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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1882-01-06
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
MISCELLANEOUS.

There are $780, 1893 colored people
in the United States,
Poland-China pigs are being sent
from Illinois to Germany for breeding
purposes.
Miss Vanderbilt's wedding dress
had train l78 inches-nearly Is feet
long.
For selling SKINNED milk in New
York, one vender was sentenced to
Imprisonment for a month in the
Penitentiary.
A cart.load of postage stamps, the
result of years gathering by a col
lector of La Porte, Ind, is being sold
at auction in New York.
The girl that was locked in her
lovers arms for three hours, explains
that it was not her fault. She claims
that he forgot the combination,
The Postmaster. General has decid-
ed that wife's letter to another man,
dropped into the post.oflice under sus-
picious circumstances, cannot be
given to her husband by the postal
authorities.
Smith Wright, of Wiliston, VT,
annually fattens from 5000 to 1000
turkeys, 1000 to 1900 geese, and
800 to $500 ducks. He cultivates
"a farm of 300 acres, and manages a
dairy of 40 cows. One lot of his
poultry last year brought him SIC, 900
1t is said that bookings are already
secured by the agents of different
steamship lines for 500, 900 emigrants.
1t is evident that the population is
to be largely increased next year.
Another million is demanded for
the construction of the bridge be.
tween New York City and Brooklyn,
and the public and trustees are look
ing for explanations.
The great steel arms of the Brook.
lyn bridge, reaching from the towers
out over the East river, have met in
the center of the stream, and the
structure begins to give promise of
early completion,
During the year ending May 81,
1881, 40,997 900 feet of understandable
lumber cut in Minnesota. 1875, 900
feet in Mississippi, 245 $4,000 feet
in Alabama, POS 1854, 900 in Florida,
and 274, 440, 900 feet in Texas.
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You Dan Do Your Best.

President futile, of Wabash college,
closed his baccalaureate with words Of
inspiriting counsel to the graduating
class. We commend them to al
young men who may chance to read
them:
'.For several years you have been
working for the honors of graduation.
As you reach the coveted goal, you
meet the crowds Of the unemployed.
The case is not one to inspire hope. Is
there anything you can do about itP
There is something you cannot do-you
cannot change the fact. In spite Of
your wishes, the professions are over
crowded, or at least seem to be. But
there is something you can do-you
can do your best? and that is some
thing.
A select few do it. Thousands do
not. We sometimes speak of aristoc-
racies. Those based on wealth and
family are not the noblest of the class.
This aristocracy, composed of those
who edo their best" is the noblest.
The professions are not overcrowded
with this sort, but with the other. To
be this sort of q man-one that "does
his best. us as easy to be Q Milo. q
Michael Angelo. or . Paul. Do you
grant itp What thenp This. In that
difficult, but splendid personal trait Gf
you have it,) you have the strong pre-
sumption-I had almost said prophecy
of success. The man who .does his
best" has a passport sealed with the
kings signet. to some worthy field.
There certainly is place somewhere
for such q man.
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PROBATE NOTICE.

STATE OF MINNESOTA, County of Blue
- Earth-ss.-In Probate Court.
In the matter of the estate of Francis A.
Pcrcival, deceased.
The State of Minnesota and the Probate Court
10 all persons interested i'm the estate of
Francis A. Percival, deceased, greeting:
Whereas, Loren w. Percival, of the county
Tolland, State of Connecticut, has filed his
petition in the Probate Court of the county
OF Blue Earth for letters of administration to
Issue to said petitioners, Loren W. Percival
and Joseph A. Freeman, on the estate OF
Francis A. Perclval, late Of said Blue Earth
county, deceased.
Therefore, you and each of you are cited
and required to appear at the office of the
Judge of Probate In the city OF Mankato, I'm
said county, on Monday, the 9th day of
January, 1852, at ton o'clock In the forenoon,
OF that day, and show cause why letters of
administration upon said estate should not
issue to the said Loren w. Percival and
Joseph A Freeman, as prayed for in said pc
tition.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set
my hand and affixed the seal Of the Probate
Court this 18th day OF December, A. ID. 1881.
tSEAL.l G. w. MEAD,
Judge Of Probate.
THOMAS & wAsHBURN,
Attorneys for Petitioner. 25wi
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MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE.

