The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-04-23
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HOME JOTTINGS.
1t is cooler to-day.
This Is Good Friday.
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This Is Good Friday.
Tomorrow is Arbor day.
Read Heinze ice cream and sod
locals.
-HenIein Il Miller, clothiers, chang
their al to-day. Consult il.
Remember the Easter ball at Cit,
Hall next Monday evening.
The Mankato Fiber-ware Works vii
be started i'll about three weeks.
The strawberry succeedeth the robil
and the daisy. 1t is spring, in fact.
A bunch of keys was found on From
street, and can be had at this office.
Fred Fuller and J. Il. kollerar boil
building neat iron fences about their new
residences.
The Sweitzer meat market has beer
treated 10 Il coat of new paint and sh,
fairly dazzles.
Mrs. w. NJ. Farr will entertain tn,
Ladies' society of the Presbyterian
church this afternoon.
john {. Noe reports the sale TO Ole
h. Shaw, of 80 acres i'll section twenty
Of Butternut Valley, for 500.
A laborer i'll Craig Il Co.'S stone
quarry, had one of his feet pretty badly
smashed yesterday afternoon.
The district lodge, |. q. Ii. T., fol
this district Will hold meeting in Man
kato on the 9TH and 9TH proximo.
The churches will all be fittingly
decorated next sunday, and services ap
propriate TO the day will be held.
Will We, orwill We not, have out door
concerts by the band this summer? II
ia time the matter was being arranged.
$. +. Holbrook has sold the building
lately occupied by l.. l.. DAVIS, to John
Klein, who will merge il into his already
large furniture establishment in time.
The farmers in the county should
take cognizance of the announcement in
another column of a farmers institute 10
he held at Eagle Lake, on the 29th and
30th inst.
The ladies should not fail to peruse
Mrs. Foulke's advertisement, which APP
pears elsewhere to-day. She is situated
To offer greater inducements than eveI
before 10 her customers.
Our Saviour's Lutheran church Nor.
wegian) will soon Ice materially improved
in the way of papering, painting, fresco'
ing, etc, of the interior, and il will be
dedicated at an early day.
Notices have been posted at the di-
rection of Mayor Carney requesting all
citizens 10 properly clean up their prem
Uses, and We trust that none will fail To
comply, and that promptly.
The graduating class Of the normal
school could not make arrangements
with President Northrup, of the State
University To lecture on Commencement
day, and are now negotiating.
The second regiment band will give
one of their excellent concerts early in
May, and the public will no doubt take
that opportunity Of expressing their APP
probation of this organization.
w. Ii. Anderson, the confectioner in
City Hall, has decided to remove his es-
adjustment to some other town, but
does not know exactly where, having
two or three localities III view.
The Normal school catalogue will not
be issued this year until after the close
of school. Ii will be thoroughly revised
and some new features added, thereby
making it much larger than formerly.
The amount of painting being done
at present. is proof positive that our peo
pie have an eye for the beautiful. II
would seem that nearly every deniZen o.
the city is thus embellishing something
North Mankato is finally assuming
genuine city airs, two Of our young mel
Messrs. Hockey * Jones putting in 1
store there. 1t may not be long till Thu
will be very important branch of tn,
city.
Max Krolik's opening on Saturday
evening, attracted large crowds of peo
pie, and the arrangement Of his store fol
the occasion was most creditable. Tht
Germania orchestra spiced the occasion
with excellent music.
The ladies OF the Episcopal churcl
will hold fair and festival soon after thu
close of the Lenten season, and the sue
cess usually attending such occasions un
der their auspices is sufficient guarantee
of very pleasant time.
Geo. \. Clarke, Esq, has received
communications from parties at Omaha
and elsewhere, Intimatlng that large par
ties of visitors will frequent Lake Madi
ison for recreation as soon as the season
is sufficiently advanced.
DIR. Prees, formerly of Lake Crystal
tins county, but now located at Cincin
natl, Ohio, wired friends In this city yes
terday, that John +. Jones, father O
Mrs. Prees, had just died. The deceased
had some acquaintance in this county.
There is very much danger of a de
struction Of fruit buds and other tende
foliage, the extremely warm weather q
April bringing them forth i'm season &
be npped by the frOsts which we ar,
most certain TO have in the early part q
May.
-Piscatorial votaries say that fish G
certain species never took TO bait -
early in the season as they have thi
wear, and those who have fished il
Madison and other lakes report larg
catches," the black bass being partic
ularly free to bite"
The weather of Sunday and Monda
had more the semblance Of mid-Jun
than of April, and the way verdure of a
kinds have sprung forth is astonishing
The growth.of grass and grain is fully q
far advanced as is ordinarily the case D
the middle Of May.
Another SUIT of considerable magn
tude has been brought against the city
by Dennis Sullivan for extra recompens
on the Hickory street grade. The SUI
sued for amounts 10 81 $50. Pau
Shissler will prosecute the case, and cit
attorney Brown, with such assistants 6
he may select, will defend.
While endeavoring 10 inaugurate
thorough cleanup throughout the cit
would il not be well for the city author
ties To have the surplus mud moved G
of Front street? No part of the munic
nality needs the application of a clean
ing hand more than does this thoroug
fare.