The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-09-06

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excellent woman, who was kind and
loving wife and mother, and good
friend and neighbor
! Funeral services will be held at ten
Catholic church, and the interment
will be made at Calvary cemetery.
Bids were opened in Architect
Schippels office late yesterday after
noon for the erection of John Mel
sons frame dwelling, exclusive of the
stone foundation, but including furnace
heat and plumbing. Robert Zuehlke
was the lowest of four bidders, his
figure being $2,O75.5O, and the con-
tract was awarded to him.
Professor G. F. Curtis Riley of
Pittsburg, Kansas, will be one of the
new members of the faculty of the
state normal school, beginning with the
commencement of the fall term. He is
a graduate of Duane college at Crete,
Neb., and after that taught school, UNI
til he entered the University of Mich
igan. He spent two and half years
there as student and instructor. After
that he taught in high school, and
during the year 1866 was acting
teacher in the state normal at Duluth.
The past year he has been teacher of
biology in the Indiana state normal
school.
Professor Riley will succeed Profess
sOr F. L. Holtz as teacher of biology
and curator of the museum of the
state normal school. He will arrive
the middle of September.
Last Monday boy at Lake Crys-
tai threw a stone and it struck Inez
Sorenson in the left eye The eye
was so badly injured that yesterday
the attending physician brought the
girl to Mankato and the eye was re-
moved by local specialist. No harm
will result to the other eye. This
ought to be a lesson to boys not to
throw stones, and warning to older
people to prevent the throwing of
stones by boys.
Wednesday evening a couple of
wagon loads of young people in Cam
bria started out to charivari Mr.. and
Mrs. Harris, who had been married
early in the evening, and after driving
a short distance so many boys and
MON bod p;Io1 on tho roor of tho raar
wagon that it was stopped, and George
Hewitt, who was on the front seat,
jumped off and started on a run to
stop the front to have part of his
load divided with the other wagons,
says The New Ulm News. As he
ran by the horses one of them kicked
and struck him on his jaw and side
of his face, which knocked him into
insensibility. A New Ulm physician
was called, who dressed his injuries
hurriedly and brought him to St. Al
exander hospital. He bled a great
deal from his ear, and his jaw was
fractured.
The st. James Plaindealer says that
on Sunday night the county was
swept by furious thunder storm.
which played havoc in some sections.
For time the flashes of lightning
were binding and the peals of thun-
der incessant.
The barn on G. Lindquist's farm on
the north shore of Long lake, was
struck and burned to the ground,
and some farm machinery was de-
stroyed.
On the Tilney farm, Section !, i
South Branch, occupied by Will Mulso,
a barn was burned together with
some hay, and Mr.. Mulso's dog lost
his life Mr.. Mulso was away from
home at the time but returned in
time to save the rest of the buildings.
On August Conrad's farm, section
20. Nelson, barn was burned and
number head of stock was killed.
Lightning struck in numerous other
places, but no damage is reported.
G. O. Ferrall of Luverne, travelling
representative of the Kasota Elevator
company, who was in the city yester-
day, said that barley ss not very
good crop, oats is going about twenty
seven bushels to the acre in southel
Minnesota, and that Wheat is a dis
appointment. Corn is coming on Xwel
but about a month will be needed to
mature the whole of the crop. Some
is out of danger of frost now, and
some will be in two weeks.
George f. Nettleton, who returned
last night from Alexandria, states that
the crops are as advanced there as
here The harvest is over, threshing
is in progress, corn is being cut, and
in some instances potatoes are being
dug.
Osmundsen, johnson company yester-
day made an exchange of property for
Fred Craver of this city and DIR. Ira
Bishop of Napoleon, Mr.. Bishop be-
comes owner of all of Mr.. Craver's
property on Agency including his new
residence, and Mr. Craver takes as
part payment of DR.. Bishop a half
section of land near Bemidji, MINI.