The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-12-25
First insertion Dec II 1S96-last Jan % 1897
MORTGAGE SALE

Default having been made in the payment of
the sum of two hundred and ninety-three dol
lars and sixty cents (S293.6O which is claimed to
be due as interest at the date of this notice
upon certain Mortgage, duly execut-
ed and delivered by Edmund NJ. Pope and Mary
F. Pope, his wife, as Mortgagors, to William
the LIST day July, A. D., 1891, securing payment
of a note of same date given for the principal
sum of four thousand dollars (S4,O0O.00) which
will be due January 1st, 1897, which mortgage
was duly recorded in theOffice of the Regis
ter of Deeds in and for the County of Blue
Earth and State of Minnesota on the 24th day
of October ID. 1891, at ten O'Clock and thirty
minutes, A. NJ, in Book "a of Mortgages, on
page so, conveying and mortgaging the WrSter-
ly tifty-two (52) feet of lots number one ~ and
two (2) in block number twenty-nne C20 City of
Mankato in said Blue Earth county according
to the recorded plat thereof in the Register of
Deeds office said county, being the front fifty
two (52) feet of said lots, together with all the
rights and interests of said mortgagors In said
described tract and the basement and first
story of the brick and stone building and all
other buildings, sheds or OF her improvements
thereon and subject to the lease and vested in
terest of the Masonic society in the second
story of the building now thereon and where
as the trustees hereinafter named, did on the
18th day of December, 1896 pay the taxes duly
levied ON said premises for the year 1895,
amounting to $109. 80 which were due, unpaid
and delinquent, and were necessarily paid in
order to properly protect the interests of SAID
trustees therein, and which sum with interest
thereon said trustees claim to recover in addi-
ton to said principal and interest aforesaid
said mortgage, bearing interest, at per cent.
per annum, payable Seml-annually; and where
as said civilian S. Shepard, mortgage,
died at Bath. Steuben County, New
York, on the 9th day of April, 1894, leaving a
will appointing William II. Shepard, Fanny S.
Gibbs and Reuben E. ROBBIE executors and trus-
tees of the estate of said William S. Shepard,
deceased, which will was duly admitted to pro-
bate in the surrogates court of Steuben county,
New York, which trust was duly accepted by
SAID William HI. Shepard, Fanny S. Gibbs and
Reuben +. Robe who were duly appoint ed by
said court, qualified for, entered upon and are
now peri, rming their duties as trustees under
said will, and no action or proceeding at law
or otherwise. having been instituted, to recover
the debt secured by said mortgage or any part
thereof.
Now, therefore, notice is hereby given, That
by virtue of the power of sale contained in
said mortgage, and pursuant to the statute in
such case made and provided, the SAID mort
gage will be foreclosed and the premises
described in and covered by said mortgage
above described situate in the city of MankatO
in Blue Earth county and State of Minnesota
with the Entertainments and appurtenances
will be sold at public auction, to the highest
bidder for cash, to pay said debt and interest
and the taxes, on said premises paid as afore-
said, and seventy-ive dollars attorneys fees, as
stipulated in and by said Mortgage in case
OF foreclosure, and the disbursements allowed
by law; which sale will be made by the sheriff
of said Blue Earth county, at the Eastery
front door of the court house, in the city OF
Mankato, in said county and state, on Satur
day the 23d day of January, 1897, at ten
O'Clock in the forenoon of that day, subject
to redemption at any time within one year
from the day of sale, as provided by law
Dated Mankato, Mimi, December 9th, A, ID.
1896.
WILLIAM H. SHEPARD,
FANNY 5. GIBBS,
REUBEN E. Robe,
AS trustees under the will of William S.
Shepard, deceased, Mortgagee
WILLIlM THOMAS,
Attorney for said trustees,
Mankato, Mimi