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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-09-04
Pleasant Mounds


Miss Nellie Day went to Gilmore
last Saturday to visit her relatives
DR.. and Mrs. Jacobs.
Burton Tyler made a business trip
to Mankato Saturday.
Mrs. Thorstensen of Garden City is
visiting friends and relatives in this
neighborhood.
Lytle Miller threshed three hundred
and forty seven bushels of wheat from
twenty acres, that tester one half pound
better than No. l. His oats yielded
twenty nine bushels to the acre.
Charley Fox of Brainerd is visiting
friends and relatives of this locality.
Birney Jacobs spent Sunday at Ell
more visiting his uncle, DR.. A. c
Jacobs.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Stratton's young
est son Ernest died Friday after lone
illness. Complications arising from
whooping cough set in which resulted
in his death. The funeral was held
Sunday.
John Look of Roswell Idaho, made
"a trip through the neighborhood last
week visiting friends and relatives.
Miss Mildred Grove, has been engaged
to teach the fall and winter term Of
school in the Pleasant Grove district
Mr.. Bert Barnes of Vernon Center
drove his Lambert car through thi!
|neighborhood last week. Mr.. Barnes
is the new president of the Blue
Earth County Fair association.
Mrs. E. w. Davis and sons, Harold
and Paul, of Bookings, S. D., are here
visiting at the home of Mr.. and Mrs
Net Latin.
Mrs. Aida Gjuul left for Morris
Mimi, last Saturday, where she ha
been engaged as superintendent of tn,
cooking department of the Indial
school.
Miss Nellie Cook returned to he
home in Winnebago last week afte
a very pleasant visit with Friends
| in this neighborhood.
Bert Huffman and wife Sundayet
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Gran
at Nashville.
H. F. Day and family spent Sunda,
visiting relatives at Nashville.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-09-04
BIG MONEY FOR BEST HOG.
CHANCE TO PULL DOWN NEAT
BUNCH OF CASH.
Special Prixes to Be Handed Out AZ
Northwestern Livestock Show:
Some Inducements.

The largest amounts ever offered for
winning hogs at any show in this
section of the country are to be
found in the premium list of the
Northwestern Live stock show, which
will be held at South st. Paul No
vember IL to 20 this year. As in all
other classes of livestock the prizes
have been arranged with generous
hand and not any where will the OPP
portunity be greater to pull down a
handsome sum on a single entry if
it is of sufficient merit.
There are two classes of entries
in the hog division, lard type and
bacon type. In either class the prizes
win be as follows:
First prize .................... $40. OO
Championship in either class. -. 30. 90
Grand championship .......... 20. 90
If the animal was bred, fed and
shown by an exhibitor from either
North Dakota or Minnesota Sl5 will
be added. Furthermore in the car
cass class the prizes. are:
First prize ................. Sl0. w
Championship in either class. 200
This makes a total of $4,000. But
if the winning animal is Yorkshire
and its owner a member of the Ameri-
can Yorkshire club this club will
duplicate the premium money in an
amount equal to the grand champion
ship if the animal wins the grand cham
pionship which is $500 the total
prize money will foot up to $3.50.
In addition to the second prize of.
fered pigs always bring a good price
on hoof when they are prize winners
at a show of this nature. Taking
the prizes straight through and the
selling price of the hog, man has
an opportunity with his prize winner
of taking down from $l20 to $3.50 if
the animal is not Yorkshire and
from $3.50 to $l6O if the animal is a
Yorkshire.
The attention of exhibitors should
be directed to careful persual of the
premium list in order that they may
see that their stock is entered in all
the classes to which it is entitled to
enter.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-09-04
DAY IS ELECTED CHAIRMAN
He Will Command the Fight for Gov
ernor John Johnson.
From Tuesdav'S Daily.


