The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-12-13
LINKING Up THE TOWNS
Auto Trails to Be Made Into
Very Strong Chains
MONlz is time FIXED
Meetin 8 Dill Be Held In Kato
TS termine Big the
4 Proposition

Next Monday will be red letter
day in Mankato for the good roads
movement. Two new automobile
trails will oe organized here at meet
ings held under the auspices of the
Mankato Commercial club.
At IL "a M, Monday the Hammond
highway will be organized, extending
from Redwing to Worthington, in
Guiding Mortified, Faribault, Elysian.
Madison Lake, Lake Crystal and con-
tinuine along the Omaha railroad.
The Pershing Way.
The Pershing Way, Detroit, Mimi,
and Mason City, Ia, division, will be
organized at a meeting held at two
o'clock next Monday afternoon. This
is a proposed new continuous trunk
line highway, which will connect Win
nipeg, Canada, with ST. Louis, Mo,
and eventually during the coming
year will be extended to New Orleans
This will be the shortest and best
route connecting Winnipeg and New
Orleans, and about four hundred
miles shorter than the Jefferson high
way. 1t is estimated that the popu-
! lation within twenty five mile radi-
us of either side of the Pershing Way
will be seven times as great as the
population for the same radius on
either side of the Jefferson highway,
as it passes through richer and
more populous district.
Connecting Up the Towns.
Among the towns that will be con-
nected by the Pershing Way between
Mason City, Ia, and Detroit, will be
Clear Lake and Lake Mills, Ia, Kies-
ter, Wells, Mapleton. Mankato, St.
Peter, Glencoe, and Litchfield, Paynes
vile, Sank Center, Osakis, Alexan-
dria, Parkers Prairie, Perham Frazee,
and Detroit. This highway will reach
| the choicest summer resort lake re-
gion of Minnesota, and will be the
| only transcontinental north and south
| line in this city not passing through
the twin cities, providing much
shorter route for tourist travel from
the south. 1t will undoubtedly bring
a large, amount of tourist travel to
Mankato.
y < Ms.t;ns sacrday Evenings.
| Next Monday evening the CONNER
cial club will hold meeting in the
council chamber of the city hall, and
will invite the Automobile club and
good road boosters in general to be
present A. E. Nissen of the Rand
McNally company, who will assist in
organizing the trails during the day,
| will give an address on good roads,
| and will outline the Illinois and Penn
sylvania plans, just adopted by those
states, - secure hard surfaced roads.
This plan will be proposed to the
Minnesota legislature this winter. Mr..
Nissen's explanation viii be highly
educational
Commission to Recognize Trails.
The organization of the two high
ways, the Hammond highway and the
Pershing Way, will be recognized by
the state highway department and
they will be printed on the official
state maps printed this winter. They
will also be printed on quarter of
million road maps to be issued by
the Rand. McNally company. These
maps will show Mankato as the hub
of the automobile field in this Sec
ton.
Secretary j. F. Soaring Of the
Mankato Commercial club, mailed out
invitations to all the towns on both
routes to have representatives at
the meetings Monday.