The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-07-15

iHc new Mlnnea polls 4 st. Louis
depot has been enclosed and if no de.
lays occur will be completed by Aug.
lSt.
The new knitting factory is doing
more business than at any time yet.
The outfit is still confined to hosiery
and mittens.
The ''old settlers picnic" at Gar
den City on the Fourth proved to be a
surprise gathering at the home of Fri
Evans and wife, it being the SD an
niYersary of their marriage. We have
no doubt the occasion was very en-
joyable one.-Lake Crystal Union.
The new addition to the Cassidy s
Co. packing house is nearly completed
and will be occupied the middle of
next week. The elevator looms W
consciously. The establishment is do
ing good business and is crowded for
room, which the new part will fur
nish. If business continues to in
crease as it DOW is doing the plant
will have to be doubled a second time.
Lake Crystal failed to have its
expected cannon to assist in cele-
brating the Fourth. Fairmont got
hold of it few days before and held
onto it until after the Fourth, the
boys there taking it across the lake
and firing it throughout the day.
"A son of Z. D. Cornish and a grad
uate of the high school at Oshkosh,
Wis, came home last week accom-
panied by four of the State UNIVERSE
ty students, Messrs. Burgess, Lynch,
and another whose name we did not
learn, who will spend a portion of
their vacation on the farm.-Lake
Crystal Union.
The big mill has received two
highly fiattering orders for flour. One
says, II am told you make the best
flour in Minnesota, not excepting
any," The other is from a town in
New York and is addressed to Mr..
Hubbard and says: II have been in
formed that you are in large -four
ing mill and are Shipping some of it to
Scheneous and have been told that
it could not bee beet, it is very hiley
recimended. l will try and find
market for your flour if it proves as
good as reckimended PleaZe write
ameadiately."
st. Peter Tribune: Perhaps the
most aged lady in LeSueur Co., is the
mother Of Geo. Forsyth, of Cleveland,
she having been born in the year 1901,
therefore, if she lives till November
next will be 81 years of age. Her men
tai faculties are we'll preserved, and
she remembers and states many Incl
dents of her childhood days. She lives
in her own home next her son, works
in the garden, sews considerable, does
all her own work, in fact is very spry
for one of her years. She was born in
Aberdeenshire, Scotland, and came to
this country and to Cleveland in Lee
Sueur Co., in 1850. She bids fair to
live many years longer.
-Nels Nyquist, of LeRay, is among
the enterprising farmers who believe
in good roads. He says that in the
old country there was never any
trouble with bad roads. Under the
system there the government eStab-
fishes the grade and each farmer is
required to keep the road in front of
his property in first-class condition.
The roads are rounded up the full
width and covered with thick coat
ing Of gravel, which becomes pressed
down and cemented together. When
ever any part sinks in or becomes
muddy, the farmer living opposite
must haul in gravel and repair it.
The sheriff sees that every man keeps
his share of the road all right. Mr..
Nyquist says that one trouble with
our country roads is that they are not
rounded up wide enough. He would
have them rounded up like the city
streets.
Mrs. Henry Lang, the woman who
was so brutally beaten by her husband
on the night of the Fourth, came
limping down to the City Hall Fri
day and tried to get the officers to re-
lease her husband. She was ready to
:'orgive him and receive him back.
She said that he had pounded her a
good many times, but never as bad as
the last time, and as she made no
complaint she did not see why he
should be punished. This is not the
first time that poor, abusedwomen have
sought to beg off their drunken, bru-
tai husbands, and the harshest treat
ment by the objects of their affection
does not seem to allay that affection.
These women, although sure OF beat
+ ings whenever their husbands return
home drunk, still cling to these ami
NAL husbands and attempt to shield
them from the just punishment which
is their due. Through their refusing
to testify, many Of these criminals
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