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Notice Of Mortgage sale.

Default existing in a mortgage made and exc
cuted by Adelbert w. Holdridge and Emma II.
Holdridge, husband and wife, mortgagors, said
mortgage being dated May LIST, 1891, and executed
May 9Th, 1898, to the Northwestern Loan a Bank.
Ing company, Of Madison, South Dakota, mort.
gagee, on the southwest quarter OF section rs
township los north0f range 81, west Of the 9th
principal meridian In Lake county, Sonth Dakota,
given TO secure the payment of a certain note for
%75C0 of even date Herewith, with interest -at II
per cent per annum; said mortgage having been
filed for record in the Office of the register of
deeds ON the sth day of May, 1898, at 10:5U o'clock
O. m, and recorded in book IA of mortgages oE,
page 1877; there being now due on said mortgage
the sum of $12.30 besides an attorney fee of $50
stipulated In said mortgage: Therefore, the sher-
LII of said Lake county Will sell the said real es-
tate at the front door of the court house in the
city Of Madison, Lake county, South Dakota, on
the End day of March, 1895, at two o'clock ID. m.
to the highest bidder for cash, to satisfy said debt
and attorney fee and costs of sale. s. 10y
Dated ut Madison, Lake county South Dakota,
this 18th day of January, 1896.
THE NORTHWESTERN LOAN & BANKING
COMPANY, y
Mortgage.
j. II. WILLIAMSON, -
d. Attorney for Mortgage.
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statement

