The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1911-08-04

few days, visiting at Mr.. Lang's
home. The latter part of the trip
was made in the mud. Mr.. Lang is
well pleased with his car
Robert A. Haedt, one of the pro-
gressive farmers of Decoria and a
breeder of choice o. |. c. hogs, was
in Mankato today. He has just
completed the threshing of his
wheat and oats. His wheat from
120 acres went eighteen and one
half bushels to the acre and the
twenty-five acres of oats threshed
out forty-five bushels TO the acre.
Mr.. Haedt says that some parts of
the field if threshed separately
would have produced much more
per acre while other pieces would
have been less. Mr. Haedt has
been interested in the wheat yields
announced from day to day in The
Free Press, but feels that it is un-
fair to report on specially good
pieces and not those of smaller
yield He would like to hear of
averages of the entire crop Mr..
Haedt says that corn is making rap
id progress and will be big crop
here Late potatoes have been
greatly benefited by the recent
rains and will yield well.
From Wednesdays Daily.
The family circle of DR.. and Mrs.
DeForest Catlin was enlarged this
morning by the arrival of fine lit
lie son.
Russell Burrill has charge of the
work of improving the Matthews
hill, and has two teams at work
placing clay upon it. later to be
covered with gravel. The teams are
hired by the day. 1t is believed
that the hill will be greatly i'm
proved, and if this turns out to be
the case the South Bend hill will be
similarly improved.
GuentZel Bros. of Limetown pur-
chased of Salisbury & John in this
City yesterday a twenty-five horse
power traction engine of the Cana
dian type and manufactured by
Nichols & Shepherd. Minneapolis.
Tie Guent2els will use the engine
10 operate their threshing machine
and next spring il will be pressed
into service 10 handle their big
pillow.
Blue Earth Post: Some people
profess to believe that substantial
track improvements being made by
the Omaha company on this division
means a change in the routing of its
OmahaKans City passenger ser
vice. but not until the Northwestern
road makes like improvements on its
ElmOre- Eagle Grove division can any
thing in this way be expected. The
Omaha is certainly to be com
mended.
Agnes J. Meigher of Philadelphia
today filed petition in the probate
court asking that A. r. Pfau, Jr.
be appointed administrator of the
estate of her sister. the late Mrs.
Mary ]. Henning of Chicago. The
petition alleges that Miss Meagher is
creditor TO the extent of $1,000.
The only heir is the husband, Al
bert Henning. and the portion of
the estate that is in Blue Earth
county is valued at 100000. including
$4,000 of lots with buildings and the
rest farm property.
A number of Fairmont boys find
- the searching for pearls in the Fair
mont lakes a profitable industry.
While no pearls of any great value
Fairmont jewelers. recently esti-
mated that Fairmont boys within a
month had sold pearls amounting to
about $500. A pearl valued at 1925
was found recently in the river near
Blue Earth. Boys who during their
summer vacation have no other en-
ployment can find both pleasure and
profit in the pearl hunting industry.
Sheriff Osten went to Vernon Cen
ter today, accompanied by A. r.
Pfau, Jr., and c. ]. Laurisch, TO
serve attachment papers. The sher
if was to attach a stock of merchan-
disc belonging to Fredericka Mau,
on n claim of Ed. A. Barnes of that
place. 1t appears that Mrs. Mau
purchased a stock of general mer-
chandise from Mr.. Barnes, for 81
600 and paid $500 on it, and was
10 pay the balance July 20. but fail
ed to meet the payment. Mr.. Barnes
then prepared to attach the balance
of the stock in Mrs. Maus hands.
Fielding e Shepley were the sue
cessful bidders on the paving of
Zumbro street and the construction
of the curb and gutter on North
Broadway, Rochester, and were ac-
cordingly awarded the contract at
the meeting of the city council on
Monday night There were two bid
ders for each piece of work, the Cen
eral Construction company of Min
neapols, and Fielding & Shepley bid
ding on the Zumbro paving, and F.
T.. Gufverson and Fielding e Shep-
ley on the Broadway job. In both
cases Fielding & SheDley were con-
siderably lower than their opponents.
Fairmont Independent: Two bright,
intelligent looking Catholic sisters
called upon some of the business
men in town Monday in the inter
ests of the Mankato hospital. This
is a very commendable enterprise,
but Mankato is Mankato, and Fair
mont is Fairmont and needs hospi-
tai. Mankato has already two. Fair
mont none. We hope that our Catho-
lie friends and the business men will
be able to enlist their services and
the good work of the Sisters to aid
in establishing a first class hospital
here. They were being introduced
by that rustling, energetic Polish
farmer, Wycenty Hytry of Silver
Lake.
Lake Crystal Union: viii e. viii