The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1885-07-31
The st. Peter HcroH of last week
contains the following notice

The st. Peter Hcro,H of last week,
contains the following notice:
Found.-A lady's velvet purse contain
ing 10 cents in money, pair of sleeve
cuffs, one small white handled knife,
eight peppermint candy hearts, with
notices, one safety pin and II piece of pat
per on which is written eight lines of
poetry and Il small handkerchief. The
owner can have the same by calling ut
| this office.
Abundance, but not wealth.
A big timca at Lake Crystal Tomorrow
afternoon is on. Matinee races ut the
Driving Park is announced, free for all
and everybody. The same horses that
trotted at Mankato last Saturday are
booked for the Lake, and assurances are
had that they will all be there. At the
races here last week, some very neat
trotting was witnessed and those who
enjoy such sport will be well repaid for
their time by witnessing the trials of
speed tomorrow.
By referring To our signal service
table the maximum standing of the Their
mometer will he found for the week
which shows pretty high degree of
! heat for 50 many consecutive days. The
last three days show II particularly high
standing. Wednesday and yesterday
stood al - degrees each. Many ordi-
nary thermometers indicated Il degree
of heat from 10 10 II degrees higher
than these figures. 1t has been the most
| al Ii
in this locality for IL number of years.
The attendance ut the Normal School
in this city for next year promises To
eclipse that of any past year. There is
going To be great scarcity of room,
which will greatly retard the work of the
institution. The refusal of Coy. Hub
bard TO sanction that portion of the Nor
NAL school bill appropriating money for
IN extension of the school building will
begin To be demonstrated as Il very I'M
wise step before another years school is
ended.
The southern portion of this county
and the northern part of Faribault were
visited by the storm of Wednesday after
VIC Dccn iulOiliicu
number of buildings were partially or to-
tally wrecked. In Sterling, this coun-
ty, the house and barn of j. Dobie, Jr.,
was blown To pieces. Geo. Roe, Esq, of
Mapleton, one of Mr.. Spaulding's cream
gatherers stopped at place where the
farmer had frame house and log one
standing near each other, and both were
wrecked. The owner received some IN
juries, and Mr.. Roe was bruised some
what. No deaths were reported.
The annual violation of the game
law has already commenced. Ii is re-
ported from various sections of the
county that young prairie chickens are
being hunted, in the face of the well
known fact that We have Oh the statute
books of Minnesota Il law making il II
lineablc otlense To kill this specie of game
before the 18th day of August. IL is
next To sacrilcgious To kill chickens ut
this time, say nothing about trampling
upon the law. They are too small and
too young; besides they will get SO wild
| by the time that poor marksmen can
get II chance at them that none but
"crack" shots will stand any show.
C. :. Eastbrook, Esq, recently cdi-
tor of the Minnesota Citizen, at l.akeiield,
jackson county, will soon start II paper
inf this city, under the caption of state
ReyiSter. This will be the second paper
started i'm Mankato within sixty days,
and while we wash the new venture sue
cess, We cannot refrain from expressing
the belief that there are already Too
many papers here To yield II lucrative in
come 10 the respective publishers. One
newspaper Ia two Thousand inhabitants,
is quite sufficient. We will soon have
six Ia population of eight thousand.
Last Monday ut 3 O'Clock p. m, Rob
ert Orr, of the firm of Brown, Wishart 4
Orr, of Napoleon, was married 10 Lizzie
f.. Dobic, daughter of Joseph Dobie, ESD,
of Sterling. The newly married couple
left on the evening train for visit To
the groom's former home, ut Montreal,
Canada, where his mother, brothers and
sisters now reside. large concourse of
the young peoples friends assembled at
the happy ceremony, and they carry
with them on their bridal tour, all posi-
BILE evidence of the esteem and love that
exists for them at home, and awaits their
return. They will extend their visit
about two months, then take up their
residence in Mapleton. This Is the sixth
daughter Mr.. Dobie has surrendered to
Cupid's charms, all married to those
worthy of snch women, but none OF them
are held in greater esteem than are Rob
ert and Lizzie. May joy in abundance
surround their newly founded home.