The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-04-17
LOCAL ITEMS.

Iuo IcCelpUS OF Uno ENTERTAINMENT
Monday night, for the benefit of the
| Welsh church, were $50.
The estate of Lucia H. Patterson,
deceased, has sold lot nine, block
three, Branson's addition, to j. w.
True, for So, 400
| Judge Mead Tuesday made an or
der appointing Elizabeth Jones ad
ministratriX of the Lestate of Richard
Jones, deceased.
Under the new arrangement on
the Omaha road day parlor cars will
be attached to the trains between
Minneapolis and Sioux City.
Business with the St. Clair cream
cry is looking up, and we are informed
that on the first of May they will put
in another separator. They expect
to receive from 10000 to $4,000 pounds
of milk daily after that date.
j. S. Cooper & Co. have dissolved
partnership and HI. L. Henry will
continue the business. Mr.. Cooper
intends to return to his old home in
the west, fact which his many Man.
kato friends will regret.
Lake Crystal has gone dry. License
carried by six votes at the recent cleo
tion, but the village board has raised
the licensesfrom $500 to $3.50, and the
saloon keepers refuse to take out
licenses and have closed their places
of business.
Officer Daniels ran in twelve
tramps Saturday, when he found in
Omaha box cars. Four others were
also run in, and they claimed to be
men who had come expecting to get
work on the Omaha grading but were
unable to secure jobs.
Clarence Chandler, charged with
indecent exposure of person behind
The Saulpaugh Sunday, pleaded
guilty in the municipal court Monday
forenoon and in default of fine of
$40 went to jail for thirty days. He
is about thirty-five years of age and
has wife and several children.
w. w. Phalen is the possessor of a
paper of rare antiquity, the ROches-
ter, n. Y, Daily Aduertiser, of Oct.
18th, 1926. 1t is the first issue of the
first daily paper in Rochester, and has
five columns and four pages. 1t is an
interesting number and shows from
what daily newspaper work in Roch-
ester started.
Frank Dolliver was brought to
the county jail Tuesday from Madi
son Lake, having been bound over to
the grand jury on the charge of steal
ing cartridges from VIM. Durrin's
/ boat house, He was unable to furnish
the 5000 bail. He is eighteen years
old, and is one of the parties put in
Jail last year on the charge of break
ing into cottages on Point Pleasant.
Mr.. Black, of Black & Anderson, the
Blue Earth City cigar factory men,
was in the city Friday and met mem
bers of the Commercial club COM
mittee and renewed the proposition
for removing here which the firm had
previously written to the club. He
did not make any statements not
already published.
Perhaps it is thoughtlessness,
but more likely it is pure and
unadultrated cussedness for men to
stand and mutilate the brass signs
which some of our citizens have gone
to the expense of putting up. There
is very severe penalty for this sort
of vandalism, and some fine evening
some not overly fine fellow will be
made to feel the effects of his pocket
knife carving.
| Street Commissioner Halstead is
having watering trough constructed
in West Mankato. The council last
| fall decided not to have this trough
put in, on the ground that the peo-
pie would get water there free in
stead of having house connections
made and thus help to remunerate
the city for the large expense which
it went to in extending the mains
there.
John Hager died at his home,
1928 Second avenue, Tuesday after
noon. He had not been well all win
ter, and towards the last was unable
to swallow. He was sixtyfour years
of age and leaves wife and three
grown daughters and one son. The
funeral was from the German
Catholic church at 900 a. n. Thurs
day. The deceased was member of
St. Peter and ST. Paul's society, which
will attend the funeral in body.
"A. E. Hopkins was examined Sat-
urday by Drs. Mayo, of Rochester,
Tomlinson, of ST. Peter, Andrews,
James and Webster, of this city, at
the request of the Chicago and North
western road. Claim Agent Rich