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The Mankato free press., 1923-05-04
FARM NEWS FROM
STATE UNIVERSITY.
ASSOCIATED Press Dispatch.l

st. Paul, April 27.-Dr. R. A.
Gortner. head of the division of bio
chemistry, Department of Agricul-
ture, University of Minnesota, has
been elected a member of the com
mittee on the chemistry of colloids
of the National Research Council
for the year beginning July /, 1928.
The committee is composed Of ten
persons. and Or. Gortner represents
the biochemists The chemistry of
colloids is of tremendous import
ance in the industries, and debts
with the behavior and properties OF
matter in the colloidal condition in
which chemical and physical prop
critics seem to interact Questions
dealing with the manufacture of
commercial soaps, properties Of the
SOIL the phenomena Of dyeing,
modification Of cows milk for in
fant feeding, manufacture of ice
cream and oncfectionery, brewing,
preparation of rubber, photography.
cement, motor and plaster. foods
and their preparation and digestion.
minerals and metals and weather
conditions, come under this study.
Hessfan fly damage in Minnesota
wheat fields is a possibility this
year, according to A. G.. Ruggles,
state entomologist The Hessian fly
has been doing much damage in
Manitoba" Mr. Ruggles said "and it
is therefore likely to increase in Min
nesota. We have had no serious
trouble with it for Is years, but our
farmers should be on the watch for
it, now that it is at our doors again,
and report any damage to the Uni
varsity Farm without loss of time.
This fly is more a pest of winter
wheat than of any other grain, al
though it does work in barley and
rye but never in oats. Winter wheat
growing sections of the state are
therefore more likely to be infested
than the spring growing districts" ="
Mr.. Ruggles does not look for any
serious trouble from grasshoppers
this year, believing they will be a
matter of purely local outbreaks, he
said.
The Mankato free press., 1923-05-04
STATUS OF HIGHWAYS
Report Is Issued By z. SHORT,
Maintenance Superintendent

Report Is Issued By z. J SHORT
Maintenance Superintendent
Kay j. Short, maintenance sr'p.
erintendent of trunk highways iI
the Mankato district, gives the fol
lowing general report of the condi
tons in this district. Mr.. Shor
states:
"The slow manner in which the
frost has left the ground this spring
Is largely the cause of the bad con
ditions existing in a few places
where the roads have been very
nearly impossible during the past
week. This frost has retained the
moisture under the road bed and thus
caused 1t to seek weak point IN
the surface of the road and break
through at that point However, ]
have noticed that these places are
rapidly disappearing and is due
largely to relief given when the
frost has been drawn the entire
depth.
Trunk highway No. from Elmore
to st. Peter is in good condition,
while between St. Peter and LIE
Sueur and LIE Sueur and Belle Plaine
some streches of road are good while
others are only fair.
Traffic is restricted by the poor
condition of the roads on Highway
No. between. Mankato and James
vile, but the remainder of the route
as far as Sleepy, Eye is good
No. is in good condition its en-
tire length.
Good conditions exist on No. Is
from the south state line to Fair
mont. The first part of the stretch
Of road after leaving Fairmont 60
ing to Madelia is good. but a de-
tour near the latter town is only in
fair condition. Between Madelia and
New Ulm one meets only fair con
ditions after leaving Madelia and
close to New Ulm, the conditions
are poor. Between New Ulm and
No. 16 between Mankato and Lake
Crystal is in good condition; be-
tween Lake Crystal and Madelia
poor: between Madelia and ST.
James good; between st. James and
Mountain Lake fair.
Trunk highway No. 21 is good be-
tween Montgomery and LIE Sueur
Center; between LIE Sueur Center
and St. Peter the road conditions
are good, but detour is only in fair
condition.
With the exception of a detour,,
which is only in fair condition , the
roads between st. Peter and
Gaylord are in good condition on
highway No. %.
No. 80 is in fair condition be-
tween Mankato and Mapleton: poor
between Mapleton and Minnesota
from Wells to Banks good.
The first part of the trip from
Sleepy Eye to Fairfax is good, the
remainder fair on highway No. 20.
The Mankato free press., 1923-05-04
ONE HUSBAND ELIMINATED
Mrs. Mabel Burns Will Be Able to
Get Along Without Him

