The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-11-18


of o. II. Mather Wednesday evening
Quite number of friends were as
sembled.
The people Of lie Ray, this county
protest against allowing animals running
at large in that town. The people there
are more particular about small things
than they are in Mankato.
If any one wants beautifully exc
cuted life.like Garfield picture, don't
delay, but call at the FREE PRESS office
and pay up old arrearagcs or pay one
year in advance.
Mr.. 5. Winship has built very neat
and unique fence around his premises,
which is of iron, with stone founda-
ton, costing in the neighborhood of
500.
1t beats all how fast our Mankato
girls are being married of, by foreign
fortune hunters. This week two of
them have gone; Mr.. Mather's daughter
and Mr.. Rowlands'.
Mr.. j. G. Fowler and Cal. Smith
deny very strenuously the imputation
that they labored for the defeat of the
Republican ticket in the Fourth ward,
On election day. We are glad to know
it.
OR. Msther, ESQ, of this city, de-
clsres his intention of eating his Thanks
giving turkey down in Old Connecticut,
and will take Mrs. Mather along to
jog his elbow when he is properly
filled
Those who attended the Congre-
gational church last Sunday evening
speak in complimentary terms of the
fine music rendered by Miss Grace
Pitcher and members Of the Andrews
family.
The FREE PRESS consider. itself
pretty well endorsed, for the election
this fall has placed every county office
in the hands of the Republican party
with one exception. Let those officers
see that they do not betray their trusts.
The improvements which have been
made in Mankato the past season, con.
sidering the very unpropitious weather
are exceedingly creditable and the pres
poets are tiattering fer increased inn
prsvements another season.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clark, of Neosho Falls,
Kansas, father and mother of Mrs. w.
w. p. Mcconnell, are visiting in this
city. Mr. Clark has reached the ripe
old age OF three score years and ten,
and still looks hale and hearty.
1t will be seen by reference to another
column in the FREE PRESS to-day, what
was the magnet which drew Mr.. w. G.
Walk all the way from the wilds of New
Mexico up into this cold cline of ours.
Lovers of fun and good time gener-
ally, do not want to forget the carving
of the big turkey at Union Hall Thanks
giving evening. 1t is an event which
comes only once year, and is never
forgotten.
Attention of choppers is called to the
advertisement in this days issue of
the FREE Press, of r. +. Fuller, Of
Smiths Mill, offering special induce.
ments to laborcrs. He has now for
sale at lowest market prices, 900 cords
of good, dry wood.
Upon our second page appears an
article from Representative Bookwalter
in defense of the Blue Earth county
delegation cutting down the saleries of
our county officers. The columns of
the FREE PRESS are always open to the
discussion of both sides of contro-
versary.
Haverlys Minstrels at the Opera
House last Monday night, were COM
plimented by good audience. Many
features of the evenings entertainment
were changes from the old stereotyped
jokes and phrases, and were enlivened
by good music and dancing. The clog
dancing was exceedingly fine.
The rooms of the Y. NJ. C. A. have
been rem ovatod, and are now open to
the public until 0 o'clock every evening.
They have been placed in charge of
Mrs. Hatch, who will welcome all
visitors. The seating capacity of the
rooms has been increased, and the asso-
citation will now be able to accommodate
a larger number at its sociables and free
lectures.
The st. Peter Tribune of this week
says:
The last sheet of the State printing
under cur contract went through the
press last Saturday evening. The va
rious reports made some 5000 pages,
and it has required about 1000 reams
of paper, or about $4,000 pounds for
this class of the State work. st. Peter
has been pretty well advertised, these
reports being sent to every State in the
Union.
We are in receipt of copy of the
American Agricultural Association
journal. 1t is pamphlet containing
25s pages OF agricultural reading, inter
spersed with few neat engravings
The objects of the association are the
protection and advancement of agricul-
ture in all its branches. Its pages are
replete with information upon the dairy,
ancient husbandry, agriculture in Eng.
land, the fuel problem on the prairies,
farmers and the tariff agricultural
instruction for the young, the railroad
and the farmer, the ripening of wheat
and innumerabl0 other items of interest
From Red Wing to Mankato.
A contract has been signed with the
Cannon River Improvement company to
build railroad from Red Wing, on the
Mississippi river at the head of Lake
Pepin, to Mankato. 1t is designed to
build it via Cannon Falls, Faribault and
Waterville. If it strikes the latter point,
then the line will probably enter Blue