The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1885-05-15
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PERSONAL.
Senator Peterson, of New Vim, is il
, the city.
Hon. John Flittie, of Mayville, d. T..
is in the city.
Mrs. w. B. Craig visited GAINESVILLE
last week.
Chinaman Sam, the laundryman, vii
leave town soon.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. c. McCurdy are
spending few days in st. Paul.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. r. Pfau are the hap
py parents of young daughter.
| o. r. Mather and wife went to Clarin'
da, Iowa, day before yesterday.
T. E. Bowen, of the Sleepy Eye Herald
was among the visitors to Mankato last
Saturday.
Mr.. J. E. Brown and wife, Of Maple
ton, were among the callers at our office
on Tuesday.
E. d. Cornish, ESD, of Pleasant
Mound, was among our farmer friends
who called.
NJ. D. L. Collester, Esq, Of this city,
will deliver the Grafton at Marshall on
Decoration day.
Mrs. T. H. Williams has gone to
Adrian, Mich, to spend O couple OF
months with her parents.
Attorney Crump and wife, of James.
vile, spent the Sabbath in the city,
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. ]. L. Washburn.
T.. M. Pugh, Esq, has moved his fami-
ly onto his farm, and will devote his at
tention to improving that tract of real
estate.
Rev. j. Allison, Of Lanesboro, this
State, arrived in the city this morning
He lectures before the Normal Literary
society this evening.
Rev. +. M. Archer returned from his
trip to Illinois this week, and will hold
services al his church next Sabbath
morning and evening.
DR.. ID. G. Russell. son of Mr.. 7. Rus
sell, of this city. has just graduated from
the Queens Medical University, On
tario, and returned home Monday.
J.J. Eygabroad, of Winnebago City,
was in the city yesterday. He is MEM
Der of the Mankato Cattle Co., and was
down on business concerning the same.
w. Bailey, Esq, of Princeton, ILL.,,
who has been here attending at the
death bed of his brother-in-law, s. l..
Osborn, returned to his home this morn
ing.
+. w. Andrews, Esq, of Rochester,
Mimi, was in the city a day or two this
week, being a representative of the
Equitable Life Insurance Company OF
New York.
Mr.. and Mrs. Brett, father and moth
or of Geo. Z. Brett, left last Tuesday
morning for Dakota, where they will
spend the summer on the farm with
their son, Frank.
d. Taylor, Esq. has been confined
to his bed since Friday last with typhoid
pneumonia, but at this writing he is ap-
parently much improved, and his friends
hope to see him out in few days.
Mrs. II. A. Bushnell will leave next
week for Brooklyn, n. y, to spend sew
eral weeks with her parents and other
relatives. Rev. Mr.. Bushnell will go
later in the summer to make short
stay.
P. r. McGinnis, Sergeant United
States signal service, has been here
through the week experimenting the
fitting up of the signal service station.
The instruments are in position and
about ready for work.
Mr.. C. II. Dearborn, of Blue Earth
City, was in Msnkato Tuesday and
Wednesday, arranging for the early es-
adjustment of the new boot and shoe
house in the First National Bank build
ing. The store room will be arranged
in the most modern style, and fitted up
in an elegant manner.
LIE. Collins, Esq, the job printer in
THE FREE Press Office, was presented
with II pound boy last Sunday morn
ing. Owing to the importance OF the
event L. Z. handled the stick little
neryously for two or three days after,
but eventually returned to his normal
equilibrium. After becoming somewhat
accustomed to the nocturnal prone
nadss, with infantile accompaniment,
he will become himself again.
Those who discoved the body of j.
Hoffman in the river at Henderson,
came up last Saturday to claim the 500
reward which his friends offered at the
time he disappeared.
james Shoemaker is in the field
working up his new directory, and is
favored with very good support. The
more encouraging the assistance render
ed, the better work can he produce.
On June LIST the street committee
will put into use new outfit Of blanks
for reporting the work done on the
streets, with the expenditures therefor.
EhCu lhDOTcT VIII hoSp ooiAF ASPN@SS ~
his work and where done. The city en-
engineer will also keep = daily report,
besides q new and more specific state
nent from the street commissioner.
Hon. ]. B. Finch had but fair
house on Friday evening, but his adj
dress was one that showed him to be
man of more than ordinary ability, and
should have been more largely patron
! ized.:. While his ideas are not new his
Illustrations were extremely original
and forcible.
The matter of building is not con-
4 fasd to Msptksto by any means. We
understand that Winnebago Agency will
have several new dwellings added this
summer. Messrs. ]. Fitzloff, T. Ntzim-
mons, A. Bierbaum and Perd" BEERS
dorf are each building one. Also that
NJ. Dooley, of Mcpherson, is building
and o. Mccarthy, of Decoria, has erect
new granary and barn.
The committee appointed for max
ing arrangements preparatory TO. hold.
insshsM. j. camp meeting for Mankato
districk met In thiscity Tuesday and de: