The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1885-09-18
PERSONAL.

the city to-day.
4 Ex-Mayor Palmer il on business tri
10 Montana.
Attorney Cray, of Lake Crys was i
the city this week.
l.. Henlein, Esq, is in Chicago thj
week on business.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jno. +. Meagher are i
Chicago this week.
Miss Nellie Haskell, of Lawrence, Kan
sas, is making Mrs. NJ. X. Jones u shol
visit.
Attorney J. II. Quinn, of Wells, wa
in the city Monday, en- route To Wasec
on legal business.
l.. +. Finley and family, of Beaufort
this county, started last Friday for Ohio
To spend the winter with relatives.
Mr.. =. h. Halves and wife, of Goo
Thunder, started yesterday morning 70
visit TO their old home in Wisconsin.
w. w. =. Mcconnell arrived hom
from the east last evening, and will b
followed at once by large invoice a
new goods.
John Hodgson, Esq, brother of VIM
Hodgson of this city, and an old residen
of Mankato, is spending II few days il
the city. He is located in New York.
q. +. Roedell. Esq, some eight or tel
years ago resident of Mankato, is bacl
again, and is behind the counters il
Frink Il Richards dry goods store.
Lieut.. Colonel Mead attended the fail
at Austin Tuesday, and reports yer,
fine show. Gov. Hubbard delivered the
address, which he highly complimented
:. +. Ilolbrook, ESD, has just returned
from the fair at Sparta, Wis, where he
has fine stock farm. lie reports tax
ing four blue and several red ribbons on
his blooded stock.
Mrs. r. Roberts received telegram
"Wednesday morning, bearing the sad
intelligence that her mother was i'll and
lying at the point of death. She took
the IL :05 tram for Wisconsin.
:. NJ. Lockerbv, Esq, is among his
Mankato friends again for few days.
sam has stepped out of the newspaper
business and will now devote his entire
time and talent To the practice of law ut
Minor, ID. I.
Allen Moon, ESD, of Eagle Lake, re-
turned from Southern Iowa last Satur-
day, where he had been for month
visiting. While at salem he visited Mr..
W. :. Withrow, and found him and Mrs.
Withrow enjoying good health, and pros
pering.
Mr.. NJ. X. Jones has returned from
hls extended trip in the east, where he
has purchased an immense stock of hol-
iday goods which will reach Mankato
about Dec. lat, via. the steamer Gaia
lonia," from Liverpool Ia New York,
the Commercial Dispatch and &. * n.
Ry. from New York Ia Mankato.
W. Z. Cosgrave, Superintendent of the
Winona Il ~. Peter division of the {. II
\. W. railroad, was in the city Tuesday
evening. Questioned about the new de-
pot building u be erected by his COM
pany, he informed us that work would
be- begun immediately upon the compile
ton of the fill which will be finished
this week. lie could give no definite
information as 10 whether the building
will be frame or brick. To comply with
our fire ordinance, however, brick will
necessarily be used, as the building will
come within the fire limit.
Geo. f.. Brett, Esq, of the Empire
Dry Goods store, returned home from
his eastern trip saturday. While absent,
Mr.. b. purchased an elegant line of
cloaks, shawls, and all kinds of dress
goods. He also arranged for the latest
improved cash railway system, which
will he in complete running
order to-day. This system is II great inn
provement over anything we have seen,
the cash box running on simple wire,
and receives its velocity from spring
at the various stations, making its work
ings much more rapid than the old sys'
TEN. The mountings are all very elab-
CRATE. The removal of the cashiers desk
To the rear of the room is also great
improvement.