The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-06-07
LOCAL AND PERSONAL.
From Saturday and Mondays DAILY.

| Attorney L. u. Rogers OF GAINESVILLE
is in the city this afternoon.
Hon. G. S. Ives and wife of ST.
Peter were in the city today.
A. R. Pau Sr. left for Chicago this
afternoon to be gone several days.
Thomas Hughes left on a trip to
Heron Lake andWindom this forenoon.
County Attorney Wilson went to ST.
James this morning on probate bust
ness.
A. H. Emerson, of Clague &
Emerson, Lamberton attorneys, is in
the city.
The Mankato Manufacturing Co. is
placing two iron fire escapes on the
Saulpaugh.
Clara Baarson, who is teaching
school in Butternut Valley. is home for
a few days. @
Mrs. N. P. Nelson of Worthington
is visiting her brother, b. P. Jensen
of this city.
Geo. A. Loomis and wife and Miss
Katie Hessian and sister of St. Peter
were in the city yesterday afternoon.
The Decoria correspondent of the
Mapleton Enterprise says corn was
| quite badly frosted in that section last
| week.
The township authorities are doing
considerable in the way of repairing
the roads, using scrapers and making
stone culverts.
J. w. Carlson was this morning SEN
fenced to pay a fine of $40 and costs or
to serve fifty days in Jail for being
drunk. This was the second charge
against him under the Scheffer law.
The tax collections today were very
heavy, in the county treasurer's Office.
This is the last day to pay the real
estate taxes before the penalty at
taches, and the Office has been crowded.
Sheriff Gerlich received letter to-
day from Deputy Morgan of Prim-
CHAR, Iowa, saying that he will arrive
tonight or tomorrow with a requisi-
ton for W. E. Wilson, the alleged
,, horse thief.
Mrs. W. G. Durkee and Miss
Cheshire will leave tomorrow for st.
Johns, New Brunswick, to spend the
summer with the formers daughter,
Mrs. 81. F. Waring, who is happy over
the arrival of thriving eleven pound
son. They will go via. the st. Law
=, renee and the Thousand Isles.
The Chicago Great Western has ex-
pended $50, 900 in the purchase of real
estate for the purpose of charging it's
switch yards at Fort Dodge, Iowa.
All the property purchased is along
the line of the present Mason City &
, Ft. Dodge road, which recently became
the property of the Great Western.
The boys at the postofice this morn
ing presented Chas. Schwanenberg
with fine 3S-calibre Smith & Wesson
, revolver as token of esteem. Mr.
| Schwanenberg completes his duties at
the postofice today, and will soon en-
, ter upon the duties of his new posi-
| ton.
The farmers who are interested - in
the purchase of the So, 400 boss" and
who wish that they were not are in
executive session in Attorney A. e.
Clark's inner sanctum this afternoon.
No settlement or compromise had been
[ affected at late hour, and !. nobody
was willing to predict....that.-.there
would be--one.
Amboy..Herald :--.While BIO. Kill
mer was over..in the..-town--of..Ceresc
Tuesday on county business he learned
that wolves are Acknowledgement raids
on the sheep il. that township. They
killed three for John Woodhall Monday
in broad day light and he has--twenty
killed in all. Other farmers have
suffered loss.
The county commissioners of Rem
vile county arrived in the city--this
afternoon to inspect the court house.
They have just been to Pipestone.
Renville county..is advertising for bids
for $50, 600 court house bonds and also
for plans for a $75. 900 court house.
The plans are to be submitted June
2Sth, and one or two of the local archi-
tects will enter the competition.
st. Peter Herald: A district meet
ing of the order of Rebekah will be
held..in st. Peter on June 14th. Dele
gates from the lodges of Mankato, LIE
Sueur, Lake Crystal, GAINESVILLE and
other surrounding towns will be- pre-,
sent. Officers of the state lodge-..will
attend, and he--day..will be devoted tc
an exemplifcation of.-the secret. work
Of the order.
The creamery..ats%.Mapleton received
3, 543, 555 pounds of milk duringssthe
past year, from which 1877, 16S..' pounds
of butter fat was secured, netting the
patrons about rs cents per hundred
pounds of milk. The amount of butter
made reached total of 154, 957 pounds
which netted $50, $40. A. Of this
amount $26, S14. 80 went to the patrons
of the creamery. The Enterprise states
that the institution is in splendid
shape.
Mapleton Enterprise: Mr.. Thomas
Cotton, one of the old settlers of Della
van township. was almost instantly