The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1920-09-29
TWO CLUBS ARE
PUT ON MAP BY
MIN0T'S CRIERS
Bismarck and Mandan Town
Criers Organizations Official
ly Installed
EVENING NOT ALL FU N
Serious Purpose of Town Criers
Organization and Accomplish
ments are Explained

Mandan and Bismarck Town Criers
clubs are officially on earth today
With big bunch iof peppery Minot
Town Criers officiating, the two clubs
were installed at meeting held in
Ellks hall last evening, the three clubs
joining in an evening of combined
gayety and serious purpose.
Forty Minot Town Criers drove to
Bismarck yesterday. though it was
showing and raining when they left
Minot and was blowing a stiff gale
all the way. One of the injunctions
of the Town Criers club, it was en-
planned. is to drop everything else
when call is issued by the club.
One of the Minot visitors closed his
place of business to make the trip.
A party of Bismarck Town Criers
met the visitors outside of the city.
with banners of welcome flying from
cars, the Town Criers' bell ringing
and hands extending. They were well
coined by President Phil Meyer and
the auto caravan proceeded to the
City Hall where the band headed a
procession through the downtown
streets to Elks hall. Mandan Town
Criers came over on No. and the
evening meeting, for the three clubs
and guests, started about s o'clock.
Serious Purpose Explained
The serious purpose of the Town
Criers club was explained by Mino'
speakers. The organization in that
city started four years ago with a
very small membership and now has
more than 200 members, with many
applications before the club. Tht
club is affiliated with the Associated
Advertising Clubs of the World ana
as such is vitality interested in ad-
vertising, particularly in working for
truth in advertising. w. +. Holbein
secretary of the Minot club, declared
the club saved business men OF MI
not $4,000 during its first year III
opposing and exposing fake advertls'
ing schemes Of transients who prey
on the people, It. was explained that
the members must not necessarily De
advertisers; they may be interested
in advertising; particularly in adVer'
tising their community, which is Q
foremost duty of the club. The Town
Criers club, visitors declared, "hao
put Minot on the map
President Meyer opened the even
ing session with a greeting to the
visitors, and he Informed them that
the penitentiary is the only closet
house in Bismarck" :.
G.. C. Calcord responded on behalf
of the Minot Town Criers and Major
A. B. Welch on behalf of Mandan
Musical numbers were rendered by
Mrs. Holbein, Prof. Howard OF the
Minot school character skit by Dave
Phillips and songs by the Minot male
chorus.
Prof. Howard excited interest Of
Bismarck members in his explanation
of the forward step taken by the
schools Of Minot. He said that ne
had gone to Minot to link the schools
through the music work. with the
community. Now, he said, the high
school has a band and an orchestra
which are called upon to assist III
community enterprises and in return
the schools have received the greater
interest and cooperation of the peo-
ple. In linking the community and
the schools, the boys and girls are
being taught their duty to the COM
munity and will not forget it when
they are the citizens of the city who
do things, he said.
The fun of the evening came chiefly
after the secret military ceremonies
conducted by the Minot club and ex-
poses of secrets Of the candidates.
The head. of the Minot delegation re-
ceived a telegram which read: Don't
bring the bunch home-they're start
ing to build a fence along the Can
adian border" (Signed) Mayor OF
MinOt. A buffet lunch was served
while an orchestra played.
The Minot party visited the state
this morning and then
drove to Elbowoods, where the Indians
are having fair. They expect to
get back to Minot this evening after
their visit to the fair.
Officers of the Mandan Town Cri-
ers and the members who were in
tated last night are: President, "A.
B. Welch; vice president, E. c. Con-
rad secretary, Herbert F. Hoeft;
treasurer, E. w. Peterson; commit
eeman, A. Russell; H. s. Russell, Ed
win Tostevin, E. 3. Wilkinson, Stan
ey Pardieux, Harold Kramer, Leo
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