The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-08-30


ried.
The Madelia Cycle Club will hold
some races Aug. 30th, and offers $40
in prizes. There will be bicycle
parade from the depot to the race
track at 2 100 p. M, and the races will
begin at 2:3O o'clock. A game OF base
ball will be called at 4:3O p. No., and in
the evening club ball will be given
at the opera house. Lovelett's or
chestra will furnish the music. Ar
rangements have been made for re-
duced railroad rates.
Mr.. A. 9. Barney received letter
Monday from his daughter,
Mrs. Blanche Carleton, of Evarts.
Tenn, stating that her hus-
bands mother, Mrs. Carleton,
died at that place on Aug. %, of
typhoid fever. She had been with
them since last fall and had been in
tending to return to her home at
Hartford, Conn, this fall. She leaves
three sons, two of whom were at her
bedside when she died.
Two mammoth signs arrived
for the Longiniu & Thoms building
and were put up under the personal
of the maker, Geo. j.
Scherer, of Minneapolis. The one on
the front street side is 66B feet long by
33 inches wide, and reads "Longini &
Thoms." The other is 1905 feet long
by 33 inches wide, and reads "The
Glass Block Department Store"
They are the largest signs in the city
and will set off the building well.
The Lake Crystal Union contains
an account Of runaway accident In
which Mrs. Owen r. Owens was badly
bruised, Miss Hattie Jones, of Stay
ton, was rendered unconscious, and
Mrs. Owens little grand daughter suf-
fered broken arm. it happened on
the road along the shore of Lily lake,
and the horse upset the buggy and
ran away. The Union also tells OF
Herman, Zemann, who was run over
by ateam and wagon near Lake Crystal
Sunday, and his lower limbs paralized.
ST. Peter Herald: The st. Peter
lodge of Modern Woodmen will give
basket picnic at Volk's Lake Emily
resort next Friday in which they
will be joined by the lodges of Cleve-
land, Mankato and LeSueur. B. D.
Smith, one of the leading attorneys
of Mankato, and head advisor of the
M. w. A, will be present and address
the members. DR.. Henry
BeadouX has gone to Mankato to take
charge of the office of DR.. ]. H.
James, weile the latter spends vaca-
tion of several weeks in the east.
y The North Mankato Breeze is still
ed. 1t blows no more. Mr.. Duane,
who purchased the paper, has suspend
ed it's publication, thereby reducing
the quantity of Nicollet county news
papers.
-Mapleton Enterprise: Mr.. VIM. n.
Plymat sold to Mr.. Julius Hardtke,
yesterday, his south farm, better
known as the old Meyers place, for
$4,000. Mr.. Plymat purchased this
place four years ago for $4,000; it con-
sists Of 100 acres. \ X The best yield
of flax so far reported comes from Mr..
M. M. Pratt, of Sterling, who had
twenty-one acres which yielded 465
bushels and thirty-two pounds, or
over twenty-five bushels to the acre.
\ Aug. Nienow secured $3.50
bushels of wheat from 22O acres, or an
average of 27t bushels, being the best
yield for so large an acreage yet re-
ported. A land transfer of forty
acres in Medo township, section 6,was
made by Mr.. Ernest McColly to VIM.
Ward, Saturday; consideration 5000.
-Amboy Herald: G. D. Cooper dis
posed of his farm west of the river
this week to j. w. Colby, receiving
$4,000 for the quarter. Mr.. Cooper
has bought the vacant business lot of
Thos. Randall adjoining his store on
the east, and there is a strong proba-
bility that another good business
building will be erected this fall, by
Mr.. Cooper. Willie, the seven
year-old son of Henry Brush, met with
a terrible accident near the Aldrich
House corner, Thursday morning, by
being thrown from wagon. Anoth-
er young boy was driving the horses
and turning the team too short tipped
the wagon, throwing Willie under the
wagon, one wheel passing over his
forehead, cutting the head in fearful
shape. 1t required 10 stitches to sew
up the wound.
The FREE PRESS was delighted
with ucall Friday from a bevy
of charming young ladies who were in
the city visiting Miss Grace Clarke.
The party consisted of the Misses
Josephene Hungerford and Helen
Lougee, of Minneapolis, Miss Susan
Donaldson, of st. Paul, Miss Isabelle