The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1913-10-03
;, later on. The committee was con-
tinued.
The U. c. T. Convention.

The v. c. T. Convention.
Messrs. Hickey and Eager of the
Mankato Council of the U. G. T.
spoke enthusiastically of the travel
ing mems convention which will be
held in Mankato the second week in
June, 1914. Mr. Hickey said the
council was not in position to give
any detailed statement, but at the
proper time this would be forthcom-
ing. More than two thousand visit
ors will be here three days. 1t
will be up to Mankato to assist the
travelling men in making the con
yention success and give the visit
ors proper entertainment 1t will
be boosters meeting and will mean
much to this city.
Mr. Eager called attention to the
fact that between 800 and 400 trav-
cling men make their homes in
Mankato. The Crookston convention
was great success from every point
OF view. The meeting here will adj
yertise Southern Minnesota to a
large number of people who will
come from Ohio, Wisconsin, Michi-
gan, North and South Dakota, not to
mention those who will come from
all over Minnesota.
Benjamin Taylor's motion that the
U. c. T. be given the clubs endorse
ment was carried unanimously.
John Deets, secretary of the South
ern Minnesota Better Development
league. was introduced. He express
ed his pleasure at being present and
the opportunity of becoming ac-
quainted with members of the club.
He spoke briefly of what the league
hoped to accomplish, He predicted
a healthy boom in Southern Mime
sofa during the next five years. Ac-
tiOn of the executive committee of
the league has made Mankato the
capital of Southern Minnesota. The
meeting here of the league on De.
cember 2 will be an important one.
1t is expected that member of
President Wilson's cabinet will be
i'll attendance; also men who have
done things in the commercial, in
dustrial and agricultural world. He
spoke of cooperation and what 26O
business men could accomplish once
they got together on a proposition.
Mr.. DeetS was pleased with the man.
ner in which the club had endorsed
the holding here of the travelling
! mems convention. He said that he
wouldbe a permanent fixture here
and was ready to lend a hand in
boosting Mankato.
Mr.. Fowler Introduced.
Following the remarks of Mr..
Deets the executive agent of the
league, Leonard Fowler, of Des
Moines was introduced. Mr. Fow-
Ter is the head of the advertising
agency bearing his name and for
| half hour he held his audience with
story and Quip and joke, inter
spersed with some sound and Sc
rious reasoning with respect to the
development of these southern coun-
ties of the state through the attrac-
ton of the Iowa and Illinois settler.
/ Under his direction, Mr.. Fowler
showed that over three million pages
of newspaper writeups and adVertis-
ing space had been placed in the
ten most influential newspapers of
the corn belt extending from SPRING
field, ILL.,, to Lincoln, Neb. To Sc
for settlement in this section $780,
600 letters had been sent and almost
three-quarters of million booklets
and pamphlets have been printed
and distributed by mail
1t was in the course of his re-
marks that it developed that many
families have been attracted to Muir
ray, Cottonwood, Jackson and Free
born counties by the advertising
and write ups placed by his agency
members of the club, it became
known that d branch office of this
agency, under the direction of Carl
r. Kiefer, formerly of Quincy, ILL
nois, has been maintained in Man
kato for more than a year. Mr..
Kiefer removed to this city with
his wife and family last February
and has been resident of this city
ever since that time 1t was shown
that in that time Mr.. Kiefer had
visited almost every county in South
ern Minnesota and he stirred large
number of them to dynamic actiQ.
Before the meeting closed Secre-
tary Soaring suggested that the tele-
phone poles along the Black and
Yellow Trail in Blue Earth county be
marked with the trail colors. Also
he advocated the hanging of sign
boards with an arrow pointing the
way to Mankato at points within
radius of eighteen or twenty miles
from the city. Tourists would come
! this way instead of plotting their
cars along other routes.
Under the head of new business
DR.. J. w. Andrews introduced the
following which was adopted:
"Mankato, Mimi, September 20,
1913.-We are justly proud of our
beautiful city. Her majestic hills
stand on either side like eternal sen
tinels, her stately forest, and mean
dering rivers are Natures contribu-
ton. These we delight to behold.
We look with satisfaction upon our
paved streets, splendid public build
inpcl and nrntty marks