Fergus County Democrat. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-1919, 1911-12-26
FERGUS Wins
HIGH H0N0RS
AWARDED CAMPBELL CUP FOR
MOST BEAUTIFUL AND ELAB.
oRATE EXHIBIT AT SHOW.
COMPETITION WITH ALL
In the Final Test It Is Found That
the Judith Basin Outshines Every
thing at the Great Land Show
David hilser Says Will Result in
Much Benefit--Montana Day.

The Campbell Silver cup for the
most beautiful, elaborate and attrac-
tive booth at the land show awarded
to the Judith Basin
This big honor came right at the
end Of the land show, the award be-
ing made Friday afternoon. Every ex-
hibit at the big st. Paul show was
competitor. but only one really figured
in it. SO great a lead did the Fergus
county exhibit have. That one was
the Red River valley and 1t was dan
gerous simply because Of the variety
OF the products shown. For instance,
the Red River exhibit contained be-
/ tween forty and fifty varieties OF
potatoes, while the Fergus county
booth displayed just two. However,
in other respects the Fergus booth
had good lead and won out on its
merits. This prize was one Of the
most sought of any and the Judith
| Basin boosters were confident Of
winning IL. The other prizes were for
the best bushel OF this or that grain.
the best boxes OF apples and the best
bushels of certain grain grown in
= certain county or locality. The
Campbell prize was the only one that
brought the several exhibits as whole
in competition with each other, and
the fact that the Judith Basin carried
off the honors ought to be glory
, enough.
Montana Day.
Friday was Montana day at tho land
show and ]. II. Hall. secretary of the
state bureau of publicity was placed
in charge of the celebration, which
was hastily arranged. Only men with
practical knowledge of the agricultural
and fruit growing industries were
called upon to speak, among them be-
ing David Hilger Of LewistoWn, and
Fred Whiteside, of KalispeIl, and in
addition moving pictures Of Montana
! scenes were shown The affair was
, quite successful.
Arrive Home.
David Hilger arrived home Saturday
evening, being the first Of those in
active charge of the Judith Basin ex-
hibit to get in. Mayor Pat Nihill, OF
Moore, returned on the same train.
X. w. Reynolds, A. b. Lehman and
wife and Cassius Williamson and wife
came in Sunday night.
| Mr.. Hilger did not learn Of the Ju-
dith Basins big victory until Sunday.
when it was announced in the papers.
Our BOOTH" said he, was the most
expensive one at the show and 1t was
the most striking and. attractive one
, as we'll. The entire expense OF it was
met by the COOk-Rey ynOlds company
and the Hilger Loan and Realty COM
pany. l am satisfied that this exhibit
will do Fergus county an immense
amount Of good. 1t will benefit every
one who has an interest in land in
this county and the influence OF that
display will long be felt
Hill Proud Of Il.
James j. Hill was proud Of our
showing. He takes a very great in.
terest in the Judith Basin and has
been boosting this section for a gOou
while. What he has told his friends
about the Basin was fully sustained
by our exhibit, and SO he was around
there nearly all the time. He brought
all OF his friends, some OF the biggest
men in the country among them, with
him. One day he brought Archbishop
Ireland around and J. h. Surprenant
promptly pinned LeWistown booster
button on him.
"Mr. Hill told me ours was the most
beautiful exhibit he had ever seen at
any land show. Louis Hill was there
good deal of the time, too, and SO
was Howard Elliott, president of the
Northern Pacific. The land show cost
a hundred thousand dollars and was
well worth the cost.
Counties like Gallatin, Lewis &
Clark, Cascade, Missoula, Dawson and
Yellowstone made very creditable ex-
hibits, but ours was the envy of them
all.
The Western Governors.
"The trip of the western governors
was splendid thing 1t did much to
bring the east and west together, and
our own governor, Norris, did a splen-
did work for Montana.
Everyone was pleased with the
land show. believe it will result in
more benefit to Montana than any
thing that has ever been done to make
her resources known to the world.
Royalty Entertained.
eve were royalty entertained from
first to last. The ST. Paul business
men could not do too much for us
and out of the two weeks spent at
the show there was just one day when