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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-08-03
First insertion July 20-last Aug. 3.


ORDER TO EXAMINE ACCOUNTS.
CTATE OF MINNESOTA. County of Blue
= Earth--ss. In Probate Court SpecialTerm,
July 18th, 1894.
In the matter of the estate OF Thomas E.
Evans, deceased.
On reading and filing the petition ofWiliamW.
Evans administrator with the will
annexed of the estate of said Thomas
K. Evans deceased, representing,
among other things, that he has fully admins
tered said estate, and praying that time and
place be fixed for examining and allowing the
final account of his administration. and for the
assignment of the residue of said estate to the
parties entitled thereto by law.
1t is ordered, that said account be examined
and petition heard by this court on Saturday,
the 18th day of August, A. d 1894 at 10
O'Clock a. m, at the Probate office in the City
of Mankato, in said county.
And it is further ordered, That notice there
of be given to ali persons interested by publish
ing this order once in each week for three sue
&C. sive weeks prior to said day OF hearing in the
Mankato Free Press a weekly newspaper print.
ed and published at the city of Mankato in said
county.
Dated at the City of Mankato the 18th day
OF July. A. d. 1894
By the Court,
Seal, WIN. B. TORREY,
THos. HUGHES, Judge OF Probate
Attorney for Administrator
Mankato. Mimi
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-08-03
First insertion July 2O-last Aug ?.
ORDER FOR HEARING ON CLAIMS.

,iTATE OF MINNESOTA, County of Blue
Earth-ss In Probate Court Special Term
July 18th. 1894.
In the matter Of the estate of Johanna
Fronert deceased.
Letters testamentary N the estate OF said
deceased being this day granted unto Henry
M ohr of said county.
1t is ordered that all claims and demands OF
all persons against said estate be presen ted to
this court for examination and allowance at
the Probate office i'll the City Of Mankato 10
said B lie Earth county, on the following day,
viz: On Thursday the 18th day of January
A. ID. 1895, at 10 o'clock a. m. of said day
1t is farther ordered that six months from
the date hereof be allowed to creditors to pre-
sent their claims against said estate at the ex-
piration OF which time all claims rot present ed
to said court or not proven to its satiSfac ion,
shall be TO ever barred unless for cause shown
further time be allowed.
Ordered further, That notice of the time and
place of the hearing and exami nation of said
claims and demands shall be given by publica-
ton of this order for three successive weeks,
prior to the day appointed for such examna
ton, i'll the Mankato Free Press, a weekly news
paper printed and published at the city of Man.
kato, in said county.
Dated at the City of Mankato, the 18th day
Of July, A. d. 1894.
By the Court:
Seal Wit i. ToRREy,
PFAU & YOUNG, Judge of Probate.
Attorneys for Executor,
Mankato, Mimi.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-08-03
First insertion Aug. Blast Sept. Ia.
MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE.
nEFAULT. having. been made in the con

nEFAULT having. been made in the condi-
~ tons of certain mortgage, executed by
Olaf Lundin and Katie Lundin, his wife,
December 22nd, A. ID. 1892, and recorded
in the Office of the Reg ster of Deeds in
and for the County of Blue Earth, in the State
of Minnesota on the 18th day of May A.
d. 1888 lat $50 O'Clock in the afternoon in book
33 of Mortgages, on page $40, by which mort
gage there was conveyed and granted the follow
ing described real estate, situate in the County
of Blue Earth aforesaid, to-wit: The sontherly
thirtythree 1887 feet of lot four az in block six
(6), of Waite and Roelofson's addition to Man
kato, according to the plot thereof on file, and
of record in thu office of the Register of Deeds of
said Blue Earth county to secure the payment
of the sum of Two Hundred Dollars with inter
est at the rate Of eight per cent. per annum pay
able annually according to the conditions of
one promlSsory note bearing t0e same date as
said mortgage, ma lie by said Olaf Lundin to
said Gus II. Monson, and there being due and
unpaid upon said note and mortgage, at the
date Of this notice the sum of Twentysix and
10 100 Dollars, interest and the sum OF Two
Hundred Dollars and interest from this date
yet to become dua, which said sum of Two
Hundred Dollars under the terms of said mort
gage and by virture OF power therein contained,
the said mortgage hereby declares to be due,
and no acton or proceeding at law or
otherwise having been instituted to re-
cover the amount of said mortgage debt or any
part thereof; now therefore, notice is hereby
given that by virtue and in pursuance of
power of sale in said mortgage contained and
Herewith recorded. and of the statute in such
case made and provided, the above described
premises will be sold at public auction, at the
front and easterly door of the court house in
and for said county of Blue Earth on the 18th
day of September, A. d. 1894, at ten O'Clock in
the forenoon, TO satisfy the amount of said
mortgage debt then due aud unpaid, and the
said sum Two Hundred Dollars and interest
thereon from this date hereby declared to be due,
together with the costs and ex penses of such
foreclosure proceeding, including twenty-five
dollars attorneys fees as stipulated in said
mortgage; and the said mortgage will be thereby
foreclosed.
Dated July 81, 1894.
GUS T. Monsoon
Pau Young, Mortgage
for Mortsagee
Mankato, Mimi.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-08-03
Notice of Public Sale.

