The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-10-18
FAVOR A FALL FESTIVAL
COMMERCIAL CLUB WILL lNVEs.
TIGATE THE MATTER.
BUSINESS MEN FAVOR THE PLAN
The Commercial Club Directors viii
Consider Fall Festival at Their Meet.
ing Next Tuesday Mornine-Trsde
Promoters May Take Il up.

Consider Fall Festival at Their Meet.
ing Next Tuesday Mornins-Trsde
Promoters May Take II up.
The question of big fall festival
for Norfolk will be a matter of discus.
sion before the Norfolk Commercial
club The club directors. II Is stated,
will take the fall festival proposal up
for investigation. Somewhat similar
action may be taken by the trade pro.
motors association which meets Mon
day evening, The Commercial club
directors meet Tuesday morning
officers of the Commercial club and
the trade promoters association have
declared their interest in a harvest
festival for Norfolk and tho northwest
and the proposition stands to be taken
UP for investigation.
"A fall festival would be In line with
n present day movement and II we can
devise some festival plans which not
only have the necessary local touch
OF color but which are also expedient,
would be In hearty favor of the fes-
tival." said President G.. r.. Burnham
Of the Norfolk Commercial club. at
is undoubtedly true that the marked
tendency of short distance travel to
predominant on the Aksarben bound
trains this fall means that the tenden-
cy under the new fare laws Is for peo-
pie to travel In greater numbers and
for shorter distances for the holidays.
That means local centers for festival
gatherings. There IL no town of Nor
folks size in the west that Is situated
to better advantage for the successful
holding of an after harvest gathering.
About the advantage of a festival such
as is held annually at Mitchell there
is no doubt. But the question of ways
and means is very important and the
difficulties that must be overcome to
score the first success should be care
fully examined. Once make the fes-
tival in Norfolk success and 1t would
perpetuate itself"
Norfolk merchants / find are very
generally in favor of the fall festival"
said w r. Hoffman, president of the
Norfolk trade promoters association.
Il think it is something to be pushed
and something which ought to be taken
up by the Commercial club and pos
sibly also by the merchants. We
could set to work at once to get need
ed information through oorreSpon.
denCe."
81 can see both the advantages and
the difficulties that are involved in the
fall festival idea" commented C. c.
Cow, secretary both of the CONNER
cial club and the trade association. "f
think that the chief obstacle that the
situation seems to involve would lie
in the difficulty of securing the requi-
site number of men who could devote
the required amount Of time to the big
proposition"
81 am both enthusiastically and fl
nancially in favor Of the after harvest
festival" was the expression of a
prominent Norfolk business man. II
can see Norfolk's future written big
and | think the festival is in line with
what we want to do. We want to turn
the eyes of the people of this big terri
tory towards Norfolk. We want them
to think of Norfolk as their business
center as the natural center of this
territory. We are not county seat
and we can have something distinc-
tive from county fair from which we
are naturally barred. We want some
thing big and wholesome to which we
can invite all the people of the north
west"