The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-08-14
From Thursdays Daily.

tended meeting laSJ night ana CleaTtu
up its accumulated business. Under
the head of new business, +. F. Scar
ing recalled the fact that the prime
idea in starting the Boosters club was
TO assist the Commercial club in a
financial way, and spoke of the obi
cations that the latter club has as
snmed, including the promise of
$500 donation for the new road up the
bluff in North NIankato, which is
now being constructed. He said that
the new road would be of large value
to the city in a commercial way, es-
peeially, and that the Commercial club
should be in a position to pay its
subscription promptly. 1t was paying
the rent for the incubator factory, and
other expenses, besides settling up the
debts left by the former administra
tion, and needed aid at this time,
and the Booster club ought to come
to the front and assist it. He moved
that an. order for 5000 be drawn in
favor of the good roads committee
of the Commercial club.
j. J. Flachsenhar thought the
amount too much to give at this time,
and that it would be best to give
half the amount now and more later,
if needed. The club would have but
little left in the treasury, after paying
its bills.
c. X. Otto, d. Donahue and G. A.
Lewis favored the motion, and did
not think, the amount too much. Mr..
Lewis said that the rains had left the
roads unusually bad this year, and
that the club could not do anything
better than to help in the road i'm
provement work '''.''' & ra
The motion was then carried unani-
mously, after which all bills before the
club were audited and allowed The
club still has about $50 in its treas
ury. with no outstanding accounts.
1t is thought that there is still some
money coming IN on the button ac-
count, and that there is chance to
sell more buttons. 's H@".' t
Supply Drinking Water.
A. J. Smith thought that the public
at large, outside of Mankato ought
to be given to understand that there
is an abundance of pure water in the
city for drinking purposes, and that
it is not necessary to stay away from
the city on that account. He offered
the following resolutions, which We're
adopted: ~ So' ''f'r
Resolved, that it is. the sense of
this club that the commercial and
health interests and reputation of
Mankato demand that the city officials
take immeu,ate steps to furnish, tenn
porarily, to all public buildings, bust
ness houses and offices where residents
and out of town people congregate, a
supply of sanitary drinking water, at
public expense, to office or business
place served to furnish the receptacles
for the same. We recommend that
water for this purpose be procured
from the "Ardee" well. So.
Resolved, that a committee be APP
pointed with power to use not over
s. of the club funds in an effort 20
make it known to the public that
Mankato has sufficient supply OF
first-class drinking water, that her
city water soon will be frst-class and
sanitary in every particular, and that
this committee be empowered to have
information of this character pub.
lishcd as conspicuously in the news
papers within radius of fifty miles
of this city as the news of our de-
fectiye water has been.
President Ed Nyquist called atten-
ton to the sanitary drinking foun-
tains. which he said could be had for
81 each, and merchants ought to have
them.
Feed the Germs Poison.
DIR. A. f. Schmitt exhibited bottles
containing solutions of formalin and
creolin. He said that he was not
giving the opinion of an authority,
but of a citizen and graduate oil
medicine when he thought that the
plan that he had proposed in pub
lished letter for cleaning the water
mains with formalin was practicable.
He did not think that flushing would
wash out all the bacteria in the wa
Ter mains, anu WAS Hob VIZ"
the course pursued Dr. Hill had told
him that if his family lived here
they could not drink the water for
months. In order to prevent danger
from poisoning if the methods that
he proposed were used, the taps should
be locked for from a few hours to
four sor five days, and the city in the
meantime could supply the people
with pure drinking water. If any per-
son should use the city water or
allow any member of his family to
nse it while the formalin or other
poison was being used, he would
surely be candidate for suicide. 1t
was possible that the plan that he
proposed could not be done, but the
fact that it had never been done was
no argument that it could not be
done. He had a letter from DIR.
Wilson of Rochester, saying that the
government had used iron sulphate at
various places with good results, and it
was cheaper than formalin. Dr. Yves