Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1911-05-04
BOOSTER
MEETING
Business Men and Midwest
Hotel People Discuss Plans
AROUSING GOOD TIME
Dutch Lunch" a Part of the
Program--Big Crowd Out to
Welcome Hotel People.

Welcome Hotel People.
For the purpose of meeting with the
members of the Mid. West Hotel Com.
pany, the Commercial club held a
special meeting Monday evening. In
stead OF assembling in the club rooms
the meeting was called to order in the
spacious dining room of the Evans.
A short business session was first
called for the purpose of allowing Coi.
L. q. Orr, superintendent of the State
Home, to present the matter of secur-
Ing special train from this city to
Pierre during the meeting of the State
Encampment, G. A. r. in the near fu-
ture, and after a short talk by the
Colonel, the Club pledged it's support.
or rather will GO operate with him in
attempting to secure the required num-
Der to insure train.
No further business Of q commercial
nature coming before the meeting at
this time, another matter was then
taken up-that of disposing of genu-
inc "Dutch Lunch" with just enough
OF the trimmings in sight to make 1t
real. Caterer Joe Thebault prepared
the lunch which consisted of graham
bread, cheese, picked pigs feet, pick
eled herring, pressed ham, etc, etc.
(NoTE: Etc, eta., in English means
"schnaaps."
After the edibles had been disposed
OF, President Glattly acting as toast
master, arose and explained the pri-
mary object of the meeting which be-
sides being for the purpose Of getting
acquainted with the new owners and
also the leesees of the Evans property,
were to discuss plans whereby the
business men of the city could co. op-
crate with them in advertising Hot
Springs and the Evans Both are
so closely allied that to advertise
one would naturally be boost for the
other.
Not to get away from the fact that
this was also sort Of jollification
meeting, at the close of his remarks,
he called upon G. G. Smith, Joseph A.
Walsh, l.. II. Hedrick and DR.. F. e.
Walker each in turn for a short talk
or rather story if they SO chose, and
the stories that we're forthcoming, at
least some of them, we're rather of q
startling nature. They also gave their
Ideas for the summer campaign.
Mr.. George Bennett, member of
the Mid West Hotel company and also
one of the three owners, on being
called upon for short talk gave q
few of the plans of the company,
stating that they believed in a brilliant
future for this city and also that
they had invested their money, first,
for the purpose Of making the Evans
paying property and secondly for the
purpose of assisting the people here in
putting Hot Springs on the map.
Al. Schaeffer, of the Times Herald,
and William Rine, both gave very in
teresting little talks on the proper
mode of advertising this place as q
winter as we'll as summer resort.
Colonel Kinross set the crowd in an
uproar with one of his funny anecdotes.
f. M. Stewart, another of the owners
Of the Evans and also member of the
Mid West Company, gave short talk
on the future of this city. MIR. Stewart
believes in the future of this city to
such an extent that besides being in
terested in above mentioned companies
he is also interested in, and in fast is
president of what will surely be one of
the biggest enterprises in the Southern
Hills, namely the Hot Springs Gypsum
Products Company which within a few
weeks will start the erection of a
100000 plant in Gold Brook.
George l. Warner, DR. Notrebe and
Otis Hymer each expressed their
pleasure at recent developments. DIR.
Notrebe spoke at some length on his
travels in search of health before 10.
eating here and stated that the climate
had done wonders for him. He has
visited nearly every health resorts in
the United States and stated that al
tho this place was not as large or as
widely advertised as many others, that
by a united effort On the part of the
residents of Hot Springs that it was
bound in very few years to be classed
among the foremost resorts both for
health and pleasure.
w. B. johnson, Of the Hot Springs