The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1913-01-03
NORTH MANKAT0 FIRE
BOYS JUMP THE JOBS
From Mondays OaiIy.

l has dishanded. A communicable,
from the company was read at tn
meeting of 1.-THE council Saturday ey
eillhS informing the council that az
mat body, as they claimed, had r,
luScd TO recognize them, they form
ally mad disbanded and divided tn,
money IN their treasury anon,
themselves. They claim that som,
nme ago the council refused to Civ,
them any of the $50 which is do
mated by the council every year Il
the fire department. All the $50 wen
10 the Hook and Ladder company
Had No Names on Record.
The council claimed as reason
for doing this that the names o.
The members of the No. compan,
with the officers had not been re
corded by the council and therefore
they had not been accepted by the
council as real fire fighting or
sanitation. The fire boys claimed
that this had been done, but the
council records did not show it
Later they produced another list OF
members and officers, and the term
Of office of these officers expired
in few days the council thought
ii better 10 hold the matter over
until the next meeting when the
new officers would have been elect,
ed. Then the council promised TO
recognize them formally and to
grant their request for coats which
was made some time ago
Nothing Doing Saturday Night.
Saturday night was the meeting
when the council expected to be
presented with the list of new Of
ticers and 10 hear again their re-
quest for coats. However, the list
was not forthcoming, and the coun-
oil was informed that the company
had disbanded. The money which
was in their treasury. about $50,
was divided among themselves. The
council debated some time as to
what 10 do with the letter. If they
were a legally organized company
as they claimed, they have no right
TO use the money for their own
II they are not a legally organized
company then the village has moth
ing To do with them.
Ball Before Council.
Professor c. +. Ball appeared be-
fore the council and said that he
was not speaking for the company,
but he had typewriter the letter
and had heard the story put up by
the hose company. He said that he
thought there was a misunderstand-
ing between the company and the
council and that this could be
Strengthened out. He was loath 10
see the company disband as they
would be valuable asset in case
Of fire.
Wanted An Understanding.
Mr.. Ball thought that it would
be a good idea if some one of the
council men would speak to some
of the members of the company
and try To come to an understand.
ing with them. The letter was laid
on the table until next meeting.
The only other business that came
before the council was the reading
OF and acceptance of the librarians
report and the reading of the hills
for the month of December. This
was done. The librarian reported
that three new subscriptions had
been added during the month of
December.
The Fred w. Kruse company, fol-
lowing a custom which it establish
ed several years ago, held an annual
good roads sale last November %,
20 and ~, and donated to the Man
kato Commercial club good roads
fund two per cent of the gross re-
ceipts. or S2S.27. This amount was
turned over to the secretary of the
Commercial club Saturday, and plac-
ed TO the credit of the good roads
fund The Fred w. Kruse company
is deserving of a great deal of credit
for its public spirited policy. Such
policy is characteristic of this COM
pany, for Mr.. Kruse is a wideawake
business man.
Ask Merchants Generally.
Next fall the plan may be tried
of asking the merchants generally
to make a similar donation, the sales
all to occur on certain day or
days, and the fact being well adver
tised. II is believed that the farmers
would show their appreciation by
coming to the city in large numbers
and doing their trading, knowing
that two per cent of the purchases
was TO be expended in the better
ment of their roads. The secretary
of the Commercial club expressed
the opinion that such a sale would
be worth far more to the merchants
than the amounts that they would
donate TO the cause of good roads
Work Is Progressing.
Good roads work is in progress
in several directions, and it looks
as though a great deal of graveling
would be done the present winter
The farmers have been at work on
the Mapleton road, extending the
graveled section, and on one or two
roads in Belgrade where graveling
bees have been held by the farmers,
without asking for any assistance.
A mile was graveled on one road
in this way, and another bee is pro-
posed Crawling has been done on
other roads, but there is opDorturi-
ty for a great deal of this work to
be done the present winter. The
county board has adopted a liberal
policy TO aid in graveling.
Councilman Humiston reported
this morning to the council that he
had made two collections for road
and bridge work. One was for the
repair of the Minnesota river bridge
for which Nicollet county paid $340
and Blue Earth $3.50. This was for
replanking the bridge last summer.
The other collection was from Blue
Earth comfy for the repair of the