The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-07-24
WITCH HAZEL OIL

although Gne pdUlenb Will be Obliged
to use crutches for time.
WIN. Bates is nursing a badly
swollen hand, believed to be due to
some vegetable poisoning or insect
sting.
| DR.. Standish had the misfortune
to run silver deep into his left foot
Friday last, and it has given him some
trouble since.
| Bids were opened Tuesday for the
erection of town hall in Mankato
township, to be located on the Tivoli
road, next to S. f. Barneys farm. W.
G. Griggs & Co. bid 1884; Correll &
Cowen, 5000. so; Joseph Landkammer,
1915; Chas. Graf, 1886. The latter Sc
cured the contract.
| During the absence of Mr.. and
Mrs. Will Thoms from their rooms
over Thos. Harris shoe store Sunday
afternoon, burglars entered and stole
a gold watch and locket, which were
a birthday gift to Mrs. Thoms from
her husband, and purse containing
about So IN money. There is no clue
to the thief.
The FREE PRESS monday re-,
ceived long communication, going
into the details of an assault commit
ted at Madison Lake last Friday. In
asmuch as the matter is to have an
airing in the courts next Friday, the
FREE PRESS does not care to try the
case in its columns beforehand, and
therefore abstains from publishing
the communication referred to.
Wheaton & Reynolds, of Mime
apolis, have sued Single & Co. and
their seven bondsmen for ST. 755 for
material furnished for the Sleepy Eye
school house. The defendants claim
an offset on account of the goods not
being as warranted. Pierce & Austin,
of Minneapolis, represent the plain
tiffs, Benedict & Flittie the defend
ants and Lorin Cray the bondsmen.
There is an individual who has a
mania for leaving checks
for large amounts with local
business men for safe keep
ing. These checks are believed to be
worthless, but the possessor evidently
derives good deal of pleasure from
his display of supposed wealth. Sew
eral of our business men have these
checks in their possession. The own
er does not attempt to pass them, and
his eccentricity is therefore harmless.
The Normal school alumni asso-
iation will hold it's annual meeting
in this city Aug. 10, 20 and p. There
will be lecture the first evening, a
banquet at The Saulpaugh the second
evening, and picnic the last day if
desired. The remainder of the pre-
gram will be announced soon. Presi-
dent Steel has appointed an eXecU-
tive committee consisting Of S. B.
Wilson, chairman, Mrs. G. NJ. Palmer,
Miss Nellie Mills, Miss Grace Clark
and F. Lyle Soaring.
Gen. Baker went out to his farm
Monday to look after his harvest.
He says that all kinds of grain is eX-
ceptionally heavy and that the yield
will be great He says that he esti-
mates his wheat at 25 bushels per
acre, oats 60, barley As and rye from
35 to 40 bushels. The corn crop pro-
misses exceptional returns. The gen.
eral is finishing his barley harvest
and next week will go into his wheat.
There is very little rust and very few
chinch bugs in Blue Earth county.
AT the meeting of the board of
equalization Monday the board pre-
ceeded to examine the assessment
books of the several assessment dis
tricts in the county as returned by
the assessors, and on motion ordered
that the auditor list all mortgages for
taxation which are not listed by the
assessors and held, owned or controlled
by residents of this county, as ap-
pears upon the record and listed by
the register of deeds in the assessment
books of the several assessment dis
tricts.
| For publication that has been in
existence for thirty-five years, as has
the Chicago Journal of Commerce, it is
a good deal off on its geography. In
it's issue of July 18th, the following
paragraph appears among the "MineS
and mining" items:
| Considerable business prosperity is reported
| from Collinsville, near Mankato, Mimi. where
| four good coal mines are in full operation, Civ
| ing employment to about 1000 miners and other
employees.
This item was evidently compiled
from a communication which recently
appeared in the FREE PRESS written
| by We editor while on visit to Collins
vile, Ills. 1t is passing strange how
matters will become mixed at times.