Frank a Day, secretary to Governor
johnson and manager of the governors
two successful campaigns, was again
elected chairman at meeting of the
democratic state central committee at
the Merchants yesterday afternoon, fol-
lowing the luncheon in honor of w. j.
Bryan at noon. This action was taken
after Mr.. Day had made a short
speech advising the selection of a
new chairman.
Mr.. Day was chosen upon the mo-
tion of Micheal Brady of Minneapolis.
There was no opposition and in fact
it was generally understood before the
session opened that Mr.. Day would
again head the committee. On motion
of Martin O'Brien of Crookston, the
selection of a permanent secretary was
left to the executive committee, TO
consist of one member from each con-
gressional district and six members at
large to be selected by Chairman Day.
Meeting of the district delegates
were then held and the following dis
trict members of the committee chos-
en-: First, William Gausewitz, Owa-
tonna; Second, Charles T. Taylor,
Mankato; Third, G. Kolars, LIE Sueur
Center; Fourth, D. W. Aberle, st. Paul !;
Fifth, not chosen; Sixth, Charles H
Dart, Litchfeld; Seventh, lib O'Con-
nor, Olivia; Eighth, J. B. Galarneault,
Aitkin; Ninth, II. l.. Shirley, Moorehead
The state committee was also author
lied to fill all vacancies that may arise
among the candidates for presidential
ELECTORS.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-09-04
TESTED AND PROVEN
There Is a Heap of Solace in Being
Able to Depend Upon Well
Earned Reputation.

For months Mankato readers have
seen the constant expression of praise
for Doan's Kidney Pills, and read
about the good work they have done
in this locality. Not another remedy
ever produced such convincing proof OF
merit.
j. F. AFRICAN, engineer on the Great
Western railroad, living at 1903 North
Broad street, Mankato, Mimi, said in
a. statement made in 1899: RAILROAD
work is hard on the kidneys and
there are very few men who do not
suffer from some form of kidney
complaint. I suffered with terrible
pains and weakness across my loins.
Every jolt and jar of the engine
seemed to go straight to that spot.
Some times after coming from a long
run 1 could scarcely get off my en-
CINE. / would have to hobble home
lame and weak. Then l suffered at
night, and though I tried many rem
edies nothing helped me but Doan's
Kidney Pills. They cured me entirely
and made my back strong and well.
Cured Six Years.
Mr.. AFRICAN confirmed the above
statement in 1905 when he said: u
can only speak words of praise for
Doan's Kidney Pills. The cure has
been a lasting one.
For sale by all dealers. Price 5O
cents. Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo,
New York, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name-Doan's-and
take no other.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-09-04
.HOKE SMITH, HIS CAREER
SOUTHERN NEWSPAPER MA N
ENJOYS BIRTHDAY.
He Was Once . Cabinet Member;
PractIesd Law. Governor Of Gsor-
sis; Defeated at Primaries.
Especial to The Free Press.l

Atlanta, Ca, Sept. 2.-Governor Hoke
Smith, one of the most picturesque
figures of the new south, is today
receiving the congratulations of his
friends on having reached his fifty
third birthday. Although recently de-
feated for denomination as governor of
Georgia by Joseph Brown, allegedly
because of his radical tendencies, Smith
is still highly popular in Georgia and
throughout the south and his admirers
believe that he will yet receive higher
political place than any he has yet
held.
Smith has been in the public lime
light since 1893, when he entered Cleve-
lands cabinet as secretary of the
interior He was born in North Caro-
lima, September 2, 1855 but moved to
this city when seventeen and began the
practice of law at the tender age Of
eighteen. In his early days his office
was also his dining room and his bed
room and in it he cooked his own
meals.
But Hoke was not long without the
necessary wherewithal. Almost from
the start of his career he developed
the faculty of getting money, and al
most everything he has undertaken
has turned out financially successful.
He is credited with making $4,000 a
year at law Perhaps Smiths most
noteworthy feat was the way in which
he built up The Atlanta Journel now
one of the best known afternoon pa
pers in the south.
When Smith got hold of the paper in
| 1887, it was near deaths door His
method of building it up was simple
though somewhat novel. He not only
secured the best men in sight, but
when any one did a particularly fine
piece of work he was sure to find in
his pay envelope the following Satur-
day an order for a high-priced suit OF
clothes or for something else equally
as satisfactory. One of his city edi,
tors he presented with fine horse and
carriage. In few years The Journal
had been turned into fine business
proposition.
/ Smiths career is full of similar Incl
dents showing his Yankee shrewdness
by which-though he is a Southerner-
he comes honestly, his paternal grand
father having been a New Highlander
! who was on intimate terms with Dan
liel Webster. His father and Mary
Baker G. Eddy, the Christian Science
Header, were cousins. In his facia
ruggedness, Smith betrays his Yam.
kee blood.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-09-04
Senator knute Nelson Has the
Call Also; Dates Being
Arranged.
Applications for SpelIbinders
Pouring Into the G. O.P.
Headquarters.

