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

Wells has five cases of small pox in
three families.
Miss Bessie Wilson is back from
Minneapolis for brief visit.
David Walters of Lake Crystal has
been granted pension of $12 month.
Dickinson L. Rose has been granted
a patent on his water distilling ap-
paratus.
Chas. Thompson, son and daughter,
of Amboy, breakfasted at the Saul
paugh today.
Miss Florence Lake has returned
from Wells where she is teaching for
two weeks vacation.
Yesterday was st. Patrick's day,
and it was warm enough to start al !
nature toward turning green.
J. G. Thro returned Saturday after
noon from his eastern visit, after an
absence of nearly three weeks.
Will J. Rausch, who was formerly
with J. B. & D. Richards, went on
the road this morning for the Standard
Oil Co.
Mr.. and Mrs S. Strauss of Albert
Lea have been visiting Mr.. and Mrs.
Morey Stern. Mrs. Strauss and Mrs
Stern are sisters.
The West Virginia Editorial as
ISOLATION proposes to have an excursion
to the Pan-American exposition and
Niagara Falls next summer
Miss Lydia Oglesby and Joe Fl.
Lenherr, the latter of st. Peter, were
united in marriage Saturday evening by
Rev. S. D. Works, at the residence of
Mr. Burwell on West Eighth street.
At Niagara Falls there is power
unlimited with beauty unimpaired,
and this great spectacle of force and
beauty is to be one of the sights in
connection with the Pan-American ex-
position.
Four parties, two men and two
women, were fined S.. 60 each for dis
orderly conduct in the municipal court
this morning. The women paid up,
and the men are out skirmishing for
the funds.
A hearing was had before Referee
Flittie on Saturday on the application
of John Dolliver of Redwood county
for discharge from bankruptcy. OPP
position was made to the attempt to
secure discharge.
The Fairmont Opera House COM
pany, corporation, has been formed
for the purpose of building $50, 900
opera house there this season; $12, 500
of the stock has been taken and the
project is assured of success.
John Olsen of Mapleton, who has
been a student at the Northwestern
School of Telegraphy for the past three
months, left today for Brillion, Wis,
where he has accepted position with
the G. & n W. Railway company.
W. W. Carr and family will leave
Thu rsday for either Des Moines or
Fort Dodge, Iowa, to make their
future home. Mr.. Carr returns to the
employ of the Chicago Life Insurance
company as its general agent for Iowa.
The first meeting of creditors of
Loomis & Reidner of Lamberton was
held in Referee Flittie's Office today.
Frank Clague of Lamberton appeared
for the bankrupts. There was con-
test over who should be appointed
trustee. The assets amount to about
So, 500.
The new wolf bounty bill has be-
come a law. 1t places the bounty on
female wolves killed from January to
May at $15, on grown wolves during all
other seasons at So, on female cubs at
81, and on male cubs at So 90 The
bill providing for the determination
of ox-eyed daisies has also become
law. 1t makes it misdemeanor to
encourage the growth of this weed
1t is said that Thomas N. Hooper,
assistant general freight agent, and L.
Oppenheim, division freight and pas
senger agent, of the Chicago Great
Western railway, have resigned, to
take effect April 1. W. B. Martin, at
present freight auditor of the road, is
slated. to succeed Mr.. Hooper, and
Robert Heard, travelling freight
agent, will take the place of Mr..
Oppenheim.