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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-12-20
B. s L. ASSOCIATIONS.
Mr.. Geo. Pass Compares their Value
With Savings Banks Before the
Social Science Club.

At the meeting of the Social Science
Club Tuesday, Mr.. Geo.. Pass read
a paper on Building and Loan Asso-
ciations-their value compared with
Savings Banks" He entered fully in
to the history of building and loan
associations, explained their methods
of operation, what they had accomp-
lished and wherein he believed they
were superior to the savings banks.
Said that through building and loan
associations about 100000 homes had
been built, besides large number of
other buildings erected. He also
pointed out what he believed to be
the weak points of building and loan
sOci atiOns and what should be done
to overcome them. Said he believed
that if savings banks would adopt
the method of building and loan as
sociations in allowing their borrowers
to pay back their loansin monthly en-
stalments, they would cause the lat
ter to materially change many of their
methods of business. On the whole
he seemed to think that as a general
thing, that building and loan associa-
tiOnS were the best for the investor.
while savings banks were somewhat
better for the borrowers, with the
one exception that they did not allow
him to repay his loan in monthly in
stalments. The paper was followed
by discussion of various points by
a number of members.
The next meeting will be held on
Tuesday evening Jan. I, 1896, when
Prof. q. 0. Cox will read a paper on
"Good Roads, City and Country-How
best to obtain them"
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A SUCCESS.

The Sunday school convention held
at Mapleton Dec. 1875 was a success.
Several delegates from the different
points throughout the country were
present. Mrs. G. G.. Spaulding is
worthy of much credit for the energy
and zeal with which she pushed mat
tiers for success of the convention.
Resolutions were adopted appreciat-
ing kindness of different churches in
giving the use of their church build
ings for purposes of convention, also
to county officers, president and Sec
rotary and those who came from
abroad.
At the close of the convention a
resolution was put into the secretarys
hands to be read and asked that this
convention appoint superintendent
whose special duty shall be to visit
the Sunday schools of this county and
who will act in the same capacity as
the county uperintendent of our COM
mon schools. Resolution was adopted
and Rev. B. f. Berry, of Mankato,
was elected county superintendent of
Sunday schools. Farther particulars
of convention will be published later.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-12-20
THE FORTNIGHTLY CLUB.
A Good Meeting Held Last Even
ing

The FortnightIy club met with
Misses = Farr and Barr Tuesday
There was large attendance. The
general subject was "The Spread of
Christianity in the First Four Cen
turtles of the Christian Era" Miss
Mable Thomas read a most carefully
prepared paper on 1.-THE Christianiza-
tion of the German People" This
paper was very clear in showing how
the Barbarian invasions became pre-
meated with the spirit of Christian
ity, and how the church extended it's
influence through the spectacular and
ceremonial that. impressed the ignor-
ant minds of the invaders. She also
delineated the planting and growth
of Christianity in the British Isles,
tracing this growth down to the It'll
and 8th centuries. Miss Pendergast
presented concise and clearly writ
ten paper on "The Rise of the Pa
pacy from the Bishop of Rome"
This was also most excellent, inter-
esting and instructive paper.
The chief interest of the evening
centered in the discussion that
followed on the question, (Which
has been the greater hindrance to
Progress; Religion, Bigotry or IRE
ligion?" Prof. Rowe, taking the
affirmative, traced the blighting
effects .of religious bigotry through
the Oriental nations, China, India,
etc., presenting many strong points.
In the absence of Rev. Waring, Rev.
Beattie at the last moment was called
on to champion the other side, which
he did, not by upholding religious
bigotry, but by showing that ire
ligiOn was no religion, while religious
bigotry usually conserved some 'prin-
ciple of truth that became powerful
element in progress, whereas ire
ligion conserved nothing. The dis
cussion following was animated, par
ticipated in by Misses Robbins, OAR
ling, Crawford and Messrs Patterson,
Bedford, Taylor and others. At 9:45
the club adjourned by invitation to
hot rolls and coffee at Mr.. Kron's new
building, where Mr.. Tracy and Miss
Dole served up most excellent coffee
with gems, rolls and cake, made from
Hubbard's Speculative, with the aid
of HOrSfOrd'S baking powder.
The club will meet Jan. 7th with
Mr.. Jay Hubbard.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-12-20
MONDAY NIGHTS FIRE.

