The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1915-01-22

Mankato.
Mrs. c. Il. Rogers and daughter of
Minneapolis are guests at the home
OF Mr.. and Mrs. c. Il. Quest on Sher.y
venue.
Miss Erma Doepke Of Wanda,
arrived yesterday afternoon
for a short visit with her sister, who
attends normal school.
{. b. Hance OF Owatonna. travelling !
salesman for the wellworth Knit
Goods company. left the city yester-
day. after visiting at the home of
his brother, ii. Z. Hance.
II. Kettlewell returned yesterday
from Minneapolis, where he attended
the annual meeting OF the Merchants
Life and Casualty company, Of which
he Is a director.
c. l.. Lubenstein came to Man
kato last evening ! N an automobile
with his wife and family from their
home at Hanska to attend the o n
cert given at the opera house last
evening
Rev. and Mrs. W. o. Jones, Henry
Bowen. j. A. Thomas, Emery Price
and Byron Jones, music lovers OF
Cambria. attended the Orpheus Male
chorus concert ut Mankato Theatre
last night. They were exceedingly
well pleased with the singing.
S. p. Sheldon, formerly OF Manka-
to, now of Chicago, n travelling sales
man. was I'm the :iyt today, stopping
at the Heinrich hotel. He expects to
make his headquarters i'm Mankato.
Il. r. Williams of Fergus Falls called
on friends In the city today.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. T. IItchfield of
ritchell, s. D., came to Mapkato
today to remain over Sunday with
the family, o. G. Litchfield. They
will go from here TO Minneapolis.
o. 4. Litchfield and o. c. Litchfeld
are cousins and they have not see
each other for forty years
Miss Lucy Kruse. who teaches
school at Window came TO her home
I'm Mankato last evening aecompan.
led by a friend, Miss Hazel Hanson,
also OF Window. The main object Of
the trip was to attend the presenta-
tion of 1.-The Bird Of Paradise" at
the Mankato Theatre Sunday even
ing.
Leslie Wolfe. the returned Chris
tian church missionary from the
Philippines, and Earl Shoemaker OF
this city. departed this morning on
an extended lecturing tour, under the
auspices of the Christian Foreign
Missionary society, and will speak
at the Christian churches through
out Iowa. Nebraska, Missouri, Kan.
sas. Arkansas Oklahoma, and Texas,
They expect to be gone until the
last of March Or the first OF April.
from Saturdays Daily.
At the annual meeting of the AI2l
kato Automobile club, held last even
ing at the city hall, officers were
chosen for the ensuing year a:
follows: President, John Ii. Hon
mann, succeeding Il. Z. Brown; vic.
president. NJ. ID. Fritz, succeeding
Albert SLIDER; secretary and treas
urer, b. Bangerter, Jr.. succeeding
h. NJ. Zuel as secretary aud himself
as treasurer; delegates to the meet
ing OF the Minnesota State Automo
bile association, to be held at Min
neapolis on February 2, VI. ID. Fritz
and II. T.. Brown.
Louis Mayer of the Mayer Broth
ers company stated that his com
pany would furnish the use of
tractor and the Widell compan.
would furnish dump cars for TIL
graveling Of roads i'm the vicinity o
Mankato. at no other charge thar
the actual cost of operating the ma
chinery.
John III. Hohmai.n suggested tina
the funds that the club had available
for the %groyeiing and improvement
of roads should be divided up anon
the various roads about the city
This matter was left I'm the hand
Of the newly elected officers.
Signs to Guide Drivers.
i i. NJ. Currier. chairman OF th
committee OH signs. reported tina
In a very short time the committe
would have the signs for the coui
try around Mankato. showing u,
direction and distance of the cit,
ready to put up.
A member of the Rapidan lumbe
firm of Flo Brothers addressed tn
meeting, and asked that the clu
appropriate $500 for the completio
of the graveling of the road fror
the Rapidan station to Rapidan dan
He said the town OF Rapidan ha
already spent $3.50 on this road an
the farmers had spent a like amount
There would be needed about $40
and IL the Mankato Automobile clu
would furnish half of this. the gra,
cling would be completed this win
ter. After some discussion the clu
decided TO grant this request.
Report Of Secretary.
l.. M. Zuel. the retiring secretar,
rendered u brief summary of u h
assistance that the Mankato Autt
mobile club has rendered I'm maxim
better roads In Blue Earth and Nico
let counties. and OF what has bee
done for the various convention
held in the city during the past yea
nv uivinu thn 1~otauafac outnp,nhtf