The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1883-12-28
Personal.
w. r. Gcddes, ESQ, of Mapleton. was
i'm the CITY Monday.

in the city Monday.
Frank Bryan, Jr., is spending few
: days in the city with his aunt. Mrs. DR.
Dornberg.
Mr.. Willard Wiser, of WATERFOWL
ID. T., was been in the city the pas
few days.
Hon. &. G.. Spaulding was IN the cit
yesterday. He went to Madeia on the
evening train.
Mr.. Sheldon is home ON holiday va.
cation, looking after the interests OF
that little cherub.
Miss Hattie Bryan of st. Paul Bust
ness College is visiting with her Aunt,
Mrs. DR.. Dornberg.
Frank Sparrow and Will Snow, two
| Mankato representatives Mt st. Paul,
spent Christmas at home.
Miss Flora Snow starts for st. Paul
tomorrow evening TO JON her brother
Will, on visit with friends in Ohio.
Hugh Evans, Esq OF South Bend, is
attending business college at st. Paul
He is now home on holiday vacation.
Profs. J. r. McCleary and w. +. Cor
RE. are in Minneapolis this week at
tending the meeting of Minnesota Edu
catlonal Association.
Mr.. W. W. Keysor, son of Capt Clark
Keysor of this city, one of the legal
lights Of Omaha, is on holiday visit
to parents and friends.
p. ii. Carney, Esq, is visiting old
Kentucky scenes. He left Mankato last
Saturday and will probably return
home the last of next week.
w 5. Withrow, L q ,0f THE FREE
PRESS family has been enjoying visit
this week with relatives and friends at
his home IN Salem. Iowa.
Harry Cleveland, an old Mankato
boy, now editor OF the Hastings Union,
spent Christmas with friends in this
city. Harry reports business good,
which we are glad to know.
Mr.. J. VI. Long returned home Sun.
day night from atwo weeks trip through
Montana. lie visited Helena, Butte
City, and other points, and reports as
running INTO rather cold weather.
Geo. Fletcher, ESQ, son of Hon. L.
G.. NJ. Fletcher, spent Christmas at his
home in this city, returning to Mime.
apolis last evening. Mr.. Fletcher was
recently admitted to the bar of Henne.
pin County. and is now practicing his
profession, doing, as we learn, very
nicely.
Hon. Joseph Bookwalter, collector of
customs at the port of st. Vincent, spent
Wednesday night in the city on his way
to his farm in Vernon. Mr.. b. reports
snug weather up in his country, the Their
mometer having registered us low as A
degrees below zero, and for five days it
held the weather indicator down to 20
degrees.
Mr.. J. Blackiston, local editor of the
St. Peter Tribune, was in the city We'd
nesday before the Pension Board of Ply.
sicians Mr.. B. is unquestionably one
of those deserving old soldiers whose
claim before the department has thus
far failed to receive recognition, but
that he will finally succeed in establish
ing his rights to Il pension can hardly
he doubted.
Nr. David Hanna of Mapleton, re-
turned home Wednesday morning from
Dakota, where he and mis- brother. j.
NJ, have established Il cattle-ranche.
They have about les heads of graded
Short.horns. Mr.. ii. informs us that in
the section of the territory he left-the
western portion little north of the
ceuter-no snow has fallen this winter
and at no time has the thermometer
reached zero. He reports cattle as high,
citing as an instance the sale of $4,000
head at $l55, 900. The sale was made
from the book records, and it is likely
they would not hold out full number.
Mr.. ii. will return to Dakota in the
spring.
If you buy & cigare for % cents at
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