Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1920-12-02
GRAIN
DEALERS ASSN
TO JAMESTOWN
North Dakota Grain Dealer.
Will Hold Annual Conven-
ton in This City Next
March Seven Hundred
Coming.

convention OF the Farmers Grain
Dealers association of North Dakota,
at which between 700 and 500 grain
dealers of this state will gather for
three days session March /, and
8, 1921. This is one OF the biggest
conventions in the state. P. A. Lee,
field secretary Of the association, no.
tilted Secretary A. Haas of the James
town Chamber of Commerce today
Of the selection of this city for the
convention, and also notified L.. B..
Allen, one of the associations direct
ors. Bismarck and Mandan and 9TH
er cities also had been considered for
the 1921 convention, but the execu-
tive committee at a recent meeting
at Fargo chose Jamestown.
Sessions will be held in the Com
pany H Armory and plans for caring
for the delegates at the hotels, res
taurants and houses, .the banquet
and general entertainment will be
further considered at a meeting In
the near future to be held with Mr..
Lee, the field secretary.
The Chamber of Commerce of
jamestown, at recent meetiag, con-
sidered the invitation to the grain
dealers and were united in the desire
to bring them here next year and a
committee under President Springer
of the chamber drew up very cor
dial invitation to the farmers asso-
citation to meet here. The invitation,
which met with such favorable re-
sponse, was as follows:
Resolution.
Whereas, the jamestown Chamber
of Commerce believes in the spirit of
cooperation between individuals en-
gagged in particular lines of endeavor,
and being advised that the Farmers
Grain Dealers Association are to hold
their annual state convention during
the month of March, 1921, at some
point to be selected, and
Whereas, the Farmers Grain Deal
ers' association OF North Dakota was
founded in the city of jamestown
some eight years ago, the Chamber
of Commerce of Jamestown feels
therefore direct personal interest
in this association and has watched
with satisfaction it's growth and the
work thus far accomplished, and
which reflects a credit to it's officers,
past and present, it's membership and
to the city which gave it birth, there
fore,
Be It Resolved, thatthe Jamestown
Chamber of Commerce extend to the
Farmers Grain Dealers association
an invitation to hold their 1921 con-
cention at their Home City" in the
city of jamestown, and that in so do
ing pledges the fullest possible meas
lre of support and cooperation of
The entire membership of the cham
GER for the success of the 1921 con-
1ention. and as far as may be pos
'ible of the activities of the associa-
ion, and for the consideration of the
officers and directors of the Farmers
Grain Dealers association presents
he following facts with reference to |
jamestown as the ideal convention |
'ity Of the state Of North Dakota:
Jamestown. with a population in
1919 of 6,627, is the county seat of
'tutsman county. It is by actual
census approximately only twenty
niles east of the center Of population
4 the state. Its location on the main
inc Of the Northern Pacific railway
nd as the terminus Of the greater
ortion of the branch line mileage of
he Northern Pacific railway in North
dakota, and being on the Midland
railroad. which furnishes
irect connections With the Chicago,
Milwaukee & st. Paal railway and
he Minneapolis, st. Paul Z sault
atnte Marie railway, gives to James,
own transportation facilities un-
aualled by any other single central
oint With nthe state.
jamestown. with its unequalled
liirdad facilities and central loca-
on, can be reached from all parts
the state with, the shortest dis
lnce Of passenger travel and thus
le least cost in railroad fare, as well