The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-01-29
First insertion Jan. 1S97-last Feb. 10 1897
MORTGAGE SAI,E

Default having been made in the payment of
the sum of four thousand four hundred and
thirty nine dollars and slXty-two cents ga, 43962
which is claimed to be due at the date of this
notice upon a certain mortgage, duly exc
cuted and delivered by Edmund NJ. Pope and
Mary +. Pope, his wife, as Mortgagnrs. to
William s. Shepard, Mortgage, bearing date
the 1st day of July, A. D.,lS9l securing payment
of a note of same date gwen for the prlncipai
sum of four thousand dollars ($4,0O0.Ou) bearing
| interest at the rate OF seven PEI
cent per annum from safe which mortgage
was duly recorded in the olice OF the keGiS-
ter of Deeds in and for the county oi E4Gt
Earth and State of Minnesota on the 24ii ia,
! of OctOber,A ID. 1891, at Ten o'clock ana tbntA
minutes, A. M, in Book 81 of mortgages as
page 80, conveying and murrgagIu2r III w St"t-
ly fifty-twO (52) feet of lots number GA" a. ,hH
two C2) in block numb twenty-n;ne IN ny ~
Mankato III said Blue Earth county acc'i'lln
! to the recorded plat tner 81 IN the he%lStrt ''
| Deeds office said county. beng the front L!tS
! two (52 feet of sand lots, to;y JnHr with all Ia
rights and interests Of SAID m"rtgaGorS IN SSta
described tract and the asCinCnI ana tl@i
story of the brick and stone bunting dau al,
other buildings. sheds other Improvements
| thereon and subject 10 the lease and vested IN
! terest of the Mankato Lodge Number lweyc
! az \. +. and A NJ. a corporation duly Moor
porared under the laws of the state OF
Minnesota designated in said =, mortgagG
as the Masonic society in the second
story of the building now thereon; and where
| as the trustees hereinafter naIicd, did on the
9TH day of December, 1896 pay the taxes duly
levied said premises for the year 1873
amounting to $l09 90 which were due, unpaid
and delinquent and were necessarily paid in
order to properly protect the interests OF SAID
trustees therein, and whereas S Id mortgage re-
quires that at least $1,000 fire insurance be kept
in force by the mortgagors upon said buildings
loss if any payable to the MORTGAGE as his In
terests appear. And whereas, said mortgagors
failed to procure said insurance when the poll
cies expired on December 9th, 1885, at which
time the trustees of the estate of said mortgage
below named al the request of the mortgagors
procured said lire insurance on the conditions
in said mortgage contained, and paid forty
dollars premium for said insurance, and which
sums paid for taxes and insurance
with interest thereon said trustees clam
to recover in addition to said principa
and interest aforesaid: and where
died at Bath. Steuben County, New
York, on the 9th day of April, 1894, leaving 6
will appointing William H. Shepard, Fanny S
Gibbs and Reuben E. Robbie executors and trus
tees of the estate of said William 5. Shepard
deceased, which will was duly admitted to pro
bate in the surrogates court of Steuben county
New York, which trust was duly accepted b,
said William IL. Shepard, Fanny 5. Gibbs ant
Reuben E. ROBBIE vino were duly appointed b.
said court, qualified for entered upon and ar
now pert, ing their duties as trustees unde
said will, and no action or proceeding at Law
or otherwise. having been instituted, to recoye
the debt secured by SAID mortgage and tn
taxes and insurance paid as stated or any par
thereof.
Now, therefore, notice is hereby given, Tha
by virtue of the power of sale contained i
said mortgage, and pursuant to the statute Il
such case made and provided, the sad mort
gage will be foreclosed and the premise
described in and covered by said mortgage
above described situate in the city of Mankat
in Blue Earth county and State of Minnesota
with the Entertainments and appurtenance:
will be sold at public auction, to the highes
bidder for cash, to pay said debt and interes
and the taxes and insurance paid a
; stated with interest thereon and sevent!
five dollars attorneys fees, as sJipI
lated in and by said Mortgage in cas-
of foreclosure, and the disbursements above
by law; which sale will be made by the sheri
of said Blue Earth county, at the Easterl
front door of the court house, in the city
!. Mankato, in said county and state, on Satu
day the Goth day of February, 1897, at tie
: o'clock in the forenoon of that day, subjee
r to redemption at any time within one yea
from the day of sale. as provided by law
5 Dated Mankato, Mimi, January 9TH, A. {
1897.
WILLIAM H. SHEPARD,
3 FANNY s. GIBBS,
REUBEN E. Robe,
AS trustees under the will of William
Shepard, deceased. Mortgage.
t WILLIAM THOMAS,
: Attorney for said trustees,
Mankato, Mimi