The Bismarck tribune., 1924-08-23
GREAT CROWDS
EXPECTEDHERE
ON AUTO DAY
5000 Invitations Are Sent
Out BY Bismarck Adver-
tising Club
PLANNING ON EVENTS

A week from today, August 80,
will see one of the biggest crowds it
has ever been the pleasure of Bis
marck to entertain. From personal
talks with a number of farmers
around the county the past few days,
it looks like everyone was going to
come to town, according to members
of the Advertising club. There have
been over 5000 personal invitations
sent out to every car owner outside
Of Bismarck within radius of thir-
ty and forty miles of Bismarck and
throughout Burleigh, Morton, EN-
mons, and parts of Oliver, Mclean
and Kidder counties. There will be
fully 500 country cars in town that
day.
The automobile and supply dealers
of the city will have the days events
in charge and they are all working
to get big crowd to town. 1t will,
without doubt, be the most success
full event of the kind ever held in the
city.
There will be several hundred cars
in the big parade with two bands.
Many of the cars will be gaily decor
ated and they will all be filled with
a total Of hundreds and hundreds of
people from the surrounding country.
1t will do your hearts good to see
them as everyone is feeling so good
this year.
There are going to be a lot of au-
tomobile stunts and other contests
held. on the streets of interest to
everyone and with lot of fun con-
nected with them.
To Have Parade
Every youngster from the country
and from town should follow the very
last car in the parade as from it will
be distributed thousands of lolly
pops and several hundred toy bal
looms for the kids.
Curtis Dirlam and his clown band
will be on the streets after the par
ade to furnish music and fun for
everyone down town.
1t is hoped that everyone in town
will make this real gala day, and
everyone who can should come down
town and help entertain our guests
from all the surrounding country,
make them feel at home, give them
all the "glad hand" and try to make
our farmer friends think of Bis
marck as being "their" town.
The work of the Advertising Club
this summer has been along the lines
of trying to bring the farmers and
the townspeople closer together So
cially. During the past few years
there has been a great deal Of mis-
understanding on both sides. It has
been largely "a state of mind" with
really nothing back of it and judging
by talks with great many people
the efforts of the Advertising Club
have met with very good results.
Several farmers have told US that
since we inaugurated these days the
merchants have been more cordial
and have acted much differently from
the way they had in the past and
some of the merchants have told us
that the farmers had been different.
There is no secret about it. 1t isl
largely a matter of business.
An Advertising Club statement
said:
"There is not farmer in this ter
ritory who is not really proud of
Bismarck and who does not realize
that Bismarck is the best and most
UP to date city of it's size in the
and the business men here
ought to be proud of the fact that
our farmers have come through the
past hard years so we'll. They, most
of them, realize that there has been
a tremendous increase in corn and
hogs and milking and. poultry the
past few years. One merchant said
that in one day he had cashed owe:
5000 of cream checks for farmers and
he is only one out Of hundred. The
country around Bismarck has actual |
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