The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-12-11
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 Gz93.6W 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
S. Shepard, as Mortgage, bearing date
the LIST day July, A. D., 1891, securing payment
of a note of same date given for the principal
sum of four thousand dollars G$4,0OOOU which
will be due January lst, 1897, which mortgage
was duly recorded in theotice of the Regis
ter of Deeds in and for the County of Blue
Earth and State of Minnesota On the oath day
OF OctOber,A ID. 1891, at ten o'clock and thirty
minutes, A. NJ, in Book 81 of Mortgages, on
page 80, conveying and mortgaging the wester-
ly tifty-two @g feet of lots number one u and
two C5) 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 (50 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 on said premises for the year 1885,
amounting to SlO9 20 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 ann59m AZ payable seml7an ually; and where
died at Bath, Steuben County, New
/ York, on the 9th day of April, 1884, leaving
! will appointing William IL. Shepard, Fanny S.
Gibbs and Reuben h. Robe executors and trus-
| tees of the estate of said William ;. Shepard,
| deceased, which will was duly admitted to pro-
bate III the surrogates court OF Steuben county,
New York, which trust duly accepted by
| sald William II. Shepard, Fanny 5. Gibbs aud
| Reu3en Il. Robe VINO were duly appointed by
| said court, qualified for, entered upon and are
| now performing their duties as trustees under
SAID Will, ana 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 aimed in
saId mortgage, and pursuant to the statute IN
such case made and provided the sad mort
| gage Will be foreclosed and the premises
! described IN and covered by said mortgage,
/ above described situate in the city of Mankato
III Blue Earth county and State OF Minnesota,
with the hereditaments and appurtenances,
| VIII 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-fVe dollars attorneys fees, as
stipulated i'll and by said Mortgage in case
of foreclosure, and the-disbuIsements allowed
by law; which sale will be made by the sheriff
OF said Blue Earth county, at the Easterly
front door of the court house, in the city of
Mankato, IN said county and state. on Satur-
| DAY the I'D 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.
1885,
WILLIAM H. SHEPARD,
FANNY S. GIBBS,
RUBEN E. Robe,
AS trustees under the will of William S.
Shepard deceased. Mortgage.
WILLIAM THOMAS,
Attorn for said trustees,
/ Mankato MINI.