The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1916-02-25
Meeting 70 Discuss This Matter
win Be Held February
26; Plans
From Fridays Daily.

From Fridays Daily.
Agitation has existed in st. Clair
and the adjoining districts for year
or two to join in the consolidation,
and immediate steps will be taken to
ascertain the opinion of the districts
interested. Within the last month
great many residents of the adjoining
district have manifested desire to
with ST. Clair, and at the
present time there are twelve dis
tricts which are being considered in
this consolidation. c.. w. Knox, sup
erintendent of the consolidated school
at Cleveland, will speak at st. Clair
Saturday, February &c. This will
open the movement for consolidation
and all those interested will be pres
ent from the outlying districts inter-
ested, and will give their views and
discuss this new movement. If the
community is found in favor Of con-
solidation, committees will be formed
in the various districts to bring it
about. The central committee of fiji
teen to twenty men were elected
Tuesday evening to make arrange
ments for this feature and to get in
touch with the outlying districts in
this matter. Jacob Chase was made
chairman Of the central committee
for the arrangements. Mr.. Swan, the
rural school commissioner of the de-
partment of education, is expected to
be in ST. Clair in March, in the inter-
ests OF this question.
The st. Clair Commercial club has
recently came to life again and it
held a very profitable and enthusiast
tic meeting Wednesday evening.
| Activities have been discontinued
since 1909. Twelve new members were
taken in and officers for the ensuing
year were elected as follows: Presf-
dent Jacob Chase; secretary L. E.
Appel; treasurer Charles O'Connor.
The OConnor building was voted on
as a meeting place. A movement was
made to invite the adjoining farm
ers of the vicinity to become members
of the club. At this meeting the club
voted to cooperate and financially
aid the movement of school consolida-
ton, and to lend it's aid in determin-
ing the opinion of the outlying dis
tricts. ..... .,... -........
I Recently the people of Redwood
f! Falls took the census of that city and
found that they have acquired a pop
| ulation of 2136.s This is a magnificent
/ showing and bids fair to be duplicated
| in a few years, as Redwood Falls is
one Of the most progressive cities in
| Minnesota. 1t is not only progressive,
| but it IS one of the prettiest cities in
! the northwest and contains the best
| people on earth.
! During the past three days the Great
| Western railroad has brought three
| extra trains of coal into Mankato. The
| three included forty-four cars, making
total OF $3.50 tons of coal, in addi-
! ton to that brought by the regular
trains. MankatO has had some shortage
of coal, the railroad men say, though
the people have not realized it. The
hauling of coal to this city has been
greatly handicapped by recent bad
weather conditions.
| 81 do not know what was the trouble
| got into last night. / am going
into court to find out" said John Ar
mold, living five miles east of the city,
| in his cell at the police station this
morning. It developed that Arnold
had raised a disturbance, while drunk,
in a saloon, last night Judge Plymat
] imposed fine of SIS with the alter
| native OF twenty days in Jail. Ar
| mold took the days.
A tool house was erected yesterday
| near the site of the old Brandrup
: building, which was destroyed by fire
on December 10 last. Supplies of lum-
! Der, sand gravel and other material
for the new structure that will be
| erected on the site of the old, are
/ steadily accommodating The J. B. Nell
sen Construction company will begin
! the actual building on the new block
! as soon as the weather is permanently
| favorable. .
Shanghai, February 19.-The Amer
/ lean steamship China, which left
! Shanghai yesterday for San Francis
co, was held up on the high seas by
a British auxiliary cruiser and thir
| ty-eight Germans taken off.
Rap1dan
The Boys and Girls club in dis
trict 100 very pleasantly entertained
their parents and friends at a valen-
! tine social in the school house last
Monday night. REGULATIONS and songs
4 were rendered by the school children
| a nd can,nS uora nla ypd Inv both ynunr