The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1889-05-17

The semi-annual meeting of the
| Minnesota valley medical association
will be held at st. Peter Tuesday, May
2Sth.
w. L. Perrin, of Amboy. was in the
c,ty TODAY. He states that the crops In
his vicinity never looked better ut this
season of the year.
| -Polchow & Lille have IT, air ice wag-
on recovered and its familiar form Is
now to be seen daily. Orders for ice
should be left at Schweitzer's market.
The militia company is getting ready
for the annual inspection, which occurs
MAY %. Gen. Schoeffel, the new inspec-
tor general, will conduct the inspection.
John Larson desires to thank the
| fire department for its efforts in pre-
venting the spread of the flames in ves-
terday's fire and thereby saving his
house from burning.
The gas and electric light company
has made some extensive improvements
about its plant, including number Of
new retorts. The works have been en-
closed by a neat board fence.
A new printing office is being put in
over Longini's clothing store by Mr..
Wells, the Delevan editor. A Hewspa-
per Will be issued we understand. This
will be cheering news to our business
men.
The council should be pretty careful
in its selection of a water works engineer.
| The city will have some expensive ma
chinery i'm its plant and it should not be
put in inexperienced hands.
Several hotel men have been In the
city lately to look at the Saulpaugh House
with view to leasing it. IL is not inn
probable the place may be rented short
ly.
-Supt. w. Ii. Wilcox, of the manu-
featuring company, goes to Sheldon,
Iowa, to-day to bid on the machinery
and furnishings of new tow mill being
built at that place. The company is
very busy now on $500 job of building
castings for firm at Rock Rapids, Iowa.
The funeral services of the late Jas.
McMurtrie were conducted at his late
residence, $40 Fulton street, at $50 this
forenoon by Rev. +. NJ. Rule, the Ma
sonic order assisting. The deceased was
one of our earliest citizens, and every
where recognized as on honest man, and
esteemed as such by all who knew him.
May 18th is the seventy-fifth ami
versary of the independence OF Norway.
The Norwegians in various parts Of the
state are preparing to celebrate the oc-
casion with proper ceremonies. The az
fair which will attract the most attention
Will doubtless be at Minneapolis, it be-
ing arranged TO dedicate the new Nor
mamma Hall on that occasion.
-Winona Herald: A. J. Van Dusen,
shop foreman of the Laid-Norton COM
pany, returned yesterday morning from
Mankato, where he has been for several
days on business for the firm. Mr.. Van
Dusen says that business seems TO be
very good there and that considerable
building is going on in proportion to its
population.
1t is said that i'm making the excava-
ton for the sewer in the vicinity of Wal
nut street the men struck at a depth of
ten or fifteen feet a lot of decayed sun
fish and also remains of vegetable mat
ter. Whether it was the bed of some
lake or the remains of the old mud holes
that used to lie in that vicinity has not
been ascertained.
Owing TO mistake of the sewer
pipe company in sending 22-inch, house
connections instead of 20-inch, pipe-lay-
ing on the sewer was stopped yesterday
and about twenty-five workmen laid of.
The contractor went TO st. Paul, and
will secure the right connections there
If possible. If unable to do 50, they
will need to be ordered from st. Louis
and a serious delay caused. The exea-
vators are kept at work and the trench
has reached Jackson street. The work
has been pushed with commendable |
rapidity and il is too bad the contractor
is caused this delay.