The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1921-03-24

l notice by the Beach Advance Ga
paper published in Beach, N. d. that
the Town Criers Of that town held a
rip roaring meeting on Town Boost
ing, the fore part Of this month, and
what do you think they done? They
let our old secretary, Bill Holbein,
slip it over on them by palling him.
self of as wealthy soup singer
from Rockford, ILL.,, who was looking
for location to build new soup
shop with sleeping apartments, and
it was to be dandy, four stories
high with width and breadth to match,
and it appears that the boys really
forgot every bad thing that ever hap
pened in Beach and spun out lunches
of the best things concerning the
town, city, county and state, until
they almost thought that they were
in paradise, and then Bill added
few nice things about the state that
they had forgotten, and every ding
busted Town Crier was trying to shake
hands with his neighbor and if both
his hands were busy he shook his own
hand because they were SO well pleas
ed with themselves and their partic-
ular location in the fertile fields of
North Dakota, and all this caused by
few minutes actually trying to prove
to some person that it was a good
town in which to locate large hotel.
The deception was afterwards eX-
planned by the president and Bill was
again introduced by his right name
this time, and gave an elaborate talk
on good roads. If some fellow that
looked like million dollar kid would
blow into Minot one of these days on
the same mission, would he hear you
boosting the town? | hope so.
The Town Criers Club has several
Free Night Camp signs, both large
and small. These should be placed
where they will assist the bewildered
tourist Who will be committee of
two to do the work?
Election is on, and true to my prom
! Use, last week, here are the names of
the candidates who are members of
the Town Criers Club: W. S. Shaw,
VIM. Smart, Geo. Reishus, W. J. Ger
ding and Aksel Bratsberg. You can
always tell who are the city builders,
and the city boosters by the member
ship list Of our club, and if we get
any new ones this week | will tell
you about it.
Say Boys! Have you ever had
the privilege, curiosity or desire to
hear the Town Criers chorus practice?
They have regular practices at the
high school every Sunday afternoon,
and whether you believe it or not, the
songs roll out of some Of them, just
like water running over the Niagara
Fails on a rainy day. Major Edw.
S. Person of the Union National Bank
is the twirler of the wand, and if
you think for moment that he is
not some twirler you have got another
guess coming, and if any person
should have the nerve to say he is not,
he can figure on row with the pencil
pusher, for am here to tell you that
he is there, that he is a good one all
the way through, and he is there with
his hands, feet, eyes, looks, ability,
experience, length, and, we'll he might
be little shy in breadth and hair,
but he must measure up to the stan
dard or he could not have qualified
as an officer in the U. S. Army. But
there are some mighty good singers,
who are not as good boosters as they
should be as will be shown by the fol-
lowing three classes of names-Class
No. ! are the men who are in attend
ance nearly every Sunday, and who
are making some wonderful strides in
vocal improvement under their able
teacher, they are as follows: Harry
Burdick, A. F. Bacon, j. H. Cotton,
John Corbett, C. E. Danielson, L. NJ.
Ellithorpe, Henry N. Gay, E. A. Huss,
A. D. Hagenstein, Ed. Harshberger,
Archie Johnson, Peter Lansverk, C.
w. Mason, Axel Roice, S. J. Rasmus-
sen, Paul Redpath, V. f. Stenerson, o.
Wannagot and Edw. S. Person. Class
No. are men who attend once in a
while, but are not getting the full
benefit of the super instruction. They
are as follows: A. P. Blonde, NJ. K.
Bertelson, c. B. Bach, G. D. Colcord,
C. B. Davis, G. A. Ebert, Henry Hau-
gen, C. R. Holcomb, E. G. Hart, G.
F. Kuist, 0. C. Peterson and H. L.
Winters. Glass No. are men who
have their names on the list, but who
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Some of these men are good singers,
and should be proud of their ability
but not too proud to attend the reg
ular practices, for when the time
comes for the class to demonstrate to
the public the wonderful work they
have been doing, they will find that
they are like the boy who played
hockey from school Behind in their
class. They are as follows: Dr.
C. X. Allen, H. Allen, G. Amy, L. J.
Byerly, w. Wyrme, L. l.. Briggs,
Henry Belanger, Bill Davis, A. P.
Davis, j. E. Englert, F. J. Finke, DR.,
Hartl, Carl Lindberg, P. J. Montgom-
cry, C. B. McLane, Roy Nyre, K. H.
Swiggum, H. E. Shearn, and L. A.
SWEET. Now l do not want any Of
the boys to think that it has been my
intention in writing this to throw
any slurs for that is the least Of my
intention, but I do want to show the
people that we have the makings for
the best chorus in the Northwest, and
if all the boys would work half as
hard as Major Person, we would have
it all ready. Come along. Get busy.