The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-09-08

Stories BRIEFLY TOLD
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. :

Your family will need tonic. Why
not give them HOLSTERS Rocky Noun
tain Tea? Nothing equals it as brac-
ing, life giving remedy. 80 cents, Tea
or Tablets. j. c. Thro.
Furniture household goods and lease
OF twenty-five room house in Mankato,
will sell on easy terms, or trade. Lo-
Gated near pOstOffice, and convenient
for students attending college, normal
and high schools. Call or write to on
Free Press office.
l.. K. Croker of South Bend has
shown The Free Press the largest apples
seen this year. The variety is the Wolf
River, and while the apples are spotted
somewhat from hail early in the season.
they have attained large size. Mr..
Croker has nursery and raised his
own stock.
Last Sunday night about thirty
friends of Charles and Frank Schultz
came and took possession of the resi-
dence. A surprise dance made the even
ing a merry one. Refreshments were
served. The hands of the clock point
ed to the wee sma' hours before the
guests departed.
Early Friday morning, while Mrs
John Fry was near a grain stack on
the Cheshire farm in Judson, of which
Mr.. Fry is a renter, some hunter fired
a shot. A number of the shot hit her
hruising her hand, and cutting through
the skin. One or two struck her in the
breast and on the arm and one hit her
in the forehead, all leaving their marks
Evidently the shot was fired at close
range.-Lake Crystal Union.
A lady in our city became sufficient
ly interested to count up the widows in
st. Peter, and says there are thirty
five as far as she knows, and SAYS there
may be more. The widowers and
bachelors should be ashamed of them
selves to thus waste their DAYS on the
desert air by allowing so many use
full members of society calculated fo1
the happiness of man, go to waste. You
forlorn old widowers, get stir on you
st. Peter Tribune.
Mrs. Borst is reported as not doing so
we'll as was expected a week ago. and
that she is in danger now of losing the
use of her left arm. In the accident
her clothing was entirely ruined, and Of
fers of payment have been made to her
attorney, while her hospital and sur
geon's bill have been paid by someone,
she does not know whom. There evil
IDENTIFY is a case of damages on hand
which will make the firm, in whose store
the accident occurred, drop consider
able money before they are through
with the damages caused by their care
lessness.-Windom Reporter.
H. l.. Schmitt, a Mankato attorney
representing the receiver of G. HI. Jes-
sup & Co. of Tracy, bankrupt, was in
the city on Monday, interested in the
Jessup estate before the Lyon county
probate court. The Jessup affairs give
promise of producing something of a
legal tangle, for it is not often that a
mans business affairs are taken into
both the probate court and the bank
ruptcy court at the same time. Mr..
Jessup, a Tracy banker, died suddenly
last fall, and following his death the
affairs of Jessup & Co., bankers, were
found to be in a bad shape, and were
taken into bankruptcy proceedings by
their creditors, while the Jessup estate
went into the probate court Marshall
News Messenger.
A very pleasant evening was spent
at the home of Mrs. c. HI. Roberts in
Sterling on Wednesday,, Sept. 9th, on
the occasion of the marriage of her
daughter, Mabel to Roy w. Faley of
Vernon Center. They were attended by
Mr. Lee Champlin and Miss Bessie
Roberts, Rev. Gibbs of Amboy officiat
ing. Mr. and Mrs. Faley departed on
the six o'clock train for Duluth to spend
a week on the lakes. They expect to
make their home in Vernon Center
where the groom is in the hardware
business with his father. They begin
their welded life followed by the good
wishes of large circle of friends.