The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-07-17
July 1885.


tramp in the city. Mayor Weaver ap-
pears altogether too sentimental
about this question. Water is plenti-
full and the city's credit is sufficient
for the purchase of few loaves of
bread. There is no occasion for lum-
bering up the present ordinance in
order to effectively rid the city of the
army Of lazy Migrants who are swarm
ing around town.
The Presbyterians are planning
for one of their rousing picnics, to be
held at Christensen's Point, Lake
Madison, on Tuesday, July 2lst. They
will drive out, conveyances being pro-
vided for all who want to 60, at very
low cost. There is to be lots of fun in
the way of sports. These are in charge
of II. A. Patterson, B. G. Taylor and
others. These names are sufficient
guarantee of good time. Every mem
bar of the congregation is invited.
S. Sorenson estimates that his as
sets will about equal his liabilities, at
his own invoice. L. Patterson took
some OF the furniture in settlement
for rent, and John Klein & Co. have a
mortgage on the remainder. Mr..
Sorenson has plans for the future.
The trouble seems to have been that
his rates for board were not high
enough to make the business profit
able.
The work of paving a portion Of
the area of the government build
ing lot with brick is well under way,
and our people can now see what
brick paving is like. 1t will not be
long before Front street property
owners will not be satisfied with
crushed stone and gravel, which is the
material our country roads are now
being made Of 10.
"A good deal of opposition has de-
veloped to the proposed change in the
clock in the tower of the government
building so as to make it a striking
clock. Residents in the vicinity OBJ
ject to the noise which will result
every hour at night. There does not
seem to be any general demand for a
striking clock from people who live
further away.
John R. Thomas, the furniture
man, has presented the Mankato Com
merclal club with a handsome oak
rocking chair, as compliment for the
exertions which it made in giving
Mankato such splendid Fourth of
July celebration. The chair is a
beauty, and the officers of the club are
greatly pleased over it as we'll as the
kindly feeling which Mr.. Thomas has
shown.
w. w. Rutan and A. M. Rutan
have taken charge of the business of
the Northwestern Collection Agency
and Merchants Protective Associa-
tion, the former as manager and the
latter as attorney. The office has
been transferred to their office, room
3, in the Odd Fellows building. They
will push the business from now on,
and as they have already been en-
gagged in that line they will bring eX-
perience to the performance of their
| duties.
The Mankato base ball club has
disbanded, as we predicted it would
| just after the Fourth. The support
| n
| the expenses incurred. - st. Peter
Herald You are mistaken, Brother
Johnson, the club has not disbanded
and will not disband, at least not be-
fore the base ball season closes. 1t is
too good club for our citizens to
part with, and it will continue to do
business before the grand stand and
hold down the championships Min
nesota.
-Mankato had adopted tramp or
dinance which permits the officers to
arrest a man for vagrancy and when
fined for that, may put him to work
on the streets to work out his fine at
the rate of dollar a day. That
strikes us as being good thing and
worthy of adoption by our own city
council. We have too many tramps
and too many weeds on our boule-
wards. Less weeds under such an
ordinance would mean fewer tramps.
We move the adoption off the ordin-
ance, which seems of far more i'm
portance than the ringing Of bicycle
ells.-S Peter Herald.
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