The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-08-09

QenU OF UnlS ClUy ana MS many lrleuuS
will be pleased to hear that he has i'm
proved very much, both mentally and
physically. Robert Roberts went to
St. Peter yesterday morning and will
accompany him to Minneapolis, where
MIR. Bradley will enter the Soldiers
Home at Minnehaha.
Pleasant Mound is indeed fine
farming township and inhabited by
first class farmers. Chas. Russ says
that he would not accept twenty-five
bushels of wheat to the acre from his
wheat fields if anybody should offer
him that amount. He says that the
average will exceed that amount
throughout the entire township and
all a number one lity.-Antboy
Herald.
Conrad Kleinschmidt was pain
fully but not seriously injured at St.
James yesterday, while at work on the
new court house contract there. He
was wheeling stone, when it fell
over and caught his hand and ankle,
quite badly crushing them, but break
ing no bones. He was brought back
to this city on freight train last
night, and will be disabled for some
time.
Albert Lea Standard: Miss Lucy
Pope, daughter of Gen. Pope, of Man
kato, accompanied Rev. DR.. Cryor
home Monday to see Miss Hill and the
college and will likely become stu
dent the coming year. DR.. Cryor has
had good success this trip, having se-'
cured subscriptions for the college for
about $500, and good encouragement
for the coming of several new students.
Some Of the members of the
street committee favor cutting down
the grade of Clark street to the
twenty-five foot line, and this did
not lack much of going through the
council Saturday night. The alder
men were under the impression that
the owners of Prospect Heights were
satisfied with the fourteen foot cut,
but when the notice was received
from them at the preceding meeting,
some of the aldermen were in for
making the deeper cut.
st. Peter Heratd: The St. Pete
and Mankato tennis players will lob
and Crawford in this city next Tues
day. There will be two sets of
doubles in which the players from ST.
Peter will be Messrs. Ribble, Johnson,
Hildebrandt and Daniels. Mankato
will probably be represented by Messrs.
A. and E. Patterson, Cotton and Web
ster. They are brisk lot of players
and as our boys have improved some
what good lot of games may be looked
for.
AT the residence of Mr.. Mark L..
Wildes, at Lake Washington, seri-
Gus accident occurred the other day
through the carelessness of the dis
posal of lighted matches. One of the
daughters while dressing her hair
must have thrown lighted match
into the wardrobe, the door being
open at the time, entirely destroying
the best clothing of the family, in
Guiding several very costly dresses of
Mrs. Humphreys, niece of Mr.. Will
DIES, who was visiting there at the
time from California.
Are you going away to school this
fall? If so, you want to 60 to the
best. The Mankato Commercial Col
lege of Mankato, Mimi, has reputa-
tion of being one of the best in the
state. 1t is endorsed by business
men and students. Mr.. J. Hubbard,
Sec. of the Hubbard Milling Co., says:
| sit is with pleasure that / say word
Of praise in favor Of the Mankato
Commercial College, and l look only
with pleasure and satisfaction upon
the time spent at that school. 1t has
been Of the greatest help to me in my
work, and l would not be deprived of
what gained there for many times
its COST"