The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1882-10-06
HOME JoTTINGS.

nv Il SpI llNSo.
Head ". b. Smiths local in anoth
er column.
Tiffany has new advertisement in
t"-day's paper.
w. 7. Mills shipped car load OF
butter on Tuesday.
Notice the announcement that MIR.
Brett makes this week.
-WANTED-A couple of good smart
girls to work in the Bindcry. Apply in
person at this office.
C. II. Presley has line of locals
in to-day's issue that will interest our
readers. He is daily in receipt of fresh
fruit.
John Arnold is building an addi-
ton To his house on North Front street,
l6xa0 two stories high, venecred with
brick.
1t is said that many cases of fever
exist within the city, ut present, which
should Ice Il caution TO our city authori-
ties AS regards sanitary regulations.
Last "Wednesday was midsummer
day. Al noon the mercury showed 81
degrees in the shade, and on the north
side of the buildings at that.
ANY person having the following
numbers Of llarper's Magazines, can
find purchaser 10y calling at this office:
June, lSS0. November and December.
1870.
Horace CumminS. one of the en-
tcrprising merchants of Eagle Lake.
left Tor Chicago, Tuesday evening, to
purchase stock of TALL and winter
goods.
Persons having one or more good
mich COWS, fresh or to become so ill.,
side of Nv" months, can find cash Gus
toner hy addressing a postal card TO
G. +. Weaver, Mankato.
Mrs Dittman has returned from
Chicago with her stock of fall and win
ter millinery, and is prepared to serve
her lady customers in becoming style.
She has an advertisement in this Issue.
Ia which the attention of the ladies is
directed.
Mr.. White, of Eagle Lake, father
To Mrs. Allen Moon, met with a painful
accident early Tuesday morning. He
was working in some capacity about a
cane mill, and his hand was caught in
the cogs OF wheel and horribly man
glcd. II is thought that the thumb
and one finger may he saved.
The dedication of the Baptist
church at Vernon Center will occur
next Sunday morning, Oct. sth, sermon
10y the Gen. Missionary Of the State.
Rev. l. W. Whitney. Preaching in the
evening 10y Rev. J. W. Merriam, of
Mankato. Members of ncIghhoring
sister churches and the public generally
are cordially invited TO lac present.
The many friends in this city of
Judge Dickinson, will regret To learn
that he has decided To remove his family
the first of next month To -. Paul, for
the winter. This step is made neccs-
sary from the fact that the Judges
duties are such that nearly or quite his
entire time will he required at the
Capitol. Our people will universally
look for the return of Mrs. Dickinson Ia
Mankato in early spring.
BE cautious, and carefully scrutin-
Izc what you drink. One day last week
a Mr.. Ruthhonc, of Fillmore county,
threw up from his stomach in Il fit of
coughing, Il couple of tiny hair snakes,
one OF which measured four inches in
length, and the other three inches.
People are too apt to drink water with
out properly inspecting the vessel from
which they sip, hence are liable to take
into the stomach foul and rcpulsi We
matter, which often proves fatal.
-FOw that the busy thrcshing season
is well upon Us, the results of the har
vest will shortly he counted among tn,
things of the past, and not, as now
among the wild conjcctures of an un
known quantity. So far as We hav,
been able to ascertain the thrcsher i
pretty we'll verifying the prognostica
ti0ns of an abundant yield of wheat. ant
while there is an occasional report o
only IL bushels TO the acre, the MAORI
~ of fields are considerably above thi.
figure, which will bring the average
higher than Tor the past eight years
with the quality almost UNIVERSAL,
No. ].
The Harvest Home Festival givel
by the young ladies of the NJ. f. society
on Saturday last, was a grand success
in every particular. TO Miss Ida Nc
Kinney, president of the society, an
Miss Mary MIllnor, great praise is du'
for the management of the affair. Thes
yOun" ladies canvassed the city fo
business cards to he inserted on the bill
announcing the entertainment, an
they succeeded in obtaining some sixty
five dollars through this unique process
alone. which, together with the fcstiva
and the sale of fancy articles, ncttcd til
society $40. We are glad that tn
ladies did so well, and our citizens al
to be commended for their respOnsiv
libcrality
THE FREE PRESS Bindery is boom
ing, and we have To thank our either
for their libcraIity in sustaining an el
tcrprisc SO much needed in Mankat'
We shall continue TO execute nOthin
but first-class work, and urge our frienc
in the country as wei! AS in the cit
to bring in whatever magazines in
other work they may have. Our tacil
ties for job work, now that our ne
presses and type have arrived, surpa
those of any other establishment i'll tn
section of the State, as an inspection
work will prove. Business men WI
consult their own interests by giving I
a call before placing orders elsewheI
for anything in the line Of printing.