The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-09-09
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Sept. 1st, in this city.
IN. p Lee has sold his secont
team in St. Paul. 1t was team O
bay mares.
Mrs. Veltum, grandmother of Mrs
w. H. Pay, who is Sc years of age, at
tended circus Thursday for the first
time in her life. She was well pleased
with what she saw.
Architect Thayer has drawn
plans for 1900 two-story frame
school house to be built at Vernon
Center. 1t will be neat structure
and contain two rooms.
John McGarry, of Mankato town.
ship, brought in samples of field corr
Saturdayswhich are fully ripe. The
corn had been planted "a days pre-.
viously. This shows what Blue Earth
county soil can do.
Saturday afternoon the Board OF
Public Works awarded the contract
for the gutteriug and curling of Front
in the Third ward, and Second street
from Byron to Liberty, to j. John
son & Co., the lowest bidders, to take
effect upon the filing of sufficient
bonds.
Mr.. Preston, this week moved his
household goods to Mankato, where
he will make his future home. Mr..
Preston makes this move to give his
children the benefit of the excellent
schools at that place, which this place
is sadly minus of.-Anaboy Herald.
Prospect Avenue, leading up Pros
pect Heights is being improved and
widened to the full width of fifty
feet. A siX-foot sidewalk is to be laid
along the upper side of the avenue
from Clark street southwark, which
will enhance the price of property
there.
1t is rumored that Clarence Saul
paugh left Friday for New Orleans, to
witness the Sullivan-Corbitt contest.
Our reporter has been unable to veri-
fy the statement further than that
Mr.. 5. is out Of the city and has been
since the date above referred to. Clar-
ence is rather secretive about certain
of his movements, but it is probable
that we have got him down fine this
time.
The bids for the construction of
John G. Mobiles house, near the M.
E. church, were as follows:
E. Sheldon, s3,1O6
Palmer Bros, So, S25.
Schwickhard & Holmes, So, 76O.
John Adams, So, 685
Q. E. Burdlck, $2,541.
Ernest Maheke, So, 444.
The latter has the contract.
e. G. Burdick last Saturday night
handed over the contract and keys to
the new bank building, the work to
be done by him having been finished
at that time. The inside furnishings
are expected to arrive daily and as
soon as they are completed the build
ing will be in readiness for occupancy.
In this and the Randall building,
AmbOy has block that it can well be |
proud of, as no other town in South
ern Minnesota has one that will COM
pare in beauty with it. Mr.. B., with |
his crew, returned to Mankato Satur-
day evening .-Anaboy Herald.
F. N. Griffin, editor of the Good |
Thunder Herald and chairman of the
Alliance county committee, was in |
the city Saturday,to attend the after
noon convention. He stated that |
he thought that the old time Alliance |
men will cast half of the votes in the |
reform movement in this county this /
fall. He did not think that the Peo-
pies party ambulance combined will |
cast over 500 votes in the county, |
which is great falling off from two
years ago. He believes this is due to
the members becoming discouraged |
and going back into their old parties. |
w. A. Martell, of Waseca, who is
one of the three train men under ar
rest on the charge of illtreating
some tramps at Eagle Lake month
ago, was caller at our office Mon
day. His story is quite different from
that given by the prosecution. 1t
seems that j. B. Leonard was the
conductor of the freight train from
which the tramps were elected, Mr..
Mulcahy was head brakeman and Mr.. |
Martell was brakeman. The train
men are pestered with tramps and |
these particular ones so Mr. Martell !
says, were insolent and had been
drinking and defied the trainmen to |
put them off. After several warnings
they were finally elected at Eagle |
Lake and as they made suspicious |
movements, in self defense the train
men struck them with their fists, not |
hurting them much. The citizens of |
Eagle Lake got a wrong impression of |
the affair from the story told by the
tramps and took up small subscrip-
tion for them. A change of venue in |