The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1885-08-14

: the finishing touches.
The Third District Lodge, I. o. G.
: T., will hold a meeting at Winnebago
Agency on the 9th and 18th of this
month.
I General Baker las accepted the in
n yitation TO deliver an address before the
: Southern Minnesota Live Stock and
Fair Association next month. It isvery
likely that the address will he delivered
!. on the afternoon of the third day of the
o Fair-Sept. 3rd.
The Tribune says that Mr.. Snyder,
of st. Peter, has received notice that
: hereafter an early edition of the Pioneer
: Press will be worked off, 30 that the pa
per will arrive there at o'clock Sunday
morning. If this be true, it is very like
ly that Mankato and other points on the
J line will be accommodated i'm like man.
ner.
The non-appearance of the Regi-
mental band at the Grant exercises last
Saturday, was due to the unavoidable
absence of two of their leading musicians,
and the sickness of another. The boys
very much regret that they could not
take their place with the other organiza-
tons, but under the circumstances it was
impossible to do so.
The plan of the skating rink, to-
evade the exactions of the city council,
that of selling ice cream and furnish
ing skates free-will work all right dur
ing the cheated term" but when the
season for this cooling refreshment shall
have passed, what will the managers
do 1t can't be that they contemplate
dishing up tom and jerry!
In accordance with resolution
passed ut meeting of the executive
committee of the Western Union Tele-
graph company, held at Chicago few
days ago, making all their offices places
to receive subscriptions to the Grant
Monument Fund, the Office in this city |
is now ready to receive such contribu-
tons from parties DESTROYS of giving to
that object. The Telegraph company |
subscribe S. 900 as Il starter.
The Germania band of this city Wis.,
tied Lake Emily last Sunday. 1t is re-
ported that an immense congregation
assembled at that resort and that the
exercises were decidedly varied-a por-
ton of the programme not being alto
gether IN harmony with the orthodox
custom of observing the day. However,
those present no doubt enjoyed them
selves.
"A Union Sabbath school has been
organized ut West Mankato, and is held
every Sabbath afternoon at o'clock in
the Swedish church. 1t is the purpose
of the people oil that church to unite
with the English school, believing that
it will further the interests of their chill
dren to do so. The school started out
with forty pupils and seven teachers.
II will be under the direct supervision
Of parties from the several churches in
the city.
Our young contemporary, the Jour
nal, oversteps the ethics of the profess
sion when it copies rerbdt,m our full and
valuable reports of the city council pro-
ceedings. We would not lay straw i'm
the Journals onward progress, but when
our reporter sacrifices much needed rest
and sleep, to attend at these proceedings
until the mid-hours of the night, he J
modestly objects to having his enter
prise deliberately "hooked" without a .
single word of credit.
There has been change in the gro [
Gerry firm of Pfetfer, Door x Bean-Mr. !
Pfetier retiring, and the other gentlemen
continuing the business under the firm ,
name of Door j. Bean. During the ]
time these young men have been in bus |
mess they have shown themselves to be
obliging, competent business men-such /
as merit, and will win, success. They a
authorize us to state to their patrons y
that the reputation of the store will not
be allowed to lose its standing, and they /
solicit u liberal patronage. Mr.. Pfeffer {
will, for the present, devote his undi- I
vided attention to the Minneopa House. :
j. o. Basye, of Kasota, brought TO
our Office Wednesday two varieties of !
wheat, one Red Chat, the other Fife, :
and upon the head of each was per- i
fectly formed kernel Of oats. This is the G
first instance of the kind that we recall
where wheat and oats have been known :
to grow upon the same stalk. Mr.. B.
says that he has raised this mixed crop c
for three seasons, each year taking seed
from the mixed grain instead of from !
separate bins; and that the seed from c
which his present crop was raised was q
from the third crop of the mixture. 1t
is cereal phenomenon certainly.
Miss Ida Giflin, aged nineteen years,
daughter of W. l.. Giffin, formerly engi- c
neer on the branch road between this =
city and the junction, died at her home !
on Second street Wednesday night at q
eleven o'clock, Of consumption. Miss {
Gifiin has been afflicted with the dis ;
ease about year, but 81 determined was {
she to resist, that she was not confined to
her bed but two or three days at the last.
The father was absent in Michigan, where ,
he is engaged as engineer. The remains
of the deceased will be taken to Sheboy-
gan Falls, Wis, for interment.
The twenty-fourth annual fair of the
Blue Earth county Agricultural Society
will be held at Garden City on Tuesday,
Wednesday and Thursday, Sept. Is, 10
and 18th. The society offer fully as
liberal premiums to exhibitors as i'm the
past, and with the addition of new pens
and stalls will be in position to accom-
lnodate all. The premium lists are now
being printed at TIE FREE Press office
and will be ready for distribution by the
middle of next week. The dates Of the
Southern Minnesota Live Stock and
Fair Association meeting and the Gar
den City Fair will in no wise conflict
being nearly two weeks apart,-hence
there is no reason why both should not
be literally patronized.
The mistake The FREE Press makes
in discussing the eligibility of Mr.. Warn
er is in assuming that his position is that
of clerk. IL il secretary Of the railroad
commission, an office created by the last {
legislature, of which Mr.. Warner was a
member. In addition, there is a u clerk,
who is subordinate 10 Mr.. Warner, and
to which its criticism might apply. But
the secretaryship il as much an Office as
is that Of the railroad commissioners
ReCieiU.
Finally, and in refutation ofthe above,