The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1883-08-31
Personal.
A. w. Vance, of Minnesota Lake, was
i'm the CITY last Tuesday.

| n. w. VI LAM, was
in the city last Tuesday.
Harry Brown is of tor weeks visit
with friends ut Sioux City.
John c. Noe is of on weeks vaca-
, ton in the Lake Superior region.
Geo. Macarthur, Esq, OF Blue Earth
City, was in Manka.o last tuesday.
Judge Porter, of the Municipal Court
returned this week from his trip to De
troit, Mich,
Mr.. Williams, one of the reliable
farmers of Mapleton. was in the city
last Tuesday.
Il. Scattcrgood returned "Wednesday
evening after nearly two weeks bust
ness soiourn in Dakota.
ii. b. Knowlton spent the first of the
week at Huron, Dakota, in looking
after the brick business.
Hon. +. p Freeman Register of the
Land Office at Redwood Falls, has been
home on VISIT this week.
Miss Alice +. Davis, left last Monday
to attend the teachers institute at Or
angc City, Iowa. She will he gone
about two weeks.
Mr.. ii. o. Woodruff is spending II
few days with friends in Mankato.
Harry is meeting with good success in
his book agency business.
Mr.. Ell. Swan will take brief re-
spite from business and spend few
weeks with friends in Ohio. lie will
leave Mankato tomorrow.
Miss Dora Pearson, daughter Of Capt
John Pearson, formerly of this city, now
of Pipcstone, is visiting friends in the
city, guest of Miss Edith Fowler.
Mr.. W. W. p. Mcconnell returned
home last evening after IN absence of
several weeks. lie returns feeling
somewhat better than when he left.
Miss Mary Moshcr, who has been
spending several weeks in this city,
returns Saturday morning I" her home
in New York, accompanied by Mr.. and
Mrs ID. l. Clements.
DIR Elliott, of Minneapolis, one of the
most genial gentlemen belonging to the
medical fraternity that it has been our |
good fortune to meet, was i'll the city |
for brief time Saturday.
The Superior wis., Times of last
week says: "Mr. Thomas, prominent
attorney of Mankato, Mimi, was in the
city last Friday, looking after his real
estate interests here. lie was much |
pleased with the general outlook here"
Capt ]. A. Reed, Warden of the pen
itentiary, was III the city Friday,ea route
for Saltwater. He had been rusticating
on his farm in Sterling for few days,
and was fully satisfied with the yield
of wheat He estimates that he will
realize fully Is bushels to the acre.
Miss Annie Jones, daughter of Mrs.
Edward Jones, of this city, will start
this evening for ST. Dominion, Califor-
MIA, where she has engaged to teach
school. Miss Jones is Il very pleasant
young lady, and is a graduate of the
Mankato State Normal School, which is
sufficient testimony that she has a first
class education.
Mr.. VIM. Leggett, who has tor three
months been a resident of this city, re-
presenting the Equaitble Life Associa-
ton, of Waterloo, Iowa left last week
for Algona, Iowa his former home. He
has been appointed General Agent for
the Waterloo Mutual Life ms. Assocla
ton tor Iowa, Nebraska, and Kansas,
and will soon establish his headquarters
at Topeka. in the latter State.
Mr.. Hugh Evans, of South Bend,
whose departure for Washington terri
tory we mentioned some weeks since, re-
turned to Blue Earth county week before
last fully satisfied that he wants no bet
ter country in which to live than South
ern Minnesota. He visited Portland,
Oregon, and reports it as being very
lively at this time. At Beaver Creek,
near Oregon City, he met Thos. Jones
and Humphrey Jones, formerly ofSouth |
Bend and who owned the farm widely |
known as the Macs Mawr. They are
finely located, and between them own
some 500 acres of land. Mr.. Evans |
found some nice country on his travels,
but the most desirable lands have been
taken through the section he traversed.
-Isidor Longlni presents new lad"
in this issue. Read it.
The Presbyterian Sabbath School
is enjoying picnic to-day, in the
grove near j. A. Wizards residence.
d. II. Brooks, of Lime, threshed
his wheat this week, realizing yield
of 25la bushels per acre. This is ex-
cellent.
The yield Of oats tins year IS very
large, some instances being reported in
winch fields thrcshed out seventy BUSH