The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1885-03-06
Napoleon.
1e are having a thaw.

We oO hnfiuk " tuhW'
Our schools are closed. Mr.. A. Green
ing spends his vacation with his uncle.
Mrs; W. N. Plymat's school closed one
week later.
Miss Nellie Bishop, of Minneapolis,
visited her brother over Sunday.
Mr.. I. n. Flanagan and Mr.. j. II. Cor
nell, Of Good Thunder, attended Mason
ic installation last Friday nightin Maple
| ton, which was not as some supposed, q
public installation, after which Masons
and their wives partook OF an oyster
supper, gotten up in a sumptuous man
ner by landlord Wilson, of the Farnum
House.
| Mr.. Barton, brother-in-law of DR..
Francis, of Sterling, returned to Mime
apolis last Monday morning.
| The l. o. G. T. met here last week for
district Lodge, with officers from the
| Grand Lodge, officers from District
Lodge, and delegates too numerous to
tmention, which with our lodge made a
very respectable showing Of lodge ma
terial. There were too many arguments
for and against high license" to make
the sessions entirely commendable,
while the remarks of some should have
been criticised. The ground taken by
Rev. Mr.. Qua, le was sb'y championed
and he made some good points, even II
he was in the minority with regards to
numbers.
A skating rink has appeared in our
midst, managed by Mr.. Chestnut, of Del.
evan, who has leased Sprague's Hall and
will keep 1t open Monday, Tuesday and
Monday evening Delevan people came
over to show US how to skate.
i Mrs. Chase lies very sick. -....
4 Miss Minnie Abrams, who has beer
attending school at the State University
has come home to help care for hei
mother who is sick.
We are to have lodge of Odd Fellows
soon.
| On Thursday last according to previous
!, announcement q temperance meetin.
was held In the Baptist church. There
! was very large attendance, every sea
was occupied, many were standing, anC
quite Q mum Der went away on accoun
, Of an insufficiency Of room. Mr.. Durn
! ham, of Minneapolis, the Grand Worthy
: Chef Templar for Minnesota, gave
very interesting account of the spread O
r the order in all parts of the world. Mr.
Eibel, Scrap Iron Bill, also of Minneap
, oils, and an earnest temperance worker
T gave very useful and earnest address
r pleading eloquently for absolute prohi
bition. He was listened to with breath
less interest for nearly three-quarters O
| an hour. There was also young man
= named Penniman, whom the Crane
} Worthy Chief Templar had brought Will
! him from Minneapolis, who addressed
, the meeting for short time, and it wa
l in this part of the programme that oc
, Cured the only interruption to the har
= mony of the proceedings. He spoke
few words upon the subject of prohibi
! ton, and then left it, and descended in
to a quantity Of abuse. He called tn,
4 legislators hard names, said they wer
never troubled with a rush of brains h
their heads, that he was amazed at tn
nonentities whom the people of Mime
sofa sent to represent them, and Gale,
{ them sticks, his abuse being intende,
for those who had toiled to increase tn
{ as much as for those who had oppose,
high license.
The temperance people of Mapletol
{ altogether disapprove of the scurrilou
. nature of his remarks. The partition
between SANDER and untruth is usuall
= very thin, and in this case it seemed en-
tirely worn away. For when man de
clares that such men as Billson, of Du
, luth; Judge Wilson, of Winona, an,
: Pillsbury, of Minneapolis, are brainles
,, nonentities, &C., &C., he says what
not true. The temperance people @
Napoleon have sufficient on their hand
in their fight with the rum curse, an,
object to 30 called temperance lecturer
making them responsible for slande
and abuse.