The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1902-02-28
LOCAL AND PERSONAL.

Miss Mabel Carpenter of Blue Earth
was in the city today.
W. P. Hill of Fairmont was
Saulpaugh guest last night.
Thos. Hessian, county attorney Of
LeSueur county, was in Mankato to.
day.
E. K. Whiting, senior editor of the
Owatonna Chronicle, was in Mankate
today.
B. A. Tidland is confined to hil
home on account of a severe sore
throat.
Miss Matte Jewson went to Sher.
burn yesterday to accept a position II
Broun's bank.
Miss May Rowell of Gustavus Adolf
plus college is visiting Miss Edith
Holman for a few days.
Miss Anna Pass of Orange City,
Iowa, has arrived to visit her brother,
Geo. Pass, for few weeks.
Lyman Demaray, formerly of Man
kato but now of Snokomish, Wash.
is the proud parent of an eight pound
girl.
Ed. Schumacher will not reengage in
business, but has accepted position
on the road for the Milwaukee Har-
vester Co. He will start out early in
March.
Chas Ellis of Grenada, a brother
of Mrs. Nelson Cray of this city, is
i'll with pneumonia and is not expect
ed to live.
R. N. Ellis, who went to st. Joseph,
Mo-, some time ago to take charge OF
q wholesale cigar house, is in the city
for the purpose of removing his family
to st. Joseph.
S. N. Granger, a travelling salesman
from Mountain Lake, will move to
Mankato with his family next week.
He has leased the corner of Mrs.
Presley's brick house on State street.
Friday is the last day for paying
personal property taxes before the
penalty is attached. The taxes have
come in we'll this winter, although
there has been no rush.
A good many of the Broad street
property owners, as was expected, are
opposed to paving that street with
asphalt and will protest against it tc
the council. They say that the expense
would be hardship to some.
G. E. Dunbeck will leave this weeh
Saturday for Pequot, Mimi. where h
will open a branch Office for thu
Northern Land and immigration Co.
of this city. Mr.. Dunbeck is an ex
cellent young man and his friends
hope he may do we'll in his new felt
of labor.
The matter of extending the storm
sewers on Mulberry and Main street,
is being considered by the street com
mittee and will be called to the atten
ton of the council at its next meeting
They run to Second street now, and i
Broad street is paved it is desirable tt
get these sewers extended before tina
is done, if at all, yet this will be -ex
pensive work.
The Senior Loyal Temperance Legiol
held the first of series of socials Oh
Saturday afternoon at the home of Mr.
and Mrs Walrath in North Mankato
Games we're played, pop corn wa
served, and a general good time en-
joyed, finishing with a snow bal
game on the way home. TWENTY-FIVE
were present. The next regular meet
ing will be held at the home OF Fred
Anderson. All boys and girls IL year
old and over are welcome.
Rev. T. NJ. Edmands and family lei
yesterday for their new home in Wahpe
ton, N. D. In leaving Markato Mr.. Ed
mands and his good wife carry wit
them the best wishes of all thei
friends and acquaintance in MankatC
and the people of Wahpeton will fin
them a great acquisition to the
society. In the church, as we'll {
outside, Mr.. Edmands has proved hiti
self a most faithful and tirele
worker, practical and logical in a
matters.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. G. Burns gave
thirty-6fth anniversary party last ev
ming and about forty of their frien'
attended. A number of useful pre-
ents were received, The evening VI
spent with dancing and other anus
ments. Mrs. Chas Seeley gave son
Rotations in a most pleasant name
Refreshments were served consistir
of coffee, sandwiches, cake, pickle
fruit and bonbons. Every one had
good time and departed in the sms
hours of the morning.
A Polk directory man ran across
suspicious looking case at 4571s Nor
Sixth street today and reported it
Health Officer Heilscher, who invest
gated and found that the party b
been afflicted with small pox for sol
time. The patient was at once Sc
to the quarantine station and the pl
per steps taken to prevent the spre
of the disease. This makes six Cal
in the city. All persons having rash
or breaking out on the face shor
consult physician at once.
From Wednesdays Daily
Postmaster Geo. B. Hughes of RI
wood Falls was in the city last o.
ming.