The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-05-18
PROMOTING PAVED HIGHWAY, BLUEEARTH COUNTY
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COMMENT

LeSueur county will receive
S2J,Ioo.L lom the state road
90 Iund, o. Slv,3os.vu more
IMAM Inc county paid under the
one mhe genera properly tax
lar year. Inc county paid IN
Si4,IS<.Iu. Inc eXtrs money
IGmsS Out o. the cities or SS.
tsui anu Minneapolis.
The public is mvIled to particl
pate IN the testimonial that viii be
rendered Rev. and MIS-. Ralph A.
Jensen at the Armory tomorrow
evening. A program Oehtung the
occasion has been prepared and II
will be carried out with nicely
that has made public affairs in this
city a delight. Citizens OF Mankato
viii be gwen an opportunity to
show the high regard in which they
hold this popular preacher and his
estimsble wire. Rev. and Mrs. Jen-
sen will leave this community with
toe well wishes of all classes or
people.
Life is what you make it-so
IL you 90 wrong blame your
self-not the other fellow.
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This information from The Fari-
bault News can well be applied to
parents in every community: Now
is the time for every man to take
himself and his children in hand
and fight the habit OF cutting cor
ners.' There is many household
er with an honest and commend
able pride in the appearance OF his
yard, who finds his grass beaten
down, his flowers crushed before
they have had fair start, even
his shrubbery and. young hedge
mutilated and broken by careless
feet. The next time you are
:, tempted to save three or four steps
by trespassing on your neighbors
yard don't do it, Save the lawns
and boulevards from the spreading
feet OF the thoughtless.
Some people in Mankato need
the fear OF God put into their
hearts.
When certain leaders of the
democratic party, TO whom the
wish was doubtless father TO the
thought, announced that Woodrow
Wilson was drawing up a platform
for the party for 1924 and that
one of his planks would favor the
a., repeal of the bolstead Act and an
other the substitution OF a MAKE
shift law permitting the manufac-
ture and sale OF beer, impartial
y political observers did not believe
THAT the former president had
p made such a political mistake as
TO classify the, democracy as wet
organization. The Christian Science
Monitor canyassed 1he views OF
the democratic state chairTnen ana
found twenty three oil them un-
Qualifiedly opposed 10 prohibition
modification, thirteen We're non
committal and eight were for modi-
fiCation. Oh the eight Joseph Wolf
OF Minnesota is one.
Mankato would face a problem il
il were suddenly called up TO pro-
vide entertainment for 10000 peo-
pie. Shelby, Mont, is facing just
such a difficulty in preparing 10
handle the crowds that will attend
the Dempsey and Gibbons fight on
lJuly T. Shelby is a little town OF
5000 inhabitants, but it Is now in |
the forefront OF American localities.
1t was suddenly put on the map.
New housing facilities are spring.
ing up. tents will be pitched, and
terminal facilities adequate to the |
needs of a city of $4,000 people will
be created to handle the crowds. |
The bringing to Shelby OF the big
fight started as a joke on the part
OF a cornwall crowd who sent
telegram to Manager kearns, re- f!
uuesting him TO put on the fight
there. Now the promoters have
discovered that the affair" is no
longer a joke--but a serious real |
ity. -
The writer knew Shelby when
il was a mere 'hamlet-and
hardly that. II was then for
Iorn looking pIaee-Ionesome
and uninViting.
Not long ago gentleman in
neishboring town was heard
to remark that the community's
slogan should be BURY the
Hatchet" II might be remark
ed in passing that no one town
has monopoly on hatehets.
will the next municipal cam
paign in Mankato be fought out on
the issue of "spooning?" That is
the jocular query which was put TO
Inc Free fTeSS ny d ClllLSu WIN
was musing on the recent up
heavaI' over the capers OF number
of Romeos and Juliets in this city.
E'Spooning!" To spoon or not to
spoon? That certainly would make
an interesting issue-and incident
ally Mankato would be the talk of
the country. Let the first man who
did not spoon" when he was a
young fellow stand up and be
counted.
Former Representative An
drew J. VoIstead has been sug-
qested as a senatorial white hope.
Now watch the vets throw a fit.
y
Mayor r. B. Hinkly Of Luverne
has issued warning to all motor
fists that the traffic laws in his town
are to be strictly enforced. The may
mrs plan is to take the auto law
vioIators into court in punches. He
does not intend to haul each violator
into court as soon as the law has
been ignored, but instead will first
secure the names of the violators and
when he has several of such cause