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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-01-05
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Associated Press Dispatch
Minneapolis, December 2e-
Charged with the reinstatement
Of S1o,o Of company funds, Jack
e. Clark, president Of the United
Wall Paper stores company.
Minneapolis is a fugitive from
Justice and the object of ma
ton wide search. it. became
known today.
Clark left Minneapolis the
night Of November 20 after II 10
alleged he eashea a finsl check
on company funds for 81 ,O5o. He
is said to have been followed a
day later by his wife.
Search for the pair is said to
have led to the Mexican border
where Clark is believed to have
fled. A check OF the company's
books following his departure is
said to have shown a shortage
Of $4,000, covering period Of
one year.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-01-05
ST. PETER FARM PROGRAM
NieoIIet County Agent Prepares Elk
tension Work At Institutes

NieeIIet County Agent Prepares Elk
tension Work At Institutes
st. Peter Herald: Arrangements
have been made for the biggest ex
tension program ever brought to
Nicollet county through the efforts
of County Agent Earl Springer.
Seven experts have been secured to
conduct Institutes and special meet
ings wherever desired in the county
and nearly twenty meetings have
been arranged. 1t is the first time
that extension work has been re-
ceived in such quantities.
Two dairy schools have been
booked for January 9Th and 10th. Z.
V. Wilson and H. r, Searles, two
prominent dairy specialists, will be
in charge under the direction of the
University extension division. 1t is
planned to call the meetings at IL a.
b. when a discussion on dairy cat.
tie will be conducted. At l p. m, the
feeding of home grown feeds will be
discussed and at $3.50 p m, pedi-
grees will be explained. The last
will be a practical judging Of dairy
cattle.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-01-05
TRUCK BURNS AT ST. PETER

st. Peter Herald.-While in the
midst Of the road work on Trunk
Highway No. %, a big five-ton
White truck the property OF the
Connolly Construction company
was completely destroyed by fire at
the-pit west OF this city about 1880
o. m. wednesday. The truck caught
Are from the exhaust and the flames
quickly reached the gasoline supply.
The driver c. Lavalley was burned
but not seriously and the heat was
40 intense that .Nha glsS-- on the
windshield was melted.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-01-05
MCPHERSON RESCUED

Firemen Carry Two Down Ladder
". When Fire Sweeps Flat
Minneapolis, December 30.-Mrs
Joseph Reed and her son, Julius,
aged IL, wefe carried down a ladder
to safety by firemen today when es-
cape from their second story apart
ment at 979 Rondo street, st. Paul,
was cut off by flames that quickly
spread to both stairways -
Awakened by clouds of smoke in
her bedroom, Mrs. Reed tried to
lead her son down the rear stair
way, but found her way was barred
by the heavy smoke. Running to
the front stairway, she found it in
flames.
Mother and SON were carried from
the burning building, unconscious.
Mrs. Reed was slightly burned.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-01-05

Gana Visited Village "Wednesday
Night And Made Getaway
Especial to tho Free Press.l

1
Trosky, Mimi, December SO
Robbers swooped down on Trosky
Wednesday night and escaped with
considerable loot including an auto
mobile in which they hauled the
stolen goods away. At the restaul-
ant of v. Peterson a large quantity
of cigars and cigarettes were taken
and similar articles were taken
from the pool hall OF John Knute :
Efforts were made to break into the
Paulson hardware store and HUM
stock Bros, garage. but the rob
bers were not successful The loot
was piled into the automobile of JOS
epll Clancy and this was driven away
by the robbers At the outskirts
of the town the robbers deserted a
Ford coupe. the machine which
they had evidently driven into town.
The county officials at Pipestone
have been notified but the robbers
left no clue
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-01-05

clinic.<spent Christmas At the home
her parents. Mr.. and Mrs. II. c.
barge.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Yaeger. Mr..
and Mrs. Arnold Wruckc Of Maple
ton spent Christmas day at the
Louis Wrlcke home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Ziemke and
daughters OF Vernon Center spent
Christmas eve at the William Zien
Ike home.
Will Arndt, assistan. cashier OF
the Truman bank, spent Christmas
with his home folks here.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-01-05
EAST MEDo NOTES
Mr.. and Mrs. n. o. Lewis Enterta in :
ed Guests at Dinner Tuesday.

