The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1882-09-22
HOME JOTTINGS.

Thirty head of cows will lie sCld
at ID. 4. Jones farm next Thursday.
If you want good mich COW, nj.
tend ID. A. Jones auction next Thurs.
day.
Sunday WAS one Of the warmcst
days We have had during the entire
summer.
Corn is ont of the reach Of frost
and the crop will average well with
former years.
Parties can learn Of three pleasant
rooms for light house keeping 10y en-
quiring at this office.
Do not forget the auction at the
farm of ID. A. Jones, an Thursday next.
All kinds of farm machinery.
-Threshing is being vigorously
pushed. and considerable new wheat is
daily arriving upon the market.
We want twenty cords of dry wood
on subscription at THE FREE Press.
Will our friends please make note OF
this and answer the call!
In another column will he found
an advertisement of farm for sale, 10.
Gated in lie Ray township. Parties de-
string such place, can get bargin.
The Fair season may bc fairly CON
sl3ered at an end. and fair has been the
weather for fairs. Eighteen hundred
and eighty-two has been fair yea- witt,
all the the other fairs and he who grum-
bles is not Il fair man.
There will he service of song at
the Congregational church next Sunday
evening at 80 o'clock. All are in
vited to attend and take part in the ser
vice. Gospel hymns Nos. ? and 3 will
be used. Please bring them.
Prof. Flint has opened a shooting
school in block IA, where he is prepared
To give lessons in rifle shooting at
reasonable rates. Exhibition shooting
by the Professor himself every day and
evening. Go and see him practice some
peculiarly difficult shots.
The secretary of the agricultural
society will leave all orders for prem
iuns in the hands of Clements X Piper,
and the money to pay same can he
drawn At Citizens National Bank. This
is done for the reason that the secretary
is uncertain as to the postoffice address
of many of those entitled TO premiums.
Mr.. A. Handy. OF Good Thunder
End Miss Kate Frye, of Dccoria, were
maried Thursday at the residence of
the brides parents. A large number of
immediate friends of the contracting
PARTIES were present and a festive time
enjoyed 10y all. The young people start
out in life with the best wishes of Il
host Of friends.
AT the residence Of the hrilc's par
ents in Blue Earth City, on Wednesday
the Goth, inst, Mr.. J. l.. Higgins. %
Fairmont, and Miss Ella Sly, of Blue
Earth City, were united in marriage
Hr. Higgins Is the present County At
gtorney, of Martin county, and Is youn.
IMAM Of excellent character, bright i'll
;tellect and every way worthy Of th'
prize lac has drawn.
When at the Garden City Fair ON,
day last week, G. q. Burt, Esg., of this
city unconsciously got off II takin" pun
In company with several other gentle
men he was walking out Ia the Fail
grounds, and closely behind followed
Mr.. Dunnell and several friends. &. &
put his hands, rs is his wont, in tn,
pockets of his coat and exclaimed
why, my pockets are full Of sand =
The boys got onto the joke and had
right hearty laugh. But Burt says Il,
has not commenced "hauling sand,
all the same.
Last Wednesday, Mr.. Charlie
George, Of st. Paul, secured for lit
partner, one of Mankato's fairest daugh
tiers, in the person of Miss Ncttie Smith
The young lady is well and favorabl
known TO our citizens, having grown t
wOmanhOod among us. The cercmo
NY was performed at the residence @
the brides parents by the Rev. MI
Higgins. The presents were many an
very beautiful. The happy couple de
parted for Chicago, Thursday morning
on two weeks trip after which the
will locate at Fargo, ID. +. And nov
as they are preparing to launch tlIeI
gilded argosies of hope and happincs
npon the roscat sea of matrimony, Til
FREE PRESS joins with their man
friends in the hope that in after ycar
those same ships will continue to drill
in pleasant seas, and avoid the rock
and breakers that are so numerous i
tHlS lie Oh ours.
On TueSdaY morning about
o'clock, some rufiian evidently ha
foul intentions on IsidOre LOngini
Clothing Store. The windows in tn
rear part of the store are protected b
iron CRATES, which are almost proc
positive against entrance by burglars
After testing the same and becOmin
convinced that entrance by this mean
would he impossible the thief q
scouBdfel procured a stick, thrust
between d,a bars, smashing the windo,
md knocking down two trunks tia
were inside. The noise aroused til
boys who were asleep in the store, an
shouting to Mr.. Longini who has slecj
ing apartments overhead, the villai
took fright and absconded. Either III
attempt was made for plumber {
through pure curscdness, and it mater
little which. No idea is entertained i
Mr.. LOngini who the party, or parti'
can be, and the fact will probaDl
never be known. On the same nigh
and about IL o'clock two pistol sho
were fired ia the alley, near the stor
but who did the shooting is also an u
solved mystery. Policeman Kelley
on the outlook for these faceti0Hs ind
Viduals, and woe betide them if !
ever gets his clutches upon them.