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


pulpit ut the Presbyterian church next
Sunday morning and evening.
A great many of our people went to
the Fairs this morning under the suppo-
sltion that the weather would remain
good the remainder of the week.
Milkmen in Ohio have raised the
price of that fluid to s cents per quart.
Don't tell Martin. Clark, Fletcher or
Parrot, the milk vendors of our city.
Two weeks from next Wednesday,
the Republican State Convention will
meet, to nominate the mex Governor
of Minnesota and other State officers.
One letter in every three hundred sent
is unclaimed in the Office to which it
goes. and one letter in two hundred and
eighty-three turns up at the dead-lettcr
office.
The State Board of Equalization met
at St. Paul Tuesday last, and the Gov
ernor appointed Mr.. G. c. Chamberlin,
of the FREE PRESS, a member from the
Sixth District.
Rev. j. +. Merriam, the newly elect
ed pastor Of the Baptist Church of this
city, has arrived and occupies the
residence Of Gen. Bishop, near the
county buildings.
We have evidence that there will be
eight candidates more for Sheriff before
the Convention than have been an
nounced. Why wouldn't it be well for
each delegate to vote for himself.
Minnesota has come to he called the
paradise of hunters. Dense population
decimates game, and to the sportsman
is paradise lost" while in a sparse
population is "par,d disc r~egained."
The subscriber who desired to know
the result of sowing clover in Septem
Der, will find information from an old
experienced farmer of Belgrade, on the
second page of the FREE Press to-day.
The State bond tribunal met at st.
Paul the 9th, As contemplated, and ad-
journcd until the Goth, owing to the
Supreme Court not having rendered its
decision in the application for the writ
of prohibition.
1t was the third building from the
corner in the Shaubut block, that was
sold last week by the First National
Bank, and the other two buildings in
the same block can be purchased reason
ably of the same party.
Gen. Bishop and sister, Of st. Paul
exhibited their generosity in a yer!
handsome manner last week, by pre-
senting the Baptist Church Of this cit.
with two elegant pulpit chairs.
Well done, General! You may b'
sure that the recipients of your kindnes
fully appreciate the same.
Changes are occurring all over on
city, new buildings fastening to com
pletion, and old mes being torn dow
and set up in new places,or carried ava
for utilizing in other localities. The oil
railroad Office and depot Of the Well
or Southern Minnesota railroad is bein
d~ismantled preparatory to remov,
to Okabena.
After four nights and three days O
almost incessant rain, on Thursday mOrr
ing out burst the sun with gent;
warmth, imparting new life and vitalit
to the animal, vegetable and insect kin.
dom. The genial, soft and drying win
comes up from the south, stealing an
giving odor, while the h~urdy-gurdy Q
the streets is ~softening all threatenir
asperities by its ravishing swells.
1 We were sorry to read in one of OF
: metropolitan dailies, that Mr.. 7. '
r Woodland, u venerable father, had Il
misfortune to have his pocket pickle
of $40 and some valuable papers at Il
d Minneapolis Fair last Wednesday. II
g advice to his boys when going aw,
d from home among strangers, invariab
was, "Take care that your pockets a
}. not picked" Now is the time for Il
It boys to point an index finger at til
d timely injunction.
II 1t seems to be the prevailing opini
at among leading republicans, that t
o approaching Republican convent
d should select delegates to the st,
Ia convention without being instructed
IN any particular candidate for Govern
70 or any other Office, but to select til,
rs for their special fitness to represt
it Blue Earth County.
10 This is right, for no man 1
~ body of men who are trammelled W
~ pledges and instructions a be of q
~ particular Importance, except to "
ID. when Simon says wag! Blue Ea
ch County thus far, has produced no 1
,st which it wants to fry, but the univer
m sentiment is that Judge Dickinson
ire nominated one of the three assoei
Mt. Justices Of the Supreme Court.