The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1891-02-27

streets that the Laughlin girl once
worked in the family. She came to
the house one day with the servant
girl, just before Mrs. Ellsworth went
to Missouri, but was given to under
stand not to come again, whereat the
servant also left. Mr.. Ellsworth esti-
mates his loss in goods stolen, des-
troyed or injured, at 500.
See notice of fine stock horses in
another column. Without doubt
these are the finest lot of heavy draft
horses ever brought within the coun-
ty.
The opera house has been secured
for March 10th and 18th for the far
mers' institute. Only day sessions
will be held there. The basement
will be used for the cooking school.
The farmers of the surrounding coun-
try should prepare to attend this in
stitute in large numbers, for in no
other way can the same amount of
general information be distributed in
so short a time. The most successful
farmers are those who, as in every
other business, are quick to take adj
vantage of the new methods and ideas
that are constantly being made use of.
Mr. John Wass states that there
was slight error in regard to the
manner of the scalding Of his little
son, in our account in last evenings
paper. He says that pail of hot
water was standing beside woodboX
with sloping cover. The boy climbed
upon the box and accidently slid down
and fell into the pail, the water reach
ing to his knees. His mother picked
him out at once, but though he did not
seem to he much scalded, inflamma-
alton set in, he suffered spasms and
died. 1t is very sad case, and the
parents are greatly afflicted by their
loss.
The Klein furniture factory at St.
Peter has been sold to a syndicate,
and the Tribune says the machinery
will be put in motion within a few
weeks. Our neighbor is to be con-
graduated. A furniture factory can
be made to pay in ST. Peter or any
where else in this locality. Faribault
has two such factories and both are
doing good business. Owing to rail
road facilities Mankato is better stu
ated for industries of this kind than
any other city in the southern part of
the State, but the fact has been over
looked or ignored. We are always
glad, however, to see our neighbors
prosper, and are not so narrow souled
as to begrudge them good things
which do not happen to come our way.
There is considerable feeling in
Nicollet Co. in regard to the draining
of Swan Lake. Those in the immediate
neighborhood are anxious to have the
lake drained, as hundreds of acres of
valuable land could then bereclaimed.
The lake is very broad but shallow,
and the expense of draining it would
not be great. But another consider
alton deters many from favoring it.
1t is feared that the loss of this great
expanse of water may prove an injury
to the country, causing the springs
and water courses to dry up, and tend
ing to reduce the rainfall. 1t has long
been known that the reduction of the
water surface causes dryness and ex-
cesses of temperature, injurious to an
agricultural region. Whether the
draining of one lake will have such
an effect cannot be known, but it is
feared that the drawing off of the
water from Swan Lake would drain
several adjacent smaller lakes.