The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-09-13

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year was reached yesterday, the mer-
curry indicating 81 degrees in the
afternoon, which is by three degrees
the highest of the summer. The low
est point reached last night was rs
degrees, making the night the warm
est of the summer. The extreme heat
has continued today.
The little girl, aged two years
and four months, of Mr.. and Mrs. t.
G. Jones, died at six o'clock last eve
ming of cholera infantum. The
funeral services. took place at one
O'Clock this afternoon at the house,
in West Mankato, and the remains
were taken to St. Peter for burial.
Mrs. Jones and family recently NOV
ed to this city from St. Peter, and
their friends in both cities will SYM
pathiZe with them'in their sorrow.
Prof. M. V. O'Shea left this after
noon for his future home at Buffalo,
NAY. He will make brief visit at
Winona, and will join Mrs. O'Shea at
Milledgeville, Ind. His duties at the
new University at Buffalo begin Sept.
25th. His numerous MankatO and
Minnesota friends wish continued sue
cess for him.
The work of improving Hickory
street is moving very, very slowly.
Hereafter in awarding contracts for
street work, the board of public
works should make short limit for
the completion of the work, from the
time it shall begin until the close. 1t
is a mistake to allow an important
street to be practically blockaded for
weeks.
Geo. w. Stevens, a cement ped
dler, pleaded guilty this afternoon in
the municipal court to the charge of
disorderly conduct. He paid fine of
s6.65. When about to be arrested at
the Omaha depot this forenoon he
tried to give Officer Kelly the slip,
but after a short run through saloon
and down an alley the officer halted
him and took him to the lookup.
-Chas. Halves, of Beaufort reports
573 bushels of barley from ten acres.
Pretty good yield. \ Several
deals in the Sterling real estate &C.
CURED last week. E. W. Parks sold
his 80 acres of land to @. M. Reynolds
for $500. John Franklin sold his
fine 80 acres to a Mr.. Kingholtz for
So, 200, and then bought his son Eds
so acres for about the same amount
Mdpieton Enterprise.
"A lady complained to the police
this forenoon that glrl had called at
her house to look for board for herself
and four others. After the girl had
gone the lady missed her gold watch.
No one else had been in the room to
her knowledge, and she was convinced
that the girl had taken the watch.
AS the name of the girl was not taken,
the officers have very little clue to go
on. The boarders have not shown up.
%. H. Brown, of Pleasant Mound,
reports 60 bushel oat yield from an
Is acre field. Over thirty acres of
wheat averaged 30 bushels.
DR.. James, the Mankato oculist, was
up Monday to see Mrs. julius
Schwartz, of Willow Creek, who is TO-
tally blind as a result ct a severe
sickness some three weeks ago. Mr..
James thinks there is a probability of
her recovering her sight.-AnabOy
Herald.
Speaking the interest manifested
in worlds fair winners at the state
fair, the Pioneer Press says: "Willard
& Fuller, of Mapleton, also show a
worlds fair Observation-Disclosures
also won the sweepstakes in his class
yesterday" In French Coach the
same firm carried off the first prize of
s25 for stallion four years old or over
and also the first prize for mare four
years old or over with foal by side,
the prize being $40.
Mr.. A. J. Ellis, of Sterling, with his
cousin, John Horn, of Glasgow, Scot
land, visited Mankato Friday, enroute
to the Twin Cities. Mr.. Horn is a
photographer and stationer, and is
therefore something of a judge of
printing houses. After an inspection
of our office he pronounced it the best
arranged of any that he had visited in
this country, and was astonished to
find so handsome building in a town
the size of Mankato.
-Enumerator Parks was in from
Pleasant Mound, Monday, and informs
us that there is mistake of just one
hundred in the official report sent out
by Secretary of State Berg in the pop
ulation of that township. When Mr..
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