St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-07
MdnkdtO Dots.

Trimming shade trees is the order of the
day.
Saturday was delightfully."- fine, so far as the
weather is concerned.
The Mankato urchin is luxuriating in all
the splendor of two weeks vacation from
school.
f. Thurston, of Garden City, and pros
porous farmer of that section did Mankato
on Saturday.
The walls of the new Meaghn block are
like the smoke from the chimneys, ascend
ing upwards.
F. N. Merrill made flying trip on satur-
day night to st. Paul on business connected
with the Mankato Cement works.
The change of time on the Northwestern is
only fifteen minutes later on one train going
east, so no one is likely to get left.
A tailors' strike is on at this city. Tw enty
or thirty good journamen tailors can find
constant and remunerative employment
here.
w. E. Peak, travelling freight agent of the
c. NJ. & st. Paul railroad, with headquarters
at Sioux Falls, was visiting his family at
Mankato on Saturday.
Lewis Bishman has been preparing lot of
box elder shade trees the past week for ship
ment to Montana. This is transplanting
8 timber long distance.
The street parade Of the ''Waite Comedy
company's" band, on Friday and Saturday,
was fine, and their music was applauded by
citizens on the sidewalk.
Demolition is the lot of the old tumble
down wooden structures that stand in the
way of the fine new brick blocks under con-
tract for erection at Mankato.
Capt Farr of the Laird, Norton & Co..
lumber yard is about moving into his new
quarters lately purchased by the company on
Front street near the Northwestern depot.
Judge Hudson, of the third judicial dis
trict of Dakota, resident at Fargo, and the
father of the Rev. T. G. Hudson, Episcopal
clergyman here, visited his son on Saturday.
The interior of the new grocery house of
Halfbill Zimmerman 81 Co., begin to put on
awarlike appearance. An elevator and set
of Fairbanks platform scales are being put in
and the stock of goods is piling up tier upon
tier.
call at the new Office of District Agent
o. G. Winter, representing the genuine
Singer Sewing Machine company, opposite
the hardware store of B. Tuttle, found that
gentleman located in very roomy and neat
quarters.
The district telegraph company is hard at
work upon their lines in the city, and will
have them in working order in about two
weeks. Their office in the rear of the Man
kato House has been neatly painted and
decorated inside and looks as pretty as a
9 little red wagon"
A procession composed of eight six-horse
teams from the force operated by c.. n.
Nelson the past winter in the northern Min
nesota pineries, passed up Front street day
or two since en- route for the G. N. Nelson
farm near Garden City in this county. They
were in splendid condition and made a fine
appearance.
The creditors of that defunct institution
formerly, during its brief existence known
as the minnesota Mutual Accident and
Railway Relief Association" On. B.-The
name was enough to kill it), which gave up
the ghost some time last fall or winter, and
which had its home at Minneapolis can learn
some entertaining facts by communicating
WIFI L. a. rOsGer, Mankat0.
Fl. Kaiser, special salesman from La
Crosse, Wis, is in the city for the purpose of
doing np' the people with the genuine
Singer sewing machine. If there is family
in Mankato or vicinity who are not supplied
with this very necessary household implc-
ment they had better come right down to the
office and order one, for their surrender is
only question of time.
The fun at the roller skating rink con-
tinues, and new victims are numbered daily.
There seems to be peculiar spirit of.deprav-
witty lurking in the wheels of pair of roller
skates. Just when a party feels asif they
had got the business down fine, and WEI per-
feet masters of the situation, as it were, about
that time they invariably take tumble to
themselves. Messrs. O'Conhor & Durham
are indefatigable in their efforts to render