Luverne, April 2S.xBecause. she
found herself still the wife of Abra-
ham Levins of Moline, ILL.,, after she
had been married to Jasper Burns of
Chicago, and for other reasons that
transpired, Mrs. Mabel Burns mar
riage to Mr.. Burns was declared null
and void by Judge l.. S. Nelson at
the adjourned term Of court held
here.
This action was taken by the
court upon petition OF Mrs. Burns,
through her attorney NJ. w. Chunn,
the defendant in this action not be-
ing present or represented by .coun-
sci.
In her complaint, Mrs. Burns,
who is a daughter of Mrs. Henry
Willroth, of KanaranZi township, re-
lated that she is twenty three years
old and her surplus husband thirty
years; that she was first married to
Mr.. Levins on March 9th, 1915, of
which union one son survives. and
to- Mr.. Burns on December s, 1918.
At the time of her second mar
riage, Mrs. Burns states, she was
under the impression that her mar
riage relations with her first hus-
band had been dissolved, but after
her second marriage she discovered
that this supposition was erroneous
and that she was still the wife or
Mr.. Levins. 1t was not until June 13,
1919, that the marriage between her
and her first husband was legally
dissolved
This situation automatically chm
mated Mr.. Burns as the second
husband, but in order to straighten
up the tangled meshes in a most
satisfactory manner, Mrs. Burns de-
sired the court action which she OBJ
tanned this week.
Mr.. Burns present place of resi-
dence is not known. but about a
year ago he figured quite promi-
nently in press dispatches emanat-
ing from Chicago, alleging that he
had been arrested by federal author
tiles after long chase for impers-
onating secret service officers, and
pretending to place whiskey runners
under arrest, and then permitting
them to gain their release for a
price.
During and Immediately following
the war, Mrs. Burns was locally
credited with being a government
secret service operative specializing
in the detection of profteers. and
rumor had it that several business
concerns had been compelled to pay
fines" TO her. but this was emphat-
ically denied by the alleged victims.
The Mankato free press., 1923-05-04
SHATTUCk TRACK
MEN SEEK TITLES
Six competing For American
ChampionshipsAt Univer-
sity Pennsylvania
ASSOCIATED Press Dispatch. ]


Faribault, Mimi. April 27.-Stx
Shattuck school track men are at
Philadelphia todav for the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania relays tdoay
and tomorrow. when they will COM
pete for three American cham
pionships-the medley, the two mile
and the mile relays.
Under the direction of Coach W.
J. O'Brien, Shattuck has developed
one of the best teams it has had in
years and its followers hope to see it
annex AT least one first place at
Philadelphia.
The Shattuck entries were for
tunate in the drawings. In their
strongest event, the two mile relay,
they drew the pole from among
eleven teams; in the other two they
drew number five, thus being as
sured of start from the front line
of runners.
The medley, run on Friday after
noon consists of 220, 440. $50 and
$50. The present interscholastic
record is 4:39 25 held by Hunting
ton School of Boston. Shattuck's en-
IIlSo DIE Wright tSAUD, captain hlIn :
ball (440), Tappan $500, and Wilde,
$500 Coach O'Brien feels that the
quartet has a good chance for a win,
although nineteen schools are en-
tered.
The Other Two Relays.
The other two relays come on Sat
urday. The two mile is scheduled
for 4:2S p. m. Ten formidable teams
will oppose Shattuck in the event
and Cedar Rapids holds the Ameri-
can record of 8:25 2-5. This is the
record Shattuck hopes to smash, as
each of its four half milers have
been running the distance in 2:05 or
under. The Shattuck entries are
Tappan, Darrah, Arrasmith and
Wilde.
The mile relay is open only to
preparatory schools. Shattuck will
oppose five Eastern schools, includ
ing Exeter. which holds the national
record of 1927 2-5. Shattuck's run
ners are Captain Kimball, Wright,
Tappan and Darrah.
The trip is the longest ever un-
dertaken by Shattuck, none of
whose teams has ever before been
east of Chicago.
The Mankato free press., 1923-05-04
RUDY HENRY Is DEAD
Once Popular Resident Of Fairmon
Passed Away In Chicago

