The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-01-12

9. Further preparations for the
big affair will be made at the
monthly banquet meeting o. the
"Ad" men at the Heinrich Hotel
Tuesday evening. M. S. Seder,
manager of the marketing ex-
tension division of the Farmer
magazine, will address the for
um at that time. His subject
will be, advertising and Sell
ing, the Siamese Twins"
Greatly SURPRISING any civic event
ever staged in the city for many
years, featuring hospitality and good
fellowship of the municipality to-
ward neighboring farmers and resi-
dents of cities and towns in the vic
unity, will be the big joint kankato
Mid Winter Exposition and Auto
mobile Show Week, to be held late
next month, according to the tenta-
tive plans formulated by committees
from the Civic and Commerce as
sociation and the Advertising Forum
at a luncheon meeting held at the
Elks club yesterday noon.
In starting the ball rolling for the
big event the committee is going to
invite everybody in Mankato in put
ting the affair lover the top" in way
which will be a credit to the city.
Every industry, business house, civic
organization, school, church and
fraternity will be invited to partl-
cipate in the arrangements to as
sure visitors in the city during the
week a "la grande" time.
Named Committees Today
Whether the combining OF the
Mid Winter Exposition and the Au-
tomobile Show will be an assured
fact, will be known today, when the
result Of a conference between
members of the Exposition commit
tee and the Automobile Dealers as :
ISOLATION is announced
The Mid Winter Exposition is an
enlarged project which in its in :
fancy originated from an editorial Ia
The Free Press, urging that Man
kato Week be held for the purpose
OF putting before the people of the
city and the neighboring sections
the facilities OF Mankato. The pro-
ject grew when the Advertising
Forum at a meeting last month,
grasped at the idea as a chance to
further the interests Of the city and
appointed committees to form plans
for the holding OF a "Mankato Week
Takes Place of Mankato Week
The meeting yesterday noon de-
veloped the idea still further by the
decision to hold the Stunt Night
separately, and 10 combine the pro-
posed Mankato Automobile show
with the Mid Winter Exposition
which is to have d greater scope Oh
activities than was proposed for
"Mankato Week" ~,
During the meeting yesterday,
several suggestions regarding the
various specialities to be, offered TO
the public during the big week o.
events were made by the members OF
the committees. G. R. Butler and M.
H. Chesbrough advanced the pro
posed combining OF the Automobile
show with the big civic celebration.
Later in deciding upon a more Mt
ting name for the affair than Man
kato Week" which would combine
il with the auto display. Butler
suggested that it be known. as the
Mankato Mid Winter Exposition.
which was approved by the mem
bers of the two committees:
Won't Hold Stunt Night
It was definitely decided not to
hold Stunt Night the annual fun
and frolic affair of the Advertising
Forum, in conjunction with the
other events. A meeting Of the com
mittee from the Advertising Forum
will meet within the next few days
to decide on definite date and
other arrangements for the stunt
Night."
Style shows, special industrial
displays, stunts Of all kinds. sports
galore big feeds, special sliding
stunts for the kids, open house at
all manufacturing plants and bust
ness houses in the city, dances mus
ical concerts, classical and jazz
singers, radio features and the big
display of new model automobiles
| from every auto dealer establish :
ment in the city, will keep visitors
and city folk on edge during the
week for fear they will miss some
thing they hadn't heard about. For
there will be plenty of surprises,
the committees holding back on an
nouncing certain affairs planned for
that week.
Feature Of Week
Special hours each day will be set
for visits of the public to the var
ious plants of the city. Schools OF
the city will be asked to share IN
this eve1t, having visiting hours
when the puUlC Will NC oWOu "
pass through the entire buildings.
A feature of the week will be a
display of the Standard Oil compapy,
which it is planned to place in the
show windows Of the Geo. q Bretts
store. Mr.. Chesbrough stated that
the company had complete nina
ture display which shows the pro-
gress of oil from the wells to the
gas stations and the consumer. The
entire apparatus is operated by
electricity and is said to be one OF
! the most elaborate dispiaye OF its
kind in, the country.
Other big business houses and
! rlants in the city are planning Oh
featuring displays equally as good
as the one by the Standard Oil com
pany.
| The Big Purnose
The big purpose OF the exposition
l will be TO bring people here to show
them what the city of Mankato can
DO toward entertaining its guesff
and accommodating them in bust
ness way.
The automobile show will be the
Largest one ever held h9 the dealer