The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1916-06-23
Debt Company H Armory Will
Likely Be Paid
ACTION OF THE KAT0 CLUB
City Commissioners Are to Hold
Special Meeting Tomorrow
Morning

Matters connected with the well
fare CT the local military company,
which is to leave Friday morning for
Fort Smelling, preparatory to going to
the Mexican border and nobody now
knows how much further, were con-
sidered at meeting of the advisory
committee of the Mankato CONNER
cial club this forenoon. Several i'm
portant actions looking to relieving
the minds of the company members
while they are away from home were
taken. In the first place, the mat
ter of relieving the company of the
$4,000 debt on the armory was con-
sidered, and it was the unanimous
opinion that the city council ought to
assume that indebtedness. Mayor
Robert Lamm was called in to the
meeting, and after the matter had
been gone into in detail, he agreed to
call a special meeting of the city
council for nine o'clock tomorrow
morning to consider any request that
the citizens and taxpayers of the city
may have to make at that time. 1t is
desired that every taxpayer who can
possibly be at the city hall at that
If it should appear to be the general
desire of the people of Makato, and
particularly of the people who pay
bulk of the taxes, that the city
assume the Indebtedness, there is
thought to be little doubt but that
the council will give it favorable con-
sideratiOn. 1t is therefore important
that all business men, especially, be
there
Will Hold Positions.
The advisory committee empow-
cred President F. NJ Currier to APP
point a committee whose duty it shall
be to look after the welfare of the
dependent relatives OF the members
of the company until they return
home, and also to see to it, SO far as
it is able, that the employers of the
company members hold their posi-
tions open for them when they return
from the south. To this end, each
member of the company has been
asked to furnish the names and ad-
dresses of his family and employer.
The advisory committee also talked
over how it could do something for
the members of the company to have
them feel that Mankato is personally
interested in them and backs them up
and encourages them in their mill
tary duties. A banquet was suggest
ed, but it was finally thought that the
company members would rather
spend their last evening with their
loved ones, and for that reason this
was discarded. Instead, it was voted
to appropriate SIS to the order of
Captain Scott, for him to use in the
south for the purchase of delicacies
for the boys, at times when these will
be highly welcome, and which the
government does not provide for in
its rations or supply money. 1t was
felt that in this way the boys could
have little treats that would be more
enjoyed than more or less formal
banquet would be now. 1t is not
doubted that later on other organiza-
lions in the city or individuals will
do the same, so that the boys on the
front will feel that the people at
home are thinking about them.
Several other matters were con-
sidered by the advisory committee, in
the line of the citys welfare, and act
ed upon.
Comment BY Mayor.
Commenting on the matter today
the mayor remarked that the city had
agreed to give $4,000 for the lot, and
still had $1,000 to pay on that The
city also turned over to the militia
the sum of $1,000 which had been
intended for the Scenic highway. Re-
Gently at the request of Mrs. M. D.
Fritz the council gave $3.50, Mrs. Fritz
saying that the company would then
receive $3.50 from the state. S100 from
George M. Palmer and 500 from
John H. Ray. The mayor further re-
marked that the city had paid out
$3.50 to pay for the paving adjacent
to the armory. He did not feel like
voting for further appropriation
Just now.