Fairmont, April 2s.-Rudy Henry
one OF the most popular men who
ever lived in Fairmont. died at his
home in Chicago late Thursday af-
ternoon.
The death of Mr.. Henry is a great
shock to his friends here. Some
weeks ago twas learned that he
was undergoing treatment in a hos
pital. Later word came that he had
been removed to his home and il
was believed that he was recovering
While exact information is lacking
it is supposed that Mr. Henry suf-
fered from cancer of the stomach.
Rudy Henry came to Martin coun =
ty with his parents, the late Captain
and Mrs. William Henry, about 1886
The family bought Waterside Farm
one of the finest farm properties on
the Tenhassen lakes. Their former
home was in Chicago.
. Rudy assisted in conducting the
farm until 1890. when it was sold
and his parents returned to Chi
cago. Possessing unusual ability
for theatrical work Mr.. Henry join :
ed a stock company as a comedian
and enjoyed a long and very sue
cessful career on the stage. His
company not only toured the larger
cities in the United States but took
American comedy to England, where
Mr.. Henry played in the leading
theaters Of London and other cities.
Retiring from the stage, except for
an occasional part in amateur thea
trials here. Mr.. Henry returned to
Fairmont AL engaged in business
In this venture he was successful and
at his death was heavily interested
in Fairmont business and residence
property and Martin county farm
lands. He was man of hobbies and
his latest hobby was to build up a
model farmstead on a quarter sec
ton of land he owned in Cedar town
ship. This is one of the show places
of the county.
Mr.. Henry and his brother John
conducted this farm until two years
ago, when with his widowed sister,
Mrs. Tillie Fox he established a
home at 671S South Shore Drive
He was about fifty five years old.
A brother, William John, and sis
ter. Mrs. Fox. are the only near re-
latives surviving His parents are
buried at South Haven, Mich, and 1T
lis there that Mr.. Henry's funeral will
be held Saturday.
More than anything else in Fair
mont Mr.. Henry was devoted to the
Knights of Pythias lodge, Of which
he had been a member for a quar-
ter of century. He was a most in
defatigable worker for the order
and it is due to his tutelage that the
Fairmont lodge enjoys so wide a re-
putation for superior dramatic work
in comforting the ranks of Knight
hood. Every member sincerely
mourns the death of our truly below
ed brother.
Last summer Mr.. Henry visited
Fairmont enroute for hunting trip
in the Vest He was in robust
health and expressed the hope that
he might soon return here to again
make this city his home.
The Mankato free press., 1923-05-04
FARMERS CLUB MEETING
Organization In Tivoli Held An In
Terestinq Session

