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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-01-12
TEACHERS EXAMINATION.

Teachers Examinations will be held
January 25, 26 and ~ at Mankato, Lake
Crystal and Mapleton, in the high schoo
buildings and the following program
will be strictly followed:
Thursday, Jan. 25th-(Firs Grade
Studiesy.
A. M.-S:30, enrolment; 9, physics
1880 algebra. p. Mills, geometry
2:30, civics; $3.50, physical geography OF
general history.
Friday, Jan. Goth Second Grade
Studies):
A. MS, enrolment, $3.50, profession
al test; $3.50, spelling; 10, arithmetic
p. M.-l:l5, geography; 2:45, compost
ton and penmanship; 1920, reading.
Saturday, Jan. 9th Second grade
studies continued):
A. Ms, U. S. history; GAS, English
Grammar; 1870, music. p. Mills
physiology hygiene; 2:45, drawing.
Those who wish to write on first grade
subjects, must meet in county superin
tendent's office at the specified time.
No private examinations will be grant
ed. All who expect to teach must b.
present at the regular examinations ant
secure state certificates.
S,ts @. OLSON ULVIN,
County Superintendent of Schools.
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0Watonna Has 1t That One will
Be Formed.
IT WILL TAKE IN MANKAT0.
Southern Minnesota Association Dis.
cussed: Will II Materialize; The
Plan Outlined.

Owatona, Jan. S.-The repart that the
Southern Minnesota Baseball league is
to be revived is being spread among the
fanatics of this and neighboring cities
audit is more than probable that the
season of 1909 will witness the estab-
lshment of such league, composed OF
the following eight cities: Winona
NIankato, Red Wing. Rochester, Austin,
Owatonna. Albert Lea and Waseca.
All of the cities are clamoring for or.
ganized ball as they have been without
such an article for five years or more,
and. therefore, it is believed that the
clubs in all of them will be good pay.
ing investments. All have parks admir-.
ably suited to the playing of baseball
and, since the decision of the district
court last year, all will permit Sunday
baseball.
The movement is said to have its or.
igin in Albert Lea, and the promoters OF
the league are thus far supposed to be
chiefly business men of that city, In
Waseca, Messrs. Armstrong and Nc.
Cleary are behind the movement. The
former was the owner of the famous
Waseca "Eacos' and the latter is the
twirler for the no less famous Flecken.
stems, of Faribault. Clearance Saul
paugh, the Mankato hotel owner and for
mer president of the Minneapolis club
in the days when Walter Wilmot man
aged that team, is said to be behind
the Mankato team.
Nothing definite is known in regard
to the other cities mentioned, but it is
stated, upon excellent authority, that a
meeting of those interested will soon be
held and that the league will then be
formally launched.
Present plans contemplate playing
season of four months duration and
four games each week for each club
the season to begin May Is. A salary
limit of $500 per month for each club is
also among the suggestions. BY keeping
within this it is believed that the clubs
will be evenly matched and that an ex-
citing race for the pennant will result.
The circuit suggested is a very com
pact one and transportation expendi
lures will be reduced to the lowest pos
sible minimum.
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To Bond Purchasers.

Sealed proposals will be received at
my office in Garden City Village, Blue
Earth County, Minnesota, until one p
m. of Tuesday, Jan. 3Oth, 1906, for -Four
Thousand Dollars ($4,OOO.OO) worth OF
Garden City Township Bonds, to be is.
sued for twenty years in denominations
to suit the purchaser, preferably Five
Hundred Dollars ($5OO.O0), with the
privilege reserved to pay any or all af
ter five years.
The Township valuation as assessed
in 1905 is Three Hundred Sixty Two
Thousand, Eight Hundred and Sixty
Two Dollars 1882, $4,000 and no out
standing bonds.
The right is reserved to reject any OIL
all proposition.
Garden City, Mimi, Jan. 10, 1906.
GEO. w. JOHN,
Town Clerk.
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POLICE COURT.

