Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-08-02
NEW FLAG POLE
IS ORDERED

Electric R. R. Man Coming o.
n0xi0us Editor Asked 70 Leave
Town Feed Barn.
The Willmar Commercial Club at
the August meeting last night au-
thorized the ordering Of another
flag-pole as soon as enough funds
become available to pay all expenses
for buying and erecting same. This
time the pole will be ordered from
the N. 0. Nelson Manufacturing
Company Of St. Louis, Government
contractors for similar work, who
will furnish pole weighing 5000
pounds and guarantees it to stand
any strain required, at cost of
1920 f. o. b. St. Louis. The accum-
ulated funds not being sufficient to
meet the added cost, the meeting de-
cided that a subscription be taken,
each member of the club being re-
quested to contribute one dollar or
more. $58 were pledged at the
meeting. A committee consisting of
Alton Crosby, Andrew Bjorsell and
Ben Benson was appointed to have
the supervision Of the erection of
the pole.
A communication was read from
the president of the Commercial Club
of Mankato, stating that Mr.. ]. J.
Cummings Of the McGuire- Cummings
Manufacturing Company of Chicago,
who are interested in the building Of
an electric line from Mankato to
Willmar, expects to make an auto
mobile trip through Winthrop to
Willmar looking over the ground for
the proposed route Of such line, and
recommending him to the considera-
ton Of Willmar people.
The following resolutions wereread
and adopted, discussed with a good
deal of spirit for some time and was
finally passed by rousing and un-
animous vote: ..-... ... H..
WHEREAS, the Willmar Journal
has indulged in continuous assaults
upon the good name and fame Of our
fair city, and upon the character,
record and efficiency Of our city and
county officials these baseless and
purposeless outpourings having
gone so far as to openly and shame
lessly applaud the criminals who re-
Gently tried to murder the sheriff of
our county; and
"WHEREAS, the editor of said
sheet has been whipped by the
women, and summarily driven from
the towns which he has infested in
former years; and
"WHEREAS, the people Of Will
mar are unusually patient, peaceable
and law abiding, and have refrained
from violence in spite of these re-
peated injuries and insults, knowing
as they do that the frothings Of this
disreputable sheet are of no conse-
quence and carry no weight in this
city or county or in any community
where the editor is known; but
"WHEREAS, these oft repeated
libels on our communal home are
carried to outside points, reprinted
by papers and read by people who
do not know the contemplate char
acter of said editor; and
"WHEREAS, the editor of said
sheet can have no cause or motive
for his slanderous attacks except the
hope Of obtaining for himself little
cheap notoriety; and as the people
Of this community are only human,
and as We do not want here repiti-
ton of the acts of violence which
other towns had to resort to in or
der to rid themselves of this un-
speakable nuisance; therefore be it
"RESOLVED, by this Commercial
Club, composed of 100 business and
professional men of Willmar, that
We most emphatically condemn
the spirit and conduct Of said edit
or, c. F. Spencer, and request him
Immediately to leave this community,
which he has so long striven to be-
smirch with his false, perverted and
prejudiced publications; and be it
further
"RESOLVED, that we request our
other newspapers Of city and county,
as we'll as outside papers which, un-
der misapprehension, have been led
to reprint his defamatory articles, to
publish these resolutions"
The question of encouraging the
erection Of large feed barn for the
accommodation of farmers teams
was taken up and discussed. Since
the burning Of the barn run by Jonah
Gould and the previous loss by fire
Of the Glarum barn, the stabling &C.
commodations have been very limit.