The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-10-04

passed over him. No bones were
broken except one rib, but severe in
ternal injuries were sustained, the
outcome from which DR.. Harrington,
who is in attendance, reports as hard
to tell.
"A young man desires to secure a
place where he can do chores for
board and go to school this winter.
Address G. E., FREE PRESS offise.
The board of public works will
consider the Fifth street extension at
two O'Clock tomorrow, and interested
property owners are requested to meet
with it.
B. F. Berry, of this city, has been
elected secretary of the Blue Earth
county Sunday School Association, to
succeed Frank Strunk, resigned. The
selection was made at a meeting Tues
day.
Mr.. III. Cummins desires that the
names of all the Sunday school super
intendents in the county, with their
postoffice addresses and the location
of their schools, be sent to him in this
city.
Judge Mead today made an order
appointing W. P. Coffin administrator
of the estate of w. E. Sigrams; also
for the final decree and distribution
of the estate of John A. Jones.
Marriage licenses were granted
today to Emil Schultz, of Pleasant
Mound, and Emma REEVE, of Sterling
Center, and John Tabatt and Emma
Schwarz, both of Pleasant Mound.
The North Mankato division of
the Methodist ladies' society will give
supper and social in the church par
lors Tomorrow friday evening and
extend very cordial invitation to all
Attorney Reed has sold the farm
he purchased of Arthur Robinson to
L. J. Foster for 81, 200, and also eighty
acres in the town of Vernon to G. w.
Dimmick, for $2,OOO.-Lake Crystal
| UniOR.
The Morton Enterprise says:
Last week the boys made dam
across the Minnesota river at this
place and put an inch and half pipe
therein, through which all the water
flowed with perfect ease"
Auditor Gunders last night opened
bids as follows for the superstructure
of his residence: King & Hughes, ST.
999; H. Winter & Co., $2, 464;E. Mahlke
and w. A. Funk, S2,OSS; J. N. Day &
Co., S1,S9S. The contract was awarded
to the latter.
-Rev.and Mrs.. Mortensen, Mrs. j.
]. Bergonst, of La Crosse, a sister of
Mrs. j. Mortensen and Mrs. Rev. l..
Green were very pleasantly entertain
ed by Mrs, Odjard on Carroll street
yesterday afternoon in honor of Mrs
J. J. Bergonst.
H. Cummins has just moved into
his store at Eagle Lake. He moved
out five weeks ago and it has been
raised two and a half feet and new
quarter-sawed maple flooring put in,
and new shelving and counters. 1t is
a good improvement, and makes the
store metropolitan.
| Some of the farmers of Belgrade
are talking of combining and raising
purse to secure ground for hay
market near the bridge in North Man
kato. They are tired of going up and
down the sharp incline at the present
market at the eastern end of the
bridge, and unless the city soon pro-
cures new market they say they will
place the market where the people
will have to walk across the bridge to
get their hay.
Last evening Mr.. A. G.. Barney
received a telegram from his wife
who is at the home of their daughter
in southeastern Kentucky, that his
little grandchild, Dwight Carleton,
died yesterday morning of infiamma-
tion of the bowels. The afflicted
parents and grandparents will have
the sympathy of their many friends
in this city. The telegram also stat
| ed that Mrs. Carleton would return
with her mother, and that the re-
mains of the child would probably be
brought here for interment.
We are Informed that there is
now movement on foot to organize a
| first class state base ball league with
eight neighboring towns, including
St. Peter, Mankato and six other
places, and that these cities will soon
be visited, to consult the different
managers, with a view to have a
meeting, held at some central place,
when steps towards the organization
of the league would be taken. The
Herald is informed that a league will
surely be organized. This is the only
way to run base ball and if the league
is organized, it would make one of
the strongest state leagues to be