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

ocracy, and the growing impotence
of political parties. We have got
ten away from the representative
system: we have reached a point
where the lack Of party loyalty has
made party sponsorship in govern
ment less effective than 1t was. We
have come to the time when a party
platform is regarded by too many
men in public life as even less i'm.
portant than scrap OF paper, and
groups of blocs are turned to serve
group interests. and many individ-
uals serve their own, while con-
tempt for party conference or eau
Gus has sent party loyalty pretty
much into the discard.
Political Parties Essential.
81 believe in political parties. They
were the essential agencies Of the
popular governr"ar which made us
sat we are. We were never per-
feet, but unuer our party system we
wrought development under rep
| "eSentative democracy unmatched
in all proclaimed liberty and attend
ing human advancement. We achiev-
ed under the party system, where
parties were committed to policies.
and party loyalty was a mark OF
honor and an inspiration toward &C
complishment. Nowadays. in MANY
states. party adherence is flouted
loyalty is held tie DO contemplate,
nominations for office are often in
fiuenced by voters enrolled under an
opposing party banner and platforms
are the insincere utteranceS of eX-
Dediency, influenced by nominees,
rathehr than by advocates Of prin-
ciple.
Let no one misconstrue me- I
am not advocating the abandonment
of the primary which gives to every
voter a voice in nominating men for
office and determining party pol
! lev. I would carefully preserve and
safeguard it against the old time
abuses which impelled it's adoption,
ut | would make it an agent Of in
"nutable party expression rather
than a means of party confusion or
destruction. 7 like the incubation
of LOYALTY. the pride of association
and the inspiration TO accomplish
ment / like the party government
where purposes are reached in the
reasoning OF honest representation,
and ] like a party which is commits
sioned to govern to strive in good
conscience and all loyalty to keep
the pledges which brought it popu-
lar approval
Our drift today is toward pure
democracy and no pure democracy
ever long survived. We talk SOL
EMMY and earnestly about preserv-
ing our world civilization. l have
every confidence in its survival. but
it may be assured only by human
kind reaching the proper appraisal
OF the secure avenues Of twenty
centuries of progress. In our Amer
lea we have the freest and best
>"nss in the world. In its power of
today only the press can sound the
warning and reason to that conyic=
tion which will enable us to play
our full part in the work of preser-
walton"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-04-27
HEAR MAPLETOk
PIANIST VIA RADIO
Gerald Greeley Gives Con.
sent Saturday Night II
BACK HOME
Business Meeting Congrega-
tionaI Church Called For
Thursday This Week
Especial to The Free Press

Especial TO Inc free HfeSS.i
Mapleton, Mimi, April 24.-Misses
Janet and Grace McGregor drove to
Franklin, Mimi, last Friday and
spent the week end with Miss Lu-
verne McGregor who teaches at that
place
Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Schweitzer
and daughter of Minneapolis were
visitors over the week end at the
M. iSchimmele and Chas. Schweitzer
homes.
Mapleton people will have the
honor on Saturday evening Of this
week of listening to Gerald Greeley
our well known piano artist in
concert given from station w l. A G
at Minneapolis. Mr.. Greeley will be
the third person from Blue Earth
county to be heard over this station
and we are proud this time to have
Mapleton represented. Mr.. Greeley
Will appear on program given by
the University Mems Glee Club. Mr..
Theodore Finney who is we'll known
by many at this place will also be
on the program with a group of
violin solos.
There will be a business meeting
of the Congregational church which
VIII be held at the church on Thurs
day evening, April 26. Important
business is to be looked after and
it is requested that as many as pos
sible should attend this meeting.
Messrs. NJ. B. Fairbanks, Henry
Schweer, John McGregor Jr., and
Clarence LentZ attended dance
given by the students of the State
Teachers College at Mankato on
Saturday evening. They report a
most enjoyable time.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Frentz and
children of Waseca were guests at
the J. H. Starkey home Sunday.
Mrs. Omer Warner and daughter
of Candy spent the. past week with
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. VIM.
Troendle.
E. C. Spaulding returned home
Thursday evening from Minneapolis
where he spent a couple of weeks
visiting his DID, schoolmates who
graduated with him from the de-
partment of law.
Owing to the disaZreeable wealth
er and bad roads a rather small
crowd attended the dance held at
the Legion hall Friday evening.
Pears9n's Peerless Players kept up
their usual good record and furn-
1shed delightful music and those
present spent a most enjoyable
evening.
Mrs. Palmer Parson of Vernon
Center spent the week end with her
parents, Mr., and Mrs. U. G. Arget-
Fl. G. Hotaling of st. Paul spent
over Sunday with his family at this
place.
! T. B. Taylor returned home the
latter part of the week from ST.
Paul where he spent the past win
Ter as representative from this dis
trict in the state law making body.
Birds of feather flock together.
Eugene Debs. socialist leader gave
DR.. Shipstead the glad hand on his
recent visit to the twin cities.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-04-27
SMUGGLING OF ALIENS
Work Is Being Called On Along Min
nesota Border.
ASSOCIATED Press Dispatch

