Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-09-30
Visitors We're Given Great
Reception 10 Ransom
County City

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but words OF praise for the city OF
Lisbon and her corn jubilee, the sew.
enty.fve citizens OF Fargo who at
tended the great exhibition returned
home Saturday evening at $50 on
the Northern Pacific, tired, but ex.
ceedingly glad that the commercial
club had engineered the trip and that
1t had been more than n successful
one.
The corn show mas become one
that the whole state In the future
will have to stand up and take notice
OF, for it is about the biggest affair
of the kind that ever took place in
the state, and Lisbon was the first
city in the state that really ever ut.
tempted a show in which corn was
the principal exhibit. .s W.,
There were two special cars for the
Fargo party when tho train pulled
out for the Ransom county city Sat
urday morning, and although the
train ran slowly on account of the
soggy track in some places, the city
was reached about 1880.
Met With Band.
The splendid First Regiment band
and members of the commercial clup
met the party at the depot and the
Fargo visitors we're escorted to the
club rooms. where q brief reception
was held, after which the Fargo peo-
pie were guests at Elmer Bradford's
hotel of the Lisbon Commercial club
at lunch, and Elmer had duck, roast
meat and all the trimmings and, 1t
is needless to say, ample justice was
done to the same. ,..t.
. The streets were one mass OF bunt-
ing, yellow and white being the col.
ors. Banners were stretched across
the main street from one end TO the
other, tho word welcome" being dis
played on every street corner and
the sight was an inspiring one. Each
and every store in the city had a
small display of corn and vegetables
in the show windows and there was
q good crowd In attendance.
AZ the trmoey.
The corn jubilee is held in the arm.
DRY of the city, a large and substan-
tial building that cost the people the
sum of $4,000. and which is fitted
with basement, as we'll as the au'
ditorium. The stage was set to rep
resent q cornfleld, with stalks OF corn
eighteen feet high, sunfiowers that
had attained a height of twelve feet,
with the proverbial pumpkins in the
field and all manner Of the farm life
was represented, the stage presenting
a handsome appearance. The exhibit
was said by Professor Raadiett Of tho
A. c., who was present as one of the
judges, to be one OF the finest he
had ever seen. There were several
specimens of freak corn, one ear hav-
ing grown to such q shape. that there
were nine ears In all showing from
the one stalk. There was one potato
plant that was five feet in length, and
there we're five or six mammoth po-
tatoes still attached to tho plant.
All Manner Of Corn.
The different dents and flints were
we'll represented, SO was the sweet
corn, different grades and types or
pop corn and it was all nicely ar
ranged in different designs. There
were crooks of elegant butter, all
made by the farmers Of Ransom coun'
ty and the people of Lisbon. There
we're some fine looking eggs that had
been brought in, and in some OF the
show windows upon the streets there
were live chickens and rabbits on
display. One show window contained
two or three Sheyenne water dogs"
which are sometimes called fresh
water .alligators," and they were
caught in the river there. .r.
Fruit and Vegetables.
No more beautiful fruit, such as
apples and plllms, could be found any
where than was displayed in the arm
DRY. There we're apples there that
would vie with any Drought here by
land men from Oregon or Washing
ton. They were solid, splendid.look-
ing fruit and they we're all grown in
Ransom county. There are many
different varieties, and it was stated
that in time the apple crop of that
section will be one that North Da-
kota can point to with pride. This
display was particularly interesting
to the visitors. There were mammoth
vegetables Of almost every kind that
is grown anywhere on display, and
even musk melons that would COM
pare favorably in taste and appear
ance with the famous Rocky Ford
variety. One lady who was present
stated that she had raised fifty bush.
els of them Oh her place right in the
city. Elmer, Bradford took several
first prizes for some vegetables that
he had raised. There were preserved
fruits that were fine.
Il First Canning Factory. Fl
Lisbon boasts of the first real can.
ming factory in the state. 1t is named
the Sheyenne Valley Canning & Pick
ling Co., and this season, its first 400
gallons of pickles were put up, and
the company also has put up the
product Of four acres OF tomatoes. 1t
is the intention to make tomato can.
ming one Of the big features Of the
plant. The grains and grasses dis
play was really as fine as would be
found at any fair that has ever been
held in the state, and the attendance
was simply magnificent. The Lisbon
people were apologizing somewhat be-
cause the show was not as fine as
they expected, on account Of the bad
roads, but one thing is certain-Far'
- was simpiy astoniShed at what