The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-09-10

A. NJ. Smith has put new roof G
J. his residence.
Bills are up for Tony Denier's Humpt
Dumpty, tho 18th.
A daughter of J. L. Christie is sic
: with the typhoid fever.
Several fine days has brought encoul
agement to the farmers.
John Mccall, Is building neat an
handsome residence on 3rd street.
A few moro street lamps about tn
i city would be highly appreciated.
Diphtheria has begun to make Its ap
pearance in the vicinity of Eagle Lake
i Quite large number Of Mankat
people are In attendance at the Mime
apolis Fair.
| What shall we remember2 That ever,
new subscriber to the FREE PRESS will
get chrome.
Prael Il DuBuisson have built an ad
dition to their store for storing portion
OF their large stock.
The city pays the mill company
ss,5OO year for furnishing the wster
that supplies the city.
shaubut & Hodgson have began buy.
Ing hogs extensively. They shipped
two Car loads last Friday.
Statistics lately issued show that in
Italy seventeen million people can't
write. But they can play the hand
organ.
A large number of our exchanges
present the premium lists of various
County Fairs that will be held this
month.
E. A. Tiffany sold slO8 worth of
school books last Monday. which il suf.
ticient to teach good many ideas how
to shoot.
The Presbyterian church of this city
has been organized twenty-five years,
and has increased in membership from
II to 800.
J. B. Ford, ono Of our tonsorial artists
caught pickeral last Monday ut Red
Jacket Mills that weighed between five
and six pounds.
A Garfield and Arthur club was or.
ganized at Eagle Lake, this week, and
active work begun for the success of the
Republican party.
General Baker and ]. C. Wise went to
st. Paul Wednesday morning to attend
the railroad meeting.
Mr.. Geo. E. Smith, of this city, has
been given the position of station agent
at st. James, on the st. Paul & Sioux
City road.
Don't forget the meeting of the Gar.
field and Arthur Club at their quarters
this evening. Let ell rally and keep
the eagle screaming.
Take notice OF the new advertisements
in this issue Of N. Longini, Allen &
Pardy, Z. A. Tiffany G. l. Lidger-
wood, and N. Peterson.
Rev. James Thurston of Dover, N. II.
and Mrs. Whitney, of Rocklsnd, Maine
are visiting in the city with Mr.. w. p.
Mckinney, 3 relative.
Thomas Selsy was married to Miss
Ellis Tew, of sixth street. near the
Catholic church last Tuesday night.
Ne cards and no beer.
John F. Meagher and son left for
Chicago last Monday morning via Wells.
Mr.. Meagher will place his son, we are
told, at school in Georgetown.
Il. Rodgers of Vernon Center, has
leased his interest in the Touring mill
at that place for one year, and will stop
at Garden City for awhile.
Messrs. Clark & Parsons, being un-
able to dispose OF their large insurance
business to one party, divided It up
among the different agencies in town.
The work Of laying the stone cutters
on plum street is nearly completed, and
when the grading is done the street will
be one of the most pleasant in the city.
The St. Paul railroad company, under
the direction Of Charles Strom, are put
ting In substantial stone culvert with
a sixteen foot arch across Warren's
creek.
Hon. Thomas Simpson and Charles
A. Morey, Of Winona, will speak at the
Opera House In this city, Tuesday,
Sept. l4th, upon the political issues of
the day.
Messrs. Jones & Shaubut, of the city
bakery, have contracted with Mr.. Ken
worthy, of Rapidan, for his entire stock
of grapes, and we can testify that they
are fine.
We publish this week q list of the
premiums, under their respective divi-
sions, of the Blue Earth County Agri-
cultural Society, which opens at Garden
City Sept. 2lst.
We have an interesting communica-
ton from our townsman B. F. Davis,
for publication, but owing to lack OF
space have been obliged to put it over
until another week.
Our city schools opened on Monday.
There seems now to be quite demand
for books and other supplies for the
school room and Chapman says that his
store is the headquarters for all such
goods.
Mr.. ]. Davis, Of this city, bought of
John Nichol, Of Good Thunder, last
Tuesday, halt blood Durham calf, four
months old, that weighed $50 pounds
and for which Mr.. Davis paid "a cash.
Tony Denier's Tiokled or Humpty
Dumpty, newly Matched, will be at the
Opera House September 10th, one night
only. Reserved seats at Tiffanys. See
what the Pioneer Press says of them in
another column.
The Blue Earth ValleDstock Associa-
| ton will hold their annual Stock Fair
| NJ thu farm of I u and I w Harifana