ASSOCIATED Press Dispatch.1
Crookston, Mimi, April 24.-An
efficient system of smuggling ineli
gible aliens into the United States
across a seventy five mile stretch of
international border separating Min
nesota from Canada, is bringing
hundreds of aliens into this country,
according to immigration inspectors.
The seventy five mile stretch of
country which the aliens are said to
be using as port Of entry lies be-
tween Noyes and Warroad with
seven immigration inspectors sta
toned in the district. The inspectors
declare they are powerless to cope
with the smugglers who are known
to have run as many as 300 aliens
across the line in a month.
The smuggling system, it Is said
is responsible for the entry into the
United States of many undesirables
mostly from far eastern Europe, who
pay frc.n $40 to $50 piece to have
themselves struggled across the line
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-04-27
SCHOOL NOTES
FROM ST. CLAR

st. Clair, Mimi, April 24.-On
Friday evening, April 10, the Junior
Senior promenade took place. The
Town Hall was beautifully decorat-
ed with the class colors green and
white. The stage was filled with
beautiful ferns which almost hid the
orchestra. After the reception dane
ing was INDUCED in. All present
seemed to enjoy themselves.
On Friday evening April 20, the
Hennepin Quartet. consisting of four
young ladies, gave a concert, this
being the last number Of our Lyceum
Course. In spite Of the rain the
hall was well filled and all present
enjoped the fine violin music and
readings.
Baseball is very much in evidence
and after school hours Professor
Small can be seen mingling with
boys, instructing them how to weld
the bat and other things necessary to
make a winning team. We won
basketball honors and now let's win
baseball honors, too.
The botany class is working with
such nasty things as pond scums
and moulds: correctly speaking. they
are working with Algeae and Fungi.
They see many beautiful things and
like it very much. They will soon
be studying the towering plants.
which are coming into evidence
now.
The physics class has completed
their experiments; they now have
forty experiments completed and
that closes their laboratory work.
The senior class play "Esmer-
aida" is to be given April q in the
Town Hall. Everybody is putting
forth the best effort to make It a
success. 1t is very refreshing
comedy. Don't miss it, for it is in :
structive as well as entertaining, all
that play should be.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-04-27
LEFT LARGE ESTATE
Property Mrs. Anna luhens, Luverne,
Mimi, Being Distributed

especial To Daily Free PreSs)
Luverne, Mimi. April 24-The
death of Mrs. Anna Luhens. eighty
seven years old, after a short illness
from pneumonia, occurred at her
home here. AS the result of the
.womans death an estate valued at
many. thousand dollars left to her by
her sister, Mrs. c. D. Witt, who died
on August 81. 1921, will now be dis
,tributed among d number of heirs.
The will of Mrs. Witt decided to
her sister her valuable home here as
we'll as giving her all Of ner person
al property including $4,000 which
was on deposit in Luvorne banks.
The will provided for the dissrihu-
ton OF the estate upon the death Of
Mrs. Luhens.- Relatives Of Mrs. Wit
sought to break the will and were
successful in having it set aside in
probate court but the district court
on appeal declared the will to be
valid, and as a result no division of
the property could be made.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-04-27
BIG SUM DELINQUENT
Over $4,000 In Taxes Covering

Over $350,0OO In Taxes Covering
Seven Year Period Due Rochester
A total of $351,11S.75 in taxes re-
mains unpaid in the city of Roches
ter. following the April, 1923, tax
asssssne nt. according to figures
compiled by City Clerk A. F.iWright,
County Treasurer Fulkerson recent
ly turned OYER to the city it's share
Of the tax money paid in to his Of
fee.
This amount covers a period OF
seven years with the larger part re-
naming from 1922 or $341 ,047.36, A
sum OF $21 ,953.43 remains to be paid
from 1921, while only Si35.26 is on
the books from the first year OF the
periOd, 1916.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-04-27
MOONSHINE TOO MUCH
Modern Firewater Made Poor
Very Sick. Called Doctor.