Especial TO the Free Press
East Medo, December 30.-Dr.
Lembke of Minnesota Lake was call
ed to the Fred Lindenburger place
near Pemberton Wednesday. Their
little daughter is seriously i'll.
Mr.. and Mrs. Z. o. Olson and
family, Rev. and Mrs. Rachie and
daughter Stella were invited to the
H. o. Lewis home for dinner Tues
day.
John RIPPLE shelled corn for John
Davis and Jim Findley Wednesday.
Elmer and Victor Severson assist
ed their mother in law Mrs P. F.
'Oftedahl with butchering Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Ientz dined
at the home of the formers father
Fred Lentz Monday.
Sslmer Guam and Nels Biornson
are helping Henry Bluhm finish
husking corn.
Earl Findley OF Winnebago is
visiting his mother Jim for an in
definite time.
Gladys and Thelma Guam are
spending the end OF this week with
their music teacher Miss Haedt at
Decoria
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-01-05

AT least one person Was
killed and two blocks OF frame
business buildings were de-.
stroyed in an early morning IRE
here today TWO other persons
are reported missing.
Morristown, Mimi, December 80.
Fire OF undetermined origin
swept through half business block
at Morristown, Mimi, early this
morning causing a total loss TO
three buildings and damaging sew
eral other buildings in the vicinity
The estimated loss of the buildings
RACED by the coniagration is 49,
600, only part covered by insurance
according to word received from
that place this morning.
The fire was discovered at tye
a. m, and had gained big headWay
in a barber shop, located between
moving picture show and a orus
store the other two buildings de-
stroyed by the blaze. When the
volunteer fire department was or
canned the fire head gained such
,headway that it was impractical 70
attempt to save any of the build :
ings. 49,.
Ffremen were unable to enter
any of the three buildinsg to carry
out articles due to the great neat
The barber shop and the picture
show were frame buildings and the
fire spread through. them rapidly
Firemen made vain attempt to
save the drug store, which was
built of brick, but the inadequate
apparatus they worked with pre-
vented them from doing effective
work. A hand pump and water
pals ~were all the firemen had to
work with, and these we're kept busy
but the heat of the flames prevent
cd the men from doing effective
work.
Although the authorities have not
determined the exact origin OF the
fire, it is believed that the baze f1rs'
started from an overheated stove III
tie barber shop.
Insurance partly covers the
buildings and contents or the snow
house and drug store. No insur.
anc covered the barber shop, said
to be owned by A ]. Coon. 5: B
Holland is the owner Of the show
house and H. S. Bluhm owns the
Drug Store III
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-01-05
DEATH OF WAR VETERAN
Louis Earn Passed Away~at Plpestone
at Age Eighty One Years.
rC~no;ol 70 the ES-ka BRASS

ISptCIaI 10 NIIo Il 70 = 80 = =
Pipestone, Mimi, December So.-In
the death OF Louis Earn. eighty-one
years old. Simon Mix Post G. A. r.,
of Pipestone, lost another of its MEM
bers. The veterans death followed a
stroke of apoplexy. Mr.. Earn was re-
siding on a farm near Rochester, Mimi.
when the war broke out and he en-
listed in Company b, Second Minne-
sofa regiment on September 20, 1861
and served through the entire war with
that organization being mustered out
at Fort Smelling in August. 1855. HIS
war experience was filled with hard
service. He participated in the bat
ties of Shiloh, Corinth, Chickanauga
Mission Ride, Atlanta and was with
General sherman on his famous march
to the sea, In 1879 Earn drove through
with an OK team from Oimsted county
to Pipestone county and continuously
resided here after that.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-01-05

Held To District Court For> Theft
And Use Car At Winona

Wln0na hepupilc1n hSCoTo-
Philip Tuzinski, seventeen years
old, 459 East Second street, was
bound over to the district court
after a preliminary examination to-
day in municipal court on a charge
automobile without the owners
consent. Tuzinski was released on
$500 bail.
The car, owned by Peter Holzer,
Witoka farmer and proprietor Of the
Frederick hotel, 265 East Third
street, was taken from the curb
near the Burmeister hotel, $50 East
Third street, the night Of Nov. 3,
testimony showed.
THE machine was later found on
the interstate bridge a short dis
lance from the Wisconsin dixie road.
1t had been damaged IN rnishap
of some sort.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-01-05
WOULD PAVE KATo ROAD
Discussion Paving Road To This
City Held at Faribault Meeting