Notice is hereby given that upon
the 4th day of August, 1894, at 10
o'clock in the forenoon of said day, /
will sell at public auction, at 313
North Second St., Mankato, Mimi, to
the highest bidder for cash the fol-
lowing described property, to wit: one
straw stacker manufactured by Carr,
Scott & Co., of Richmond, Indiana,
said property to be sold for the pur-
pose of satisfying a lien which is
claimed on the same by the under
signed for storage and safe keeping,
the said property having been left
with the undersigned for safe keep
ing and storage.
The amount claimed by the under
signed for keeping and storing said
property is ninety-three dollars.
L. MAYER.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-08-03
THE GREAT OF CURRENT
THOUGHT.

PUBLIC OPINION, published at
Washington, ID. c., is weekly journal
devoted to the reproduction, ia con-
densed form, of carefully selected
magazine articles and of editorial COM
meRt from the representative daily
and weekly press of all political parties,
and from all parts of the country.
The readers of PUBLIC OPINION get
ALL SIDES OF EVERY QUESTION. 1t is
just the paper that the farmer and
villager need for general reading. 1t
keeps its readers fully abreast of the
times and supplies them with the
best thought of the day in the fields
of American Affairs, Foreign Affairs,
Sociology, Commerce, Finance, Relig-
ion, Science, Education, Art, and New
Books. PUBLIC OPINION and the
rural weekly supplement each other
admirably. Together they give the
farmer or villager and his family more
of current news, editorial comment,
and magazine literature than can be
had in any other way for FIVE TIMES
THEIR COST. The price of PUBLIC
OPINION has been reduced from $500
to $3.50 per year. We have just COM
pleted arrangements by which we can
offer PUBLIC OPINION and the WEEKLY
FREE PRESS for $500 cash per year.
We will send the DAILY FREE PRESS
six months and PUBLIC OPINION one
year for s.. Address,
The FREE PRESS,
MankatO, MINI.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-08-03

"A. M. Rutan now has on hand
some money he can place on good first
mortgage farm land security.
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til he was overcome. Aperson has no
pain in breathing gas, and thinks he
can stand little more until he final
ly loses consciousness as easily as he
goes to sleep. The pain experienced
is upon recovering.
Today's accident recalls the two
tragedies in which Supts. McCurdy
and Presley lost their lives within a
short period some years ago at the gas
works, by asxphiXiation. Mr.. Presley
lived for some days afterwards. Gas
is deadly if breathed long enough, land
in today's case, DR.. Andrews states
that if Mr.. Voolfolk had been under
the floor few moments longer he
could not have been saved.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-08-03
First insertion July 2o-last August

ORDER TO EXAMINE ACCOUNTS,
STATE OF MINNESOTA, County of Blue
- Earth-ss. In Probate Court, Special
Term, July 10th, 1894
In the matter of the estate of Nathaniel
Stevens, deceased
On reading and filing the petition OF Galloway
K. Stevens, administrator of the estate OF said
Nathaniel Stevens, deceased ,represen inc, IN ng
other things that he has fully adninisi stored said
estate, and praying that a time al place Z fixed
Tor examining and allowing tie final account Of
his administration, and for the assignment . {
the residue OF said estate To The phrlhs Ell tiled
thereto by law.
1t is ordered, That said account be examined
and petition heard, by this Court, >;Lturiay
the llth day OF Ausu>t. y. b. 1891 ut 10
O'Clock a. M, at the Probate Office III the City
OF Mankato, in said county
AND 1T is further Idered. That no ice
thereof be given to all FER il t,resttd by
publishing this order once in each week
Tor three successive weeks. lior To said day
OF hearing in the Mankato Free Press, q week
ly newspaper printed and published at the
City OF Mankato i'll said county.
Dated at the city of Mankato, the 10th day
of July, A. D. 1894
By the Court:
tSeal.] W. B. TORREY,
Judge of Probate
LoRN CRAY,
Attorney for Administrator,
Mankato, MINI.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-08-03
$I.OO Reward
$500.

