The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-03-19
LOCAL ITEMS.

J. G. Hanson was down from Maple
ton Wednesday.
Attorney A. r. Pau Sr., was at
Madelia Monday.
G.. W. Chamberlain, of Amboy, was
IN Mankato Friday.
Mr.. Chas. F. Zimmerman, of st.
Clair, was Mankato visitor Friday.
Mrs. F. W. Kinney and daughter
went to Amboy Monday to visit rela-
tives.
Sheet music at off to close out
stock at 200 South Front street. L
E. SCOTT.
Farmers should SOW more clover
and timothy seed-more money in it
than anything else. 36t3
James Dorr, formerly in the shoe
business in this city, IS now at Swan
Lake.
-Seeders and haIrows; also best
disc harrows at bottom prices. j. G.
Roller. 39t3
-LosT-On the Rapidan road to
Garden City, about four miles from
city, on Friday night last, eight photo
graphs. Finder will please leave at
this office. Boil
About thirty their Rebekah
friends formed surprise party on Mr..
and Mrs. Oscar Bennett, in North
Mankato Friday night, taking refresh
ments with them. The evening was
pleasantly spent in card playing and
dancing.
Lee Jones, of Rapidan, who had
his arm caught and badly mashed in
the Rapidan feed mill, is getting along
finely. His arm was amputated
twice, the last time about three
inches above the elbow.
&C. Burt was arrested Tuesday
ing on the charge of bastardy, prefer
red by Tillie Nagel. The charge was
made last August, but Burt could
not be found until today. He plead
ed not guilty and the trial was set for
March Goth at 1000 a. M, the bail be-
ing placed at $500.
The board of audit, composed of
Messrs. Gunders, Thorne and Graf,
made their report Friday. They
authorized the county auditor to ad-
vertise for sealed proposals from banks
and bankers, not otherwise designated,
for the deposits and funds of the
county. These will be opened on
March Both, at LOO p, m.
Sheriff Bowen will on March 24th,
at 1000 a. NJ, sell at public auction in
front of the court house the 120 Blue
Earth county Gazetteers which Geo.
Keene levied upon to satisfy a judg-
ment against Mr.. Masterman. They
will be sold singly as long as there
are bidders, and then the balance will
be sold in bulk. This will be good
opportunity for those who want these
books.
County Supt. Sherer recently sent
a photograph of the school house of
district 131, Decoria, to Commissioner
of Education W. T. Harris, and has
received letter from that official,
saying that it is good looking school
house, and that he wished all the
country neighborhoods were as we'll
supplied. This speaks we'll for the
Decoria district.
MIR. D. G.. Robinson, formerly of
ST. Lawrence county, N. Y, has ar
rived in the city and will from now on
make this his headquarters, having
accepted the agency of the Mutual
Life Insurance Co., of New York, for
Blue Earth, Nicollet and LeSueur
counties. He is located in room I in
the L. P. Hunt building, and will
open an Office therein on Monday
next. Mr.. Robinson comes to this
city not stranger to all, having
taught several terms of school in
this and other localities a few
years ago. He is young
man capable of filing any posi-.
tion, is we'll recommended and has
the necessary push and energy to
make a success of the work he has
entered upon with which he is
familiar. The Mutual Life is
one of the leading companies of the
country having an insurance in force
, of nearly one billion dollars, and a
surplus exceeding 20 millions. The