The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-11-08
LAKE CRYSTAL.

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seeing to watch ]. g. Greenwood ride
a bicycle. He is man in his 7O's,
and occasionally he will come to
town, distance of five or six miles,
| on his wheel rather than with some
other conveyance.
A passenger Car was left on side
track at this place that came in off
the Des Moines line of the Omaha and
North Western, with about fifteen
inches of the fange gone off one
wheel, last week. The Car is but a
four wheel truck, and how it remained
on the track going around some of the
short curves at the running speed on
that line is marvellous.
The W. 81. M s. are circulating a petit
ton among our people for signers re-
questing the village board to pass a
curfew ordinance, fixing the hour at s
p. m. in the winter time and at 9 p.
m. in the summer time that children
of 16 years and younger shall be per-
mitted to be on the streets Every
man and woman in our little city
should endorse such action. 1t is high
time that large class of,youngsters in
this place should be brought up stand
ing. The boys who were out raiding
the outskirts of town, are the results
of the do-as-you-pl please in early days.
J. W. Austin sends this to the Union
for publication ga load of lads
went to his place in Butternut.. Valley
on Oct. 3Oth. They tied mp their team
and then tried to see what mischief
they..could do. They threw the.milk
pals on the straw pile; put the milk
cans in the chicken house ,put cutter
in front of the barn door put plow
fast onto gate, andsa breaking pillow
into.the. water. tank -nearly-ra cord Of
wood they strung along the public
road, and it still lies there for Some
one to drive.onto some dark night then
they took two sets of J. harness out Of
the horse barn; one set they left on
the..road back of the grove, every strap
and buckle separated, lines and every
thing the other set was carried away
and half of it left by the lake half a
mile from the barn; the other half
was carried mile and three-fourths
away, and hung in tree by the road
side. Some of our neighbors say they
know who it was; if 1 knew I would
make it quite interesting for them. I
was there helping to get out the corn,
and it was very provoking to have to
hunt up the harness. before we could
take out a team. I-think this should
be case for the county attorney. !" -. =:
The building occupied by A. Mayors
as wagon and repair shop and : also
as residence, was discovered on fire
last Tuesday afternoon shortly after I
o'clock. The fre--was first discovered
in the front of the shop under.sthe
work bench. When discovered, thessfre
hadTgained quite"'a Roadway from the
great quantity of ..combustible stuff. Jun
der the work bench, and had burned
through the inside sheeting between
two studding, which formed draft
like chimney, carrying the flames to
the'garret, and in few minutes the
whole building was afire on the inside
and could not be reached without
chopping a. hole through the room,
which was done, and the fremen-' soon
gained. control of the flames. The
building is quite badly burned the
stock and tools are greatly damaged
most of the household goods were re-
moved, but were more or less dam
aged. The building belongs to Mayors
& Son; there is an insurance of $500
on building, = = household furniture,
stock and tools. Mr.. Mayors expects to
resume his business in the rear part of
the premises in about ten days. A
young man boarding with Mr.. Mayors,
who works nights at the elevator, was
asleep up stairs, was awakened and es-
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