WHEREAS, default has been made I'm the
w conditions of n certain mortgage eXecut-
cd and delivered by Jasper e. Talcott and
Margaret Tulcott his wife mOrtgagOrS, to
Daniel A. Dickinson mortgagee, dated the
10th day of December A. ID. eighteen hundred
and seventy and recorded In the office of the
Register If Deeds of the county of Blue Earth
I'm the state of Minnesota, on the 30th day OF
December, A. ID. 1870, at II; o'clock p. NJ, in
book "L" of mortgages, on page 100, secur-
ing payment Of the sum of $3l7 S0-l00 with IL
gage, on which there is claimed to be due, at
the date Of this notice, the amount of Nine
Hundred and seventy-three 7o-ioo dollars and
NO action or proceeding has been instituted
at law or in equity to recover the debt secur-
ed by said mortgage or any part thereof.
Now, notice is hereby given, that by virtue
of power of sale contained In said mortgage,
and OF the statute In such case made and
provided, said mortgage will be fOreclosed by
sale OF the mortgaged premises therein des-
cribed, al public auction at the front door of
the office of Register of Deeds in the city OF
Mankato In the county of Blue Earth and
State OF Minnesota, on Saturday the cath day
OF December, A. D., eighteen hundred and
eighty-one, at ten O'Clock I'm the forenoon, to
satisfy the amount which shall then be due on
said mortgage, with the interest thereon, and
costs and expenses OF sale, and Twenty-Five
dollars attorneys fees, as stipulated in said
mortgage in case OF foreclosure. The prem
sold, are the lot, piece or parcel Of land sitri-
ated in the county of Blue Earth and State of
Minnesota, and known and described as fol-
lows, to-wit : The west half of the northwest
quarter of Section Thirteen CIS) in Township
One Hundred and five QO6) north Range TWEEN
ty-six C26) west of the fifth principal meridian.
THOMAS w.s pANIEL A. DIckkd HS,ssSse.
Attorneys of Mortgage.
Dated November 10th 1881.
The above sale Is hereby postponed until
Saturday, the 9Th day Of January, 1882, at 10
o'clock In the forenoon at the place indicated
in the above notice.
Dated November 30th, 1881.
DANIEL A. DICKINSON,
Mortgage.
THOMAS & WAsHBURN,
Attorneys for Mortgage.
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Exactness.

Too many women are satisfied If their
work is "near enough to perfection.
They do not know how to be exact.
Says . writer. discussing this lack on
the part of her sex: lone of the great
est difficulties I had when beginning to
keep house was the utter impossibility
of getting definite directions. How
often an earnest, almost despairing
question was met with this reply. oh,
about this you must use your own
Judgment How seldom in the coun-
try, at least, can dressmaker be found
whom we may reasonably hope will
make both sides Of your dress waist
alike, and both sleeves of the same
length. In every department of life we
meet with it. How many notifications
would a woman be spared did she but
cultivate the habit of seeing what she
looks at; have known women of more
than ordinary intelligence in certain
directions who, when lamp chimneys
were held in place by screw, . very
simple arrangement, never even at
tempted to put chimney on the lamp"
How can this tendency to inaccuracy
be accounted for? Woman was surely
not intended for an amiable sort of in
capable.
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FAR M L AM S 4!

We said in former advertisement -" To person of
land is cheaper to-day and in the long in Blue Earth
county $40 than at 50 So per hundred miles
from timber By the time the settler these praes has
made his roads and Bridges got churches and schools and bought
rewood and timber until he grow his own his land will
him than $40 per acre. We repeat again emphasized by
results OF the October blizzard the stormswept pes lying
for hundred miles the losses of stock reported
lost largely because there timber with which utilize the
hay and straw for shelter
We have large of farming lands for sale in Blue
Earth and adjoining counties and suit customer either with
proved or Lands have been rising since harvest
and will likely keep going At prices they will bet
ter as an investment than interest Parties who
thinking OF buying will get better bargains than along towards
spring
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First insertion Dec. 9, 1881: last insertion Jan
usry %. 1882.
MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE.

