On This Day | Good Will Tour Returns Home
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Fifty-nine Minot business and professional men, including a 10-piece Minot Elks band, returned to Minot at 8:30 o’clock Friday evening from a 434-mile, two-day tour to points north and east of Minot. They traveled in a comfortable Greyhound bus and carefully checked the route been checked by the tour chairman, Jack Q. Desmond, of the Minot Supply Co., that they were light on schedule practically all of the time.
— May 30, 1940 | The Ward County Independent
Why We Chose It
May 25th in this column and a year earlier in Minot we introduced this former Minot Chamber “Good Will Tour” tradition… but it was it was just leaving. Today’s edition brings us the news of the trip’s return home and all that was accomplished. Or perhaps there was more too this than meets the eye — booking a bus and 10-piece band to ride along sounds a lot like “Business” right?

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