The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1910-11-04

pleasant social way; dancing, cards and
conversation being much in evidence
AT eleven o'clock delicious luncheon
was served, the brothers officiating as
walters. As the hands of the clock
neared the midnight hour the notes of
the Home, Sweet Home waltz sounded
through the hall and gave notice that
most successful evening was drawing
to a close. But way up to the close
of the meeting the spirit of the on.
ward movement for the Mankato U. c.
I. was felt. The next meeting was
announced for the last Saturday in
November.
Mayor Meyer spoke to the CONNER
cial travellers and their wives as fol-
lows:
ladies and Gentlemen: 1t is with
feeling of real pleasure that l APP
pear before you this evening to speak
to you for a few minutes. You
commercial travellers are bunch of
good fellows whom even candidates for
office have been known to make goo
goo eyes at, and why should not
Mankato covet your friendship. and
your residence here? You give life
and variety to any community, for you
dress well, talk much sense and only
a little nonsense, and you spend your
money freely on every one of the
three hundred and sixty-five days OF
the year. Tradition has it that when
the gods met to create the first com.
mercial salesman, they omitted all in
gradients of stinginess and used a
double portion of liberality. Whether
this be so or not, the fact remains
that you gentlemen, as class, are
good livers and easy spenders. I have
heard of a certain flower so mean that,
however much one might coax it, it
would not give out single scent !;
but you are not like that flower. 1t
is not necessary for me tonight to
play the autocrat of the dinner table /;
for see no one here that 1 do not
wish to break bread with.
They All Like Mankato.
"The fact that you live here i'm.
plies that you like Mankato; otherwise
you would not be with us. And ]
hold that the people OF Mankato should
make strenuous efforts to keep you
here and get more of your kind to
come and love as you love us. This
is no mere personal wish of mine, for
under my official vest there beats thu
common heart of all the citizens of
Mankato who, l am sure, join me in
this sentiment.
II may say some things in the course
of my remarks to follow that NAV
sound like boosting. And, if 1 do,
please remember that that is in line
with the trend of things when every
thing is going up and up. Hence for
get what may seem like growing chan
ticleers, and look facts squarely in the
face.
"Mankato offers to the stranger seek
ing place to live in permanently
many inducements and advantages,
both natural and artificial. 1t will
be my object to briefly tell you what
some of these inducements and ad-
vantages are.
Water Supply is Ample and Pure.
Our water supply is of the amplest
and purest quality. 1t comes from
deep down in the bowels of the earth
where natures chemists are working
overtime to render it sweet and whole
some. Coming as it does from many
hundred of feet below the surface
of the ground, what microbes there
were in it at the start have been
killed and assimilated in the upward
progress giving to the water a pecul
iarly palatable flavor and a rare nu
tritious element. Therefore, by drink.
ing freely, you will not only Stacker
your thirst, but you will also allay
your hunger and thus reduce the cost
of living considerably. 1 might say
| in passing that I believe the present
high cost of living has a tendency tC
make people profane. A man sitting
down to dinner with his family the
other day was heard to offer the follow
ing as sort of grace: "Boys, go easy
on the butter; it's forty cents 9
pound"
"Our natural surroundings should ap
peal to all; they are most beautiful
Feast your eyes, if you will, on on
bluffs and high hills, clad during thu
summer months with deciduous tree.
of verdant green and assuming a multi
colored aspect in the fall. Nestlin,
in deep valley below lies the cit,
itself, looking life veritable havel
of rest when you approach it from
the bleak and barren prairies of tn
west. And through this valley, Their
flows river teeming with the larges
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