The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-03-01
MANKA4o FREE PRESS.
LOCAL ITEMS.

ed at the TOurtell0tte hospital.
Judge Torrey will move into w.
r. Geddes' Office on Monday and will
practice law.
The new creamery at Madison
Lake will be open for receiving milk,
Wednesday, March 9Th.
Judge Shissler Joined in wedlock
this afternoon Bunyan G. Williams
andaJennie e. Williams.
{ The friends of Herman knott, Of
Odjard & knott, are urging him to be-
) come candidate for alderman in the
Fifth ward.
f. n. Ware, of Amboy, was
elected grand treasurer of the Grand
Gimp of Odd Fellows at ST. Paul
"Wednesday.
adams & Single have had a
force Of men tearing down the old jail
for several days. The old landmark
will soon be gone.
G. H. Austin & Son have received
several hundred dozen pairs of shoes
for spring trade, and more coming
every day. Call and see latest styles.
Representative ,Gutterson intro
duced bill Wednesday to appropriate
$1,000 for roads land bridges in Blue
Earth county.
Johnny Dackins is the proud and
happy 'dad" of pair of lusty twin
girls, weighing five pounds each.
Father and mother are doing well.
! Foster & Co. are leaders in latest
styles of ladies fine shoes. They are
considered the finest goods made in
the United States Sold by @. IL.
Austin & son.
-Thirty-one years ago yesterday
G. H. Lindsey sowed wheat on the
Bookwalter farm, in Vernon. Some
of the farmers will not be much later
this spring if the present weather
continues a few days longer.
Yes, $3.50 buys serviceable, stylish
pair of shoes nowadays for a
lady or gentleman. G. H. Austin &
Son will show you styles at that price
that will surprise you.
-Messrs. Swenson, Masterman and
Wheeler have engaged room PA in the
postoffice block as their headquarters
in getting up the Standard Township
Map and Gazetteer of Blue Earth
county.
Anna, the six months old daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Thilgen, died at
1870 o'clock this morning. The funeral
will take place Thursday morning
from the German Catholic church.
-Amboy Herald: The State Farmers
institute, held at the opera house, was,
unquestionably, the largest and most
interesting of the kind ever held in
Blue Earth county, and will result in
much good to our city.
The friends of A. A. Ref, of Bel
grade, are pushing him forward as a
candidate for assessor of that town.
We should Judge they had hit upon a
good man who would look carefully
after the interests of the taxpayers
there.
Forty young people formed sur
prise party on Miss Alma Hanson, at
her home on Saturday evening. The
evening was spent in playing cards
and various amusements. Refresh
ments were served during the eve
ming. All report a pleasant time.
The newOmaha freight depot was
occupied yesterday. 1t is of the same
length and depth as the old building,
but is higher and more modern. The
} office force will be much more COM
fortably situated than before. The
new building is a credit to the road.
The Good Thunder Herald says
that a 15O-barrel flour mill is one of
the things talked of this year; that
Architect Gerlach has been awarded
the contract for plans for the new
church; and that somebody tried to
burn some of the Graham house out
buildings by kindling pile of papers
/ in one of them.
st. Peter Herald: The concert
! given last evening at the opera house
under the auspices of the nurses club
of the hospital, was very pleasing
one indeed, and was attended by
good audience. The selections by the
Mendelssohn quartet were rendered
in an exquisite manner and especially
pleasing were the numbers given by
May Usher Griffin.
Good Thunder Herald: Mr.. Ed
ward Woodbury., who has been troubled
with a cancer on the lip for some
time, went to Mankato on Thursday
last and had the same operated on by
DR.. Warner, assisted by DR.. Harring-
ton. A piece of the lip resembling a
V was cut out. Mr.. Woodbury. is
doing well, and we trust that it may
prove an effectual cure.
MIR. f. Atkinson, of Medic, prob
ably has the hauling team in South
ern Minnesota. On Monday last they
hauled ninety hundred of rock from