The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-01-22
First insertion Jan. 1S97-last Feb. 10 1897
MORTGAGE SALE

Default having been made in the payment of
the sum of four thousand four hundred and
thirty nine dollars and sIxty-two cents GA 1869
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 f. Pope, his wife, Mortgagors, to
William 5. Shepard, as Mortgage, bearing date
the 1st day of July, A. D. 1891 securing payment
of note of same date given for the principal
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 ana thiIry
minutes, A. M, in Book "a of Mortgages. "n
page 50, conveying and mortgaging tn" w stcr
ly fifty (52) feet of lots number enc % and
two az in block number tweuty-nne co City OF
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 (5O feet of said lots, together with all the
rights and interests of said mortgagors in said
described tract and the basement and first
story of the brick and stone building and all
other buildings, sheds or other improvements
thereon and subject to the lease and vested in
terest of the Mankato Lodge Number Twelve
~ A. Il. and A. M. corporation duly incor-
porated under the laws of the State of
Minnesota designated in said mortgage
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 1895,
amounting to 500 80 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 So goo 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, 1896, 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 so PAID, for taxes and insurance
with interest thereon said trustees claim
to recover in addition to said principal
and said sRanard and Where
! died at Bath. Steuben County, New
York, on the 9th day of April, 1894, leaving a
will appointing William H. 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 III. Shepard, Fanny S. Gibbs and
| Reuben +. Robie 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 hereditaments 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 sUipu-
| 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 Easterly
front door of the court house, in the city of
Mankato, in said county and state, on Satur-
day the Goth day of February, 1897, at ten
o'clock in the forenoon of that day, subject
to redemption at any time within one year
from the day of sale, as provided by law.
Dated Mankato, Mimi, January 18th, A, D..
1897.
| WILLIAM HI. SHEPARD,
FANNY S. GIBBS,
! REUBEN E. Robe,
As trustees under the will of William S.
Shepard, deceased. Mortgage.
| WILLIAM THOMAS,
Attorney for said trustees,
MankatO, MINI.