Fire was discovered in the tailor
shop in the rear of Pond & Jorgenson's
clothing'store at 1890 o'clock Monday
night. After some delay caused by
one of the fire alarm boxes being out
of order an alarm was turned in, and
the department responded promptly.
The fire started in the water closet
through some unknown cause, suppos-
ed to be a cigar stub thrown among
paper, and was under full Roadway
when the firemen arrived. The par
tition enclosing the closet was burned
away and hole had been burned
through the partition between the
shop and store. All of the custom
made goods in the shop were burned,
and the entire double store was so
full of smoke that the firemen had
difficulty in entering. The heat
blistered the paint on the archway
connecting the two stores.
The firemen did some of the best
work that they ever did, as scarcely
any goods were injured by water al
though piled all about. A stream of
water was used where the fire was
working it's way through the floor
above, but the chemical engine sutfic-
ed everywhere else, and in half or
three quarters of an hour the fire was
out. The damage by water is slight,
but the fire caused a loss to the stock
and tailoring equipments of $1,000 or
more, and of 5000 to the building.
Pond & Jorgenson carry an insurance
of S11,5O0 on the stock, while the
building, which is owned by Mrs.
Buckley, is also insured. The chief
loss will be in trade, as this lis the
busiest season of the year, and very
unfortunate time for fire to occur.
The firemen are deserving of great
credit for the intelligent method with
which they handled the fire, prevent
ing any unnecessary loss by water.
Box 35, which failed to work last
night, was tested today and put in
working order.
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THE KARA MINES.
Mr.. KEENAN, Describes the Life of
Russian Political Prisoners.

There was large and Intelligent
audience out Monday to hear George
KEENAN, lecture on the prisons of
Siberia. The lecture followed close
ly the articles written by Mr.. KEENAN,
for the Century, with few incidents
woven in. The main part of the lee
ture was taken up with description
of the scenes at the Kara mines, and
particularly the life and hardships of
the political prisoners, many OF whom
are highly educated and refined men
and women. He drew dark picture
of their life, with no silver lining to
the cloud.
Mr.. KEENAN, put on the prison garb
during his lecture, garb which he
with difficulty struggled out of Rus
sia The course material and the
clanking of the heavy chain left an
impression on the mind that it was
difficult to shake off.
The description of the efforts of the
three hundred political prisoners in
the ST. Petersburg prison to celebrate
the Fourth of July in 1876 was wildly
described.
The lecture was of over two hours
length, but was listened to with the
closest attention throughout. Mr..
KEENAN, gives only the dark side of
the prison system, as other writer's
have shown, and possibly exaggerates
the matter to some extent. But in
any event, worse horrors occasionally
come to public notice as occurring in
some of the prisons and asylums of
America, with some darker features
than were described last night. If
these were made the basis of gen.
eral statement, bad case could be
made out against the American sys-
tenn Lecturers in England are de-
nouncing the lynchings in the South,
and stirring up the people there with
as dark or darker pictures than those
drawn by Mr.. KEENAN,. While it is
right that our sympathies should go
out to some of the political prisoners
in Russia not to the regecides and
bomb throwers, however,, it should
be remembered that prison life no
where is a bed of roses.
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STATE OF MINNESOTA, County OF Blue
- Earth SIS. In Probate Court, Special
Term, December Sd, 1895.
In the matter of the estate of Elnora
SlayhiI, deceased
On reading and filing the petition of Loueas
Vausky of LeRay, said Blue Earth
county representing among other things, that
Enora Slayhill, late of said county, on the
Sth day of November, A. D. 1895, at
Eagle Lake said county, died in
testate, and being an inhabitant of this
county at the time of her death, leaving goods,
chattels and estate within this county, and
that the said petitioner is daughter of said
deceased, and praying that administration OF
said estate be to saidlpetitioner, LoueasVausky,
granted.
1t is ordered, That said petition be heard be-
fore this court on Monday. the 30th day OF
December, A. D., 1895, at 10 O'Clock A. NJ at
the probate office IN the city of Mankato, in
said county.
Ordered further That notice thereof be given
to the heirs of said deceased and to all persons
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 publish
ed at the city of Mankato in said county.
Dated at the city of Mankato the 3rd day o.
Decemb r A. D., 1895.
By the Court,
Seal of Probate Court. G. W. MEAD.
Judge Of Probate
BENEDICT & FLITTIE,
Attorney for Petitioner.
Mankato, Mimi.
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THE SYRIAN COLONY.
Something of FaddouI Kouri's Big
Business.

