The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1914-05-08

Sichu fFHfff hhvft VISIT viii D
Erwih's mother. Mrs n. d. Hub
hard. lls -,
Miss. Audrey ,Pettijohn OF St Paul
| Is spending a few days visiting at the
home of her grandparents. Mr.. and
Mrs. ]. A. lie Claire. on Lincoln
street. -.
Mrs. l.. J., Fazendin and her little
daughter OF saltwater are spending
| two weeks with Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
r. Butler. the. latter being Mrs.
Fasendin's sister ~ S,i
Mrs e. ]. Robinson and daughter,
Miss Mildred. returned to their
home In Minneapolis this noon after
being the guests OF Mrs r. D. Hub
bard for three weeks.
George ID Nettleton went to st.
Paul today and tomorrow afternoon
he will deliver IN. address before a
meeting OF men at the Clinton Ave
nue. Methodist church.
From saturdays Daily.
A copy of the. third annual re.
port OF the. Board OF Trade Of the
city OF Mankato for the year ended
January J.. 1878. has come to light,
through the efforts of George II.
Clark, and has, SOME interesting facts
contained. in X .s.sst,s
Charles +. shannon was secretary
OF the board and compiled the re
port. Twelve stores, which sold
dry goods were operated ID the city
during that year five OF which were
devoted solely to that business, !, The
sales reported amounted to .s245, 900.
Some OF the prices quoted ON these
goods we're; Sheetings. ,inbleached.
~ and one-half to IA cents; bleached
sheetihgs. l5 to rs cents; Kentucky
jeans. s5 to SIS cents: prints. eight
and oiie-half. TO- twelve and one
hair cents: cotton aannels,, 20 to
s5 cents; imported silks, $3.50 to SIS.
Twenty-Five stores dealt In grocer
les and the sales were reported as
amounting to. 247.7s5. Some CT
the prices quoted were: sugar, seven
and one-half pounds for. dollar.
coffee, 25 and 80 cents per pound;
ted from so cents to $50; prunes
is cents a pound. The, sales of
meats during the year amounted to
s107,s59, A thriving business In, the
manufacture OF wagons, was done
during the year, 2o1 having, been
made. There was also a consider
able number Of carriages. cutters
and bobsieighs made.
The hour industry, had already
started. here and there were 1856
barrels OF foir, made, which was val
ned at sl65.ss6. The price OF wheat
that, year ranged from "a cents to
s1s5.
An interestins paragraph deals deal
with the fruit tree industry. II Is
In part, For the benefit of those
who are skeptical In regard to rails
Ing fruit IN Minnesota. Il is deemed
advisable to report the sales OF fruit
tfees for the year past There have
been sold from the two nurseries
in the city fruit trees to the amount
OF s6,250'' Three hundred and sixty
seven sewing machines were sold
during. the year.. 800 tanning mills,
200 hay rakes, 1910 plows. all OF
which were manufactured here. Then
there were many imported machines
sold including 4ss reaping and now
Ing machines. forty,fve threshing
machines, 2u5 seeders and drills. and
others.
The stone industry WIS being de,
yeloped somewhat and Stone was
quarried. which was. valued /, at $i6,-
500 The proceeds from the brick
manufactured were ssl,S00.
The amount OF insurance, carried.
including Are, life and accident pol
icles was si.esi ,5ss and the
premiums paid were s2i.14s.10. The
amount or freight forwarded from
the city was s2,ss9.4s5 pounds and
the amount received was 2s.744.0Is.
Front street for d defiance OF one
mile was given a coat of six inches
or broken stone and four inches
OF gravel at a cost OF s11.st2. Ten
thousand dollars was spent FOR other
street improvements in the city.
Thirty-six brock buildings costing
s15S,7eO were erected and forty-one
wooden buildings which cost ss2,s75,
were built.
among the manufactured articles
mentioned are linseed oil and tow.
soap. pearl barley. Champion Bor-
art harrows.
There we're ten churches in the
city; Presbyterian. Methodist, Bap-
tist. CongregatIonalist, Christian.
Episcopal, Catholic, WEIGH. German
Evangelism association and German
Lutheran. The total capacity. OF
these churches was 5000. Three
newspapers were published weekly.
the Review. the Record and the
Union. Three banks looked after
the finances OF the city. the First
National the Citizens National and
the City Bank, with combined
capital OF s274,OoO.
Two lines OF railway ran through
the city. the ST. Paul and Sioux
City. and the winona and ST Peter.
The total debt OF the city at that
time. was $4,000. and the total
amount OF taxable PROPERTY, real and