Jamestown alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1882, 1880-05-25
PERSONAL.

PERSONAL.
E. P. Wells is an energetic Sabbath
school laborer.
Joe Mills is said to be one of the best
accountants in tho county.
A. Klaus will build his residence OF
BRICK instead of wood.
J. w. Raymond, of Bismarck is IN the
village, looking after his now banking
interests.
Ed. Strong, who smiles on tho just and
unjust, still struggles at Curtin & Win.
slows.
Mrs. H. Gieseler, accompanied by her
two pretty daughters and mothsr-in-law,
Mrs. A. Grimm, arrived from Jefferson,
Wis.,, last Thursday evening.
S. K. McGinniss and r. G. Wallace, of
New Castle, Pa, have arrived and will at
once engage in business. Until their
banking building is completed they will
occupy tho second floor in Learned Bros
block. These gentlemen are enterprising
ambitious and wealthy, and what is still
more commsndable, they are known to the
outside world to be straight forward and
fair dealers.
Jim Winslow has been ill during the
week. Jim Winslow's Brother il in
the city r.. NJ. Baldwin one of the
owners Of the Nettie Baldwin was in town
last week 1t is rumored that the N.
P. Times will support Bennett. 20. Mr..
Klaus's new block looms up very conspic-
ously. The old man Eyot has just return
ed from his trapping excursion. He caught
253 beavers and rs otters, besides large
amount Of other fur, all Of which he sold
IN Bismarck for eight hundred dollars.
A Few Points for Land Lockers to
Consider.
No sooner does the average land locker
stop off the train than he is caught up by
the Wells faction and bewlldered with
charming accounts and descriptions of
that much talked of, glorided and soon
to be hamlet, Grand Rapids. This is all
right in one direction, and all wrong IN
another. That this is Gods own free soil,
and that every one has an undlsputed
privilege to labor in the interest of any
portion Of it he may desire, NO one will
deny. But is it for the best interests of
jamestown for US Or it, people to stand
idly by and not put forth IN ef-
fort to retard the damaging indu-
snces these Grand Rapidans are ex-
erting. We want to say few words in
tho interest Of every newcomer, and We
would like to have them consider we'll
what We say.
When these down river schemsrs como
to you and tell you that there is good land
in the vicinity Of Grand Rapids they only
speak the truth. Their land II good.
When they tell you that they have good
water, believe that also. But when they
undertake to bull-doze you into the be-
lief that it will be for your interest to
settle there, and that in doing SO you will
get better quality of soil than you could
possibly get in this vicinity, do not believe
them, for it il false. When they tell you
that the land is marked No. /, and Stuts.
man county lands are marked Ne. 2, look
out for a bolder. The reason
the land about Grand Rapids is marked No
and portion of tas land in this county
marked No. 2, is obvious. It il an
old land shark game and wa prscticed
by the primitive real estate schemers of
Ohio, Indiana and Illinois many years
before Dakota had civilized inhabitant.
Any man with the sense of IN average
donkey can see at once that it would bs
greatly in the interests of the far>seeing
railroad company to mark those lands tho
farthest from the truck one or two grades
higher than those lands rear by it, for the
very reason that it is to their interest to
settle up the land as far back as possible
At an early date a. practicable. When
they undertake to instill into your minds
the fattering idea that they are going to
have 4 railroad in few days or even years
and that you will soon have advantages
forty miles away from the N. p. as you
could possibly have here, We would sim
ply invite you to give the matter candid