A visit to the Syrian colony is al
ways of interest, but the ordinary OBJ
server will see little besides the cou-
pie of old frame buildings near the
Omaha depot and several black eyed
and black haired diminutive children
playing about. No sign of the big
wholesale business which centerS
there is apparent. A FREE PRESS re-
porter. accompanied by prominent
bdrrister of the city, visited the little
settlement Saturday afternoon and
were entertained in royal style by the
merchant, Faddoul Kouri, and his nu-
merous helpers. Refreshments were
served with that lavish hand with
which a Syrian entertains a friend,
and at the request of the visitors
several songs were rendered in the
musical tongue of the colonists, in
which all joined heartily. The big
Turkish pipe, which draws the smoke
through water, was brought out and
smoked, and good time was had.
At Christmas time big Publication
is to.be had, and peddlars from all
around will gather to observe the day.
Faddoul Kouri is wholesale dealer
in clothing, novelties, ETC., and does
business of which merchants occupy
ing statelier blocks would be proud.
His business amounts on an average
to 5000 week, or between S45, 900 and
$4,000 year. He is one of the best
customers of the Mankato knitting
mill, taking about 81 900 worth of it's
product yearly, and paying promptly
for what he gets. The territory which
he covers extends nearly 1000 miles
to the east, south and west of Manka-
to. He ships regularly to twenty or
thirty merchants and peddlars, and
keeps his own book accounts.
Mr.. Kouri states that the colony in
this city numbers from forty to sixty.
1t has grown to such an extent that
he has been obliged to rent another
building. The men are all stalwart
fellows, swarthy, and good compan-
ions. The women keep we'll out of
sight, but some of them are comely.
One of the oldest men acts as teacher
and instructs the children with books
in their language, which has thirty
letters. All are good Catholics, and
the men generally have taken out
their first citizenship papers.
Mr. Kouri has just become full
naturalized citizen and intends to
send for his family, who are still in
Syria. If he gets time, he may go
after them himself. He is a shrewd
business man and according to all ac-
counts is accommodating considerable
wealth. The cOlonists are all peace
able citizens.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-12-20

The Duluth Herald of last evening,
Dec. 18th, is banner. 1t contains
40 pages, and gives complete write
up of the years business of Duluth.
Duluth is a solid city and nothing
better illustrates it than the story of
the year which the Herald so graphic
ally tells. Its manufactures of the
year amount to fifteen million dollars
and of this three million dollars went
to labor. The Herald'S review is a
most creditable one for the city, and
also to the enterprise of the pub
fishers of that go-ahead sheet.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-12-20
"WlLSON" IN THE PEN.

A letter from Monticello, Iowa, to
the FREE PRESS, states that Curtis,
alias w. G. Wilson, was on Monday
sentenced to five years at hard labor
in the penitentiary at Anamosa, and
that night put on the uniform and
commenced his term. The letter
states that Curtis has no sympathy at
Monticello and that many seem dis
appointed at his light sentence.
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A Whole Family.

