The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-03-18
BAN ON The PEDDLERS
Business Mems Association Would Dis
courage Buying From Strangers.
Local Merchants Are Entitled to Pat
ronage of Home People.
Another Electric Railway Scheme Is
to Be Launched Soon.
Dangers of Main Street Crossing and
Another Bridge Suggested.
From Thursdays Daily.

From thursdays Daily.
About dozen were present at last
nights meeting of the Mankato Business
Mems association, held at the regular
meeting place in the city hall building
The president, j. b. richards, being alb
sent the meeting was called to order by
II. P. Jensen, who presided for time.
j. B. Ogle presented the report of the
. committee that had charge of the re-
cent business mems banquet at the Saul
paugh. There had been sold just POI
tickets at ST each, making the total re
ceipts $20l. The repast itself had cost
$lal; the music $40; cigars, printing and
other items of expense had swelled the
total expense of the banquet to 500,
just $40 in excess of the receipts. The
board of trade had assumed half the
burden of paying this $40. This left
$3.50 to be paid by the association.
A motion was carried, appropriating
$3.50 to make up the associations
share of the deficiency. Mr.. Ogle re-
marked that this would leave just lit
tie balance in the treasury.
n. P. Jensen announced that he could
ireplenish the treasury with SIS, sum
which was left over from. what the as
ISOLATION had raised some years ago to
bring creamery to Mankato, and had
long lain in the bank unthought of by
most members of the association 1t was
an asset that came in handy.
j. B. Richards, the president, joined
the meeting shortly after it had opened
and the chair was yielded to him by Mr.
Jensen.
III. P. Christensen said he had a scheme
for street railway in the city, but
hardly thought it any use to announce it
at that meeting as there were so few
present. He remarked that the associa-
ton had sixty mine members and the
meetings certainly ought to be better
attended.
Mr.. Richards said he had been kept at
home evenings of late ON account of
sickness in the family. The sick ones
were getting better nows however, and he
expected to do some active work. The
business men certainly should be alert
and alive to the situation at all times.
Ii they were not, who should be? Meet
ings should be larger and livilier Other
members expressed views along the
same line.
Mr.. Christensen said that everybody
knew that Mankato's future depended
to very large extent on getting street
railway line.
Nearly everybody present had some
thing to say on the subject. All agreed
with Mr.. Christensen. In the course
of the discussion the plan was finally
developed of having the matter brought
before the board of trade at the meeting
of that body next Tuesday, by the rail
way committee, consisting of George |
Pond, Carl Dice and Fl. p. Christensen !
Perhaps an arrangement could be made
with the board for the calling of mass |
meeting of some kind TO discuss the pro-
ject. I
j. B. Ogle was warmly in favor of a
mass meeting. 1t was of no use to
breach such project before meeting of
few men. Amy scheme looking to the
establishment of street railway must
be preached to a vast number of men in
order to have any force and get any
backing at all. 1t should be brought
to the attention of two or three hundred
men at once. A mass meeting was
good way of doing this. Another way
was to make thorough canvas. He
complimented Mr.. Christensen on being
"fu1 of the subject" Mr.. Ogle told a
story of lecturer whose topic was "The