DEFAULT having been made in the condi-
~ tons or certain mortgage executed by
Lila Lyon, mortgagor. to Charles Mansfield,
recorded in the ONCE Of the Register OF Deeds
In and for the county OF Blue Earth, In the
state OF Minnesota, on the 9th day OF Febru-
airy, A. ID. 1871, at IL O'Clock in the forenoon,
in Book OF Mortgages, on page 5a3; by
which mortgage there was conveyed and
granted the following described real estate
situate in the county OF Blue Earth aforesaid.
to-wit: The south fifty feet of Lots One and
Two Il and p I'm Block Seventeen az in Van
Brunts Addition 10 Mankato, according to
tho recorded plat thereof. to secure the pay
meut OF the sum of Three Hundred and Fifty
dollars, with interest at the rate OF twelve per
cent. per annum till paid, according To the
conditions OF Promissory note beaSehg same
date as said mortgage, made by said Lila Lyon
due and unpaid upon said note and mortgage
q the date Of this notice the sum of Four
Hundred Twenty-sixa nda5rlOOt$426 81 dollars,
dollars taxes and interest thereon paid upon
said premises by said MORTGAGE, who has the
county treasurers receipts therefor for the
years ISIS, 1879. 1850 and lSsi, making the total
amount now due OF Four Hundred Seventy
three and Ss-lo0 dollars (&7S.ssI. And no action
Or proceeding at law or otherwise having been
instituted TO recover the amount Of said
mortgage debt or any part thereof; Now,
therefore, notice is hereby given that by vir-
tue and In pursuance of power OF sale in
said mortgage contained and Herewith re-
corded, and OF the statute I'm such case made
and provided, the above described premises
will be sold at public auction, at the front
door of the office of the Register OF Deeds In
and for said county of Blue Earth, and at the
city OF Mankato therein, on
Saturday, January 2lst, A. d. 1882,
a. 10 o clock in the forenoon, to satisfy the
amount OF said mortgage debt then due and
unpaid, together with the costs and expense:
OF such foreclosure proceedings including
twenty-five dollars attorney fees rs stipulat
ed In said mortgage and the said mortgage
viii be thereby foreclosed.
Dated December 5th. 1851.
CHARLES MANSFIELD,
o. D. PITCHER, Mortgage.
Attorney for Mortgage.
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PROBATE NOTICE.
CTATE OF MINNESOTA, County Of Blue
- Earth-ss.-In Probate Court.
In the matter Of the estate Of Abner Shearer,

CTATE OF MINNESOTA, County Of Blue
- Earth-ss.-In Probate Court.
In the matter Of the estate Of Abner Shearer,
deceased.
On reading and filing the petition of w. p.
Comm, administrator Of the estate OF Abnsr
Shearer, deceased, setting forth the amount
and the disposition thereof, the amount of
debts outstanding against said deceased, and
q description of all the real estate of which
said deceased died seized, and the condition
and value of the respective portions thereof,
and praying that license be 10 him granted TO
sell all the real estate OF said deceased.
And IL appearing by said petition that II
would be beneficial and for the best interest
of the heirs of said deceased to sell all OF said
real estate, II Is therefore ordered that all
persons interested In said estate appear be-
February. A. ID. 1889, at ten O'Clock A. NJ, at
the Probate office In the city Of Mankato, in
said county, then and there TO show cause, II
any there be, why license should not be grant
ed TO said administrator to sell said real estate
according to the prayer OF said petition.
And IL Is further ordered that copy OF this
order shall be published for four successive
weeks prior 70 said day of hearing, the last OF
which publications shall be at least fourteen
days before said day OF hearing in the Manka:
70 Free Press, O weekly newspaper printed
published at hankato, In said county, and
personally served on all persons Interested In
said estate, residing in said county, at least
fourteen days before said day Of hearing, and
upon all other persons Interested according
70 law.
Dated at Mankato, the 10Th day Of Deem
Der, A. ID. 1881. G. w. MEAD,
81 Judge Of Probate.
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MANKATO FREE PRESS.
FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 1889.
farm, aud Ao,,sshnla.

