Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-10-21
TURN PAGES
OF STATES
HISTORY
FUNCTION AT GRAND PACI-
FIG HISTORICAL EVENT
OF STATE.
STORY Of PROGRESS RET0LD
Many Prominent Pioneers Meet
for First Time in Many
~ Years.
STORY Of PROGRESS REIOLD

Those who helped to launch the
state turned the pages of it's history
last evening at the Silver Jubilee
banquet, which was held at the Grand
Pacific. The evenings program was
facilitated by excellent service on the
part CT the hotel management. The
tables we're daintily decorated and an
excellent menu was served.
There were 100 guests, numbering
among them some of the prominent
men of the state. "reminiscences Of
the early days enlivened the conver-
sation during the evening and men
who had not met for more than 20
years clasped hands across the board.
The Toasts.
r. N. Stevens, Bismarck, member
of the constitutional convention, was
toastmaster. His facility in presiding
was responsible in large measure
for the smoothness with which the
program progressed. In his opening
remarks, he paid an eloquent tribute
to these who had passed into the
great beyond
A. w. Lucas, mayor of Bismarck,
welcomed the guests in behalf of the
city. He spoke Of the rapid progress
the state has made since it was ad-
omitted to the Union and predicted
that in % years, Bismarck would be
the greatest city in the state.
Very Few Passed Away.
r. NJ. Pollock, Fargo, member Of
the constitutional convention, noted
the remarkable change made in Bis
! r,1, %ho oik I,
only a handful of inhabitants That
year, he contrasted with the present
one. Then he said, the section was
suffering from a dry season and the
city locked like pretty lonesome
place. He complimented Bismarck
upon the splendid reception it had
accorded the pioneers and suggested
that it was living up to it's reputation
of % years ago. when the cOnstitu-
tional convention was entertained
81 counted the members of the con-
stitutional convention and find that
so out of the Is are now alive" he
said. "This is quite remarkable, only
, % having passed away in the 25
years"
Captain Mccormack shrd shrduld
tary of state in territorial days, and
for period territorial governor, was
introduced as the pilot secretary Of
state.' He spoke but afewemoments
in which he said that he was proud
OF the progress the state had made.
r. S. Lewis, Fargo, former lieuten-
ant governor, spoke briefly upon the
work Of the board of control. He
showed the excellent work done by
the various institutions as contrasted
with the rapid progress since the ear
ly days Of statehood.
At this point, TOastmaster Stevens
read several letters from men who're
gretted their inability to be present
Letters From Absentees.
R. M. Tuttle, secretary of the con-
stitutional convention now located at
Portland, Ore, in sending his regrets,
said:
"Those former residents of the
state who have cast their lots in with
the citizens of other commemorative,
watch with much interest the devel-
opment CT your great and prosperous
state, and those of us who took part
in the making of it's political fabric
in the early days are especially pleas
ed to watch your great advancement
in material and moral things"
George F. Goodwin, Salt Lake City,
the first attorney general of the state,
also responded by letter to the invita-
ticn to attend the banquet.
Permit me to say" he wrote, that
have watched the splendid growth
and progress of the state during the
first 25 years of its history with
feeling of pleasure mingled, with
some degree of honorable pride. that
by the suffrages of the people I was
hcnored in being allowed in some de-
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