The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1883-10-05
HOME JOTTINGS.

-oNCrcpat> are coiniortanlc thcse
mornings.
Fresh oysters ale now IN the market
in abundance.
Notice the change in the lad" Of
the Red Lion House.
Last Tuesday WAS the beginning of
the Jewish New Year.
The Baptist folks Melted about $50
from Sau Ah.brah's lecture.
The county treasurer collected
about $4,000 At the recent tax sale of
lands
The gas mains are being extended
on Elm street. in the direction of the
OIL mill
ID. b. Owen. Geo. Pond, AMI Gay
lord Lamh are ont on a hunting
expedition this week.
Lake Crystal expects (" have a
bank there soon. The field is good
one for that business.
-Piprstone is soon 10 have new
paper, and it will have to work hard TO
be better than the star.
The Brown County Republican has
suspended publication. Lack of sup
port Was the cause of It's death.
A Good TcmplarS lodge was organ
lied last week Il, Lake Crystal, by Col.
J. +. Long. the Kentucky orator.
Work at the pork packing eStah
lishment is expected to commence early
next week. Tally one more for Man-
ka;o.
The final assessment of ten per
cent has been made 10y the lron and
Novelty Company, and is payable to-
morrow.
Twenty couples in this county took
upon themselves the pleasure ami cares
of married life during the month OF
September.
In another column County Supt.
Rogers gives notice oi the times and
places at which hc will hold teachers
examinations.
The light snow OF last Friday
served as a reminder that winter Is on
way. The work of laying i'll fall sup
plies Will now bc fastened.
Tho three cent stamp is good for
its face IN carrying mail matter. There
seems To be an impression in the minds
of few that il is no longer of value.
Lewis, Shaubut x Barr sold tins
week for Minnesota +. Tytus to J. j.
Haggard, of Eagle Lake, the " !. mel /
sec. 33, IN town of lie Ray, tor Sl,200.
C. W. Moorchcad, of Lake Crystal
while w"rkin" with his threshing ma
chine last Monday, nearly severed one
OF his fingers from his right hand by "a
band cutter.
BY the Redwood Falls Gozeite We
see that Mr.. John \. Willard has do
mated car load of brick To be used in the
construction of Presbyterian church
at that place.
The housc.tly Is about ready To
WELD To- the cold weather and forsake
us. The season has been short one
for him, and the more pleasant "n that
account for mankind generally.
We give considerable of our space
this week To the reports of the political
conventions. but there has been such ;
dearth of politics this fall that Tia,
change will no doubt be well received
"A tea-cup full of hot water every
mornin" before breakfast is said Ia be
sure cure for the dyspepsia. The
treatment appears at first 10 aggravatt
the disease but eventually conquers it
Sheriff Monks last week levied
upon ali the wheat, seven head o.
horses. and other articles belonging I,
the Young family, living at Oshawa, il
Nicollet county, to satisfy debt due I,
the Mccormick machine company.
Albert f. Price, former resident
Of Mankato, and Normal graduate il
the class of 81. writes from Franktown
New. for THE FREE Press, as the best
means of kcepin: acquainted with tn,
movement OF affairs at his old home.
Tie Episcopal church has been
that the audience room might bc re-pa
pered, painted and carpetcd. The work
Is now almost completed and the build
ing will soon be opened for churcl
services and Sabbath school.
Mr.. ]. g. Roller, has leased ia,
Central Warehouse on Jackson street
and will purchase wheat, oats, barley
etc. Mr.. Roller is sell known to III,
people of this locality, and farmers vii
appreciate hIs determination TO remain
in Mankato the present season.
In another column may he foun,
the new lad" of Mrs. NJ. A. Dittman
of her fall stock of millinery. She Ina
now complete line of the different ar
tIcles pertaining 10 her business, and !
prepared Ia meet all demands that ma
be made upon her in that line.
We have issued this week Tor som
of our real estate men pamphlets con
tanning the address delivered by Hon
l.. S. Coffin at the Garden City fail
These pamphlets will he generally eli
Qulated, and will no doubt aid lar9el
i'm inducing settlers 10 locate in thi
part of the great northwest.
Rose ~ Noe report the sale of 3
acres of land in Mankato township b.
John Erickson to Ransom & Albergc
proprictors of the Mankato Tile Work,
One of the firm proposes To put on III
place some blooded stock, which i
has in the East. On the farm are som
good pockets of tile clay which the fir
expect to develop.