The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-06-20
Informal but Sincere Is Greeting of Garden
City to Business Men From the East.
|PREAD|KG PROPAGANDUM OF COMMERCE IS DUTY
Prominent Members Of Party Tell Reasons for Making Trip
and Pay Fatterng Tribute to the Beauty and Pro-
gressveness of Montana and Its Ctes---
Minnesota Band Gives Concerts

informal but most sincere was tn
elcome of Mlssoula to the delegatio
st. Paul wholesalers manufactur
IS and jobbers who arrived yester
ly afternoon to spend Saturday nigh
ld Sunday morning. AT the North
IN Pacific depot the visitors Wer
et by Representatives of the Mis-
'ula Chamber of Commerce.. Glad o
opportunity to stretch themselves
G st. Paul men left their specia
ain and scattered to the up-t tow
ptels and began the making of new
lends In the evening they Were
G guests of the Missoula club. The
Il. Paul missionaries of trade-fo1
+e upbuilding of the northwest, St
pulls logical tributary, is the real
3siness of the trip--are a clean
&1olesome lot. Missoula received them
It'll open arms and they appreciated
@ welcome.
President kIuckhohn.
/ In few clean-cut words last even-
Il President G. l.. Kluckhohn, head
the Manufacturers association Of
| Paul, told Of the reason for tho
| ?, and gave his opinions Of the west,
Montana and of Missoula:
KNOWING what has been going on
II here in Montana and wanting to
pa out to what extent the reports
Eeived by US in st. Paul had been
|aggerated, we came west to see for
Frselves an dto find that not half
Id been told. Improvement and de-
Elormcnt is evidenced on every hand,
ne thing that has impressed us most
the great strides that agriculture is
king in Montana; it seems as if
pntana We're to become one of the
Fdlng agricultural sections, as we'll
leader in the mining industry.
Aside from our admiratio for the
le, It's scenic beauty, it's prosperity,
size, We have been taken most by
Whole-souled personality and
undless hospitality of it's people.
FeryWhere we have been welcomed,
Z nowhere as heartily as in Mon
Ia. The city of Missoula has made
strongest sort of an impression
on US. Your welcome here has been
re than we could ask, more than
expected or had any right to ex,
It. I'm honestly afraid-for St |
uPs sake-that our party is to lose
,eral of it's members to the attract |
ness of Montana, the Treasure
te."
John N. Jackson
We are having a great time" said
IN N. jackson of Lanpher, Skinner
Co, formerly vice president of the
nutacturers association and one of
strongest men of the party, "and /
fyWhere you Westerners are doing
II best to make us enjoy ourselves.
u, run is not the rea, object of Dur
,; business brings us to Montana
to Missoua. We in ST. pauI are
king all sorts of things to sell If
OF the northwest come to us to
we arc prosperous, and it is to
W you what we have and to get
uainted with you and to find out
about you and your country that
are travelling, 1t is an enjoyable
/, business or no business, and YOU
doing much to make the journey ]
lsurable. I have been on excur-
is like this one before but [ can
htully say that none has been as
eessful as this one, taking it from {
y standpoint
Reuben Warner.
fifteen years ago Reuben Warner or :,
leke, Warner & Sons 'made" Mis-
a. Yesterday was his first visit :,
e. Il am greatly taken with Mis-
a and astounded at the growth of .
city. Buildings that would be a
1t to any town of twice it's size,
ty residence districts, a live popu- 9
m and pushing business men all ;,
to make this one of the best of :
stopping plaees-a town that is 9
o the good
w. A. Miller. :,
a. Miller, vice president of the
National bank of st. Paul, ex-
sed himself yesterday as being
rlsed at the strength of the finan- =
institutions of Missoula and other
$ OF Montana. The fact that the
c of year and more ago had left
aces In Missoula- had hardly been
here, while the east was ia the
II of strlngency-also made it's
esslon upon the visiting banker.
The Visitors.
G following is a complete list of
members of the st. Paul party:
Clark, president
hants' National bank: w. A. Mil
vice president First National
/; Henry Won Der Weyer, assist
cashier National German Ameri-
bank; Frank Y. Locke, director
al National bank.
is, Caps, Furs and Gloves-C. l..
Shohn of Gordon & Ferguson,
II. jackson of Lanpher, Skinner
D.; Karl Hammerbacher of Nc