The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1910-11-18

| casions during the week. Mr.. Ell
lott was introduced by f. F. Cartier
| Van DiSsel, second vice president and
chairman of the board of trustees OF
the show, who also welcomed the
delegates.
Following the exchange of greet
ings the delegates We're formed in
procession and, proceeded by the
! National Apple Show band of so play
ers under the direction of Prof. A.
G. Reemer, they marched to the
show grounds, where they were re-
ceived by 200 business men, headed
by Charles NJ. Fassett, president
and the officers and trustees of the
Spokane chamber of commerce.
The auditorium of the state
armory was thronged when MIR. Van
Dissel presented Mr.. Elliott, who
spoke OF the Importance of apple
culture in the Northwestern and Pa
citic states, saying that the time is
not far distant when the annual out
put will be more than $4,000 cars
The musical numbers of the opening
| exercises were contributed by the
National Apple Show band and the
Elks quartet.
Following the program the dele
gates and visitors and the general
public inspected the displays. The
unanimous opinion of the growers
and visitors at former shows is that
the display this year is the largest
and most comprehensive they hao
ever seen
The feature Of tonights program
| will be the coronation of Idell l.,
privately Miss Idell Ide of Colville,
| who entered her dominion last Fri,
day evening. Governor M. e. Hay
will be her prime minister the
councillor being Frank Pierce Teb-
belts of Spokane. The maids and
matron of honor are the Misses
Kathleen Kimball, Genevieve Pat
erson and Mathilda furnish and
Mrs. e, p. Tebbetts. The courtiers
are j. G. Mathews. William T. Tip
plets, William Rieckers, R. j. Mar
tin and E. Vaughn Klein
The coronation ceremony will be
carried out on the lines of the Gus
tom of the Louis XIV period and in
cludes the dancing of court minuet
by eight little boys and girls, after
which the spectators will join in
swearing allegiance to King Apple.
Following this Queen Idell and her
suite, escorted by guards in armor,
heralds and pages, will make tour
OF the show grounds and inspect
every exhibit. Professor H. E. Van
Deman and his four associates, ].
w. Murphy of Glenwood, Iowa; C.
j. Sinsel of Boise, Idaho; Profess
sor S. A. Beach of Ames, Iowa, and
James Glib of Kelowna, B. c.. who
began their work this morning, will
be members of the party.
The management has set aside
these special days:
November 15-Ladies and chill
drens day; reception by Idell and
court to inmates of the orphans
homes.
November 16--Apple packing con-
test for the championship of the
world. Experts in many parts of the
northwest are entered.
November 17-County Life day:
David Brown, chairman; farmers
from all over the northwest have
promised to attend to discuss plans
for hall in connection with the
community center plan
November 1S.-College day: fac
ulty and student bodies in Washing
| ton, Oregon, Idaho and Montana to
have charge.
November 19-Everybody's day,
awarding of prizes, exhibits will re-
main intact until 1890 o'clock at
night, when preparations will be-
gin to repack six prize-winning cars,
36 district exhibits and all the
prize-winning commercial displays
for exhibition in the First Regiment
armory, Chicago.
| Ben II. Rice, secretary and man
| ager of the show, announced this
I morning that special train of IA
decorated cars, accompanied by 40
growers, trustees of the apple show
and five employees will leave the
morning of November FL for Chi
cago, where the show will open on
November 20 and continue until De-
cember 4. Bert e. Gregory, assist
ant manager, writes that the Chi
| cago Association of Commerce, will
have a delegation of 1900 at the
opening Of the show.