Especial TO The Free Press
Granite Falls, Mimi, April "a
The modern firewater is too much
for Poor Lo. This was proven here
the other day when an Indian resid
ing at PahijutaziEi had to send a
hurry up call to a doctor after he
had taken a whirl at a moonshine
potion. The red man was not the
only one who suffered from the mix
ture sold by someone for liquor. Sew.
eral of his white brothers have been
in the genuine pale face class since
the poisoned dope was sold here and
the never again" clubs membership
mas received healthy boost.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-04-27
TO HALT CEMENT PLANT
Steps Are Taken In South Dakota
Against Proposed Plant
[ Associated Press Dispatch.l

\ Associated Press Dispatch.
Aberdeen, S. D, April 24.-On be-
half Of the associated contractors of
South Dakota, Attorney General N.
Williamson went to Huron today to
file a restraining order against the
state cement commission to prevent
posed plant at Rapid City.
The grounds set up, according to
S. H. Collins, secretary of the asso-
citation are failure to file specifica-
tions in accordance with notice for
bids, thereby barring South Dakota
contractors from bidding for the
work
Local contractors who have sought
a chance to bid were unable to OBJ
tain sight of specifications.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-04-27
WOMAN TERRIBLY BURNED
Gasoline Explosion Caused Death Of
Willmar Woman

ISpeClaI TO Daily FTee PTesSJ
Willmar, Mimi, April 244-Mrs.
Martin Freeman of Grove City, was
a victim of a gasoline explosion
which resulted in her death within a
few hours. Mrs. Freeman was en-
gagged in making coffee at a meeting
OF the ladies aid society Of the Nor
egian Lutheran ctslrch at Grove
City and poured a quantity Of gaso
line mistaking it for kerosene on the
range fire to hasten it. The explosion
which followed instantly enveloped
Mrs. Freeman in flames and although
the fire was soon eXtinguished she
sustained burns about the head and
body which were fatal.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-04-27
BRAKEMAN DROPPED DEAD
Willis Wright Was Stricken Wh;;e
.- On His Run.
Especial To The Free Pressl

Especial To The Free Press
Ortonville. Mimi, April 24.-The
funeral of the late Willis w. Wright,
thirty six years old. was held at MS
home in Milbank. Wright, who was
a brakeman on the Milwaukee rail
road, dropped dead while on his run
from Aberdeen to Milbank. He spent
twenty months in army service in
France and was seriously gassed
while there. causing his heart to lie
in much weakened condition. The
ailment finally resulting In his in
slant death.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-04-27
Injuries Proved Fata:

SpeclaI TO The Free PrONE,
Window. Mimi, Ap,i. 24--rhc;las
Hangar, local farme: who was
thrown from his Wagon when bis
team became frightened and iar
away, died at a lcScl hospital frJr:
internal injuries rnce!Fe.i AZ t.:
time OF the accident
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-04-27
FIRST SWIM SUNDAY
Miss Rut:, iBrinser Took Dip In Mad
ison Lake With Ice Still There

ison axe With Ice Still There
Miss Ruth Brinser. a Charming
curly haired little athlete. who is
stenographer at the Swanson and
Sons paint and wall paper house,
took her first swim yesterday at
Madison Lake. She stayed in twenty
minutes and says she found the wa
ter not uncomfortable Miss Brinsers'
home is at Point Pleasant on Madi-
son Lake and last year she went in
swimming two days after the ice had
broken. Three or four times each
summer Miss Brinser swims the full
length and breadth OF the lake and
this summer she is planning to com
pete with expert swimmers on a
time limit. She has spent the greater
part of her life in California where
she learned TO swim in-.the ocean.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-04-27
SELECT.ELK POINT
Next Spelling Contest Will Be Held
In South Dakota City

