Champions of the United States are glorying in their triumph over championship dairy demonstrations teams from practically every state in the Union. The Bemidji Dairy Demonstration team, composed of Theodore Fenske and Marshall Nugent, two farmer lads living near this city, and their instructor H. A. Pflughoeft, returned home on the M & I train Monday night and were greeted by an enthusiastic gathering of Bemidji adults and schools children, as well as by the Bemidji Boys band, when they alighted from the train at the Union station. When the boys came down the steps, they were given a rousing cheer. From the station they were escorted uptown by the Boys band while their closer friends flocked around and congratulated them on their success. They won the national championship at the National Dairy Show held at Syracuse, New York. (Bemidji Daily Pioneer, Oct 16, 1923)
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