St Paul, Aug. 28.-John F. Jacobson,
republican candidate for governor of
Minnesota arrived at the state central
committee headquarters yesterday and
found it in the midst of storm of
requests from all parts of the state
for speakers in the campaign. The
leaders of every county in the state
from Kittson to Houston and from Cook
TO Rock have been piling requests on the
desks of the Secretary of the commit
tee
The demand for Jacobson is over
whelming. Every request received at
the headquarters heads the list of
those wanted with the man from Lac
qui Parle. Senator Knute Nelson is
already much wanted in the northern
part of the state, while few southern
counties demand his appearance. The
senator has signifed that he will
make few speeches.
Number of Personal Callers.
Not only do applications come by
letter, but the number of personal
callers, are rapidly increasing and the
request for speakers seems to be the
main lead.
A. B. Allen, editor of the Bemidji
Sentinel says that, if Nelson and
Jacobson will speak in Bemidji, the
republicans will swamp all other par
ties in the November vote.
g.T II tha{
would come to hear Jake speak if
we are permitted to announce him. The
interest in the election depends much
on the personal meeting of the voters
with Mr.. jacobson, which, if done in
Beltrami county, will carry large
number of votes. 1t will bring out a
number of votes from the interior"
When the list of speakers for the
campaign is made up it will show the
presence of a large number of dates
for the nine congressman of the state
Congressman Stevenson will be called
upon to deliver several addresses in
the Ninth and congressman VOlsteac
will also be asked to get busy in the
Sixth
Will Travel Fast.
When interviewed last night, Mr.
Jacobson said that he would 60 as
fast as he could and try to visit every
portion of the state. He left for Win
nebago last night, and from there vii
continue his tour through that part o.
the state, with an idea also of meet
ING all the county leaders and gen
orally lining the situation mp. He be
lieves that his canvass will speak fo'
itself i'm one month.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-09-04
SHIFT OF BRYAN'S MIND.
WORDS OF HIS OWN MAKING
DURING RECENT YEARS.
He Has Done Some Webbing in Or.
der TO Maintain Popularity, His
Silver Uttsrances.

Chicago, Sept 2.-William Jennings
Bryan as the Apostle of consistency
was portrayed today in brightly col
ored literature given out by Secretary
Hayward of the republican national
committee, in charge of the headquar-
tiers at the Harvester building. Quo
tations from past utterances of the
democratic candidate are arranged with
view to making it evident that if
he is not still secretly committed to
the free silver issues he ought to be-
"The democratic party has begun a
war of exterminatiof against the gold
standard. We shall prosecute our
warfare until there is not an Ameri-
can Citizen who dares to advocate the
gold standard" Mr.. Bryan is quoted as
saying at Albany, n. Y, in August
1896.
"Do not let the republicans beguile
you; the future is written in blood
crushed out of you by gold" he said
at Erie, Pa, in the same month.
His statement that eff protection
has slain its thousands, the gold stand.
ard has slain its tens of thousands,
it is also quoted as well as the Nebras.
kan's prophecy that if the gold stand.
ard was maintained and people ."con.
tinued to complain" the goldstandard
advocates, instead of trying to i'm
prove conditions, would recommend the
closing of the schools, $50 that the
people will not realize how much they
are suffering"
The obvious comment is that pros.
perity and extension of education faci
tiles resulted from the peoples refusal
to take the "cheerless pleaders" advice
The candidates speech-that Lincoln ii
July, 1900, is quoted from to show
that even in his second campaign the
leader was passing from "free silver
to the issue of "empire," and his threat
was eff we lose the celebrations Of
the Fourth of July will pass away, and
the spirit of empire will be upon u.s.
"Do you know of any spot in these
United States where the spirit of l77t
is dead and the Fourth of July a mean
ingless date on the calendar" is the
republican reply.
"Jude Parker believes in the golt
Standard believe in bimetallism
but I can vote for him in order thai
through him the party may rid itsel
of an imperial policy" Mr.. Bryan il
quoted as saying only four years ag'
to show the tenacity with which HI
then chung to his free silver doctrines
81 believe today in the principles SCI
forth at Chicago and Kansas City tsix
teen to one) and shall continue t.
fight for those principles, and / be
lieve the fight will be easier wher
we have rescued the country from thu
dangers of imperialism"
The republican document closes will
the statement that the people arr
wondering what new prophecy of dir
misfortune to follow his defeat Mr.
BRYAN will make this time.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-09-04