Tivoli, April 27.-Otto Emmler of
Mankato spent the week end at the
home OF Mr.. and Mrs. John Crowley.
Lottie Bennett was the guest of
her sister, Mrs. Charles Hilton at St.
Clair Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed. vanBuren and
daughters Beulah and Effie of Man :
kato visited at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Herman Buchholtz Sunday.
NJ. Y. Hoagland is reported quite
i'll from the effects of the grippe. He
suffered relapse after being up for
a few days. Last reports were that
he is on the gain.
visiting her daughter, Mrs Robert
Whiting at St. Clair, returned home
Tuesday.
The Red Cross meeting was held al
the home Of Mrs. Ed Jensen Thurs
day. The next meeting will be held
at the home Of Mrs. Mary Phalen
Thursday.
The Ladies' Aid society will be
entertained at the home of Mrs.
Lawrence Peterson Wednesday of
next week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Aaron Jesse and sons
autoed to this place Friday evening
from st. Paul to visit at the parental
home until Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Crowley and
daughter and Otto Emmler visited
at the Hilton home in St. Clair Sun
day.
The next meeting of the sewing
circle will be held at the home OF
Mrs. Marion Jensen, when a demon
stration Of the various attachments
Of the sewing machine will be given.
Cinda Harvey, Lottie Bennett and
Pearl Buchholtz were Mankato shop
pers Wednesday.
Tivoli, April 27.-The regular
monthly meeting of the Farmers
club was held at the school house
Saturday evening. There was a good
attendance. After a short meeting
an unusually interesting program
was given under the direction OF
Misses Tanner and Tietz. Harry
Johnson Of Mankato gave an in
structive talk seasoned with humor.
which was we'll received. Music for
the evening was furnished by the
Sandon- Anderson orchestra. of Man
kato, which is deserving of much
praise. Another feature of the pro-
gram was the radio concerts and
talks. The members of the club
wish to thanks those that came from
Mankato and gave their time and
talent to help make the meeting a
success, and hope they may be in =
duced to meet with them again in
the near future. Refreshm ents were
served.
The Mankato free press., 1923-05-04
RAPIDAN AND DECORIA
Personal Mention and News Stories
In General Are Collected

Rapidan and Decoria, April 81
Mrs. Heitner and daughters Ella and
Ida were visitors at the Otto Marks
home Sunday afternoon.
Miss Anna Erickson spent Sunday
at the W. H. Hitler home.
I Mrs. Nels Anderson and daughter
and little granddaughter were visit
ors at the Hans Erickson home for
short time. Sunday they visited at
the Dave Anderson home and Mon
day at the Ed. Tarjeson home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Carlson land
family were visitors at the w. H.
Hitler home Friday evening.
Church was well filled Sunday. The
attendance at Sunday school was
large.
Alvin Nelson and Lille Blume
home Sunday afternoon. -.
Mrs. ]. r. Anderson, Sr.,, is visit
ing her son Alex Anderson in Man
kato.
Ed. Tarjeson has started saving
again. ..-
Myrtle Carlson spent Sunday with
Mae Tarjeson.
Miss Verona Bunde spent Sunday
at the Will Hitler home.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Anderson we're
callers at the Dave Anderson home
Sunday night.
Mrs. Marie Erickson and son
Martin were visitors at the Ed. Tar
jeson home Sunday.
Mrs. Hans Knutson went to Min
neapolis to spend a few days with
her daughter, who lives there.
Grandma Hitler, who has been
visiting her son Herman, came home
Sunday.
Andrew Anderson attended church
here last Sunday.
Ed. Tarjeson, Martin Erickson,
Mac Tarjeson and Myrtle Carlson
were callers at the Knutson home
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. ". F. Peters were
visitors at the Herman Peters home
Sunday.
Bert Carlson spent Sunday after
noon with Harold Hitler.
Elsie Hitler spent Monday with
her grandma at Good Thunder.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Hitler and
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Carlson were
visitors at the Mic Jepsen home
Sunday evening. .
Anna Erickson, Esther Hitler, Har-
old Hitler and Elsie Hitler spent
Sunday evening at the Carlson home.
Leonard Peterson and Ida Heitner
were callers at Mankato Sunday
evening.
Arnold Bunde was a caller at the
Otto Marks home Sunday afternoon.
The Mankato free press., 1923-05-04
FOUND GUILTY OF Staying
Enos Behner Sent To Wisconsin
Prison For Shooting Alma Man

