"BOOSTERS' DINNER."

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LVII, Issue LVIII, 10 May 1910, Page 7

"BOOSTERS' DINNER."

HOW THE MIDDLE-WESTERNERS STIRRED UP TOWN LIFE. Luncheons and dinners are meals of enlightenment in the Middle- West of the United States, according to Collier's Weekly. .The Middle-Westerners are "booming" their towns and devising fresh methods of accelerating progress. The "Boosters' Dinner", is the result" : — "Dcs Moines was sleeping the sleep of lethargy aand hopelessness three and | a half years ago, when a few of her busiest business men began to get together at noon luncheons once, twice, and three times a week, and talk up a thriving town. "They willed that Dcs Moines should awake. Out .of their inspirational ' feasts grew the Greater Dcs Moines Committee. The Commercial Club breathed in new life. "The life force of those banquetings expressed itself in various directions. To-day Dcs Moines has more vitality and higher momentum than it had three years ago. The luncheon and dinner habit is still maintained as the source and fount of much of the good. "You go to a luncheon of a hundred or so persons in. Dcs Moines — business men, lawyers, journalists, and agricultural editors — and they talk while you eat. While the courses are being munched, thoughts on city charters, corn-growing, and factory inducement are casually spilled out by local talent. "Late 'in January, Cedar Rapids, lowa, held a Boosters' Dinner, where four hundred good citizens applauded schemes for getting the town ahead."

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