The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-07-09
LOCAL ITEMS.

widows pension has been grant,
ed to Henrietta Q. Rowe, of Garden
City.
Electric Plating Works can do all
kinds of plating and repairing at half
price. 227 No. Second st.
"A marriage license was granted
Monday to w. q. Rain, of Fairmont,
and Hannah Bergemann, of Willow
Creek.
A dance was held at Mr.. Magin's,
in Lime township, Friday after
noon and evening. 1t was we'll at
tended.
-The Knitting Mills and Fibre
Works closed Monday to give their
hands chance to 60 to picnic CIV
en- in Dukes Addition.
The North Western line will sell
Home Seekers excursion tickets on
July and 80. For information apply
at union depot.
City Attorney Pau Monday dis
missed the action against Geo. Pass
for violating the sidewalk ordinance,
as directed by the council.
The contract for erecting the new
l. o. o. f. block has not yet been
awarded, but 1T will probably go to j..
B. Nelson & Co., who are the lowest
bidders.
Mr. w. w. Gibbs and wife, Of st
James, drove to this city Monday,
and left Tuesday for Waseca, taking
with them Mrs. Stafford and daugh-
ter Florence. They will spend few
weeks at the Waseca Assembly.
No cases of contagious disease
are reported in the city at present.
There is but one quarantine card up,
and that will be taken down this
week, as the case has recovered. The
city is in excellent condition from q
sanitary point Of view.
The old home of Joseph Buckwal-
ter, one mile south Of Vernon Center,
burned to the ground Sunday morn
ing. Firecrackers caught in the roof
and before discovered the house was
beyond saving. Nearly all of the
household goods were saved.
MIR. Nelson, whose house In Ogle
& Davis. addition was robbed by
three boys early this week, is unwll-
ling to make complaint, and the mat
ter is likely to be dropped, although
it is known who the boys are. This
is wrong. It is time an example was
made.
ALI of the officers In the second
floor of the new Odd Fellows block
have been engaged by lawyers. A
large number of the office rooms in
the first floor and basement have also
been spoken for. Bids for the con-
struction of the building are to be
opened Monday evening.
Attorney Benedict was at Elysian
on business Friday, and got through
in time to do little fishing In Lake
Francis. He caught about fifty pounds
of fine black bass, and says that he
never had finer sport with hook aud
line. The FREE PRESS family &C.
knowledge several good sized fish.
The following assessors made re-
turns to Auditor founders Monday
Pleasant Mound, A. Schneeberger,
total, S43, 1O3, last year s29, 1882; Maple
ton village, g. E. JONES' total S45, 127,
last year s44, 598; Mapleton township,
G. E. Jones, total 1926, last year
1852
Wheat and other small grain are
fully headed out, and stand high and
thick, giving promise Of splendid
crop. Corn Is knee high. which is as
far advanced as it usually is on the
Fourth Of July. Rust is beginning to
attack the lower leaves in some fields
of wheat, owing to the dampness and
heat of the past week. but If more
favorable weather prevails from now
on there will be heavy crop.
The circus tent was filled to its
limits Saturday afternoon, but in the
evening the attendance was small,
owing to the threatening weather.
The performance was everything that
was claimed for it. Nothing un-
pleasant occurred throughout the day.
The heat was so great that all the
lemonade stands did paying bust
ness, and there were dozens of such
stands.
The police ran in seventeen
tramps Monday, and the prisoners
made it lively at the city hall with
singing and shouting. The most of
them were somewhat under the influ-
encs of liquor. Ten of the fellows
were set to work on the stone pile
this morning, to serve out five days
sentence for vagrancy. Yesterday
was the first day that any tramps
were seen since the last batch were
made to work on the rock pile.
The Amboy Herald gives an &C.
count Of the marriage Tuesday eve
ming Of Miss Eta G.. Ware, eldest
daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. f. N. Ware,
and Mr.. Ole N. johnson. The cere-
mony was performed by Rev. ]. M.
Smith. 1t was very pretty wedding,