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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-01-15

There Is more Catarrn It, efr,s section OF
the country than all other diseases put
together. and until the last few years
was supposed to be incurable For q
great many years doctors pronounced it
local disease and prescribed local reme-
dies. and by constantly falling to cure
with local treatment, pronounced 1t in
durable. Science has proven catarrh to
be a constitutional disease and therefore
requires constitutional treatment. Halls
Catarrh Cure, manufactured by +. j.
Cheney & Co, Toledo, o., Is the only
constitutional cure On the market. 1t is
taken internally in doses from ten drops
to a teaspoonful. 1t acts directly on the
blood and mucous surfaces of the sys-
tenn. They offer One Hundred Dollars
for any case It fails to cure. Send for
circulars and testimonials. Address: f.
J. CHENEY & CO, Toledo. q.
Sold by druggists 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for o0nstipa-
ton
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-01-15
HAS SERVED HALF HIS TIME
A. A. Bucks Good Time Allowances
Will Aid His Case Greatly.

A dispatch from Saltwater says:
"The friends of Alfred A. Buck, the
Mankato bank defaulter, were making
inquiries at the state prison today re-
lative to his release upon parole. At
the meeting of the board of control
last week he was an applicant for a
pardon but the board deferred action
in the case. Buck was given a sen
tence of six years and four months
and, with good time allowance, has
served little more than half of it,
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-01-15

The Earle Institute, Minneapolis,
does all kinds of facial work such as
removing defects and blemishes and
correcting all kinds of irregular noses,
ears, eyes, chins, cheeks or mouths.
There is nothing like this Institutes
work west of New York City. Their
advertisement appears in this issue,
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-01-15
lAbove prices are live weight
Groceries and Provisions
Wholesale Prices

WANTED nave purchased the wood
saving outfit of Mr.. Graves, and will
do saving at any time. Country
work a speciality. C. H. Burmeister,
Citizens phone ll25M, or North
western 294
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-01-15
CHICAGO
received l29 cars VS. iG6 last year.
Dnluth rapeiv..d a &c
MINNEAPOLIS CASH MARKET
ST. Paul Union Stock Yards.

st. Paul, Jan. 2.-Cattle-Good to
choice steers, $5.5O@6.5O; fair to good,
$45005.25; good to choice COWS and
heifers, $4.O0@5.00; veals, $5.OO@6Z5.
Hogs-$5.50@5.90. Sheep-Wethers,
$4.50@5.25: yearlings, $6.OO06.75;
spring lambs, $7O0@7.40.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-01-15

Bet Anything It's the Pink Sheet.
Duluth Herald: Does your boy read
the newspapers? And what part of
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-01-15
BEFORE PRESIDENT RETIRES
Senator TiIlman Will Make Another
Speech About Roosevelt.

Washington, Jan. 13.-'Many people
are sending me material in regard to
Roosevelt's dark and crooked ways,
and | am preparing a speech in which
| will try and redeem my promise
made Monday" said Senator Tillman.
He said he did not know how soon
but he would make it before the presi-
dent retired from office.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-01-15
Tailor Committed Suicide.

Adam Skorupinski, Rochester
tailor, committed suicide by hanging.
He and his wife had quarrelled.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-01-15

Cleveland Leader: Ideas Unneces-
sary.-And what do you do when you
run out of ideas for jokes?
The Humorist-I write poems.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-01-15

Itch cured in 80 minutes by Wool
lords Sanitary Lotion. Never fails.
Sou ~ ,las1I Drug Co.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-01-15
DAILY EaagEy REPORTS

oers Of the Minneapolis and Chicago Ey-
changes. Room No r. Free Press Bldg
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-01-15
GRAIN QUOTATIONS

Mankato, MINI Jan. Is. 1909
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-01-15

Highest market prices paid for bar
ley. William Bierbauer Brewing Co.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-01-15

MINNEAPOLIS
nnnn;nu H;oh an rIAi
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1909-04-15