Albert Lea, Aug. 29.-W. T. Wood
house, who is charged with passing
some bad checks here and left with
out making them good, was appre-
hended in Kansas City, Mo-, and
Sheriff Stubby has just returned with
him. He is now in the county Jail
and must face the grand jury the last
of next month. Woodhouse is young
man and was recently married, but
his record does not seem to be very
good. There seems to be clear case
against him and in all probability he
will be convicted
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-09-04
Chicago Grain and Provisions.

Chicago, Sept. 1.-Wheat-Sept.,
96Ac; Dec, 961sc; May, 99Ac. Corn
Sept, 79hc; Dec, 67ac; May,
65Ac; July, 64hc. Oats-Sept, 4S&c;
Dec, 49ls@50c; May, SIC. Pork
Sept. $14.55; Oct, $14.70; JAN, s16.-
20. acknowledgements, lSk @22kc;
diaries, 17@2Oc. Eggs-19c. Poultry
Turkeys, 16c; chickens, 10@10kc;
springs, 1Ghc.
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From SATURDAYS Daily.

Hog cholrea has broken out in Red
wood county, and, though it has been
raging for only few days, two hun
dred hogs have already died of it.
DR.. NJ. S. Whitcomb secretary of the
Live Stock Sanitary board has visited
the infected district, and says, that the
outlook is discouraging. The farmers
have already suffered big losses as a re-
suit of the epidemic, and, unless the
quarantine measures taken by DR..
Whitcomb prove successful, large per-
centage of the hogs in the county
will probably die, entailing the loss
of vast sum of money.
There is no way of stamping out the
disease at present except by keeping the
hogs in quarantine. Next year, how
ever. all the surviving hogs in the
county will be given toxin treatment.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-09-04
Sale of Barbershop.

Phil NJ. Landmark yesterday bought
out the interest of his partner, A. r.
Sutten, in. the barber shop, and Mr.,
Sutten bought d. B. Ewert's shop,
Just north of the Mankato State bank.
Art Roebke, who has been with Mr.
Ewart, has taken a position with Mr.
landmark. Mr.. Ewart expects. to go to
Duluth for a. few weeks an account OF
hay fever.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-09-04
WILL BOOST BRYAN'S GAME
Robert +. Hudspeth to Be Peerless
Ones" Eastern Manager.
fSneei,l RI The Free Press1
Especial to The Free Press.

New York, Sept. 2.-Robert r. Huds-
peth, chairman of the New Jersey state
democratic committee announced he had
been appointed and has accepted the po-
sition as vice CHAIRMAN of the national
democratic committee and that he will
be the eastern campaign manager for
William j. BRYAN.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-09-04
Chapter Elected Officers.

Blue Earth Chapter No. Z, Roya
Arch Masons last night elected officers
as follows: E. P. Rutan, II. T.; r
w. Bates, K; w. S.. Garner, S; c. A
Chapman, treasurer; w. F. Jewson
secretary; H. Footner, c. H.; +. L
Soaring, P. S.; j. j. Flachsenhar, X. A
c.; H. S. Holman, Sd "; W. .
Wette, End V; Ole Grue, lst v; E. K
Kennedy, sentinel.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-09-04
Damaged BY Smoke.
From Thursdays Daily.

o. c. Johnson's residence, Sl5 West
Fifth street, took fire last night, it
is thought from the kitchen stove, and
a telephone call at l:30 a. m. took
the central station firemen there. The
fire was extinguished with buckets,
and not much damage to the buildings
was done, except by smoke.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-09-04
Death of Mrs. David Will.

