The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1913-06-26

| officials.
We met large number of type and
paper peddlers at the convention, all
good fellows. Jack Hillyer and Gus
Blessum with their charming wives,
Colonel Barker, Val REM,
John McAfee, John Brantjem, Geo.
Kaneen, A. L. Westerhagen, Henry
Meier, Harry DeFoe, Charlie johnson
and dozen others.
The colored shine at the Dacotah
was kangarooed and fined for carry
ing pair of shoes in the presence of
the court.
Editor Dewitt of Ambrose seemed
to enjoy the outing. His business is
growing so fast that he is thinking
of installing a typesetting machine.
! Jesse Bergster of Jamestown was
missing.
| Charles Brewer, secretary of the
fish and game board, remembered the
boys with telegram and asked for
their cooperation in urging the en-
forcement of the game laws.
Grand Forks has sixteen miles of
paving, including four different kinds.
Editor Haines, the good looking,
light haired gentleman who publishes
the Towner News-Tribune can we'll af-
ford such an outing. He has cinch
on the legal business, publishing more
than page of such matter each week.
There is a tendency to boost the
subscription price all over the state
and don't be surprised if the Indepen-
dent does this very thing very soon.
We met Pres. McVey, the scholarly
gentleman who presides over the state
university so we'll. There are now
fourteen large buildings on the camp
US and the institution ranks second
to none.
AS we gazed over the crowd at the
banquet, we wondered where one could
go to find a better-looking lot of bust
nessmen and a fairer lot of ladies'.
Ten years from now most of these
young editors will be the men of af-
fairs in the state and many of them
hold responsible positions today in
their communities.
Plant trees. Grand Forks has
shown what can be done with trees in
a quarter Of a century of little
more. Thousands of beautiful large
box elder trees along the streets and
on the lawns.
The publishers returned to publish
cleaner, better newspapers than ever.
These heart-to- heart talks do a world
Of good.
Editor McGarry of Alexander, Nc
kenzie county, travelled nearly 4OOl
miles to attend the convention, there
by winning the prize.
The next summer convention will
probably be held in Valley City.
Friends Of Editors Trubshaw
and Hyde have promised to give
that city their vote.
Geo. Duis, one of the first citizens
of the Forks, attended the press ban
quet. Despite the fact that GEORGE
dropped $4,000 in the newspaper
game when he published the, Plain
dealer, he can still smile, for this rep
resents but small fraction of his ac-
! cumulations.
w. P. Davies, the we'll known Grand
Forks newspaperman, is president of
the park board of that city and it was
thru his efforts that the city bought
what is now the beautiful Lincoln
park.
Editor and Mrs. Mclaughlin Of the;
Kenmare News, accompanied by their
two babes, arrived in Grand Forks
Thursday night. The children were
met by Mrs. McLaughlin's sister and
taken to Fargo for visit.
"Old Bill" Mumby Of Buford, who
has been printing since the sixties,
was on hand looking fresher than
ever, despite his seventy-one years.
Bill doesn't believe in cutting out the
patents which he helped establish
many years ago. He said 20 in plain
terms in special edition which he
circulated among the boys. Bill en-