The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1919-10-10
SUPPER BEFORE MEETING
Fred Druckenbrod Chosen Pres
ident of the Advertising
Organization
NEW OFFICERS OF CLUB.
Fred Druckenbrod, president.
p. S. Boman, vice president.
Rolf JuIsrud, secretary treasurer.

Wltn new OuiCcIS CtcCI6Q IS anu a
brilliant season In prospect the Man
kato Advertising club. at its meeting
last evening made an excellent start
| toward winning the third leg" on the
big state forum cup, which the club
had won twice and third winning
| will give them permanent possession
of the trophy. The cup occupied the
center of the banquet table at the
Heinrich hotel last evening.
On motion Of 3. s. Boman election
of new officers of the club was held
by reclamation. ]. e. Brett was nom
mated for president but it was stated
that Mr.. Brett would not accept the
office. Frank Landkamer also posit-
lively declined to accept when nom
mated. Fred Druckenbrod was NOM
mated and unanimously elected to the
position.
Mr.. Conan was elected vice presi-
dent by reclamation also. H. s..
Hamilton was nominafed as secretary
but declined to accept the nomination
Rolf Julsrud was then nominated and
elected. This completed the election
of officers for the coming year. Pres
ident NARROW reported before the cleo
ton OF officers took place that the
club was without secretary and
that since the departure of Mr.. Ham
ilton had taken over the work tenn
porarily. tt
| He said that the election of officers
and yearly reports should have taken
place in the spring hut it was i'm
possible to arrange with the secretary
for meeting then. On July a
meeting was called, Mr.. Ventre left
town at noon, and quorum was not
present at that time, SO the meeting
had to be deferred. The books of the
club had been left in the care of Mr..
Hamilton. There were no records of
the amount taken in nor of the ex
penditures of the club. The accounts
simply showed $4.67 in the bank. L..
w. Andrist and Paul Neff were ap
pointed as an auditing committee last
evening and while the club business
was being transacted, went through the
books. They reported the same as
! Mr.. NARROW, that the ttlly records left
was that 81. 81 was in the bank.
Matter Of Dues.
Considerable discussion arose over
t ths mngtt sso Of saReH and the need for
declared that funds must be secured
, at once. On motion of Mr.. NARROW it
was voted to pay the dues for 1920
at this time and several members
present paid up to swell the funds of
the, club. 0
The matter of a window display
contest this year was brought up by
Mr.. Hamilton. He stated he thought
the season was none too far advanced
, to have the display within the next
two weeks and moved that the pres
ident appoint committee to take
charge of the matter. 1t was decided
to have the display contest this sea-
son on Wednesday, Thursday and
Friday, October %, % and "a. Pres
! ident Druckenbrod appointed Frank
Landkamer, /. B. Fisher and Rolf
Julsrud on the window display COM
mittee.
Mr.. >Julsrud spoke of the window
display contest held last year in Red
Wing, of the trade it brought to the
f! city and the general success of the
plan. It was agreed that the next
meeting Of the club will be held on
Tuesday, October g.. Some discus;
sion arose as to the steps MankatO
should take this year to insure re-
tanning the permanent possession of
the forum trophy cup.
Cups For Window Display.
In regard to the trophy cups for
the window display contest this year
| it was announced that the cups were
all arranged for. Frank Landkamer
stated that they had won the cup in
their class three successive times
and were entitled to permanent pos
! session of it. He said however that
they would get another cup to take
! the place of the one won. President
Dluckenbrod thanked Mr.. Landkamer
for his offer and on motion of c.. w.
Fisher the club extended him vote
of thanks
C. w. Fisher brought up the ques-
ton of community advertising for
Mankato He said it was a matter
greatly needed and that it would take
considerable money to put it over.
This led to the matter of the CONSOLE
dation of the various organizations in
Mankato. c.. R. Butler asked what
had become of the plans for such a
consolidation. Members of the club
were unanimous in the opinion that
| such movement should be furnished.
Theodore Williams moved that a
committee be appointed from the Ad-
vertising club to meet with the other
organizations and keep at the idea of
getting consolidation until they met
with success. The motion was unani-
i Mr. Iio