EnoS behneF sent o wisconsin
Prison For Shooting Alma Man
ASSOCIATED Press Dispatch
Winona, Mimi. April 2S.-Enos
Behner, forty eight. bartender in a
soft. drink saloon at Alma, Wis. was
today found guilty of manslaughter
in the third degree in connection
with the fatal shoting of Allen Gan
tenbein thirty four. in a verdict re-
turned by jury in circuit court at
Alma, where Behner has been on
trial the past week on a charge OF
first degree murder. The jury was
out twelve hours.
Behner was acquitted at the Feb
ruary term of court of a charge OF
first degree murder in connection
with the Staying of John Ganten-
bein. vetera city marshal and faith
er OF Allen, at the same time and
place.
The shooting occurred in a saloon
early on the morning of November
u. 1922. Behner sought to justify
the double shooting on the ground
OF self defense, asserting that he
fired as a last resort when Allen at.
tackled him, and turned his gun on
the marshal when the officer pre-
pared to shot The court contended
the circumstances did not Justify
Behner in bringing gun into play.
although it was admitted that Allen
had repeatedly challenged Behner
10 fight and had called him yellow
when Behner refused on the ground
that he was cripple.
Judge George Thompson sentenc-
ed Behner to serve four years at
hard labor in the state peaitentiary
at Waupun.
The Mankato free press., 1923-05-04
FEDERAL AID FOR
WARONBARBERRY
Minnesota, Nine Other North
Central States Each To
Get $22, 500
Associated Press Dispatch.]

ASSOCldJeu 1ESSS blSDdJCIl'J
Minneapolis, April Minnesota
and nine other north central states
each will receive $22,500 from the
federal government for continuing
the barberry eradication campaign
this summer, L. w. Melander, state
leader of the government forces, re-
ported today on his return from Ur-
bane, ILL.,, where the annual confer
ence of barberry eradicators was
held this week.
In addition to the $22,500, Mime
sofa will receive 1900 TO match a
state appropriation of what amount.
This means that $500 will be
available for rust control efforts this
season. Last year the field forces in
Minnesota were supported by ap-
proximately $4,000 of which $50 ,000
came from the government and $40, :
600 from the state.
Mr.. Melander believes that the
funds in sight will provide for the
completion of the farm to farm sur
vey of northeastern Minnesota, the
only section of the state not yet
intensively searched for barberry
bushes. In addition to extending the
original survey ne intends TO re- sur
vey much of the area visited in pre-
ylous years.
Mr. Melander said that reports at
the Urbana meeting indicated that
the government field leaders are
convinced that the common barberry
can be entirely eradicated from the
spring wheat territory.
They are unanimously of the
opinion, he declared, that the com
pletion of the campaign will free
the north central area from the peril
Of black stem epidemics which in
the past have taken an average an.
nual toll of $50,000,000 worth of
small grains.
The Mankato free press., 1923-05-04
MORTGAGE SALE OF s77,eoo
Largest Foreclosure Ever Pulled on
In Mower County

Austin, April 27.-The largest
mortgage foreclosure sale ever held
in this county ocured at the court
house when Ben King. through his
attorney, r. C.. Alderson bid in the
Toperty.
When the land boom was on In
this county in 1920, f. S. Babcock
sold for Ben King a full section OF
land in Sergeant township Some.
thing like S25.000 was paid down and
a mortgage Of $77,600 was given for
the balance. This mortgage was
dated March 1, 1920. The man who
bought the land and gave the mort =
gage was Roy Beaver, who came up
here from Iowa. He put in a crop
for a couple of years. He did not
meet the terms of the mortgage and
it was foreclosed.
The amount of the mortgage. the
costs and the interest brought the
total to $50. 900.
The Mankato free press., 1923-05-04
IS LIABLE
I FOR WIRE POLES
Decision Made By the State
I Supreme Court
ITS EVELETH CASE
Ruling Also Under Workmen's S
Compensation Act In
Minnesota
IAssociated Press Dispatch. ]