The readers of this paper will be
pleased to learn that there is at least
one dreaded disease that science has
been able to cure in all it's stages, and
that is catarrh. Halls Catarrh Cure
is the only positive cure known to the
medical fraternity. Catarrh being a
constitutional disease, requires con-
stitutional treatment. Halls Catarrh
Cure is taken internally, acting direct
lw upon the blood and mucous sur
faces of the system, thereby destroy
ing the foundation of the disease, and
giving the patient strength by build
Ing up the constitution and assisting
nature in doing it's work. The pro-
prietors have so much faith in it's cur
ative powers that they offer One Hun
dred Dollars for any case that it fails
to cure. Send for list of testimonials.
Address. E. j. CHENEY & Co.,
Toledo, O. ETSold by druggists, 75c.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-08-03
Castoria,

"Castoria isso well adapted to children that
recommend it as superior to any prescription
known to me-" H. A. ARCHER, NJ. D.,
III So. Oxford St., Brooklyn, N. Y.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-08-03

" The use of 'Castoria' is so universal and
its merits so well known that it seems work
of supererogation to endorse it. Few are the
intelligent families who do not keep Castoria
within easy reach''
CARLOS MARTYR, D. D.,
New York City.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-08-03
Wool! Wool!

Highest market prices paid for good,
clean wool by Mankato Knitting
Mills
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-09-01
l61GoYso coNonRIss

4.a Goosohes1y sJam: Six boNnds ripe
fONr pounds sugafs Stem
I'D top the gooseberries,.and boil on1
fAOur IN Rresefvia6 kettle, Watching
Iclosely thst.the fruit does not scorch.
Stir often. II the juice increases very
rapidly dip out some OF 10. When the
fruit has boiled an hour odd the sugar
and cook IN hour longer. Pit the jam
boiling hot into glass tusnE h 81 small
jars and seal.-Harper's Basar.
Fruit Tapioca: Cover one cup of
pearl tapioca with a pint Of water.
Soak until the water is absorbed. Open
q pint can of cherries; drain off the liq-
uor and add it to the .tapioca; cook
slowly over a moderate fire until the
tapioco Is tender; then stir in the cher
rles. Turn this into a glass dish and
serve cold with powdered sugar and
cream. The unfermented grape juice
may be used here in place of cherries.
Half pint or pint stirred into this
quantity makes delightful and whole
some dessert.-Housel<eep
Chill Sauce: Twelve large to1na-
toes, four ripe or three green peppers,
two large onions, two tablespoons salt,
one-half cup brown sugar, one table,
spoon cinnamon, three cups strong
vinegar; peel tomatoes and onion, chop
(separately) very fine, add the peppers
(chopped) with other ingredients. and
constantly. Bottle and it will keep a
long time. Stone jugs are better than
glass cans, as the light can not fade it.
This chill sauce is excellent, and is more
digestible and palatable than catsups.
Farm. Field and Fireside.
Summer Bread: When the bread
supply grows short some hot day, and
it seems as if going without would be
better than heating the oven to bake
biscuits, try this way of making
substitute: s'To three cupfuls of sweet
milk add flour enough to make a stiff
batter, first putting a spoonful of balk-
ing powder and little salt into the
Hour. Have spider very hot with
plenty OF drippings Tor a mixture of
lard and butter) on the bottom; drop
in pats of the batter; cover until brown
on the bottom, then turn. These pats
will puff up and be as light as the best
biscuit, and are not greasy.-Ohio
Farmer.
Delicious Beefsteak: Trim your
steak neatly. Nothing is lost by this,
as the ragged pieces make excellent
stock for soup. Have your pan hot,
put in a piece of butter (llalf u table,
spoonful Worcester sauce. and the
juice of a lemon. Curry powder will
do as we'll the sauce. Butter the
steak on the upper side. season with
pepper and salt, lay in the pan with
the sauce and cover closely, turning
over about three times while cooking.
Ten minutes is an average time. To-
nato sauce. or a cup of cold stewed to-
natoes. seasoned we'll, can be used
With the butter instead of the above
Farm, Field and Preside.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-09-01
FUTURE PRESIDENTS.

