mis-
taken for simple evening frocks.
The main feature seems to be,
however, the scalloped hem.
which takes the place of the
frisky frill of bygone days.
The Washington times., 1923-04-10
Bears Won't Shake the Berry Bushes.

nIG IRON output passes all precedent United States
Steel announces IL cent increased wages for I'M
skilled labor and orders corresponding advances for all
other employees.
General Motors after dducting operating and
reserves puts SIS 100000 in the TILL Merely twelve weeks
earnings.
One hundred and sevenythree thousand four hundred
foryone cars and trucks sold since January l. March
bought 69OOOodd of the lot. Watch April beat that.
The shake the berry bushes of Wall Street for
quite some while Optimism's running the market. And
managing America too.
Secretary Mellon talks of revising ncomeax schedules
downward He discovers that industry digs srufles
the Government when encouraged by reasonable share
for itself. .s
British stocks jump the prediction of tax relief So
would
The Washington times., 1923-04-10
PROSPERITY'S PULSE
BEATS. IN THE
WANT ADS
By HERBERT KAUFMAN.

business finds the full of frown Spring
returns in golden haze-heaviy couded with factory
smoke. Ten jobs looking for where one is
seeking work.
Whenever you feel prosperys pulse turn to the
classified columns That's where it beats And in the nan
cial pages.
Several hundred corporations worrying about 1924
surtaxes, instead of 1922 deficits.
year the hopes the centered in the
sales force This year. the most important in the works
is the production manager.
American railroads have ordered equipment
than half dozen European countries possess in TOTO
Crop estimates and mill orders say that they've under
estimated national requirements.
Chns aren't humping pavements nowadays.
The Washington times., 1923-04-10

TrHE Playground Association of America proves that
wherever children given chance to engage in
healthy games juvenile delinquency shows instant
decrease Is per cent falloff in from ST.
Louis district after the Riddles had place for
cent amusemens
Youngsters smashed 81 per fewer lamps in
Duluth after the city organized municipal Halloween pro-
gram.
And ST. Pau Fairgrounds reduced reformatory ofenses
rs per cent.
Mems sGnG IN corpore somo' the Roman formula
for good citizenship
1t that can't stay fit unless they cultivate
their minds and their bodies, too.
Dr. Squres ddnt discover any Boy Scouts Sing Sing
either.
The Washington times., 1923-04-10
|5,OOO,OOO-Ft. Gas
Well Brought In

HK'ARTHUR.--A gas well with
M an estimated production of
AVA 5000, 900 feet daily has been
brought in on the farm of Mrs.
Julia Foraker. The farm is near
Wellston. Mrs. Foraker is the
widow of the late United States
Senator J. B. Foraker.
The Washington times., 1923-04-10
The Lady Danced With Her Head.

~ worlds dancing record, and does it. The next week
she breaks her record by seventeen hours. Credit
the achievement her head her feet When folk begin
to believe in themselves, there few limits to possibility
None of us pushes his capacities to the utmost.
Each generation is reservoir of hafused energies No
century equaled its opportunities. The clock regu
laes far many brains and hands, Average thoughts
don't dance long enough.
The Washington times., 1923-04-10
HOw Long Did the Camera Fast?

THE spirit photographs which Conan Doyle exhibits
were taken with regulation It is understood
that the lady who furnished snapshot evidence of other
worlds beyond tasted days condition herself for
the achievement.
How long did the fast? The observation is jus
fled by inspiration. One understands how voices
speak without bodies Electricity is evident ncompre-
hensble.
But has yet explained how substance unreveaed
since first death of has suddenly become visible
twentieth century eyes.
The Washington times., 1923-04-10
And Not a HighbrOU in the Lot.

n ORE statistics Figures are full of pictures. One
M thousand four hundred and ffty-seyen prisoners
entered Sing Sing last year. and Dr. Squres the head
physician of the penentary, couldn't find professional
among them.
and effect; outlaws poor logicians. Otherwise
they'd not pay much for little Mental training
qures sefcontrol Most feones the expression of
ignorance and passion.
Mr. McGinn of the American Surety Company, doesn't
dissent from such premise when he credits present crime
largely young crooks who have attended school
until sixteen to eighteen years Old
He traces the roots of evil to environment and blaes
careless parents for the waywardnes of their Another
kind Of education
The Washington times., 1923-04-10
The Needle Has Its Eye on EN-.

TTHE United States Supreme Court, interpreting the
statute door-opener for price fixing commod
and services everywhere declares the District
Columbia minimum wage law unconstitutional.
Women working in laundre boarding houses, hotels and
mercantile establishments have been receiving minimum of
$3.50 per week in Washington
Thirteen States, with approximately similar regulations
are affected by the decision.
But not deeply as thousands 1f widows and their
dependents.
Legislators advised that they face defeat approach
ing elections unless they pledge themselves to the
situation.
Meanwhile provebial eye of the needle experienced
in ruthless greed will proceed estimate how many
rich viii forget the hereafter end undertake to get
theirs here'
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-11-22

Inscriptions, on west lace: Start
ing Point Of First Transcontinental
Motor Convoy over the Lincoln High
way, July I. 1919" On the east face
Starting Point of Second Transcon-
tinental Motor Convey over the Bank
head Highway, June IA, 1920.
The Monument is bench-mark and
standard OF linear measurement of the
United States Coast and Gcodetic
Survey. The exact center is the start
ing point for the measurements OF
distances on Lee Highway, the Bank
head Highway and all other hihgways
radiating from Washington. Lee
Highway is erecting the Pacific Mile
stone, an exact duplicate with suita-
bic inscriptions at San Diego, Cal, dis
lance 5000 miles.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-11-22

duk, my lords, which Nabopolassar
King Of Babylon, the father who be-
got me, has made road glstenine
with asphalt and burnt brick; |. the
wise suppliant who fears their lord
ships, placed above the bitumen and
burnt bricks, mighty superstructure
OF shining dust, made them strong
within with bitumen and burnt bricks
as highlying road Nabu and Mar
duk, when you traverse these streets
Ill JOY may benefits tor me rest upon
your lips; life for distant days, and
Well-being for the body Before you J
will advance upon them. May | at
tain eternal age"
Those who traverse smepth asphalt
streets in cities are thus linked with
an era OF at least 500 years B. C. in
the roads they use, although from
ancient times until about 1855, as
phalt, then to be obtained only from
nature Git is now product of petro-
leum manufacturing processcs) was
neglected as a road material
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-11-22
WHAT IS OLDEST KNOWN
ROAD MATERIAL?
Asphalt Has Strong Claims AS First
Binder For Stone

Doubtless the oldest material Tor a
road was wood in the form of branch
es laid across muddy stretches of
paths, much as the familiar corduroy
road is still made today in backwoods
districts.
But the oldest hard wood material
is stone or brick, and among the
claimants for hoary age in consider
ing the first forms of built highways.
IS asphalt Some commentators OF
the Bible claim that the word Slime
in the quotation Slime had they Tor
mortar to build the Tower of Babel
should be translated as "bitumen",
which is asphalt
However, that may be. there is no
doubt about the translation OF an III
scription found on a paving block in
Babylon. It reads:
"Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylon,
he who made Esaglia and Ezda glor-
ious, son of Nabopolassar, King OF
Babylon. The streets of Babylon, the
procession Street of Nabu and Mar