The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-01-26
Mrs. Amy Hughes Assisted
Vernon Center Event
NOTES OF VILLAGE
General News Stories Collected
BY The Free Press Cor
respondent

president, was the installing officer
and Mrs. Marcella Kennedy, also OF
Mankato, was the installing conduc-
tor. The officers installed were:
president, Mrs. Pauline Nelson:
senior vice president, Mrs. Viola
Schwarz; junior vice president, Mrs.
Rachel Neil; treasurer, Mrs. Eunice
Newell: secretary, Miss Lille Hal
Nerson; chaplain, Mrs. Mabel Hal
Nerson; conductor. Mrs. May Sow
ers, assistant conductor, Mrs. Yer
onica Thul; guard, Mrs. Annie Lar
icn; assistant guard, Mrs. Elizabeth
Good; patriotic Instructor, Miss Mae
Robinson; press correspondent, Mrs.
Myrtle Gray; musician, Mrs. Gladys
1nul; color bearers Mrs. Mary
spence, Mrs. Ella Stoner. Mrs. Ma
bel Bowen and Mrs. Pearl Rev.
" nile lunch was being prepared.
singing, led by Mrs. Hughes, was
enjoyed by all. A very nice lunch
OF Iolls, potato salad, pickles, coffee,
cake and brick ice cream was served
% large number OF people.
Alfred henderson and son Robert
we're iii \ eTnon MondaY.
Dorn. January -, daughter 10
.ar. an AIRS. sanford Cornish OF
CVfI>Co.
..iss Ruth Haines and Miss Pearl
10y, VITO are attending Parker col
Ice; al '. iunebago, spent Saturday
anu Sunday with Miss Alice Warren.
Miss Esther Hohenstein died at
lL.aanuel hospital Saturday night,
JanuaTy Is, OF anemia. The funeral
was held in Munkato the following
Wednesday. Esther was the daugh-
ter On hlr. and Mrs. Otto Hohensteinr
mo io4meFI! lived on the Cooper
nnpfi..a-A EDrnnT and their
many .liends here sympathize with
them III the loss of their daughter.
Hugh FRANCIS or Pine City came
J'ucSuay 10 attend the funeral of his
brother Gene Francis. Mr.. Francis
says his wife had a bad fall last
week anu sprained one OF her wrists.
j MIS-. frankie Young left Tuesday
for Freeport, ILL.,, to visit her sister
Mrs. Credicott, Mrs. Ware OF Win
nebago accompanied her to Illinois.
Clifford Mead was in Mankato
Monday to consult DR.. V. l. Miller in
regard 10 one of his eyes, which has
been giving him considerable trouble.
SL.aS: evening Lester SchwarZ
Entertained about thirty friends in
soncr OF his birthday. Games were
PLACED AID nice refreshments were.
served. A. cake bearing eighteen
caIalls was the center OF attrac-
Mr.. and Mrs. H. W. Petrich were
in AI:---~",o Wednesday 10 attend
n .,-.,.a O. Mass Esther Hohen-i
s,a.I.
..is.> Eord Slater visited from
- 80 u4tii thursday in Maple
ton.
Eo.auvcs here have been notified
81 tis. uisappearalCe OF Z. c. keehn
O. lake Crry, MINI. He went 10
81. haul on business between
Christmas and New Years and wir'
ed his wife each day while away as
10 when he would be home until
the day was to come, and nothing
has been heard of him since. His
wire, who is i'll, will be better re-
membered as Myra Mobiles, daugh-
ter OF Mr.. and Mrs. William Mobiles.
Henry Weir, who was born in
Washington county, Wisconsin, June
- 1S4S, died at his home in Vernon
Center Wednesday evening, Jan
1867 and settled on farm in Lyra
township and resided there until
about three years ago when he NOV
ed to Vernon Center. He was mar
Tied in 1877 to Miss Annie Belson,
also OF Washington county. His
wife died about twelve years ago.
He leaves two daughters Katherine
and Lucy and one son William TO
mourn his loss. Also one sister
Elizabeth Weir and three brothers
James and Matthew OF Vernon
Center and Frank Of Good Thuder.
The fueral services will be held at
the Catholic church at 10 o'clock
Saturday morning.
Lyle Annis, who had the misfor-
tune to crush the fingers of his
right hand in the printing press at
the Mapleton Enterprise office, was
in vernon Center Thursday.
George Eugene Francis, SON Of
Theodore D. and Helen M. Francis,
was born October 3, 1861 at Plat
Vile, Wis. He died at his home
near Vernon Center, January IA,
1928. He with his parents moved to
Minnesota at the age of seven. They
settled on farm one and half
miles southwest Of Vernon Center
was married September !, 1888. to
Effie A. Robinson. To this union
eight children were born. ]. Hora-
sBarsness Of Lewiston, Mont; Earl
Stanley who died at the age of ten
years; Alvarez w. Of Portals, New
Mexico: Gene Kenneth and Mrs.
Ethel s9Se sn sDd 1 SS1n OF Who Lake aEe
still at home These children with
treir mother, one sister, Mrs.
Blanche Harris of Bennett, Colo.
and three brothers A. M. Francis OF
Kingfisher, OKLA c. c. Francis of
vernon Center and Hugh Francis of
Pine City and seven grandchildren
are left to mourn his loss. All were
present except A. M. Francis of Okla
homa The funeral was held in the
Methodist church at Vernon Center
Thursday at p. m. Those from
away who attended = were: Mrs.
Edith Stiles Farrow, Randolf, Neb. !;
Mr.. and Mrs. Carson Harvor and
family, Fairmont; Mrs. Poole of
Truman; Mrs. Roe Douglass, Mrs.
Mary A. Roe, Mrs Loren Hartman,
Mr.. and Mrs. Tom Brown, Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Marsh of Winnebago;
Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Wrightson, Mr..
and Mrs. Melvin, Lake Crystal and
John Farmer and Harry Thompson
OF Mankato
Harold Bowen expects to begin
road work near Lake Washington
next week.
Mrs. d. H. Thew and Miss Elsie
were in Mankato Tuesday