Buy your wire fence Of Smith & chft.
Mrs. wm. Adams spent yesterday in
Ithaca.
Jess Walker, the plumber, is at Smith
q Cars.
Miss Charlotte Smith is very sick at
the home of her parents. Mr.. and Mrs.
J +. w. Smith of this city.
The Presbyterian Fortnightly will
meet with Mrs T. w. Marsh, 6l9 West
Center street, Tuesday afternoon. April
GOTH
HOUSE, TO RENT-Eight rooms, all
nicely papered; good cellar and garden,
large lot, 325 Ely street. Inquire Bart
Miller.
City clean up days have been arranged
for by the Civic Improvement league
and the city council. April 30 and, 30
and May if needed are the days set
apart for this purpose.
DR.. Jay Clizbe, A. f. Bruske, J. T.
LNAhS ohu NSN. II. L. Oidln III biils
city attended the meeting of the Sagi-
nav Presbytery held in Saginaw, Tues
day and Wednesday of this week.
VIM. Davis of the firm of Davis Bros,
who for the past ten months has been
absent from the city, and who now is
employed at one of the fraternity houses
at Ann Arbor, arrived in Alma, Monday.
for visit of couple days with his
parents and friends in this city.
The Epworth league will hold its
regular monthly business and social
meeting at the home of Miss Marjorie
.Delavan, business meeting to begin at
7:30. All young people sre cordially
invited to attend and every one is re-
quested to represent some well known
book.
Lester Sharp, who is attending John
Hopkins University, is spending this
week with company of fellow students
and members of the faculty in northern
Maryland, Virginia and Pennsylvania
studying the various ferns and kinds OF
rock formation. Mr.. Sharp is studying
biology and botany at the university,
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1909-04-15

A Ina has four wool BUYERS. all OF
whom are anxious to secure the wool
tributary to the Alma market Two
thousand cards announcing in sub
stance the above statement have been
tackled up through Gratiot county, and
surrounding territory The farmers
are sure to get the ton price for wool
W en- hauled TO this market.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1909-04-15
La France COrSetS.

For character Of corset production,
for strength of fabrics, reliable boning,
flat everything materials which prevents
unbroken gown lines, the La France
corsets have 10 equal. See the splendid
line at Mrs. Bart Miller's.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1909-04-15
THE EYE

No operation known to modern science,
requires greater skill and Judgment than
the proper fitting of lenses to the abnor.
NAL eye. l. takes mental and mechani-
cal training. through long years of ex-
perienoe. Every case must be taken in
dividually separate. The neverous energy
which is so vitality affected by diseases
in the different organs of the body per-
hsps would permit the prescribing of
certain lenses in case, while another
with the same error of refraction could
not accept the lenses at all In such
cases the experienced operator is the
only one who is capable of making
selection. Therefore would it be possible
for a grocer (who late in life without
mental or mechanical training, but hav-
ing taken a three months course in a
third rate optical school and acquired
the title of DR.. of Optics) to be compe-
tent for such responsibility? Often
times the inexperienced operator will
prescribe a minus tense i'll case OF
spasm of the accommodation which only
aggrevates the nervous condition of the
patient. No instrument ever invented
will enable the inexperienced to pres
cribe properly, for the best can only
give the static refracti1n of the eye.
Inflated advertisements are not All evi.
dence of skill and experience The ooun-
try is full of traving fake opticians, some
Intentionally so. Others, while perhaps
honest, yet through inexperience, are
ignorant Of their deficiencies. The pub
lie should investigate and thoroughly,
post themselves in regard to the ability
of the operator, who is to be trusted
with the delicate operation of adjusting
the retroactive error in the eyes.
G. B. PORTER,
Optometrist.
Holbrook argus., 1909-04-20

The Dutchman ran his sleepy eyes over it, grunted "Gcot!" sigE Id it and handed it back to him.
 Aaron folded it, put it in his pocket. took up his pack and departed. The justice got up from his chair. and by the aid Of two canes got himself into the house, where supper was served him by his daughter. Then, after a couple of hours smoke, he went to bed.
 The next morning when he woke up and called Katrina, as usual. there was no response. The old man reused his neighbOrs, who hunted high and low for the damsel, but she was not to be found. That she had gone with the peddler never occurred to the justice or any of the stupid Dutchmen. If they. connected her disappearance with him, it was that he might have mur- dered her
 Two days passed, and Katrina did not reappear. Then one morning there came a letter to old Van der DOnk. Since he was not used to re- ceiving letters, he felt sure it con tained information of his lost daugh- ter. He broke the letters seal. It contained statement closing his ac- count with the bank in Albany where his daughters legacy was kept.
 There was one inclosure. The nutchman looked at it frontward, side wise and upside down. He could make nothing of it. Then he called the nearest notary, who read it and told him that it was an order for the bank to pay to Aaron Whitney his daughters legacy, with accumulated interest. In ten minutes more a light broke into the old mans brain
 'Yah," he said collectively, its t nkee pass"
Holbrook argus., 1909-04-20
VERY EVICENTLY HIS FIRST ONE
Young Nan Was Proud Parent, an-'
 CiGa't Care Who Knew 1t.

