The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-03-22
LOCAL AND PERSONAL.
From SATURDAYS Daily.

VIM. Whitmars paid S.. 60 into the
municipal court today for using abus-
i've language.
DIR. Driver last evening married Jot
Williams of this city and Miss Stella
Stores of st. Peter.
Money to loan to any amount, with
out commission at per cent on ap-
proved real estate or other securities.
Manakto Savings Bank, Mankato,
MINI.
A recent rumor is to the effect that the
Chicago Great Western control will
pass to the Alton London has been
heavy buyer of Chicago Great West
ern stock.
Herman Oldenburg, who has made SO
much trouble for his wife, his neigh
bors and the courts on account of his
drinking habit, has decided his farm in
Beauford over to his wife and the
latter has dropped her divorce pro-
ceedings.
The attorneys for Martin Murray
have prepared their brief in their ap-
peal to the supreme court from the
| order of Judge Caldwell refusing a
new trial. 1t is thought that Attor-
ney General Douglas will put in an
answer for the state.
Don't miss the opportunity to buy
40, so or 1870 acres of as good land as
there is in Minnesota, when you can
get it for Sc. 90 per acre. This you
can double your money on in two
years. If you mean business call on
or address F. W. Hunt, Free Press,
Mankato.
Mrs. J. A. Willard will leave next
week for Jersey City, N. j., to make
her home with her niece Mrs. Harriet
Sibley Ward. Her son, Robt., is also
there. Mrs. Willard has rented her
residence on South Broad street to E..
L. Patterson from April 1st.
o. Monson, the tailor, is now locat-
ed in the building formerly occupied
by j. S. Rolfe, opposite the National
Citizens bank, where he has an excel
lent line of spring cloths for suits.
When in need of anything in his line
give him call. See adv. elswehert
in this issue.
Joe A. Lenherr of st. Peter, soldier
who recently returned from the Philip
pines, has taken out a license to wee
Lydia Oglesby of this city. 1t will be
remembered that Sam Shackles is serv
ing a term in Saltwater for max ing
false affidavit in securing marriage
license to wed Miss Oglesby while hi
had wife living at Lewiston.
A. R. Pau ST. is attending the
United States court in st. Paul, in {
case in which the government is at
tempting to set Michael Block and Mr.
Trainer, two Nicollet county farmers,
off of their homesteads. The defend
ants purchased the land of the ole
Sioux City road, and the government
claims that the land grant was in
valid as the land had been previously
FLIED. upon.
a Sterling Center correspondent Ma
pleton Enterprise Robt. Sharp has
sold his farm at Mountain.--Lake tt
| Samuel James, neighbor. Boil
bought this farm of 100 acres about
two years ago, paying for it, 81, 00O
He now receives So, 600, making a snug
sum of thousand dollars profit. He
now contemplates buying farther wes
where land is cheaper and we predict
that he will soon be the owner of an
other fine quarter section.
David Hughes died Wednesday at
| his home in LIE Sueur. He was vel
known to many residents of this
county, having been member of the
Welsh colony of 121 who came from
Ohio in 1856 and settled at LIE Sueur.
He was born at Cardiganshire, Wales,
March LIST, 1881, and emigrated to Ohio
in 1888. He married Margaret, daugh-
ter of Evan Griffith, in 1862, and she
and six children survive him. The
deceased died after two weeks ill,
ness.