The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-07-26
LOCAL rTEns
From this weeks daily.

SluSle IOll Oh lluOleun weighing OoO
pounds and twelve feet wide.
The Amboy elevator is to be en-
laIged, SO as to be capable of storing
$4,000 bushels more Of grain. making
the total capacity $4,000 bushels.
-Rinehart Prohl, of Mapleton, has
secured patent on his corn harvester
and binder. 1t is claimed that it
will harvest twenty acres day.
-Drs. Steel and Andrews operated
upon Clifford Thro's ear Thursday,
and he is now rapidly recovering. j.
G. Thro is out again from quarantine.
Architect Thayer has received
notice from the Joannin-Hanson Co.,
saying they are ready to ship the first
car of fixtures for the Longini-T homs
Glass Block, and that they will have
two more cars ready by July ;25th.
County Superintendent Schereri
has received 5000 report blanks.
Hereafter every teacher in the county
must make a report of the pupils
standing and work to the parents, the
same as is done in the cities.
The annual school meetings in all
the districts of the copGty and state
were held Saturday night.
i have improved farms in yellow
Medicine and Chippewa counties for
sale, and Offering same at lowest
prices and best terms. Am closing
out real estate business. These lands
are the choicest in the whole state.
Good water, rich soil, and ceuntry
almost fully settled, and values sure
to rise rapidly. Write or call on L.
I'll. Schellach, Granite Falls, MiRn., at
once, for particulars. 7t3
Architect Gerlach is preparing
plans for A. S. Davis, for two story
| frame dwelling to be erected at a
cost of $1,000; also for a two story
brick veneered dwelling for DIR. o. G.
Strickler, of New rUlna; also for the
Miller block at St. James, to be occu-
pied by department store, and to be
of brick, two stories, with three
fronts, 446 by so by 20 feet.
The two months old child of Mr..
and Mrs. James Brown, living at la
Owat0nna street died yesterday noon
and was buried this afternoon in
Calyery cemetery.
The hearing in the order to show
cause in the Cassidy assignee case was
continued today and the introduction
of evidence took up all of the day.
"A boy was born to Mr. and Mrs.
A. j. Lewis, who live on Carroll
! street, last evening.
"A good deal of money is said to
have changed hands as a result of
yesterdays ball game. A number of
! travelling men were interested ia the
outcome of the game, and the Manka-
to club was the favorite, yet the
chances were considered about even.
Some of the St. Peter boys who want
ed to get back their losings on the
last game in this city came with their
pockets well lined, but left the lining
behind. 1t is estimated that many
hundred dollars changed hands after
the game.
Walter F. Brooks, of Lake Crystal,
has rented room l in the Odd Fellows
block and will open an office there
Aug. LIST and do surveying and civil
engineering. He is a son of d. W.
Brooks, of Lake Crystal, formerly at
tended the Normal school in this city,
and graduated from the Polytechnic
school at Wooster, Mass. He has
spent several years on the Pacific
coast following his profession. He did
the engineering work on the Blue
Earth county gazetteer. We wish
him success in Mankato.
Secretary Hart, of the State Board
of Corrections and Charities, in his
report on those who are permanently
supported by counties, gives the num-
Der in Blue Earth county at 10, which
is the same number as reported last
year.
There has been a good deal OF
needless stuff printed and much mis-
representation made about the differ
ences existing between the editor of
this paper and those people belonging
to the Christian church who are re-
sponsible for running their own pro-
perty as well as greatly impairlng
that surrounding it by the construc-
tion of the edifice so near the street.
We have no desire to air our personal
matters in nublic Drint. There is an