Rev. L. A. Dunlap of Mount Yer
non. Mo-, says: My children were
afflicted with cough resulting from
measles, my wife with cough that
prevented her from sleeping, more or
less, for five years, and your White
Wine of Tar Syrup has cured them
all. Sold by all druggists.
For SALE-CHEAP-As scholarship
emitting the holder to pursue the
Shorthand Course" in the Mankato
Business college. Inquire of I'll. L.
;SCHMITT, 215 Y. M. 1. building, city.
Soft
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-12-20
Beware of Ointments for Catarrh that
Contain Mercury,

as mercury will surely destroy the sense of
smell and completely derange the whole system
when entering 1t through the mucuor surfaces
prescriptions from reputable physicians, as the
damage they will do is ten-fold to the good you
can possibly derive from them. Halls Catarrh
Cure, manufactured by F. j. Cheney & Co., To-
ledo, o., contains no mercury, and is taken in
ternally, acting directly upon the blood and
MUCOUS surfaces of the system. In buying
Halls Catarrh Cure be sure you get the genuine
1t is taken internally and is made in Toledo,
Ohio, by +. j. Cheney & Co. Testimonials free
csaeSold by Druggists price 75c. per bottle
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Half dollars are doing dollar
duties at the Model Clothing & Shoe
HOuCn
Santa Claus

has induced the Nickel Plate Road
to sell excursion tickets at very how
rates to all points on it's line between
Chicago and Buffalo during the Holt
days. Tickets at one and one third
fare for the round trip. Special ex-
curSion dates December oath, 18th,
3lst and January 1st, good returning
until January End. For further in
formation address j. Y. Callahan,
Genl Agent, Ill Adams St., Chicago,
Ill.
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&C. Schmidt for gloves and nit
tens. We carry as large and complete
line as there is to be found in
southern Minnesota at prices that
defy the strongest competition.
What is the use of going around with
cold fingers when you can get three
street
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MankatO. Dec. 16, 1895.

MankatO, Dec. 16, 1895.
In consideration of the sum of TWEEN
Gy-tive dollars to me paid by Mcssrs.
Longini and Thoms, OF MankatO, l
hereby release the following named
parties, viz, Thos. |. Skeoch, Arthur
G. Burgess, Henry G. Pickle and
Frank Seifert from any further DAM
age which may have been caused by
the cutting of a tree by them and by
supposed special permission given
them by Messrs. f. Miner, w. III.
Burgess and James Lovett in the
cemetery near the village of Eagle
Lake. | also exonerate the above
named parties, being fully satisfied
that they have acted in certainty
that the permission obtained was suf
ficient
Mrs. LAURA VANSKY.
Signed in presence of
ROBERT LUTz,
A. p. PREsNAL,
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Holiday Excursion Rates.

On December "a, % and 81, 1895, and
81, 1895, and January l, 1896, the
Northwestern line will sell excursion
tickets at reduced rates to stations
within distance of 200 miles, good
for return passage until January 2,
1896, inclusive. For tickets and full
information apply to agents Chicago
& Northwestern Railway.
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Zone Bottle Entirely Cured Her.

l received the bottle of White Wine
of Tar you sent me. My wife at that
time had a very bad cold on her lungs
and one bottle entirely cured her. I
can say it is the best, and in fact the
very best medicine ever came across
and l can recommend it to all.
DeltOn, Wis. ELDER S. J. ADAMS.
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BUSINESS PROJECTS.
SEVERAL MATTERS FOR THE
CITY'S WELFARE.
Blue Earth Valley Telephone Com
pany Wants to Get into Mankato
Postal Telegraph Company will
Meet the Commercial Club Com
mittee collaboration of Labor will
Meet in Mankato Tin June, 1907
Other rIatters of Interest.

