The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-05-15

the appearance of the surroundings is
keeping pace in North Mankato with
that of this side of the stream. Some
of this is credited to the influence of the
Civic Improvement League.
PICKED FROM THE COUNTY PRESS.
From Fridays Daily.
G. B. Swartz of Sioux City will de-
liver the address at Napoleon on Me-
mortal day.
The Free Baptists of the state will
hold their annual convention in Maple
tionton ON June 10.
The reform waive has hit Mapleton
right hard, and hereafter all saloons,
stores, barber shops and meat markets
will be closed up tight on the Sabbath
day. The council at its last session took
action to that effect.
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The mill at Mapleton will be run day
and night hereafter.
John Johnston Sr. who suffered
stroke of apoplexy few weeks ago,
is reported somewhat improved.
Old soldiers in Amboy are making
great preparations for the observance
of Memorial day. Hon. S. ]. Abbott of
Winnebago will deliver the address at
the opera house and Rev. A. n Jameson
will speak at the cemetery.
On Saturday May 10th, the married
men of the Mapleton Baptist church are
to play base ball with the boys club,
captained by Ned Spaulding. The mar
ried men to indulge in the game are
James Bowman, Andrew Hill, Rev. F.
E. Day, Ed. Moore, Ernest Moore, VIM.
| Mead, Chas. Halves, and Merit Mullin,
with VIM. Otto and W. HI. Davis at ex-
tras. Mark Heiekert will help out the
, married men by acting as catcher.
On Tuesday twenty-one of our repre-
sentative farmers who are ever wide
awake for the improvement of their
stock, purchased of Daleney & Son, of
Mortified, an improted Belgian horse at
cost of $4,000 The animal Loubert S
1854 is a beautiful bay weighing in the
neighborhood of 1000 pounds. The men
forming the company and taking stock
are David Will, VIM. Biese, E. H. Biese,
J. B. Daily, George Cooper, A. E. Hill,
VIM. Moore, A. L. Miller, M. j. Mullin,
B. F. Taylor, ]. E. Heickert, August Me
now, Chas. Birr, w. j. Morris, John Golf
Jr., Orson Chase, H. B. Tenney, Chas,
Reiman, John Albrecht, Ed. Vauble, and
Henry Schultz. The officers elected
were president, Geo. Cooper; secretary,
i John Golf; treasurer, Ben Taylor; direc
ltors, Ed. Beise, Merit Mullin, August Me
now, VIM. Moore and Chas. Reiman.-
Mapleton Enterprise.
A short time ago we referred to the
remarkable smooth and even handwriting
of Mrs. Elizabeth Look, aged 95 years.
Since then we have learned more of the
habits and character of Mrs. Look, that
we think are unparalleled in anyone of
her age. For instance, she is a canstant
, reader, having given up all work, even
to knitting. During the last year she
has read the Bible through twice, besides
! her other miscellaneous reading Recent
lily, her granddaughter, who attends the
;. district school, was studying her spelling
, lesson of twenty-five words and the old
lady asked her to pronounce them to her
, to see how many she could spell correct.
ly; she missed but one word.-Amboy
Herald.
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Charles Kelley, Carrier on route four:
does not use "a wheeled coiigeyance in
making his trips, but rides mule. He
finds it more convenient, and is educat.
ing the mule so that it will soon be able
to make the rounds without a rider
Amboy Herald
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The Amboy bowlers We're again too
much for the Mapleton boys Saturday
night, defeating them by over 100 pins.
\ Geo. W. Smith, at one time station
agent at Mapleton and later travelling
freight agent of the Chicago, 4Iilwau-
kee and ST. Paul railway has accepted
the position of contracting freight agent
for the Anchor Steamship line at Mime
apolis.