Pipestone, Mimi, April 24.-Offi-
Gals of the Inter State Spelling as
ISOLATION announce that Elk Point,
S. D., has been selected as the place
for holding the next spelling contest.
Two students from each county in
the states of Iowa, South Dakota,
Minnesota and Nebraska are en-
titled to enter the contest, which
will he held in April. 1924.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-04-27
TWO PLEADED GUILTY
Redwood County Grand Jury Re
turned Eight indictments

Especial TO Daily Free PreSsJ
Redwood Falls, Mimi, April "a
In the district court here eight in
ictments were returned by the grand
jury. Clarence Hecker, one of those
stealing a number OF hogs, and was
sentenced to an indeterminate term
at the. ST. Cloud reformatory. Will
lam Bauer plead guilty to the charge
of manufacturing Intoxicating liquor
and was fined $3.50 and sentenced to
sixty days in the county jail.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-04-27
Death S, l.. Stueland.

Sioux Falls. S. D., April 24-S. l..
Stueland, father George Stueland,
Chicago National pitcher. died. Sur
vived by widow, five sons.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-04-27
0uer Oane

Dancing really is graceful, but the
law says the non stop dancing craze
really is disgraceful
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-04-27
Too Hot

- Too Hot
In Samoa the natives wear very
few clothes, the reason being it IS
too hot for Samoa
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-04-27
Poison Will Cure Poison

Eating more lemons In spring
keens YOU from feeling like one.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-04-06

The fox can run at a speed OF
twenty miles an hour.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-04-06
OKLAHOMA WOMAN
HAS HANDS FULL
Runs Bank, Fourteen Farms
and Does Own Cooking.

BIZ Times Special
LEXINGTON, Okla. April Slime
doesn't hang heavily on the hands OF
Mrs. E. NJ. Abernathy. whose fame
has put Lexington on the map.
In addition to doing her own house
work. including the cooking, she IS
president Of the Security State Bank
here. owns and operates fourteen
farms in this county and conducts a
poultry ranch near town.
And until she sold it just recently,
she was president of the Lexington
Wanette Independent Telephone Com
pany.
Women are just as capable as men.
All they need is a chance" says Mrs.
Alternately. while a woman should
be a help to her husband In his bust
ness. her home should come before
her other interests
Married at 16 to the proprietor of
a general store, Mrs. Alternately start
ed a novel credit system by which
coupon books exchangeable for mer-
chandise we're given for notes and
securities of farmers. Mr.. and Mrs.
Alternately later bought the telephone
exchange and founded the bank. When
left to conduct the bank alone six
years ago. Mrs. Alternately did not be
come a f1gure-head: she is president in
fact as well as in name and directs
the making OF all loans.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-04-06
LEGAL NOTICES.



Until 10 a. m. April 10. 1923. the Indiana
State board Of scnool book commissioners
Will receive from publishers, at the Office
OF the State superintendent of public in
strGctOn sealed bids school textbooks,
to be. used for five years, as follows: High
school texts, algebra tbound and bid ~
containing three semesters' work. t2) con-
tam!nE the hrsL years work, and t3l con-
tanning the third semesters work. geometry
(bouhd and bid as o. a plane and solid
geometry, ~ as a plane geometry; 90 as
history United States, general. ancient.
medieval and modern: civil govern
me4t; physical geoEraphy;, commercial geog'
raphy, history OF English literature his
tory OF American literature: English gram.
mar and composition; English composition
and rhetoric; Latin. beginning Latin, Latin
grammer. prose composition, Caesar, Cicero.
Virgil; German conversational method gram
mar and grammatical method grammar also
-FOUR elective textbooks in each OF the fol-
lowing subjects botany, zoology. physics.
chemistry. agriculture. agricultural botany
also q textbook in agriculrure for the com
mon schools all of said books to be fur.
nished TO textbook dealers ard school offi-
Gals IN accordance with the law found on
page $50 Of the acts of 1921.
The publishers shall state specifically in
such bid the price at which each book will
be furnished. also the exchange price on
each book sold or exchanged for an old
book on the same subject of like grade and
kind but OF different series: and shall &C
company such bid with specimen copies OF
each aud all books proposed TO be furnished
ANY and all nids by publishers must be
accompanied ~ bond in the penal sum of
fifty thousand dollars, TO the acceptance and
Raiisf action Of the Governor of this State,
conditioned that If any contract be awarded
30 any bidder. such bidder will enter into q
contract To perform the conditions of his
hid and conform to the requirements OF the
textbook laws of Indiana TO the acceptance
and satisfaction of said beard
Sad publishers shall specify the weight
and quality OF book cloth used: the weight
and quality of thread used; the weight Of
super used; the quality OF glue used: the
quality of boards used. whether cnip board.
pasted board or cloth board samples sub
mitted shall be hound as per specifications
given for The above i've items
No bid shall be considered unless the
same be accompanied by the AFFIDAVIT of
the bidder that he is in no wise, directly or
indirectly, connected with any other pub
Usher or firm who is bidding for books sub
mitted TO such board. nor has any pecuniary
interest in any other publisher or firm bid
ding at the same time and that he is not a
party TO any compact, syndicate or other
scheme whereby the benefits Of competition
are denied to the people OF this State
The Indiana State board of book commits
sioners reserves the right to accept or re.
feet any or ali bids any part thereof. for
any particular book or books.
BY order OF
INDIANA STATE BOARD OF SCHOOL
BOOK COMMISSIONERS.
BENJAMIN ]. BURRIS, President
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-04-06

