The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1914-06-12
MIANKATO DELEGATION.
OLD SETTLERS PICNIC
From Tuesdays Daily.

From Tuesdays Daily.
! The heavy showers of last night
prevented many from driving to the
old settlers picnic at Sterling today,
and the early Milwaukee train this
morning benefited thereby. One
coach was filled with Mankato peo-.
pie. ''." 6..'
A telephone message from Maple,
ton this morning says that car OF
county candidates arrived in that
city this morning and at eight o'clock
all were making the rounds of Ho-
talings' town, and such a dearth OF
Gabfesters never before swooped
down on that peaceful community.
Our informant insisted that every
man except Joe Reynolds who came
down this morning was an aspirant
for office.
The train was met by Editor ii.
C.. Hotaling, T. b. Taylor and other
prominent local citizens and arrange
ments were made to drive from
there to the Judd Cornell grove
where the picnic has been held for
many years past. Here the army of
candidates were cordially greeted by
Mr.. Cornell and the reception CON-
mittee.
Governor Eberhart and thirty or
forty Mankato people made up an
automobile party which motored to
Judd Cornelfs home today for the
old settlers picnic. The governor
arrived on the 1890 a. m, train
and the party gathered at the Elks
club, from where the start was
made. =.
ID. ]. p. Rosenwald, accompanied
by Mrs. Rosenwald, led the line of
automobiles, and were Immediately
followed by DIR. A. +. Schmitt His
party included Governor Eberhart,
General Gustaf Widell, u. Nj. Eager
and Edgar Weaver. The car was
very handsomely decorated with
flags at the front and back and large
| flags draped on the body of the car.
The others who left at the same
| time were George r. Bradley ac-
companied by his wife, Mrs. Sellen
and Mrs. Widell; DR.. c. ii. Nerbovig
accompanied by his wife and son,
Mr.. and Ms. +. w. Bates and chill
dren; DR.. @. A. Dahl accompanied
by his wife; John Nyquist accompan-
led by Mrs. Nyquist, Mrs o. F. Nor
row and Frank Gabler; A. ]. Veigel
accompanied by Mrs. Veigel, Attor-
ney and Mrs. Ivan Bowen; c. F. Gun
strom accompanied by George Sim
mons and Edgar Weaver, Jr., F. NJ.
Otto accompanied by his daughters,
lucille and Marie, Attorney and Mrs.
c. z. Philips and Mrs. w. ]. Mora
wetz; ID. NJ. Jones accompanied by
Mrs. Jones, Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. ]. Ner-
bovig and Allen Archibald; John
Macbeth accompanied by Mrs. Mac
| beth and their daughter and Mr..
and Mrs. c. l.. Kennedy and two chill
dren; e. F. Soaring and family: Nv.
w. Davis accompanied by BENJAMIN
Taylor, Sam X. Fowler and Master
Frank Fowler; G. w. Eichstaedt and
family; Mr.. and Mrs. ]. G. Fowler
and a party; William Schwender
and Judge w. l.. Comstock: and
Frank Hotaling.
Edward Gugisberg and Walter Ply.
mat.
Following is the address delivered
by John Deets at the old settlers
picnic held today at old Mapleton,
under the auspices OF the Mapleton
and Sterling association:
Ladies and Gentlemen, and Old
Settlers of Blue Earth county, and
Citizens of Southern Minnesota:
II gives me great pleasure to be
with. you today and assist in bring
ing to memory the deeds and
achievements of those who have
made this portion of the great
state of Minnesota the garden SPOT
OF America. II is always pleasure
to meet with men and women who
have been able to accomplish things
that make the world better. Some
one has said that he who makes
two blades OF grass grow where
one grew before is benefactor
to his race but the men in South
ern Minnesota have done more than
this. They have opened the treasure
house of nature and where none
grew before they have been able
to make hundreds grow now. Where
once there were wide stretches of
bleak prairies, intermingled with
unbroken forests, they have been
able TO build for themselves beauti-
full farmsteads with abundant crops
and throw around themselves social
privileges and conditions that stand
as a monument of an. enduring
nature that the world will always
respect and honor.
THE thing that strikes me most
forcibly in all these gatherings is
the enduring quality of the men,
orials erected by men and women in
whose footsteps we are following.
have read in the Holy Writ that
men and women who do great deeds
shall shine as stars in the firma-
ment' This does not mean In the
kingdom beyond the skies so much
as II means that they shall shine
on in lives and characters of the
men and women who follow them;
In the institutions they founded and
1.-THE conditions they created. It Is
! always the aim and object of every
/ person to leave some lasting mem
orial. Men go to the expense Of
rearing some costly marble shaft
or cast into bronze, gold or silver
some rich design that will tell of
their achievements and efforts that
made the world better, but 1t is
my honest conviction that these
unthought' or and unlocked for mem
orials. such as the laying OF the