The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1913-09-19

Joe of International Falls, Robert,
Arthur and Glenn of Waterville.
They had a delightful meeting and
one which will be remembered the
rest of their lives.
Earl Tabor was in Eagle Lake
Monday and purchased a Kentucky
drill and manure spreader from
Cummins & Co.
G. A. Pickle and his brother, Johan
and, son, John, motored to Lake
Valentine Tuesday and brought in
a nice string of fish, consisting OF
pickerel, croppies and bull heads.
Mrs. u. r. Stevens has gone to
her girlhood home in Canada to
visit with relatives.
Solomon Youmans has laid &C.
| ment side walk in front of his dwell
ing and a very nice approach to his
walk.
/ Mrs. Pearl Walker was taken very
sick Saturday and was rushed to
the home of her sister, Mrs. Cuddy
of Mankato, where she is receiving
| the best of care from a doctor and
nurse. She is reported to be some
| what better.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Claus Eckman were
in Eagle Lake Tuesday evening with
| a fine lot of comb honey, made from
/ the Eastwood bloom of this year.
| From the talk ofthe boys, chickens
and ducks seem to be very plentiful
| this year.
! George Chapman, Jr., has just re
! turned from Montana and reports
that things there are prosperous. He
thinks OF going back.
Thomas Wilson, Jr., has moved
into the Mrs. Arthur Hill house, or
! Second street.
II
railroad tracks on the streets ap
! preaching the gas works, packing
house and knitting mills would d.
away with the danger and nuisance
now experienced by the Mankatt
! public and would do away with the
necessity of having the gates there.
Mr. Hubmer, cashier of the st
Clair bank, spent some time in Eagle
Lake Tuesday. ' ...
/ Ephraim Clements has been &C
cused of buying a Metz car, and i
is hoped that the accusation is true
d a Frank Hunt was in Eagle. Lake
Tuesday putting up posters to ex
plain how to get The Free Press fo
So. so a year. The price looks gooC
to Eagle Lake folks and no doub
the subscription list will be great,
increased.
The cane mill started operations
yesterday and cane is coming in a
a lively gait.
The sale of Thomas Lemons house
hold goods last Monday was wei
attended by both ladies and gentle
men. At times the sale was quit
spirited and the goods brought fai
| prices. Mr.. and Mrs. Lemon will g
to Seattle very soon to spend tn
rest of their days no doubt nea
i their children They shall be great
missed here, having made man
friends during their ten years res
dence in the village.
! Mr.. and Mrs. Jonah Pickle of In
brothers family. Mr.. Pickle wa
here about twenty-eight years ag
and will be remembered by the oil
settlers of. Eagle Lake.
J. From Fridays Daily.
4 The following letter is the last on
= which DR.. J. w. Andrews wrote t
4 The Free Press during his trip t
q Panama, from which he returne
4 yesterday: after an uneventful vo.
age of one night from Colon, W
r arrived at Bocas del Tero, littl
), group of islands near the wester
y boundary of the Panama republic
at about nine o'clock September
/ The islands are situated well UP
! the point of little bay, and W
i cast anchor at, the little village c
Il Almasanti. This is the Atlanti
terminus of railroad owned an
operated by the United Fruit con
!; pany, extending into and throug
/ their banana plantations. Almasant
: is a little village built on tide waite
j land. The people live in littl
s wooden houses one story high an
j they are erected on stills or woode
Il underpinning about three feet higl
II The sidewalks are on the same leve
u as the floors, both sidewalks an
II floors being built above the groun
Il to protect them from the incomin
eide.
High Tide Twenty Inches.
High tide here is about the sam
as in Colon, about twenty inche
deep. This little tide water town
if we may SO express it, is UNUSUAL
clean and free from flies and mosqu
4 toes because the people, largel