The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1915-02-12
MONTANA SOL0NS
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ter Of the big red apple district
Of Montana, through it's COM
,nercial club, has again shown
it supremacy in hospitality in the
manner in which it entertained
the Montana legislature and citi-
zens of the state, at the RED
Apple Banquet last Saturday
night. To give the event the
publicity it deserves, we quote
the following from Sundays
Missoulian:
The apotheosis of hospitality.
Last evenings Red Apple banquet,
the seventh at which Missoula has en-
tertained it's friends, was all of that.
Tie attendance was larger than any
other recorded at q similar event; the
menu was excellent; the already beau
tiful Elks' lodge hall was decked at
tractively in scheme of decorations
that featured the Red Apple; the legis-
l2ture was there: friends, old and new,
paid homage to Mssoula, western
Montana and to the state at large;
there was good cheer of all imaginable
soIIs; there was music, appropriate
and frequent; there was-well, it was
beyond the preadventure the best of
brilliant series of banquets.
There We're more who wished to at.
tend the Red Apple banquet than the
chamber of commerce, which save the
spread, had anticipated. An extra
table was necessary to accommodate
the overflow attendance.
MIR. Murphy.
Joseph NJ. Dixon served IS toastmas-
Ter. He reviewed briefly the history OF
the Red Apple banquet as an institu-
ton in introducing the first speaker
Of the evening, William L. Murphy,
WHO conveyed official welcome to the
Visitors. 1--WE are, said Mr.. Murphy,
'solicitious to earn and hold your good
opinion We sTmpathize with your eff
forts to advance the peace, the pros
perity and the happiness of the people
OF this great state.'
Mr.. Murphy, eloquent and polished as
eN.r, complmented the members of
tne legislature on their statesmanly
attainments, and spoke of the i'm
rortance of their work, and closed by
giving assurance of the "abiding sense
of the honor NTissoula feels that you
have bestowed upon her by being here
tonight.'
George L. Ramsey, speaker of the
hoGse, was next introduced by Sena-
tor Dixon. He made flowery address.
-As spokesman of the lower division of
the legislature, Mr.. Ramsey said in
part:
This gathering is a visit by people
coming from Sheridan county away up
in the northeastern part of Montana,
over the wide stretch leading to Min
eral county, and of people coming from
across the far cry that goes from
Libby, the home of our republican rep
res9ntative, Mr.. Scllanck. down to the
town of Piniele in the southeastern
corner of Montana. where lives Demo-
cratic Representative Einsel. I am
Nominated to make response to the adj
dress of welcome. This meeting is in
compliment to apples, the king of fruit
TO the Mssoula Chamber Of Com
n1erce, to the city officials Of Missoula,
to the citizens of Missoula, to the peo-
pie Of the apple district of which Mis-
scpla is the pivot, to the people of
to in,
the Legislature from Missoula and con-
tisuous counties-our greetings and
salutaticns. We are more than happy
to be with you tonight, and I speak for
al the visitors in conceding continual
happy moments from the time our spe-
cial train started, until this instant
ard dating from the end of my speech, |
I predict further appreciation and en- :
thusiasm in the minds of all your
other valleys of the Missoula country
can be eaten in the dark, for there are
no insect pests, scales worms, lsso.n. ;
OR olennishes-there is a special combi-
nation of four elements, soil, climate, I
sunshine and water. The soils are
deep and rich in plant food; the cli-
mate is made up of long summers and
late falls; there are more sunshiny |
days in Montana during the year than
in any other state or coun- I
try in the world-three hundred {
days is the weather bureaus e
record for Montana Following these !
superbly splendid Montana days. there /,
comes the falling of cool nights from t
the purple shadows that envelop these j
wonderful mountains, Favored with the t
tang of constant, ever dripping water c
from the permanent SHOWS of the alti- /
tudes that surround these valleys.
Doubtless there are people here to- i
night who do not realize that Missoula y