Ofthe financial condition of the Madison Build
ing and Loan Association, Madison, South Da-
kota, on January 1, A. ID. 1885, made to the secre-
tary of state as required by law;
SERIES ga"
D Commenced business March 1, 1858. and has
IA shares outstanding.
Assets. Liabilities.
capital stock LSl8,S00.O0
Net Gain. 12,s45.65
Bills receivable. ........ .$2s,S69.OO
Loans 32,431 IS
Cash i'm hands of treasurer $500
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Presbyterians theirs on Thursday.
SNAP and catch 'em" was the favorite
amusement at all sociabIes, and most
other festive gatherings at The Hook and
whereabouts, though 1.-THE needles eve"
Copenhagen. ''spot EN- out" and
''the cushion, " inasmuch az there was
kissing In each, were not debarred.
OF all these games cushion" was
the simplest. 1t was usually begun by
. Young man, who would ask soma one
sitting in . cushioned chair to rise for a
moment. When the request was COM
piled with, the youngster would take
b cushion and kreel upon it in front
OF O merrymaker of the opposite sex. II
was then her duty to kneel also unon
tho cushion. and then the two kissed
The young man then retired from the
game for the time beings while the 9th.
e. sought . man before whom TO kneel.
Ihe kissing was repeated, and SO on in
0e0nifely. Is was not the young only
10 played sscusiion' at Hook festiyi.
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ties. Bashful young men used TO find
refuge In kneeling before white haired
deacons' wives and tnischievous girls
were won't TO tempt staia pillars Of the
church with cherry ripe lips, II was q
most serious breach os courtesy for any
one to refuse TO join In this diversion,
and il usually fell out that every one
present. old and young, comedy and
ugly, was kissed before the evenings
close. Sometimes, in the absence of a
cushion not fastened to it's chair, a pill.
low took its place, and then the game
was pillow and not cushion"
This game was as quiet as it was sim
pie, but the other of the two most popu-
lar advertisements, ''snap and catch
EN-" was all activity, which some.
times became almost boisterous It was
the liveliest young woman of the neigh
borhood usually that started ''snap and
catch EN-. She would get some young
man to stand up" in the center of the
floor, and then she would go to another
youngster and challenge him by snap
ping her pretty fingers in his face to
pursue and overtake her and kiss her
pouting mouth. OF course he would ac-
cept the challenge, and of course he
would catch and kiss her, though some
times, If the girl were nimble footed, the
capture would be a matter OF some diff
Guilty, and after it's accomplishment both
pursuer and pursued would be tired and
breathless. After the kissing il was the
young mans turn to snap the fingers,
while the young oma took her~place
IN the center of the floor with the chap
about whom the wild and circling chase
for a kiss had just been concluded.
Snap and catch 'em, " it will be per-
ceived, is a game that need have no end
SO long as those who play it are not
physically exhausted, and, IL fact, it's
gyrations always continu ID till the
breaking up of the gathering at mid
night or thereabouts.
Snap and catch 'em, F" too, as nav
readily be believed, is a game best play.
ed on the bare floor and i'm a room with
ont much movable furniture. The foot
wear OF the young men Of The Hook
in the seventies, even when they
wore fine boots and not stogas, was gen.
orally heavy enough to sadly cut carpets,
and the mad Greetings of the performers
could not be comfortably INDUCED In
a small apartment. 1t was because
these requirements that the sociables
held at the residence Of Deacon Allen,
the same whose grove a little way out
of the village was often used summers
the Sunday school picnics, were
more popular than those held elsewhere.
The deacon had devoted his whole life
the process of laying up a few
iollars and had never felt himself justi-
led in furnishing the entire house. Con-
equently the big ''other room" in his
esidence was uncarpeted and devoid Of
urniture, and there were two rooms ON
he second floor in like condition, and
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ted by persons who whirl about ant
twinkle their feet to the sound of thu
unholy fiddle. But humanity, especially
young humanity, is very human, nc
matter what its ancestry, and there
were those among thee young folks
OF The Hook who used to 90, al,
most surreptitiously, in couples and
big box sleigh loads, several times each
winter to the balls and dances given
at the county seat, some Is miles away,
q town which the orthodox among The
Hookers held to be almost as bad as q
city and peopled mainly by persons of a
most irreligious sort. persons with whom
it was we'll to avoid contact.
OF the daring festivities held at the
county seat / shall not speak in detail
here. for, though occasionally participant
ed in by young Rockers, as / have
stated, these festivities were not in n
q part of that villages social life.
To those who did not attend them there
remained in the place of the DANCES
rhythmic joys the delights of the So
ciable, the applecut, tho spelling school
and the donation. The singing school
had been in a sense q social factor, but
owing to a difference betweca young
William Thompson, the villages most
e~nterprising merchant, and two or three
OF the deacons, over who should be the
singing teacher one winter, the cultiva-
ton of The Hooks vocal abilities had
been abandoned some years before the
time of which | am now writing.
Notwithstanding the absence of dane
ing and the VOLS music, il was gener-
ally conceded that The Hook s social fes-
tivities were quite as enjoyable as those
OF the county seat by such of the young
folks as attended both. Certainly the |
young men could meet as many pretty
girls at The Hook gathering as anywhere
else in the world, and while the young !
men themselves were not perhaps so
stylishly clad as those of the larger
town, and were somewhat unpublished,
they were fine, stalwart fellows and
Tar manlier i'll the Judgment of most
HOOK girls than the ~slighter, more ele-'
giant youth of the county seat. And be.
sides there was much less formality at
the more rural entertainments. Hook
ers could not think of allowing dancing,
but they realized that girls were made to
kiss and be kissed, and every Hook
young woman knew full well that she
wouldfuIlfll her double destiny, oscula-
torlly speaking, not once, twice or
thrice, but many times, whenever she
attended any festivity there.
1t was customary in those days for
each Church and society" of which
there were three-Methodist, Baptist
and Presbyterian-at The Hook, to hold
a sociahle once a week all winter, and
to avoid confiiction of dates it was tacit-
ly agreed that the Methodists should
hold theirs on Tuesday evenings, the
Baptists theirs on Wednesdays and the
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1895-02-16

$94,613l90 S94, STA. 90
N. M. STOTT, Secretary.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this, 18th
day of January, 1895.
tSeall t A.FRIZZELL.
Notary Public, Lake County, SD.
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Notice to Take Dispositions.

State of South Dakota, County OF Lake, So. In
Circuit Court, Second Judicial Circuit. Alfred Z.
DAILY, plaintiff. vs.. Hattie T.. DAILY, defendant.
To the defendant above named: You will please
take notice: That the dispositions of Thomas
Morrison and - Adams, witnesses for the
taken by George Hooker, q notary public, of
Wa~tertown, New York, at his office. az Water
town, in the city of Watertown, and state of New
York, on the 9Th day of March, 1895, at ten O'Clock
in the forenoon of that day, and the said examin-
alton may be adjourned from day to day until the
are fully taken and completed. Said
depositions so taEen will be read i'm evidence up
on the trial of the above entitled action. ON the
part of the plaintiff.
Dated at Sioux Falls, g.. D., the 18th day of
February, A. d. 1895.
WINSOR Il KTTTREDGE,
ATTORNEYS for Plaintiff.
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THE SOCIAL SEASON.
HOW JEWELLERS AT THE HOOK MADE
MERRY TWENTY YEARS AGO.

