The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-10-05
Market Day Arranged for
Farmers Benefit.
AUCTION SALES TO BE HELD.
Commercial Club Plans the Details
Factory Propositions Received BY
Secretary Spencer.

Mankato is TO have market day Tor
farmers, when their live stock OF all
kinds can be auctioned off TO the high
est bidder. The project was presented
TO the Commercial club last night. and
endorsed by that body. Every alternate
Saturday after Nov. lst will see the
market going, and if the roseate view
presented by the promoter last night IS
only partially realized it will prove a
good thing for the city and the sur
rounding country.
The meeting again almost failed of a
quorum, but after waiting twenty min
utes after the announced time for open
ing bare quorum was found to be pres
ent. as a result of the words "ImpOr-
tant Business" having been written on
the postal cards sent out to members.
The minutes of the meeting OF July 3O
were read, but there were no other min
utes to read the last three meetings
not having had a quorum.
Secretary Spencer introduced Mr.. Og-
den of this city, who presented the
market day project. He said that 1t was
for the benefit of the farmers. the pro-
iectors agreeing to furnish a market for
their produce every other Saturday aft
er Nov. l. The market will be well adj
vertised bv the use of hand bills. Large
posters will be- put at the Union Stock
Yards in South st. Paul, and for thirty
or forty miles around Mankato, and
small bills will be issued and placed in
All farmers wagons. The big posters
will contain the advertisements of Man.
kato business houses. The recompense
nf the promoters VIII be commissions
on sales made. Competent judges from
abroad will be secured to judge the
value of the different animals offered FOL
sale. Mr. Ogden said that at Madrid
Iowa. town of LOO people, sixty-siN
head of horses were sold one day. Mar
ket day in Mankato will be permanent
MIR. Ogden said that he wanted to make
Mankato his home, and had now resided
here more than six months, and was
entitled to license to auction.
President Hixon said that personally
he liked the way Mr. Ogden's statement
sounded. The market day would attract
farmers. who would sell their produce
in the city and do their trading here.
Mr. Ogden said that at Boone, Iowa
farmers form fifteen to twenty mile:
away attended the market day sales, ant
buyers come from long distances.
George f. Brett thought the project
mighty" good thing. He had heard
of such sales in several towns, and they
were successful. He asked where the
sale would be held.
Mr. Ogden said that it would be in q
central location. He thought of the va.
cant corner near Phillips & Stevens liv
cry barn. A large pavilion could be
erected for the salesdavs.
S. d. Works said that the plan was a
very good one. There is an impression
abroad i'll some places that Mankato is
not a very good market and more stool
is marketed at the villages than here
The market will furnish good chanc
for our citizens to buy horses. etc.
Mr.. Brett moved that the club endors
the project, and this was carried.
President HiXon thought that the clul
would guarantee the taking of the ad
vertising spaces if Mr.. Ogden did no
succeed in placing all of them.
Factory Propositions.
Secretary Spencer brought up the fac
tory propositions that he presented a
the meeting two weeks ago, and whicl
We're outlined by The Free Press a
that time Nearly all want stock sub
scriptions taken in the city as pre-
requisite to moving here.
President Hixon thought that the diff
ferent propositions ought to be sifted t
~ ""' Nihu VI Improvements CHc SUI
scribers would be asked to pay for. l
would be impossible to reply to the pro
posals until the club sees where it is al
Not one of the companies asks bonu;
If they can show the club that the
have dividend paying propositions, the
ought to be able to sell their stock here
To help get factories was what the clu
was organized for.
Mr.. Works thought that the stoc
could be sold in the city without trou
Bile if committee was to investioat
the propositions and report that the
were meritorious. He had heard partie
express themselves to this effect.
T. w. Hart suggested that the secre
tary be sent to st. Paul to look up til
proposition from there and present it j
proper shape.
Mr.. Brett thought that one or tw