Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1910-05-26
PLEASANT VISIT MADE BY
MINNEAPOLIS DELEGATION
WHOLESALE DEALERS OF The MINNESOTA MILL CITY,
SEVENTY SEVEN STRONG In WlISTON MONDAY
EVENING AND STAY OVER HERE ALL NIGHT.

. A special train, consisting of six
Pullman coaches, with compart-
ments and enough lower berths to
accommodate the party of seventy
seven representatives of Mime
apolis wholesale dealers, arrived
in Williston over the Great North
ern Monday afternoon at GAO and
the gentlemen Immediately became
the guests of the Will1ston Com
mercial club. The train was met
at the depot by the Williston con-
cert band of twenty-five pieces and
a special committee from the Com
mercial club consisting of John
Bruegger, W. G. Rawson, F. H..
Smith, Chas. Mansfield and G. B.
Metzger who had provided some
thing like twenty-five automobiles
for the accommodation of the visi-
tors and in which they were taken
for a ride over the city and along
the Little Muddy river through
the irrigation district and to the
power house after which the guests
dispersed themselves over the city
to pay their personal respects to
patrons and friends among the
business men of NVilliston.
From talks had with many of the
gentlemen it was learned that
several of them had been in our
city before and it was these who
especially expressed themselves as
much surprised and of course
pleased at the unusual and magnifi-
cent growth of Williston and the
prosperous appearance of the city
and surrounding country.
J The gentlemen also spoke highly
of the accommodations furnished
them by the Great Northern rail
road and the treatment given them
by Mr.. Kennedy the representa-
tive of the road in charge of the
train. The trip is to be quite an
extensive one. as the party goes
from here to Kalispel, Montana,
and from there to Helena and then
will return to Minneapolis over the
Northern Pacific.
About nine-thirty the visitors
and business men of the city met
at the Odd Fellows hall where
short addresses we're delivered as
to the growth of this section of the
state and upon business questions
of interest to both the visitors and
the local business men present.
After few we'll rendered selec-
tions from the orchestra Mayor
Bruegger in a few we'll chosen
words welcomed the visitors call
ing their attention, at the same
time to questions of vital impor-
tance to Williston and the farming
community in this vicinity. He
called especial attention to the
our farmers under the
ditch have in making loans, the
loan companies not wanting to loan
on the land covered by the
irrigation lien. Mr..
Bruegger stated that the farmers
we're bound to succeed in spite of
this difficulty and expressed the
wish that the visitors would have
! good word for the irrigation
proposition when they returned to
Minneapolis and thus aid in getting
he loan companies located there to
make loans to the farmers under
he ditch. Mayor Bruegger then
:alled upon w. G. Nye, commits
ioner of public affairs for the
Minneapolis Commercial club. Mr..
Nye gave very interesting talk
md was very enthusiastic in his
ak of Williston and the surround
ng country. ~&
G. A. Magnuson, of the North
western Elevator company was the
ext speaker. He claimed that it
vas his maiden speech but if so we
now of several so-called orators
vho will have to take a back seat
Vhen he gets little more practice.
n speaking of the quality and
uantity of the grain raised in
lorth Dakota and Minnesota he
aid that we raised more and bet {
er grain. than their state.
John Leslie of the Leslie Paper
is q speaker of note and
is talk was very interesting. In
peaking of the money question he
aid that in their state it was the {
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