The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-01-15
LOCAL ITEMS.

The knitting MILL Will SbdIu up
Wednesday, after being shut down
since Christmas.
Judge Mead has united John q.
Casper and Rosetta S. Compton, both
of LeRay, in marriage.
Editor Henry, of the GAINESVILLE
Arqus was in the Monday short Time
between trains on his way to st. Paul.
The appointment of Hugh M.
Quinn as postmaster at Mapleton was
announced in Mondays ST. Paul
papers.
"A marriage license was issued
Yesterday to Henry A. Weymouth and
Mrs. Mathilda L. Meixell, both OF this
county.
Alexander Thompson, day baggage
man on the Chicago & Northwestern
stub train, is laid off with a sprained
ankle. M. A. Young is filling his
place temporarily.
County Surveyor Brooks has MS
Office in the court house, across the
hall from County Superintendent
Sherer's office. He was doing survey
ing at Madison Lake Monday.
Mrs. Rowland Price, who lives on
Liberty street, fell last evening on a
slippery sidewalk and dislocated her
lest wrist. DR.. Andrews was called
l.o,col tho
Jay Tyler pleaded guilty in the
municipal court Monday morning TO
the charge of disorderly conduct, and
in default of fine of 1885, went to
jail for twenty days.
%, E. Hale, of st. Clair, called at
the FREE PRESS office Monday and re-
newed his annual subscription to the
weekly edition for the thirty-hrst
time. He reports the sleighing as
good.
Mr.. David Harrimen, of Mapleton,
is in the city calling on his mother,
Mrs. E. L. Harrimen, who is danger
ously ill at the home of Ezra Cooper.
Mrs. Harrimen is quite aged and her
recovery is doubtful.
Judge Mead made an order today
to hear petition for license to sell
real estate to Mary P. Richie, de-
ceased; and an order to examine &C.
counts of the administrator of the es-
tate of Harriet M. Butler, deceased.
We are informed that Oliver
Olson, janitor of the Pleasant Grove
school, was remembered by the
teachers with a beautiful Bible and a
years subscription to the Christian
World, as an appreciation OF his ser
vices.
Mrs. Clara Gish Ewing received
this afternoon a fine team of iron
gray ponies from her father, j. NC
Cam, who lives at Bloomfield, Iowa.
The team will be used on the de.
livery wagon of Mr.. Ewing's grocery
store.
Ellen Beach Yaw, whose remark
able voice attracted much attention
at the opera house several years ago.
died yesterday at Waterloo, Iowa
from sudden illness. She was eI
route east from successful tour IN
the western states.
organization
DR.. Andrews, accompanied by Mrs
Andrews, will leave Thursday fol
Philadelphia to take the post grad
ate course in the school for physicians
in the Policlinic School of Medicine
They will be gone about six weeks
and will 90 by way of Washington.
Charles Bennett returned last
night from Chicago, where he took
two carloads of sheep and one of hogs
He intends to leave Saturday night
for Chicago with three carloads OF
sheep. He purchased 500 sheep in
South St. Paul last September anc
has fed them until now.
President Shoemaker, of the
board of trade, has filed with City
Recorder Brown one of the petitions
for sidewalk to the Omaha depo
grounds by way of Walnut street. L
bears ITO names of business men, ant
another petition is being circulated
to be filed later.
inspector Halstead states that tn
city wells do not now leak, and tina
the flow little more than supple
the pump without any lifting bein'
required. The Holly pump is beinI
run to its limit Of thirty-three stroke
minute, and two more strokes
minute would take all the water as i
flows out of the wells.
1t has teen years since dogs hav'
been SO numerous on our streets al
now. They are of all descriptions ant
value, the latter ranging from on
cent to ten cents, with very few ex
ceptions. We hope that the do,
license ordinance will be put int
OPERATION again next spring and Tia