DISCUSSION Paving Hoad TO TINS
City Held at Faribault Meeting
Faribauit, December 26.-Possi-
bilities of paving trunk highway
No. so from Faribault to Mankato
were dicussion this noon at the Eles
club when a delegation from Water
vile conferred with the good ROADS
COMMITTEES of the Chamber OF Cap-
merce. G. w. Glotfelter, William
Haase, S. II. Harrington, Charles
Dusbabek and III. G. Drcssle were IN
the visiting delegation
The two delegations had luncheon
together. and afterward engaged in
a discussion of the proposed project.
DR.. w. N. Theissen, chairman OF the
good roads COMMITTEES, led the dis
cIission.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-01-05
FAIRMoNT GETS INSTITUTE
Epworth League Conference Decides
Meeting Place For Next Summer

Fairnont, December 30.-The Min
nesota Conference Epworth League
institute comes to Fairmont, the
informal vote of three to seven was
made unanimous by the 10 com
missioners assembled at Albert Lea
last evening. Strong pleas for the
location OF the Institute at Winnie
tago were made by thu President
Z. e. Reineke of Parker College and
by Mr.. A. Stewart representing the
Commercial Club OF Winnebago. In
fact their proposals were so con-
vincing that it was thought possible
that they would secure the verdict,
bat then Fred BROKER and A. NJ.
Nelson had concluded their repre-
sentation of Fairmont it did not
take long for the commissioners to
decide on locating the project in
tie scenic city OF southern Mime
sofa, blessed with five lakes and
four parks, a veritable paradise for
summer outings as well as for
study
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-01-05
SOLD DITCH BONDS
Wells, Diekey Company, Minneapeii

PUrCHaSeu SISUtVVV IbSUc'
ESPECIAL to the Free Press.l
F1andreau, S. D., December 30.-The
of the Moody and Lake
County drainage ditch disposed of
Slse. 900 in six per cent bonds at par.
after bids had been opened offering
$4,000 less than par for the bonds. The
commi ssioners rejected all bids pre-
scented and the Wells, DicSey COMPANY
for the bonds and the offer was ac-
cepted. The money derived from the
bond issue will be used to take care
Of benefit assessments yet TO be paid
on the ditch. ..-.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-01-05
Zee Named Comm 4 r,der.

ISHeC13I 10 NIhE FIee FfSSS j = =
Slayton Mimi, December 3e.-Ati the
annual meeting of Erwin March Post
of the American Legion here d. j.
II ZEE was elected commander and r. II.
Violin. adjutant
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-01-05
FLAMES BATTLE WON
st. Louis Park Threatened With De-
struetien BY Peat and Brush Fire
rAssociated Press Dispatcn.l

Minneapolis, December 30-A peat
and brush fire which for time
threatened to burn several houses in
ST. Louie Park, a suburb was brought
under control early today after about
1000 residents of the community
had battled the flames for four hours.
The fire was brought under control
without serious damage.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-01-05
MAY RAISE PosToFFIGE
sIaton offlce VIII Soon Pass Into The
tsS seond c,.sS pistlnction.

Slayton December 5U.-Wlth the re-
ceipts safely above the required amount
to assure designation Of the Slayton
post office as a second class onice:
Postmastef r.. f. Lamb has announced
thai in all probability the office will
be changed to its new class on July /
next. The new classification will give
the local post Office deputy postmas-
ter and an additional clerk 70 assist
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-01-05
BUSINESS SECTION
V|LLAGEINDANGER
Losses Totaling Over $751;
900 Last Night
GOODSTART OF FIRE
Firemen Handicapped In Work
By Heat; Structures and
Contents Insured. = z
Especial to the Free Press. ]

Ardmore Okla, December 80.
AT least one person was
killed and two blocks OF frame
tbusiness buildings were de-.
stroyed in an early morning IRE
here today Two other persons
are reported missing.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-19
GOSPEL MISSION
PATRONAGE
DOUBLES
DOC" Cory, in Charge, Re-
ports Success in Drive
on "PanhandIers."

