The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-09-11
LOCAL ITEMS.

-5 per cent interest paid on de-
posits. Mankato Savings Bank. 14-6
Manager Hoeffler has booked
Satenello, the great hypnotist, for
October.
Mrs. Geo. Eygabroad, OF Winnebago
City, visited her parents in this city
Monday and Tuesday.
Loans made on improved farm
lands in sums of $1,000 and over at
lowest rates. No commission. Adj
dress, 1. M. Trip, No. 415 Manhattan
Bldg, st. Paul, MINI. 14t4
j. B. Ogle, Esq, is at home and eX
poets to soon open an office. For the
past two months or more he has been
travelling through the south collecting
and canvassing for Chicago map
concern.
Judge Mead has made an
order to examine accounts Of Mary
Ryan, executriX of the estate of Thos.
Ryan; and an order of license to guard
ian to sell land of Oscar E. W. Kohler
and Elsie Kohler, minors.
"A young daughter of Mrs. Cram,
Henderson, scame to the city Tuesday
to consult DR.. James. She had piece
of glass lodged in the corner of one
eye, and the seriousness of the case
cannot yet be determined.
Judge Mead has made an order
for hearing the petition of admins
tration of the estate Of Alexander
McCracken, and an order allowing the
account of H. P. Christensen, guar
dian of Arthur Holbeck, a minor.
Mrs. T. M. Pugh arrived in the city
Monday and will spend two or three
weeks at her old home in South Bend,
experimenting the repapering aud
repainting Of the house. Mr.. and
Mrs. Pugh will return to Duluth to-
gether.
The three months old boy of Mr..
and Mrs. Louis Mayer died at home,
on Vine street, at four o'clock Tues
day, of cholera infantum. The
funeral will occur at two o'clock to-
morrow afternoon, from the German
Catholic church.
County Commissioner Chas. Graf
has demonstrated that his part Of the
county is adapted to grape growing.
He has over two dozen vines in bear
ing, and the yield this year will be
about ten bushels. They are now
ripe and luscious.
The Republican national COM
mittee has ordered 100000 copies of
Congressman McCleary's speech
against the free coinage Of silver to
be printed in the German language.
There have already been circulated
over 100000 copies of the English
edition, and still the demand keeps
up.
Contractor Tuberg has set force
of dozen men at work on his Fourth
street contract, and will increase the
number and push the work on the
culvert and grading at the same time.
He expects to have the work COM
pleted before snow flies. The i'm
provement will be one of the most
noteworthy in years.
The formal opening of the opera
house under the new management
will occur Sept. 10Th, when the An
drews Co. will present ''Pinafore," "
with a caste of forty people and an or
chestra of sixteen. Special programs
will be distributed and souvenirs
will be given away. Popular prices,
so and Is cents, will be charged.
Edmund Shaw has returned from
Winona and will devote his time to
editing the Farm, Field and Stocknaan,
which will be printed by the G. w.
Hunter Publishing company. at
Winona, with the plant of the de-
funct Morning Press. Mr.. Shaw will
do his part of the work in this city,
and the first number is ready for dis
tribution.
Mr.. Charles Soaring, of Decoria
township, accompanied by his daugh-
tiers, Rachel and Enid, left Tuesday
morning for Wapheton, N. D.,
driving overland. He expects to
make the trip in four or five days,
and will return in about two weeks.
Miss Rachel Soaring will visit rela-
tives at Wapheton and attend the
college there for year or more.
"Wednesday evening at 500 o'clock
two teams came together on South
Second street in such manner as to
throw the occupants of both out. Mr..
and Mrs. A. LOOMS were in one car
riage and were badly bruised. Mrs.
T ,OOmis was carried into W r Craip'S