The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-02-05
First insertion Jan. 8 1S97-last Feb 10 1897
MORTGAGE SALE.

Default having been made in the payment of
the sum of four thousand four hundred and
thirty dollars and s1xty-two cents ga 439 so
which is claimed to be due at the date of this
cuted and delivered by Edmund NJ. Pope and
Mary F Pope his wife, as Mortgagors, to
William ). Shepard, as Mortgage, bearing date
the 1st day of July, A. d. 1891 securing payment
of note of same date given for the principal
sum of four thousand dollars ($4,000.0O bearing
interest at the rate of seven per
cent per annum from date which mortgage
was duly recorded in the office of the Regis
ter of Deeds in and for the County of Blue
Earth and State of Minnesota On the oath day
of October,A. ID. 1891, at ten O'Clock and thirty
minutes, A. M, in Book "a of Mortgages, on
page 80, conveying and mortgaging the w.ster-
ly tfty-two (5O feet of lots number one ~ ana
Mankato in said Blue Earth county according
to the recorded plat thereof in the Register OF
Deeds office said county, being the front fifty
two (52) feet of said lots, together with all tn
rights and interests of said mortgagors in said
described tract and the basement and first
story of the brick and stone building and all
thereon and subject to the lease and vested in
terest of the Mankato Lodge Number Twelve
az A. f and A NJ corporation duly lncorc
pGrated under the laws OF the state OF
as the Masonic society in the second
story of the building now thereon and where
as the trustees hereinafter named. did on the
9TH day of December, 1896 pay the taxes duly
levied on said premises for the year 1885.
amounting to $109. so which were due unpaid
and delinquent, and were necessarily paid in
order to properly protect the interests of SAID
trustees therein, and whereas said mortgage re-
quires that at least $4,000 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, 1895, at which
time the trustees of the estate of said mortgage
below named at the request of the mortgagors
procured said fire 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 claim
to recover in addition to said principal
and said nteEsS shanard and whees
died at Bath. Steuben County, New
York, on the 9Th day of April, 1884, leaving a
will appointing William II. Shepard, Fanny S
Gibbs and Reuben E. ROBBIE executors and trus
tees of the estate of said William S. Shepard
deceased, which will was duly admitted to pro-
bate in the surrogates court of Steuben county
New York, which trust was duly accepted by
said William II. Shepard, Fanny S. Gibbs and
Reuben E. ROBBIE who were duly appointed by
said court qualified for, entered upon and are
now performing their duties as trustees under
said will, and no action or proceeding at law
or otherwise. having been instituted, to recover
the debt secured by said mortgage and the
taxes and insurance paid as stated or any part
thereof.
Now, therefore, notice is hereby given, That
by virtue of the power of sale contained in
said mortgage, and pursuant to the statute in
such case made and provided, the said mort
gage will be foreclosed and the premises
described in and covered by said mortgage
above described situate in the city of Mankato
in Blue Earth county and State of Minnesota
with the hereditamenis and appurtenances
will be sold at public auction, to the highest
bidder for cash, to pay said debt and interest
and the taxes and insurance paid as
stated with interest thereon and seventy
five dollars attorneys fees, as stipu
lated in and by said Mortgage in CASE
of foreclosure, and the disbursements allowed
by law; which sale will be made by the sheriff
Of said Blue Earth county, at the Easterl,
front door of the court house, in the city o.
Mankato, in said county and state, on Satur
day the Goth day of February, 1897 at ter
o'clock in the forenoon of that day, subject
to redemption at any time within one veal
from the day of sale, as provided by law.
Dated Mankato, Mimi, January 18th, A, D
| 1897
WILLIAM III. SHEPARD,
FANNY 5. GIBBS,
REUBEN E. Robe,
As trustees under the will of William S
Shepard, deceased, Mortgage.
WILLIAM THOMAS,
Attorney for said trustees,
Mankato, Mimi.