A five hundred per cent increase
in patronage of the Gospel Mission
has been recorded as a result of
the campaign te drive professional
'panhandlers" from Washington.
Recently G w. {Doc) Cory, head
or the mission, sent 10000 tickets
to Washingtonians, each emitting
holder to bed and q meal. Resi-.
dents were requested to give the
tickets to persons who asked aims.
1t was believed in this way that
the professional, who begs money
on the pretext OF buying food or
obtaining shelter, would be elimi-
mated.
Doc" Cory says that residents
are making good use of the cards.
The professional who receives a
guest card to the mission tears
it up and, il he meets with many
Of them, leaves town.
The deserving person, Temperate
~ embarrassed, finds good meal,
a good bed, and other. help at the
mission. DOC" tries to get him
work, If he wants it; If the boarder
does not want work, he is advised
to leave at once.
Many ecommendatory letters have
been received at the mission as a
result of the campaign to drive the
professional tramp from Washing
ten streets,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-19
DUKE OF YORK BINDS
FlANCEE. WITH RING

LONDON, Jan. 19.-The Duke of
York last night placed magnificent
platinum sapphire and diamond ring
on the third finger of his fiancee,
Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, for
mally binding their betrothal. :
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1923-08-08
FaIthIess 4usbands Evade Law.

Wife deserters in nottingham, Eng
land, cannot be arrested ON Sunday.
according to the statutes. AS con-
sequence 80 per cent of the warrants
taken out against wife desertea are
not served, though a reward is placed
on the head OF each man. The faith
less husbands leave the city on Mon
day morning and do not return again
until Sunday.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1923-08-08
Ihat,a All.

One day the small son Of an execu.
tive In our Arm made his father
visit. On arriving home he informed
his mother, Mamma, daddy doesn't
work down at the office. He just sits
there and first man comes in and
sits down and he talks to him a long
time and then another man comes in
and he talks to him, and that's all he
does all day"
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1923-08-08
Monster Planet.

Everything connected with the sun
Is staggeringly big. Those little dark
sun-spots which you peer at cautiously
through the medium of smoked glass
are, most of them, many thousands of
miles across. One was measured and
found to have a diameter of 1900
miles-which means that the earth
could have been pitched into it like
golf ball into a pail of water.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1923-08-08
Contents Of Pound Loaf Of Bread.

A pound loaf of bread contains
about eight ounces Of starch, which
serves as fuel for the bodv one and
half ounces Of protein, which in nd
dition to serving as fuel HELPS to build
and repair the body machinery; one
ounce Of water and a half ounce Of
fat, sugar and mineral substances,
which latter help to make bones and
teeth.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1923-08-08
Nature Great ranohar.

The problem of our rapidly vanish
Ing forests offers only one example OF
the result of Ignorance and false ideas,
says Nature Magazine. Give to the
child Of today an opportunity to ac-
Quire an intimate knowledge of ma
lures ways, and future generations
will avoid many Of the mistakes of
those gone before.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1923-08-08
Just One Hour zach Day.

An hour wasted daily on TITLES or
Incidence would, If devoted to self
improvement, make an ignorant man
or woman wise in few years and,
employed in good works, would make
Il life fruitful and death harvest Of
worthy deeds. Fifteen minutes day
devoted to self-improyement VIII be
felt at the end of a year.-Samuel
Smiles.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1923-08-08

Headline in exchange: Cop Arrest
ed for Taking Bribe." We are remind
ed Of the old joke about policemen
having snap because the public
pays them for protection from vice,
and vice pays them FOR protection
from the public.-BOston Evening
Transcript.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1923-08-08
oldest Loo House.

The first known log house, built by
white men within the bounds OF what
is now Colorado, was erected b 1915
for a troop Of Spanish cavalry patrol
ling the Arkansas, near the site Of
Pueblo.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1923-08-08
Sheffield steel Supreme.