The excellent meeting which the
Commercial Club held ten days ago is
already bearing fruit, and if the club
continues it's state of activityMankato
will be decidedly the gamer.
1t has been decided to locate the
Baker Plaster Co.'S factory in River
side Park addition, and the factory is
to be in operation by February 1st. To-
morrow the papers will be circulated
for subscriptions, and it is proposed
to guarantee the $500 which the
building will cost and to raise 5000 in
cash. L. Lampert will take the 500
per month rent in payment for the
lumber.
The committee appointed to nego-
tiate with the Postal Telegraph Co.
has received reply from it saying
that the officers of the company will
be willing to meet the committee
either at Mankato or st. Paul. The
line would be extended to Mankato
from Randolph, Mimi, distance of
about ninety miles.
The Blue Earth Valley Telephone
Co. has commenced negotiations with
the Commercial Club to have Man
kato join hands with it and put in
local exchange and toll line to con-
meet with the system of wires erected
in Iowa. The executive committee of
the club has instructed Secretary Ogle
to correspond with the company and
see what is necessary to put the move
on it's feet.
The state branch of the American
Federation of Labor has Uniformed the
club that the next;winter meeting
will be held at ST. Paul, owing to some
legislation which is wanted, but that
the meeting in June, 1897, can be held
in MankatO, and that REORGANIZATION
would be pleased to accept an invita-
tion to meet here if the city sees
proper to extend an invitation.
The Owatonna Commercial Union
has written to the club desiring to
exchange courtesies with it.
The Social Science Club yesterday
hung tire beautiful etchings of land
scapes and water on the walls of the
Commercial Club rooms as a gift to
the latter club and token of appre-
citation of the permission to hold
meetings in the rooms. The etchings
are handsomely framed, and add
greatly to the attractiveness of the
rooms. They cost S25.
Secretary Ogle states that if the
manufacturing enterprise of this city
will furnish him with printed infor-
nation of their business, he will use
it in connection with his correspon-
dence, and may thus be able to do
them some good.
Framed pictures of some of the
leading factories and public buildings
of the city ought to be hung on the
walls of the club rooms as an adver-
tisement of the city's resources to
strangers, who nearly all visit the
club rooms if they 60 nowhere else.
A large group picture like that shown
at the worlds fair and now near the
entrance of The Saulpaugh would be
valuable wall decoration, and the
club ought to procure one if possible.
Useful Christmas presents are al
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The people believe what they read
about Hoods Sarsaparilla. They
know that it is an honest medicine,
and that it cures disease. That is
why you should get only Hoods.
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Let US help you decide what to
buy for Christmas presents at Model
Clothing & Shoe House.
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"A good thing, push it along. Our
new goods at prices to complete with
anyone. Model Clothing & Shoe
House.
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Hoods Pills cure all liver ills, re-
lieve constipation and assist diges-
tiOn. 25c.
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Useful Christmas presents are al
ways welcome, at Model Clothing &
Shoe House,
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First insertion Dec. 6-2O


ORDER FOR HEARING AND NOTICE OF
APPLICATION FOR APPOINTMENT
OF ADMINISTRATOR.
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EDITOR FREE PRESS =
We the undersigned parties make
full and clear statement in answer to
the false accusations appearing in the
MOrnang NeaoS of Dec. 18th, headed
The herald., 1895-08-11
OUR SEA PORT

On another page will be found an ar.
ticls in which some OF the advantages OF
San Pedro are set forth. One point
brought out In the article is particularly
worthy the attention OF our citizens. 1t
is that portion in which mention is made
of the fact that San Francisco and other
capitalists are taking advantage of op-
portunitles which our capitalists are let
ting slip through their fingers. These
men foresee the Importance of San Pedro
as a sea port. and are shrewd enough to
buy property there now at a time when
it can be bought at nominal figures. One
point in which San Pedro presents su-
perior inducements to the investor lies in
the fact that it possesses double attrac-
ton in that it is a beautiful spot for
summer residences, as we'll as COM
mercial center. Property can now be
bought there at very low prices. 1t is
only a question of tim e, and very
short time at that, when property in San
Pedro will be in demand at greatly ad-
vanced prices over those of today.