The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-09-23

por hundred pounds, anu hour from ~
TO 30 cents per hundred.
Mr.. Jack Kceler and bride, babe adieu
TO their friends Tuesday morning and
and took the first train for the East.
Considerable hay was cut in the two
pleasant days of this week, but subsc-
quent rains prevented it from curing.
Mr.. James Cannon received this week
an invoice of very fine buggies from y
leading manufacturer in York State.
Mcconnell II Co., have added a line
Of millinery goods to their stock, under
the SUPPLEMENTARY OF Mrs. Hamlin.
w. r. Mills has improved his prop
erty on Front street materially, by the
help of Il little carpenter-work and
paint.
Miss Clemmie Blake, who has been
residing at Brainard for the past ten
months. returned to this city again
last week.
Pork at sc hundred, live weight, is
better bonanza than a coal mine in
Freedom county, providing one has the
pork.
The big balloon that quietly laid down
and died in cow pasture near st. Paul,
the other day, cost the Minneapolis asso-
citation $4,000.
Mr.. Friend, formerly an active business
man of Garden City, WAS in town last
Monday. There is a prospect that Mr..
F. will settle in this city.
Mr.. 5. w. Searlcs, of the firm of
Spencer Il Searles. dealers in Carbon
oil, intends to shortly make Minneapolis
his dwelling place.
The premium list, complete, with
names of parties receiving premiums
and amount of same, is published in
the FREE Press this week.
w. Il. Walker Il Co.. have newly
calcimined and whitewashed their
harness shop, thereby enhancing the
the looks of the interior.
Mr.. j. VI. Vars, an attache in the
Internal Revenue office at Albert Lea,
under DIR. \. c. Wedge, made this office
a pleasant call last Monday.
The Street Commissioner and his aids
have done some good work repairing
sidewalks the past ten days, all of
which pedestrians are grateful for.
To observe the stacks of new goods
that are being opened in front of nearly
every business house, impresses one
with the belief that we are not all dead
yet.
An earnest effort for the re-nom-
ination OF Judge Dickinson to the SUI
preme bench should actuatc the dele
gates elected to-day above everything
else.
When the Mankato House block is
completed, Mr.. Burt intends to connect
each room TO the office by electric bells,
after the manner of the Merchants of
ST. Paul.
Mr.. I. n. Dean is attaching new
and neat portico on the side Of
his building so that he can enjoy the
arctic breezes as they blow from the
north, in January.
George E. Smith, an old Mankato
boy, who WAS married to Miss Lizzie
Meyers Of this city about one year ago,
writes his friend Campbell at this place,
that he is the proud and happy sire Of Il
thirteen pound baby.
The Republican primaries Wednesday
night drew out the largest vote that was
ever before cast, and at each polling
place there was much interest manifest.
ed by the friends OF the various tickets,
but no bad feeling existed.
Mrs. J. ]. Thompson expects hel
husband home from far away Tongue
river country every day now, and Mr.
w. w. Paddock writes that he vii
be back in few days. They have al
ready had snow and heavy frosts in tn,
mountains near Tongue river.
Mr.. Nathan Reed, Of Winchester
Ind, and a stalwart republican besides
is visiting his son-in-law, Mr.. Perry
Wysong of this city. Mr.. Reed has
visited Mankato before and is therefore
more o. less familiar with its surround
ings.
Mr.. Will E. Lockcrby, son of NJ. l.
Lockcrby Of this city, arrived in tow
last Saturday with his bride, whom h
married at Waupaca, Wis.,, Sept. Z
Will is faithful employe of the Chi
cago, Milwaukee L. st. Paul company
and after his vacation will take tn
LancsbOro station.
Arrangements are being made by tn
Y. NJ. &. A. for holding commemorative
services at the Academy of Music OF
Monday afternoon next, at 2 o'clock, a
which appropriate addresses will b.
made by leading clergymcn and lay
men. This service will be simultaneOu
with the funeral services over the bod
of President Garfield, at Cleveland.
. The long continued unprOpitiOu
weather is proving serious drawbac
e to all departments Of industry in TIL
: State, and if continued, will cause irr'
parable damage. The farmers hay
: been unable to make hay, thresh {
C pillow, to any considerable extent, viii
: the business men are anxiously waitin
4 "A elimination of the unfavorable wcatl
: cr to dispose of the large stock Of goot
they have on hand.
Real Estate Sale.