The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-12
BROWNS CIGARS MADE
THEM ALL PRETTY SICK
Weed Was Too Strong For Lake
Crystal Town Council.
SMOKES WERE GlLT-BANDED
DR.. Dodds and Several Others Escaped;
They Did Not Indulge; Neff's
Witticism.

Lake Crystal Union: Monday, April
i, the village council held it's last
regular meeting for the year. All
the old members, were present.
There were also two representa-.
tiyes from the Consumers Power
company, r. e. Brown and Attorney
Pau, Jr., of Mankato, present The
two latter gentlemen came up on
business in the interest of their com
pany to arrange for the permission
of running their line into this place
When two gentlemen start out on
any mission of cordially they al
ways take with them cigars or can
dy. 1t was cigars this time. Mr.
Brown laid in a liberal supply OF
Mankato's finest, gilt band smokers
They were no two-fers but three for
a quarter. He knew our boys were
fine haired and pink-finger nailed
and would expect the best if any
was offered. 1t was case of So
liability and not of bride or graft
After the council met in their ele.
CANT parlors on the second floor of
the town hall with bats and English
sparrOws in the belfry as part OF
the fittings, they, were soon Joined
by our Mankafo friends.
CHARS Were Passed.
Just before opening up business,
Manager Brown passed the cigars
His Honor was already supplied
with the weed. Aldermen Robinson
and Wigley each took a cigar. We
know just how nice Alderman Rob
inson is about anything of this kind
for we have had experience with
him on the board for two years.
The genial DR. Dodds, city record.
er, does not smoke-only OCCASION
ally. Whether he had a huneh that
night deponessss IN gath mot. He, did
not smoke on that evening, but he
might have agreed to do the splitting
for all we know. However, the CT
CARS were lighted and all settled
down to business.
After a short time the other mem
bers of the council not smoking no
ticed Alderman Robinson turning
pale. One member asked the gentle
man if he was not feeling well. He
said: Il don't feel very WELL" but
laid his bad feelings somewhat to
the occasion of being the last meet
ing of the old board and excused
himself, got up and went out and
down the stairs, up street and sup
piled himself with peppermint candy
as an antiseptic to whatever caused
his illness The genial recorder
said: Mr. Robinson was as white
as sheet" and that his eyes shone
like the stars in the armament.
After a bit Mr.. Robinson returned
and felt better after partaking OF a
few of the peppermints.
Manager Brown Faded Away.
Manager Brown began to fade
away. He, too, was sicker than a
horse, and was almost on the point
of going home and would have
started right away if the rig in
which he came had been hitched up,
but he was too sick to hitch up the
animal-just then. Alderman Wig
ley felt little owly, but laid his
power of endurance to working on
the farm in his early days, yet he
shook his head and remarked that
he did feel little shaky and pale
around the gills, but stuck it out
and finished smoking his cigar.
The other aldermen, Henry Graft
and Fred Hanson did not partake.
Neither did Mr.. Pau, Jr., indulge.
If we did not know Manager
Brown and Attorney Pau from early
boyhood days we might believe these
gentlemen made an effort to do away
with our noble town council, but
you see, Mr.. Brown was as much
if not more afflicted by the blamed
cigars as anyone else.
Come again, gentlemen, but bring
along a milder flavor of cigars.
h;p,t wo Glad we don't smoked