The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1889-03-29
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From Friday DAILY FREE PRESS.
ID. +. Cross, of Amboy, has taken
his sons into partnership.
Teachers examinations will be held
at Ambov, April LIST and ID; Good Thun-
der, April Sd and 4th; Mankato, April
9th and 9th.
A meeting of stock men will be held
at the courthouse Saturday, March so,
at ! 90 p. M, to consider the organIza-
ton of mutual insurance association,
to save the excessive cost of insuring
stations.
w. E. Lee has obtained the contract
for putting the castings in the sewer,
and also the contract for putting the
sash weights in the courthouse. He has
all he can do TO keep up with orders,
and the shop Is run thirteen hours a
day.
Rev. Il. W. Stevenson has brought
forty-fve additions TO the Church of
Christ at Garden City as the result of his
recent meetings. This makes the men,
bership of the church number seventy
persons. 1t will likely be arranged to
use the building of the Methodists.
The new city charter makes the
term of the city recorder four years.
Therefore special care should be taken
in the selection of man for this office
as four years is a long time TO wait to
turn out an Incompetent official. The
alderman also hold fours years here
after.
Work on the tower of the court
house is once more i'll progress. This
will be pushed, and the building will
soon be in perfect outward form. The
steps in front of the building have also
been removed, and will be replaced with
harder stone. Mr.. Nepil will IN a short
time bring several men with him from
st. Paul, and 20 actively at work putting
in the heating apparatus.
The hospital trustees yesterday
opened bids for putting in the heating
apparatus at the hospital. The bids
were as follows:
Sykes & Co, Minneapolis. .:::..... 80. s6s9.0
Patterson & Co, Appleton, Wis......... 5000
wickersham 4 Brown, ............... $4,000
A. p. Nepil, 81. Paul........... ..... o''.oo
The contract was awarded TO Mr.. Ne
Dill. His bid was at the actual cost Of
putting in the apparatus, leaving him no
profit.
MIR. Saulpaugh has decided to have
the plastering at the new hotel done by
the day, and H. L. McCullom will super
intend it. About ten plasterers will be
put at work, and will be employed on
the job for about six weeks.
Rev. Judson Jones, has sued the
Omaha road for $4,000 damages, sus-
tanned IN October, 1856, while going from
lake Crystal to Vernon Center.
Hon. Daniel Buck is the attorney for
the plaintiff IN this case and Hon. Hor-
ace Austin is his counsel. The case
will probably come up in the May term
of District court for trial Is is one of
the heaviest damage suits ever brought
in this court. At the time stated, Rev.
Jones had just gotten in car and was
walking through the aisle when the train
started suddenly or it was iostled. Mr..
Jones was thrown violently against a
seat injuring bis spine 30 that he has
never recovered. His life is still IN
danger from the shock.
The scheme TO establish city mar
ket place should be revived. Last sum-
mer the matter received the favorable
attention of the council and was referred
to a committee to look up suitable To-
cation. This committee pigeon-holed
the matter and it has not been heard
from since. Now is the time to enquire
why the committee laid the matter aside
so unceremoniously. A location can
not be purchased for less money than at
present and the cost of putting it in
shape would be less than usual. The
many advantages of a central market
place need not be repeated as it was
clearly shown last fall that it would be
an excellent thing.