willie, do you and your brother
ever fight9" Eyes, SIR" ''Who whips?''
'sPa."
LITTLE Neutrality-suspicious. why
do you call my gray kitty a Maltese1
Is it because I maui and tease it so?
THE CRoP.-Teacher-"' they
have sown the wind, and they shall
reap'-what?" Bright Pupil-'.Air
plants. Chicago Tribune.
In a district school tho pupils were
asked to define a bee line. A small
boy answered: II knovvl It's the line
q Teller makes fer home when a bees
stung him"
AuN11E "A penny for your
thoughts" Little Nephew-'I wac
thinking that, If kept quite quiet and
pretended to be thinking, you'd won
der what was thinking about, and
say just what you did. Gimme the
pehny!"-Demorest's Magazine.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-09-01
ODD ooaF11k5 81 MA eARTi4

In japan They dom throw Aowsrs ~
wresths 81 an aotoe. They give htm .
drop-ourtain.
FAsf1to1tA11.n young ladies In japan,
when they desaro TO look vo9y attfaot-
I've, gid their lipa
TtE Egyptdahs were hard dfin1afa.
cabbaee. served WITH 80 nneSt "a mn.
ulato their thirst.
II an Egyptian desires . divorce an
he has 70 do IL to repeat three times
the words II put you from me-" and
the legal separation IN complete.
A TYPICAL southern African house
hold described by Olive Schreiner
has an English father. . half Dutch
mother with q French name, Scotch
governess. Zulu cook, . Hottentot
housemaid and Kaflr stable boy,
while the little girl who waited on the
table was Basuto.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-09-01
Vines for Screens.

The quickest return is made from the
common Virginia creeper and our ma
tive grapevines. Slower. but more
beautiful in its results, is the Japanese
creeper, Ampelopsis veitchii. This is a
true crceper- which the Virginia is not
sometimes clinginE and sometimes
not--and does better on a wall or close
fence. Halls Japan honeysuclSle is a
fine climber, but not perfectly hardy in
severe winters. Among those which
die down and come up in the spring,
the various kinds of clematis, especially
the jacl>manni. are very fine. For an
annual grower from seed we were much
pleased last season with q climber
WI icG came to us as ''Califoruia bean"
but appears to be Do1ichos lablab.
Egyptian beam 1t is a strong grower,
with fine, clean foliuge, ra pidly covers
q high fence or frame, has beautiful
pin kish- flowers and pods. Light
frosts do not seem to injure it.-Coun-
try Gentleman.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-09-01
ECHOES OF FASHION.

Facts and FancIes in Dress-a1a.<ins and
Millinery.
A novelty in lace is made with a groud
of three different neutrality-suspicious.,
net and gauze. Another variety is in
two shade of color, cream and butter,
or cream and coffee.
The newest cut in skirts is made in a
style fashionable many years ago. with
the back breatltlls lined with stiffeninr
and gathered in long gathers, SO that
they stand out stifiiy from the waist
This is a very difficult design to copy,
and yet very few of these models are to
be seen.
The silk ginghams. muslins and all
such soft wash fabrics need a great
deal of ribbon, and it adds immensely
to such gowns to have two sets of
color, viz. with yellow gingham to
have yellow ribbon for sash and collar,
and bows on the yoke if bows be used,
and the same quantity of heliotrope to
be used. when one does not care to be
all in one color.
Strings are often applied to hats, and
black flowers are much worn. The
waved brlms are becoming to young
faces. and Indian corn now figures in
the midst of many flowers and feathers
The sailor hat has undergone such a
transforms ton that it is unrecogniza-
BILE. The brim has been pincled up
wards and trimmed with black violets.
wings and a black bow at the back.
For young girls some coarse straw
hats, trimmed with oats. roses and
green chiffon. A white fancy chip
with a turn-down brim is d novel idea
1t is trimmed with wired lace, with
several roses resting in the hair. A
green bonnet with a pink crown has
been arranged with heliotrope velvet
and wisteria, and Dutch gold bonnet
with a gathered bow at the back and
with some green jetted mignonette in
the front, is attractive.
Pointed brims have been introduced
INTO good many bonnets. and black
straw, profusely trimmed with jet,
forms the, groundwork to a number of
ashiona BILE flowers, which mingle with
ostrich tips and ospreys. Flower bon
nets are all the rage, and small toque
oolsed as if it had been trimmed in the |
ields with daisies. buttercups and
clover. bridesmaids hat lined with |
,reen velvet. having a high pointed
rown. would be becoming to most |
'oung girls. trimmed as it was with |
oses and three large white feathers.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-09-01
Time 10 Money.