Sheffield IS stlll credited with max
ing the best steel in the world. Its
virtues are attributed partly TO the
secrets known only to the manufac-
turers, and partly to the water used
In tempering It,
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1923-08-08
Bank Doors Shut Easily.

The doors of the Bank of England
are so finely balanced that a clerk, by
pressing a button under his desk, can
close the outer doors instantly and
they cannot be opened again except
by special process.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1923-08-08
"chIldrenn and mssue u

While all children are issue, all Is
sue are not necessarily children. To
Illustrate, all the children of deceased
may be dead, but their children would
still be issue-not children, but grand
children of the ancestor.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1923-08-08
Both at One Throw.

j. B. M. writes: "What a saving Of
time and other things there would be
If fellow could take his first ocean
voyage and his first smoke at the
same me."-Boston Evening Tran
script.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1923-08-08
Poet Well Rewarded.
o we.tetn Newspsper Union

The highest price ever paid for a
poem was 5000 golden crowns paid
to Sannazaro by the citizens Of Venice
for his eulogy Of their city-a poem
Of six lines only.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1923-08-08
At Least. One May Attempt.

The poorest tune or hymn that ever
was sung is better than no tune and
no hymns. 1t is better to sing than
to be dumb, however poor the singing
may be.-Henry Ward Beecher.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1923-08-08
Many of Us MISPLACED.

It's funny old world where most
of us are misplaced. For instance,
whoa has been elected chief of the
Apache. Indians, whereas he ought to
be captain Of your wlfe's expense ac-
count.-Pittsburgh Post
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1923-08-08
Wanted II Set.

To the clerk who had just sold her
a thermometer a woman said: would
you be SO kind as to set it at 50?
THAT'S about what the doctor says Pm
to keep the room at"
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1923-08-08
Bath for the Plants.

Your household plants viii flourish
and bloom If you give them bath
about once a month in water to which
ammonia has been added-say a tea
spoon to a quart Of liquid
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1923-08-08

"Ii ain no good kiekin at yo' luck, -"
said Charcoal Iph, Iii mood. "All yo'
got T. do in dis hyar waf am wrap yo'
fngahs aroun a pick $40 sing an dig"
Richmond Times Dispatch.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1923-08-08
Strange.

A feminine lecturer on psychology
advertises herself as ''the woman who
never wastes word" This strikes
us as something new in femininity.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1923-08-08

IRRIGATION In South America some
times demands storing Of sufficient
water 20 SNnir '9 PEG Il and crops
Tor perloa rty months.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1923-08-08
Only One rhinn LASTING.

Man, it is not thy works-which are
mortal, infinitely little, and the great
est no greater than the least-but
only the spirit thou workest in, that
can have worth or COMMUNICATIONS
lyle.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1923-08-08

We are the legatees Of all the genius
of the past; how few Of US appreciate
our good fortune.-B Boston Evening
Transcript
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1923-08-08
Why There Are MANY Colonies.

In this part of the country when
man Of any prominence reaches the
age Of sixty he becomes a colonel au-
tomatically.-New Orleans States.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1923-08-08
YeIIowstone cevsers s,,,r.,..,

Iceland's geysers never loot their
water higher than 100 feet While some
Of the Yellowstone geysers go more
than three fmes high
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1923-08-08
Thought for the Day.

Some people spend more though
and energy in justlfying a bad habi
han In forming a good habit.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1923-08-08
o. Of the Mouths Of Kids.

"Aw' that's easyl III bet my dad
'ould do il with his little dngeri"
Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1923-07-26
SECOND WOW CAME, 10 TO 2, BELT

Hanson replaced Britten for the
Vows and Watson took the mound
for Belt. For the first three frames
Watcon held the visitors well in hand,
never getting into difficulties.
For Belt, Butler, the first man up,
made nice single, Fluhr sent him to
third with another and Weir's sacri-
flee sent Butler home. One run.
In the second Donovan headed the
procession with single, johnson fol-
lowed with another and Harper then
whaied the ball over the left field
fence and cleared the bags Watson
bit for two bags and Butler sent him
home. Somewhere about here Scanda
replaced Hsason- Fluhr went out on
a high third strike. Demitt ground