The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-10-15
FALL FRUIT SEASON.
Apples and Grapes Are Now About
the Only Fruit Received.
Cranberries Beginning to Come In
and New Oranges in Two Weeks.


and New Oranges in Two Weeks.
The local fruit dealers are enjoying
large trade in grapes, the Concord
being received in big invoices. The
Mankato Fruit Commission Co. has
received eighteen carloads thus far,
and has been selling car day for
two weeks. n car came in yesterday
with 1912 baskets, and these were
not enough to 60 around among the
retailers. Two carloads are expected
tonight. The Concords are coming
from New York and Ohio and are
very good.
The peach season is nearly at an end
and not over one more shipment is ex-
pected by the local commission house.
The peaches now in the market are
the Solways and the Colorados or free
stones, both California grown. These
have succeeded the new Missouri
peach, the "Elberta," and are even
larger. The Arkansas and Southern
Missouri stocks took we'll while they
were in the market, and Southern
Illinois also sent some fine peaches.
Apples continue to be received in
large quantities, from Missouri and
elsewhere.
A large business has been done in
watermelons, but the season has now
drawn to a close. Some years ago,
the most of the melons sold in Man
kato came from Georgia and Ten
nessee, but now the northern border
OF the early melon crop has been
moved up to about the latitude OF
St. Louis, while the late harvest has
lust been rounded up in Iowa and
Minnesota. The home grown melons
have not been as good as usual, for
fsome reason, being too pithy to be in
= high favor. At the opening of the
season this year, the watermelons
sold in Mankato came chiefly from
Missouri, although some were from
Illinois. The Missouri melons may
ordinarily be known by their large
bulk, striped appearance and fine
flavor, and are often sold as Georgia
melons. The Iowa melons are small
Ter, more nearly globular, and Edarker
than the Missouri melons, and are
decidedly inferior. The best Mis-
souri, melons are of the variety called
the "Rattlesnake.
The delicious cantaloups received
here have come largely f1om Illinois,
but the season with them, as with
water melons, is now just over.
A few late pears are on the market,
namely the "Winter Nellies,"a Cali
fornia winter variety. The plum sea-
son is over. The largest invoices OF
= plums came from central California.
Cranberries have been on the mar
; ket for three weeks, and are the Cape
Cod berries. The crop at Cape Cod
Mass, was excellent this year. Some
berries have come in from Minnesota
marshes in the Mile Lac country
but while these berries are of gooC
= quality, they are not raised in yer!
large quantities. The crop on TIT
Wisconsin marshes is poor this year
The local commission house ex
poets to receive the first shipment o
new oranges in couple Of weeks
These oranges will come from Mexico
- and will be small but sweet.
> Minnesota produced heavy crol
of very fine tomatoes this year. TIL
season is now practically over, blu
plenty of tomatoes can be had a
forty cents bushel. The ruling pric
has been thirty-fve and forty cents
: Catarrh for Twenty Years ant
Cured in a Few Days.-Nothing to-
simple, nothing too hard for DR.. Ag
news Catarrhal Powder to give relic
in an instant. Hon. George James, o
> Scanton, Pa, says: 81 have been
martyr to Catarrh for 20 years cor
slant coughing, dropping in tn
throat and pain in the head, very OF
fensive breath. l tried DR.. Agnew'
Catarrhal Powder. The first applics
tion gave instant relief. After usin
few bottles all these symptoms O
Catarrh left me. 1t is great re
medy." Sold by N. Weed and P. Fol
man..
-Ex-Mayor Ed. Weaver is fathe
Fridry Mother and son al
doing nicely. The young mans fathe
is away, but will accept the congratl
lations of his friends on his return.
Complaint was made to the polio
this afternoon that boys have kille
two ,of G. FL. Lindsley's bloode