The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-01-11

pride as a Mankato drive. He spoke
of considerable amount of road re-
pair work that had already been done
here by the various governmental
units and private parties, but more
, was needed.
County Surveyor Allison stated
| that il full advantage was to be re-
ceived from the $4,000 that had been
spent on the loop, the surface must
be covered this spring. Otherwise
! the good results would be largely
lost. The road was in shape for the
surfacing now. Where the grading
had been done, there should be grav-
cling.
Charles T. Taylor spoke of the
miserable condition of the road run
ming between Mankato and st. Clair.
st. Highway Engineer Moe spoke of
the plans that had been made to care
for that road. John H. Macbeth
thought $500 should be spent at once
on the Improvement of the Lake
Washington road. At length mo-
ton was passed instructing the
board of governors to spend $500 on
that road w. ]. Morehart thought
| the repair work on the Lake Wash
ington road could be done more
cheaply now than at any other time.
because the farmers were not busy.
There was some discussion on the
question of spending the money of
the Automobile club without waiting
equal sum- Mr. Soaring said the
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go fifty-fifty with the Automobile
club and up to now the two commit
tees on good roads had worked to-
gether. At the present time, how
ever, there was only $500 left in the
good roads fund of the commercial
club, and he thought it would be well
in these war times, when the Com
mercial club had SO many other
propositions to look after, for the au-
tomobile club to take from the COM
mercial club a portion of the burden
of keeping up the roads.
Minneopa Road In Miserable Condi-
ton.
Mr.. Soaring said the road to Min
neopa park, which was show place
to which visitors in the city were
often taken, was now in miserable
condition. He thought the automo-
bile club should extend help in re-
pairing the st. Clair road. There
were other roads that should be re-
paired, and this might be done with
the cooperation of the county and
town authorities.
A motion was now passed, as
proposed by S. B. Wilson. giving the
board of governors. enlarged powers
to spend the reserve fund of the club
on the Lake Washington and Lake
Madison roads and elsewhere.
Mr.. Holman remarked that with
the large number of automobiles in
the county the automobile club
ought to have much larger mem
bership. The official registration
showed that there were 1906 automo-
biles in Blue Earth county, and the
club ought to have a membership of
500. He sroke of the good work the
club had done on the roads during
the past ten years, the benefits of
which were received by members and
non members. He spoke of the leg
islation that had been accomplished.
William Schwender thought every
or two new members.
About the last of the meeting, May
or Champlin brought up the PROPOSE
ton that there should be more care
full registration of automobiles as
they are bought and numbered, so
, that they will not escape taxation
S. B. Wilson remarked that the sec
rotary of state had the full list of the
licenses issued, and the assessors
could easily see that. The point was
brought out, however, that many peo-
pie bought their automobiles just in
time to avoid the assessment
Just before adjournment Mr.. Tay-
Tor called attention to the good work
done by State Highway Engineer
Moe on the road to Kasota