The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1888-07-27

Mankato and 1t will be blessed will
n. plenty of music.
The West Side hook and ladder
N company of Mankato visited the lakt
q Saturday night, had dance and spent
a. Sunday at the hotel with their old fore
man, Landlord Smith. Seventy-tive
!. persons were served with dinner.
The sportsmen are getting their gums
in order and preparing for the annual
: chicken hunt. Chickens are reported TO
be quite thick in some localities and
7 scarce in others. 1t win depend good
q deal upon locality this year whether the
u hunter has good luck.
The fire department was called out
this morning at / 80 o'clock by a slight
2 blaze at Lee & Girvin's foundry. A
coal shed had very mysteriously taken
fire, but it was extinguished without
trouble or loss. No. hose cart was
badly damaged while leaving the city
hall. The fire boys turned out lively.
The general agency of the McCor-
mick Harvester company in this season,
W. R. B. Smythe manager, is having q
busy season and the sale of their inn
proved binder is beating all the records.
The Mccormick company has manufac-
tured and shipped up to date 1900 har-
vesters and binders this season.
1T is currently rumored that Mayor
Pau has been "almost persuaded" to
accept the Democratic nomination for
congressman in this district. The Mayor
and family have been rusticating at Lake
Madison for a week, and will return to-
night. The nomination is only an empty
honor, but we know of no one who could
more gracefully wear it than our own
lively Mayor. And he has reputation |
as political hustler" which would |
make the Republicans nervous were it |
not for the big odds against which he
would have to contend in q contest with |
Congressman Lind.
"A very pleasant double wedding oc-
Cured in Clerk Thorne's Office this
morning. Edward Danberry and Miss
Anna Heidershal, and Chas. p. Foster
and Miss Elnora Danberry, all hailing
from jamestown, were the happy cou-
Piles. AS the young people were in
somewhat of hurry to have the cere-
mony performed Judge Mead was called
in and tied the knot with official dignity
and clrcumspection. 1t is not recorded
whether he impressed an official kiss on
the lips of the blushing brides. The
second story of the county offices was
all sgog throughout the morning owing
to the occurrence and the staid and Sc
date officials were quite unnerved. The
Danberrys are brother and sister.
Lake Madison Is not losing its charms
as a summer resort, the croakers to the
contrary notwithstanding. The number
of people who are making trips to the
lake this season is larger than ever be- {
fore, and all the attractions of the place l
are as strong as ever. Point Pleasant
was thronged with visitors yesterday, {
and the crowd thoroughly enjoyed the
offered by a sail on the lake I
or picnic on the high, dry and shaded '
bluffs that bound the lake. The hotel is {
earning better reputstion than ever
this season, and Mr.. Smith is as accom- ]
and careful of the wants of his t
guests as any could desire. Mankato
people should patronize this pleasure '
resort and sound its praises in every way 6
possible. Whatever helps Lake Madi-
son aids Msnkato, and many a famous I
watering place has had less in the wav
of attractions to start with than the {
beautiful lake in question. {
p. II. Carney took charge of the J
postofice Saturday night, the invoice t
having been completed then and his
having arrived. But one C
change is made in the force 30 far, r
Emil Schoyen has accepted a position in ]
the local Office of the Standard Oil I
company, and C. E. Wise will take his I
place as deputy. "Chot" has had
experience in this po-
sition, having held it under his father,
and will no doubt give excellent satisfac- !
ton. Mr.. Schoyen has fulfilled his du-
ties in an exceptionally satisfactory man a
ner and his friends and the public in t
general will be sorry to see him leave. 1t '
is not out of place to add that the retir- !
Ing postmaster, Mr.. Cannon, goes out
with the best wishes of great majority
of the patrons of the Office. No officer I
could be more earnest or faithful in his
efforts to serve the public well, and if
such has not been the result, it is be- g
cause he has been 30 hampered that !
good service in all particulars was not |
possible. Nobody will question Mr..
Cannon's willingness or good intentions,
and withal he made as good an officer as :
many of his critics would have been I'M ,
der similar circumstances. He retlres y.
with the good wishes of all citizens.
Last night was as favorable for OBJ
serving the total eclipse of the moon as
could have been possible. The sky was
perfectly cloudless, and the moon shown
forth in all its brilliancy until 9:45, when .
old mother earth, which was slowly re-
volving along in the path which led her
to the invisible line straight from sun to 8
moon, struck that line and took off just {
a perceptible bit of the right side of the ]
big, bright bali. The shadow then ap- &
peared to get in its work faster, and in ,
forty-two minutes had covered the en- {
tire right side. That portion of the ,
moon which was covered by the shadow ,
assumed frey red color, while that {
portion which remained uncovered 1
shone forth as clear and brilliant as ev- :
er. At 1858 o'clock the eclipse became {
total, the shadow covering the entire full
moon. At first the shadow had the eff
feet of giving the moon bright red col
or, but it gradually grew darker until
the moon was almost black. The totally
of the eclipse ended at 1898, when the ]
shadow commenced to move off to the {
west. At 40 o'clock the moon was en-
tirely relieved of the shadow. Mother |
Earth had crossed the line, not to come {
between sun and moon again for several |
months at least. A great many Manka-
totes remained up to witness the phe-
nomenon and the beautiful effects Of it.
lFrom Tuesdays DAILY FREE PRKssl.
The small boys can begin to save up
their money. Barnum's circus will be
in this city on or about August 22d.
-E. N. Davis has opened cigar fac
tory in the building on Jackson street
ra~f 10 Ekla,s and In ms kipo aopoa oond