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

stitutiOn.
From Fridays Daily.
w. V. Garvin and son Of Good
Thunder were in Mankato today
The stork fountain has been erect
ed in Washington park and is in
operation.
Lewis Pierce has disposed of a
forty acre tract in Beauford to Albert
Birr at {; consideration of $3.50 an
acre
Miss Hunter of Mankato will teach
the Willow Creek school and Miss
Swan of Garden City will teach the
Kinnv school the coming year.
Arthur Dengler has resigned his
position with the Eagle Roller Mill
company at New Ulm to accept a
position with a bank at Madelia
Rev A. A. Starks of Mayville,
Mich, has been invited to fill the
pulpit of the Free Baptist church at
MapletOn to succeed Rev. f. Fl. Boil
ton. who went to Iowa Falls in the
spring.
The Dan Patch line expects to be
running cars into OwatOnna by
fall This road is charging but two
cents per mile and is reaping a
good business from Mortified and
other towns through which it op-
crates.
Good Thunder Herald: Friends of
Charles p McCarty will be pleased
to learn of his appointment to the
position of assistant in tax commits
sion work in the state university of
Minnesota. He is now visiting with
| his cousins at OwatOnna. Charles is
Il son Of Mr. and Mrs. A. f. McCarty
of this place.
The police were summoned last
evening to house on Poplar street,
owned by Mr.. Hanna, and leased by
a Syrian. This Syrian has been
! living in the house for three months,
but another Syrian tried to eject him,
and this caused a rumpus. The po-
! lice succeeded in calming the parties
and made no arrests.
A patrol Of Boy Scouts. known as
| the Bob White patrol, has been or
ganized at Good Thunder, with Oscar
| Wendlandt as patrol leader and II.
| j. Smith as scout master. The boys
| possessing the proper qualifications
! will become tenderfoot scouts Friday
night. They have also organized a
i baseball nine and in the near future
will be ready to meet any similar
organization from nearby towns.
! Commissioner of Finance Lamm
received letter this morning from
John Prize of Mellis, Prize G. Co.,
Minneapolis accountants, saying that
I he will arrive in Mankato next Mon
4 Il fn
| from April IL until the close OF July,
J and also will take up the matter Of
the late city treasurers accounts
Mellis, Prize e Co. have contract
to go over the city books each
/ three months.
| County Attorney Schmitt has re-
ceived a reply from Rev. Parsons
J OF the Society for the Unfortunate i'm
Minneapolis, to the letter sent him
in regard to his looking after John
A. Nelson if he should be given a
/ suspended sentence and allowed to
return to Minneapolis. Rev. Parsons
agrees to look after Nelson. 1t is
likely that Judge Pfau will tomorrow
give Nelson suspended sentence
and place him in charge of Rev.
Parsons.
St Peter Herald: The Simplex
! Manufacturing Company moved it's
tools and machinery into it's new
quarters on Tuesday. H. E. Brandt,
the manager, arrived here this week
and is now in charge of the factory,
which has started operations. Dr.
d. b. Catlin, the secretary of the
company, Informs the Herald that
the company will put out 10000
sprayers next year. The company
will employ thirteen men, with
three OH the road
Two robberies were committed at
st. Peter last Friday night, the
meat market of Anton Rausch and
the saloon of f. j. VOgt being en-
tered. AT the latter place the
thieves removed a pane of glass and
unattached the back door Once in.
side they ransacked the cash regis.
ter, taking 81 in money and re-