The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-09-23
HOME JorTINes.
Charlie Oliver has opened lum
Der yard at Garden City. Is.

Der yard at Garden City. e-S
The candy factory received ;
single invoice last week of $1,000
pounds of peanuts.
Real estate in Mankate is chang
ing hands to considerable extern
this fall.
John X. McBroom has the princi
palship of the Watertown public
schools.
The High school field day sport.
will occur on Oct. 7th. An interest
ing program is being provided.
Dick Hammett, the drayman, has
the finest dray outfit in the state
with his s4OO greys dressed in Their
$75 harness.
Helen, the eight-year-old daughter
of Uri Ayres, died at the residence on
Fourth street Friday. The re.
mains were inferred today.
e. Stevens has sold his restaurant
at Mapleton to E. .Traver, and will
soon leave for California with his
family, to spend the winter.
We have inquiries every day for
good first-class tenement houses. We
should have room for everyone who
comes to our city for homes.
johnson & Co.'S stone quarry is
doing good business. His men have
received So day for the past two
months and are well contented.
On Monday new seventh grade
will be established in the High school,
owing to the overcrowding of one of
the rooms, which contains 10 pupils.
w. r. Estes, of Madelia, who
has for several years been consul at
Kingston, Jamaica, has just received
the appointment as consul to Uurem-
berg.
Frank White, aged 90 years, died
at the home of his brother-in-law,
Mr.. Roach, on Bunker Hill, Thurs
day, of rheumatism, and was buried
this afternoon.
Elizabeth Meaney had her hus-
band, John Meaney. in court Saturday
morning on the charge of assault in
the third degree. He claimed he was
attacked by her first and pleaded not
guilty. The trial was set for Sept.
goth.
The A. O. U. w. Monday con-
cluded the lease of the hall over Lamm
s& Schroeder's hardware store, for
term of five years. 1t will not be &C.
cupied until some necessary changes
are made, when it will be used as
lodge room. 1t is spacious hall.
st James Plaindedler: Peter Nelson
of the town of Nelson, exhibited on
our streets on Tuesday most beauti-
full SiXteen-months-old colt. The
animal is of fine form and carriage
and weighs an even 1,O4O pounds. 1t
is such stock as this that brings a
profit to the breeder
Perry Close and Miss Eta Peek are
to be married Sunday, at the residence
of Mrs. Estell, relative of the bride.
Miss Peek is from Eagle Lake and
has been here visiting friends for
some. Mr.. Close is young man of
good habits and deserves all the good
luck that seems to be visiting him.
Lake Crystal Mirror.
Home grown apples of the
Clutches variety have sold as low as
fifty cents per bushel at this place the
past week. What's the matter with
Minnesota as an apple country when
apples can be procured at 81 so per
barrel.-Mdpleton Enterprise.
Joseph Sonasac, the 13 year old
son of Ell Sonasac of Beauford, while
riding horseback on Monday evening
fell off Of the horse and broke his leg.
DR.. Bishop was called and set the
limb and the patient is now on the
way t. recovery. Mapleton Enterprise.
-Winnebago City Press eeos: A close
observer remarked this week that in,
a period extending back twelve years,
there had been only two partial
failures of the corn crop, that is.
admitting that the crop of this season
is one of the two.
M. Hanna has purchased of L.
Patterson the % feet frontage on
South Front street where Gunstrom's
meat market is. The price paid
was $4,000. The building will be
raised this fall and he will move his
grocery stock there by April 1st next,
if not before. 1t will give him plenty
Of room for a wood yard, and is a
good location for his business.
Mrs. Christensen received a let
ter Monday from her sister, Mrs. T. B.
Catron, who has been taking an Eu-
ropean trip and who returned on the
Wyoming, which is being held in
quarantine in in New York harbor.
She states that the cabin passengers
are all in good health and spirits, but
that they may be detained at Fire
Island for ten days.