The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-05

city today.
l.. e. Peick Of Slayton numbered
among the business visitors in the
city today.
Little Miss Hazel Wooden went to
Winnebago today to spend week
with relatives.
Miss Ida Martinson went to St.
James yesterday to remain over
Sunday with friends.
Charles Evans and Attorney G. l..
Strom of Lake Crystal were business
callers in Mankato today.
Arthur G. Jones of Butternut Val
ley numbered among the business
visitors in Mankato today.
Charles +. Force of Vernon Center
and George c. Keith of Sterling
were business visitors in the city to-
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. w. Gillian and
Josephine Gillian of Window are
the guests of friends in the city to-
day. -s.
Russell Swain arrived in the city
last night from Lake Crystal and
spent the day in the city on bust
ness. .... ..
Mrs. J. S. Mcnamara of Lake Cry.
stall and John T. Mcnamara of Ma.
pleton are in the city today Visiting
friends.
DR.. A. T. Conley of Cannon Falls
is in the city on professional bust
ness, and is the guest of DR.. G. r..
Curran while here.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. c., Walbran of
Tracy are visiting friends in Man.
kato today. Mr.. Walbran is trav-
cling representative of the A. J..
Bush company.
Lake Crystal was we'll represented
in Mankato yesterday. Among those
who spent the day here were Mrs.
Robert James, Mrs. r. F. Jones, Mrs.
John J. Evans, Miss Edna Evans,
Evan Owens and Edwin F. Jones.
Attorney C. o. Daley returned yes
terday from Waseca where he had
gone on legal business. A damage
suit against the Northwestern rail-
road was tried and the jury brought
in a verdict for $4,000 in favor of
the plaintiff. The district court adj
/ journed for a week as the judge had
to attend court in another district.
Minneapolis Journal: After three
months spent investigating land
propositions in Texas and California,
John E. Diamond and Harry ]. Dia-
mOnd, of the ]. e. Diamond Land
and Loan company, have returned to
Minnesota, satisfied that this state
has the best possibilities for the land
business of any they have visited.
1--WE spent considerable time looking
| into things in Texas and in South
.Winnebago PreSS-News: Charles
Gleason of Eddy, South Dakota, Wis
| tied old friends here and at Hunt
| ley the present week. Mrs. Gleason
also visited friends here and at Man
katO. About twenty years ago Mr..
Gleason went to South Dakota and
| took up government land which he
| just sold for $35 per acre, cleaning
up nice bunch of money. From
here Mr.. and Mrs. Gleason go to
Cambridge, Saskatchewan, Canada,
where they intend making their flu
ture home. The best wishes of a
large circle of friends in this com.
munity will follow them. -.'.
NicOllet Leader: Mrs. Maria Rengs-
tori, who we mentioned in our last
issue as having suffered a stroke of
paralysis on Thursday. died Satur-
day afternoon at five o'clock, at the
home Of her son. Fred, in CORTLAND
township, she never having regain.
ed consciousness. The deceased was
born in Mehring, Hanover, Germany,
| September 30, 1886. In the year
1850 she immigrated to America with
her parents and remained in Cook
county, Illinois, for eight years,
| wheer she was united in marriage
to John Rengstorf. In 1853 they
came to Nicollet county, locating Oh
farm, which has since been her
home. Seven children were born to
them, Henry and John Rengstorf of
Nicollet township, Fred of CORTLAND
township, Mrs. August Rabe of Man
katO, Mrs. Dora Rabe of Chicago,
and Mrs. William Horst and Mrs.
Sophie Pehling, who have passed
beyond. Her husband preceded her
in death about sixteen years ago.
Mrs. Rengstorf was known to all as
a kind hearted Christian woman
She had many warm friends in the
community in which she had lived
so long, and her passing will be
widely mourned. The funeral was
held Tuesday at one o'clock from
the house, Rev. H. Strassen of the
CORTLAND German Lutheran church
conducting the services, and the re-
mains were inferred in the church
cemetery. May she rest in peace.
Fred Ewaldt was arrested yester-
day on warrant sworn out by
Peter Tacheny, and was charged with
assault in the third degree. Ewaldt
pleaded guilty to the charge before
Judge Comstock this morning and
was given the alternative of paying
a fine of SIS and costs or spending
the next seven days in jail He
paid the fine. Teresa Keinze swore
out complaint yesterday for the
arrest of Carl Unzeitig for using