The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1915-10-01

| State Medical society at Rochester
during the next two days.
r. NJ. Richardson OF Minneapolis
travelling representative for the III. w
John Manville company, was In the
city on business yesterday and today
Mrs. Dan Stannard of st. Paul and
| her daughter. Grace. arc in the city
visiting at the home of Mrs. Stan.
nard's sisters. Misses Rose and Mamie
! Albert.
Mrs. c. II. Davis OF st. Peter, and
Mrs. William Liggett and Mrs. James
T. Schoonmaker. both OF st. Paul. are
in the city as the guests of Mrs. w. ]
Morehart.
Miss Fanny Gibson OF st. James
passed through Mankato today on her
way TO Wells. having received word
that her mother. Mrs. William ellison
of that city, was dying.
X. s. Thompson of st. James. clerk
of the district court for Waterman
county. was n caller I'm the city today
Mr.. Thompson says that two weeks
more OF favorable weather will give
that county good crop OF corn.
Minneapolis Journal Mrs. William
l.. HiScn will go to Maukato this week
where she will visit friends for few
days. Early in November Mrs. Hixon
will go east to spend tho Thanksgiy-
ing season with her son, Lloyd Hixon.
a student at Yale.
Fairmcut Independent: Mrs. VI. VI.
Bassett went TO Nankato this morn :
ing to assist her husband i'm selecting
n place of residence in that city. Mrs.
Bassett aud children win move there
In about two weeks. Their son who Is
at present at Minneapolis has secured
a fine position I'm Mankato.
+. +. Crandali. Judge Lorin Cray,
r. VI. Currier. r. Kron, and II. A.
Patterson, as committee from the
Mankato Commercial club. went to
St Paul. where they held a meeting
with James Y. Clark. vice president
Of tho Omaha railroad at his office. in
regard To the new denot proposition.
GAINESVILLE Argus: II. T.. Gates has
removed from Alma City to Mankato
to remain temporarily. he informs us,
until he can determine upon a loca-
ton. He does not know just where
he will go. possibly to the coast. But
i'm the meantime he will not be I'm n
hurry. II may be that he will con-
clude after a time to settle in James
vile.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Hohmann left
last night for the twin cities. AS The
Free Press stated few days ago, Mr..
Hohmann will see some of the mem
bers Of the state highway commission
in the interest of the project of getting
more financial aid from the state for
the new bridge that is to he erected
across the Minnesota river ut Main
street
II. w. Watson. representative Of the
Edison laboratory of New York city,
and advertiser of the Edidson Dia-
mond Disk photograph. is in the city
and is making his headquarters Mt the
Conner II. Jones store. Mr.. Watson
is not here to sell the phonograph but
to entertain people with them. He
will be here about three weeks and
during that time he will give. free OF
charge. monograph entertainment at
lodge meetings, parties, and gather
ings of various kinds.
+. n. Nickerson. an old time Blue
Earth county resident and a native
born resident of Vernon Center, ar
rived i'm Mankato last night from
Seattle. where he has resided the
past twelve years. This is his first
visit to his cid home since he left
here I'm 1903. and he finds many
changes in Mankato in the interval.
Mr.. Nickerson is i'm the contract and
building business in Seattle and has
prospered. He still owns the old home
farm in Garden City, and expects to
close out his interests there before
returning to the coast.