Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-10-11
GUESTS
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Whole Show Is BeaDinq With
Prosperity. County Ex.
hIblls Excellent
First Better Babies Contest
in State is a Big
Feature

The exposition mas arrived. The
people have begun to come. The first
grey dawn Of the morning after ii
over. The day that was cold and dark
and dreary is over The sunlight
4 CLEANS once more and the smile Of
Secretary Gilbreath is luminous
Jupiter Pluvius has retreated and the
glad sunshine is again supreme. No
longer is the frost upon the pumpkin,
but the folders in the shock.
Tie big show is really the big
shoY. The exhibits are better than
z they have ever been bfore, and the
proof that North Dakota is supreme
as an agricultural statesis at hand.
Corn is king. That is the cry from
one end Of the exposition TO the other.
Mclean, the northern most county
in the exposition, With its twenty
two varieties of corn, to Stark, with
its illustrations of the best methods
OF success all play up the corn. There
are miniature. silos, and there are
windfills without number, but they
all deal with corn, the great .;.rain of
the Flickertail state.
In the Richlantl county Exhibit
there are two Polish boys, bred Oh
the farm, show what the farmer can
do with windmill. 1t is just a toy
like representation OF the other sta
TONED on the farm. There Won will
find the washing machine, the churn,
the pump, the laundry. tie feed grim
,s sss 4s 'as II
IS the home. .spni, philosophy of the
North Dakota farm that these Mani
kowske boys portray. They have
shown things to electrical scientists
that have been undreamed of here
tofore. -
The Mercer county exhibit is the 4
best that that rich county has
shown. It overshadows most any
other county in the state III its corn
display. Hon. H. l.. Benscloten, 4
well known lawyer, is in charge Of
the exhibit, and the notices upon the
wall show we'll what Mercer county
boosts most about. The Lewis and
Clark expedition in 1903 was fed upon
Bercer county corn for one winter.
SakkaWea, the bird woman, who
guided the expedition from Stanton to
the Pacific coast, was fed upon Mis-.
souri, Valley corn, and she came back
TO the corn lands 0 fthe Missouri bot /;
toms Wien she had accomplished her
mission. Corn is king in Mercer and
alfalfa is@queen and their only child
is prosperity. That is what Mercer
county says, and it seems to always |
tell the truth.
The Red River valley is reluctant to
compete with the Slope. Only Rich
land has striven to tell the tale OF her
proWess. But Barnes and Mark
Smith are here. boosting hard and
possessing the proofs Ramsey,
Grand Forks, Walsh and Pembina are
not here but they are good counties.
OF course.
Emnloas l1ettinger, LaMoure, Nor
Ton, andsptller counties certainly have
the goods to show. They are proving
what North Dakota can do in the
way oil agricultural products.
The admissions were greater tlis
year than on the corresponding day
last year and much greater than they
Were on the corresponding day of
the year before. the exposition has
attracted the interest of thousands.
and the attendance will be. greater
this year than ever before.
One Hundred Babies Entered Contest
At Exposition.
Tle first Better Babies show in Bis
lnarck and the state of North Daactal
was most successful and Mrs. ID. p
Quain, superinte Of the new de- 4
paTtment has reason to feel proud of
the interest manffestfd in the newt
movement III this state. Ono hundred
babies between the ages Of SIX \,
months and three years were exanin-
ed under the direction Of well known
physicians and trained nurses, and
l record was made of strong ami
weak physical points OF each little
one. Tie chart furnished by the
Better Babies bnrea,is,, was the one ! j
Prizes are soneted sfpr the
)abies scoring the greatest number Of 1
good points and holding the highest I
l.erage after all points are counted.
he mission OF the, work Is to watch !
he young babies development and j
liter its diet to meet the requirements II
II better physical AMI mental growth,
3y examining he babies thoroughly.
'hysical defects are located III the i
arly stages of develo elopment and the I
hances> of cures are advanced fifty j
'er cent If treatment is Civ IN at this
ime. f I
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