The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-09-16
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Hard coal 10 Delng contracteu lot hoIe
at $40 per ton.
Look at lsidor Longini & Co.'S new
advertisement.
Piles have been driven this week for
the Milwaukee elevator.
Mankato was well represented at the
County Fair this week.
The macadamizing Of Front street
progresses slowly but surely.
NJ. o. Sundt is displaying some very
fine suitings of the latest patterns.
Still another candidate for Sheriff this
week. The woods are full Of them.
Mrs. c. d. Taylor, left for the East
last evening to be gone several weeks.
Let us get up al old fashioned bee and
repair the walks before winter sets in.
Mrs. B. Smout and youngest daughter,
from Wells, spent last Wednesday in
the city.
Isidor Longini 4 CO., have opened
an elegant line of clothing and furnish
ing goods.
VIM. Plymat, Esq, Mapleton's lawyer,
was rusticating in this city the first Of
the week.
w. B. Smith went east last Saturday
evening after a new stock of Fall and
Winter goods.
We have many interesting commu-
n~ications We arc obliged to hold UNI
iii next week.
Mr.. Charles Thurston. of West Man
kato, is now the mail carrier on the Min
nesota Lake route.
A new invoice of New England Or.
gans and Vose Pianos received this week
at j.. A. Samborn's.
Ten years ago tho streets and walks
of Mankato were thepridc of its citizens,
but now, we'll excuse us.
Mr.. b. Tuttle will soon move his
stock { hardware into Mrs. Barr's
double brick building.
It's a girl, 1O1s pounds, at the resi-
dence OF j. NJ. Karmany. The little
made its appearance last Sunday.
Don't forget that w. B. Walker &
Co., carry a large stock of gloves and
mittens in connection with their other
business.
Owing to heavy rains along the upper
and at this point lately, the
rose last Saturday and Monday
some i've feet.
Fred Fowler has moved his stock of
'econd hand goods into the Prael & Du
Buisson building, opposite the FREE
PRESS office.
Horace De Groodt and family have re.
:urned from Lake Minnetonka, where
hey have pleasantly and protitably
'pent the past summer.
Williams s. Beach re-shingled a por-
ion Of their wagon shop this week.
The old shingles had been on long
to become Of age.
Mr.. A. S. Van Patten, of Cambria,
writes us hat his son, who wal adver-
Used as lost, has returned home, having
,een at work on q farm near st. Peter.
There are twenty men scattered
through this State buying up flax seed
or shipment to Buffalo, via Duluth.
amt our own mills consume the whole
Wickersham s. Brown, city plumbers,
AVE the contract for putting the sheet
on the mill company's big elevator,
t will require nearly two carloads Of
heet iron to cover the roof and sides.
Wasps in large numbers are beginning
o make their hsbitation in the FREE
PRESS building. We will give the en-
ire warm to any one who will come
md hive them.
]. F. Meagher has placed in position
he new cornice on his brick block, and
t is safe to assert that it is the
landsomest design in Southern Mime.
ota. 1t was made to order in Mime
polls.
Mr.. Charles Griswold, editor of the
Dell Rapids, Dakota) Exponent, accom-
panied by his wife, made the FREE
PRESS office a pleasant visit last Satur-
lay while en-route home from a
months visit East.
1t is said that there are over 400 ,0C0
herded in the rich valleys of the
Yellowstone country, and that it will
equire 1000 more cars than the North
IN Pacific Co. has TO ship them to the
markets.
What a happy idea! but why wasn't
thought of sooner. That is, to have
Guiteau to the drag rope Of
Prof. Kings monster balloon, instead Of
IN anchor, and then gently dropped him
n the waters Of Lake Michigan.
The FREE PRESS Office was illumin-
tied last Wednesday by the serene and
intellectual countenance of Mr..
Thomas Kirk, favorably known to most
IF our citizens and the readers of our
paper in Blue Earth and adjoining
counties.
Sweet potatoes did you say! All, yes,
Mr.. Robertson of Eagle Lake, laid upon
,ur table last Saturday q couple of
Sweet potatoes of his own raising that
we're large enough to last a small fam
ly all winter. One weighed exactly
Jour pounds, and it was sweet, nearly a.
palatable as those grown in the South.
Now here, now there, as busy as a
bee in the bell of a flower, the local news
,stherer for the st. Paul Dispatch at this
Master Harry I. Cleveland, drops
The pencil for the tripod and theodolite,
10 having been given a position on a
surveying party of the st. Paul & Mil
road, at Omaha.