Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-08-07
MANK ATO.


firm name again.
A large party of ladies and children went
out to Madison Lake on Tuesday.
MIR. q. r. Mather has secured the contract
for supplying the stone for the Belle PLANE
bridge.
Jim. S. Kelly came up from st. Paul on
Fr day last, on his way to Pipestone to look
after his homestead.
superintendent Mather has procured an
engine of greater pc yer to use in the manu-
facture of pressed brick.
Hon. d. Buck is making some improve
ments about his premises that add very
much to their appearance.
Between ten and twenty men are at work
again on the water works. The hydrants
have arrived and are being distributed.
Married, Aug. s, at the residence of o.
Bennett, by the Rev. j. B. Little, David
Buckmaster to Miss Ida Newton, all Of this
county.
The North Star Plow works are sending
ont great numbers of the plows manufac-
tured by them. On Tuesday another lot
was shipped to d. Evans, Tracy.
Geo. r. Brett has keen eye for the pretty
and shows it in the tasteful manner in which
he is having the walks about his residence
laid with the handsome Mankato gray brick.
At the Normal park there is some needed
and good work being done. A barbed wire
has been run across the south side, and the
old and dilapidated walks torn up and re-
placed by new plank.
Capt. Bragdon will build five depots on
the Blue Earth City branch. one 24x7O at
that town, one 4x6O at Winnebago City,
and the others 24x4S each at Garden City,
Vernon, and possibly at Shelby.
A quartette of young men went out to
Minnesota Lake on Sunday last, and two of
Them in imitation of amphibia, swallowed
such quantities of water. that they had to be
rolled, and generous quantity of whiskey
administered before they recovered their
equilibrium.
JAS. b. LONG q 90. .a
Z During one of his pedaneous excursions
about the city, the GLOBE reporter wandered
into the Office of JAS. 81. Long & Co., butter
and egg dealers, on the corner of Second
and Hickory streets, in quest of 8 bit of
news. Stains his business, one of the gem
tlemanly proprie'ors expressed himself as
willing to show him around. He first gave
tho information that portion of the nrm
we're short time since in the same business.
IN st. Louis, Mo-, but having heard favora-
BILE reports of Mankato, a visit here found
1t really more important as desirable bust
ness point than it had been represented.
they Immediately decided to locate.
And that they had not been disappointed in
their expectations is evident from the care
full way they have fitted up their establish.
ment with every convenience. Passing out
of the office the gentleman said, you see we
use this room, which is 3Ox9O, and the en-
tire cellar under this building, 1880 This
is our candling room where We we. ont the
bad eggs. As the weather has been so en-
cessivsly hot we have not shipped many, but
have them preserved in the solution, that,
in connection with the dark cellar, in which
We store them, they keep fresh and good for
the fall trade.
Desce nding to the cellar, we were shown
into the butter working and packing rooms.
When the butter comes IN it is all but Gilt
edge, but . few hours in this cool cellar sets
it into shape that is easily handled, then
the expert workers 60 over it and it comes
out in decidedly palatable form. They
ship weekly 40 600 pounds Of butter, yet this
10 not to be wondered at when . person takes
into consideration the fact that the railroad
facilities are ausk that buttsr d procured ]