Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1921-11-16


ztt<< We had supper att Owatonna and
pushed or, in The: night to- Rochester:
Thru a misunde about s:the.
Econdftion OF the roads we missed Aus
Etin, the city with q Big packing plant.
and Spring Valley, a village OF 1871
population in which paving operations
were in full blast .1;t::s II. s,a< :.
49,. s=::s-->,, Rochester - =. ~
f. Rochester is the city of the Mayo
Brothers., noted surgeons and some
$4,000 other people, ST. Mary,s hos.
Dital, owned by the Mayo Broth ers,, is
the Mecca Of the :sick.a sailing l1u-
s1an1ty from all parts OF the country.
Fcrty three hotels FURNISH accom- ada.
tidn to the health eeking pilgrims,
+ one of the most recently erectedHco
ling over million dollars. A new ad-
dition to the hospital is being built
consisting of i 900 rooms. :--,'~~~- :
ignoring the glazing lights of the
many palatial hostslries we selected
modest appearing. hotel in WHICH to
rest after long and strenuous day,
land we awoke to find ourselves in
Mayor Brown hotel opposite the city
hall. Long before the city officials
reached their offices, however, the
Wil!mar " aldermen were astir.s Ro-;
chester is the home of J.. c.. Utton, a
:brother-in-law' Of Alderman:J. w. Kent.
Jack Utton, formerly of :Willmar,.
was city engineer of Rochester for
many years, and during the last six
years has been in the paving contract
ing business, and as such is widely
known. There is not a single bit of
Rochester's twenty miles Of. paving
with which he is not familiar At 1880
am. Mr. Utton and his foreman were
on hand and plotted the Willmar party
over the city pavements, giving US the
while the benefit of their experience.
Rochester does not assess the cost Of
the squares to the city as whole but
to the blocks benefited by the pave
ment Near the hospital new
noiseless and without the neces-
sity Of dressing required occa-
sionally by creosoted blocks was in
sDected A call was made at the UttOn
home where Mrs. Utton greeted the
old-time acquaintance from her old
home community. Alderman Johnson,
the official photographer of the trip,
snapped the party near the hospital.
Rochester is located on the Zumbro
river, and the city has spent much
money in attempting to develop
water power that does not have suf-
fcient volume Of water. Before nine
o'clock we were on our way westward,
shooting thru the smaller cities of
| Kasson arl; Dodge Center without
stop. Kasson has a beautiful COM
munity building and We thought that
our old friend Atty. Oscar Ronken,
who was located at Willmar for time
must have had hand in its erection.
Another feature. we noticed in. passing
thru Dodge county were the fine build
ings of. the dodge county. home"
Nothing suggestive c. the poor
house so thereby dreaded and &c
! tured in sloven,iness and despair; on
the other hand, it was very homelike
with fine orchard, garden and out
buildings.
| Owatonna, the metropolis of Steele
county, is a wealthy but somewhat
easy going city Of 1900 people. 1t has
mile and quarter of creosota block
pavement laid in 1912, but has not
added to it recently The Wlllmar
council enjoyed an interesting session
in the city hall with Mayor J. M.
Diment, the city clerk and engineer.
Mayor Diment concluded before it
was over however, that they absorbed
more information than they impaired.
With shrug of his shoulder, he asked
how many people Willmar had. On
being told. he said "where did you get
them?" He is high in the councils Of
the A. o. U. W. lodge and visited Will
mar often when the grand recorders
Office was located here in the early
! days Declining with thanks a genial
inv rot tn q
party pressed en- westward and home
ward.
Waeeca
We arrived at Waseca in time for
ouc MONDAY lunch. I'll: Il town re-
sembling Wilimar in that it has large
railroad population, being the division
point on the Northwestern line. Editor
Coughlin. of the Herald gave us few
pointers about his town while we were
there The town has four or five
miles of paving, some of it having beer
down for 20 years. Waseca has city
4 scale and all deliveries OF coal ove1
200 pounds are required by ordinance
. to be weighed upon it. The city ha:
also a municipal coal and wood yart
that does thriving business, but doe:
not prevent other coal yards from do
ing a good volume of business.
Mankato
;. At Mankato, the big Minnesota river
, town, our party stopped just suffici
emily long to. get some data at the cit.
hall. The city has about 10 miles o
various kinds of paving. The oficial
expressed their belief that concrete 81
the, coming pavement for residence
, districts. Mankato has commission
: form of government. Each commits
sioner has full charge of some de
:. partment Of the public business al
? over the city and is responsible for tn
= same. It works out we'll.
> New UIm
). The county seat of Brown count
- was reached next New Ulm ha
about LOCO more people than whitman
. It is beautifully, located near. the Mir
!, nesota river: It has a city hall that
: positively the last word in that lin
= in Minnesota, regardless, of the size G
. the city: It was erected at cost c
: ES125,000;' and is beautifully finishet
+ Every need Of city official for, tn
y next so years has: been anticipate,
, The city, however, has. only fou
r blocks of pavement, but is about t
q extend it. -, -
II New ;Ulm has new electric ligl
= plant that is just making its first te:
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