The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-08-23

of the city, 1. N. Griffith showed him
the sights and took him to the K. P.
picnic. -
= Geo. E. Brett, Ed. Rausch, Robert,
Maud and Mildred Coughlan of Man
kato U. g. Argetsinger and Rose
Scully, Mapleton, and Communicable
and wife, Lake Crystal, registered at
the Minnesota building at the exposi-
ton, Buffalo, during the past few
days.
Fowler & Pay this afternoon finished
the sidewalk along the Fourth street
side of the court house grounds.
Walks should now be laid on the
Hickory and Fifth street sides, and
sidewalk building will be a thing of
the past for the county,
Miss Adele Durham of Heron Lake
and Mr.. Karl Lindert of Norwood,
Mimi, who have been spending a few
days at Lake Emily, were in the city
today, calling on friends. Miss Laura
Cooper of Vernon Center and Miss
Sadie Durham have also been at Lake
Emily for a few days outing.
Rosenberger & Currier do not pro-
pose to have the basement of their
candy factory flooded again and are
taking the necessary precautions. A
new cement walk is to be laid, and
the area walls are being raised SO as
to protect the basement windows. The
new walk will extend to the alley.
The funeral of the late Abraham
Leib, which occurred from Schiller
hall at two o'clock this afternoon, was
attended by a large concourse of
friends of the family and of members
of the Odd Fellow lodges and the Sons
of Herman. The floral offerings were
many and beautiful The procession
to the grave was lengthy one.
Complaint is being made of the aw-
fully dusty condition of the union depot
grounds, which gives strangers poor
opinion of the city. A very little
money would be needed to have the
grounds sprinkled and if the railroad
company will not do this there is no
doubt but that the necessary amount
could be raised by private subscription
if the council did not feel like order
ing it done.
Mr.. B. D. Smith, a member of the
board of directors of the ModernWood-
men of America, arrived from Rock
Island this morning where he attended
a board meeting, and brought with
him drafts for benefciaries as follows
Mrs Gertrude Hanna, So, 600; Mrs.
Nettie M. Shafer, $1,000; and Mrs.
Lottie M. Smith, daughter of the late
Ben. Shafer, 81, 900. These are prompt
settlements of death claims, and re-
feet great credit upon the Woodmen
officials.
Chas. Bishman has been awarded
the contract for erecting the Citizens
National Bank new building at Worth
ington, the contract price being 81, 200.
There were five other bidders, that of
party from st. James being slightly
lower, but Mr.. Bishman seems to have
been more satisfactory to the bank off
cials. The building will be 60x24, two
stories and will have brown stone
trimmings. Mr.. Bishman will COM
mence work on the same Monday
morning.
George M. Palmer and daughter,
Ruth, James E. Hart and Rev F. E..
R. Miller left on the noon train for
Mound City, Minnetonka, where they
will attend the Thursday sessions of
the Minnesota Baptist summer as
sembly now meeting at that place. The
assembly has been established three
years. 1t is a pastoral and Sunday
school institution held much after The
midsummer Chautanqua assemblies.
Mound City is point on Upper Lake
Minnetonka reached by the Great
Northern road.
DR.. g. F. Sterling of Austin, Texas,
has arrived in this city and will
make Mankato his future home. He
will be associated with DR.. Schmauss.
The doctor is graduate of the medi-
Cal department of the University OF
Texas. Following graduation he served
one year as house physician and sur
geon in the city hospital of Galveston
and during part of this time as de-
monstrator of gynecology in the college
and as assistant gynecologist to the
Sealy hospital DR.. Sterling comes to
us highly recommended.
IT. seems that the great steel CORPORA