R~Ociables, ApPlecuts, Spelling Matches and
Donations Were All Popular, With So
ciables In the Le@d-Those who Wished
to Dance Had to Go Away From Home.
Twenty years ago OF whereabouts the
social season was at its height in Feb
ruary in the village called THE Hook"
that nestles at the foot of green hills in
the valley of pleasant memory.
The festivities INDUCED in by those
who dweltthere when / was a boy were
not at all similar to the social functions
popular in the towns today. OF dancing
there was little or none, for, though The
Hook was not a New England village,
its inhabitants were of Puritan stock
and had been taught to believe few
deadlier sins existed than that commit,
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"snap and catch 'em'' rings could be
established simultaneously in all three
rooms.
Applicants were still held in and
about The Hook in the seventies, but they
were decidedly ON the wane, for the ad-
vent of the pairing machine had made
it cheaper to hire the apples denuded of
their skins and cored for driving than
to entertain the number of people who
would be hidden to the gathering, es-
pecially as they were not likely to work
more than half the evening. Later a
chap from n of the big cities built an
"evaporator' near the village, and its
establishment ended the DAYS of the an
pie cut for eve The refreshments at
the sociables were generally of the sim
plest possible sort, being sandwiches or
cake and coffee at the most h~ospitabIe
houses.
AT Deacon Aliens the edibles served
were always second best apples, or
"culls, and popcorn, and there was
always plenty of water to drink, for the
deacon himself used to go about the
rooms with a tin pail and o dipper,
~quenching the thirst of the guests. Ci-
der, did you say? Never. The Hook was
prohibition, " and its inhabitants were
all Good Templars. Just before 10
usually, after everybody had arrived
and before any had gone away, the hat
was passed. Every one was expected to
contribute something, 10 cents being
considered about the right thing, though
there were usually a few quarters and
an occasional dollar. Whose gave more
h a dollar was likely to be thought
anxious to put on airs" and per con-
ira any who gave less than a nickel
was set down as very CLOSE or much
poverty stricken. The money collected
was generally expended upon a new car
pet Tor the church, a Bible for the pul.
pit or some such thing.\
Ii there is a place on this green earth
where the social pleasures Of the people
cost less than those of The Hookers. T.
should like to hear about it.
L ID. MARSHALL.
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Nntiea n Cradi,nra.

Eaeass Ut Mdrdock u, McGiliyray. deceased.
N0tlce y hereby gwen by the andafeiRnen I'D
niAIetraa0Fs ~ the estate Of MurdnCk J. McGil-
livray deceased. 10 the creditors or and all per.
sons having claims against the said deceased, to
exhibit them, with the necessary vouchers, with
In six mhnfhs AFTER the first PUBLICATION Or this
notice, 10 the said administrators &C the store
belonging 10 said estate In the city or Madison
In the county OF Lake, South Dakota.
dated &c Madison, d eceflbef 18th, 1894.
NORMAN ID. MCGILLlvRAY, and
ADELLA X. McGlLLIVRAY
Administrator of the Estate OF Murdoch J..
McGillivray. n. Il. SOPER,
Attorney for said Adminlstratora.
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Bend over rather pronouncedly in
walking down a slippery hill. This is
not particularly graceful, but If You are
unfortunate enough to miss your foot
ing the chances are lessened that you
viii strike on that most dangerous spot.
the back of the head.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1895-02-16

Default having been made in the payment aud
conditions OF q certain mortgage duly executed
and deliver ed by Annie Nilsson Tveett and Tom
Nilsson TveAt her husband, moFtgagors, to Will
liam ". Swiaa, mortgage, bearing date of the
18th day OF May, isy9, which mortgage with a
for record In the Office of the register of deeds i'm
and for Lake COUNTY, south Dakota, on the 18th
day OF MAJ, 1884, at 4 O'Clock p. M, and duly re-
corded u. book 4 OF mortgages, ON pages 62S-6-7
thereof. And, whereas, there Is claimed to be
due AMI unpaid on said mortgage at the date of
this notice, the sum of two hundred and eighty,
four dollars and ninety-fye cents ($2S4. g5l, prin-
proceeding at law or otherwise has been institu-
ted to recover the debt secured by said mortgage
or any part thereof. Now, therefore, notice is
hereby given, that by virtue of the power of sale
cOntainedi in said mortgages, and pursuant to the
statnte IN such case made and provided, the said
mortgage will be foreclosed and the premises
therein mentioned to wit: The east half teIa) Of
twenty-five (22), township one hundred and eight
u0s) north OF range ftty-one (5l) west of the
NTH Il. NJ, in the county of Lake, south Dakota.
together with all the her~editaments and appnr
tenances thereunto belonging, will be sold by the
sheriff of Lake county, or his deputy, at public
auction, to the highest bidder for cash, Ut the
'front.' door of the court house, in the city of Mad
ison, Lake county, south Dakota, ON Saturday,
the 10Th day of March, 1896, ut . o'clock p. m. of
said day, TO satisfy the amount then ewing on
said mortgage for principal and interest, together
with all costs and expenses Of foreclosure and
sale, intending 5000 attorneys fee provided by
law in case of foreclosure thereof.
Dated at ,Brookings, South Dakota, this 18th
day of January, 1896.
WILLIAM g. SWAN, Mortgage
MATHEWS Il MURPHY - ~
Attorneys FOR Mortgagee.
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Once o. COAamissl0mes ole School ana Pubic
Lands--NOtsce 40 hereby given. that On the I8fh
school lands In the county OF Lake will M nfFevad
Tor iease 20 the highest bidder, at public ~aaction-
a. the front door of the court houae. IN sald
county. Said leasing will be- held haf,vesn tha
the hours OF ten o'clock Il. MI. ana ave n,cIark n
M OF each day, until all the tracts 81 srhnoi
lands have been offered for lease,
Pierre, south Dakota, January Is. fSo,.
TH0S. m. RUTH
Commissions of School and Public Lands.
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For the Fire nnoket.

