The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-03-13
Several thousand Buttermakers
Meet Today in St, Paul.
PARADE ONE OF FEATURES
Come From All Parts Of the United
States, Many Prominent Men
Attending, Butter Scoring.
From TUESDAYS Daily


The convention of the National,
Creamery Buttermakers' association
which opens tomorrow, will bring to
st. Paul a greater gathering of people
than any convention for long time.
The attendance at previous conventions
has been all the way from 1900 to
5000 people and the indications SO far
ARE that the attendance this year will
be as good as ever. Already the dele
gates have begun to come in and the
hotels are expecting the biggest rush
they have had for months. There will
be number coming today, but the
great rush will be tomorrow morning.
The buttcrmakers from Illinois, Iowa,
and the south and east will come in
on the morning trains.
The Commercial club is planning a
great reception for the buttermakers
tomorrow morning. A hundred men,
bers of the club vii! be at the depot to
escort the buttermakers to the Audito-
rum. With the First Regiment band,
tHCN VIII hl1SC thC ohu
give them reception.
At $3.50 they will assemble at the
Ryan hotel to escort the delegates to
the Auditorium. The procession will be
headed by platoon of police, followed
by r. H. Seng as chief marshal and c.
r. Spear and A. j. Stobbart as asst
ants. Then will come the band, the
Commercial club members and dele
gates. The parade will go up Sixth
street to st. Peter, on st. Peter to
Fifth and on Fifth to the Auditorium.
At the auditorium, the Commercial
club members will occupy boxes during
the morning program.
Welcome by Officials.
At the session tomorrow morning,
Gov. John =. johnson and some repre-
sentative of Mayor r. a. Smith will
/ welcome the delegates. H. j. Nietert
of Walker, Iowa, will respond. The
rest of the forenoon will be taken up
with the annual address of President
J. j. Farrell of Carver and the report
1 OF the SeCleIdiy -Ilcdoulel, % H. '1hh
lings of Chicago. The afternoon will
be devoted to the discussion of trade
topics.
The Auditorium presented busy
scene Yesterday. The entire stage part
of the building will be taken up with
exhibits of creamery machinery and
supplies. Representatives of the differ
ent companies were at work yesterday
arranging the exhibits and decorating
their booths. They will finish their
work today, so that when the conven-
ton opens tomorrow morning they
will have an attractive display to show
them.
The Judges who have been scoring
the butter entered in the contest have
completed their work, but they VIII
not announce the scores until the sec
Iond or third day of the convention
They said however, that all in all II
was as fine lot of butter as they
have ever scored. Interest in the com
petition is always keen and the con
tcStantS VIII await the aHnouhce"ch
of the scores anXiously.
Octogenarian to Sing.
A feature of the convention will b'
the vaudeville program and free enter
ltainment which will be given Thurs
day evening. Jules Lombard, singer
almost eighty years old, Will sins
some of the songs which he has made
famous. Lombard, with his brother
Travelled through the country during
the Civil war and immortalized many
of the war songs written during thos'
times. Jules Lombards voice is a.
strong as it was in the war times ah'
he will have a prominent place on thu
'DrO0ram