The Mankato free press., 1913-03-14

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Tracy, Hans Mo of Sleepy Eye,
Delegates Are Welcomed.
In the absence of Mayor Charles
II. Taylor, Judge w. l.. Comstock, in
an appropriate speech, welcomed the
delegates to Mankato. Mr.. Comstock
dwelt on the Importance of develop
ing southern Minnesota and making
known the great productiveness of
its soil; also the opportunities for
further developing the dairy indus
try.
Judge Comstock welcomed the del
egates heartily. He said "The may
or has asked me to greet you and
welcome you in his absence. You
don't need any keys for the freedom
of the city, for the latch strings are
out The people of this city most
heartily welcome you to Mankato
They welcome you especially because
of the object of your meeting. We
invite you to go about our city to
see the municipal developments
which have come about gradually
without any special boosting, but as
natural developments.
You are fortunate tOO in coming
to town to which all roads are
directed. Sixty years ago, even all
the tracks came to Mankato. Later
on the iron roads converged in Man
katO. Mankato has now become the
road center of Southern Minnesota.
We take special pride in the high
ways in the vicinity of Mankato, and
this city is becoming known as the
center of the best highways of the
state. "In a newer country develop
ment takes care of itself, but in an
older country development needs the
energy of men in its progress. South
ern Minnesota is to be congratulated
upon having as its means of devel-
opment such men as you are.
''The banks of Mankato have one
by one been forced to rebuild and
enlarge to take care of the wealth
which is the result of the great
crops of grain being harvested. We
want you to look around while you
are here and see the result of not
boosting, for Mankato has never been
boosted. eve anticipated many things
for the future of Mankato. We do
not say that Mankato has arrived,
but that it is arriving.
when about the twentieth of this
month the governor shall have at
tached his signature to the eastman
bill we shall have arrived
Eve have every tested species of
street Improvement in this city and
we invite you to inspect them.
"Mankato is fast becoming known,
however, as an educational center.
Besides having some 1900 grade pu-
pills in the schools, we have state
normal here, we have a new Ger
man Lutheran college, a new Cath
lege. SO it is an educational CEN
ter as well as commercial center.
We shall hate to have you go away
without having found out about these
things.
We wash you God speed in your
work of development of Southern
Minnesota and welcome you here"
W. w. Blair of st. Charles re-
sponded to the address of welcome,
in the absence of Vice President
Frank A. Day. 81 am glad to know
of the splendid things which Man.
kato holds, and if We can steal any
thing in the way of ideas we shall
surely do it."
i. Governor Eberhart did not arrive
this afternoon, but will reach the
city this evening at eight o'clock
and address an evening meeting.
Among other speakers this after
noon was Hon. c. NJ. King, president
of the Northern Minnesota Develop
ment association, who discussed Ell
ne naun1nnponnt Association 81,
| C. w. Glotfelter spoke also.
Lyon County Well Represented.
Lyon county is we'll represented in
Mankato today. One of the largest
and livest delegations attending the
sessions of the Southern Minnesota
Better Development League, comes
from Tracy, Marshall and Minneota,
the hustling cities of that county
Il. G. Bonnallie, mayor of Tracy and
president of the Southern Minnesota
Better Development league and chair
man of the Mankato to Yellowstone
park highway is here. H. F. Setter,
well known at New Ulm, director in
the Citizens State Bank at Tracy;
president of the Setter Loan Invest
ment company and Henry Partridge,
Olit VI TIE ldlScSI HlclCHdutS III LudI
section, also of Tracy are all here.
Other business men from Marshall
and Minneota, also in Lyon county,
are here.
One of the most enthusiastic visi-
tors is B. B. Gislason, a heavy prop
erty owner, president of Globe Land
and Loan company, at Minneota. Mr..
Gislason is registered at the Saul
paugh hotel. 'This movement we are
starting" said Mr.. Gislason, sis GER
tain to bring great results to South
ern Minnesota. In our county we
have organized subsidiary associa-
ton and called it the Lyon County
Real Estate Mems association. All
the banks have joined with us and
we are now pushing things.
eve secured the service of the
Leonard Fowler Advertising Agency
of Des Moines, Iowa, subscribed a
fund of money, and have been and
are now using list of nine aaily
newspapers from Bloomington, Illi-
nois, to Lincoln, Nebraska, straight
across the corn belt. We have re-
ceived close to an aggregate of fif-
teen hundred bona fide inquiries from
interested parties in Iowa, Illinois,
Nebraska and Northern Missouri.
"Our subsidiary association now is
taking the matter up. A contract
has been let for the publication of a
booklet of close to $4,000 copies and