The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-05-20
Messrs. Phillips and Rosebrook have

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], principal Of our Normal school, Civ,
at Winona last week.
One of our exchanges intended to ha
said "Our people are getting Il bell 4
l. the church, but put an h in the pla'
of the b, thereby making il read shell
!. Ernest Wickersham and Robert Brow
!. have opened tin shop and will do gel
. eral work rs timers and plumbers. Sho
on Front street, in Mrs. Bars buildin.
. An order has been issued by J. {
Robinson, chief of police, rcstrainin
horses from running ut large in the cit,
/. The order should have included cattl
rs we'll.
Critical lawyers and Judges are rt
questsd to compare the topographic.
appearance of the court calendar of las
year with that of this. Comments ar
unnecessary.
The people residing On the low sroun,
in West Mankato, are busily engage,
making gardens, which they We're dc
prived of doing sooner, owing to the de
cree Of Providence and high water.
A correspondent Of the Minncapoli,
Tribune says that Rev. l.. W. CLANCY
late pastor of the Congregational church
in this city, has been invited 10 simila,
charge at Waseca, and has decided to
accept.
Mr.. l. n. Dean, Of the firm of Davis
n Dean, has been appointed member of
the city council from the Third ward,
in place of W. w. Paddock resigned.
Mr.. Dean will make u valuable men,
Der.
You can get four dozen cracked eggs
for twenty five cents at the butter and
egg house of W. T. Mills. These eggs
are rs good MS the sound ones, but be-
ing slightly cracked cannot he packed
for shipment.
Mr.. 5. l.. Osborne, of this city, was
chosen at the recent Prcsbytery, held at
lie Sucur, one of the commissioners to
the general assembly of the Prcsbyter-
ian church, which met at Buffalo,
n. V, Oh the 10Th inst.
The hens around Minnesota Lake
have broken the strike and gone back to
work at greatly reduced wages. Two
firms at that place bought in four days
last week, 1900 dozen of that delecta-
BILE tiuit at 8 cents dezen.
On the 2lst inst, Mason & Morgan's
company will play Uncle Toms Cabin
at the Opera House. They have four
teen performers, not including the don
key, which appears in the grand trans
formation scene of the play.
1t is surprising how many thousand
head of young cattle are annually being
driven out Of this country, and yet it is |
just as surprising to see how quickly
their places are filled with Others. Stock |
is always marketable product.
Court convened last Tuesday, and /,
elsewhere will Ice found a careful sum
mary of such cases as are of import |
ance. This method of reporting the
proceedings of TIE district court is the |
first instance in the county, we believe.
Blue Earth City was visited by hail |
and wind storm last week, and broke
ont large number of panes of glass,
some forty ont of the COnstans House |
The hail stones were half as large as II
hens egg, and stripped the trees of
their leaves and blossoms.
Mr.. o. o. Pitcher, last Monday, had
surveyed seven acre piece oi land il
Warren's addition, belonging to Mr.. r. |
X. Parry, Of Philadelphia, into twenty |
or twenty five lots for residences. The
location will be known as Parry's sub
division of lot c, Warren's addition.
First class circus advance agents know
where they can secure first class PRINT
ing as soon as they see the office surround
ings. The FREE PRESS Office did the
required printing on the mammoth post
ers for Forepaugh's circus for such
towns as Sioux City, Omaha and Coun-
Gil Bluffs.
As the big colored band-msjor, be-
longing TO Sprague's minstrel troupe,
was preceding the procession, Wednes-
day, whirling his silver mounted baton
high in the air, a little fellow on the
sidewalk grasping his fathers coat tail,
exclaimed: "Golly, papa, how the sun
has burned that man."
b. d. Pay & Son, say that they have
Just received fine lot of the famous
Timpkin spring wagons, buggies and
PhaetOns, and that they have second
hand and now buggies for sale, also
horses. Amy one wanting anything in
the above line will do we'll to call upon
them before purchasing.
The st. Paul Dispatch, under its new
management, has developed into a
bright, newsy evening paper. 1t ar
rives here every evening at 3 o'clock,
and the management have secured the
services of Harry l. Cleveland as its
Mankato agent and correspondent, so
we may expect to read many spicy It'd
bits from this the leading city of south
crn Minnesota.
We are told that the Milwaukee COM
pany, will, after the erection of their
new depot here and thorough ballast
ing of tho track, put on a night train
with a sleeper attached and run through
TO La Crosse 80 us to connect with the
morning express for Milwaukee. This
will he the contamination of a scheme
long desired by both our people and the
travelling public, and one which will I'M
doubtedly be highly appreciated.
1t seems to US poor policy for railroad
corporations to allow merchandise to be
hauled by team from one station to an.
other, along their line Of road, cheaper
than they will do it themselves. This
is occasionally allowed, tor instance