z lASSOCldlSu
ST. Paul, April 27.-Telephone
poles or electric light poles. which
have cleats or iron spikes inserted
to enable one to climb 10 the top is
construed as negligence upon the
Part OF the electric light company
maintaining such poles by state
supreme court decision today.
The decision affirms the ST. louis
county district court in the. case of
Jerry Znidersich of Evelth against
the Minnesota Utility company,
operating an electric light plant in
that section.
Mr.. Znidersich brought action
against the defendant on behal: of his
son, Frank, aged thirteen years who
climbed a pole TO disentagle his kite
and after coming in contact with a
high voltage wire was thrown TO the
ground receiving probable permanent
injuries.
Father Sued Company
The father sued the COMPANY for
s1.o6s on his own behalf and entered
suit for $4,000 on behalf Of the child.
The jury returned a verdict in the
fathers favor OF s271 and allowed
s2,S12.50 for the child.
Judge Martin Hughes denied a
motion for new trial sought by, the
defendant company which was af-
frmed by the supreme court.
The supreme court held that one
who keeps and maintains upon his
premises dangerous instrum entalities
likely to attract children of tender
years in play is liable to child thus
attracted.
Made Another Decision
An emplove who is injured be-
cause OF lightning killing team OF
horses he is driving in the course of
employment is entitled TO workm en- S
compensation. the supreme court
held today in affirming the state
industrial commission.
The order of the court directs
that the Clinton Falls nursery and
the Integrity Mutual Casualty com
pany pay Michael Dunigan. an EN- =
ploye of the nursery company, com =
pensation as the result Of injuries
received while he was plowing field
+ and his team was struck by light
ming.
The Mankato free press., 1923-05-04
MRS. HODAPP is DEAD
She Was One of the Early Settlers
of Blue Earth County.

Mrs. Katherine Hodapp. one OF the
early settlers of this city, died yes
terday from the effects of complica
tion brought on by advance age
Mrs. Hodapp was born in Bavaria
June 16. 1889, and came to this coun-
try with her parents when she was
but ten years of age. She was
united in marriage to late Dennis
Hodapp at Lancaster. n. Y, Feb
ruary 5. 1866. and in March of that
year arrived in Mankato by state,
before the advent of the railroad TO
this city. During her life time Mrs
Hodapp saw this city grow form a
frontier village to its present demen
sions
Deceased in survived by one son
and three daughters. A, J, Hodapp
of Madelia and three daughters
Miss Rose, Ida, and Clara. Hodapp OF
this city.
She was a member of the mar
ried womans sodality Of st Peter
and St, Pauls Catholic church
from which the funeral will be held
Monday morning at nine o'clock
The remains will be laid to rest in
Calvary cemetery.
The Mankato free press., 1923-05-04
WAS FOUND GUILTY
Drunkenness Charge Against c. M
Montgomery; Had Hearing

Drunkenness Charge Against c. M.
Montgomery; Had Hearing
C. M. Montgomery. arrested by
volk and Ario Thursday night on a
charge of drunkenness, was brought
before the municipal court Friday
morning on that charge but entered
a plea of guilty and his case was
continued until two o'clock yester-
day afternoon, when he was given a
hearing.
Officers Ario and Volk testified
that they placed the young man un :
der arrest in the alley between Front
and second streets. Officer Rudolph
Ario testified that the defendant
tried to spill the contents of a bottle
grabbed it before Montgomery could
do this. Officer A. l.. Volk verified
the statements Of Officer Ario, and
stated further that Montgomery
grabbed another bottle out of his
pocket and threw it on the pave
ment and smashed it. Both officers
testified that the bottles smelled of
moonshine. Sergeant Len Burrill
testified as to the other officers
bringing in the defendent, who
seemed to be in an intoxicated con-
dition.
The bottles were produced IN
evidence, and the way Judge Stradt-
mann turned up his nose when he
smelled. the one which the defend
ant styled as"Pop," seemed to indi-
cate that 1t was the real article. The
defendant admitted that he had
drank -Four of FIVE drinks between
nine O'Clock and eleven o'clock when
he was picked up. ~
Montgomery was found guilty and
sentenced to pay a fine of $40 OF
spend twenty days in the county
Jail. In default of his fine, he was
remanded to the custody of Sheriff
Edward Ario.