The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-08-30
Only q Small Amount Of Silver Plate
In Lake Crystal; Fleet Destroyed
st,f. BY the Japs.
From Fridays Daily.

cTOH rriuay bdiiS.
"A glance over the abstract of the
personal property assessment OF the
county shows some peculiar things.
Only Mankato and Lake Crystal re-
turn any diamonds and jewelry, the
former S2,l25 worth and the latter
1923 worth. Assessor Fowler hunted
up more in Mankato than has been
returned for years. The assessors evil
IDENTIFY overlooked the diamonds worn
by Editors Hotaling. Brown, Caller and
the rest of the newspaper boys out
side of Mankato and Lake Crystal.
Colonel Neff seems not to have been
overlooked.
Editors Not Overlooked.
Of gold and silver plate, Mankato
returns 5000, Lake Crystal S27, De-
coria $40. ana Madison Lake S4. Again
Colonel Neffs solid silver spoons got
OH the list, and Editor Fox of Madi-
son Lake must have been caught for
a couple, perhaps turned in on SUBJ
scriptions. Decoria is certainly in the
lead of the other townships when it
comes to tableware. Nobody living
in the other towns seems to have any
silverware. Perhaps pewter spoons and
wooden knives and forks are still in
use there.
Lake Crystal Fleet Sunk.
When it comes to steamboats, and
other water craft, Madison Lake takes
Top iS
the only other one on the list with
$50. The fleet at Colonel Neh's town
must have been sunk by the Jap spies
during the late war. Until recently there
was known to be launch and several
row boats of the man-of-war and
cruiser type at anchor in the harbor
or in dry dock. ..
Three Jobbing Centers.
Only three places return stock in
the hands of wholesale merchants,
Mankato $2s,795, Lake Crystal $500,
and Napoleon $3.50. Are the CONNER
cial interests of Lake Crystal twice
as great as those of Mapleton? No
Mapleton man will admit it. The
wholesale district of Mapleton is about
as prominent to the eve as that of
Lake Crystal. Amboy, Vernon Center,
Good Thunder and st. Clair ought to
get listed on the wholesale CLASH
feation so as to advertise the CONNER
cial interests of those places. If
Eagle Lake was to list 500 under
this heading it would not cost much
but would be big advertisement,
and would turn the attention of CAPT,
talists that way. If capitalist reads
in the paper that Eagle Lake has
wholesale interests it may mean much
for the town. This is the kinds of
news that plutocrats like to read, and
when they see that Eagle Lake has
500 invested in wholesale establish
ments it will give them confidence
in the future of the village that moth
ing else could, unless it was a street
car line.
No Surplus FRur.
Under the heading of wheat and
flour in the hands of retailers Rapidan
leads with $500, and Mankato follows
with $780,. In this line at least, Man,
kato can no longer claim that Man
kato leads, others follow" Rapidar
has the county seat nearly wiped of
of the map. 1t must be that flour is
a drug on the market at Rapidan
What do the people there eat, any.
way! In Mankato it appears that the
local dealers are sold in advance
and that they deliver their goods as
fast as they receive themz-at least or
May l, which is the only day that
Assessor Fowler has business trans
actions with. At Lake Crystal, Madi
son Lake and Eagle Lake they dom
eat bread during the fishing season
but why such inland towns as Ma
pleton, Good Thunder, Amboy ant
Vernon Center have no flour on hant
is strange. Perhaps rye bread ant
pretzels is good enough, but the edi
tors and the ministers as rule lik'
white bread sometimes.
Mankato Leads In Autos.
If Nankato does not lead on thu