Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-03-15
PLAN TO OPEN
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Many States Will Join in So.
ciability Tour to Town Of
Medora.
ENTHUSIASTIC MEETING
HELD AT FARGO
Old Time Frontier Day to Be Of
fered in Honor of Oc-
casion.

bridge that Boost Built" spanning
the Little Missouri at Medora will be
opened July "a and 25 with fitting
ceremonies and with a feast of attrac-
tions which is expected to bring hun
dreds OF touring parties from all OF
the states traversed by the Red Trail.
Dates for the event which will mark
SO important milestone in the life OF
the National Parks Transcontinental
highway were set at the 1irst annual
meeting of the association held in the
Commercial club rooms today. The
latter part of July was selected for
the dedicatory exercises as the season
when good weather will be most GER
tain when crops will least Interfere
with the attendance Of farmers alons
the highway, and when travel over
the trail to the Yellowstone and other
national parks will be at is height.
Frontier Day Planned.
Medora promises a replica OF the
famous frontier day and rodio which
it staged last summer as a special
feature for the two days celebration.
The Billings county seat, one or the
last of the old-time cOw-tOWns, has at
it's command the very best talent in
America; it has a splendid natural
amphitheatre, and it is believed that
with the advertising and publicity
which the Red Trail association eX'
poets to give the event thousands of
tourists from all parts of the middle
west can be induced to attend.
The committee headed by J. L,
Hardy, which is to have charge of the
general arrangements, will meet with
the subcommittee in Medora soon
and will complete it's plans. It is ex'
pected that the governors of Mime
sofa. North Dakota and Montana, and
possibly the chief executives of other
states, will participate, and the inter
est of big men in the business world
will be enlisted. There is an excel
lent possibility that Theodore Roose'
Welt, an old-time Medora citizen, may
be "among those present." and that
he may be persuaded to prove such
prowess as he may have retained with
the rope.
Officers Named.
Officers were named for the ensuing
wear by unanimous batllot as follows:
President-W. v. Smith, Fargo.
First vice president-W. J. Ray,
Medora.
Secretary-J. P. Hardy, Fargo.
Treasurer-John Orchard, Dickln'
son.
w. E. Lahr of Bismarck was named
vice president for Burleigh county,
vice Grant Call, who resigned upon
his removal to Montana several
months ago.
Intensive Organization Planned.
Resolutions were adopted providing
for an intensive organization in every
county along the trail: for the proper
financing of the organization in order
that publicity work and other matters
reo,liring funds may receive suitable
attention: for the organization OF a
nublicitv bureau, which will see to 1t
that the trail receives it's share OF
recognition from the press, and re-
commenting legislation which will as
sure adequate maintenance for the
trail through all the states which 1t
traverses.
The meeting was decidedly profit
able one throughout, and thedeter'
mination of it's members to make tho
National rarks Highway association
more than ever factor in the build
ing of good roads and a live force for
progress in the county thorugh which
# masses was freely evidenced.