The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-12-23
BRIEF nj NTION.


The banks of this city will be closed
next Monday in observance of Christ
mas.
Our dealers in Christmas trees find
ready sale for them from adjacent
towns.
The mother of the Pond brothers,
accompanied by nephew, from Sioux
City, are visiting the boys
j. G. Roller made shipment of
$4,000 pounds of wool this week, and
not much of week either!
Mrs p. X. johnson, left yesterday
morning for brief visit at Brainard,
MINI. p. X. says he is lonesome.
Theodore Williams little girl fell
from high chair last Tuesday night,
and received rather serious injuries.
IT. IL. Andrews and family departed
via the Northwestern road last evening
for holiday visit to friends in Michi-
gan.
DIR. Benjamin Durkee has complct-
ed arrangements to locate in Minncap-
oils this winter. He leaves next Mon
day.
There will be State Superinten-
dents convention held at st. Paul, Tues
day, Wednesday and Thursday, of next
week.
Mr.. W. T. Mills is buying large
quantities of hoop-poles and stacking
the same in his yard in the rear OF his
butter factory.
DIR. Bolton will be home To. morrow
and remain all of next week. If you
want to see him, call III Rosebrook's and
Phillips livery stable.
Uncle Toms Cabin at the Opera
House = Monday night, in all its
pristine beauty, together with blood
negro drivers etc.
Rev. L. Lane, of Marshaltown,
Iowa, has been holding religious meet
ngs at the Christian church every
evening since last Sunday.
Next Monday and the Monday
following are set apart for gala days at
The Union Hall, where everybody will
receive present that attends.
The supposition is that an addition
II freight train will soon be put on by
he Milwaukee company, to accommo-
late their large freight traffic from this
,ity.
1t is wonderfully strange how the
Rerierc could publish the entire court
proceedings two days before that body
adjourned. Some men are born great
however.
Fred. Fowler claims to be the
'ossessor of the only perfect formed,
iouble calf in the world, and we guess
lie is. If Barnum had it he would make
. fortune.
Only two more days until Christ
mas, little folks, when old Santa Claus
will come out from his hiding place and
i'll your stockings and shoes with pre-
ents from his wonderful pack.
We would call attention of our
armer friends to the article in :his issue
rom the pen of Joseph Dobie, Esq,
sterling, and invite them to relate their
"A case of small pox was unearthed
me day last week at Window. 1t
night with truth he said, $50 near, yet
20 far" But keep your weather eyes
open Mr.. Board of Health.
H. c. Howard removed his ma
,hinery fixtures this week from the old
stone building on Front street to Mr..
Jas. CannOn's building on Hickory str,
opposite Pays livery stable.
"A few young friends of Harry
Brown, spent an enjoyable evening
last night at A. II. Pfau's residence, and
partook of a sumptuous rcpast gotten
up by Mankato's caterer, II. A. Mas.
Mr.. w. B. Scattergood, wife and
two children, from Ithaca, Michigan,
arrived in the city last Wednesday on a
visit to his father, Mr.. ]. Scattergood,
and intend remaining until after New
Years.
The ladies of the Congregational
church will furnish supper in John F..
Meagher's sw building Wednesday
eve, Dec. %. oysters and all dainties
of the season W. &c served by walters
in Puritan and Gu, z costume.
B. d. Pay & Son ave received a
fine lot of those elegant, u swell body
cutters for sale, also an invOi, \ of runner
attachments to fit any sleigh wagon.
They are just the thing for livery men,
jobbers and others who do any amount
of travelling.
Rev. DIR. Rice, of Minneapolis, will
preach at the Presbyterian church next
Sabbath, morning and evening. In the
morning his subject will be "Highcr
Education" and as Mr.. Rice is an able
and accomplished speaker that subject
will be well handled.
The children of the Congregational
Sabbath school recently took up "a col
lection and donated the amount, some
"a, to the children of the Industrial
school, as a fund to enable the latter to
purchase books, etc. The motives OF
the children are worthy Of commenda-
ton.
j. Lutte Christie, formerly of this
city, is going to locate at Superior, Wis
He was up there last Summer and oh.
tanned such favorable opinion of that
embryo city and its surroundings, that
he at once resolved to take his chances
with the rest and grow up with the
place.
j. G. and Fred III. Fowler bought
last week the old stone building OPP
posite the City Hall, for $4,000. They
will at once nut IL In thnrnnnh rnnai,