The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-05-25

SPECIAL TRAIN
FOR FARGO COUNCIL
NUMBER or COUNCILS or THE u.
c. 7. WILL ARRANGE TO GATH
Err IN FARGO AND LEAVE HERE
ON SPECIAL TRAIN FOR RED
WING FOR CONVENTION.

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A special train for the United Com
mercial Travellers to the Red Wing
convention June 6. Z. and 5 lie the thing
that is being planned by h Fargo
council boys. It Is hoped S< the
train will be procured and that Fargo
will be made the meeting place Of the
Bismarck, creokston and Fergus Falls
councils and all viii so down in q
body.
Everything for the convention is bes
ing done by the Red Wing people and
business men. The Red Wing Repub-
lican has the following to say concern
ing the decorations of the city for that
occasion:
Decorate! Decorated! Decorate!
This is the appeal that the United
Commercial Travellers of the city are
making to every citizen who lives
here. The three days that the u. G.
T. convention is to be held here
June 6, Z and S-are to be great days.
Hundreds of visitors are to be here.
They will be live ones. They will be
men who are used to the world and
have travelled much. They will com7
pare the reception they are given in
Red Wing with the splendid times
they have been treated to in the past
by other places.
Not only the members of the u. G.
r. council here are interested but
everybody else will want to make this
memorable occasion the best that Red
Wing can do. we not only want to
show the travelling men, their wives
and friends. who will come from hun
dreds of different points in Minnesota,
North n South Dakota, every pos
sible courtesy but we want u best
go-to-meeting clothes on while they
are here. The city will want to be in
the best trim in every respect.
This means, with all the other things
necessary, that the resident portion OF
the city as well as It's business district
should be gaily and lavishly decorated
with the colors of the u. G. T.. This
will mean much for our local pride
and will be the best token possible to
the travellers that we wanted them to
come and are in hearty acclaim with
their work.
Every home should have the colorr
of the order that will take possession
of the city at that time. The strang-
ers will be given auto rides and as
they go about the different streets il
we decorate freely it will make then
sit UP and take notice that Red Wins
is ~up-to-date and a live bunch will 81
out from mere to advertise us to th'
world as the real sort of q convention
city.
Many of our people do not yet fully
recognize the full import OF the hold,
ing of this gerat convention here. i
is no ordinary body Of men who viii
be here. That this is true is demon.
strated by the eagerness of othel
towns to secure the next convention
Not only the travelling men themselve;
but the gerat mercantile firms they
represent are alert to promote its in
~terests.
AT Crookston the other night the
commercial club of that city had
big dinner at which F.. X. Gravelle Of
Duluth-one Of the big jobbers Of tht
zenith city-was present as the guest
Of honor and gave his hearty support
to the attempt on the part of Crooks
ton to go after the u. G. T. at the
Red Wing meeting and secure the
convention for next year If possible
A big delegation will be here from thu
Red river city and will boost for theil
town. But there will be others, Man.
kato, Albert Lea, Grand Forks n Bis.
marck are all insistent that they arr
going to take it home with them foI
the next year.
These facts speak louder thar
words. They mean something. The.
indicate, with unquestioned certainty
that the holding of a u. G. T. oonven.
ton in any town mean much for tina
town. 1t means much for Red Win,
this year. Every business man, ev
cry citizen, should get into the harness
and do all he can to make this year
gathering such a success and such
pleasure to every one of the $500 O
more people who may be in the cit!
at that time that they will go ava!
with the thought that Red Wing is il
very truth, the desirable city.
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