The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-08
finery running, it will surely make a
surprising showing when all the works
reopen.
MINNEAPOLIS HOSPITALITY.
Town Gives the Kansas City CONNER
cial Club a Royal Welcome.

Minneapolis, May S.-The visit of
the Kansas City Commercial club to
this city was a more elaborate affair
than that club hoped for. Those
Kansas City fellows are out for trade
rather than pleasure Minneapolis is
one of the few towns where the club
combined business with pleasure. The
people of Minneapolis are feeling fine
over crop prospects, and as several
of her business men expressed 1t:
I'VE have better prospects for wheat
this year than for many years" The
representative business mep and citi-
zens of Minneapolis together with
the band met the trade extension club
of Kansas City at the Union Pacific
depot at o'clock in the evening and
escorted them to the hall where a
handsome reception was rendered
them until midnight, when the mem
bers of the club repaired to their
special train for the night.
Every business house was lighted
with electric lights, and while the
stores generally close their business
for the day at $50, on this occasion
many of them kept open house to re-
ceive any of the Commercial club who
might wish to call. The visitors were
elaborate in their praise of the Solo
mon valley as they saw it between
Beloit and Minneapolis They told OF
the waving fields of wheat, the green
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the herds of stock, and the enterprise
displayed in the towns of Asherville,
Simpson, Glasco and Delphos where
the special train briefly stopped.
Minneapolis was their objective point,
for they wanted to tarry here for the
night. And not one of the club hesi-
tated to say that next to Kansas City,
Minneapolis was the best town on the
| map.
After all were comfortably seated
| in the hall and order had been re-
stored. it was the pleasant task of his
| honor, the handsome mayor of Min
neapolis, Harry Mcmillan, to welcome
the distinguished guests to this pro-
gressive city of the Solomon valley.
| And the mayor was equal to the en-
Urgency. He was frequently applaud
ed as he threw out the pretty bou-
quets to the guests, not forgetting to
! sandwich in between the lines many
kind and encouraging words for his
| town of Minneapolis where he has
made it his home for so many pears.
| Other short talks were made on the
part of Minneapolis by Gov. A. P.
Riddle, J. w. Smith, ]. L. King and
S. NJ. Stanford, which We're responded
to by H. B. Topping. E. NJ. Clenden-
ming and Eugene Rust, president. vice
| president and secretary of the Kansas
| City Commercial club, also VIM. Muir
ply and Thornton Cooke, prominent
| business men of that city.
! Between the talks music was fur
nished by a fine orchestra and male
quartette which the Commercial club
| brought along.
The banquet, while not so elaborate
| as the Kansas day Republicans
spread, was all that could be hoped
| for. 1t served its purpose well. All
credit will be given the business men
| of Minneapolis for the manner in
| which they served and entertained
| their guests, and certainly the Com
mercial club will always have cause
to commend the enterprise of Min
neapolis and her people, and will long
| remember their sojourn here as
among the most pleasant they have
found on their annual trade outing.