The Dickinson press., 1915-02-20
THE FEDERAL BID,
DISCUSSED AGAIN
MOVE ON FOOT FOR MONDAY
LUNCHEON FOR FARMERS.
CHANCE TO TALK OVER
ALFALFA GROWING.
Federal Building Matter Can't Be Ad-
vanced. Appropriation of 100000
But Must Wait Turn For
Work.

The monthly Commercial Club meet
ing at the Willard hotel Wednesday
night was attended by nearly as
people, including S. D. Gregg and o.
A. Brown from the country. 1t was
both enjoyable and profitable to those
in attendance.
One of the matters discussed at
length was the federal building at
Dickinson, Congressman P. D. Nor
ton having written under date of Feb
ruary 9th Of his conference the prev
ious day with the Committee on Ap-
preparations. AS has been stated
many times already, Dickinson has a
government site purchased and also
has building appropriation of
100000 and has been given num-
ber-139. FroE. Congressman Nor
toms Letter it does not look as though
there was much chance to get work
started on the Dickinson building out
of it's natural order, or about 1917.
An attempt has been made in some
cities to show the great need Of more
adequate postoffice facilities, but
there have been only one or two ex-
ceptions made to the general rule Of
following in the order of the time the
sites for the building were acquired.
Mr.. Norton cited three instances
where the Treasury Department had
tried to have the committee advance
places for cities in California and Ar
kansas and failed
The Dickinson federal building COM
mittee, DR.. V. H. Stickney, w. l..
Richards, Geo. A. Senour and James
C. Young, will continue their CORE
spondence with officials at Washing
ton and if there is any chance at any
time to advance work it will be an
nounced through the Dickinson Com
mercial Club.
DR.. V. H. Stickney gave very in
structive talk on the clays Of this To-
cality. He finds that there are clay
banks very near Dickinson containing
raw material as good as the imported
clays now so much used at Trenton,
N. j., in the manufacture of the high
er grade of china ware. Our clays
are also well adapted to the manu-
facture of sewer pipe so extensively
made at Red Wing, Mimi, and it
looks to many of our people as though
something should be done to at least
get our raw products before the man.
ufacturers who have heretofore been
importing. Roy Butler, H. F.
Schroeder and w. S. Russell were ap-
pointed a committee to look into this
matter and see if eastern people could
not be interested to come here for
material.
Chairman M. A. Scherffius made a
report on the chances Of getting the
armory building for Y. M. c. A.
work. He thought the building could
be leased, although the armory board
had not had a formal meeting. Ac-
cording to his estimate, to rent the
building, pay light and heat and sal
ary of frst-class instructor would re-
quire an annual budget of about
$4,000.
Chairman Fred Maser reported that
the committee had not had a chance
to hear from all the towns south re-
garding auto trail marking, etc. Guy
Hunter, C. T. Langley and E. A. Lilli-
bridge were appointed as a committee
to cooperate with the National Parks
Highway association.
Messrs. Gregg, Brown and others
talked about a monday luncheon for
the farmers. The idea is to get the
farmers in for a business talk the
same as the men in trade in the city
have been meeting monthly during
the winter. Those present were in
favor of such a gathering and it is
likely that a date will be arranged a
little later in the season.
At the meeting it might be
a good thing to discuss alfalfa and
other crop growing and many other
matters in which the farmers are
vitality interested.
President Fred Turner spoke en-
coura gingly of the Red Trail work
from N. Y. to Seattle, distance of
$500 miles. An executive meeting is
to be held in the near future and then
there will be something more tangible
to report.
AS a fitting final to profitable
business session, F. H. Hart recited
"How Bill Adams Took Waterloo
The men then adjourned to the hotel
parlors on the second floor, where
Mayor Alfred White, by special re-
quest, sang "Tipperary," F. H. Hart
playing the accompaniment.