The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-22
.GOPHERS FEED
CROWDS At FAIR
DA1IiM BREAD AMI, BUTTER
PARTIES AT THE PALACE.
Mcconnell in st. Louis to Advance the
Claims Of the Dairy State Food Con-
trib,ted by Leading Manufacturers
New Story of the Cabin Which
Sheltered Roosevelt.
Special to The Journal.

Special to The Journal.
Worlds Fair, st. Louis, Aug. "a
Minnesota, in order to maintain her
reputation as the bread and butter
state" will, on Friday, begin a series
of daily bread and butter parties in
the Palace Of Agriculture, during the
remainder of the fair season. The
hours will be from 10 to IL in the
morning and from 2 to in the after
noon. Minnesota's premium butter on
her unsurpassed bread will be served
TO all corners.
w. w. P. Mcconnell, Minnesota's
dairy and pure food commissioner, is
in St. Louis to begin this new feature.
He is accompanied by Carl Schallinger
of Hutchinson, manager Of the HUTCH
donate the butter used for month.
All the bread distributed will be fur
nished by the Washburn-Crosbyc COM
pany of Minneapolis.
Other prominent dairy and -four
companies in Minnesota will supply, at
different times, the bread and butter
given out during the season.
Surprise for the Conaways.
The fifteenth anniversary Of the
marriage Of Mr.. and Mrs. F. w. Con-
away, who dispense hospitality in
Iowa's name, in the respective posi-
tons of commissioner and hostess, was
celebrated at the Iowa building. The
entertainment was in the nature OF a
surprise party and was given by the
State Executive Commissioners assoc
citation. Supper was served, after
which Grant Thomas of Wisconsin
presented Mr.. and Mrs. Conway with
| a beautiful champagne set, the gift
| of the association.
How Roosevelt Was Fooled.
N. S. Lewis, North Dakotan, Wis
tied the Roosevelt cabin last week.
Few people, not even the president
himself, knows that the logs of which
this cabin is built were stolen" re-
marked Mr.. Lewis.
"The first thing Theodore Roosevelt
did after buying the Medora ranch
was to order a new log cabin built,
and Sylvester Ferris was put in charge
of the building. Ferris started out
with his gang to hew the necessary
| logs, and in hunting for suitable trees
along the bank of the Little Missouri,
his party found part of a raft which
had f1oated down from the headWaters
of the stream. and which was owned
by a tie contractor who was disposing
of logs to the Northern Pacific rail
i road. It was easier to fish the logs
out of the water than to cut new ones,
50 they hauled enough back to the
ranch and in a short time the building
was completed.
''The president may have thought
j we worked pretty fast to cut the logs
in such a short time" said Ferris, "but
if he had any suspicious he did not
express them. No one ever mentioned
the matter to him. for we all knew
the logs would have to be returned
and new ones cut i he knew where
they came from We never struck
lick of work on the logs in the cabin
now on exhibition at the worlds fair
but, as I said, the president didn'
know t.
: An equestrian statue of Presiden
Roosevelt ia cowboy costume has beer
placed in the North Dakota section
Of the big refrigerator in the agri
cultural building. It is the work O
r. F. Froelich, who has just finished
!, a portrait bust in butter of the. pres1
dent FOR the same, case.