Col. SIMPSON, who was always ask
ing people to advance him money, died
age Of eighfy-six. Two gentlemen, one
of whom had advanced him money very
frequently, were talking about the dee
ceased, when one Of them took occaSs
sion to say:
''With him the ruling passion was
strong in DEATH"
"How SOP"
"Well, you see he even died at IN
advanced age."-Alex Sweet, in Texas
Siftings.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-09-01
Better Than Calonel.

Better than calomel for biliousness,
and more efficient than the various ca
thartic waters sold. is. according to q
physician, glass of lemonade. with
out sugar. before going to bed. and an
other perhaps a half hour before break
fast the next morning. This treatment
deeds possibly two or three repetitions,
at in tervals of two or three DAYS, to
form an ehacacious course. --Rostou
Globe,
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-09-01
Kept Thorn Away.

Summer Hotel Proprietor-1t's sin
gular there arc no moro young people
here this year.
C1erk-Not at all.
Proprietor-Why isn't It?
Clerl-Didn't you advertise that tho
back piaszas would be lighted by cleo
tricity?-Life.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-09-01
A Dead suro Thipr.

Dashaway-Here's a telegram an
nouncing that my uncle is dead. I've
been expecting It all along.
Cleverton-How do you know he is
dead? You haven't read it.
Dashaway-No;b but If he vvere alive
it would have como 'scollect."-Isr ,oIt-
lyn Life.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-09-01
Poor ThinHI

Mother entering parlor suddenly an
the lovers turn up the light)-Ethel,
you were sitting entirely too close to
Mr.. Getthere when entered.
Ethel - Mother, you know wcll
enough how afraid am In the dnrlkl -
Puck
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-09-01

Widow-Arreh, an is it yerself, Po-
lioeman Murphy, dunno?
Pol1ceman-It Is that same, by this
token. I've got orders to go down an
arrest two Numbers Of the slaughter
house RanR!-Life.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-09-01

TEE man who Is always careful to lkee,
out Of debt 10 seldom as well supplied witt
the modern conveniences OF life ae his les
considerate fellow.-Puck
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-09-01

"a LETTER from your wife, ehe ANYTHING
new or strange happened7" "We0, should
say SO; she doesn't ask for money. -1nter
Ocean.
TIE man who sits down to wait for some
body's old shoes will need . cushion on his
chair before he gets them.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-09-01

The game of life is great sport until on
finds oneself the game-Puck.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-09-01

Marshall-What the mischief is the
matter with You, Raymond; been held
up by some hghwaymen or have you
been in a railway disaster2
Raymond-Well, can't say I havc
done either. Last night just hid un-
der the bed to scare my wife.=Life.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-09-01
Tho Floating Vote

Wffe-Noyv, dear, what do you think
will really be woman's place in poll
tics?
Husband-As they re so seldom a.
home 1 suppose they will be Chased as
the floating vote.-Clevclaud Plain
Dealer.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-09-01

Heard Through tho Speaking Tube.
Cool-So yer goin' to be Married,
Mary McGintyi An to q man thot was
ter! Will, Oh doan't begridge ye.
Chambermaid-Shma difference eff
ye do, Miss Fagin; an it's the foine, ILL.,
CANT fellow Owe got, an he says he'd
sooner marry mo than me sister any
day.
Cook-An' did ye STAN still an let
him pass dispradgin' remarrulxs about
yer family? FAX, Ord hov broke the
mug nv himl-Jud9e.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-09-01
Not 1 Pecullar Term

why do you use such peculiar
terms?" asked = lawyers wife Of her
husband, who had returned home worn
out by his days labors.
II don't see how you could have been
working all day like a horse"
''Well, my DEAR" he replied, ''Ivo
been drawing conveyance all day.
1sn't that working like . horse?''-
Green Bag,
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-09-01

THE worst robbers ore not those WI
carry cluSs.--Ram' g Horn.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-09-01

slytlig-fI1llo, Flyjig; how are you9
E!yjis-I'm nos myself Mt all.
slydig-ReaiIy? Let ne conrra.u.
late ycN.-.N. Y. World.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-09-01
A Special Inducement,

Agent-I'd like to insure your life.
Respectable Old Party-1 don't want
my life insured.
But we offer special Inducements.
Every policy is paid on death"
well, all the companies do that"
Eyes; but we pay up even If you are
hanged. How's that for q special In
Observation-Disclosures Times.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-09-01

A 'MAHooANY child's chair'' was recent
advertised for sale. That mahogany chill,
may grow up to be the wooden headed DO,
80 often spoken of.