The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1885-09-04
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ing this week in order to give the EN-.
ployees an opportunity to visit the fair
i'm the afternoon.
Harry Shaubut, Esq, has purchased
Mr.. Geo. F. Hammar's interest in the
bottling works, and will hereafter con.
duet the business alone.
H. A. Simonds, of Eagle Lake, adver.
tises 100 swarms of bees for sale in to.
days paper. Those in want of the busy
insect should call upon Mr.. 5.
Mrs. S. l.. Osborne, now offers a
large lot of stock, etc, for sale nj her
farm, miles east of the city, on the 23d
of the present month. See locals else
where.
Again we call attention To the State
Teachers institute 10 he held at Garden
City, commencing October 9Th. No
teacher should fail to atteud, nor will
any who can possibly get there.
Our thanks are due Miss Ida NJ. Lee
for lovely boquet of flowers, consisting
of pansies, oleander blossoms, fucias,
geraniuns and many others. Twas u
thoughtful and kind act on the young
lady's part.
For information of farmers we would
say that yesterday morning all the
wheat buyers in this section of the state
adopted the state grade on wheat, and
will hereafter purchase that cereal UNI
der the new law.
The section boss ON the branch be-
tween here and Kasota, received bad
~ injured foot on Monday, caused by
the dropping ola steel rail upon il. He
was placed under medical care and Is
doing well. Several toes were consider
ably bruised and some bones of the foot
broken.
Our fair report has absorbed all our
editorial space this week, but we trust
that the detailed and reliable account
of the fair will prove more interesting
of editorial matter.
We acknowledge the receipt of the
Faribault county fair premium list, which
will be held September "A, ~ and ri.
The pamphlet is II neatly gotten up one,
and reflects much credit upon the
printers, Messrs. Ilamlin X Ingalls,, of
Blue Earth City.
Sullivan 4 Farnham, of Minneapolis
have been doing some fine mantle and
fire place work in this city, especially in
+. q. Piper's residence, where they have
placed some very elegant goods in the
line of Brass Peerless Shaking CRATES,
art thing and hardwood nantes.
-kiolaas, arrested at Napoleon for
embezzlement, on complaint of j. +.
Meagher, of this city, was examined
last Friday and Saturday before Judge
Porter and held for trial before the
grand jury in December next. He fur
nished the necessary bail and was set
free.
A friend at Amboy writes us that H.
q. Bornt of that place has an Aberdeen
calf that weighed ilS
pounds when exactly four months old.
That is certainly II good growth of veal
for 80 short Il space of time, and Mr.. Il.
is Ia he congratulated upon owning
about the biggest calf in the county.
The concert given by Prof. Bettin-
ger and his pupils last Friday evening
was very creditable affair To the partic-
ipants, tie Young people showing that
they have been very skillfully instruct.
ed, and that their determination is To !
4 good audience of the par
cnts and others favored them with their
presence.
The Clifton House was a regular bee
hive Saturday evening, there being fully |
one hundred little folks present. partic-
ipating i'm the celebration of Georgia |
klein's fourteenth birthday. The re-
frcshment tables presented lively |
scene, and the young ones spent merry |
evening.
Once more we call the attention of
the city teachers to the teachers meet
ing To he held at the Union building to-
morrow morning ut - o'clock. Ii is the |
desire of the superintendent that every |
ant matters relative to the organization
Of the schools will be conside red.
Rev. J. ii. Morley, of st. Paul,
preached in the Congregational church |
last sabbath morning and evening to
large congregations. lie is II very easy
and comprehensive speaker, and i'm the |
demonstrated the elements of
a christian character, while in the even
ing he expounded the fact that duty is
the foundation of all religion.
Henry Goodrich, Esq, Of Lime
township placed this office under obi
cations on "Wednesday for basket of
line most delicious wild plums il has ever
been our lot la sample. They are the
Wild uariniy cultivated. NJ. G""i,;.l, |
having had them under cultivation about
three years. Ii demonstrates the effects
IF judicious culture upon any specie of
natures products.
"Wednesday forenoon II horse be-
longing To Mr.. Hall, of South Bend,
ran away, starting from Snerk's |
store during Mr.. Halls absence from the |
buggy, and continued at lively pace
DOWN Front street and was not stopped |
until he reached lower town. Mr.. HIS |
little son, about ten years old, was i'm |
he buggy and was thrown ont shortly |
after the horse started, receiving some |
severe bIuiscs about the limbs. lie was
AIRED for by DR.. Andrews and sent
home feeling well. The buggy was
slightly damaged.
We have cndeavored this week TO
the exact extent of injury TO
he corn by the frost of Monday night,
md the opinion of several farmers of
whom We inquired is, that i'm low spots
md along river bottoms the damage is
quite serious, while upon the higher
prairie fields the maturity of the crop
viii not he intcrferred with, though the
caves are considerably bitten. We
'enture tn say, however, that the frost
will he the cause ola considerable depre
.iation in the quality of the crop, as
more or less of all fields will not fully
nature.
Last Sunday evening +. Rustemeyer
md wife were riding down Second street
md in attempting to turn to one side at
he corner of Second and Walnut To al
ow another team To pass, their buggy
was tipped over by running over some
lirt that has been dumped there from