The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-02-02
St. Clair

1 st. Clair is all out of soft coal
inow.
i Ed. Duemland received a carload
| of salt last week Friday.
i G. II. Wilson and Carl PagenkOpf
were Madison Lake visitors last
Sunday
4 Charles Schweitzer attended the
play at Mankato last Wednesday
evening.
i Mrs. John Cords was taken to one
of the local hospitals at Mankato
last Sunday.
George Hussey has two cars of
hogs and cattle shipped to Chicago
last Saturday.
i NJ. C. Dalton was taking in the
sights and high skyscrapers in Man
kato last week.
I Oscar Hulseman and wife and
sisterin-law were Mankato sight
seers Saturday
| Fred Frantz is able to be out. He
is looking fine after his fight with
the rheumatism.
| J. w. Tuttle went home last
Saturday to spend Sunday with his
folks at Albert Lea.
! Howard Preston from Dakota
dropped in on his friends and rela-
tiyes last week for short visit.
]. w. Chase took a load of town
| people out to L. w. Heintzes last
Friday evening for good time.
! Did you all know that we have
had few days of very good winter
weather the forepart Of this week.
This is surely a good place to
dispose of the production of the
farm and also a good trading point.
4 e. G. Perkins one Of the Milwau-
kee officials was in town last Tues
day looking over the company's
property.
A. NJ. Quinn is kept busy these
days at the telephone business as
the weather seems to be hard on
the lines.
The young people surprised Mr..
and Mrs. Oscar HuIseman last Sat
turday evening and a real pleasant
time was had.
/ There were revival meetings held
1 last week at the Evangelical church.
The attendance was very good con-
sidering the weather.
Hon. J. II. Fields made a trip to
Mankato Monday and brought back
a load of -four for II. Thielman.
The famous "Ardee" brand.
The st. Clair Creamery association
has got to haul part of their ice
this year from Eagle Lake as the
ice in the river is all spoken for.
Quite number of the young
people attended the play, 1.-The
Brewsters Millions" at the Mankato
topera house last Wednesday even
ling
The Laird Norton Yards are now
receiving their spring stock of lum-
bar. They seem to believe in
stocking up early and avoiding the
Irush.
Tho elevator is full of wheat
and are loading out as fast as they
can get the cars to load, but still
the farmers are hauling in faster
than they can load out.
Miss Abbie Thielman entertained
her Sunday school class and teacher
Miss Bestman, r. c. Dalton and
Miss Fields were also present. A
six o'clock dinner was served.
- Did it ever occur to anyone that
st. Clair needs newspaper-one
of the good live kind. There surely
is nice live wideawake country
and village here which will and can
support a country paper. Try it.
The Modern Woodmen of Ameri.
ca are going to give dance in the
near future so you had better be-
gin Ito grind up your axes. When
the merry woodchoppers turn out
to do q thing they do mot do it
by halves but always in wholes.
| Some of the sports journeyed over
the snow drifts to Lake Valentine
after some of the tribe which a.
bound so plentiful in that beautiful
body of water, but they all had
to resort to the silver hook prob
lem in order to bring home a
mess of fish.
! Mr.. and Mrs. l.. w. Heintze right
royalty entertained at 800" last
Friday evening. After the game re-.
freshments were served. All present
enjoyed themselves very much, and
all voted Mr.. and Mrs. Heintze many
! thanks and also pronounced them
good entertainers.
| The way that wheat, hogs, cat
tie and corn are being marketed
here these days is great. 1t would
make stranger think that St.
Clair was the only town in Blue
Earth county. By this we mean that
st. Clair is surely on the map or
people would not be able to find
US.
Last Sunday was the first time
we have been in Madison Lake
since they commenced to rebuild
the town and we were surely sur
| prised to see so many new business
places erected where the old ones
had stood. The citizens surely did
justice to themselves and also the
town Of which they can feel proud
of.
j Hone For the Best