The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1910-12-09
cows MUST UNDERGO TEST, SAYS
THE CITY EXECUTIVE.
-rom Mondays Daily.

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from Mondays Daily.
Mayor \. g. Meyer proposes to en-
force the milk ordinance.
The Mayor and commissioners ghcld
II meeting Saturday afternoon with
l;about thirty of the leading milk deal
Iers OF this vicinity. At the opening
TT the meeting Mayor Meyer stated
ihis position to them. The substance
tof his remarks was that the city
harter forbade the sale of milk that
had come from cows that had not
passed n tuberculosis test. He stated
that he soulI see only one thing to do
and that was to do his duty. He did
! hot feel that he could pass lightly
over this portion of the ordinaucc.
(, Claim Test is Not Reliable
| At the conclusion of the mayors re-
! marks many Of the milkmcn took OPP
| portunity TO express themselves regard
. i'm the situation. The sentiment of
the meeting was that the tubcreulinc
{ test now i'll use is far from reliable.
! Numerous instances were cited to show
| that COWS that had been condemned had
upon test Of the carcass been found
absolutely free from consumption. Other
Examples we're given that went to show
that many terribly diseased cattle had
passed the test successfully.
Why They Protested.
Robert Rasmussen. proprietor of the
Sanitary dairy. said that when the
lnilkmen felt that the test was a
protection for the city there would be
no protest against il but at present
they felt that it was unreliable and
therefore not entitled to consideration.
T. n. Thompson said that if the or
| linance was enforced he would not sell
at retail a drop of milk i'll the city.
! This is the stand generally taken by
! all the milkmen.
Will Sell to Creamerics.
Some of the milk dealers When seen
after the meeting said that the milk
would simply be sold to the crcameries
and that the people would have. to
look out for themselves.
I At the conclusion of The meeting Mr..
! Meyer was still determined to obey the
ordinance.
Meeting of Commissioners Today.
The city commissioners met i'll reg
ular session this morning.
An application for liquor license
from w. j. Hodges was received and
granted. 1t was accompanied by
bond for the proper amount.
a petition was received from the sis
/ ters of Notre Dame asking that the
city vacate all Of Alvia street south
west of lot ! of Dukes subdivision.
also all Of Juliet street and all of
Fifth street north OF Ruth street.
These streets are all on the property
recently purchased for the new sister
| school and arc mostly located ON the
hillside The hearing Of this petition
Will occur at the regular meeting on
January ., 1911.
Judge CcJdes appeared as represcn-
tative Of Barbara kiplfcr to enter u
protest against q euro assessment oi,
her property The grounds for this
protest are founded on an agreement
made sonic years back with former
city council. Mr.. Kielrcr having sur
rendered certain property for street pur
poses with the understanding that the
The petition was referred to Commits
siouer Humiston. the city attorney
and the engineer.
Two curb assessments one at 2iG
Hanover street and the other at 2lo
jackson street were laid over till the
next meeting.
Harry Palmer was granted permits
sion 20 construct front street stair.
way 1T l22 south Front street. This
/ stairway leads to the basement ,lk
der the Kimblc piano store. The com
missioDers felt it would be well to
limit this privilege in the future.
A plumbers license was granted TO
NicIaurin 4 Northrop, the license was
accompanied by $1,000 bond.
n. G. Veigel of the local creamery
appeared before the council regarding
! the sale of milk from the creamery
10 local milkmcn. lie said that the
creamery sold Il great deal of butter
milk but that they did not deal in
\ milk. Milkmen sometimes bought milk
/ from the farmers when they were wait.
ing at the creamery
/ Another Session on Milk
! Health Officer Dahl appeared before
! the meeting and made some remarks
regarding the milk situation. He felt
that if the test was made it should
be general and that all owners of COWS
should DC made to get in line. He
suggested the tuberculine test be omit