The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-12-18
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
be due as interest at the date OF this notice
ed edo and delivered by Edmund NJ Pope and Mary
f. Pope, his wife, as Mortgagors, to William
S. Shepard, as Mortgage, bearing date
the 1st day July, A. D., 1891, securing payment
of a note of same date given for the principal
sum of four thousand dollars (S4OO0.0O which
will be due January lst, 1897, which mortgage
was duly recorded in theotfice of the Regis
ter of Deeds in and for the County OF Blue
Earth and State of Minnesota on the Gath day
of October,A ID. 1891, at ten O'Clock and thirty
minutes, A. M, in Book 81 of Mortgages, on
page so, conveying and mortgaging the wester-
ly fifty-tWO (J2) feet of lots number % and
two C2) in block number twenty-nne C29 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 (59 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 other 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
9TH day of December, 1896 pay the taxes duly
levied said premises for the year 1895,
amounting to 500 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 aforeiaid
said mortgage, bearing interest at per cent.
per annpm, I payable seml-an ually y; and where
ded Saa at Bah seSb bePard dOung Ses
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 ii. Shepard, Fanny S. Gibbs and
Reuben E. ROBBIE who were duly appointed by
said court qualified for, entered upon and are
now performing their duties trustees under
said Will, and no action or proceeding at law
or otherwise. having been instituted to recover
the deebt secured by said mortgage or any part
thereof.
Now, therefore, notice is hereby given, That
by virtue of the power of sale con aimed 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 hereditaments 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 seyenty-five 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 Easterly
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, D.
1896.
WILLIAM HI. SHEPARD,
FANNY s. GIBBS,
REUBEN E. Robe,
AS trustees under the will of William S.
Shepard, deceased, Mortgage,
WILLIAM THOMAS
Attorn for said trustees,
Mankato, MINI.