Zr\'J Jlfl HILL TD JLTS UIM SlAlt LIUHARY To Celebrate the 75th Anniversary of Ward County WARD COUNTY DIAMOND JUBILEE, Inc. presents "JIM HILL to JETS" A MAMMOTH SPECTACLE DEPICTING THE HISTORY OF WARD COUNTY, NORTH DAKOTA FAIRGROUNDS MINOT, NORTH DAKOTA 8:00 P. M. AUGUST 28 THROUGH SEPTEMBER 2, 1961 Performance Each Night A John B. Rogers Production JOHN R. WARD, Business Manager RICHARD SPITLER, Producer-Director SCENERY, LIGHTING AND WARDROBE BY JOHN B. ROGERS PRODUCING COMPANY North Dakota Stats I ihr^ry 604 E 8 .M.V< e B.Sir ~o CELEBRATION DAYS OLD FASHIONED BARGAIN DAYS ____ AUGUST 24, 25, 26 Sunday, August 27 Monday, August 28 FAITH OF OUR FATHERS DAY GOVERNOR'S DAY INTER-CHURCH SERVICES Outstanding Float Parade State Fairgrounds Air Force Display at Armory all week HIGH MASS Midway opens for week Municipal Auditorium Queen Coronation Art Show - Roosevelt Park - 12-5 p.m. First Showing "JIM HILL TO JETS" Gigantic fireworks display Tuesday, August 29 YOUTH DAY Pet and Hobby Parade Wednesday, August 30 Games and Contests LADIES DAY Second Showing Style Show and Tea "JIM HILL TO JETS" Municipal Auditorium Gigantic fireworks display Third Showing "JIM HILL TO JETS" Gigantic fireworks display Thursday, August 31 PIONEER DAY Tribute to Pioneers Friday, September 1 Awards DAKOTA CENTENNIAL DAY Speakers Dakota Centennial and Fourth Showing Canadian Friendship Observance "JIM HILL TO JETS" International Square Dance Gigantic fireworks display Fifth Showing "JIM HILL TO JETS" Gigantic fireworks display Saturday, September 2 * AIR FORCE DAY Air Force Parade Sunday, September 3 Thunderbirds Acrobatic Team REMEMBRANCE DAY Lowery Air Force Band - Display of Planes All churches give thanks for International Fly-In - Municipal Airport 75 years of blessings Final Showing "JIM HILL TO JETS" Burial of Time Capsule Final fireworks display International Stock Car Races FOREWORD We ask you, as you read our Jubilee Book, to remember with us the rich heritage of our Ward County. As you enjoy the many interesting events and spectacles which will characterize this Diamond Jubilee, we hope you will keep in mind that they are a way of celebrating the very existence of our wonderful County. i In the excitement which prevails now, let us remember that excitement which permeated the lives of those first dwellers in a newly opened land. They anticipated a great and thriving future . they hoped and prayed for pro­ gress . and they worked hard to build then, that we might benefit today. All we are, all we shall become, we owe to those who had the indomitable spirit to pioneer on this land ... to them goes our undying gratitude. Our thanks can best be expressed in the creation of a living memorial to our forbearers. It is in this belief that we have earmarked the profits of this eight- day celebration to go toward the ultimate establishment of a Ward County Historical Museum. Perhaps in this way we can best speak our word of grati­ tude to those men and women who first populated Ward County and in whose name we now celebrate our WARD COUNTY DIAMOND JUBILEE. Tk en Westland was born on the prairies of northeastern Montana at Scobey, County Seat of Daniels County. In 1913, before it was known as Westland, our founder, the late R. J. Coughlin who had homesteaded in the area, operated a livery and auto repair business at the original townsite. A year later Scobey moved its townsite and here is a picture of the first Westland super service station built at Scobey in 1925. The sale of gasoline became a necessary part of the business and as a result, the Scobey Oil Company was formed. In 1919, a merger of three oil companies in the area resulted in the creation of the Westland Oil Company. The home office was moved to Minot in 1928. Since its origin West- land has enjoyed a steady growth as a home industry. AndN OW WESTUMO This is the modern look of Westland's Service Station facilities ... a building de­ signed for efficient operation ... to provide the best service to the motoring public. Pre­ sent new service station construction follows this design. Quite a difference from the original super station pictured above. As marketers and refiners or petroleum products, Westland looks to the future with confidence tnat Minot and Ward County will continue to grow and prosper. WESTLAND A Home Industry a Sears does more...' SEARS DOES MORE SEARS An open letter from Charles H. Kellstadl Chairman of the board, Sears, Roebuck and Co. THAN JUST SELL GOODS EVER SINCE 1886, when Richard Sears -fc We must he able to service, at a reasonable charge, any Sears item—to help you keep it first started