The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-09-04

| Mapleton firemen will organize relief
association.
Several Vernon gentlemen are said to
be laundering after political honors.
Guy C. Hopkins has moved his stock
of clothing from Amboy to Elbow Lake.
Old Mapleton is having hard struggle
to secure a first-class teacher for the
school which is scheduled to open very
| soon.
If Mapleton people do not bestir them
selves they will have no opera house.
The present play house is to be turned
| into warehouse.
| Miss Lucy Weir has been engaged to
teach in the Schmook district for the
ensuing year and Miss Martha in the
Long district.-Good Thunder Herald
| The Mapleton Enterprise warns people
| living in that neighborhood that they
should beware of the confidence man and
| the fellow who sells cheap watches when
| they visit the state fair next week.
Prof. Heath of Mankato was in town
yesterday talking with those interest
ed in organizing band here. As one
| that is interested was out of town no
| arrangements were made.-Eagle Lake
News.
Editor Griffin this week announces
that The Good Thunder Herald enters
upon the thirteenth year of its existence.
The Herald is a sprightly youngster and
is only equaled in goodness by its au
burn-haire editor.
F. K Polchow, while butchering
cow Friday, let his knife slip and nearly
amputated the index finger of the left
hand. The tendons were entirely sever
ed and the finger will always be stiff
Good Thunder Herald.
o. B. Peterson is regretting the loss
of an extra sized apple that he was in
tending to take to the fair but the
blow of Monday evening was too much
for it and it fell. 1t measured eleven
inches in circumference.-Am Herald.
Frank Bonde attempted to catch a
mouse one day last week. He unfortu- ,,
nately had an open jack knife in his
left hand and in making the grab sue
ceeded in putting the knife blade en-
tarely through the feshy part of his right |
hand.-Good Thunder Herald.
Della Malzahn, the young girl of Mr..
Louis Malzahn, met with a serious and |
quite painful accident last Friday. She
had climbed up tree and in attempt
ing to descend fell, breaking her left |
arm in two places, at the wrist and
above the elbow.-Good Thunder Herald.
Judge Cray has appointed f. B. Davis
of Mapleton, G. N. Alderman and Marcus
Williamson of Medo, as committee to
meet and lay out piece of new road
in sections "a and 50 Danville township.
The road is to be merely Strengthened out
as we understand it.-Mapleton Enter
prise.
T.. P. Hanna, of st. Paul, was in town,
Wednesday, on business. While in Still
water last week Mr. Hanna called at the
prison and paid a short visit to Dave
Robinson, whom he reports as looking
very depressed and in poor health. Robinson
is employed in the Irvine factory and has
to work hard.-Mapleton Enterprise.
The thfeshing machine verifies our
published climates of the yield of the
small grain in this vicinity. Wheat will
average II, oats 25, rye and barley about
% bushels to the acre. Corn is as yet
uncertain, but with favorable weather
will produce good crop. Potatoes are
good with tendency to rot unless dry
weather ensues.-Vernon Center News.
Contractor Tidland was in town Tues
day looking after his county ditch work.
Owing to the wet weather last year and
this his contracts have been greatly de-
layed. He expects, however, to commence
work the later part of the week or the
first part of next and push the ditch here
and the one in Medo to an early compile
ton, the weather permitting.-M
ton Enterprise.
M. M. Pratt received a letter Mon
day from his daughter, Mrs. Jennie Pratt
Wood who lives near Salt Fork, Oklaho-
ma, which was recently visited by Sc
we're cyclone and hail storm. Mrs. Wood
gives a very good description of the
storm and of the havoc it wrought. For
tunately their home escaped with moth
ing more serious than the tearing off
of number of the shingles and CHM
ney. The fruit crop which was very
promising was completely ruined and
many of the trees injured. -Mapleton
Enterprise.
Several days age we had the pleasure
of looking over the apple groves of |
George HI. Barnard and Mrs. M. Wood
bury, where we found about $50 young,
healthy trees, embracing all of the we'll
known native varieties. Considering the
fact that these orchards have only been
growing very few years it is sur
prising the amount and size of the fruit |
they grow. In many places the limbs |
are SO heavily loaded that it has been
found necessary to tie and prop them up. |
Blue Earth county is certainly becoming |
a great apple growing center Good
Thunder Herald.
Ed Schwarz is an observing sort of a
fellow and Sunday while out making
call on his friend, Meas, noticed an
apple tree in full blossom, which is GER
tainly an unusual freak of nature at this
season of the year. He noticed too that
Mr.. Meas had most of his fall blowing
done. 1t was not, however, big job as
he is only farming an eighty. Ed also
went to Mr.. Meas cornfield and yanked
off an ear that measured thirteen inches