The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-08-09
MAPLETON.

From the Enterprise:
The telephone crew arrived Monday
morning and are now busy at work
getting ready to install the Mapleton
exchange.
Miss Otilla Liedloff of Mankato and
Miss Elizabeth Fisher of Minneapolis,
former teachers in the Mapleton
schools, were guests of Mrs. Paul Gar
vim the first of the week.
Our old and esteemed friends,
Grandpa and Grandma Traver left
yesterday morning to make their fu
ture home with their son in Clay
county. That their remaining days
may be free from illness and sorrow
is the sincere wish of all.
There will be no free storage of
grain in Mapleton the coming year.
The buyers were flooded last season
and their elevators filled when they
wanted room for themselves. In order
to obviate this trouble they have de-
cided to live up to the storage laws.
There is no better index to the pros
perity of any community than the
business transacted by it's banking in
situations. The Mapleton State bank
from its organization has ever continu-
ed to do an increasing business and
under the conservative management of
Cashier Jensen and the board of direc-
tors the showing this year is certainly
gratifying as compared with the past.
Tuesday was poultry day in Mapleton
and all the forenoon teams stood in
line to unload their burden of fowls,
at times as many as twenty-five and
thirty teams were waiting for chance
to discharge their load. The poultry
was purchased by Mr.. J. R. Blossom
of Burt, Iowa, who makes a speciality
of the business, shipping direct to
New York in special constructed cars
These cars have a capacity for 5, 900
fowls, have 1913 separate compartments
SO that the poultry may be divided as
the shipper may desire. Each of these
various compartments is so constructed
that the birds can be watered and fed
with ease. Prior to the arrival of the
Car in a community man goes
through the country and contracts for
the farmers poultry paying 10 cents
per pound for spring chickens, cents
per pound for old hens and cents per
pound for ducks. In this vicinity
something over 3, 900 birds were secur-
ed with an average weight of AZ
pounds, so that the shipment aggre-
gated about $4,000, bringing to the
farmers of this community in the
neighborhood of $1,000. The checks
as usual thing ran from $6 to $40,
J W. Latourell of Danville, market
ing the largest number, his check call
ing $3.50.
Crop reports have been very hard to
secure this week, although consider
able threshing has been done. Several
of our correspondents, however, secur-
that Blue Earth county will harvest
nearly as good a crop as last year, al
though there will not be as much No. 4
wheat. In Sterling yields of II to %
bushels per acre are reported, grading
No. 1 and 2. In Mankato township
yield of 26 bushels was secured on the
farm of Henry Hoffman and it is said
81 bushels per acre was secured on the
farm of Mr.. Gilbert in Danville, but
we are inclined to believe this must
be mistake. Most of the crop the
country over will grade No. 2 and
quite little of it No. 8. Amel Min
KEEL of Mapleton secured $50 bushels of
very fine barley from a field of acres
or about 33 bushels to the acre, while
M. A. Gilmore secured 9S2 bushels
from 1719 acres. This is an unusual
large yield, but the barley is some
what shrunken. Mr.. Minkel has
threshed out but small load of
wheat, but thinks it will come very
close to being No. 1 Herb Fisk of
Sterling, secured 500 bushels of oats
from II acres or 46 bushels per acre.
his wheat did not do SO well averaging
about II bushels per acre. J. W. Cope
land of the same town secured 30
bushels of oats per acre from % acre
patch.
Vernon Center correspondence F.
81. Barnes has purchased the farm
known as the Bookwalter place COM
prising $40 acres, worth about $40 per
acre, $50, 600. This property has been
running down for the last few years.
lightning struck large tree
in the door yard of Martin Halvorsen
of this town and the wind demolished
Fred Wilber's windmill one mile north
of town, Friday afternoon. The storm
was great one, wind blew from all
directions and torrents of rain fell.
The mercury resumed operations after
the storm and climbed back to it's 80
degree notch.
Sterling correspondence Eugene
Roberts has threshed between 1, 600 and
! 1, 700 bushels OF wheat From one
piece of eight acres he got 207 bushels
of fine quality. He estimates the
average yield at from II to 20 bushels
per acre, and the grade No. 2 at least.