The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1914-05-08

ing on Main street. What that pIai
was. ne did not know.
!. New Membership list
4 A. J. veigel. speaking for the com
mittee on membership, said the com
mitee had been very successful in
its canvass for new members. The
soliciting done by Mr.. Pay, Mr.. Scar
ing and himself had resulted in bring.
ing sixty new members into the club,
raising the total membership TO 3O1
which was n larger figure by far
than the club ever had before. This
meant about all the representative
business men of the city.
| Mr.. veigel read the list of new
members, which was as follows: e.
w. Foster, L. A. Mizener, p. w.
Pitcher, v. II. Rawitzer. ID. w. Cham
berlain. F. b. Clements. Jr.. VIM.
w. Meixner. F. w. Force, w. welner,
Charles II. Corbett, Jr., Sullivan &
Smith, Mankato vulcanizing com.
pany. c. w. and W. II. Eckman, c..
l.. Anderson, @. M. Roberts, ID. Pet
erson. j. Lynard Produce company,
c. N. Fritzner. witts-o'Brien com
pany, DIR. Ben ii. McCleery, w. w.
Jones, Steiner's Pharmacy, Geo. f.
Rettig. Knehne Wagon company, DR.
j. u. Heidel. A. c. Mikkelson, A. NJ.
Krause. II. J. Power. J. C. NARROW, I.
| A. Pelton. l.. f. and c. l.. Scott. J.
H. Putnam, Esser Brothers. C. Tim
hermann, w. Il. Clogher, Don ".
Daigneau, T. j. Peterson, Martin
Wiltgen, f. c. Thronson, Grover G.
Weir, b. Fl. Chesley. Sandon Broth.
ers. Jos. Hampl, Victor Produce CON-
pany. J. A. Ross. DR.. A. F. Kemp.
I-aven a Halstrom, w. ". Stimson,
George Curnas, l.. r. Roebke, E. ID.
Just, f. J. Mahowald. Charles X.
Mohr, F. J. Lorenz, Edmond Ore,
Carl Brell & Son. +. A. Campbell,
c. w. Bachertz and Otto Peterson.
The list of farmer club presidents
holding complimentary membership
tickets was also read as follows: A.
L. veigel, Indian Lake; Frank M.
Brooks. Riverside; Jens Johnson,
Butternut Valley; o. e. Treanor. De
CORA; C. II. Johnson. Kennedys
Bridge; r. j. Naylor. Rapidan;
George c. Keith, Sterling; N. P.I
Grass. South Amboy; Thomas Rob-
,erts. Lake View; John Stroebel,
Medo: w. @. Clark. Belgrade; Benja-
min d. Hughes, Cambria.
Help For Highways.
Judge Cray, as chairman of the
good roads committee, said that while |
money was promised for help on
country roads in many places, nearly |
every promise had been already full. |
filled. The committee had been at
tempting TO get the officials OF the |
various towns TO use their dragging |
fund for that purpose, as provided by |
the Dunn law. The speaker referred |
to the bad condition of many of the |
city streets, and said II these were |
not improved soon, It would be nee
essary to use the good road fund
right In the city, instead of spending
II In the country. He said many of
the city streets compared unfavor-
ably with country roads.
Miles Porter sal dthe roads around !
Vernon and Amboy we're being well |
dragged after a rain, but there |
should be dragging OF the roads
around this city. .a
Byron Street Needs Help.
j. r. Brandrup stated that the club
might do well to make an appropria-
ton for Byron street. That street,
he said. was in awful condition.
Recently livery rigs had to be hired
to pull automobiles out of the hole.
John Nyquist said the Scenic
Highway proposition had tied upt
$1,000 Of the clubs money, leaving
very little for the good roads fund.
Last year he said, the committee
did not have $500 to spend on road
improvements.
Mayor Meyer remarked that the
weather had been very much against
the road improvements with so much
rain. AS for Byron street. he said
that was a good road. but Il had
been dug full of holes, and then
came the spring rains. The mayor
remarked that It would be better to
spend money right here In the city
on the roads, than to tie II up for a
Scenic Highway project.
X. Z. Brown. manager of the Con-
sumers' Power company, admitted
that that concern had dug up part
of Byron street He said the sewer
contractors and others had also dug
II up.
Lack of Concerted Effort.
F. NJ. Currier said one weak point
with the good roads policy of this
was the lack of concerted
effort. "A road would be broken and
and then left. A little
money spent right now in improving
and maintaining such highways as
there were would go much farther
than thousands of dollars spent for
such work in the fall.
!, Mr.. Nyquist suggested that Mayer
Brothers tractor might be gotten
ut work on some OF the roads at
once. It could be used on them to
advantage as soon as they were dry
enough.