Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-10-08
MANKATO.

The hydrants are to be painted, so say the
council.
The crowd in attendance at the last Ma
sonic social was immense.
The Central railroad lost several hundre(
ties, Monday, by prairie fires.
Bridge work goes steadily on, and every
body is pleased at the prospect.
Don't fail to hear the Misses Banning
this evening at the Opera House.
The little 5-year-old spoken of in Mon
days GLOBE is getting along nicely.
The school board have closed the bargain
for the Encyclopedia Britannica. This is
Alpha; Omego is not yet. :.
A movement is on foot to entice Prof
! W. O. Richards, the scientific lecturer, ur
the valley as far as this city.
The council wants an ordinance to keen
people from playing with the hydrants, &C
the ordinance committee have. received in
structions to prepare one.
The council says it is not right to pay
such high rate of board for it's drunks and
other charges and is to petition the county
commissioners for reduction.
Two brakemen, named New and Rice
| were arrested on q complaint of robbery
They had hearing on Saturday and were
bound over to the December term of court
Wheat, No. l, SO cents; No. 2, IS cents
Flour has also had an upward tendency, the
price being now $3.50 for patent, an advance
OF $l, the other grades go up the scale sc
cents. :"
Hubbard d Go. propose to grind when they
get fairly started ten car loads of wheat Del
day. They started the mill on Monday tc
run twenty-four hours, and propose to make
things hum.
The city dads at a recent meeting allowed
! the mill firm of Hubbard & Go. $2,1OO on
two bills, 81 500 for advance rent for water
supply, and $500 for laying pipe from the
mill to the river.
For the next year the Democratic county
committee will be J. E. Porter, chairman
T. q. Lyon, Jamestown; J. j. Perry, Lake
Crystal; =. j. Champ!in, Vernon Center,
and Isaac Smith, Mapleton.
Since the water works have been com.
pleted the local board insurance companies
have made q reduction of about Is per cent.
Other companies have made reductions of
from Is to 25 per cent. on their rates.
The fair held by the Blue Earth Valley
Stock association at Miller's Grove, Pleasant
Mound, on Friday, is very favorably spoken
OF by those of our citizens who were in at
tendance. The horses and colts shown were
particularly fine.
A teamster named Gill, lost his dwelling,
little frame building on Cummins' adSli-
ton, by ire early Tuesday morning. A part
of the household goods were saved There
Is probably insurance enough to cover the
loss. It was outside the water district.
The completed part of the water works
was accepted by the council last Thursday
evening. The city engineer was instructed
to see that the work was finished, and the
cost would be deducted from the amount not
yet paid to the contractors, McCritchie &
Nichols, who are to sustain the expense.
Auditor Thompson had visitor Monday
evening that came through an open window.
and directly for his head. A plump little
quail. He lodged the contact, preferrinp it
in another shape. The bird was caught and
taken into air and let go. Jim says he didn't
know what it was but thought it good plan
to get his head out of the way.
On Friday evening Mr.. Chas. Wagon, ST..
was visited by two old friends from lakewood
Station, Wisconsin, Mr.. Jacob Gelser and
his brother-in-law, Jacob Gelser. These
gentlemen brought Mr.. Wagon three apples
from the orchard of Mr.. Gelser, ST., the
weight OF which were "a lbs, and measured
twelve inches in circumference, each.
The school board having had several COM
plants made to them as to the unfairness of
the manner in which nonresident children
were admitted to the city schools, free of
charge, add becoming members of
families in the city, while those
of families having their OWE
children were forced 10 pay, concluded at
q late meeting to treat all alike and conse-
quently fixed price for tuition. In the
primary and intermediate departments, fifty
cents per month; in the grammar schools,
sixty-fve cents per month.
On Monday afternoon the quiet Of our
city was agitated by the arrival of the uuin-