The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1898-09-16
Sept 16-23-30-Oct 7-14-21.2S-1S98
MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE.


Default having been made in the conditions of
certain mortgage, executed by Henry P.
Christensen and Isabella B. Christensen, his
wife, of Mankato, Minnesota, as mortgagors, to
William S. Shepard, of Bath, New York. as
mortgage. dated January End, A. D. 1888, and
recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds in
and for the County of Blue Earth in the State of
Minnesota, on the 9th day of September, A. D..
1885, at 4 80 o'clock in the afternoon, in Book
% of Mortgages on page 297, by which mortgage
there was conveyed and granted the following
Blue Earth aforesaid, to-wit Lots Number
six (6) and seven % in Lewis, Meagher and
Frisbie's subdivision of part of block two ~ in
Warren's addition to Mankato, according to
the recorded plat of said subdivision. This
property was afterwards conveyed by said
mortgagors to Arthur M Haynes, subject to
secure and does secure the payment of the sum
of Twenty-Five Hundred Dollars $2,5OO00),
with interest at the rate of seven per cent per
annum, payable semi-annually according to the
conditions of promissory note bearing same
date as said mortgage, made by said Henry P.
Christensen to said William S. Shepard The
said William S. Shepard died at Bath, Steuben
county, New York, in April, 1894, leaving will,
which was duly probated in the surrogates court
of Steuben county, New York, under which will
the following named persons were appointed,
and are now duly qualified and acting as trus-
tees ,to-wit: William II. Shepard Fanny S. Gibbs
and Reuben E. Robbie as'trustees under the will
of William S. Shepard, deceased, late of Bath,
Steuben county, N. Y. There is now due, I'M
paid and owing upon said mortgage the sum of
Two Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety Eight
Dollars and Sixty Cents (S2, 1850. These trus-
tees have paid Sixty-Two Dollars. and Three
Cents (S620 for taxes delinquent and unpaid
on said mortgaged premises which amount was
necessarily paid by said trustees to properly
protect their interests and rights under said
mortgage, all of which they now seek to re-
cover in this foreclosure proceeding, and no ac-
ton or proceeding at law or otherwise having
been instituted to recover the amount of said
mortgage debt or any part thereof;
Now, Therefore, Notice is Hereby Given, that
by virtue and in pursuance of power of sale
in said mortgage contained and Herewith re-
corded and of the statute III such case made
and provided, the above described premises
will be sold at public auction, at the Easterly
front door of the Court House, in and for said
County of Blue Earth and at the City of Man
kato therein. on Saturday the 9th day of Oc-
tober, A. D. 1898 at ten o'clock in the forenoon,
to satisfy the amount of said mortgage debt
then due and unpaid and the amount paid for
taxes, as above set out with interest on all said
amounts together with the costs and expenses
of such foreclosure proceeding, including Fifty
Dollars &5OOO) attorney fees as stipulated in
said mortgage; and the said mortgage will be
thereby foreclosed.
Notice is also hereby given that on the 18th day
of August, 1898, the said trustees above named
duly made executed and delivered to William
Thomas, an attorney at law residing at
Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minnesota, writ
ten authority to foreclose the above described
mortgage, said authority being given by a deed
in writing duly signed, sealed and acknowledged
by said trustees, and which said deed, or
authority to foreclose said mortgage, was duly
recorded in the office of the register OF deeds in
and for the said county of Blue Earth, in Book
"1' of A & on page 10, on the 18th day of Sep
TENDER, 1898.
Dated September 18th, 1898.
WILLIAM IL. SHEPARD, FANNY S. GIBBS, AND
REUBEN E. Robe AS TRUSTEES UNDER THE
WILL, OF WILLIAM S. SHEPARD, DECEASED,
LATE OF BATH, STEUBEN Co., n. Y, Assign
ees of said Mortgage.
WILLIAM THOMAS,
Attorney for Assignees of said Mortgage, Man
kato, Mimi.