The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-10-11
Booster Trip Was
Most Successful That
Was Ever Made in N. D.
Returning Tourists Have Nothing But Praise for the Splendid
Service Given by Great Northern
Mno and New Rockford Are More Closely Cemented to Fargo
and MoOrhead Than Ever
Cordial Greetings EvcrywhereOd Acquaintance Renewed
Along the Prosperous Aneta Line

houses, but has plenty of room for
more.
Twenty minutes were allotted TO
Grace City, which rivals Luverne for
being the farthest advanced new town
on the cutoff. Here again there was
a. big delegation at the station to eN-
tend welcome to the Fargo boosters.
Grace City has one of the most COM
piete lines Of business houses on the
line. Brantford took up fifteen min
utes of the trip, and they were de-
clared to be well spent minutes, by the
entire Fargo and Moorhead delegation.
Brantford has a fine trading territory
surrounding it and will grow greatly in
the next few years.
New Rockford a Hummer.
The future of New Rockford seems
to be assured. 1t has the natural adj
vantages of a splendid farming Sec
ton tributary to it combined with
some of the best railroad facilities In
the state. New Rockford is conceded
to be the best town on the new line
and its citizens are predicting a. pop
ulation of 5000 in from three to FIVE
years and 1t would seem as If their
hopes are well founded.
New Rockfords fine brass band was
at the station with big fleet of au-
tomobiles and the tourists were taken
aboard and shown the city. Perhaps
New Rockford's best asset is the
character of it's citizens. They are
boosters and hustlers, every one, and
with their push and energy it would
seem as ii nothing could head of this
town.
A big delegation, headed by Dr.
Chas. McLachlan, president OF the live
New Rockford Commercial club,
boarded the train and went on with
the party to Minot This delegation
F,IIr
McLachlan, H. w. Wilson, Q. e.
Couch. F. c. Davies, j. L. Haas, Peter
Prader, J. Harvey Johnson, G. w.
Funk, L. L. Russell, Geo. M. Pike,
Donald NiVen, D. f. Ellsworth, H. r.
Mitchell and A. c. Olson. Mr.. Olson
is the editor Of The New Rockford
Transcript, one of the best weekly pa
pers in the state.
Minoters on Hand.
At New Rockford the special was met
with a big delegation from Mfnot
whose names have already been pub
lished in the dispatches from that city.
They were headed by +. l.. Sherman,
secretary OF the Minot Commercial
club and one of the best boosters In
North Dakota and the Minot party
accompanied the train into Minot.
Train Was Late.
Owing to the fact that the special
was the heaviest train that had ever
gone over the road, the Great North
ern officials decided that the time that
had been planned was too fast and
this made the special late in reaching
New Rockford and some of the sched-
uled stops between New Rockford and
Minot had to be cancelled. Several OF
the towns were passed in the dark
However, stops were made at Bre-
men, Viking, Heindal and Selz. all fino
little towns, well supplied with busi-
ness houses and with merchants, ap-
parently awake to their opportunities.
Minot and Fargo Closer.
Although Minot was not reached un-
til III p. m. and the weather was disa-
greeable the citizens of the magic city
were UP and waiting and the finest
kind of a welcome was extended. The
entire party from the train marched
to the Minot Commercial club where
they were delightfully."- entertained and
a short programme OF speeches fol-
lowed social half hour.
r. A Nestos of NIinot gave an adj
dress of welcome that welcomed in
every sense of the word. He gave a
splendid talk, that fairly bristled with
good points.
On behalf of the Fargo Commercial
club and the Fargo delegation, Pres.
Morton Page of the Fargo club re-
sponded Colonel Page sounded the
keynote Of the entire trip in his re-
sponse. He said that Fargo and Moor
head and Minot were not alone drawn
closer together by the distance of six
ty miles, which the new cutoff Topped
off, but that when the fast trains are
put on by the Great Northern the two
terminal points will be drawn stllI
closer. His keynote remark was that
the already strong bond of good feel
ing which has for years existed be-
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