The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1920-02-06
.HACKETT TO Be SPEAKER
ROCHESTER MAN WILL
ADDRESS CLUB
Mankato Commercial Organiza-
ton Booked For Meeting
Monday Evening

e. c. Hackett, secretary of the
Civic and Commerce association at
Rochester, has accepted an invitation
to attend the meeting of the Mankato
Commercial club next Monday eve
ming and address the club on the
manner of organization Of the Ro4
chester body and of the work in
which it is engaged. The Rochester
club was instrumental in getting q
community building erected, which is
great advantage and is real COM
munity center, the farmers organiza-
tons meeting there as well as those
of the city. Mr.. Hackett is a former
newspaper man, having been city edi-
tor of Rochester daily paper before
taking up his present work. He will
give an instructive talk, and every
member should make it point to be
present.
At Monday nights meeting there
will also be someone present from the
United States recruiting station at
Minneapolis to explain briefly the
plan by which the army is to train
young men and to graduate them
better qualified for the tasks of citi-
zenship." There Will also be one
other speaker from abroad, and the
meeting promises to be full of inter-
est. Lieutenant Colonel e. L. Hooper,
recruiting officer at Minneapolis,
wrote President Snow of the club of
his desire to have a speaker at the
meeting.
At the meeting of the executive COM
mittee of the Commercial club Monday.
a letter from H. j. Wagon, district
freight and passenger agent of the Chi
cago and Northwestern road, was read
telling of the reason for establishing the
headquarters of the division train crews
eha me% G to N saynS m The GREENS were
equal division of mileage; we do not
know whether that will be permanent
change or not. but under the schedule
the changes could not be made at Man
katO."
Candidates for chauffeur's licenses
should bear in mind the examination to
be held tomorrow afternoon, in the rear
basement room of the Mankato State
Bank Iuilding.'
Club News, published by the keystone
Automobile club of philadelphia. has
crete road built in New Jersey, which
will be of interest in view Of. the pro-
posal to hard surface the roads in Min
nesota: wv. G.. Thompson, state high
way engineer of the New Jersey state
highway commission, has just advised
the public that the two sections Of new
concrete in Middlesex county, covering
slightly over seventeen miles, are COM
pleted. These two sections one from
Metuchen to Menlo Park and the other
from New Brunswick to historic Prince
ton cost the state S1,32S, 454. 96 and are
the highest type of permanent concrete
construction ever laid in the United
States. The concrete is twenty feet
wide, eight inches thick at the sides
and ten and one-ha1f inches thick in
the center. Three-foot stone shoulders
on each side make the width of metal
twenty-six feet, while the dirt grade ex-
tends two feet further beyond the gTav-
cl surface on each side. The section
through Iselin eliminates The main line
crossing of the Pennsylvania railroad
and fourteen sharp turns, as well as q
once narrow under-cuivert. Over 100000
a mile for highway construction may
seem excessive, but when 1t is under
stood that these routes in New Jersey
carry over two thousand tons of freight
traffic per day and that a recent count
showed the passage of eleven thousand
vehicles in fifteen hours. the real econ
omy of the highest type of construction
is understood"