The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-05-03

done when only IS was paid into
the treasury. If the men would join
and put in reasonable dues they
/ would increase the value of their
cars tremendously by getting good
roads and the tire troubles would
also be largely eliminated" He also
advocated the raise in dues in or
| der to secure more equipment for
tanned by the state, but which is
hampered by poor equipment. 1T is
about time that we complain about
our poor roads instead of Dragging
about our good roads," he said, land
as this movement is more than To-
cal, it is for the interest of not only
Mankato but the entire Southern
Minnesota"
Graded Scale Suggested.
After his speech, Paul Radichel
made few explanatory remarks in
regard to what he said previous to
Mr.. Palmer's talk. HI. A. Patter-
son suggested that a graded scale
of dues be instituted, that is, a
man with $4,000 car should pay
more dues than a person with a
81 900 car because he received a
proportionate benefit. Mr.. Wilson
then moved that the dues be fixed
at $40 a year but no vote was TAX
en-, as President Holman was of
the opinion that as long as this
would not go into effect until jan
nary, the matter could be taken
up at the fall meeting.
G. w. Allyn of Madison Lake
made short, enthusiastic talk
about good roads and told of some
of his experiences in building up
the Madison Lake road, and how
it was possible through the help
of the Commercial club of Man.
kato. He spoke encouragingly about
the county commissioners and also
about Mr.. Palmer's work which be-
gan twelve years ago.
Dr. j. w. Andrews was sched-
uled to give an address on Tour
ing" but he begged to be excused,
A motion was then carried to al
low the secretary to draw an order
Cor the additional expense money in
connection with the banquet.
President C. w. Chamberlain of
the Automobile club was called on
for a few remarks but he asked to
be excused, and F. II. Barnes of
Vernon Center spoke heartily for
good roads and was in favor of rails
ing the dues of the club to $40.
DR.. ]. E. Merrill, vice president of
the Amboy Automobile club was
called on for few remarks. He
said that a large number of auto
mobile owners of Amboy had driven
to Mankato to attend the banquet,
and he encouraged them by saying,
"all hail to those farmers who came
all the way from Amboy."
Don OveralIs for Road Work.
Mr.. Babcock of Kasota addressed
the audience on the same subject.
After his talk, DIR. Andrews arose
and suggested that day and a
road be selected and that every
member of the Automobile club In
the county and especially of Man
kato, and an equal number of farm
ers with their teams, go out and
build about five miles of road in one
day. The members could don their
overalls and round up the road and
drain it. At this time of the year
it would be impossible to do any
crawling. No action was taken,
however.
Mr.. Soaring thought that if the
financial condition of the club war
ranted, something should be done
for the road patrol to secure the
necessary equipment. 1t was i'm
possible for the patrol to do much
with a rake and hoe.
The matter of raising the dues
was again taken up. DR.. c. II. Ner-
bovig agreed with Mr.. Patterson in
using a scale rate, but Mr.. Hob.
mann thought that this would Gre
ate as much trouble as those given
the assessor, for it would often be
difficult to fix the value of the ma
chimes.
John NyQuist brought up the mat
ter of graveling the Eagle Lake
road and Benjamin Bangerter spoke
for this, but no definite action was
taken, and the meeting adjourned.
Four new members were added
to the club last night. these being
DR.. Roy Andrews, Wilbur Fl. Glenn
ents, George w. Allyn and John
Scheurer This makes total mem
bership of 145 at the present time.
Those in Attendance.
Those in attendance at the BAN
uuet and festivities follows: Allyn,
II. G., Anderson, A. W., Anderson,
George, Andrews, DR.. Roy, Atch-
ison, Geo., Baker, Fl. Warner, Bal
zer Louis NJ, Bangerter, b., Jr, Beach,
DR.. w. A., Bekke, A. A., Bekke, M. j.,
Bennett, o. E., BlomQuist, II. F.,
Brett, Ed, Browder, F. E., Brown,
Robt. E., Busch, Frank j., Carlson,
John A., Clements, w. W., Curran,
DR.. Geo. r., Currler, F. NJ, Dahl,
DR.. G. A., Davis, w. W., Dodds, L.
t., Drummond, II. N, Eckman, c.
W., Engwalson, Eric, Fritz, NJ. d.,
Fox, Fred, Golf, Hiram S., Grimes.
wv Guartin Paul GundstrOm