The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1916-10-20
RECEIPTS OF LIVE STOCK
Record Breaking Day at South 81
Paul, Is Report.
UNITED Press Dispatch. ]

South ST. Paul, Mimi, October Is.
This was a record breaking day for
receipts of live stock on the South
st. Paul market, total of 921 cars
having been received. The largest
previous number was S95 cars, which
were received on September 25. A
total of 1880 head of cattle were
received today, against 1858 cattle
received on the big day of September
25. Today the stockyards received
$4,000 hogs, a record that has never
been made before.
Miss Lena Peterson spent Sunday
with friends at Rapidan.
A. W. Goldenstar is spending the
week on business at Owatonna.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Will and
family of Mapleton were in the city
on Saturday.
Mrs. Mamie Pearson has been call
ed home to Ivanhoe by the serious
illness of her mother.
DR.. and Mrs. Peterson motored to
Ringstad, Iowa, Saturday afternoon
to spend Sunday with friends.
John H. Holman and Otto Lamm
motored to Hector Saturday morn
ing, returning home Saturday night.
Mr. and Mrs. Emil Metzinger of
New Ulm spent Sunday as guests at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. H. SIAM
ct on Second street.
Mr. and Mrs George Krouss of
Medo spent Sunday visiting at the
home of the latter's sister, Mrs. Mat
tie Dane on Jackson street.
j. C. Creedon, agent at the Mil
waukee passenger depot, with his
wife and baby, has gone to Madison.
Wis, to visit at the home of his
mother.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Busch, Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Busch, and Louis Busch,
motored to Chaska yesterday to
spend a few hours, returning home
last evening.
Ernest Schilling and family of
Sterling Center spent Saturday in the
city and also attended the play Civil
lization at the Mankato theatre in
the afternoon.
William Finger, cashier at the
Chicago & Northwestern freight de-
pot, and Mrs. Finger, are spending
a weeks vacation visiting relatives
at Wanda, Mimi.
Robert H. Rose of Minneapolis,
brother of D. L. Rose of this city,
was visitor in town yesterday. R.
H. Rose is the owner of farm in
Lime township, not far from the city
limits.
Mrs. A. G. Meyer, Miss Lydia Mey-
err, August Meyer, Mrs. b. F. Miller,
and Miss Gertrude Miller motored to
st. Peter yesterday and spent the
day at the home of Mr.. and Mrs!
H. F. Fricke.
Charles OFT, A. G. Lack, Henry
Troost, Henry E. Hance and Alex
ander Scott, all iMankato citizens
who formerly lived at Rochester, at
tended a Rochester home coming of
former citizens of that city between
the ages of forty and sixty last Sat-
urday.
Mrs. B. C.. Broderick of Water
town, S. D., arrived in the city early
this morning for visit with her
aunt and cousin. Mrs. Earle and
Mrs. Huntington of Hinsdale, ILL.,,
who are visiting with her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. William Ellis, on
State street.
Frank W. Hunt is home from Sioux
City, where he went to look over an
automobile that is thought to be his
There were certain marks
on the car which he identified, but
he desired to make the Identification
complete before claiming the car as
his own. He is in correspondence
with the Buick factory in regard to
the matter.
Miss Elizabeth Spencer, the charm
ing soprano singer, who appeared az
the Presbyterian church last We'd
nesday evening in concert recital
with the Edison diamond disc phon-
ographs, singing with photographic
reproductions of her own voice on