From Wednesdays Daily.
A L'Huillier resident was before the
court this afternoon on the charge of
drunkenness, third offense. He put up
the claim that he was unable to resist
liquor because of pain somewhere in
his anatomy, which he would have re.
moved if he had the money to pay
for an operation. The court reminded
him that twice before he had been pa
rolled, and broke his parole the second
time. Now he would be more strin-
gent. He sentenced him to the county
Jail for three months, but suspended
sentence because of his family and
provided that he abstain from drink dur
ing the present year, and report each
Wednesday morning during the year
and never enter the city unless accom-.
panied by his wife.
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Masquerade Ball Committee.

Mrs. j. N. Lang, chairman of the COM
mittee on masquerade ball, to be given
by Superior lodge No. 5, Degree of Hon.
or, on Wednesday, Jan. 3lst, has APP
POINTED the following ladies to assist
the committee: Mrs. Charles T. Taylor;
Mrs. George M. Phillips, Mrs. Theodore
H. Summers, Mrs. Gus Widell, Miss Ma
bel Nelson, Misses Anna c. and Emma
Throdahl and Miss Rose Harkee. The
committee will meet at Mrs. Taylor's on
Saturday evening to issue invitations
Memoirs and friends are requested to
send in the names of their friends and
addresses, as it is impossible for the
committee to think of them all, and
don't want to slight any of their friends
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Samuel Ragsdale.

Samuel Ragsdale died in this city at
two o'clock this morning, of cancer OF
the lungs and dropsy. He came to the
city from Mapleton last October fol-
treatment, and had been here ever since
He was forty-two years old, and was
single man. His birth place was
Nottingham, England, and he has nc
relatives in this country, but sister at
Old Basford, England. He came to
America number of years ago, and
lived for time at Amboy, and for two
or three years at Mapleton. then coming
to Mankato. His friends in the county
regret his death.
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INSTRUCTOR IN ART.
How McCiearyGave His Constituents
Ideas From Foreign Shores.

1t was somewhat of mystery, as
Stunning that his trip was solely on Off
cial business, why Mr.. McCleary felt
that he would require the services of his
seeretary-who was also his son-in his
hunt among the monuments of Europe
| for ideas to be used in adopting a suit
able memorial of Lincoln. Our suspic-
| ion that he merely wished to give the
young man his foreign tour to polish
! off his education, was, we find, mistaken.
He took him along to aid him in his
labor of educating the art aptitudes of
his constituents He felt that they were
not up in art to the standard of Am
erican citizenship. They, too, should
know the riches of the old world; that
is, the riches of those section of the old
world to which ties of personal or ances-
trail memories might be presumed still
to hold them.
So, with a fine discrimination and
most excellent iudgment-as a politi
clan knowing the value of keeping in
touch with his people-Mr. McCleary Sc
lected and had his secretary address
from those convenient lists of voters
which is part of the armament of the
adroit politician. postal cards illustra-
tive of art in the various countries which
he visited, ostensibly to see what they
could teach him in the line of memoir
ials to national heroes. In Wales he
bought quantities of these cards and had
his secretary address them, with his
chiefs regards, of course, to the vot-
ers of his district, to trace ancestry to
that part of England. In Germany he
invested heavily in cards depicting Ger
man art scenes and sent them to his
their own or their ancestors Vaterand.
Norway and Sweden, not having yet
attained to distinction as art countries,
were not searched for ideas for Lin
coin memorial and, consequently, we are
told, voters of the Second district who
own birth or descent from those coun
tries were not put through the postcard,
art educative presses. But as another
summer vacation will intervene before
election, this omission may be supplied.
Were Mr.. McCleary less the high minded,
broad-viewed statesman and more the
mere politician, cutivating, by every de-
vice, popularity among his constituents,
we might suspect that his purpose was
to educate his constituents in art
than to induce a feeling, on their part
that their representative did not forget
them even when ocean rolled between
and the Establishments of foreign cap
itals, always extended to visiting states
men, even Constructive" statesmen,
were lavished upon him.-St. Paul Dis
Pa.cH' Sfe1 = I4I tssW EyBeg a., a.&
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The Widows Grief.

