The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-01-25

for the community picnic and the band
concerts.
From Tuesdays Daily.
| Preparations for the business ac-
| tivities of the present year were
Mankato Retail Merchants associa-
ton, held last evening at the Hotel
| Heinrich. Henry Sperra, Frank
Landkamer, Albert SLIDER and F. J..
| Babcock were elected directors. A
motion was passed declaring for band
concerts again this coming summer
and another for community picnic
for both city and country folks.
While the association members
were still at supper, Arthur H. Re-
ole, deputy collector of internal rev.
enue, appeared and explained some
of the features of the war income tax.
Mr.. Remote spoke but a few minutes,
as he had an engagement to speak at
another meeting at the city hall on
[ the same subject. He told how the
same income could be subject to tax
alton under three different federal
laws, the excess profits tax law, the
income tax law of 1916 and the in
come tax law of 1917. He said he
would be in the city until the Goth
of this month. making his headquart-
ers at the city hall, to explain the
income tax to all people who called
on him. Mr.. Remote is very desir-
Gus that the people who call on him
4 should first post themselves well on
facts about their income, their ex-
penses, their various contributions
and their investments and in short,
they should be well prepared with
| figures in regard to every feature of
their finances that will throw light in
the question of what they ought to
!, pay. BY thus preparing themselves
before they come to see Mr.. Remote,
they will save his time and their own
as well.
After the assemblage had partak-
en- of fine supper, G. w. Fisher, the
i presiding officer, called the meeting
to order. He announced that this
was the annual meeting. He re-
marked that the association had been
in existence for year now, and the
attendance that evening showed that
the members felt that they really had
derived some good from the organi-
/ zation. There never was a time when
some organization was more neces-
sary and when it was more essen
i tial for the merchants to know the
ms and outs of every proposition
that came up. There were many de-
mands on the merchants to keep UP
their own business and to help along
with the great war and they should
be right on the job.
Spoken BY Mr.. Fisher.
Mr.. Fisher spoke of Mankato as
, the fifth city in size in the state, and
as good as any in the state. 1t was
, up to the merchants to make this
town just what they wanted it to be
He declared the coming year in bus
mess was going to be the best the
merchants ever had. There was go
ing to be more money in circulation
! than there ever was before in the
history of the United States.
Il w. B. Falancer, the secretary.
treasurer, read his annual report HI
+ said the association was created b,
! the community spirit. The farmer!
of the surrounding country were be-
ginning to see that in cooperation
4 between city and country there wa
r strength. He advocated holding
0 community picnic during the comm,
o summer. He remarked that the as
. ISOLATION had saved the merchant
much in getting out of unproductiv,
h advertising, in shutting out unworth,
g solicitors and in improving collec
4 tions. Mr.. Falancer showed that tn
n business of the association durini
: the past year amounted to more thai
o $4,000 and there was balance il
: the treasury of S776.S3.
O The books and accounts were sub
: mitted to an auditing committee, con
6 sisting of Emil Schoyen, Mr.. Thr
Q and E. A. Boie.
oil The nominating committee pre-
,fl sented the names of Henry Sperrs
4 Frank Landkamer and Albert Slide
IS for directors for three years, and F
n l.. Babcock for director for one yea
2 to fill out the rest Of the term of \
:. nj. HermansOn, who had resigned
The report was adopted and the min
n directors of the board, includin
e those who held over, were then a
Q follows: Frank Landkamer, Henr
1T jSperra, Albert Silber, Fred Otto. F. ]
g Babcock, M. F. Sullivan, Wilbr
;. Taylor, w. B. Falancer and C. w
f. Fisher. Mr.. Fisher said the direct
= ors would meet at noon the next da
J. to elect the president, vice presiden
n secretary and treasurer
n, Will Have Band Concerts.
d. Mr.. Fisher asked whether the al
l. ISOLATION desired to have the bar
concerts repeated this year J. f
Richards said it was a questiC
tx whether the expense that would |
incurred in securing the concer
would be made up or more than mac
up by the benefits received. TIL
lit was a year when the people we
s. under great extra expense on accoul