Mrs. David Will, one of the pioneer
residents of the Mapleton district
died yesterday at the home of her
son James Will. She was seventy
years old. Mrs. Will was highly re-
spected by a large number of friends
who sincerely mourn her death. The
funeral will be held tomorrow.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-09-04
Will Not Accept Fair Dates.
ro,-, EridouiS Dailv

County and street fair associations
and gatherings in general who are
counting upon Governor johnson as one
of their stellar attractions are due to
be disappointed. His exeellency has
notified his managers that he will not
accent such bookings.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-09-04
DIRECTORS.
WEAK NAN RECEIPT FRFE

Any man who suffers with nervous debili-
ty. loss of natural power, weak back. failing
memory or deficient manhood. brought on by
excuses. dissipation, unnatural drains or the
foll1eS OF youth. may cure himself ut home
with q simple prescription that I will gladly
send free. In plain sealed envelups.to any
man who will write for It. A. f. Robinson.
1854 Luck Building. Detroit. Michigan.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-09-04
OFF FOR alfalfa

On the first and third Tuesday of each month
the Alfalfa Development Company is conducting
popular excursions to the choice fruit and farm
lands OF Southern Washington. starting from
Minneapolis. Fare will be refunded to all pur-
chasers of these lands. Write at once for full
details to r. c. Dahlhjelm. Manager, 225 Rail-
way Building, Minneapolis.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-09-04
St. Paul Union Stock Yards.

st. Paul, Sept. -Cattle-Good to
choice steers, $6.00@6.75; fair to
good, $5.OO@5.75; good to choice cows
and heifers, $4.O0@5.OO; calves, s3.75
@5.75. Hogs-$6.40@6.50. Sheep
Good to choice wethers, $3.75@4.10;
yearlings, $4.O0@4.25; good to choice
spring lambs, $4.50@5.25.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-09-04
Ezra Weber Left an Estate.

From Saturdays Daflv.
T. G. Weber today petitioned the
probate court to be appointed ad-
ministrator of the estate of his son,
the late Ezra G.. Weber. The estate
consists of $1,000 of personal property.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-09-04
DIRECTORS.
Mankato State Bank
MANKATO, MINI.

CAPITAL $4,000
Surplus 6 Undivided profits $4,000
z. G. HARRINGTON, President
FRANK FOWLER, Vice President.
JNO. r. THOMAS, Cashier.
e. SCHOYEN, Assistant Cashier.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-09-04
National Bank of
Commerce
CAPITAL 500, 100000
OFFICERS.

C. L. OLESON, President.
A. l.. WHEELER. Vice President.
VIM. j. F'LACHSENHAR, Assistant
Cashier.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-09-04

received 26s cars VS.. us last
year. Duluth received 1877 cars VS.. 20
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GRAIN QUOTATIONS.

Mankato. Mimi. Sept. 2. 1903
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-09-04
Banks and
= = Bankers
First National Bank

THE OLDEST BANK IN THE CITY,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-09

for which Andrew Carnegie gave $15O.OO1
ours will be as fine as if not more splen-
did than any of these. There is really no
permanent place in Washington where
will rival in beauty and interest any of the
government buildings in Washington. 1t
will cost $1,0OO.OOO, $4,000 of which was
given by the United States and other
American republics. Ground for the new
structure will be broken within the next
two months, and It is expected to be
completed within a year. The building,
which will be erected in Van Ness Park.
opposite the executive grounds below the
White House. will epitomize, in a modern
way. the best clements of that architec-
ture borrowed from Spain and Portugal
which makes attractive so many Of the
beautiful american cities.
ut will be one of the most attractive
buildings in the country. said Mr.. John
Barrett, director of the bureau. as he