Little Falls herald., 1914-07-24
EDITORS Want RICH
SECTION ONDEVE[O|PED
NORTHERN MINNESOTA EpITo,
RIAL AssoclATIoN OUTING 4 I
BIG sUccEss.
CRUISE ON LAKE. OF WOODS

Royal WeIcome {Accoroeo N0Wepape
Men at Baudette, spooner, lnterna.
tlonal Falls and kenora-Reso-
l Iutions Adopted.
Seeing Minnesota First" should be
come decidedly more popular as re
suit Of the 1914 outing and excursion
Of the Northern Minnesota Editoria
association. A party of 155 editor.
and their families participated in al
enjoyable and profitable three days
outing, Friday, Saturday and Sunday
July 18th, 18th and 10Th. The trir
included visits to International Falls
Spooner, Baudette and Warroad and
q ninety-mile boat ride on the Lake
of the Woods to Kenora, Ontario. and
return.
While the party was made up large
" of editors from the northern part
Of the state, it required three special
Pullmans to accommodate the editors
from southern and western Minnesota
and the state officials who left the
Twin Cities Thursday evening, the
18th, over the Northern Pacific to par
ticipate in the outing. Their enthu.
siasm over the possibilities for devel
opment they saw in the section visited
and their pleasant memories Of the
generous entertainment accorded them
combine to make them eligible fol
membership in the rapidly growing
class Of boosters for Northern Mime
sofa.
At international Falls.
international Falls, the City of Des
tiny, was visited on Friday. The day's
program Of entertainment included .
meeting in the city hall where the par
ty was given hearty welcome by the
officials of the city, q visit of great in.
terest to the editors through the pa
per, pulp and sulphite plants owned
and operated by the Minnesota & On
tario Power Co., Of which Mr.. E. W.
Backus is president, . Dutch lunch
given at the city hall and launch ride
on Rainy lake. Following the Dutch
lunch, moving picture of the party
was taken, a run of the fire depart
ment adding life to the film.
Although it is only six years since
the first railroad reached Information.
al Falls, this city has already become
one of the important manufacturing
cities OF the state, and in a few years
1t will be, perhaps, the largest paper
manufacturing city in the world. (
The daily production of these i'm
mense paper, pulp and sulphite plants
is $50 tons of news print paper.
At four o'clock in the afternoon, the
party boarded special Canadian
Northern train at Fort Francis, on the
Canadian side of the Rainy river, for
Spooner and Baudette, the Twin Cities
Of the north, which were the objective
points of the trip.
The Day at Spooner and Baudette.
One cannot gild the lily nor paint
the rose and it would be difficult ade
quately to express appreciation of the
simon-pure, dyed-in-the-wool, blown-in.
the-bottle brand Of hospitality passed
along to the Northern Minnesota edi.
tors and the guests by the genial citi
Gems of Spooner and Baudette, the
"Twin Cities of the North" Destroy.
ed in single night by a forest fire
which swept down upon them four
years ago, the two little cities have
risen from their ashes and stand to.
day as remarkable examples of the
pluck and determination and progress
siveness Of their citizens. The editors
who four years ago appealed through
the columns Of their respective rub.
lications for aid for the stricken cities
were more than paid in full for their.
philanthropy by the greetings, hospi.
tality and entertainment characteriz.
ing their visit to Spooner and Bau-
dette, and credit for the success of all
Is in large measure due to the efforts
Of hustling George q. Ericsson of the
spooner News, his equally genial and
busy wife, and Editor w. T. Noonan
Of Baudette.
Editor and Mrs. Ericsson came to In.
ternational Falls to meet the editors
and give them an inkling of what was
in store for them at Spooner and Bau-
dette. All promises made were full
filled, and even the weather was on its
best behaviour when the Canadian,
Northern special train conveying the
visitors arrived in Baudette late Fri
day afternoon. Escorted by band,
the editors and guests marched from.
the depot through the main streets Of
Baudette to the Auditorium in Spoon.
er, motion picture man catching the
editors most pleasing smiles en- route.
The Auditorium, Spooner's new munic-
lpal building, is one Of the finest struc-
lures Of the kind In Northern Mime
sofa, and it was well equipred for the