y Chicago Chronicle: P. P. Rothermel,
counsel for the Lake Superior corpora
ton, as the reorganized Consolidated
Lake Superior is called, perpetrated this
story:
"a certain woman's husband died and
a day or two after the funeral neigh
Dor called to extend her condolences.
"She expected to find the widow fran
tic with grief. She found her at the
piano SINGING a gay song. And, aston
ished at so quick a recovery, the visitor
said:
"Well, well, expected to see You in
the deepest Distress
"'Ah, said the widow pathetically
you should have seen me yesterday
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will spend the winter. He is merchant
He went out via the Great Western
road
Mrs. j. N. Lang and Mrs. George M
Phillips will be present at the installa
ton of officers of the Degree of Homo,
lodge at New Ulm this evening, and
will visit at the home of Mrs. Joseph
A. Eckstein.
Omar Goetz went to Mankato Monday
to visit his brotherin- law, the Rev.
Stapf, who is very low from consump-
ton. He found the stricken man very
weak and unable to speak above wis
Fairmont Sentinel.
John M. Cooke, representing the Tim
Murphy company, who appears at the
Mankato Theatre Jan. 10th, in "Texas
Steer" was in Mankato today.
MIR. and Mrs. d. Bangs of Sleepy Eye
visited in the city today.
Cash B. Johnson of Owatonna was in
MankatO today.
j. A. Bergler of Morgan and w. I.
Moore of Elysian were in the city last
evening.
John b. Meagher of st. Paul was in
Mankato yesterday afternoon, attending
the meeting of stockholders of the Ma
tional Citizens bank.
Frank McNeal, brakeman on Conduc-
tor Thomas Keating's Milwaukee pas
senger train, is ill at the hospital with
typhoid fever.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Gardner of Lake
Washington were guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
George M. Phillips yesterday, having
come to attend the Mackey- Shanahan
wedding
Gates G. Phillips went to st. Paul
this morning.
Richard Girvin returned to Minneap-
obs Sunday to resume his studies in the
Medical college with his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Robert Girvin.
Mrs. Anna Wilka is quite i'll with
bronchitis.
Division Superintendent c. S. Weston
of the Great Western road was in Man
kato this afternoon.
n. G. Swanbeck of st. Peter was in
Mankato this afternoon.
W. E. Young went to Montgomery to-
day, and from there will 60 to st. Paul.
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Father ISeptune's Hug.

Chicago Chronicle: "The seas pres
sure is incredible" said the club man
''If you descended deep enough it would
crush you, bones and all to a pass OF
reddish mud.
''Here is striking case in point:
"OG Sicily last winter we ran out OF
ice and someone suggested that to cool
the champagne for dinner we lower il
a half mile or so into the seas depths
"This was done, and at dinner time
the three bottles came up delightfully."-
cold. But when we opened them we
found that they contained nothing but
salt water
Explanation? The seas pressure had
forced the water in through the pores
of the corks."
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What His Wife Said.

New York World: Mr.. Brown had
just had telephone connection between
his office and house and was very much
pleased with it.
81 tell you, Smith," he was saying
''this telephone business is a wonderful
thing. / want you to dine with me
this evening, and l will notify Mrs
Brown to expect YOU"
Brown Speaking through the tele
phone My friend Smith will dine will
us this evening.
''Now listen and hear how plainly he
reply comes back"
Mrs. Browns reply came back will
startling distinctness:
"Ask your friend Smith if he thinks
we keep hotel!"
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Social and
Personal

From Wednesdays Daily.

