The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-03-26
STATE GRAIN
CONVENTION
ENDS TODAY
Attendance Records Broken
at Annual Meeting He'd
in Bismarck
ENTERTAIN DELEGATES
Growers and Elevator Men to
Elect Officers at Final
Session
ENTERTAIN DELEGATES

The fourteenth annual convention
of the Farmers Grain Dealers AS
sociatiDn of North Dakota, which
opened in Bismarck Tuesday and
viii ch is declared by officers of the
association to be the most success
1ul and largest attended in the his
tory of the organization, will close
tonight with dance to be given
the delegates in Patterson hall by
the Bismarck Business and Profess
sional Women's Club.
Secretary Lee announced today
that more than $50 delegates we're
registered last night. Many of the
delegates will return to their homes
today, while a few will remain here
until Friday.
S. ID. CARRIER was elected director
at large at the convention session in
the Auditorium this morning. The
district directors will be elected late
will meet at the close of the conven-
ensuing year and to choose the con-
vention city for next year.
An entertainment was given for
the convention visitors last night
in the Auditorium under the auspices
of the Bismarck Association Of Com
merce. Nearly every seat in the Au-
ditorium was occupied and every
number of the program was enthu-
siastically received.
The first part of the program was
presented by pupils of the Bismarck
Indian school. Selections were Civ
en- by the Bismarck High School
Glee Club and MacLeod's Gymnasts
presented an exhibition. The final
part of the program was given by
the Thursday Musical Club and was
as follows:
Duet. "Andalusian Song" by Puget
Mrs. Herman Scheffer and Mrs. John
Graham, with Miss Lesher at the
piano.
Baritone solo, N. Bystrom.
Piano solo, Hungarian Rhapso.
dies" DR.. L. r. Priske.
Vocal solo, Mrs. w. ]. Targart.
Quartette, Mrs. Frank Barnes
Mrs. John Larson, Mrs: Bavendick
and Mrs. E. E. Morris.
Music was furnished during the
entertainment by the Bismarck High
School orchestra.
J. w. Shorthill, secretary of the
Farmers National Grain Dealers As
ISOLATION, Omaha, Neb., was the
! speaker at this mornings session
ct the convention.
North Dakota convention this year
its kind of the year with the excep-
ton of the Iowa Farmers and Grain
Dealers convention. He said that
mot single convention he has at
tended had so. pleasant a place to
meet as the North Dakota conven-
tion had this year. He praised the
entertainment given the delegates
last night. saying that it was "a
worth while entertainment"
Mr.. Shorthill congratulated the
Association on its officers and the
harmony of the convention. He con-
graduated the grain men for the
great North Dakota crop of last sea-
son and for the price received for it.
despite what has been said about
North Dakota the state is steadily
going ahead" the speaker said.
"The day has past when men can
expect to know. nothing about the
business of the people with whom
they DEAL" Mr.. Shorthill said. eve
have come to the place where we
must recognize the rights of other
people and where you farmers must
apply the same business methods as
are applied in other lines of bust
ness.
"The biggest thing that an or
ganization of this kind can do is to
conduct an educational campaign.
The public should be taught that
the prosperity of the country de-
ponds upon the farmer and that the
farmer cannot be prosperous and
have good prices for his products
unless the other people are prosper
Gus.
"You may think these things are
common place but people have been
rushing around the last few years
trying to reap rich rewards for lit
tie work. The young fellows Of the
coming generation must be taught
that unless they work as their an
sestors worked this country is not
going to prosper. It is the common
place things that need our atten-
ton at the present time"