The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1916-09-01

curity Loan company of Geraldine,
Mont, is in the city, the guest OF
, George B. Owen.
| Vance Mape leaves Wednesday
morning for Holland, Mich, where he
has accepted position with the Hol-
land -Aniline company.
! Miss Vera Holmes of LIE Suem
Center has returned to her home,
after making an extended visit with
Miss Maetin at 800 Willard street.
| S. G. Davis, prominent farmer
residing near Lake Crystal on Route
/, is spending a couple of days in
Mankato attending to business mat
/ tiers.
| Hugh R. Jones, salesman for the
George Atchison Land Agency, left
this noon with a party of five pro-
spective buyers, enroute for Crosby,
/ N. d.
Mrs. R. Gingles and three daugh-
tiers, formerly of Alexandria, Mimi,
have come to Mankato to live and
will make their home in the Omalee
! Flats
Mrs. William Irving and daughter,
Miss Jesse, and Mrs. P. j. Staley
and daughter, Miss Rose, are spend
ing several days as guests of friends
at Lake Crystal.
j. c.. Brennesholtz of Minneapolis,
who spent Sunday visiting at the
home of his nieces, Misses Elizabeth
Brennesholtz and Grace Park has re-
turned to his home.
o. h. Round, 2 st. Paul architect, is
in the city comforting with local Ar
chitect Shipped in relation to the
Mankato State Bank work. He drove
down and returned home again to-
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. G. Shogren and
two children, of Madison, Mimi, were
the guests of the Chris Burmeister
family yesterday. Mr.. Shogren is
county auditor at Lac Qui Parle
county. ,a
| County Surveyor Roy Allison to-
gether with three viewers, Scott Gro
yer of Sterling and "A. E. Quimby and
Frank Pohl of Mankato, went today
to look over the site of judicial ditch
! No. II in Garden City township.
| A. l.. Goldenstar, civil engineer, has
returned from business trip to Web
ster City, and Marshalltown. Iowa,
where he looked over drainage work
and conferred with members of the
American Society for Testing Ma
| terials.
w. C. Sexter, who was for nine and
half years clerk at the Owatonna
hotel in the city of that name, has as
sumed the duties of day clerk at the
Saulpaugh, succeeding Ed. Lerach,
! who has gone back to his home at
| Owatonna.
! Mrs. J. w. True and daughters,
Misses Laurel and Jeanette, and son,
i Charles, who have been visiting in
the city for the past two weeks, will
| leave Thursday night for Chelsea,
| Oklahoma, where Miss Laurel will
attend summer. school.
County Commissioner Thomas Fol-
ey and Custodian David Jones of the
court house were this morning en-
gagged in doctoring up the fine spruce
tree that stands at the foot of the
hill on the court house lawn near the
Fourth street sidewalk. Some mis-
creant about two days ago, it would
seem, cut a ring around the tree and
peeled the bark. There is some hope
of saving the tree This act of wan
ton vandalism was not discovered I'M
til last evening.
G. A. Nachbar, for a number of
years resident of Winnebago City,
has moved with his family to Man
kato and will reside at 1926 Byron
street He will become connected
with the Byrnes Brothers agency in
this city, having charge of the grain
apartment, succeeding S. H. Gran
mis-, who retires from the manage
ment after many years of service.
| William Byrnes will have charge of
the coal and fuel department of Byr-
mes Brothers. Nachbar was secre-
tary of the Winnebago Commercial
club and prominent in affairs in that
community.