The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1885-10-16
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!" ch urch held social ut The parlors q
= that church Wednesday evening.
Our friends at the Agency should re-
member the Temperance meeting 10 l.,
held there next Tuesday evening.
The rains Of this week have proven
A a source of great benefit in the matter %
|. replenishing exhausted wells and els
terms.
4. The Board of Education have pnr
!. chased l5I new seats IN be placed in the
grammar and intermediate departments
: of the Union building.
p. Zimmerman, Esq, secured this
: morning from Davis gallery number
8 of Minneopa views, which he is sending
! To friends in the East.
o The work of cleaning the new park
G grounds is progressing rapidly. The
: old barn has been torn down and the
dwelling house removed.
p VIM. Smith, the young man arrest.
ed for extracting money from letters nj
the Lake Crystal postoflice, has been
sentenced Ia one year in the State reni-
Tertiary.
The telegraph company, through
some laundering oversight or inexcus,i-
bic indifference, failed TO give us the
telegraphic news of the Ohio election.
rs agreed upon.
Rev. Mr.. Shoemaker, of Illinois,
whom the Baptist church of this city
called To the passionate of their church,
has declined, and the trustees have not
as yet extended a call TO anyone else.
The examination of teachers com
menced nj the Normal school building
III tins city to-day and will continue
throughout tomorrow. 4 large number
of the aspiring ones are on hand and the
work is progressing nicely.
We took birds-eye view of the in
terror of w. Il. Phillips new dwelling
house yesterday, and must say that W.
q. has us conviently arranged house rs
can he found in the city lie has made
hit on two points, room and light.
Each room is large and abundantly
lighted.
The soap bubble party given by the
ladies Of the Missionary Garden at Mr.
McConnel's residence, on Wednesday
evening, was II very successful affair,
they realizing Il neat little sum toward
their good work. This society has al
ready sent good supply of furnishings
10 the colored school at New Orleans,
and they propose In do more
The first news received from the
Ohio election was through a private tel !
egram sent Ia the editor of The FREE
PRESs "Wednesday morning signed by our |
friend Waldo of II. Paul Il read Forak I
cr's plurality eighteen thousand. Legis- |
lature Republican. Heavy vote. No DIS
tnrbancc." Later reports show this 10 .
have been based upon reliable estimates. !
Joe Hodge, of Minnesota Lake, came |
l." this city last evening inquest Of a gun !
some one had stolen from him, he sus-
pccting party IN Mankato who had /
been NJ the Lake. This suspected in
dIvidual was hunted out and the proper
" found. lie was allowed 10 escape
prosecution upon rendering the gun 10
its owner.
The directors of the Mankato Cattle
Cattle Co. recently elected are: j. l..
Washburn, J. w. Dilley, Geo. W. Monks,
c. ID. Taylor, Geo. f.. Brett, J. q. Roller
and j. A. James. The officers are: Presi-
dent, Geo. W. Monks; Vice President,
{. ID. Taylor; Secretary and Treasurer,
j. l.. Washburn, Superintendent, J. A.
James.
Our Alma City correspondent
says that two gentlemen from Man
kato passed through that village
last week. Yes, that was our r. F.
Billings and Rob't Bell, who made a
trip to Albert Lea and back on their two
wheelers. They are crack bicyclsts and
made the return trip of over 20 miles i'm
about ten hours.
The discussion Of the civil service
reform question at the Normal school
literary last Friday evening was rather
one-sded, almost the entire body of
participants contending that the reform
Is not what il is said to be. 1t was inter
esting, however, Ia hear the amateur
politicians come up to the brink for the |
first draught.
The sidewalk question has been
pretty thoroughly canvassed in all its |
phases, yet We feel under obligation to
direct the attention Of the authorities to |
the practice Of some in laying their
walks, of leaving an occasional board |
projecting high and dry above the 9TH
ers, serving as an immovable bumper to
the digits of pedestrians. Can't this
thing have attention?
The Northwestern folks are at work
putting in the foundation walls 10 their
new depot building and further than
this no work will be done until early
spring. ID il understood that the siruc-
ture will be Of stone and brick, con-
structed i'm the most modern style of
architecture. The soft condition of the
grounds is given as the reason for not
pushing the structure Ia completion this
\ fall
business men and others desiring
4 any 'idSS VI Jpp piiH'iiie VIII hiu ihE
| FREE Pass ready 10 compete with any
responsible establishment on prices,
while the quality Of work turned out is
bett,r than that executed by any other
office in the city. A large stock ofletter
heads, envelopes, shipping tags, card
board, wedding stat ionery, etc, has just
been received.
! Mr.. Shoemaker has finally delivered
his Business Directory Of the City Of
Mankato and Blue Earth County for
1856. The book is the best and most
accurate of the kind ever published
here, and will prove valuable as II work
of reference. il contains q total of 2GO
pages. - of which are devoted To adver-
tisements nr the principal business
Of the city, and the balance to directory
and statistics.
Fin order Ia help the new postal
clerk ont on the Lake Crystal q Elmore,
the st. Paul and Sioux City boys are re-
quested to makeup" for the principal
stations on his run. The dissatisfaction
caused from the delay of mails, conse-
quent upon its being carried past the
stations and brought back three hours
later, has forced extra work upon the
old hands.
With this issue of TIE FREE Press
We send out half sheet supplement,
unnn which will ha fnund am imnOrtant