The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-08-16
LOCAL AND PERSONAL.


Mrs. J. Newhart of New Ulm was
in the city last evening.
Mrs. Katharine R. Lunn and Ralph
M. Lunn of Redwood Falls are in the
city.
Auditor Weaver is attending
meeting of the capitol commission in
st. Paul today.
Mrs. Maria G. Schmitt left this
morning for Stanley, Wis, to visit for
three or four weeks.
Judge B. F. Weber of New Ulm
was in the city last evening, on his re-
turn from trip to the Pacific coast.
Miss Emma Firestone went to St.
Paulsthis afternoon to assist in grad
ing the state teachers examination
papers
Geo. P. Tawney of Winona, grand
chancellor of the Knights of Pythias
was in the city yesterday on his way
to Fairmont.
w. B. Walker & Son have the largest
and best line of fly nets ever brought
to the city and are selling them at
very low prices.
Misses Ethel and Edith lockwood
of Minneapolis are guests at the home
of their grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs.
r, q M Flatcher
Winnebago City Enterprise L. 81.
Thatcher and family left last Friday
for fortnight's visit with relatives
in Mankato and Minneapolis.
E. S. Thomas, district deputy for
the Royal Arcanum council at st.
James, visited that council Wednesday
night and found it doing well.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Marks of
Amboy and Mrs. R. Fl. Marks of
Alexandria, Neb., are visiting the
latter's sister, Mrs. E. A. Gibbons.
A fine rain fell last night for three
hours, doing great amount of good to
pasture and lawns, and beneftting
potatoes and corn. 1t was very well
come.
One or two petitions to the county
board are in circulation. asking it not
to assess the local building and loan
association so high as to force it out
of business.
E. l. p Stade is having a cement
walk laid around the property which
he recently purchased of Hugh Spen-
Ger. The Baptist church is also laying
cement walk.
Farm for Sale-120 acres, sec. 80 LIE
Ray township, 21s miles south of Eagle
Lake, about 100 acres under cultiva-
tion, also 40 acres in sec. .32, same
township. B. w. Sewer, Eagle Lake.
John Lorentz yesterday received 81, :
300 from the Chicago Great Western
road for his land on its right of way.
He, in turn, presented each of his sons
with check for 500, which they
greatly appreciate.
Miss Clara Williams and her mother
of Minneapolis are visiting for a
few days with her aunt, Mrs. Thos. o.
Jones, on Second street. Since her last
visit in Mankato, Miss Williams has
spent three years in England and
France completing her musical educa-
ton. She is cousin of Mrs. W. F.
Jones of this city
Hugh Evans is down from st. Cloud
to visit his brother, Ed. Evans, who
is ill at his home on Byron street with
heart trouble. Mr.. Evans reports that
the new wholesale grocery house is
doing good business. 1t has just
moved into it's new quarters, two
story building with frontage of 70
feet and a depth of 1870 feet. Mr..
Evans will remain over Sunday.
Clerk of Court Stephen Thorne con-
templates starting Monday on an east
ern trip of three or four weers' dura-
tion He will visit the scenes of his
boyhood days and will take in points
in New York, New Jersey and Con-
necticut. 1t is seven years since Mr..
Thorne has had vacation and if
faithful service entities person to
one, he is certainly in that class. His
friends wish him pleasant "Trip.
Amboy Herald: Mr.. W. e. Becker,
father of Mrs. Roy Storrs, met with a
severe accident last Friday. Mr..
Becker was helping in the threshing
and was standing in a wagon sacking
grain when by sudden backing of
the team he was thrown out of the
wagon striking on his back and shout
ders. He was unconscious for time
DIR. Holden was called and on examin-
alton found no bones broken but an
injury to the spine from which he is
slowly recovering.
st. Peter Herald: An infant child
of P. Tascheny of Mankato was badly
burned about the face last Sunday.
The family were visiting at the home
of brother of Mr. Trascheny in Ira
verse, and it was there that the acct
dent occurred. The child tipped YES
sci of boiling water and the contents
struck the child full in the face. The