The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-03-19
We were visited by a genuine thun.

at the w. &. T. L. rooms on Jackson
street, Sabbath afternoon at $3.50 O'Clock
There will be a gospel temperance
meeting at the w, {. 7. l.. parlors next
Tuesday evening. All are cordially in
vited.
| The proposed farmers warehouse
organization at Amboy has been partial
" effected and there il little doubt of its
success.
r. Bcquette, Esq, has let the con-
| tract for his new house To j. Flachsen
| liar. Ii is 10 cost in the neighborhood
of - 900
--Isidor Longini, of the Star Clothing
House, gives evidence in to-day's FREl
Press of increasing trade. See enlarged
advertisement.
John &. Noe reports the sale of ITO
acres i'm the town of Antrim, Watonwar
county, to Anton Tenk, of Nicollet, fol
81. $50. Also 50 acres in Butternut Val
lev TO Ole Shaw for $50.
Snow fell Saturday night to the
depth of two or three inches, but melted
away. largely, on Sunday. During sun
day night il showed little, but Monday
being warm and spring like it soon dis
appeared.
Judge Severance, on Wedne sday
denied the motion for new trial in case
of Monson viz. City of Mankato. We
will have to pay Mr.. Monson $500 for
damages sustained through II defective
sidewalk.
Swan Johnson has Il half-bloodHol J.
stein heifer, and a half-blood Guernsey
heifer which he desires to sell. An ear
ly purchaser can secuae barg ain. APP
ply at residence. corner Louisa and Rec
ord street.
The residence of III. X. Grigno n
Winnebago Agency, took fire last eve
ming and was considerably damaged.
Had il not been for the timely efforts of
the citizens the house would have bee
destroyed.
The Missionary Garden of the Con-
gregational church will hold Il fair next
"Wednesday evening, the oath inst, ut
which they will dispose of numberless
articles both useful and ornamental.
The Ladies' Aid Society of the same
church will give Il supper at the same
time and place-the Bentley rink.
Mrs F.. l.. Bettinger, and Miss Lau-
ri Heilborn, a former Mankato girl, took
advantage of the passenger cut on the
Northern Pacific road to make their
friends here visit, and expect to spend
the summer with Mankato friends. Prof.
Bettinger's friends here will be pleased
To know that he is doing very pros
porous business,
Nicholas Lang, ESD, of this city, has
purchased the Union House property,
and will push the REPAYMENT of that
hosiery to completion at once. AS is
we'll known that building was partially
burned down early in the winter and
has been rebuilt i'll part. Mr.. l.. will
see that it is fixed up i'll tlp-top shape.
Mr. Rustemeyer will continue as host.
-Messrs. Frink Il Richards contracted
for page supplement in THE FREE
Press this week, but owing to the inn
mense prlce-list which they present, We
are unable to lay their mammoth adver-
tisement before our readers until next
week. They propose to slaughter any
and everything in the way of high prices
and ask the public To await their an
nouncement.
q. Leonard, ESD, has just closed up
the probation of the estate of the late
Thos. Rieger, and RENTED to that gem
tleman's relatives i'm Germany the net
assets of the estate, amounting Ia 3O,UOO
Marks. This in L. $. currency is equal
to 81 200, Mark being equal to "a cts.
The gross assets of the estate was about
$, 600. which dispels the general idea
that the deceased was 'miser million
aire.' II was believed that his richie s
ranged upwards of S5O,0o0.
-Messrs. f. Decker, of Sterling, and
:. c. Brooks, of Mapleton, returned last
Monday from Castle Rock, Mimi, VIII ere
they went few days previous to pur-
chase horse of Mr.. Johnson for the
contemplated Sterling Stock Company
| They brought home n noble animal for
which they paid $500. Mr.. Decker Is
an experienced horseman and feels
| proud of their purchase. He saws that
he will keep the animal himself if il
should transpIre that the stock company
is not finally formed.
Tie ignorance of the counties com
prising the Second Congressional District
displayed at the Prohibition convention
Tuesday afternoon was serio-amusing tC
a IvoHD, v.., ....t prom positive ti"
the head pilots had failed in getting
their "Gog 'fy" lesson. No one of the
fifty or sixty present could name more
than six of the counties, and it required
some degree of emphatic assertion tC
convince them that Nicollet, LeSueur
and Siblcy are i'm the district. The re
porters present, (who are onniscient il
knowledge), were referred to, and tn,
extrication relieved.
| d. Z"
election as alderman in the md ward
Mr.. II. has made "a very acceptable
member of the council, and being in
strongly Democratic ward there is u,
doubt of his election--provided he get
the nomination. An alderman will al
80 have to be elected for two years L
fill the vacancy occasioned by the resig
nation of Mr.. Carney, and an effor
should be made to get a tirst-class man
If the Democrats would be little liber
al and divide honors, either Capt. {
Keysor or Capt. j. \. Holmes would b
valuable men in the council.
We announce with profound regre
that Rev. Il. G.. Pollock, who has serve,
as pastor of the Presbyterian church il
this city for several years, has tenders
his resignation of the charge, to take ei
feet in the course of five or six months
What Mr.. Poliock's motive for so dom
, is we know not, nor have we attempte
between himself and his church; but W
, hope sincerely that he will yet see fit t
withdraw the resignation, for he is
faithful minister, true friend to all hi
. acquaintance, and worthy and desil
able citizens whom any communit
would regret to lose.
The Rerier editor seems to tax
especial delight in charging "extrava
CANT and wasteful expenditure of mone,
abuses" ETC., to any and all Republica
nd mimi ct ratinns-whnther National {