TO prevent the evaporation Of water
in fire pals ~ has 4een discovered that
10 20 30 drops ct oifwill form q coating
'snfIicient to obviate the difficulty.
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TT STOPS THE PROGRESS
"a of Consumption. The makers
of DIR. Pierce's Golden Medical
<l=EEB Discovery are certain of it.
EEEA They've proved it for years past
XVI and they're willing TO sell it
NJ with the agreement that If it
~ doesn't benefit or cure, in eueru
case, they'll return the money.
& Consumption Is that scrofulous
condition that comes from inn
pure blood. The +" Discovery
prevents it, If taken in time ;
II cures it completely, lie you
haven't waited too long; gives
relief and comfort, even In ad-
vanced cases.
Use it i'm severe, lingering
Coughs, Asthma, Weak Lungs,
and every Bronchial, Throat,
and Lung Affection.
d. G. RosENBALM, ESQ, OF
= ! e e 8 |: :: Z ! ! : ! 8 ] ! I ! !: 8 ! !; ! 7; !. ]: ! ! ] ] ! ]
~ Dutch, Granger Co. Tenn, writes
SSvS - as follows: 81 had been going
~. 80 down in strength and weight for
AfsN@ months. / was not able TO stir and
%&NteSA smothered very often. After
taking Discovery my cough
was relieved. | could walk three
miles without trouble, catching
lsA&ksas cold don't distress me now. Az
long as i live I'll praise g. M. D."
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-04-19
First insertion April last April 10.
ORDER FOR HEARING AND NOTICE OF Al
PLICATION FOR APPOINTMENT OF
ADMINISTRATOR

First insertion April last April 10.
ORDER FOR HEARING AND NOTICE OF Ap
PLlCATION FOR APPOINTMENT OF
ADMINISTRATORS.
GTATE OF MINNESOTA, County of BJne
- Earth-ss Ia Probate Court, General
Term, April 1st, 1895.
In the matter of the estate of r,ucia n
Patterson, deceased.
On reading and filing the petition of Adelbert
9. Fassett, of Boone county, State of
Illinois, representing among other things
Prairie, Boone county, State of Illinois
on the 23rd day OF January, A. D., 1894, at said
Boone county, Illinois, died intestate and beine
an inhabitant of said Boone county
at the time of her death, leaving goods
chattes and estate within this Blue Earth
county, and that the said petitioner is admin.
istrator of the estate of said deceas ed in the
said state OF illinois, and praying that admin
istratlon OF said estate in this State OF
Minnesota be to W P. Coffin, granted:
1t is ordered that said petition be heard before
this court on Saturday, the 9th day of
April, A. D., 1895, at 10 o'clock a. m at the
probate office in the city of Mankato. in said
county.
Ordered further that notice thereof be given
to the heirs of said dece sed, and to all per sons
interested, by publication OF this order once in
each week, for three successive weeks prior to
said day of hearing, in the Mankato Free Press
a weekly newspaper printed and published at
the city of Mankato, in said county.
Dated at the City of Mankato the list day of
April A. D., 1895.
By the Court:
Seal G. w. MEAD,
Judge of Pro bate.
H. L. SCHMITT.
Attorney for Petitioner,
Mankato, MINI.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-04-19
TO ENFORCE THE LAW.
mayor weaver Begins His New Adj
miniStration Alright.

