Morris tribune., 1914-07-24
EDITORS SEE RICH
SECTION OF STATE
CRUISE ON LAKE OF THE
WOODS.
Royal Welcome is Accorded the
Northern Editorial Association
and Guests at Baudette, Spoon
er, international Falls and
Kenora.

Seeing Minnesota First" should be-
come decidedly more popular as a re.
suit Of the 1914 outing and excursion
Of the Northern Minnesota Editorial
association. A party of 155 editors
and their families participated in an
enjoyable and profitable three days
outing, Friday, Saturday and Sunday,
July 17th, 18th and 18th The trip
included visits to International Falls,
Spooner, Baudette and Warroad and
pinety-mile boat ride on the Lake
Of the Woods to Kenora, Ontario, and
return.
While the party was made up large
ly 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
10th, 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
COAp4AS " 1A1dhS InS1u O1151U1S LUZ
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 days
program of entertainment included a
meeting in the city hall where the par
ty was given hearty welcome by the
officials of the city, 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.
BRckus is president, q Dutch lunch
given at the city hall and a launch ride
On Rainy lake. Following the Dutch
lunch, a moving picture of the party
was taken, a run of the fire depart
nnent adding life to the film.
Although it is only six years since
the first railroad reached Internation-
al Falls, this city has already become
one of the important manufacturing
cities of the state, and in few years
It 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 a 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-
qRtely 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 forest fire
which swept down upon them four
years ago, the two little cities have
z risen from their ashes and stand to-
day as remarkable examples of the
pluck and determination and progress
siveness of their citizens. The editors
WAO AOu1 y Ccl0 oSO dppSd1OQ
the columns of their respective Pub
locations for aid for the stricken cities
were more than paid in full for their
philanthropy by the greetings, hospi
taIity and entertainment characteriz
fng their visit to Spooner an% Bau
dette, and credit for the success of all
is in large measure due to the efforts
, Of hustling George E. Ericsson of the
Spooner News, his equally genial anG
busy wife, and Editor w. T. NoonaI
Of Baudette.
Editor and Mrs. Ericsson came to In
ternational Falls to meet the editors
and give them an inkling of what wal
in store for them ct Spooner and Bau
dette. All promises made were full
filed, and even the weather was on iti
best behaviour when the Canadian
Northern special train conveying tn,
visitors arrived in Baudette late Fri
day afternoon. Escorted by a band
the editors and guests marched from
the depot through the main streets O
Baudette to the Auditorium in Spoon
er, motion picture man catching th'
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 we'll equipped for tn
entertainment of the visitors Tn
lower 200" )" provided with cells
which were not needed for the editor
and the office Of chief of police, mu
nicipal court room, fire boys hall an
ticket Office The auditorium, with a
adequate stage, is located on the sci
ond floor, and It was here the Dime
was seExed the visitors The apditS