The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1885-11-13
PERSONAL.

: j. X. Moore, Esq, of st. Peter, was i
the city yesterday.
+. h. Kennedy, Esq, has engage'
with l.. Henline as salesman.
Mrs. j. n. Liscomb is expected HON
next week To spend the winter.
Miss Winnie Markham, of GAINESVILLE
has engaged to teach the McBroon
school i'm Danville, this county.
W. b. Henderson and wife. of st
Paul, spent last Sunday in the city
; guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Pollock.
| John Johnston, Jr., of Sterling, re-
turned on Wednesday from Clark, Oak.
] where he is owner ola half section q
land.
Mr.. Anderson, of Albert Lea, Revenu,
Collector for this district, was in the cit,
yesterday on business connected will
his office.
III. Il. King, II former citizen of Win
nebago Agency, now of Aitken, MINI.
reports the arrival of young daughter
in his HOUSEHOLD, his first born.
President SHEPPARD, of the Winons
Normal school, and Misses Sprague, Ne.
Cool and Staples ct his corps of teachers
visited the Mankato Normal last Friday.
NJ. Roblee was down from Dakota the
first of the week. He is delivering
nursery stock there and says that farm
ers have little more than halftheir work
done.
Peter Kremer, Esq, of Minnesota
Lake, was Il caller at our Office Wednes-
day. Mr.. h. is one of the Lakes lead
ing men and holds large landed inter
ests in the country adiacant To that vii
laye.
Frank Roberts, Esq, one of Sterling,
Blue Earth county's best young men,
but who for the last three years has been
Il citizen of Grant county, Oak, is now
county treasurer of his county. Some
how or other Blue Earth's representa-.
tives always come Ia the surface i'm that
territory.
DIR. T.. j. Davis started for Chicago
last evening where he goes rs Il delegate
from the Minnesota State Board of
ence of physicians III contagious dis
eases in horses and cattle. The meet
ing will not he held until next week,
but the doctor goes early in order to put
in Il little time with friends.
Mrs. :. ID. Parsons, accompanied by
her children, has gone la Washington to
spend the winter. Mr.. =. will follow in
a few days, and will locate at Toledo,
Ohio, where he has accepted II position
in Il freight office under the Chicago,
Cincinnati. Columbus Il indianapolis
railway.
We learn that Ed. Washburn, "San-
dy', Morrison and Mr.. Toland, all of
Edgewood, went out into Martin county
a few days since, on Il hunting eXpedi-
ton, and in three days hard tramping
they succeeded in bagging one duck.
And 1t wasn't extra good weather for
duck. either.
Geo. NJ. Phillips, Esq, ofthe Metro
politan livery lost a valuable horse last
Friday night. The animal became loose
from his stall and in perambulating
about the barn broke through the floor,
falling into Il well underneath, where he
was found dead.
Now that the Mikado opera COM
pamy are coming to this city, we pre-
pose Il set the people right on the
name, that there may not he the variety
of recommendations which we read about in
the twin cities. The name is pronounc-
ed rs if ii were spelled Mi-kah-do, with
short as in il, a broad as in father, and
q long rs in 60, accent kah.
j. l.. Cook, postmaster at Winneba-
go Agency has finally been compelled
to lay his neck under the political clever,
and Chas. O'ConnOr of the same place
succeeds him. Both are old settlers of
the Agency, and Mr.. Cook has held the
office for about u years, but as to being
an offensive partisan, he is as alien to it
rs day To night.
The Wilkin Post campfire at Mrs.
Bentley's rink Friday evening last was
well attended, despite the incllmency of
the weather and the muddy condition
of the streets. A good, substantial sup
per was served, vocal and instrumental
music was INDUCED in, and the balance
of the evening was given over to dane
ing and social enjoyment. The old vets.
know how to have a good time.
Ed. Weaver, Esq, who was last
week hustling around in the western
part of the State, met Mr.. James Shields,
who formerly ran a saw mill at Eagle
Lake. He il now located at Woodstock,
near P%ipestone City, and is getting along
nicely. Ed says he owns a fine farm,
owes no one, and is one of the substan-
tial men of that section. Mr.. Shields
many friends i'm this vicinity will be
pleased t o known Of his prosperity.
Mr.. II. l.. Joslyn has received a copy
of Songs and Rhymes for the Little
Ones" compiled by Mary j.. Morrison.
Mr.. Joslyn has more than Il friendly
feeling toward the authoress, as it was
she who nursed him back to life when
lying low in the hospital at Cincinnati
he being taken there from the Shilo
battlefield. The book is published by
q. T.. Putnam's Sons, New York and
London, and IL sold ut 81 80 and $3.50.
The exhibition skating Saturday
evening at the Opera Roller Rink by
Miss Nellie Towers and Mr.. W. Z. Dol
son, was the finest v e given in this
city, and had it not been for the very
unpleasant weather the attendance
would have been much larger. Miss
Nellie il certainly an exceptional lady
skater. She is strong, and thoroughly
self reliant, and is Justly entitled to the
championship badge, of which she isthe
proud possessor. 1t is expected that
these people will give another exmbi-
ton in our city in the near future, and
if so, none should fail to see them.
Mrs. G. Keysor met with an acct
dent Friday evening last, whereby she
broke one of her arms e the wrist,
and dislocated the wrist joint, the injury
being sustained from a fall just as she
was in the act of stepping to the walk N
front of her home. Not knowing the
extent of her injuries, she entered the
carriage which was in waiting, and was
driven to the rink where the Wilkin