There was no booth in the corner drug stcre. The young man at the -'0 phone therefore could be heard by a1 the customers who ranged about the soda water fountain. His face beamcd .s he talked
 "EvcrytIing is all right" he was saying.
 "N-c'am?
 "Ycs'm. Eleven pounds. Beautiful 5cy. 'l:r me. they say
 "Ma'an?
 "Yes'm. Resting qri~tlv. Wou'd nave sent for you. but tt0uT3t it best net to. Didn't want to worry you.
 "Ma'an?
 "vcs'm. I'll attend to all tat.
 "aa'am?
 "ves'm. I'll tell her you're coming Town riT.'t away, Beautiful boy.
 Ma am?
 "Yos'm. Eleven pounds and looks just Ike me"
 He rang off and walled Tr0~d'v out If the druE store appareIt'v ob ivi~-'s to the smiling conferences of his iptCre-t-d listeners ranged around the soda fountain.
Holbrook argus., 1909-04-20
Old and New.

The peHny-Or two-celt-TOst he tween England anI America is new and at the same time very old thing. It is over 200 years old. It existed in 169S
 In those days shipmasters crossing the Atlantic either way were very glad to carry letters and messages. A week or two before their ships sailed they would hang up bags in coffee houses. and ;rl letters dropped into these bags were carried over seas and faithfully delivered at the rate Of penny. or two cents. apiece
Holbrook argus., 1909-04-20
Ghosts in scot..c,1 Kc----.

Scotland is rich in 2lCst l0rC There IS. perhaps. hardly 9 c"stle O. run which has not some sra@;al s-ory cling in% to it. anl the strGn%e rat of the alter is tAat many of ihe le~e~ds are
 ub=tan.i iated bv latter day eVrer:- ences. DIn~obi1 ccs'le tho IIi~hland hcr,C of the duke Of Su he"'and. b0~s,s If a haunted room. The .pecier there 's invisible and denotes its rreselce ny an awe-irs. ring lau~h. The s cry -0es that one of the duEe's ance to-
 aused the cEi~f of rial can to ba starved to death in his room. wis ing hin periodically during his sTr
 ring end la1ghiHg at lis tor-ures. \s pu";shTent fer this crime he un-
 c-u~Ulcus cL.ect&iH has to haunt the 'oCm.
Holbrook argus., 1909-04-20
NiTtade Nickra-1 .,

We have EicknaTes for tIe vtnta ~es which few persons except he wine .lyinAu"s know. Thus the vintaga Of
 he present. year we cal Zaprelin. ir hCnor of the air nav;s-tor's acfiere
 ent and because it is 90 high. Rec '~ds show that these nickna nos wee hr~' owed on viniagcs as far 3lek a l5.3. when the bad-wate~cd wine wSs -5,Ife1 Baptist. -s,.siI $ :
 Tie sour wine of 1860 was carlea Ga~;baldi. and in memory of t,la CA. nee war the 1894 w:na i= st.ll know-a as V'eitaiwei. The v'n'are of tS95 pro~is2d nuch aHd rare little. and was nicknarcd Ii Hlng Chang. and an other nickname fo- the sane years vine. Moses. was giv@n because the wine WIS ta'-an from t'e wa,er princi- Eally-.tIuo lene" %eI ichten.
Holbrook argus., 1909-04-20

oultl4S some OI
 est records. Jules Bois said to me =
 There is really rotEing new unde! the sun. The ordinary conception of Greek dress refers only to certain pc ricds. I know what I am talking about.
 q have studied the works of Schlie- mann on Mycenae and of Evans and De Nosso on the prehistoric epochs. have made excavations at KnossOs and in Crete. I have visited museums. dent imagine the things write about The Grecians of the most an cient periods had modern figures. This is the point I insist upon. Look al the statues of the women, ancient Greek vases and sculptures and you will see ribbons, crinOline, head dresses, bas1ues and corsets. The cycling skirt was the usual mode at the court of Agamemmon."
 To prove his points M. Bois had pho tographs of old sculptures and vases. These are eXtraord narily like the modes cf 1880 From these Mime. Pa quin made the costumes for the play. Of course. this upsets popular ideas about Greek dress. and probably mu- sical play showing Ulysses in pajamas and Dido in a kimono will be pro duced on the boulevard as result.
Holbrook argus., 1909-04-20
Additional Locals

