The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-04-09
PERSONAL.

a severe illness.
Hon. Jos. Bookwalter spent Tues
day in the city.
Hon. Daniel Buck of this city visitet
Winona this week.
Judge Mcdonald, of Shakopee, spen
last Friday in the city.
Prof. +. +. Lockerby, of Wells, ha'
spent the week in the city.
IT. Williams was OH the sick list fol
day or two the first of the week.
Mr.. Henry Shaubut returned this
morning from his trip to New Mexico.
Mrs. +. ii. Skillings has returned from
a visit of several months duration i'm the
east.
Rev. n. A. Hunt, of Sterling, this
county, has gone to Wisconsin to spend
time.
Miss Fannie Wheeler, of st. Clair, has
spent most of the week visiting friends
in this city.
Rev. Mr.. Thompson, of st. Paul, Off
ciated in the Presbyterian pulpit in this
city last Sabbath.
A. j. Morrison, Esq, is very sick with
pneumonia and gastritis, but is consider
ed past danger now.
T. +. Bowen, Esq, of the Sleepy Eye
Herald, was in the city Monday, calling
upon the brethren.
&. A. Gale, the. Garden City poultry
man, attended the State association mt
Rochester this week.
Prof. J. I. McCleary spent Sunday at
home, and is at Hutchinson this week
engaged in institute work.
Mrs. General Van Cleve, of Minneap-
oils, is expected to address the young
people at the Presbyterian church this
city Sunday evening.
Major Thompson is off ona G." aays
vacation and is visiting hi family at
Garden City and friends :, 'anknto
The Major looks well.
Rev. J. c. Ogle has s,...ered for ut
fou~' yeeks with most aggravated co!d
air! he is feeling exceedingly reduced in
vitality rs Il consequence.
Prof. f. Soaring, of the Normal school
went to st. Peter on Wednesday and
lectured before the teachers institute
there the same evening to crowded
house. His subject was "Russia."
Miss Fannie Villas, of Madison, Wis,
arrived here last Friday to assume the
duties of stenographer and type writer
in the Mccormick Reaper Co.'S office.
Geo. +. Brett, of the Empire store,
has returned from four weeks absence
shopping in Eastern markets. He
claims the largest stock and choicest
selection of goods this side of the Mis-
sissippi river.
w. Il. Fordyce, Esq, of st. Louis, has
been added to the train dispatcher's
force of the Omaha road IN this city. and
has assumed the duties of his position.
His family will arrive in the city in
about three weeks.
Hon. G. ID. Gilfillan, of st. Paul, was
in the city Monday and Tuesday. Mr..
G. has just returned from visit to Eu-
rope where he ls educating his children.
He will return there during the summer
to remain year or two.
Hon. o. 3. Turrell, of Redwood coun-
ty, was in Mankato last Saturday, evil
IDENTIFY taken a ''peek" into the political
cauldron in this part of the second dis
trict. He has been brought to the front
by several papers in the southwestern
part of the district as candidate for
Congress next fall.
F. II. Fowler, Esq, an old Mankato
resident but for the past three years
resident of Tacoma, Washington Terri
tory, is in the city visiting old friends.
He will probably remain three or four
weeks, after which he will make tonr
Of Montana. Mr.. Fowler is greatly i'm
proved in health since leaving here.
Ex-Speaker Gibbs, the would-be Gov
ernor of Minnesota, spent Wednesday
and Thursday in Mankato, looking up
his political fences. While Mr.. Gibbs
is no doubt very good man, it is rather
fearful that his fences hereabouirr in
n pretty dilapidated condition How
ever, the proper effort may put them in
goodshape.
Gen. Baker was in the cit' Tuesday,
and in answer to direct question
it was true, as reported, that
he was conspiring to assist in making &.
\. Gilman Governor, said it was not.
Baker said: "Gilman never asked my
support for any office whatever, and l
never offered him any aid for the Gov
ernorship nor any other office. l am
not Gilman man for Governor, nor am
] candidate for Congress" The Gen
eral is seldom pronounced candidate
for any office, but he usually acquiesces
in being groomed as n clark horse"
Pay Sharwin of AXE CRYSTAL will