A heifer calf, well taken care of
and kept in thriving condition, is
the cheapest COW when she takes her
place in the dairy that u farmer can
prepare. One of the mistakes in the
past has been the poor care of the
calves, and from the want of atten.
ton poor cows have been the result
Milk as rule comes of breeding and
proper feeding, the last of full equal
Importance. After the calf is a few
weeks old IA small ration of shorts
can be added and this can be in.
creased to about u pound a day, when
the milk can be withheld, and if
good. fresh growing grass is provid-
ed, the calf will show no falling off
in growth. A two year old heifer.
when ready to take her place in the
dairy, need not cost more than thirty
dollars to the outside, and if condi-
lions are favorable she will pay for
herself the first season. When once
this plan has been tried and its bene.
fits made clear by experience there
will he less grumbling about poor
cows bought out of droves.
A cord of stone. three bushels of
lime, and cubic yard of sand will
lay one hundred cubic feet of wall.
Five courses Of brick will lay one
foot in hight on chimney. Nine
bricks in course will make a hue
eight inches wide and twenty inches
long, and eight bricks in a course will
make tlue eight inches wide and
sixteen long. Eight bushels of good
lime, sixteen bushels of sand, and
one buShel of hair will make enough
mortar to plaster one hundred square
yards. One.fifth more siding and
flooring is needed than the number of
square feet of surface to be covered,
because of the lap in the siding and
matching of floor. One thousand
laths will cover seventy yards of sur
face, and eleven pounds of lath nails
will nail them. One thousand shingles
laid four inches to the weather will
cover one hundred square feet of
surface, and five pounds of shingle
nails will fasten them on.
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PROBATE NOTICE.

CTATE OF MINNESOTA, County OF Blue
y Earth.-ss.-In Probate Court.
In the matter OF the last will and testament
of Hiram Yates, deceased.
The State OF Minnesota and said Probate
Court 20 all persons interested In the estate
Of Hiram Yates, deceased, greeting:
Whereas, Charles e. Yates, OF the county
Of Blue Earth, has lately delivered to the
Probate Court OF the county OF Blue Earth
an instrument in writing, purporting to be
the last will and testament Of Hiram Yates,
late OF said county, deceased, and has applied
% said Probate Court for the proof of the
said will.
Therefore, you and each Of you are cited
end required 10 appear ~ tne once OF tne
Judge OF Probate, In the city OF Mankato, in
said county, on the 10th day OF January, 1852,
&C ten O'Clock In the forenoon of that day 10
attend the probate of said will.
In testimony whereof, have herenntO set
ny hand and AIMED the seal Of the Probate
Court, this 18th day Of December, A. ID. 1851.
tSEAL.l G. w. MEAD,
&w4 Judge OF Probate.
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1882.
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day, IL carries instruction and entertainment
to thousands of American homes.
Ii will always be the aim of the publishers
To make Hd,per's Weekly the most popular and
attractive family newspaper in the world.
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1882.
Harper's Magazine.
ILLUSTRATED.

always varied. always good, always i'm
proving FRANCIS ADAMS, Jr.
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II represents what is best I'm American litera-
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There is only one woman we know of
who can let other women pass by her
without looking after them to see
whether their polonaises are shirred in
the elbow and cut bias on the watch
pocket. The woman in question is q
tobacco sign on Pine street, says the
Williamsport breakfast Table.
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1.-THE last time saw Miss x" said
. nobleman speaking of a well-known
actress 10 witty dramatist. twas at a
morning performance, and she had
grown so stout that she almost filed
the box" 20. that's nothingr' said
the ready playwright. There was a
time when she filed tho theatre"
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A CARD.

Having made the study and treatment OF
lung-diseases a speciality for many years,
know, that consumption. caused by tubercu-
no more durable but my own treatment has
shown 30 happy results, that do not hesitate
any longer to advise persons with diseased
lungs 10 call ON me. The treatment is strictly
The names OF those cured by me, In the State,
county and city, will be communicated, on
reonest DIR. o. TRENKLER,
Mankato.
ONCE over ]. F. Meagher's new brick block
nOy25 81. 6mts
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TIM 3 Err L Nd S !

We think the extension of railroads greatly
the call for all kinds of wood timber However coal
hay may be used tor fuel timber absolute necessity null
ttude OF The constantly increasing demand will rapidly
absorb surplus We look for stronger rapid
improvement in timber than in farm lands.
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