The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1914-06-19
.KATO FALLS INTO
NICE HANDS SURE

| ME- HANDY SUN
from Thursdays Daily.
Promptly at eleven o'clock the
business session OF the grand council
OF the United Commercial Travellers
for the Jurisdiction embracing Mime
sofa and North Dakota was opened
In the Knights OF Columbus hall
The meeting was called to order by
o. III. Griswold OF Winona, grand
senior counselor, who presented
Claude Duval of Kansas City, su
preme counselor. Mr.. Duval was
greeted with a hearty round OF ap
plause, which he acknowledged with
few well chosen remarks, observ
ing that he was there merely as q
visitor. and not in any official capa'
city.
Grand Counsellor Griswold ap'
pointed the committee on creden'
of Winona, j. T.. Lawrence OF Du-
luth and z. G. Mahle Of st. Paul.
Early this afternoon, this commit.
tee reported the following delegates
present:
Zenith council, Duluth: G. A.
Spires, Z. F. Chalk, c. w. Sutton,
}. Z. Lawrence, o. c. Reitan, w. n.
Donaldson.
SANITY City cuncil, st. Paul: w.
o. Barndt. r, +. Noble, E. c. Mahle,
B. II. Salisbury, ]. c. Doncaster, A.
W. Lindberg.
Minneapolis council: r. +. Braden,
+. C.. Walters, T. NJ. Gilfillan, Il. F.
Yates. c. F. f. Peterson. w. w.
Powell.
Grand Forks council: Geo N. Mel.
son, Thos. Swiggum, ]. J. Daily, z.
r. Montgomery.
Fargo council: c. II. Baker, r. z.
Cole, Thos. Il. Dunn, G. w. Wilkin.
son, T. d. Hughes, John F. McGrann.
Winona council: George NJ. Arnt.
sen, T. b. Mackenzie. b. NJ. Seeman.
0watonna council: ]. r. Truman,
N. S. Jacobs, II. X. Tompkins.
Crookston council: c. w. Final,
John ]. Kelly, II. B. Stevens.
Austin council: G. X. Truesdell.
Mankato council: J. E. Hickey, j.
w. HOLMAN.
Minnehaha council, Minneapolis:
George Anderson, J. p. Trainor.
Albert Lea: Henry Stotz.
Minot council: F. W. Youngman,
A. A. Robinson, f. C. Perry.
Red Wing council: J. E. Teele, F.
s. Toal.
Bismarck council: C. r. Norton,
r. l.. Best.
st. Cloud council: w. S. Elliott,
Hugh Evans.
Pipestone council: n. NJ. Nilsson.
Saltwater council: Herbert A. Bell,
II. C.. Hellweg.
Minnesota council, Thief River
Falls: Andrew Anderson.
evils Lake council: L. G. Wal
strom, ]. p. Desmond.
Fergus Falls council: David l..
Brown.
Brainerd council: H. A. Knapp.
jamestown council: Gustav Lieber.
The hall was profusely adorned
with bunting of yellow, white and
blue, the colors Of the order; with
'Aa British and American flags, and
with u. c. T. banners OF various de-
scriptions.
Hotel Hobbies I'm Mankato we're
scenes OF unwonted activity last
evening. The knights of the grip
had begun to arrive from all parts
of this grand jurisdiction embracing
Minnesota and North Dakota. Among
the first to time was the delegation
from Winona. These advertisers of
the worlds manufactured products
lAta ~ al 20 he
ton OF next year for Winona and
they brought with them a good sup.
ply of buttons, bearing the name Of
that city. which they distributed to
all the delegates and others in sight
who cared to be proclaimed as sup
porting the candidacy of that city.
There were not a few of them.
Many OF the Minneapolis travellers.
who were already on the scene, Gag.
erly accepted the buttons and put
them on. There were many others,
too, who were glad to take the WI
mona badge and don II, and II seem
ed that Winona was right in line to
get the meeting Of 1915.
Grand Forks Is Rival.
There Is one rival, however, and
that Is Grand Forks. Grand Forks
spoke for the convention of 1915 at
the meeting that was held a year ago,
and some of the travellers think
Grand Forks Is entitled to IL for
that reason. Some say II is time for
the convention to go north, instead
of having another meeting in the
south, and for that reason they de-
clare for Grand Forks. Winona, they
say, would be a good place to hold
the convention In 1916. and that ar
rangement would be In accord with
the we'll established precedent OF
letting a city speak for the conven-
ton two years ahead of time. The
grand council will probably choose
its next meeting place on Friday aft
ernoon.
Although II had been advertised
that Winona delegates were coming
In touring cars, they came for the
most part on the, afternoon train.
They started out yesterday morning
In their cars, bent on making the
entire Journey In that way, but they
had Just neared Waseca, when they
were struck by a big rainstorm, and
the roads got so bad and travelling
by autos so. difficult, that all they
cared to do was to make their way
to Waseca by autos, and take the
train for the rest OF the journey.
There were other autoists, however,
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