The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1882-09-08

church.
-Fowlcr's Second Hand store
doing a rushing business about thes
!, days. Stoves are blacKed and set U
= by the dray load, which is indicative
the approach of congealing weather.
/. Pond Bros, come to the front thi
!. week, and give the public to under
!. stand that their stock of clothing &c.
is complete. and that they will Civ
: bargains. Call and see them, We need.
ones
Christensen Il Chapman sold on
| day last week for A. Howard Merritt, I,
W. p. Marsten and II. Humphrey, o
Lake Crystal, the northeast quarter o
section II, town of Lincoln. Consider
alton. 50 800.
4 IL. 4. Kufus, the "Red Lion" man
has his store-room full TO Overlooking
with scasonable goods, and VOWS he viii
grant exceptional bargains TO all who
favor him with their patronage. lie
will have an opportunity to verify his
assertion.
The Linsccd Gil Mill started up
yesterday morning after a "rcst" oftwc
and a half months, during which time
many valuable Improvements have been
made and everything put in No. ! or
der. The probabilities are that the
mill will he put in possession of all the
seed it can consume.
We understand that Mr. ii. W.
DcGroodt has leased from Mr.. Irving
the building on the corner of Front and
Jackson streets, recently occupied by
| the Bon Ton restaurant 1t is not
known just what business Mr.. DeGroodt
will engage in, but probably new res
taurant will he opened.
The Chicago n Northwestern R'y.
Co. are selling tickets Ia persons wish
ing to attend the Chicago Exposition at
1866 for the round trip. To Milwau-
kec at $3.50 for the round trip. These
rates include one ticket To Exposition.
| Tickets will he limited to allow passen
gers ample time To take in the points
of interest.
In another column will be found
an announcement of the marriage of
Miss Alice Powell, graduate from our
! Normal School with the class of n,
who for the past year and half has
been teacher of the primary department
in the public schools of Tracy. Mrs.
Councilman has many friends in Man.
kato who join in wishing her good
and full allotment of connubial bliss.
Mr. A. l.. Bushnell, general agent
for Minnesota, Wisconsin, Northern
Illinois and other states, for the sale of
Zcll's Condensed Cyclopedia, complete
in single volume, and by the way u
little the most convenient and desirable
of anything of the kind We have seen,
has been canvassing the city during the
week. He has met with exceptional
favors. and is really an unusually
good man at the business.
The Blue Earth county products
now on exhibition at Rochester will be
taken Ia Chicago and placed on exhibit
ton. They will he in charge of Mr..
Whitney, of Marshall. If our Board of
Trade would consider the matter, it APP
pears Ia us that this would be an excel
lent place TO dispose of thousand
copies of THE FREY PRESS mammoth
edition, inasmuch as people from all
sections of the country will be present.
"A new school house, 22x32, is To be
erected and ready for occupancy in
Dist. No. -, town of Judson, by the
lst of November. The old school
building has, we understand, been sold
to the town, and is to he used in future
for holding elections, caucuses and
other public meetings. The Board of
Directors have ordered that the new
building he closed against uses of any
kind except that for which it is to be
built.
Mrs Gen. Baker desiring, to meet
her many friends in the county, invites
| all to provide themselves with baskets
of edibles and participate in regular
old-fashioned picnic, on the second and
last days of the fair. That Mrs. Bakers
desires in this regard will meet with a
hearty response, may not he questioned.
Mankato will certainly he well repre-
scmtcd, and we have every reason to be-
lieve that the country will not be he.
hind in this move.
The many friends of Mr.. OrsOn
Mendcnhall, will regret tie learn of his
determination to leave Mankato. Mr..
NJ. has held responsible positions as dry
goods clerk in this city for ten years, the
past four years of which have been spent
with Mcconnell & Co. Mr.. Mcnden-
hall leaves Monday morning with his
family for Minneapolis, where he will
make his future home, and in whatever
business he may engage will certainly
have the best wishes of all for his sue
cess.
e. Smith, Esq, Of Garden City, il
entitled to the premium thus far fol
samples of Minnesota grown apples
THE FREE PRESS is made the recipient
Of a nice lot of the Duchess Gutenberg
variety, which are by all means the
largest we have seen grown in the State
4 sample of the Russian variety is also
received from the same gentleman, and
its Transparency is so perfect that il
might easily be mistaken for ball o.
wax. Mr.. Smith will please accep
thanks for his kindly remembrance.
The FREE PRESS has to acknowl
edge the receipt of Il picnic poem from
an anonymous correspondent, contain
j, ing seven verses. While it is entirel
D against the rules of every well regulat
ed printing Office to publish anony
2 nous correspondence in any form, W
: venture to give our readers the opening
e stanza of tins unique production.
Y In Tincomvile, the other night,
There came near being n fight
About some cake.
, The stove was bad,
And made u flaw,
e. Therefore the cake was raw.
1t is only necessary to explain the re
!, manning portion of the poem by assert
| inc that the author recommended giy