The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1919-10-17
EVENTS IN EAGLE LAKE
TACKS IN ROAD PICKED
UP BY TIRES.
Lecture Course For the Winter
Is NowBeing Arranged;
News Notes
Especial TO The Free Pres /,


Eagle Lake, October I5.-Mrs. r..
+. Schwab and two children from
Tracy are visiting at the home Of her
mother, Mrs. T.. ]. Russell. They
will be here for some time or until
Mr., Schwab can rent rooms o" Il
house in Tracy, which are very
scarce. Mr.. Schwab is the day oper-
ator in the railroad office.
The large and dangerous tacks
which We're strewn along the Man
kato- Madison Lake road have been
pretty well picked up by auto tires.
Charles Myers took up TWO in one OF
his tires last week.
The Northwestern Railroad CON-
pany has a crew of men laying and
! fixing the sidewalk this week
! The railroad is so short of cars
for shipping beets that it is estimated
track
Joseph Langnecker has at last Sc
cured farm which he has rented
near Kasota. Farms are very scarce
about here to rent. =
Herman Gregg has rented 400
acre farm; near Bingham Lake from
a man of Iowa, who will stock il
with some three or four hundred
pigs.
Miss Danna Cummins who is at
tending Pillsbury academy at Owa-
tonna. came home for Sunday, She
says she was not homesick but want
ed TO see the family pet dog Peggy.
She returned Sunday evening.
Some three months ago hoes were
! 'nH hundred pounds. - After a
months more feeding hogs are now
worth $11 ana s12 hundred making
the hog worth about S23 after three
months Of feeding corn worth Sits
per bushel Can the farmers figure
cut any profit?
Mrs. n. CumminS and Danna were
invited out to rlfanar S,nday' to the
home of August Swanson of Man
kato ~
Mrs. Ella Clark was out from Man
kato looking after her household
/ goods and garden and picked her last
Strawberries for the season.
\ carload of brick for the new
bank was shipped out from Kasota
October .. and TO this date has not
arrived. II is thought to be lost in
the city of Burdett
e. w. Eichsteadt has the contract
! for wiring the home of Mr. and Mrs
y. III. Pressnall and furnishing fhe
f, fixtures. which will cost S62.
The new flag staff al the school
house mas been erected and now
since the leaves have fallen from the
trees old glory will proudly wave
over the school,
Mr. and Mrs. E Al, Pressnal are
reported to be out of their minds
/ Both daughters are in attendance.
The meetings at the Christian
church which were held during the
week by Rev. w. r. Clark, pastor OF
the Mankato Christian church, and
the song service by Glen Shoe. Eor,
will continue another week Great
interest is manifested by the people
Rev. Clark breaches strong sermons.
Mr.. Shoemaker sang several solos
which are appreciated by we'll at
tended meeting.
Rev. George Stowe filled the Meth
odist pulpit Sunday morning and
lectured Sunday evening on Pauper-
| ism, Slavery and pauper labor in
South America, Africa, japan, China
and India, and at the sane time
showing pictures of the Same, thrown
on the screen,
! MRS. CHARLES Stokes of Smiths Mill
! has returned from Iowa and is now
at the home OF her son Kenneth
Stokes of this place.
The little girl of Mr. and Mrs Bert
Anderson. who was operated on Fri
day, is rIorted to/be getting along
| fine.
John Compton has just returned
from an extended trip to the North
Hooking after his land deals.
Linden C.. Axtel is papering and
painting the house on the John Burr
ess place, which John Compton ex-
poets to make his future home
The lecture course for the winter
is being taken under consideration
by some Of the leading citizens OF
the village again.
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