The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1914-09-19
GET-T0CETHER
MEETING WAS
. LARGELY ATTENDED

The get-to-gether meeting in the
east dining room Of the Willard Hotel
on Wednesday evening was a great
success, resulting, as The PRESS be-
lieves, in much good to the commun-
ity. The banquet, served in courses,
was called at Z o'clock and 48 were
seated at the tables. Landlords
Aldrich & Aldrich served the guests
with the best Of everything and saw
that nothing was omitted, receiving
many compliments for the manner in
which they took care of people.
The Holm Studio took picture of
the men as they sat down to the
tables. q
There were no set speakers for the
evening, all the talk being entirely
informal. President Alf. White
stated that this plan was successful
in other cities in bringing about a
better feeling generally as we'll as
good business results and he wanted
the experience tried in Dickinson.
One of the first matters up for dis
cussion was the federal building.
Dickinson has a site bought by the
government on Sims street and an
appropriation of 100000 for a build
ing is waiting. Geo. Senour said
number of letters had been written
and they had definite promise that
the department would get around to
Dickinson in 1915. This he thought
was fair. He pointed out the fact
that the government was not able to
get the title cleared up until June of
1918, some time after the selection Of
the site, hence he did not attribute
all the delay to Washington. An ex-
ira appropriation for a federal court
room was mentioned, but T. F.
Murtha seemed of the opinion that if
the asking for additional funds was
likely to delay the building it would
not be wise to crowd this point. He
was not sure that federal chambers
in the city would amount to much
anyway. .
When good roads was mentioned
everybody became interested as there
lis no one thing that does as much for
a city or village as good roads. w.
l.. Richards, Fred Maser and George
Senour were appointed a committee
to look after a poor piece of road
out south. This lead up to a Ssugges--
ton made ny Fred Maser for an auto
mobile club organization. Dickinson
is headquarters for tourists and
should have strong auto club. 1t
was suggested that such an organi-
zation could make trips into the
country, repair roads, visit the farm
ers and neighboring villages and
create better feeling generally be
tween Dickinson men and those liv-
be strong factor in getting needed
v,1ooac
/ At the suggestion Of Fl. F. Schroe--
der, report was made on normal
school work for Dickinson by F. w.
Turner and c. E. Ward. The COM
mittee has some strong resolutions
and has been securing good endorse
ments.
Ormanzo A. Brown told of the need
of bridge between his place and
John Loh's. Pete Berringer and
others heartily concurred in this be-
lief.
Rev. J. G. Morrison thought the
banquet plan for the Commercial %
Club was just the thing. He enjoyed
it and was sure that all present had.
The next get-to-gether meeting
will be held at the St. Charles in
about month. -.
Those present: Alf. White, F. G.
Reed, E. P. Lee, M. Blick, C. E.Ward,
E. H. Knapp, Fred and Victor Maser,
F. w. Turner, P. F. and J. P. Berrin-
ger, J. P. Tingle, C. T. Langley, J. c.
F. and Charles Parker, Walter Ster-
land, Tom Nottingham, Ed. Fisher,
T. L. Beard, H. A. 'Burgeson, Vic.
Holm, o. A. Brown, ]. V. Jessen, D.
D. Mars, A. P. Ellian, W.. l.. Rich
ards, A. C. Hacke, T. F.. Murtha, W..
8; Russell, y aa =: a: Nonwejler, y Ss;ra E. E
F. Schroeder, J. G. Morrison, Geo. A. .
Perkins, r. f.. Cutter, Geo. Senour,
w. J. Molloy, CA. Balsley, H. C.
Berry, Oliver Whaley, M. l.. Ayers
and few others whose names were
not obtained.