this Company, we have felt operating to your satisfaction throughout its obligated to our customers to do more than normal life. just sell goods. After all, we are aware that Only at Sears are combined the experienced, most types of items we sell today are offered well-trained people, the quality products, the to you by other merchants, along with many vast facilities, including our huge testing and claims of lower prices, higher trade-ins, development laboratory, necessary to get better deals. these things done. But to earn the daily confidence of its As you look at our advertising, go through customers, a company must offer more than our Stores, visit a Sears Catalog Sales Office "deals." We believe you have a right to expect or call us on the phone, remember this: doing a merchant to do the right thing, from the more for our customers means having a deep day his advertising is first read to the last sense of responsibility for our merchandise day his merchandise is in use. At Sears, this throughout its normal life. means much more than just selling goods— M This means our advertising must he honest and For whatever span of time this may in­ truthful at all times -fc Our prices must be lower than others for equal volve, whether it is now, or in years to come, quality—and, when our prices are the same you can be confident that Sears does more. as others, we must offer more quality .fc Our credit terms must he fair, and tailored to your budget needs -fc We must faithfully hack our merchandise with our famous pledge—"Satisfaction guaranteed or your money back." M We must have reliable installation facilities available wherever you need them We are happy to be celebrating Satisfaction Guaranteed or Your Money Back.. our 75thi year in business. SEARS, ROEBUCK AND CO. MAN-SIZE Our 60th Year TOBACCO Serving Northwest FLAVOR North Dakota in Commerce and Public Service Since 1901 *-*•*• + Signs Are Vital To The Marketing Process and Help The Economy Of small pinch Our Country. satisfies UNITED STATES TOBACCO CO. IC J. W. B acon^e.)! OUR HERITAGE by Robert Cory It took an ex-seaman of the Danish Navy Make no mistake about it, the people who and a substantial Civil War veteran to bring came to what is Ward County between 1880 about the organization of original Ward County and 1885 were taking quite a gamble on the in the spring of 1885, with Burlington as the future. The majority of them had little in the county seat. way of resources except their physical strength, their pluck, and the fact they were used to The Civil War veteran was J. L. Colton, modest subsistence. Their aim was speculative. founder of Burlington. He was no greenhorn They were, as yet, too far from a railroad or in the country. He had had experience in pio­ boat landing to make much money at farming. neer organizing, having founded the town of Besides, it was yet to be proved that settlers Lisbon, on a branch of the Northern Pacific could succeed here in the kind of farming that in eastern Dakota, before he came to the Mouse had been proved possible in the states from River Valley. The ex-seaman was his equally whence they came. rugged, and competent, young son-in-law. To­ gether they came to the forks of the Mouse Frankly, the partnership of Colton and and the Des Lacs, and got control of most of Johnson came to "the forx" — later called the land thereabouts in 1883. Burlington — because they had a tip that the Colton and Johnson, who furnished the in­ Northern Pacific was going to extend its north itiative and the drive for county organization, branch from Jamestown to the Mouse River did it with the acquiescence and cooperation region. That tip proved to be in error, but as of an assortment of other men, mostly young, of 1883 it was probably a good one. The N. P. some of whom had preceded them in settling did have such a line projected, and nobody this part of the Mouse valley. A goodly share knew yet what James J. Hill's ultimate plan of these first-comers were Norwegians, like Ole would be. As it turned out, it was to march Spoklie and Ole Thygesen, who settled just his railroad west from Devils Lake across Da­ above the original townsite of Minot in 1882, kota and Montana and then on to Everett, and the Ramstad brothers, Erik and Peder, Wash. who settled a considerable part of the land of present-day Minot in 1883. Others, however, Colton and Johnson were not alone in their were adventurous Yankee stock from Iowa, gamble that when a railroad came — probably Minnesota and Wisconsin, and a sprinkling of from Jamestown — it would cross the Mouse lean fortune seekers from Ontario.