Dr. D. C. Brown has received notice from the Territorial Medi- cal Board of Examiners of having passed a very creditable exami- nation. The doctor has decided to make HolbrOOk his home, coming here from Louisville, Colorado. He is q graduate from the Northwestern University. He has had six years continuous practice as physician and comes here well recommended. What little work he has had a chance to do in this place shows him to be careful and painstaking, and no doubt he will be successful in in his new place of residence.
Holbrook argus., 1909-04-20

Mir. John ConnOr and Mir. An dy Boyer are down at St. Joe, during the week puttingin a new building. They expect it will take some little time before the work is completed.
Holbrook argus., 1909-04-20

The county officials are now putting in some trees around the courthouse Building and. will soon fence the entire lot. It is expected to get water from the railroad company for irrigating purposes. When completed this will add greatly to the looks of things around the county build ing.
Holbrook argus., 1909-04-20
THE YAE3Eyl:
 PASS

It was period soon after the close of the revolutionary war that Aaron Whitney, a Yankee peddler, passed through the Mohawk valley on his Way to Albany. The day was Sunday, and there was law among the Dutch men of those parts that no one should travel on that day Moreover, there was as much antipathy between Dutch men and Yankees as there is between cats and mice.
 How the Dutch ever left Holland to make homes in a new country beyond the sea no historian has ever ex. plained, for when a Dutchman was once settled anywhere he never moved. Not so the Yankee He would take up piece of land. improve it, sell it, and go somewhere else.
 Well" exclaimed one of the deacons of the Dutch church, see that Yankee travelling on the Lords dayl Was ever such blasphemy? Let us take him before Justice Van der Donk, who will doubtless mete out his punishment"
 So they took Aaron before the jus tice. He was sitting under an apple tree near his house, with a glass of schnapps beside him and a long clay pipe in his mouth. This is not men, tiCned as an unusual position for the great man, for all the long day he sat in no other.
 As Aaron was taken before him the peddler saw a pair c, ~-1Nnt
Holbrook argus., 1909-04-20

Mrs. L. P. Owens of Woodruff, mother of Mrs. Q. K. Gardner, was in Holbrook during the week. She came to consult the doctor for she has been rather poorly for some time past. She returned to her home Saturday very much improved in health.
Holbrook argus., 1909-04-20

Mir H. H. Scores came in dur ing the week from his sheep camp on the other side of the moun- tain. He reports bad weather for some time past. His sheep are looking pretty well and his lamb crop fairly good.
Holbrook argus., 1909-04-20
A Hint to the Laundress.

Recently while ironing I scorched a fine white waist so badly I feared should be unable to wear it, but after covering it with ordinary starch, dampened. and laying it in the sun for an hour every vestige of scorch Gisappeared.-Natio Magazine.
Holbrook argus., 1909-04-20
The Real Glory of Life.

To be d sIrong Land in the dark 10 another in the ume of need, to be a .up OI stlCnstn to human soul i'll cI1sis of Weakness, is to know the SICry Of lite.-bu=h h Black.
Holbrook argus., 1909-04-20

Mir. w. H Clark made a trip to the mountains during the week. It now seems certain that a railroad will be built from HOl- brook to Fort Apache before so very long. Mir. Campbell and MT Clark have been piloting a number of capitalists and engi- neers over the route during the last few days. These men all speak well of the project, and fully believe such a road should be built and that right away.
Holbrook argus., 1909-04-20

