The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-09-27

her home, 81 Pleasant street, d
tuberculosis of the bowels, after al
illness of more than a year, the last
three weeks of which was acute.
Mrs. Bennett was born at Whites
boro, n. Y, sixtythree years ago
and located in Mankato in 1869. Here
she was married, thirty-five years ago
to Mr.. Bennett. Three years later
they moved to Eagle Lake, where they
lived for a number of years. Sixteen
years ago they moved back to Man
kato and continued to reside here evel
since.
| Mrs. Bennett was a member of the
Presbyterian church, and was lady
| of most excellent characteristics, who
won the regard and friendship of all
who knew her. Her death is greatly
to be regretted, and the sympathy
| of their numerous friends will be ex.
tended to the bereaved husband and
daughters. The latter are Mrs. Fred
| j. Slower of Frederick, Wis, Miss
May Bennett, who lives at home, and
Mrs. f. A. Harris of Spokane, Wash
Mrs. Slower and Mrs. Harris have
been at their mothers bedside for a
week Five children are buried in the
Tivoh cemetery. Mrs. Bennett also
left four brothers and one sister, DR..
f. j. Davis of the Soldiers Home at
IMinnehaha, L. L. Davis of this city,
0. H. Davis of Madelia, w. C. Davis
of Lake Crystal, and Mrs. w. C.
Durkee of this city.
Funeral services will be held at the
house Tuesday at 10 a. M, and the
Increment will be made at the Tivoli
cemetery. Rev. n. B. Foote is eX-
pected to have charge of the serv-
ices.
Nothing has yet been done in the
matter of appointing a guard for
prisoners while at work. The county
board complicated matters when it
directed that an appointment be made
by Commissioner Young and Mayor
Andrews, for this is not the way
the law provides for the appointment.
One way is for the district Judge to
make the appointment, and another way
is for the sheriff to appoint a deputy.
This latter way is the best, for in that
case the responsibility for preventing
the escape of prisoners would not be
divided.
City Attorney Schmitt holds that the
mayor has no hand in the selection of
the guard.
From Tuesdays Tally.
August Nagel has complained to the
police that his wife has left him and
has sold some of the furniture at
second hand store. He was advised
to see an attorney and has consulted
Harkee & ,Eckhart. 1t appears that he
and his wife have not gotten on well
together, for a year or so ago Mrs.
Nagel commenced a divorce proceeding
against him. This was subsequently,
dropped, and they lived together again
until few days ago. Mr.. Nagel
claims that there was no cause for his
wife's leaving. Mrs. Nagel is still
in the city. Mr. Nagel is employed
by Fowler & Pay. The couple have
only one child, eighteen months old,
and Mrs. Nagel left this with her
husband. She has several children by
a former husband.
Mr.. Nagel will probably bring a
1nr1ayin Sr1it fn no h.
from the second hand store.
st. Peter, Sept. 24.-Buttermakers of
Minnesota have issued a challenge to
the butter judges of the country to
prove their competency. They have
done so by announcing that when the
fourteenth annual convention of the
Minnesota State Butter and Cheese
Makers association is held in this city
on Oct. 80 and 81 and Nov. | they will
offer prizes for a butter scoring con-
test, which will be open to every but
ter Judge, buttermaker or dealer in
the United States. This is a new fea-
ture for buttermakers' conventions, and
the contest will be the first of it's
kind ever held.
Members of the Minnesota society
and of other state associations long
have sought to devise way to test
the efficiency of the men who test the
butter. Butter scorers and judges new
er have been entirely free from sus-
picion, but competitive matches have
been frowned upon because there was
no standard by which to Judge the
Judges. This obstacle has been over
come by pitting them against stand
ards established by themselves.
Under the rules of the contest each
participant will be required to score
twenty-five tubs of butter and then
rescore the same samples. A careful
record will be kept of the markings,
and in rescoring any deviation from
the first set of grades will be counted
against the participant Where there
is no dissimilarity between the two
sets of scores the judge will be award
ed perfect grade of 100 points.
Butter exchanges at Chicago, New
York and the other, leading markets
will be asked to have their inspec-
tors enter the contest, and it is ex-
pected that the judges of the country
will be eager to compete.