The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-11-04

Stanu 10 inc rack III every ""o IL
this city next Tuesday and see tina
your rights are asserted.
Attention is called to the new an,
large advertisement of Geo. Il. Brett IN
this weeks issue. 1t speaks louder
than words.
Thos. j. Knox, Esq, of Jackson
one of the leading attorneys of southern
Minnesota, was in town Tuesday t.
argue II motion before Judge Severanc,
in Chambers.
The rumor that II. ID. Hubbard had
sold out, was without any foundation
as well as that of the county officers re-
signing in consequence of the reduction
of their salaries.
The Minnesota river ut this point was
the highest this week that il has been
since last spring. Judging from Its
rapid rise last Sunday, the country
above us must be all ailoat.
Voters in the county! prepare your.
selves for deluge of bottled wrath and
bushels of unn.itigated lies which are
To he freely circulated the evening be-
tore election and on election day
Forewarned is forearmcd.
The Odd Fellows lodge at this place
met last Monday night and passed
resolutions to the memory Of Herbert T
Haddock, who was II member of the
order previous to his death. The rcSolu
tons are printed elsewhere.
Mrs. p. Il. Sparrow, her mother and
sister, left for Cincinnati, OHIO, yesterday
morning The last two reside At Cincin'
natl, while Mrs. Sparrow will only make
Il short visit.
Vote for Isaac N. Dean for Commits
sioner of the Second District and elect Il
man who will take IN individual inter
est in county affairs and guard the iinan'
| CeS Oh the county
Representative Burger became deeply
interested in the charges against Judge
Cox, and said that he served with the
Judge in the army and didn't believe
the charges.
Under the new apportionment bill
Minneapolis and st. Paul are placed in
the same district This is as it should
be and they can now fight among them
selves like two cats tied together and
thrown across Il clothes line.
Mrs. +. J. Banks, Of Liberty Mills,
Indiana. daughter of our townsman j,
j. Shaubut, arrived here last week Tor
months visit She expresses herself rs
well pleased with viewing old and
familiar scenes.
DR.. Trcnkler, German homeopathic
physician, has an advertisement in this
weeks paper. The Doctor says he has
practiccd twcnty-four years in America,
and was an assistant-surgcon in the army
during the Rebellion.
If the various town clerks or any
other person in the county will send
this office the election returns from
their towns Immediately after the re-
suit is announced, they will confer a
favor which the proprietOrs will fully
appreciate.
1t seems curious anomaly that the
Wells Adcocate should be supporting the
Democratic candidate for County Attor-
ney in Faribault county, instead of the
regular Republican candidate.
There will be social meeting of
the faculty and students of the Normal
School at Normal hall this friday
evening. This will be the first of a
series of such meetings to be continued
through the winter.
Mr.. o. r. Mather is shipping sand to
Fairmout, to be used in finishing the
| new Court House. We have plenty of
sand necessary for building purposes,
but there is another kind of sand which
will run out soon if the weather does
not permit threshing to be done.
1t is safe to say that the deposit Of
sand opposite the city of Mankato, by
the flood in the Minnesota river last
spring, is equal to all the requirements
of the city for the next hundred years
with some to spare to our neiShbors
1t is good sand, too.
The bill which Representative Book
walter introduced in the Legislature
lately to vacate a portion of the town
site of the township of Vernon Center
this county, has been vetoed by the
Governor, who says that he invariably
vetoes such bills from the fact that they
might do great injustice to property
owners.
The last resort of our opponents is tina,
Of a forlern hope, the creation OF Jeal'
ousies among Republicans. How well
they will succeed, let the ballsts when
counted show. We have too much re-
spect and confidence in our candidates
to fear that their harmony will be dis
turbed or their success imperiled by
such tactics. Shoe fly, don't bother us
What is the matter with the Demo
cratic candidate for County Treasurer
A Democratic voter from the candi-
dates own town Danville) commune
Gates to US as fact that he 1.-THE candi-
date, doesn't pay cent of real estate
tax in this county, from the fact that
he does not own foot of land upon
which to pay tax. Is this so! Why
we supposed that he was one OF the
heaviest taxpayers in the county.
C. A. Payne, Esq, of Lilly Lake, has
finished threshing his wheat. Yield, 8
bushels per acre. He has plowed and
narrowed thoroughly, used the best of
seed, and yet, his returns are not assur-
ing. His sons tell us they are done
with wheat. Corn and stock is now
their motto. That is just what we have
been harping about these many days.
That is the road. Corn is sure crop.
Wheat, as the Indian said of the white
man, mighty uncertain
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