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT
Notice is hereby given. that the under
signed has duly qualified as administrator of
estate of Rose Stevens. deceased. late OF
Marion County. Iudlara- Said estate is sup
posed to be solvent.
JOHN Common.
No. 2IO3I.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-04-06
MAY Be
REDEEMED BY i. S.
U. S, Ready to Pay Cash for
Civil War Currency,
RY ROBERT TAILEY

WASHINGTON, April 6.-Re-
member that old 'shinplaster
currency that your grandfather kept
as a souvenir of the Civil War days
paper money for which we now use
dimes and quarters and the like?
Well, it's just as valuable today as
it ever was because the United States
Treasury, which figures that there
Is still about $2,000000 outstanding
Is ready to redeem it upon presenta.-
ton.
THE Government has never yet de
faulted on an obligation" says r. G.
Hand. Federal commissioner of flnan
ces, land it is still ready to give face
value for this fractional currency"
TWO years ago the Treasury wrote
off" approximately 100000 Of this
old currency after the Government
actuary-by some process known only
to himself-had figured that such
amount had been "irrevocably lost OF
destroyed" since the war
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-04-06

NOTICE OF APPOTNTM ENT.
Notice is hereby given, that the under
signed has duly qualified as administrators
Of estate of Carl f. Strait. deceased late
OF Marion County, Ind Aid estate is sup
posed to be solvent
LOLA NJ STRAIT
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-04-06
LEGAL NOTICES
NOTICE FOR BIDS SEVENTH AVENUE
SLDEWAl.k- BEECH GRONE IN

NOTICE FOR BIDS SEVENTH AVENUE
SIDEWALK, BEECH GROVE. IND
10 All 1t May Concern: You are hereby
notified that on Friday, April 20, 1923, at &
Grove, Marion County, Indiana, the Board
OF Trustees viii receive sealed bids for the
following sidewalk Improvement in said
town:
The Improvement of the sidewalk on both
sides OF street Of Seventh Ave. from Albany
st to Bethel Ave- a total Of 3 240 ineaI
feet, or 5000 square feet. by grading and
paving said sidewalks with concrete not less
than four inches in thickness.
1t is further resolved and ordered that
the cost OF the Improvement herein pro-
vtded for shall be paid by sufficient assess
mcnt to be levied upon the property espe-
may be legally assessed therefor in accord
ance with the law, but under no circum-
stances shall the town of Beech Grove be
held responsible for any sum or sums due
work, except for such money as shall have
been actually received by the town from
the assessment Tor such Improvement, or
such money said town is by law, required
be derived from said Improvement by said
town. Assessments OF $40 and more against
each lot If deferred to be paid in ten equal
installments, with interest at the rate of q
be issued to the contractor to the amount of
such deferred assessment in pro rata pay
ments for such Improvement.
Each bidder Is required to deposit with
his bid a certified check or any amount net
less than ia per cent of said estimate to
insure the execution of the contract for
which said bid s made. Also ne will be re-
CURED to execute a non-collusion affidavit in
the usual form.
The board reserves the right to reject any
and all bids.
BY order of the Board Of Trustees March
30. 1923. II. LEE CLAtK
Clerk Of Town