The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1902-04-25

automobile which he has purchased.
There have been no new cases of
smallpox in the city for several days,
and it looks as though there would be
no more.
I have splendid stock in barred
plymouth Rocks. Eggs for Matching
Toe per setting, $500 per hundred
M. M. Cram.
Murray Pearson has sold the east
half of lot seven, block fourteen, on
Pleasant street, to Mr.. Radcliffe, for
$3.50. Fhis is near Mr.. Pearson's resi-
dence.
New Ulm Review: If the price
Of butter and meat keeps going up it
will be a wise thing to build safety
vaults for them with extra burglar
alarms.
Herbert g. Miller, of Hoopeston,
ILL.,, has taken the position of operator
of the Free Press typesetting machine.
He is an expert at the work.
Mesdames D. L. Clements, ]. B.
Coy and U. o. Cox returned from
Winona today, where they attended
the state Sunday school convention,
being delegates from Msnkato.
G. NJ. Henderson pleaded guilty to
the charge of assault in the third
degree upon Contractor o. NJ. Hag-
wall, before Justice Walrath, in North
Mankato, and paid fine of 30 and
costs.
Geo. B Owen moved his household
goods to his cottage at Point Pleasant
today, where his family will spend
the summer Work on his new house
and moving and remodeling his
present house will soon begin.
Mrs. G. F. Kelley, editoress Of the
LIE Sueur County Leader, is in Manka-
to visiting friends. She has been at
tending the state Sunday school con-
yention at Winona, ana stopped off on
her return home.
Mapleton Enterprise: Rev. F. E. r.
Miller, the popular and able pastor OF
the First Baptist church, Mankato, if
to deliver the annual baccalaurate ser
mon to the graduates oe the Mnaple
ton high school, on Sunday, May Goth
S. B. Wilson, G. Gable, J. E. Pugt
and Mrs. Fields are putting down
cement walks, in front Of their resi-
dences on Clark street. This will
make a large proportion of the side
walks upon that street cement.
Wells Form: A. e. Anderson an
wife drove down Saturday from Medo
:, where Mr.. Anderson has contracts TO
the building Of several fine farm resi-
! dences, enough work to keep him GO
. ing till snow flies. They returne
q again on Sunday.
9 The dog poisoner is abroad in Maple
: ton, and has been using bologn
: sausage, cutting a slit therein an
q filling with strychnine and scatterin
q the pieces around the streets and tn
Enterprise gives the 6end we'll dc
J. served roast, referring to danger G
children picking it up and eating il
Mr.. Geo. E. Brett returned fror
q his trip to the south this morning
l. Mrs Brett stopped at Goshen, Ind.
l. to visit friends for few days and wi
d be accompanied home by her mother
They will arrive here next Tuesday
o Mrs. Brett is much improved i
Y health, fact her friends will be gla
to know.
q DR.. L. F. Schmauss, writing to tn
3 Free Press from Hamburg Germany
y April 4th, says that he and wife lei
1t Berlin the Gay before. Both were wei
'e The weather had been rather cold an
rs rainy. They expected to sail on til
s 9Th on the Pennsylvania, and wi
s arrive in Mankato the latter part {
" April.
81 Mapleton Enterprise: Oscar Heal
y marketed II head of fat steers, tw
ID years old, recently at $5S per heat
40 They were bunch of finely bret
pony built steers and have paid we
II for the high priced grain fed then
a The buyers remarked that the exit
'e breeding in them over common Gait
D. was worth soc hundred or trif
10 over So 90 per head.
- Lake Crystal Union: Mrs. Lavel
y of this county, who as a delegate
= the prohibition state convention d.
" clined the position because she coul
not vote at the polls for the nomine
" This is the Goth century of our boaste
civilization, but the female portic
of the inhabitants are not civilizt
- according to the views of the polit
" clan, for this reason they can't vot
Good Thunder Herald: John
Flynn, who has been an assista
IS. clerk in the State Bank of Good Thu
re der for the past three years, has BET
a rendered the position as assista
ly cashier in new state bank to be
We tablished at Park Rapids, this stat