Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-08-27
DICKINSON ENTERTAINED
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Crowl, Fred Maser and 4. H. Pugh
brought up the rear.
The party had no sooner arrived
in Dickinson than they were met by
the reception committee of the Com
mercial club and formally invited to a
reception to be rendered them at the
armory.
The business men of Dickinson
were out In force and the way that
they got down to the real thing and
boosted, he unsophisicaed would, have
imagined hat there had never been a
dead one in Stark county. 1t at least
looked good to see the way that those
fellows were out to boost the other
fellow.
The meeting was called to order
BY the president, and DR.. v. H. Stick
ney delivered the address of welcome
He hade the party welcome to Dick
inson and said that any misunder.
standings that should arise out Of
! the evening We're mistakes and not
I.~narrowness on the part OF the people
of Dickinson and he wanted the boys
from the capital city to know first
last and all the time that the men and
terest at heart and he knew that they
women of Dickinson had LIr own in.
were broad enough to see that they
could help their city by helping their
state and that they we're heart and
soul for the State Exposition.
Stress was laid on the fact that the
harvest time was the best time for a
visit, but said that he hoped that 1t
would no lure the peoples minds
away from the great possibilities that
lay in the coal and the clay in the
vicinity Of D!cAlnson. He gave as
an estimate OF what there was by say.
ing that within ten mics of Dlckin
son there were n billion tons OF
coal. Then F., I. Conklin, the popu
lar president of. the Bismarck CON,
mercial club. was introduced.
Mr.. Conklin said that the trip was
conceived for two reasons the first
one being for the good of the Indus.
trial exposition to be held at Bis.
marck, and second so that the bust.
ness men would have a chance to get
acquainted with their n%eighbors. lie
said there was all the chance in the
world to make a success this year.
The northwest had never seer a crop
any better than this and being the
second year there was no reason that
we could not have a land show that
the state would be proud of. He fin
ished by saying that the people Of
Bismarck would be glad to recipro-
cate the favor If the men of Dickin'
son would come down to the expo
sition in the fall of 1912. s
Judge Bruce was then introduced.
He began by saying that we need
ed to learn what we have in. West
ern North Dakota and develop it, and
truly expell that idea from the minds
Q. the east that we we're not civil.
lized in Western North Dakota.
"Clay is next to iron in commerce
and our civilization rests nearly as
much on clap as on iron. Pennsyl-
vania was made by her coal fields.
England was able to resist the arm.
les of Napoleon IN account Of her
coal and iron.
"All our pottery is shipped from
the east and lots Of it from Europe.
Get acquainted, it is Rot half as
easy to hate a man II you know him.
Boosting the other fellow does not
hurt US.
North Dakotan's have the charac.
t~eristic of pulling Agether as a rule
We have no castles or classes of the
more conservative countries nor
neither have VIZ the idiotic was Of
the tropical peoples that have a revo.
luton every time that they have an
election.
North Dakota needs to boost as a
whole we, know and we also know
that it is easy to make money on a
friend but hard to do II on an
enemp."
Mr.. Klein of Relaxation, held to
the policy that a fight developed the
best there was in q man and there
was none to say him nay. Business
rivals must not NEAR enemies. He
still believes that the people OF North
Dakota ISL their heads for thinking
machines and not for hat racks.
G. lB. Winter, the live publicity
man for the Exposition, affirmed that
he had never seen the crops look bet.
ter and that was tho bright side o.
the shield, but here was a dark side
and that was that there was SO much
ground thta was not cultivated.
Said Mr.. Winter:
North Dakota needs more settlers.
We need q good country II we want
cities. The primary purpose Of the
Industrial exposition In Bismarck is
to get settlers into the state"
He laid a great deal Of stress on
the dairy industry and silo construc.
ton and ended by saying that he was
sure that the time would come when