The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-10-04

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+ An interesting meeting of +
+ the North Mankato CONNER +
= cial club was held last night +
+ The committee on exhibit +
+ at the state fair reported; +
+ the committee on awards for =
I. the best kept lawns made =
+ known their findings; there +
+ was considerable discussion +
+ relative to street work and =
+ number of minor matters +
+ were given consideration. +
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Expressing it's appreciation of the
excellent work done by the commit
tee that had charge of the Nicollet
county exhibit at the Minnesota state
fair, and pleased with the magnifi-
cent results obtained from the
display of the products of the farm
and garden, the Commercial club
of North Mankato, at it's meeting
last night, decided to cooperate
with the Commercial club of St.
Peter and prepare a display for
the show at Hamline next year.
Considerable time was given at the
session last night to a discussion
of next years exhibit and num-
Der of excellent suggestions were
offered, which if carried out, will
assist the committee in it's labors
to make the coming exhibit far
better, if such a thing is possible,
than that which was sent from
Nicollet county this year. The
same committee will represent the
RI oil 1,,h
next year. This committee is made
up of Dennis Donahue, Henry
Robel, ST., and w. S. Stewart a
Report of the Committee.
The report of the committee on
exhibit is as follows:
"To the President and Members
of the North Mankato Commercial
Club: We, the undersigned, the com.
mittee on state fair exhibit, sub.
nit the following report. Entering
upon the duties Of such committee
we solicited from the county COM
missioner of the county $500 for
the purpose of defraying the ex-
penses of making an exhibit. Your
committee made it's best efforts to
make the exhibits of Nicollet
county a success.
"For the benefit of the members
of the North Mankato Commercial
club we will state that we received
seventh place out of the fifty-nine
counties making an exhibit and we
received the following percentages
1913 on grains out Of $50; 1853 on
corn out of 200; 80 on potatoes out
of 100; 76 on stock vegetables out
of 100; 80 on culinary vegetables
out of 100; 80 on apples out of
so; 80 on fruit in jars out of so;
40 on miscellaneous out of 50;8S
on grain in .(sheaths out of 100; SO
on wild grasses out of so; II on
tame grasses out of 100; 68 on
forageS out of 100. .-...
In regard to the prize we will
say we received the sum of $172.85.
Your committee held a joint
meeting with the committee from
the ST. Peter Commercial club and
the wish was expressed that Mic.
ollet county should have another
exhibit at the state fair next year
that the North Mankato CONNER.
cial club should appoint at this
time a committee to act with the
st. Peter club to prepare such ex.
hibit. We have about $3.50 to
turn back into the county treas.
ury. AS your committee was very
economical with money appropri,
ated, your committee would rec
ommend that the committee you
appoint expend more money next
year as such expenditure will be
advantageous and assist in making
more elaborate display of the
products of the county. The chair.
man of this committee recon.
mends that H. Robel, ST., be ap.
pointed committee of one on
decorations for the next exhibit, as
he certainly proved to be an expert
in this line and an artist with what
we had to work with, when we
arrived at the agricultural building
at the fair grounds and took cog
nizance of what we had to con.
tend with. The committee has re.
ceived many compliments from PEG.
pie throughout the county, and
many Of them have expressed their
willingness to raise something for
next year exhibit as this year was
only starter for the county. The
committee wish to thank all those
who so kindly donated and other.
wise gave their hearty co-opera.
ton in making the exhibit a sue.
cess. Your committee feels crate.
full for the prompt action of the
county commissioners in making
the appropriation of money to carry
on the exhibit
Your committee feels as if they
have done their full duty in max
ing the exhibit, and therefore
would kindly ask to be discharged
and hope you will appoint a com
mittee at this writing to act with
the st. Peter committee on next
years exhibit. Yours very truly
d. Donahue, chairman
An Interesting Experience.
Speaking for the committee, Mr.
Donahue stated that the members
passed through some interesting ex.
periences while preparing for the
exhibits. Every member of the
committee was new at the work,
but they succeeded very well in
the undertaking. The booth was
made attractive and one of the
curiosities that was placed on ex.
Eibition was a five and one-half
foot gourd that excited the GU
riosity of the thousands of people
who visited the booth during the
week. Mr. Donahue said that he
knew of one farm in Nicollet conn.