The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-03-19
Additional Locals.


Ladies gold watch and chain lost
Feb. 22d. Finder please leave at FREE
PRESS office and receive reward.
Among our advertisers this week
will be found w. b. Walker & Son.
Look over their adv. and then give
them call.
Mrs. VIM. Schultz, Of Decoria, who
was quite low from blood poisoning, is
now on the road to recovery. DR..
Brandenburg performed an operation
on her arm, removing the cause OF
trouble.
Judge Mead has made an order
appointing Andrew Rudberg guardian
of Edith Mognuson, and an order to
examine accounts of the admins
traitor of the estate of Samuel L. Pen
field.
The suit of Julius Dalluge VS..
Julius Icker was tried before Judge
Severance Friday forenoon. W. N.
Plymat appeared for the plaintiff and
Hughes Bros. for the defendant. The
court has the case under advisement.
Engineer Haynes states that
work on the foot paths along the
Minnesota river bridge will begin in
about four weeks, and that the fact
of the river being high then will not
interfere with the work.
County Attorney Hughes is about
to prepare complaint in a proceed
ing to get the county funds that were
on deposit in the old Mapleton bank
The bondsmen will probably be asked
to make good the deposit.
The Mankato Drum corps and
some of the Sons of Veterans, drove
to Kasota last Saturday night to help
organize a new camp there. The
weather being so stormy there were
not enough present to organize, and
the meeting was postponed for two
weeks.
County Supt. Scherer has received
a challenge from Hastings asking that
the young lady who won the gold
medal at the recent declamatory con-
test go there to participate in con-
test. Miss Helen f. Grannis, of
Vernon Center, is the young lady.
John Henry Barr, graduate of
the University of Minnesota, and a
brother of Senator Barr, has been ap-
pointed to the professorship of ma
chine design at Cornell. Mr.. Barr
took post graduate course at Cornell
and has been an assistant professor
for some years,
The thermometer was down to
15 degrees below Sunday morning,
which is remarkably cold for the 14th
of March. This morning it was 4
degrees below St. Patrick day is
likely to find lmore snow on the
ground this year than it has for long
time.
"A B. Ewing's delivery team ran
away about noon Monday. They ran
do w Bryon and Second street at a
rapid rate, turned the corner by the
post office and were caught at the
west end of Jackson street. Luckily
the sleigh stayed right side up and no
damage was done.
An explosion of gas from gaso-
line lamp in the basement of f. G.
Heinze's restaurant at about three
o'clock Wednesday occasioned the
calling out of the fire department. No
damage was done, fortunately. The
cellar was very dry, and had the flames
gained much Roadway they might
have made bad fire.
Architect II. G. Gerlach will
superintend the building Of the school
house and pasonage in Belle PLANE.
He is also preparing plans for Tom
Sherk's new business block to be
erected at the corner of Front and
Liberty streets, and for the remodel
ing of Mrs. Mansfeld's house on
Clark street.
Attorney Bryon Hughes and Mar
ton Wilkinson Brewster, who will
open law Office at Wells, will make
that their abode, while w. f. Hughes
will look after the Mankato office of
the firm. Owing to J. H. Quinns ap-
pointment to a judgeship, Wells affords
good Office for new law office.
The government has just publish
ed an extract from the report of the
y. S. fish commission, consisting of a
report upon the fishes OF Southern
Minnesota, by Prof. Ulysses o. Cox,
of this city. 1t is a valuable treatise
and very thoroughly compiled. A
map of Lake Washington and George