The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-08-09
LOCAL AND PERSONAL.
From Saturday and Mondays Daily.

Frank Clague of Lamberton was q
Saulpaugh arrival last evening.
] Deputy Public Examiner p A Sun
ders is in the city this afternoon.
Postmaster David Cross of Amboy
paid Mankato a visit this afternoon.
Fred Hill of Morris is in the city
getting students for Carleton college.
Conductor G. A. Brown is home
from his Vesta run for a few days.
We are headquarters for gloves and
mittens. Model Clothing..-& Shoe
House.
| Miss Susie Hughes went to Lake
Crystal this morning on two weeks
vacation.
DIR. and Mrs J. S. Holbrook are re-
joicing over the arrival of an eight
pound daughter at their home.
| D. S. Evans, who has been on the
sick list for week, is better today.
He has had slight attack of infamma-
tion of the bowels.
W. B. Walker & Son have the largest
and best line of fly nets ever brought
to the city and are selling them al
very low prices.
| S. D. Works left today for Nebraska
and Kansas in the interest of the Cen,
trail Minnesota Emigration company,
Of which he is secretary.
Miss A. I. Hobart of Delevan Wis. ar.
rived in the city this forenoon and
went to Judson this afternoon TO visit
her brother, L. r. Hobart.
Mrs. John o. Williams and two sons
of Minneapolis arrived in the city to,
day to visit the formers cousin, Mrs
Tryphena J. Hughes, for week.
The police department this morning
received notice from Sheriff E. E.
Ward of Martin county of the theft OF
a quantity of jewelry, gloves, etc.,
from Everett & Popple of Manyaska
Tuesday night.
Rev. Geo. w. Davis arrived in the
city today at noon to assume the pas
torate of the Presbyterian church. BE
shortly returned from Paris, where he
has spent the past two years. He has
leased Mrs. Roses residence.
John Smith, who lives near the park,
has severe attack of typhoid fever.
He was very low yesterday, and on &C,
count of his condition the gun club
was obliged to give up its weekly shoot
after the first squad had fred Mr..
Smith was slightly better today.
Major L. G. Foote, wife and daugh-
ter of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, are visiting
the formers sister, Mrs, Geo. w.
Slade, for short time. The major is
connected with tine Illinois Central
road and believes that it may want to
come this way from Albert Lea.
Complaint has been made that so me
of the drivers of ten cent buses charge
strangers quarter. A ten cent bus
was ordered the other day for two pas
sengers and they were charged fifty
cents. Chief Bowen may call the at
tention of the council to this state OF
affairs tonight.
Ward W. J. Sheldon of Mason City,
Iowa, is visiting his brother n-law,
W. Fl. Gary. He represents the Grown
Oil Co. of Beaumont, Texas. which
has rights on land owned by his
brother. He has presented his sister,
Mrs. Gary, with 2, 500 shares of stock
in the company.
DR.. Muedeking will make his regu.
lar professional visit to Mankato from
the 9th to the 10th of August and take
orders for his splendid white fin
spectacles which are so highly priced
by all who wear them. Office hours al
the Clifton House from IL m. to 2 81
p. m. No charges for testing the eyes.
I offer for sale my home farm one
half mile east of Madelia This is 6
fine farm, well improved. Soil ~ tx
8 feet black loan with clay subsoil, al
fenced with wires. Will sell reason
able, one-half cash, balance time tt
suit purchaser. Positively no trade
Address, J. G.. Haycraft, Madelia,
MINI.
A petition for the appointment of al
administrator for the estate of Emma
E. Widell. deceased, has been filed Will
Judge Hughes The deceased was tn,
wife of the late John Widell, and tn,
petition is filed by her father, JOIN
Gustafson. The step is preliminary tt
bringing an action to secure the insur
ance of 81, 900 on Mr.. Widells life.
The gun club held special meeting
last night to arrange for the tourna
ment with the ..St. Peter club in thi
city Aug. 9th. st. Peter expects t.
send fifteen crack shots, and Fielt
Captain Geo. B. Owen was instructed
to select an equal number of the hes
shots in the gun club. President J. A
Lulsdorf, Secretary g. A. Lewis ant
Capt. Owen were appointed commit
tee on entertainment. The tournament
will last from 1 p. m. to A p. m.
L. H. Stiles, formerly traffic man
ager and superintendent of the Duluth
Red Wing and Southern railroad, re
Gently absorbed by the Chicago Grea
Western, has been appointed division