The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1913-03-21


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+ district, Northfied; w. r.
+ Sanger, second district, Win. I
+ dom; Judge Lorin Cray, third I
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With the reelection of all the
former officers, the decision TO es
tablish the association on a firm
financial basis, and the adoption Of
the various committee reports, the
Southern Minnesota Better Develop
ment league closed its convention
here late yesterday afternoon, with
the decision to hold the midsummer
session of the league at Austin. The
date for this session is to be set by
the executive committee. The nom
mating committee appointed by Pres
ident T. G. Bonnallie after some de-
liberation, decided in favor of the
former panel of officers. Chairman
B. b. Gislason of Minneota said that
ii was not the wish of the club to
keep any officer in power for more
than one term, but that he thought
that the honor of reelection was
due those who had worked so hard
and so successfully in organizing and
maintaining the league in an unor-
ganized territory for a year past.
E. F. Soaring moved that the secre-
tary of the club cast the vote for the
entire gathering in favor of the
ones nominated, and after his motion
was carried unanimously, this was
done. President Bonnallie thanked
the members of the league for the
honor bestowed upon him and his
brother officers, and said that they
had done what they could, handicap
ped as they were. This handicap
seemed 10 have come from the in
ability to raise money to carry on
the necessary business, and at this
time the question of maintaining
the club on firm business basis
came mp and was discussed. The
nominating committee recommended
that the present officers be reim-
bursed for the money they had paid
out of their own pockets during the
the league. The committee also rec
commended that an advisory board
be appointed by the executive COM
mittee and that a secretary be ap-
pointed to be paid a salary suffi-
cient that he might devote his en-
tire time to the work 1t was also
understood that part of the work of
this secretary is to be the raising
Of funds, both for his own salary
and for the treasury of the associa-
ton. A motion was made that Leon
ard Fowler be retained as executive
agent, to work in the same way
he has done before, his salary to
come from the newspapers with
whom he works. The question of
raising funds to at least start the
league on its way for another year
was practically settled by several
of the delegates from the counties
represented at the convention, offer
ing to raise 500 from their respec-
tive counties. The movement was
started by b. B. Gislason of Mime
Ota, Lyon county. Cottonwood, MUIR
ray, Brown, Blue Earth and Rice
counties were also practically pledged
for this amount by their delegates.
Mr.. Gislason moved that it be the
sense of the meeting that this same
amount be raised from all the coun-
ties in the league. His motion car
ried
j. ]. Furlong of Austin, after the
invitation given by Mr.. Lawless of
Waterville, invited the association to
meet at Austin for the next session
this summer He said that Austin
ar iHnal p1o 20, ~,
was concerned, and that it was out
of the territory which has so far
been represented, and which would
be represented if Waterville were
selected, and that therefore, he held
Austin was entitled to have the
honor of entertaining the league.
Mr. Lawless spoke again in behalf
of Waterville, but when the ques-
ton was put, the "ayes" carried it
for Austin.
Mr. Soaring moved that the secre-
tary get in connection with the prop
er authorities in the state legisla-
ture by telephone. at once, and in
form the senate of the resolution re-
garding the Dunn bill, which was
to be discussed by that body last
night. After a little discussion, his
motion carried. The resolution was
published in yesterdays Free Press.
The conclusion of Lee Swift's talk
yesterday afternoon on 1.-The Farm
ers' Club and It's Possibilities" was
as follows:
There is a little country in Er-
rope which is about one-half the
size of Minnesota, in which the land
is much poorer than it is here and
yet the farmers are all well-to-do
and most of them are well educated.
The farmers are organized, and half
of the governing class are farmers.
They are up to date in farming and
dairying methods and inventions and
they have associations there which
we have not yet here. The first
dairy association was organized in
Denmark ten years before there was
one in this country. They have
studied their methods themselves and
do not need university students to