The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-08-26

season.
Prof. Edward Soaring has accepted al
invitation TO address the people at TN
Garden City Fair, on the last day of it
session.
Another correspondent visiting Man
kato and its attractions. gives the FREI
PRESS readers her observations ut Lake
Madison.
The Organ at the Presbyterian churcl
has been put in order at an expense o
$e5. Now it discourses sweeter must,
than vel.
Mr.. j. A. Gilmore. of this county
left at the FREE Press office last Satur.
day a couple Of hens eggs, which fol
size. are hard TO beat.
The Presbyterian church At Amboy,
will he dedicated next Sunday AT eleven
o'clock. A general invitation is extend
ed to all friends.
A wagon and carriage m~anufactory
has been lately formed at Red Wing,
with a capital stock of 100000. Man
u~factories build up a town.
p. X. johnson still retains in his pos
session a small hand trunk which he
bought II years ago this fall. 1t was
made in Newark. New Jersey.
Boston. Mass, had a touch of cold
weather on Wednesday. the 18th inst.
in the shape of sleet and snow. Herein
the hub" carries off the palm.
j. c. Sterling, formerly of this city,
as n member of the firm of Terry Il
Sterling, has lately been elected princi-
pal OF the Union School of St. Cloud.
The Sanitary council under the
direction of the State Board of Health
meet AT Albert Lea. Wednesday and
Thursday, August 3lst. and Sept. lst.
the Seventh day Adventists still
continue their meetings at St. Peter.
lmmense ,hrongs OF spectators witnessed
the baptism at the river side last Sunday.
Rev. w. Whitney will preach at the
Baptist church in this city next Sunday
morning at the usual hour and at Good
Thunder Sunday afternoon at half past
three.
Several of our citizens went to
W~orthington last Saturday to attend
the funeral of Ex-Governor Miller
Hon. NJ. H.. Dunnell accompanied the
party.
At the funeral of Ex-Governor Miller,
last Saturday, Hon. ID. A. Dickinson
Of this city, was II of the pail bearers
The body was buried with Masonic
honors.
Prairie chickens, by the hundred
are being shipped into this State from
Iowa, 50 the papers say but it j:
merely supposition that they come
from Iowa.
"The cup that cheers, but not inc
briates," was dispensed at the residence
of Mrs. Major Rose, on Jackson street,
to a delightful company of ladies
Wednesday evening.
Judge ID. A. Dickinson arrived home
yesterday noon, to stay Il week, there.
fore We conclude that the Supreme court
have concluded their labors and filed
their decision upon the bond question.
Mr.. G. w. Pond, a member of POND
Bros. Clothing Emporium, Of Sioux
City, arrived in this city last Monday
The above firm will Don open a firsI
class Clothing House in one of Mr.. Burt,
new store rooms.
Mr.. Robert Goodyear presented II,
with Il sample of the Duchess apples
which he raised this year. They are
beauties, and fully demonstrate the fact
that Minnesota can grow fruit as SUE
cessfully rs the the Eastern states.
Messrs. Fields & Co., who commenced
threshins last Monday, report the fol
lowing averages of grain to the acr,
in Mcpherson: VIM. Fields, Z bushels
DR.. Haynes, 6 bushels Taylor Green
8 bushels; VIM. Gcddes, 8 bushels.
VIM. Hall, is a candidate for the of
flee of Register of Deeds. He has worked
about four years in the Office and il
thoroughly qualified to fill the position
We do not think the county can place
its records in more efficient or faithful
hands.
Hon. Richard Lewis, II member O
the legislature from this county las
winter, received a telegram yesterda,
announcing the death of his brOtlie
at ~Ixonia, Jefferson county, Wis. MI
Lewis left ON the train this mornin.
to attend the funeral, which takes plac
tomorrow.
Rev. Pollock, from Newark, Ne,
Jersey, preached to full house, morning
and evening, at the Presbyterian churcI
"
last Sunday. Mr.. Pollock is a man q
rare scholarly attainmcnts. He enlarge
upon his theme in such a keen, tcrs
and logical ann as to awaken a
interest eve in the prosiest listener.
In the locahdepartment Of the Phone.
Press of the oath, we find the followin.
There were a couple Of serious acc
dents on the Omaha road, at Mankat
on Monday night. A brakeman name
Ferrow fell from the top of a box ca
fractured his collar bone and injure
his skull SO severely that fears of u fat
termination are entertained. AnOth'
brakeman, William Odell, was bad
pinched by the pilot Of an engine.