The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-05-21

collecting fEe Thousand dollars every
year, and in few years put in a large
factory where they can get some re.
turns, where as this way, they do not
get one cent for their pains, unless it
Joseph Ruerup.
Mankato has been wiped off of the
map so far as the Glidden tour is con-
| cerned, unless heroic efforts of the
Automobile club can retain it there.
NJ. ID. Fancher, secretary of the club,
this forenoon got a telephone message
from Dick Tucker, automobile editor
of The Minneapolis Tribune, saying
that he had received telegram from
S. b. Hover of Buffalo, n. Y. secre-
tary of the Glidden tour board. to the
effect that he had ordered that the
! L. VI. +. pathfinder car be shipped back
to Minneapolis from Kansas City and
that it take a route south from Mime
apolis to Fort Dodge, Iowa. via Mason
City. This would leave Mankato out
The reason for this change is not
known. unless it is the bad roads en-
countered in this section and the eff
forts of Mason City to be included in
the tour.
The ocal automobile club got busy
and efforts were made later i'm the
day to call Mr.. Hover up by long
distance telephone. c. II. Saulpaugh
who is in Minneapolis, was called up
and aSl-aH 10
Joyce of the state automobile associa-
ton to have him use his influence in
favor of Mankato.
Spokane, Wash, May lS.-There are
fully 1000 healthy and fairly well-to-
do young bachelors in the inland EN-
nire taking in parts of eastern Wash
ington and Oregon, northern Idaho.
western Montana and southeastern Bri-
fish Columbia. They want wives. That
is, if they can find the right ones
All of them are good hearted, kind. af-
fectionate and capable of real love
They say so in letters to Levi Grant
Monroe, secretary of the Spokane Cham
Der OF Commerce, who became interest.
ed in the movement when Rev. ID. ID.
Vaughan. pastor of the Halsted street
institutional church, Chicago. announced
that more than 200 girls belonging to
his congregation would marry "honest
men who can make clean money"
What appeals to me most" said one
of the eliebles, sis the fact that
wealth, talent or swell clothes are not
absolutely necessary, but that they
want clean men, who are not afraid to
work. There are hundreds of strap
ping young men, full of vim and vine
gar, in our forests mines and railroad
camps, grain fields orchards and fac
tories. All of them have had school
advantages and not few are college
men. The majority would marry the
right kind of girls and give them life
partnerships in good homes"
While Mr.. Monroe has no desire to
figure a Cupid's messenger. he will.
however, forward the bachelors letters
to Rev DR.. Vaughan at Chicago. in
the hope that the girls may find their
ideal men. as described i'm responses
~ the lineage ministers circulars. MI.
Monroe said this is not to be taken
to mean that girls in cities and towns
in eastern, middle western. southern and
Pacific coast states or any part of
Canada are barred
Nothing of the kind" he added. "The
bachelors are here. there are 1000 of
them, and they want wives"
Last evening the regular annual meet
ing of the Presbyterian church was
held in the lecture room, and large
number of members were present. j. c..
Noe presided and the election of elders
was the first business to come before
the meeting. Gilbert Fletcher and E. c.
Willard We're elected as elders and NJ. |
G. Willard and w. Warwick were re-
elected.
For trustees Judge Cray was elected
as the new trustee and Thomas Sherk
+. NJ. Currier and f. j. Merchant We're
reelected. The next business was the
election of j. c. Noe as president of
the congregation, after which the meet
ing adjourned TO the dining room where
refreshments were served by members
of the ladies' society. Over seventy |
members of tho chIroh an1 oonoraoa