The Dickinson press., 1917-05-19
PRESS GANG
TO CONVENE
ON JUNE %
PUBLISHERS OF STATE WILL
MEET IN DICKINSON FOR
TWO-DAY SESSION.
Elaborate Plans Are Framed for En-
tertainment of Visitors
to MedOra is Feature.

Publishers of North Dakota will
convene in Dickinson for a two-day
session next month, annual meeting
OF the Press Association of the state
to be an event Of Friday and Satur-
day, June 22 and %. More than 200
members of the fourth estate are ex-
pected to attend the sessions, besides
a number of visitors from allied
trades.
Committee on arrangements, con-
sisting of Chairman E. J. Hughes, F.
w. Turner, and A. C. Pagenkopf, has
practically completed plans for enter
tainment of the acity's distinguished
guests, and there will not be a dull
moment during the time that the
newspaper clan is in the city.
Visitors will arrive in the city
Thursday night and Friday, and Fri
day morning business session will be
held. After luncheon, business mat
ters will again be considered, and then
will come the reception for the ladies.
Following the reception a diamond
battle will be staged, in which the
Press Gang will engage in a more or
less artistic exhibition of the national
pastime with business men of this
city.
Interesting Auto Tour
After the members Of the press
have mopped up with the tradesmen
in workmanlike style, an auto tour
will be made, in which points of in
terest within, and in the vicinity of,
the city will be visited. The large
brick and tile plants, the coal mines,
the new country clubhouse and the
experiment station will he shown to
the visitors, and then return will be
made to the city. In the evening a
banquet and musical program will
while away the hours, to be followed
by ball. Best musical talent of the
city will be enlisted for the occasion.
Business and social sessions are to
be held in the Elks' auditorium. men,
bers of the B. P. o. E. having voted
at the meeting Of this week to tender
use of their hall for entertainment Of
the visitors.
To View .Old-Timc Roundup
A trip to Medora, and sight-see-
ing tour through the Bad Lands, will
feature the Saturday program. A
special train will be provided over the
Northern Pacific for accommodation
of the big party, and visitors will en-
train here early in the morning for
the journey. A committee is now at
work in Medora, making elaborate
preparations for entertainment Of the
Journalists. A big roundup, with rop-
L ing, riding and bulldogging contests,
and other frolics dear to the cowboy
heart, will enliven the visit to the city
to the west, and luncheon, served
ranch style, will be served at termi-
nation of the entertainment. Stops
will probably be made at Belfield and
Frygurg enroute to Medora.
Return trip to Dickinson will be
made late in the afternoon, and in the
evening a social session will serve as
fitting finale to the festivities.
Business Men Boost
| Business men of Dickinson are dis
playing a hearty spirit Of cooperation
in arranging for the event, and about
81 900 will be raised, that the Queen
city may do herself proud in enter
tainment of her guests. A finance
committee, consisting of Mayor Alfred
White, chairman; w. L.. Richards and
George Senour, has been appointed,
and committees for banquet and music
will be named within a few days.
1t is the desire of the arrangements
committee that newspaper men
throughout the state notify either Sec
retary D. r. Carlson Of Towner, or E.
L. Peterson, second vice president, of
the Dickinson Press, as to whether or
not it is their intention to attend, that
preparations may be made accordingly.
vOJI1NTEERS Will RI