The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-10-09
GOVERNORS PICK
THEIR STATE DAYS
Monday, November Is, Set
Apart For North and
South Dakota.

Governors OF the seven northwest
ern states which will be represented
at the Northwestern Products Exposi-
tiontton in Minneapolis in November.
have selected their special state days
when the entire exposition will be
conducted with special reference to
the state In whose honor the day
has been set aside.
The governors and their represen-
tatiyes will speak in the lecture halls;
the commissioners. in charge Of ex-
hibits will give away samples of their
products and souvenirs; the bio
graph halls will be devoted to the
showing of motion pictures and ster-
eopticon VIEWS. illustrating life on
their farms, in their orchards and
cities.
Here are the special days selected
by the governors and set aside for do
ing honor to the states and cities OF
special interests represented:
Tuesday. November 12-Opening
and school children's day.
Wednesday, November 13-Agricul-
tural college day.
Thursday. November 14-Minnea-
apolis day.
Friday. November 16-st. Paul
day..
Saturday. November 1s-oregon
state day.
Monday, November. 1S-North and
South Dakota state day.
Tuesday,. November 19-Minnesota
state day.
Wednesday. November 20-Mon-
tana state day.
Thursday. November 21-washing.
ton and Alaska day.
Friday, November 22-Seven states
day and conservation day.:
Saturday. November ss-1daho and
closing day.
The exposition will he closed or
Sunday, November II. and will no,
be open for even a sacred concert.
North Dakota civic and commercial
organizations will attend the exposi.
ton in a body on the afternoon and
evening of their day and will put or
special programs in the lecture halls
Four Bands.
Four band concerts will be giver
daily by the First Minnesota Regi.
ment Military band of forty piece:
at the exposition.
When Secretary Of War Stimsor
visited Minneapolis and st. Paul re.
Gently, he declared the Minnesota
First Regiment band to be one Of the
finest military bands he had evel
heard and arrangements were at once
closed for this band to furnish the
greater part of the instrumental mu.
sic at the land show.
This is one Of the few military
bands which are ."unionized." Each
member belongs to a musicians unior
and Is constantly employed as a mu.
sician in some Of the leading theaters
or with one of the orchestras Of the
twin cities.
the. exposition. On state days the
airs. Of the states will be appropriate.
ly played during each concert.
e. No Sheaves Needed. : ~:
l.. Because Of rains in North Dakota
and Minnesota during the wheat har.
vest. the managers of the northwest
ern products exposition have decided
not to require farmers to send
sheaves. Of their wheat with their five
bushels of threshed grain to com.
pete for the $4,000 prize to be award.
ed in Minneapolis in November.
The rain made 1t almost. impossi.
BILE for farmers to secure good sheaves
and in some, places they could not
have secured sheaves at all unles,
they had pulled the grain before II
was ripe . This caused the exposition
people. to waive the sheaf require.
ment..
All that is necessary now to enter
the contest for the big prize is to send
five bushels Of threshed grain prepaid
to Will A. Campbell, manager Of the
exposition. Minneapolis. An appli-
cation and entry blank will be sen,
free on request to anyone desiring tc
enter and. there will be- no fee Of any
kind asked or received.