Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1891-10-22
A Plucky Woman.

NOVA, Kansas, OcC. l4.-MrS. Pax
ton was elected mayor by s'the boys''
as joke. Now Mrs. Paxton, who is
of the W. G. T. U. persuasion, did not
see the point of the joke and she started
in to enforce the liquor laws in a way
that made the dust gather among the
teeth of the old topers. Kiowa is on
the border of the tarritory where it is
impossible to obtain whisky for love or
money and where even water costs 25
cents a glass. Naturally, ''the boys"
got hostile at being beat at their own
game and so got up petition request
ing her to resign. Mrs. Paxton's hus-
band signed the petition. But she is
legal mayor, and backed by the full,
strength of the w. c. T. u, and says
she will fight the matter through, and
will not resign It is believedshe..w will
win the Aght. Her husband has not
been homo since signing the petition,
Farmers of the United States, have,
as rule, been greatly blessed with
good crops this year, but they are not
vet all rich, and the major part of them
will be working just as hard and pray
ing just as anxiously for good crops and
prices next year as ever. This does
not accord with the belief prevalent in
non-agicultural circles, but it is never
theless true. Oman average more farm
debts will be paid this year than for
any in the recent past, and more money
will go into farm homes and surround
ings, to better equip them for living,
working and producing, but it will
take several years of good crops to put
the farming class in sight of that af1u-
ence and ease its natural opportunities
and Importance entities it to. The
good crops must be supplemented with
radical changes in various economic
and financial systems or agricultural
afluence and ease will never be real
lied, for as things now are, too much
of the earnings of the agricultural class
go to the swelling of fortunes that are
already so large as to endanger the
safety of the republic, or at least OF
republican institutions Stock
& Home.
A Boy who Is Something of u Trav-
eler Himself.
Daily Herald: A lad about l6 years
of age, who gave his nsme az Geo. Dell,
passed through the city yesterday, who
is an exemp plification of the American
spirit of moving. He left his home at
Charlotte, Michigan, some time ago,
and determined to see something Of
the world. He had about fifteen dol
lars in his inside pocket, and after
series Of adventures and stops at all
the principal places en- route hereached
Seattle with one silver dollar. He
staid around the various coast towns
for time, when he concluded to start
for home. He caught boat for Van
couver, and once there he made his
way along the G. 2. Ry. to Winnipeg
and from there he came here. arriving
this morning without a cent. Doc.
Griffith, who is shipping western horses
from here to Iowa, gave him q lift BY
sending him with two cars Of stock to
st. Paul, and from there he will stake
him with a ticket to Chicago. The
boy says that once in Chicago he will
have no trouble in getting homo.
Hei an exceedingly bright young
fellow and tells an interesting story of
his trip. He scorned the suggestion
that he 'bummed' his way; he says he
never begged q cent, and that he never
went hungry or withouta comfortable
place to sleep. He worked his way
along, and certainly has seen consider
able country on an original capital Of
fifteen dollars. 81