From Wednesdays Daily. ~
Miss Katherine NJ. Painter and Mr..
Clarence E. Todd We're united in mar
riage this forenoon at nine o'clock at st.
Johns Catholic church by Rev. Father
Hughes, in the presence of gathering
of friends and relatives. The groom is
a brother of Mrs. f. M. Currier of this
city and the bride is daughter of Mr..
the poor farm. A largely attended re-
ception took place this. afternoon at the
poor farm, and among the guests were
the members of the county board and
the county auditor. Fine refreshments
were served.
The young couple are popular and es-
teemed residents of Decoria, and their
many friends will extend their best
wishes.
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard M. Williams,
aged residents of North Mankato, were
rendered very pleasant surprise last
evening. The affair took place at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. w. NJ. Barr, to
which place the couple had been invited
to supper. During the early evening
many friends called and the time was
spent pleasantly with music and recita
tions. Mrs. o. +. Bennett. Mrs. S. F.
Simonds, Mrs. Frank Carr andMrs. Barr
had charge of the affair.
will give the next dance at Hunts hall
on Friday evening, Jan. II, 1906. The
committee desires to have a full at
tendance of the club at this dance All
for various reasons have been unable
to attend so far, are cordially invited
to attend hereafter
Rev. Mr. Poole of the Faribault divin-
| ity school visited the city yesterday.
Roy Andrews returned to the state
university at Minneapolis yesterday.
Harry Marsh, the young man whose
| hand was frozen while at work on the
riprapping being done by the Omaha
road between LeSueur and st. Peter
left yesterday afternoon for his home at
Harrisville, w. V. He received $50 by
telegraph yesterday afternoon from his
father, who is we'll to do farmer there
in response to message sent by Mayor
Taylor, and he had just time to pay his
bills and catch the train. He settled uI
everything and bought new suit OF
clothing, but did not have enough tc
get an overcoat. The young man has
been wandering about the country fol
the past two years, and like the prodiga
son, is glad to return home when in hare
luck.
Mrs. r. H. Mccarthy and Miss MAJ
Mcnamara of Madelia visited the city
today.
Oscar W. Quarmstrom of Butterfielt
was in Mankato yesterday afternoon OIL
his way to Orlando, Florida, where h
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Jan. IL, 10 &c. Feb. 9 8, 16. 1906.
STATE OF MINNESOTA, County of Blue
Earth.-ss. District Court Sixth Jul
dicial District.
'innie Miles. Plaintiff, VS.. Clemens
Miles, Defendant
Summons.
The State of Minnesota, to the above
named defendant
You Clemens rilles. are hereby sum-
moned and required to answer the COM
plant of the plaintiff in the above en-
titled action which said complaint is on
file in the office of the clerk of said
district court and to serve a copy OF
your answer to the said complaint, on
The suhscrih err, at his office in the city
of Mankato. in the county of Blue Earth,
in the state aforesaid, within thirty
days after the service of this summons
upo.l YOU exclusive of the day of such
service; and if you fail to answer the
said complaint within the time afore-
said the plaintiff in this action will APP
ply to the court for the relief demand
ed in said complaint.
Dated this third day of January, A. d.
1906.
S. B. WILSON. =.
Attorney for Plaintiff
| Mankato Minnesota.
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CURED TO STAY CURED
How Mankato Citizen Found Complete
Freedom From Kidney Troubles.


If yon suffer from backache-
From urinary disorders
From any disease of the kidneys,
BE cured to stay cured.
Doan's Kidney Pills make lasting
cures.
MankatO people testify.
Here's one case of it:
George Warwick, of $40 South Fourth
street, blacksmith, Mankato, Mimi,
says: 81 still think as we'll of Doans
Kidney Pills today as | did in 1898, al
though have had no occasion to use
them since they cured me of kidney
complaint. The cure they made in my
case has been permanent, and there has
not even been an indication of return
of the trouble. | used to suffer con-
stantly with a dull, grinding backache
and if stopped 1 could hardly straight
en- again and sometimes it seemed as if
my back was being pulled apart. was
certainly troubled terribly with this
pain, and was glad when Doan's Kid
ney Pills removed it. l procured them
at J. c. Thro's drug store, on the ad-
vice of friend. My back today is as
sound as dollar
For sale by all dealers. Price 90
cents. Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo, New
York, sole agents for the United States
Remember the name, Doan's, and take
no other.
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OLD MAPLETON NOTES.

