The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1882-11-24

HOME JoTTINGs.
The County Alliance meets to-day
at Good Thunder.
That huge turkey will be carved at
Union Hall, Thursday evening next.
Farmers who do not take county
paper in these days of railroad cutting,
is losing money.
j. II. Chapman, the stationer, has
new lad on second page of to-day
paper. BE sure and read it.
-Mrs.W. b. Torrey died at her home
in this city last Tuesday morning, after
prolonged illness, and was buried on
Thursday.
Freedom and Alton, located in
Waseca county, will vote ON the Man
kato, Austin i ST. Cloud railroad bond
question, December end.
The NJ. E. Sociable will meet at
the residence of the pastor, Elder Mar
tin, this friday evening. Every one
is cordially invited to attend.
There is hardly married man in
town whose wife Is not away on a visit.
And it is now that the young folks
are putting in long hours.
Harry Waters had the misfortune,
one day last week, to loose one of his
fingers while AT work At the big mill
in GAINESVILLE. He is spending his
vacation at home in this city.
A. \. Mead, brother TO Judge Mead,
and tor some time deputy clerk ofcourts
of this county, is now connected with
the Singer Manufacturing Company at
Owatonna.
jacob Flachsenhar proposes TO serve
free lunch on Saturday evening OF this
week and Thursday evening of next
week. He will get good run of Gus
tom.
The Milwaukee & St. Paul road APP
preciate the services of their train men,
and have advanced the pay of freight
conductors from sac to SO per month,
and corresponding increase of pay TO
brakemen.
Club party at Union Hall tonight.
These gatherings are pronounced as
among the most enjoyable ever held in
the city, and the Young men who have
the management of details are doing
themselves proud.
The total number of pupils en-
rolled in the public schools of this city
to date, is 9s2, and the average for the
year is expected to lie considerably
larger than that of last or any former
year.
The Winona i St. Peter Ry. are
making up list of all clergymen en-
titled To half fare permits for 1888.
Clergymen wishing such permits should
confer at once with q. III. Fox, agent at
Winona Depot.
The ladies of the Congregational
Society Melted about $500 at the sup
per given under their auspices on We'd
nesday night. Considering the dissa-
greeable weather, the society did re-
markably well, and the ladies feel high
ly hattered at their success.
The FREE PRESS Warranty, Quit
Claim, and Mortgage Deeds, and in fact
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be the finest ever issued in the State.
They are all printed in new law italic
type, and present 4 handsome appear
ance indeed.
Mcdonnell & Co. appear before
our readers this week with change in
their advertisement, and after perusing
what this enterprising firm have to say,
none should fail 20 give them call and
their goods an examination. McCon-
nell & Co. have a mammoth stock of
goods.
The Y. NJ. c. A. have closed their
doors and turned over the books in their
possession to the High School Library.
With this new accession. the High
School has now nearly six hundred
volumes, included among which are
many of the most valued and standard
works eXtant.
There it is. Theodore Shirk had
his clothes line visited Wednesday night
IL 81 a.
shirts. towels, stockings, ETC., carried
off. The officers are on the alert for the
thief, and it is just barely possible that
there will lie music before the matter is
done with.
We have in stock a number OF
Weighcr's Receipt Books, which will be
sold at Chicago prices. They are print
ed on tirst-class paper, substantially
bound and each receipt contains d
schedule of legal weights of all kind:
of grain. Each book contains 500 re-
ceipts. Send in your orders to TIL
FREE PRESS.
The contract for building the bridge
across the lie Sueur on the town line o.
Mankato and Decoria townships and OF
what is known as the Decoria ant
Maplcton road, was let to John johnson
by the Commissioners, on Thursday
for 81 ,S44. The bridge is to he con
structcd of wood with stone abutments
and is required to be completed on o
before the first of Jnly, 1883.
Never has there been a more au
spicious season for farmers to complet
their fall work than the one jus
closed. To he sure it came off very dr.
soon after harvest, but subsequent copi
Gus showers and protracted mild wealth
or augmented to the decided advantag
of farmers, and they improved thel
time and surroundings as never before
In the spring all hands will be prepare
to strike in on their busy season; an
with favorable weather will have moth
: ing to retard them from keeping tn
upper hand of work as it comes.