The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1911-07-07

every school district, common, IN
dependent, and special, of all chill
dren between six and sixteen years
of age. Children under six years
who will reach the age of six within
the coming school year, also chill
dren who will not be sixteen years
until after September l next will be
included in the list. If parents will
take notice of the above require
ments they may facilitate the work
of the enumerator.
Secretary A. Anderson expressed
his opinion that inasmuch as he
could not leave his work to take the
| census required in one continued
period, that the work could be better
done by person who could take
the time required. 1t was voted to
leave the matter of appointing an
enumerator with the president of the
board 1t was agreed to hold
special meeting of the board for the
purpose of auditing the books of the
officers and the transaction of such
| business as may be necessary in the
closing of the business of the year,
ending this month. Time of the
meeting to be held when a full at
tendance of the board can be had
Allen B. Spear died at nine o'clock
last night at Lis home, 701 Nicollet
avenue, North Mankato, of diabetes.
He had been i'll for some time. Mr..
Spear was born in st. Lawrence
county, New York, January %, 1915.
| He came to Minnesota a number Of
years ago and took up homestead
in Belgrade town. In 1900 he dis
posed of his farm and settled down
| in North MankatO. In November of
| the same year he was married to
Miss Lucy M. Purrier. No children
were born to the couple. A widow
and two brothers, p. p. Spear of
Earl, Wis, W. II. Spear of Bel
grade, and a sister. Mrs. Vesta Bal
! lou of Earl, survive him.
i Mr.. Spear was an excellent citi-
zen and was highly respected by a
| large circle of friends.
The funeral will be held Sunday
| afternoon at one o'clock from the
residence and at three from the
! Kerns church Rev. Bacon will con-
duct the services. The interment
will be at Oak Grove cemetery, Bel
grade.
The Pastorate-Lawrence company
who will lay the water mains, are
experiencing some delay in getting
started on their work. The mas
sive trenching machine which has
been in the Great Western railway
yards in Mankato several days was
| found too heavy to safely take over
the bridge. The city commissioners
raised an objection to having the
machine cross the bridge and the
contractors do not feel inclined to
run any risk of damages to either
the bridge or their machine 1t was
decided to ship it over the North
western road to Oshawa in NicOllet
county and from there be taken over
country to North MankatO by way
of the new hill road, which is at
present in fine condition.
The last week has seen many
weeds cut, adding greatly to the ap
pearance of the village in general
Last evening number of men and
boys of the Methodist church cut
the weeds and grass on the vacant
ground west of the church, trans
forming it into a park. This GROUND
is not the property of the church
but permission was given last veal
to trim the trees and to cut the
weeds Other vacant lots might be
similarly taken care of.
An invitation is extended to the
members of the Mankato Gun clut
to join the local gun club in theil
special shoot to take place in the
forenoon of the Fourth of July, be
ginning at eight o'clock. Everybody
is invited to see the interesting and
skillful target shooting, etc. A cele
bration worth attending
The funeral cortege of the late
Mrs. Patrick Kelly will leave the
residence at 2:30 o'clock tomorrow
afternoon. and the funeral services
will be held at st. Johns Catholic
church at three o'clock.
/ From Mondays Daily
The police were informed yester
day that Martin Meierhofer. an elder
ly man and an old resident, anC
formerly proprietor of a brickyard
was held up and robbed late Satur
day night in North MankatO. not fal
from the residence of Henry Robel
which is at S21 NicOllet avenue.
According to the report, Mr.. Meir
hofer had received his earnings Of
something over SIS for last week and
had spent portion of this sum. and
had between 81 and So left He was
on his way to his boarding place
after eleven o'clock. and when neal
it he was suddenly confronted by
) two men, who demanded his money
) He handed over what he had, and
the highwaymen then allowed him tc
depart, and made their own escape
, Afterwards, when Mr. MeierhOfer go
, to thinking it over, his anger arose
and he started on the war path fol
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