The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1915-10-15

| mercial club office.
| Business of an important nature
| was transacted by the advisory com
mittee of the Mankato Commercial
| club Yesterday afternoon. All of the
members were present but one, and
President Veigel presided.
| NJ. ID. Fritz brought up the matter
| of entertaining the officers of building
and loan associations of the state. who
| will hold their annual meeting in this
| city Friday next MONDAY luncheon
| and a visit TO the movies were among
| the forms of entertainment promised
when the convention was secured. Mr.
| Fritz said that II the club would en-
terrain the officers at luncheon. the
local Savings and Building association
| would do the rest. IL Is expected
| that possibly twenty-five visitors
from the larger cities of the state will
| be present. II was decided to invite
them TO attend a MONDAY lunch as
guests of the club. Members of the
| local association will also be present.
| but will pay for their tickets.
The request of II. +. Samuelson,
| executive clerk. st. Paul that the
| club call meeting of Commercial
| organizations and farmers clubs of
| the county TO select two or three
| delegates to state development
meeting to be held in st. Paul the
| latter part of November. was consid
cred and the matter was left in the
hands OF the president and secretary
| TO take such action as seems best, to
have the county represented.
Address On Fairgrounds.
\ letter from Allen d. Albert, sec
| rotary OF the Minnesota Commercial
and civic Federation. saying that the
| Playground and Recreation assoCia-
| ton Of America had assigned Charles
| FrCdedick Weller free of charge to
| the towns of the state. and asking
that Mankato make arrangements to
have him. was read. Mr.. Weller will
| be in the state from October 10 to
| 80. and will visit possibly thirty
| places. The plan H. that this expert
will look over the city. 'alk with local
leaders and subsequently address Il
public meeting and analyZc the rec
| rcation situation in the city. Offering
| definite suggestions for the develop
ment Of Fairgrounds school and park
! activities and other reCreatiCnal re-
sources OF the community. Whether
| further work shall be undertaken
| afterwards will be decided at the
| meeting. He is said to have lately
done excellent work at Minneapolis.
st. Paul. Duluth. Virginia. Eveleth,
Chisholm and Jew Ulm. The mat
ter of arranging for a meeting was
| "a IN hn I, nf ntav
the advisory comm ittee expressing the
| opinion that il was a very good move
and should be encouraged
| The committee considered the let
ter of J. c. Brinker, proprietor of the
st. Peter Wooden mills. who desires
to move the mill to Mankato II finan-
| cial assistance could be secured,
which would enable him to work on a
larger scale and make sweaters, bed
blankets and hosiery.
Looked the Factory Over.
President Veigel reported that he
and Theodore Just had gone to ST.
| Peter and looked the factory over and
talked with Mr.. and Mrs. Brinker.
/ who do all the work themselves. Tho
! proposition of the Drinkers is that a
company shall be organized with S10.-
900 capital; and that they will put in
| their machinery. which is extensive
but out of date, and good will. in at
$4,000. The matter was left with the
| secretary.
A letter from a party interested in
a Wisconsin shoe factory was read.
looking to the moving of the factory
to Mankato IL $4,000 capital is raised
in Mankato. This would procure a
controlling interest and would result i'm
] moving the factory, which has been
! on payable basis for some years.
| The letter went into considerable de-
| tail, and references were given, and
il sounded so good that 1t was decided
to correspond further and perhaps. to
send someone to the town to look into
| 1t with a view to trying to- secure the
the factory IL everything was all right
| IL was decided to resume efforts
to interest parties in erecting and
managing a canning factory in this
city, and the secretary is to write to
these parties.
| Ideal Country Highway.
The secretary reported that while
at Madison, Wis, in August he had
seen some ideal country highway,
which had surface as hard as. and
looking much like, asphalt. II was like
a pavement, although II was i'm an ex-
ceedingly rainy time. He had learned
through the highway commissioner of
| the county that It was made of local
limestone. treated with Trinidad liq-
uid asphalt. bought from the Barber
Asphalt Paving Co.. at five cents a
gallon at Maurer, N. j.. the freight to
Madison being two and fourth cents
a gallon. Six-tenths of a gallon to the
square yard was applied for the first
application. this cost being 81 cents
per square yard. Mr.. Sommers. the
highway engineer said that he has