The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1922-09-15
ABSENCE OF GAMING
RELATED BY VISITORS
OFFICIALS GIVE SHOW THE
ONCE OVER; SATISFIED
MANY GO ON GROUNDS
Attendance Yesterday Reached
About Seven Thousand;
Attractions

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| About Seven Thousand;
Attractions
With another day of bright sun
shine and the most pleasant wealth
er, every prediction points to the
largest attendance ever recorded at
Maukato Fair. Vice President Will
liam Schultz in a statement to The
Free Press at noon today said that
yesterdays attendance was in the
neighborhood of 1000 people, which
is far in excess of the first days
attendance last year. At noon to-
day there were hundreds of cars
loaded with people from the sur
rounding country and cities and
towns arriving to take in the sights
1t is predicted that today's atten-
dant will be a record breaker.
"Mankato has a clean fair. So
says one OF the prominent clergy
men of this city, Rev. W. P. Clark.
pastor of the Christian church,
who made a personal investigation
Of the concessions, the exhibits,
Ou the SIOuuuS. new SIdIh 10 UdCh :
ed up in his statements by DR.. ].
W. Andrews and C. R. Tyler, gen
eral secretary of the Mankato Y. NJ.
c. A.
| Owing to the fact that Mrs. D. G.
| Willard, chairman of the law en-
} forcement department of the Wo-
mans Christian Temperance union,
had made complaint to Judge Hiram
S. Golf in regard to some Of the
concessions on the grounds, which
she claimed were gambling games,
county and city officials drove out
to the grounds this morning to in
vestigate. Those in the party were !:
Judge Hiram S. Goff Of the Man
kato municipal court, County At
torney C, E. Phillips. City Attor-
ney C. E! Gilmore and Chief of Po-
lice Phil Landmark. These officers
to the conclusion that in every con-
cesison there enters a certain
amount of skill on the part of the
player if he intends to win. There
is a marked improvement over last
year, and for that reason none of
the concessions were closed up.
The officers mentioned will inves-
tigate further into the matters at
issue. They do feel, how ever, that
the efforts of the management of
the fair should be appreciated, in
making an endeavor to better the
tone of the fair. Yesterday and
even as late as shortly before noon
today the management Of the fair
they thought were not desirable.
| Statement of Rev. Clark.
Rev. W. P. Clark in a personal
statement to The Free Press had
the following to say in regard to
Mankato Fair: b.. ......
Il want to express my personal
appreciation to the Mankato fair
board for its efforts in producing
not only a good fair but clean
one. The concessions show marked
Improvement over last year or any
of the previous years that / have
visited Mankato Fair. feel that
agricultural fair the educational
factor in this community that all of
the good people should lend every
assistance possible to the members
of the fair board. The general ap-
pearance of the fair is much bet
ter"
DR.. ]. W. Andrews: Answering
your question as to my opinion of
the exhibit and privileges of the
Mankato fair. I have the following
to say-I visited the fair yesterday
afternoon and as expressed myself
then l feel now. The exhibits are
especially, and the swine and cattle
are equal to those of the state fair
except in point of number. l looked
closely for anything on the fair
grounds in the way of gambling or
any immortality and / was unable
to find anything that was open to
the least criticism. / could find no
games of chance or any exhibit that
was Objectionable"
C. R. Tyler. secretary of the Y.
NJ. C. A: THE concessions at the
Mankato fair rank higher in moral
tone than those of last year or any
other fair that have ever seen.
The fair board is to be commended
on it's stand for a cleaner and bet
| ter fair"
State Dairy and Food Exhibit.
Members of the State Dairy and
Food department are on the grounds
at Mankato Fair demonstrating what
THAT department is doing in the way
of aiding the honest dealer in eat
ables in disposing of his goods. The
inspection of places where food
stuffs are stored for manufacture.
The CO. operation of the department
with the federal food and drug lab
oratories in law enforcement. De-
struction of unwholesome food, and
its effort to place butter in the front
, rank of the country in Minnesota.
4 The members of the department
present at the fair are: D. A. Little,
Mankato; Peter Schlitty, st. Paul;
E. J. Homers of Minneapolis; Rob
ert Sorenson of St. Paul, and Hugh
Hennessy of ST. Paul. These in
spectors do not alone confine their
activities to pure food for humans,
but delve into what Is good feed for
domestic animals eaten by man
The Butter Department.
This is the first time in the his
tory of the fair association that
dairy butter has been entered for
competition. Blue Earth county can
Justly feel proud of the tests obtain
ed from some of its cooperative
creameries.
i E. j. Holmers of the dairy and
food department who did the scor-
ing of the butter entered, in a