The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-10-30
LOCAL ITEMS.

Vote for J, A. Ewing for county
treasurer.
Night school in Business College
begins Now 4.
The trial of julius Iker is going
on in the municipal court this after
noon.
Leslie Cooper and family, of Vernon
Center, spent Sunday with his
fathers family, Mr.. Ezra Cooper.
When you vote next Tuesday, see
that an X is placed opposite the nam
of ]. A. Ewing for county treasurer.
j. G. 'Koller wants Barley, Rye,
Oats, Glover and Timothy seed and
will pay more than any else. 1868
James Mclaughlin and VIM.
Troendle, of Mapleton, were caller S
at the FREE PRESS office Wednesday
afternoon.
The township and village clerks
, called on the county auditor today
and received their ballots and Other
election supplies.
Judge Mead made an order to ex-
anime accounts of the executrix of
the estate of Albert ]. Wakefield. de :
ceased, Wednesday.
Miss Koke, formerly in charge of
the notion department at the Glass
Block, has accepted position with
j. B. & D. Richards.
r. B. Disbrow and wife, of Owa :
tonna, were in the city Tuesday Mr..
Disbrow sis a member of the Dis
brow Manufacturing Company.
Married, Wednesday at II o'clock,
noon, at the rectory of st. John s
church, by Rev. Geo. H. Davis, James
E. Gardner, of Lake Washington, and
Miss Mamie A. Ekman, of Eagle
Lake.
The fall term of the Mankato
Commercial College opens Nov. 2, and
the FREE PRESS is informed that the
applicants for entrance are about fifty
students. The school is doing great
work for the young people in Southern
Minnesota.
Mr.. and Mrs. d. T. Bowen, J. A.
Flittie, Humphrey Jones, and Mrs. FL
G, Hotaling of Mapleton, went to Am
how Eri6aU oftnnH tho 6nHi-
cation of the new 1. o. o. f. Lodge
there. An interesting program has
been prepared.
Judge Mead yesterday made Fl
nal decree and distribution of the es-
tates of Thomas Ryan, deceased, and
Engelbert j. Sontag, deceased; an
order admitting the will of Addison
Beebee to probate; and an order allow
ing the final account of the guardian
of Caroline, Mary, Emil and Franz
SEMINOLE, and discharging guardian and
bondsmen.
Edward McHugh, formerly cook
at The Saulpaugh, but who left the
city last June, was run over and
killed in Chicago, on the Baltimore
& Ohio tracks, Thursday night last.
He was q years of age and single
man. He had an uncle in MinneapO-
lis, who attended the funeral in Chi
cago. Mr. McHugh was well liked in
this city, and the news of his untime ly
death causes regret.
MIR. Dolliver would have had the
largest audience of the campaign had
he kept his engagement TO speak in
this city Monday. Farmers came
in from miles around, and the streets
were filled with people. Had the
doors of the opera house been opened,
it could not have begun to hold the
people. None were more disappoint-
| ed over the outcome of the meeting
| than the members of the Republican
county committee and the officers of
the Mckinley Sound Money club
j. Tyler was committed to the
county jail for thirty days yesterday
| afternoon, in default of $3.50 fine, on
the charge of petit larceny, to which
| he pleaded guilty. He stole an over
coat at Madison Lake the night be-
fore, when he returned from taking a
political speaker there. 1t is said
| that he intended to leave for Mime
apolis today. He was arrested on the
charge of grand larceny ia the second
degree, but the complaint was chang
ed. The oyercoat was valuable one.