The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-11-19

He is close friend of the governor
and it is said that he has turned to
as an appointee after it was seen that
tie democratic leaders of the state wa
hopelessly divided. His claims had
been urged only the past day or so by
delegation from Towner county, GOA,
sisting of j. V. Brooke, Alex Currie
and Thomas Conyers.
Vernon Center News: Peter and Mrs.
Mertcsdorf are now full fedged Vern-
onitcs having taken possession of the
place which they purchased of S B.
Babcock They have been our most
prominent and prosperous farmer citi-
zens and are among the old settlers,
and now leave the homestead in the
hands of their children who are cap
able to carry on the work. They
expect to now rest from their toll
and enjoy the full fruition of their
hopes for old age. We welcome them
to our village and trust they may find
their new home congenial
AIapleton Enterprise: A week or so
ago when putting ON storm windows
Martin Schlingerman injured one of
his fingers on nail. Last Sunday
while at Mankato the member com
menced to pain him considerable and
continued to grow worse until We'd
nesday when it was found that the
entire hand was badly swollen and the
ATTENDING physician decided that it
would be necessary to lance the in
jured finger. The injury is very pain
|ful and Mr. Schlingerman does not
texpect to be able to do his work for
a week or so.
Window Reporter: Mr. Standenbar,
a Jeffers saloonkeeper, whom Drs.
Sogge and Dudley were called last
Thursday to operate on, died on Friday.
The doctors report his as one of the
most shocking cases they have ever ex-
perienced. The fellow was drunk when
they were called, and was still drunk
when they attempt the operation, and
made the request that if he died a
bottle be buried with him. His case
was strangulation of the bowels,
and under the most favorable circum-
stances would have been bad case to
handle. but he was so thoroughly
stepped in alcohol there was no chance
for him, and the operation was resorted
to only as last resort
Good Thunder Herald: Mrs Richard
Houk received the sad news on Mon
| &c IS G. ID
Chapel, which occurred at Park Ra-
pids early Sunday morning Nov 7, pre-
sumably from heart failure Mr.. Chapel
has been here many times and is quite
generally known, being of commanding
appearance, giant in statute and
strength. He was native of New
York state, 81 years of age and his
faculties were unimpaired: in fact he
bore his age to remarkable degree.
Mrs. Hamline Baldwin, Georgia; Mrs.
Kate Secrist, Heron Lake; Mrs. Sarah
Antrum and Mrs. Laura Tubbs, Park
Rapids, Mrs. Jennie Crapsy, st. Paul;
Mrs. Alice Jane, of Burt, Iowa, and
Mrs. r. L. Houk >, of this place, are
tuduSHlClo, anu INC OHIy ooH, ~. IL
lives. at Forest Lake Wis, and since
Mr.. Chapel gave up his home at Heron
Lake, he has lived with these children.
Winnebago Enterprise: A peculiar
accident occurred on the j. s.
Lord farm about seven O'Clock
Saturday. The threshing crew at
work there had Just started up for
the days run when there was an eX-
plosion in the fire box of the engine
The flue door was blown open, and the
fire shot out. covering five stacks of
wheat, out of setting of six. The
| five stacks were soon reduced to ashes
and it took hard work to save the
straw pile, which if it had caught
fire would undoubtedly have communi-
Gated the blaze to the farm buildings
As near as we can learn, it was an
unavoidable accident and no one was
to blame. The engine belonged to
Holt & Davis, the separator was own
ed by E. e. Harding. The engine was
damaged to the extent of about $500
and the loss Of the grain is estimated
at about the same figure. The grain
was jointly owned by S. J. Lord and
| c. E. Reed, and the loss of it was COW
cred by insurance. The only fortu-
nate thing about the accident is that
no one was hurt.