The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1885-11-06

n Griebel's boot and shoe store.
The Ladies' Sewing Society of the Nj
+. church will meet with Mrs. ". |.
@ Clements next Wednesday afternoon
Nov. 18th.
-Nels Anderson, a Scandinavian en-
ploycd in W. b. Craig 4 Co.'S. quar-,
l. was pressed between too heavy stones
while Mt work Monday, ..and died from
!" the injuries received Tuesday morning
The State Registers statement tina
Mrs. Faegre was in company with Mrs
Liedloff at the time the latter was rs
saulted on the street Tuesday night, j.
entirely unfounded. Mrs. Faegre did
not leave her home ut any hour on the
! evening in question.
-Messrs. Salspaugh 4 Co. have a por.
ton Off. X. Beatty and w. b. Craig q
Co.'S crews at work quarrying stone, as
well rs a large number ofmen mployed
in their own quarry. They hope to be
able TO get ont a thousand car loads of
stone before %suspending work for win
ter.
Father Nenn, of Blue Earth City, is
building a Catholic church ut Easton,
and expects 10 he able TO dedicate il in
abont II month This is the twenty
fifth or twenty-sixth church that Father
Ncnn has erected and they have all been
models in the way of architectural beau
ty and symmetrical proportions.
In another column will he found
the announcement of the marriage of
Mr.. Charles +. Moore and Miss Ida
FELTON,. Mr.. Moore was formerly a clerk
in j. Il. Jones' drug store, and is now
engaged IN the drug business for him
self nj Fergus Falls. The young folks
have the best wishes of their friends.
The Northwestern folks are putting
ina wonderfully solid foundation for
their new depot buildings. The walls
will he ten feet deep and twelve feet
wide. We are informed that after the
completion of this portion of the work,
if weather permits, building will be
pushed right along. 1t is TO he hoped
the weather clerk will favor us:
The new stone cross-walk i'm front of
the Mankato House is a good, substan-
tial piece of work, and with equal bene-
fit To pedestrians, several more of like
character might he put in on Front
street. In WEI weather, and particular
~ at this season ofyear when the streets
are SO muddy, good high cross-walks are
very much needed, and such crossings
are very scarce.
The County Commissioners give no.
ticc in another place that bids will be
received up To | o'clock p. III. Tuesday
the 18th inst, for the purchase of the
wooden bridge across the LeSueur ut
Tivola. The timber i'm this bridge can
he utilized in numerous ways on Il farm,
for barn building, etc. A new iron
bridge is TO be constructed across the
river at that point.
Mr.. Homer Daniels and Miss Clara
Mead will be married tomorrow even
ing AT the residence of q. w. Mead.
Fol- something over a year Miss Mead
has been a compositor in THE FREE
. hEN 'liiNC wv "IllC llllS cNcHl HIS
been carefully guarded, we accidently
stumbled onto the date yesterday. An
ticipating the happy event, therefore,
TIE FREE Press family takes this slight
ly premature opportunity of extending
hearty good wishes To the young couple.
Last Saturday II visitor to the city
gazed down Front street for a moment,
and then remarked To Il representative
of the FREE Press, "Hello, there is
Scrap Iron Bill is il not?" when the
one addressed quietly informed the Wis.,
itor that he was in error, and that the
mastery looking individual referred to
was NJ. ID. l.. Collester, n of our lead
ing attorneys. Score another for COLES:
ter.
james McBroom, Esq, of Danville,
commenced the erection of another
barn on his farm Wednesday, and ex-
poets 10 have il completed ere winter
sets in. This will make his about the
best equipped farm in that locality and
demonstrates that he is an implicit be-
lever in more extensive stock raising.
The Durham seems to be his favorite in
the cattle line, and in sheep he keeps
the fine wool. His favorite horse blood
is the Norman.
Ole Engelbritson, postmaster ut Lit
tie Cobb, whose misfortune was recount
eel i'm last weeks FREE Press is still i'm a
helpless condition, and has not spoken
a word since he received the paralytic
stroke. He was removed to his home
last Tuesday and DR.. Rowe of Minneso-
Ia Lake has the case and is of the opin-
ion that his patient is improving on the
who.e. Ii is to be hoped that ere many
days he will be out Of danger.
The question Of vaccination is being
pretty generally agitated through the
press of the country, and it is a subject
that must at no distant day receive the
attention of the people of Mankato. OF
all diseases To which human flesh is
heir, small pox is one of the most hOr-
rible and loathsome. The only sure pre-
ventative is vaccination, and il behooves
every man. woman and child i'm the
community, who has moi been success
fully v~accinated within five years TO at
tend To il at once.
r.. ID. Hubbard d Co. have purchas-
ed ten car loads of No. ! hard wheat ut
Glendale, ID. r., which they will bring
10 Mankato, clean and exchange with
farmers OF this locality at a premium of
ID cents per bushel for No. | Northern.
No. | hard is worth from ) TO Z cents per
bushel more than No. | Northern, which,
with the cost Of transportation and
cleaning more than makes up the differ
ence asked by the firm. This wheat
will not be sold at any price. 1t il only
for exchange IN the terms named, and
our wheat growers will do well to Sc
cure some of it for seed.
st, Peter Tribune. Mr.. T.. ID. Chap
pell, of Kasota, who left here a year
or so ago, to locate in Nebraska, looked
that country over pretty thoroughly, and
finally rented a farm for a year in Iowa.
lie found a good many disadvantages
which the farmer has to encounter in
that section, especially the hog cholera,
from which the losses have been very
heavy, and on the whole concluded he
liked Minnesota best. He returned last
r week, and on Monday purchased back
his old farm at Kasota from &. w. Bah
, cock, TO whom he sold the place before
= he left. His family is yet in Iowa, and
| will not return until next March.
! The usual annual capers were cut mp
= by some of the %mischivOus boys last Sa.