| Mayor Weaver's second term q,
chlef executive of Mankato has begun
ana with it new and improved pol
ICY is TO be promptly inaugu rated
we nave 1t from what is considered
good authority that Chief Yates has
oeen instructed to notify all saloon
keepers that their places of business
must be closed promptly at II o'clock
at night, and that liquors of no kind
VIII DE permitted to be sold to minors.
Ii is understood that failure to COM
ply with these injunctions will he
cause Tor the revocation of the license
OF the offender, and the police, if thev
40 thelr duty as expected they will,
Will see to it that this order is not
violated.
Ii IS not improbable that this order
VIII be followed later with one on
sunday closing of saloons, the purg-
ing of the city of houses of ouestion-
aole repute and the cleaning out of
all places of gaming, if there are any
such now in existence in the CITY
Al least it is hoped that the mayor
VIII give these matters his personal
and there is reason to be-
lieve he will.
Chlef Yates is able andowe believe
willing to enforce such law and order
demands, and in the work he will
have the backing of the moral ele-
ment of the community.
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Money to Loan
First pub ication April 18th. 1895. ast.May24,
MORTG AGE SALE.

Default having been made in the conditions
OF Certain mortgage, duly executed and de-
| liVered by John sullivan, WidOYeP, mortgagor
| to William S. Shep trd mortgage, bearing
| date the lst dav of April, A. D., 1891, and duly
recorded in the office of he Register OF Deeds in
and for the County of Blue E .rth aud State OF
Minnesota on the 18th day # May AID, 1891
| at 2 OclU ok P NJ, in book "26' Of Morteagas
Oh page SIC upon which ere is claimed TO be
| due, and is due, at the d tie of this notice, as
| principal and interest, the sum of fifteen nun
dred and ninety eight do lars in addition to which
the representatives of the ortagee have paid the
sum OF thirty-nine S7-'OO dollars for taxes un
/ paid ana delinquent which were necessary to be
| paid to protect the interests Of the mortgage
| and no action or proceeding at law or otneT'a
| wise having been instituted TO recover the debt
secured by said mortgage. or any part thereof
| and whereas said William s. Shepard
MORTGAGE, did testate at Bath. Steuben
county, New York on the 6tn day OLA pril, S94
leaving will appointing William H Shepard,
Fanny s. Gibbs and Reuben +. Robbie, execu
+, tors aud trustees Of the estate of said William
/ s. Shepard, deceased. which will Was duly ad
Steuben county, New York. which trust was
duly accepted by said William IL, Shepard,
Fanny 8. Gibbs and Reuben E. Robe, who were
! duly appointed by said court, ora fled for en-
tered upon and are now performing their
duties as trustees under said will;uow therefore,
Notice is he.eby given that by virtue of a
power OF sale contained in said mortgage, and
pursuant to the statute in such case made and
and the premises described in and covered by
said mortgage, viz, The East half of the South
east quarter and the Southwest quarter of said
Southeast quarter Of Section numb ered twenty
| three (23), in Township numbered one hundred
and Sven 900 north of Range numbered
twenty-five (25) West OF the fifth principal
meridian in Blue Earth county, AMI State OF
Minnesota, with the Entertainments and apprr-
tenances. will be sold at public auction, to the
highest bidder, for cash, to pay said debt and
interest, and taxes, necessarily paid as above
sta. ed, on said premises, and fifty dollars at
torneys fees, as stipulated in and by said mort
gage in case of foreclosure, and the disburse-
ments allowed by law; which sale will be made
by the Sheriff of said Blue Earth county, at
the Easterly front door of the Court House in
the City of Mankato, in said county and state,
on Saturday the 25th day of May A. D., S95,
at ten O'Clock A. NJ. of that day, subject to re-
demption at any time within one year from the
day of sale, as provided by law
Dated April 10th, A. D.. 1895.
WILLIAM HI. SHEPARD, FANNY s. GIBBS AND
REUBEN E. Robe as trustees under the will
OF William S. Shepard, deceased,
Mortgage.
VIM. THOMAS,
Mankato, Mimi.
Attorney for Said Trustees.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-04-19
A NEW PIANO.

Mr.. Geo. E. Brett returned yester
day afternoon from Minneapolis
where he purchased a beautiful Knabe
grand piano, with rosewood case
for the Presbyterian church. This
piano is standard one, with fine
tone, and is valued at $780, 1t was
purchased of w. J. Dyer Bros, and
will be a fine addition to the church
property.