The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1889-09-20
From THURSDAYS Daily.

line next harvest excursion over tle
Omaha road will occur Sept. oath.
-Wilkin Post met last night and
adopted resolutions thanking the state
fair management for it's kind treatment
of the. past week.
Lake Crystal expects to have new
mill, and as soon as Mr.. Baker makes
his proposition in writing meeting will
be called to ratify it.
Manager Bierbauer is having some
more iron supports put in at the opera
house, which will render the roof safe
against all possibility of accident.
"A st. Paul paper gives list of the
fairs of the state which are to be assisted
by state money. The recent fair held in
this city is included In the list. The
amount is not stated, but last year it was
$2lS.
The county commissioners were in
sc ssion to-day again. The contest over
the removal of road in Butternut Val
ley was settled by the committee report
| ing in favor of leaving the road where it
now is, by a vote of three 10 two.
We learn with pleasure that G. T..
Goodell has been called to the char Of
Modern Languages at Franklin college,
Franklin, Ind. This call was entirely
unsought and unexpected. Mr.. GOodell
has decided to accept the position for
the current year.
The remains of Bob Younger passed
through this city last night on the train
bound for Omaha. Many citizens re-
member the time he was here last after
his capture and on his way to the peni-
Tertiary. The story has been too often
told to need rehearsing.
The Lake Crystal Union says that
Geo. Mayer, of Lincoln, raised from a
single seed of flax stalk that had five
branches, lao balls, and 900 fully ina.
tured flax seeds. His flax yielded from
twelve to fifteen bushels to the acre
The same paper says that the new de-
pot was occupied Tuesday aud the re-
moval of the old depot began yesterday
The members of the WilKin Post re-
fer to their treatment at the hands Of
the state fair management with pleasure
1t was announced that the railroad fare
including admission to the grounds
would be $3.50. But when the post en-
tered the gate of the fair grounds eacf
one was returned fifty cents, the price
of admission which they had paid wher
they bought their railroad tickets.
We learn that Mr.. +. n. Merrill
: whose resignation as manager OF the ce
ment works was announced Yesterday
intends to go South. He owns in con
junction with his father large tract o
, land in northern Alabama, which con
. tains valuable deposits of stone as wei
as mica, and the building of a new rail
road has made the development of tn,
, quarrries now practicable.
Blue Earth City Post: J. II. Sprou
B arrived home Tuesday morning after
t weeks absence in attendance upon thu
meeting of the Grand Lodge knights o
Pythias. the State Fair, the Exposition
| saltwater and other places of interest
| He reports very pleasant and profita
q Bile session of the grand lodge, and w
venture to say that No. 80 has no reason
to be ashamed of its representative.
You're correct. No lodge in the stat
was more ably represented than No. 3a
! and Bro. Sprout contributed to the gen
g eral profit of the grand lodge in NOR
: ways than one.
The remarkable find of pearls il
some Wisconsin rivers induced som
people near New Ulm to look for pearl
!. in the clam shells along the Minnesot
}, river. Pearls were found, but as We