The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1889-06-14
The animal convant;op of the Welsb

| The annual convention of the Welsh
Calvanistic Methodists will be held in
an extensive grove in Judson, common
cling Tuesday evening and lasting until
Thursday evening. This is district
convention, and includes all OF Minne-
sofa and Dakota. A large number of
delegates from all parts of these two
states will be in attendance. The meet
ing will be large and important one,
and the grove, accommodating 900 peo-
pie, will be crowded.
The board of public works meets
June 90, at 2 p. M, to open bids for the
grading of Pearl street its entire length,
and Hanover street from Pearl to Hick-
DRY; also, bids for grading Broad street
from Elm to the east end in Dukes adj
dition. The board meets June "a, at 2
D. M, to assess 5000 of the cost of the
Second street sewer against the property
owners. The city foots the balance of
the SIG, 900, which the sewer cost. Com
plants against this assessment will be
heard at that time.
The meeting at Lake Crystal, preli-
minary to the national camp-meeting OF
Free Methodists, closed to-day. The
attendance was very good. The camp
meeting opens one week from to-day.
half mile or 80 from the village and is
quite pretty sheet of water. All ar
rangements have been made for taking
care of large crowd. The town will be
full of people and will receive an extern
sive advertising as summer resort. 1t
is expected that some hundreds, il not
thousands, of people will attend the
meeting.
The board of public works meets
Saturday, to assess the cost of grading
Willard, Marshall and Fulton streets
against the property owners, the total
amount being 81, rs. The property own
ers are inclined to raise vigorous kick
over the proceeding, and there is talk
of lawsuit against the city in case the
assessment is collected. They hold that
as the grading was ordered and mostly
done under the old charter the board of
public works has no right to assess them
as provided for in the new charter.
They say that they would not have asked
for the grading under the present condi-
tons.
The board of education meets to-
night to take action on electing a special
teacher of drawing and penmanship and
a janitor of the West Mankato school.
There is some probability of the board
following the recommendation OF the
superintendent and establishing a de-
partment of manual training, to be in
charge of gentleman. II this is done
the work of instruction in drawing and
penmanship will devolve upon the vari-
Gus teachers and no special teacher in
those subjects will be elected. The mat
ter of posting notices for the coming
school election and preparing poll lists
will also come up.
Miss Ellen Jones, daughter of Mrs.
Ellis Jones, died at her home in Cam
bria Monday noon, and was buried yes
terday. She was about twenty-three
years of age, and was a very bright
young lady. She attended the normal
last winter and the year before. Death
was caused by pneumonia, complicated
with lung fever and pieurisy. The fu-
neral was one of the largest ever held iii
that part of the county. eighty-five carri-
ages being In line. Revs. Hughes of
Cambria, Jones Of Judson, and Roberts
of Lake Crystal, officiated. Funeral SER
vices will be held again Sunday at the
Horeb church. The deceased had a
very large circle of friends who mourn
her loss