C awhile that he might look upon |. fair face of the justices daughter Kat rina, who had looked upon him out of her blue eyes. And the girl was equal ly desirous of seeing more of the en- gazing peddler, who, leaving his pack for security, went off to the other end of the apple orchard and waited for the girl to come to him, never for moment doubting that she would.
 And she did. She had been long de sirous of pouring out her dissatisfac- tion at the life she led to some person in whom she had confidence, and she felt sure she could confide in the Yankee. She told him that her father compelled her to do all the work, while he smoked and drank schnapps; that she had a thousand dollars in bank at Albany, left her by her moth CT, for which her father was trustee, and that he would not let ner have it. The peddler told her that she needed husband to work for her, and she would find this much easier and pleas, anter than working for some one else.
 Now, the justice, thinking the ped dler in a hurry to go on when the shades of night came down, intimat ed that for a consideration he would pass him.
 The Yankee declared that Sunday ended at sunset. The Dutchman secuted such theology, maintaining that it lasted till sunrise the next day The Yankee finally consented to pay
 The justice, who either could not write or was too fat or too lazy to write, or could not write in English as well as in Dutch, told the Yankee to write a pass.
 Aaron took up the quill and wrote in an illegible hand on bit of paper
Holbrook argus., 1909-04-20

The Board of County Supervi- sOrs at their last meeting discuss ed the question of paying bounty on wild animals. It is very likely that they will not pay-any more than One dollar on coyotes. The bostrd. agreed that if a bounty of two dOAars was paid, the life--ef q coyote would hardly be worth the living
Holbrook argus., 1909-04-20

The peddler threw off his pac ing a virtue of necessity. At, that was the appearance of it. k he was quite willing to remain (
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-11-09
LITTLE GIRL BREATHES
THROUGH SILVER TUBE
Heroic Operation Performed TO Save
the Life of Five -year-ol Charlotte
Wilson.

Cne Of the most delicate opera
lions known to the medical profession
was performed on little Charlotte WI
son, the -year-Cld daughter of
Mr. and Mrs Thomas II. Wilson. in
Armistead avenue. Saturday. when a
silver tube was inserted into her
throat 70 make breathing possible al
ter the passage had closed.
The little girl had been desperai ely
III for several days with membranouS
Group and Saturday her breathing
practically stopped. DR.. Clarence
Porter Jones, of Newport News. as
sisted by Dr. J. Wilton Hope and DR..
Harry d. Howe. decided that the only
way i'm which the child's life could be
saved was To insert a tube in the
throat. which had to be put in by cut
ting into the throat.
The operation was performed by DR..
Jones, who was assisted by the other
physicians. and it was so successful
that the physicians now have every
reason to hope for the entire recovery
Cf little Charlotte Mr.. Wilson said
yesterday that the work of the ply
sicians practically snatched his little
daughter from the very jaws of death.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-11-09
REV. Mr.. MOTLEY LEAVES
HERE JANUARY FIRST
Pastor of Church of Christ Tenders
His Resignation, Which Is Ac-
copied by Congregation.

Rev W. r. Motley, who has been
the pastor Of the Church of Christ
for the past year. rendered his reslg-
nation to the congregation at the ser
vices Sunday morning. The resigna-
ton was accepted and Mr.. Motley VIII
give up his work here on the first
day Of January.
The resignation of the pastor came
as a surprise to the congregation, al
though il had been known for several
days that Mr.. Motley was considering
such a step. He has not announced
his future plans and so far as IS
known he has not yet accepted call
TO another field.
Mr.. Motley came here a year ago
and has been quite popular with the
members Of his church. He is good
speaker and has worked hard for the
upbuilding Of the Church OF Christ in
Hampton.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-11-09
ERROR IN LAYING NEW
COUNTY STONE ROAD
Contractors Were Given Wrong Lines
Near the George Wythe
School.

At special meeting OF the board
Of supervisors of Elizabeth City coun
" yesterday afternoon the decision
WAS reached to force the construction
of the stone road between Hampton
and Newport News according to the
plans and specifications accepted by
the board.
Several days ago the State high
ways commissioner engineers m
charge of the construction made q
mistake in giving the line 10 the
builder and the road was turned in at
the south of the George Wythe school
building instead of going 10 the north
ward at this point The cost OF I'M
ing in portion of ehe roadway on
the southside was considered. bur
when the error was discovered the
matter was Immediately reported 10
the board OF supervisors.
Chairman Henry C. Shelton called
= special session OF the board for yes
terday afternoon and Mr.. Henley, the
engineer now in charge. appeared be
fore the board and made a statement
concerning the error Mr.. Henley
practically admitted that the error
was due to the officers of the high
way commission and that no blame
attached TO the contractor or county
authorities
After hearing the statement from
the engineer the board decided that
the road must be constructed along
the plans called for in the blueprints
and this will be done.