The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-10-18
LOCAL AND Personal.
From Saturday and Mondays Daily.

j. l.. Higgins, an attorney of Blue
Earth, was in the city today.
Rev. VIM. E. Evans left this morn
ing for Clay county, Iowa, to preach.
Harold Keith of Minneapolis is
visiting his grandfather, John Dia-
mond
Miss May Rowell Of Gustavus
Adolpnus college, st. Peter, returned
home today.
Mrs Peter Long of st. Paul is visit
ing her brother, Henry Tidland of
North Mankato.
Mrs. Ed. Jones and children have
returned from their months visit
with relatives at Mt. Sterling, Ohio
Owatonna Journal: W. 81. Mont
gomery went to Mankato this morning
to visit with friends. He expects to
gone a week.
Geo. Frery pleaded guilty to the
charge of disorderly conduct in the
municipal court this forenoon, and
paid fine of $S. IS.
Another one of those silver-toned
Hackley pianos was sold at the great
closing out sale to Fred Deling, North
Second street, by Peter Helm.
A S. Robinson of Shelby has sold
400 acres of land in Pleasant Mound
township, sec. "a and 30 to Carl E.
Pigors of De Kalb Co., Illinois The
consideration was $16, 600.
Wanted-A good, reliable German
girl to do general homework for q
family of three adults. Address with
references, Mrs L. P. Hunt S11sSec-
oud street, MankatO, MINI.
Evan Thostad's condition is i'm
proving and it is now thought by his
physicians that he will pull through
if no complications set in. He sat up
a little yesterday and today.
Judge Severance has received word
from jackson that the jury convicted
his client, Van Duze, of assault in the
third degree, which was what he
worked for during the trial.
Mrs. E S. Hair, Mrs D. L. Gle
ments, Mrs F. W. Hunt and Miss
Ella Gable went to Owatonna this af-
ternoon to attend the ladies' foreign
missionary meeting as delegates.
Mrs. j. M. Driver departed last eve
ming for Red Wing, where she will
join her husband, Rev. J. M. Driver.
The best wishes of their friends will
follow them to their new field of labor.
P. b Jordan, the city assessor has
bought one of the celebrated silver
toned Hackley pianos from Peter
Helm. Many were after the sale but
as usual the Hackley came off vic
torious.
Attention is called to the Goodyear
Rubber Co, s advertisement Their
"Gold Seal brand of rubbers has a
national reputation for reliability.
Ask the man you trade with for "Gold
Seal" overshoes.
If you are renting farm and would
like to own one OF your own call on
or address the Central Minnesota I'm
migration Co., POI q 203, South Sec
ond street, for prices and terms on one
of the best blocks of cheap lands in
the northwest S d. Works, Secy.,
Mankato, MINI.
r. Hughes, the contractor, has COM
pleted one of the largest two story
dwellings in the city with all modern
Improvements for F. W. Boehmer, To-
Gated on Main street between Fourth
and Fifth streets. The cost was about
Sc, 900. Mr.. Hughes is an old settler
in Mankato and had charge of the
building and the construction of the
normal school in the year 1859.
Four special trains went through
the city this morning be airing Ne
braska people to Minneapolis to see
the foot ball game this afternoon. All
of them were crowded. Several
thousand people have passed through
the city the past two days, all going
to see the great university game. The
first two sections this morning stopped
for breakfast, and there was a skur-
rying to the various eating places after
som ething to eat.
The corrected foundation plans for
the public library building have ar
rived from New York and will be con-
sidered at special meeting of the
library board to be held tonight. Some
of the members believe that it would
be wiser policy to let the contract for
the entire building at the same time,
than to let one contractor put in the
foundation and another the super
structure. 1t is getting pretty late to
put in the foundation this fall.
Injun Joe, a Winnebago Indian,
was locked up last evening by Officer
Bienapf for being drunk. He was
allowed to go this morning, having
sobered off, His home is in La
Crosse, Wis, and he is on his way
home from Nebraska, where he has
been visiting members of the tribe
who live there. Injun Joe is the Eng
lish version of an unpronounceable Win
nebago name. He is a medicine chief
among his tribe, and carried satchel
full of home made medicines extracted
from various herbs.