The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-05-03
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visiting friends.
Mrs. John C. Davis of hudson Is
visiting her aunt, Mrs. j. S. Davies,
for a few days.
Andrew Under of Barrett was in
the city yesterday buying goods for
his store at Barrett.
Mrs. +. J.. Romack went to Amboy
yesterday to attend the funeral of
the late Mrs. George Marsh.
County Commissioner H. ]. Knud-
son Of Sleepy Eye arrived in the
| city yesterday to visit his daughter,
who is confined at the Emmanuel
hospital.
Glenn Price of Fairmont, formerly
La Mankato Commercial college stu.
dent, is visiting friends in the city
for a few days and expects to leave
for Canada shortly.
Amboy Herald: J. Henafan of
Mankato visited his friend, H. o.
Thompson, this week. Mr.. Henafan
has just returned from Missouri
where he spent the winter. He says
the seeding is just as far along here
as it is in Missouri.
Mrs. Jean r. Brandrup returned
today from St. Peter where she adj
dressed the students of the school
there. She was requested to give a
talk on tuberculosis and its pre-
vention, by the ladies' club of st.
Peter. Mrs. Brandrup was a ply
stefan before being married to Mr..
Brandrup.
A bouncing baby boy has arrived
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. John
Persons. .
] Jack Manly "a arrested by Off.
Ger Pollei last night for begging on
the streets. He said he had a sore
arm and could not work SO he was
allowed to go.
Officer Pollei, who discovered the
leak in the faucet at the George
| Owens piano store Thursday morning
about two o'clock, reported the mat.
ter to Desk Sergeant Charles SEQ.
vile, who in turn, telephoned to Mr..
4 oWViSB IL tHC IouSCL was NuthVt
off.
A large number of diplomas have
been received at the Mankato Com.
mercial college, with orders to have
the penmanship professors, write the
names of the graduates on the diplo.
mas. AT present, Professors Ball and
Nettleton are busy writing the names
of the students at the Mankato nor.
NAL school. "
Faribault Journal: The Consumers
Power company has lowered the
rates on arc lights for the city from
SIS to SOS per year, thus providing
the city with fifteen more lights at
the cost of the lights now used. This
is practically a gift of the Consum.
ers Power company to the city.
That gives Faribault the same rate
for lights that Mankato enjoys.
The state board of control an
nounced the appointment yesterday
of Downer Mullen as purchasing
agent for the state institutions, In
the place of NJ. G. Cutter, who will
leave early next month to engage in
the newspaper business at Thief
River Falls. Mr.. Mullen has been
chief accountant for the board.
Thomas Shirley, assistant account
ant, will be promoted to chief.
Elysian Enterprise: Game Warden
Johnston was down from Mankato
Friday evening, and stated that the
fish license law will be effective as
tsoon as the season opened. That
Lake Francis is famous as q good
fishing field is indicated by the large
number of licenses issued here last
summer. Mr.. Johnston reported that
many more licenses were issued al
Elysian last year to nonresident
parties than were issued at any 9th
er point in the state. ,
A copy of the %Iroquois County
Times-Democrat published in Wat,
seka, Illinois, tells of a tornado
which swept through that county
and killed six members Of n family
and injured every member of another
family. 1t was one of the worst
storms of the kind which was ever
known in that section of the country
and devastated a large amount OF
valuable property. The paper with
the account of the tornado was
brought to this office by Fl. A.
Hanson, who now lives in Belgrade,
but was formerly a resident of Iro.
quois county.
Good Thunder Herald: Albert Pos.
sin met with a curious accident on
Tuesday, the f%racturing of his right
leg below the knee and injury to
the hip. He was engaged in operat-
ing his saving outfit, standing quite
close to the engine. A projecting
set pin on one of the pulleys caught
in his pants, instantly winding them
tight and drawing him into the fly
wheel. The attending physicians
found the bone sticking through the
flesh so badly shattered that it was
found necessary to remove severa
| of it's fragments. The accident will
Hay Mr.. Possin up for several months.
William C. Wood and family came
| down from Mankato just ahead OF
the rain last Saturday for a visit
with the relatives in Grapeland and
| a few miles farther south, writes
THE Grapeland correspondent OF The