The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-08-01
FARGO ADVERTISED
THROUGH TREAT
IMPERIAL PoTENTATE OF sHRiN-
ERs VISITS ALL GREAT CITIES
or COUNTRY GIVING FARGO
MUCH PU7LIclTY-Is IN PORT.
LAND.

That the city Of Fargo is receiving
much publicity and advertising
through the election of ]. Frank Treat
to the position of imperial potentate of
the Mystic Shriners of America, il
evidenced by the great amount OF
space given in all the leading news
papers of the country to biographical
sketches Of Mr.. Treat, In which Fargo
Is prominently and frequently men
toned.
An illustration of this fact is the
following article taken from The Port
land Telegram OF Portland, Me-, where
Imperial Potentate Treat was enter.
tanned last week. The heading Of the
article states that the ancestors Of
j. Frank Treat were Portland men
and that his name is known and hon
orded all over the American continent
Following an excellent single coll
umn likeness Of the new imperial po-
tentate is the article in which Fargo
Is given prominent part and serves
to advertise the city as few other me-
diums Of advertising could do. Sec
rotary Baernstein of the Fargo Com
mercial club was sent copy of The
Portland Telegram, in which the fol-
lowing appeared:
The name Of no man who has come
to Portland this summer is more
widely known than that of John
Frank Treat Of Fargo, N. D., who at
the Shriners' convention recently held
at Rochester. N. X. was elected to
the ONCE OF imperial potentate. the
highest Office In the order. BY this
time the name is honored by 5000
Shriners, who are distributed all over
the North American continent, and
nobody knows how many more thous-
and wives, sons, daughters and others
who are not affiliated with the An
cient Arabic Order Of Mobiles OF the
Mystic Shrine.
For the first time In his life Mr..
Treat has come to Maine, the home
OF his ancestors. He arrived yesterday
morning from Boston by boat and
went to the Falmouth hotel, where
he may be found when he is not be-
Ing entertained by some OF his
friends In the city. Yesterday he went
to Poland Springs and Lewiston in
company with J. Putnam Stevens and
Silas b. Adams OF this city. They
went to the former place in the fore
noon in Mr.. Stevens automobile,
where they had lunch, and then vis-
tied the Kora temple OF the shrine at
Lewiston in the afternoon. There a
number of the wearers of the fez
gathered to greet him and to make
the acquaintance OF their chief. The
party returned from this little ex-
cursion last evening and Mr.. Treat
will be about town until Tuesday,
when he and Mr.. Stevens. who il
high priest and prophet OF the i'm
periaI council, will leave for Montpel-
Ter to inspect the Mt. Sinai temple
there.
Mr.. Treats family history Is con-
nected with that Of Portland. and he
related how his great grandfather
Samuel Colby, and his grandfather
Richard Treat, had led the lives oil
seafarers He himself was born In
Ohio and went to North Dakota IN
1882, when there were only a few
thousand settlers In that region. He
has seen Fargo, his home town. grow
to be good sized city and he has
taken an active part In its develop
ment and In that OF the state. Fol
almost the entire period of his life
there he has been engaged IN the In.
surance business. In two sessions oil
the legislature he served as q repre-.
sentative, and there he acquired quite
reputation for oratory. At presen
he il d member Of the park commits,
sion of Fargo.
AS a convincing proof of the enter
prize OF his fellow citizns he toll.
how he and the delegation which cam
east FOR the convention that has jus
closed at Rochester started out arrne
with huge loaf Of bread. that wa
~ feet long, two feet broad and te
1 inches in height. With this as a bat
tering ram they stormed the conven
ton city, and they must have cap
tured 1t for the convention prompt
elected Mr.. Treat to the position 4
1 highest honor IN the whole organiza
ton, that of imperial potentate. Thi
/ he has secured only after ten year
Of faithful work as member or tn
imperial council and as the IlIusfri
one potentate Of Ell zagel temple il
bis home state.