The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-11-13

WHO mas SceH away hum HoAuc oiihooo
steadily since he took up the work on
the new Yaeger culvert, near the st.
Clair road four miles east of Mankato,
confidently expects to have the job finish
ed this fall.
Peter Carlstrom is about to begin the
erection of one and half story brick
dwelling on the north side of Belgrade
avenue, a little west of Sherman. The
building will front on Belgrade avenue,
and will be situated on lot, 50xl50 feet,
and will cost $1,000. Mr.. Carlstrom ex-
poets to get the structure closed up be-
fore winter.
Quite a number of new planks were
put into the side walks of the Main
street bridge this morning under the SUI
pervision of City Engineer Thompson.
In many places the very stringers have
rotted away for several inches under the
planks and had to securely patched
before they would hold the new planks.
Mr.. Thompson says the present repairs
are only intended to last until spring,
when the long needed new sidewalks will
be constructed.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. A. Wagon have
moved from their former home on LIE
Sueur street, West Mankato, to POS
Belgrade avenue.
Prof. H. T. Sutton, of Cotner univer
sity, Lincoln, Neb., who has been giving
some excellent readings at the Chris
tian church, left today for Winnebago
City to visit his parents. The professor
on his return thence to Lincoln will stop
and give reading Wednesday night at
Garden City. Last night he read splen-
did blank verse drama at the Christian
church, of his own composition, entitled,
Olives" or "The Tragedy of the SOUL"
an allegory based on the parable of
Lazarus.
Miss jamie Wasgatt gave birthday
party last Friday afternoon at the home
of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Wasgatt,
Sherman avenue, which was attended
by number of her young friends. She
was twelve years old.
From Tuesdays Daily.
William Barr, local agent of the Chi
cago Great Western, has planned to build
himself $500 dwelling on Belgrade
avenue just west of the big brick school
house, and diagonally opposite his pres
ent residence. The new building will be
brick veneered. Actual building on the
same will not be begun until spring.
No less than eighty guests will be en-
tertained this evening at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. w. H. Tidland on Sherman ave-
nue.. The occasion is really nothing more
than the monthly meeting of the Ladies'
Aid society of the Belgrade Avenue
Methodist Episcopal church, joined late
in the afternoon by their husbands,
families and friends. Yet such has been
the interest that the work of the So
, ciety has excited of late both within and
without the church that the event is
popular theme for conversation long be-
fore it takes place. The afternoon was
spent by the society members making
aprons to add to the plentiful supply of
articles already stitched by their needles
for the big fair which will take place in
the Belgrade Avenue Methodist Episco-
pal church during the first week of De-
cember. 1t is planned to make this fair
one of North Mankato's big events of
the winter.
Rev. and Mrs. Koser today received the
general congratulations of the members
of the Belgrade Avenue Methodist Epis-
copal church on the birth of a second
boy into the Koser family. The little
new conner arrived last evening.
Henry Cain of Tracy has been visiting
at the home of his sister-in-law, Mrs.
John McGuckin on Belgrade avenue.
August Peterson, farmer, of Belgrade
moved this morning from his old home
on the Nicollet road to take up claim
in the northern part of the state.
Henry Mayer Of North Mankato is
mounting a peculiar species of civet cat
recently killed on the outskirts of Man
kato The cat is coal black with white