Miss LYDIA Chase of NIapleton was Wis
iting at the home of Ben Taylor the first
of the week.
Tom Howeison spent Sunday at Joe
Stevens.
Fred ALoshier was visiting at William
Mead's this week.
The Daily and Mclaughlin families
Smdayed with Ben Taylor.
Charlie Hermann and Charlie Cornell
went to Pierre, S. D., last week to lool
after their claims
George Phelps is attending school IL
Old Mapletan.
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SELLING PRICES
| BEWARE OF oINTMENTs FOR CA
| TARRH THAT CONTAIN MERCURY.

as mercury will surely destroy the sense
of smell and completely derange the
whole system when entering it through
the mucous surfaces. Such articles
should never be used except on prescrip-
tions from reputable physicians. as the
damage they will do is ten fold to the
good you can possibly derive from them.
j. Cheney & Co., Toledo. o., contains no
mercury, and is taken internally, acting
directly upon the blood and mucous sur
Catarrh Cure be sure you get the gen.
uine. 1t is taken internally and made In
Toledo, by f. j. Cheney & Co. Testi-
monials free.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipa-
ton.
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A Kentucky Serenade.

Richard Henstep has traded a dawg
for mouth organ and fggers on be-
coming a full-fedged member of Raj
Barlow's Excelsior Fiddling band. They
serenaded lobe Mosely Tuesday night.
Several shots were fired but no one was
wounded. -Hogwallow Kentuckian.
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They Extend Encouragement to
Their Churches.
TWO ANNUAL MEETINGS HELD
Methodist Aid Society Will Donate
$1,000 Toward New Building
8sptists Start Fund.

From Tuesdays Daily.
The regular monthly meeting of thu
Ladies' Aid society of the Methodist
church was held last Friday afternoon
at the home of Mrs. j. w. Andrews. The
annual election of officers was held, and
the following were selected: Mrs. B. c.
Parmalee, president; Mrs. Ward Chit,
tenden, vice president; Mrs. Haggard
secretary; Mrs. Nelson Weed, treasurer
A vote of thanks was extended to the
retiring president, Mrs. T. H. Foley, for
the very efficient work which she has
done during the past two years in that
office. Her health is somewhat i'm
paired.
1t was voted that in case a new
church is erected to give $1,000 toward
the project. There is some talk about
rebuilding, but thus far it has not got
ten beyond the talk stage.
The past year was good one for the
society. About 500 was raised and was
expended in improving the parsonage
and in paying running expenses. About
$50 remains in the treasury.
The Ladies' society of the Baptist
church, at their annual meeting last
week, elected Mrs. George M. Palmer
president, Mrs. j. S. Holbrook vice presi-.
dent, Mrs. Elmer Glenn secretary, and
Mrs. G. H. Holmes treasurer.
The financial condition of the society
was encouraging. Besides raising it's
apportionment, it made a gift of 500,
and neat balance is left in the treas
ury. During the present. year the society
plans to lay aside something toward the
purchase of a pipe organ for the church.
The Sunday school will do likewise, and
in this way it is hoped that eventually
that the church will be encouraged to
take the matter up and buy an organ.
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REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.

William R. Crandall to Joseph Robel,
lot II, block 3, Fletcher & Williams adj
dition, for $500.
j. c. DeRemer, to Frank Mallon, lot
IL and part of lot 10, addition one, Hill
ton, for $3.50.
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MADISON LAKE NEWS NOTES.

E. Schumacher, who has been employ
ed by Allyn Bros. for some time, has
resigned to accept position with
lumber company in Grand Forks, n. D.
Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Cole have gone to
Wisconsin and may reside there per-
manently if Mrs Coles health improves
Benjamin Hoen, the wagonmaker, sur
prised his many friends yesterday wher
he arrived home with Q bride. The cou-
pie were married at Long Prairie.
Mr.. and Mrs. =. E. Orr are in Manka
to today.
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Don't let your face grow old, sallow
hollow and wrinkled. If you care at
all for beauty, take HOLSTERS Rocky
Mountain Tea. 80 cents, Tea or Tab
lets.-John c.. Thro.
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Success is stamped on every package.
1t is the most successful remedy
known. 1t makes you well and keeps
you well. That's what HOLSTERS
Rocky Mountain Tea does. 35 cents,
Tea or Tablets. John c. Thro.
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WANTED-Bright, honest young man
from Mankato to prepare for paying po'
sition in Government Mail Service. Box
One, Cedar Rapids, la.