Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1905-06-22
TALE TOLD ;AT..:: A0M!.E:]
Chicago Commercial Assoclstion,s
Visitors Have a i. Tsie Of North
Dakota Hospitality to Unfold. ~

i Visitors Have a TATE OF Nortl
Dakota Hospitality to Unfold.
"The Editors Log of a Far Western
Commercial Trip is the: title of 6
page and a haif Illustrated descrip
Tive article in the American Lumber
an of June Sd, written by the pub
lisher of that we'll known trade
Journal. j. E. Defebaugh. The
account is an interesting and lively
| one OF the hospitality that James
towns Commercial Club rendered
to the visiting representatives oi
the Chicago Commercial Association
on their recent trip to the G asst over
the Northern Pacific. The evening
vas spent in the Harrington Club
rooms as will be remembered and the
visitors were evidently greatly pleas
ed and we'll repaid for the journey
in going back over the. road froE:
Mandan to be present on the occa-
sion. Mr.. Deffebaugh was the poet
laureate of the Chicago delegates and
he has printed in the article a parody
on "Dakota land," Chas. Rathman's
solo which was rendered by him wish
great effect at the informal lunch.
The parody on the parody ~ Mr.,
Deffebaugh to the tune Of sBeaolah
land, is~v very clever. The ttchorus Of
the song was so, catchy. says The
Lumberman, that both hosts and
guests Joined in it. The song de-
scribed Dakota land as it exists today,
and has been for several years state
| OF prosperity and success instead Of
the drouth and heat and burning
winds that. the original parody
described.
In regard to the lumber business
of Jamestown The Lumberman was
| naturally inquisitive and gives an
account of the trip with cut Of Geo.
Lutz and the Lutz Lumber Co.'s
shed. Regarding Mr.. Lutz' partici-
patton in the banquet the Lumber
man saws: "Mr. Lutz Is one of the,
best informed lumberman in the
Dakotas, and while he referred be-
rousssy 60 elae thenoes Appropriate to
| the occasion, he devoted laafl<a POI :
of his interesting address to one Of
the largest commercial interests OF
Jamestown lumber, and reolted
some facts as to the status OF the
lumber business of the Dakotasf that
were a revelation to most of his hear
ers.'' The story that Bob Wallace
| related at the banquet as showing the
| way the North Dakota farmer got
ahead, and the reluctance to let go
of a good thing, Is reprinted in the
Lum mberman in full and Is as follows:
"Now Gentlemen there are times
In a mans life when he regrets his
inability properly to express himself
This is one of them as far as l am
/ concerned. I have ideas but ] can
not express them. I am forcibly re-
minded of an old Pennsyl ylvapia Dutch-
man. He was very economical In his
ways and year after year increased
his wealth, buying a little more 'and
| every year. He raised numerous
aad respectable family. The family
became religiouslv' inclined in latter
years but the old man saw that the
| business Of the farm was conducted as
we'll on the Sabbath day as any other,
and his children became worried as
| to the future of the old mans soul,
and they consulted the country min
lister, and after talk he said, Il will
20 home with you some Sabbath
day, and talk to your father
The old man spoke in broken
English, One Sabbath the children
brought the preacher home. After
dinner the old gentleman said,
would you like to walk out and look
at my farm?' Yes, Mr.. Smith, ]
would like very much to do that.
! So the old man took the dominee
| out to about the center Of bis farm,
and walking up to the top Of the bill
said DO you see all this land around
here?' Yes. DO you you zee them
horses over there, the cattle and
sheep?' Everything you see around
/ Tbe preaehsr tlIGDsh 4 ! u 4 n tlat u; y
| glorious opportunity to- come III %
the old man, and he said, 81 Sc, but,
brother Smith did II ever occl:r ! e 4
YOU, that you are grolW ing old, atiid at!iidt
that when you de you can't taxi
/ these things with you ss III III
es, syes, that l,l hat make! Z!
me so rad
The Lumberman continues its gex
!. tended account aNith 4 deessscri lion g
1.-The prairie conntI from the Ret lElat
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