The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1919-07-31
ST. PAwQaQSTER
TRAIN IS Us
MERCHANTS AND wv Frs OF
MINNESOTA CAPITAL STOP
HERE ON FRIDAY
PRONOUNCE CITY LIVE WIRE Of TRIP
Headed BY Minnesota State Band They
Visit Merchants and Make Fine
Impression On All They Meet

WISH merchants anu "dNS VIC
Impression On All They Meet
Friday afternoon last the big trade
inspiration tour Of the st. Paul whole
salers, jobbers and manufacturers
struck Brookings at $40 in the after
noon, promptly On time according to
schedule, under the immediate super
vision of H. j. Wagon, the district
freight and passenger agent of the
Chicago & Northwestern Railway.
The twelve coaches of the train were
equipment of the Chicago, Milwaukee
& ST. Paul Railway, and represented
an outlay of half a million dollars to
bring together the most complete and
modern tourist train that the west has
ever seen. Sleeping cars, dining cars,
parlor cars and observation cars,
cooled by circulating air, provided
with every comfort that has been de-
vised for the accommodation of the
traveller, composed this sumptuous
travelling apartment hotel. With sew
enty-two men representing the bust
ness interests of the northwest, as
located in st. Paul, they were just
finishing a tout of seventy towns and
cities of the Sunshine state. Though
on the trip all of the week, these
genial missionaries of commerce
showed no abatement Of their good
humor and high spirits, but passed
on to everyone with whom they came
in contact their optimistic good ma
ture and left the impression wherever
they went that Brookings was a place
they were glad to be in and that the
sorrow of their life was that they had
to pass on. The morale of that booster
train was certainly at the highest
pitch, and we are under the impress
sion that this condition of affairs was
largely due to the work of Geo. w.
Ekstrand, of Foot, Schultz & Co.,
chairman OF the party, and E. M. Nc
Mahon, the efficient secretary of the
St. Paul Association of public ard
Business Affairs. These two gentle
men were in active charge of the so
cial side of the trip and left nothing
for Brookings to desire in the way the
members of the party entertained us
and encouraged us by their presence
and hearty good fellowship. The Min
nesota State Band, under the very
able dictatorship of A. L. Snyder, dis
coursed sweet music on Main street
and surrounded by a mighty crowd of
men, women and children, in autos,
on foot and hanging out of the win
dows of the buildings, community
singing was INDUCED in under the
leadership of the Harry L. Wilson,
of the Randall Company, and his witty
remarks and contagious enthusiasm
brought every voice in the crowd into
action and made the occasion n OF
pleasure to all of us. While all these
amusement features were being car
ride out in the gathering on the street,
the individual members of the party
made visits to the various business
houses with whom they were in the
habit of doing business, or made calls
on dealers in their lines Of business
and established friendly relations and
got acquainted. Old friendships were
renewed in many instances and the
visits were pleasant and happy, though
of course very greatly curtailed on
account Of the short stop that the
train made in the city. The Register
desires to give the full personnel ut
the party so that a record may be
kept of this company of men whose
pleasing visit to us captured the
hearts of all who met them. The
representative following, shows that
the great interests of st. Paul have
the success of u city and state ut
heart all of the time.
Armour & Co., DR.. r. ]. De.
Loach; Brown, Blodgett & Sperry,
Harold Blodgett and Warren s. Hills;
Buckbee-Mears Co., N. T. Mears:;
Brown & Bigelow, M. B. Hutchinson;
Capital National Bank, F. A. Leavitt;
City of st. Paul, G. B. Wollan, Secre-
tary to Mayor; C. M. & ST. P. Rail
road, w. B. Dixon, A, G. P. A., and
L. NJ. Jones, C. p. A.; Crane-Ordway,
j. G.. Ordway and E. S. Doran; Drov-
ers State Bank, E. B%jorklund; Far
we'll, Ozmun, Kirk & Co., E. L. How
and P. w. Anderson; Fairbanks,
Morse & Co., J. L. O'Brien and A. c.
Thompson; Finch, Van Slyck & Nc
Conville, Harry ]. Lehr; First Nation
al Bank, Walter Honebrink; Foley
Bros. Grocery Co., F. L Madden;
Foot, Schultze & Co., Geo. w. Elk
strand and Elliott Hensel: Gotzian &
Company, r. G. Staples; Gordon &
Ferguson, H. L. Danforth: Griggs,
Cooper & Co., R. P. Warner and B. N.
Wilenchek; Guiterman Bros, A. S.
Guiterman; Hackett, Gates, Hurry Co.,
F. H. Gates; P. r. L. Hardenbergh &
Co., s. C. H. Ansorge; Hanna Coal &
Dock Co., L. A. Stevens; Lanpher, Skin
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