Oakes weekly Republican. (Oakes, Dickey County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1898, 1895-09-27


A. j. Dodge is in attendance at
the Jim River Valley Fair this week
with an exhibit of different breeds OF
fowls, and a number of full blood
Holstein cattle. 1t will be remem-
bered that Mr.. Dodge attended the
fair at jamestown last year and his
stock were prize winners throughout
Oakes seems to be becoming fam
GUS as wheat market, as farmers
from as far south as Hecta S. D. and
long distances in other directions,
are drawing wheat to this point.
The Oakes buyers are giving good
grades and pay higher prices than
elsewhere. The railroad city seems
lin it, on every hand,
Mr.. B. n. Given and famile- will
remove soodte Painesville, Minn.
where Mr. Given will continue in the
employ of the lumber company, Saw
yer q Arnold. Mr.. Given has resided
here for some time and has made
many friends who regret to see them
leave our city. James Given will
move from Fullerton this fall and give
his entire time to the Oakes yard. :.
Herman Strutz has rented his fine
Jim River farm to his brother Paul
Strutz, and expects to make a
tour through Iowa and Minnesota
soon. Their father and mother will
leave soon for =. visit with their. Z
daughter at Perham, MINI. Paul
Strutz will move from his home farm
to his rented property this fall. The
Strutz Bros. have extra fine farms.
Tallerday's Comedy and Concert
60, will open an engagements of six
nights at Gorder's bali, commencing
Tuesday, Oct. LIST. The programme
will be changed each evening and
will include refined specialties in
singing, dancing and acrobatic fea-
lures, also Irish, Dutch and Negro
comedy sketches. The numbers are
all first class artists in their respective
lines. Amusement foraxoung and
old. Admission 10 and % tents, ad.
Alex j. Smith, of Yorktown, re-
ceived carload Of dried fruit from
California last week, composed of
peaches, nectarines and prunes. They
will be disposed of to the merchants
in this section. John Nisbet, OF Lee
More, Cal, is the shipperand grower
OF the fruit, and was formerly q resi-
dent of Yorktown. Mr.. Smith will
have two or three cars of raisins later
IN the season from the same source.
Already reports begin to come in
OF grain being destroyed by prairie
tires. In some cases narrow break
had been made but offered no pro-
lection before heavy bank of FIRE
driven by a stiff breeze. Make your
breaks at once and make them wide.S
If you make them early you can sleep
sounder and may not have to get Us
some dark night and see your possess
ions swept away by an uncomfortable
lire, A few hours work may save
thousands of dollars worth of prop
erty,
Sunday last was rainy day in
this part of the state. In various
sections around us, the fall of water
was much heavier than here. Sun
day evening it cleared off and a
heavy frost covered the country. The
frost was sutficietly hard to check
the growth of the Russian thistle,
and the rain will cause all thistleand
other seeds to germinate now, which
will be of benefit to the agricultur-
list. Threshing was delayed only
day or two by the rain.
| H. G.. Barnes and E. G, Barnes, of
Ludden were up trading Monday.
E, G.. Barnes informs us that he is
soon to seek water again. He has
engaged 81. L. VanOrnum of For
man who will begin drilling a we'll
on the Talmadge farm. Mr.. Van
Ornum drills q inch we'll and uses
an iron pipe. When the we'll is COM
pleted point is put into the bottom
similar to those used in drive wells,
and a pump is attached to the top,
and the thing is complete.
VIM. Mills informs us that we
cheated him out of q bushels per
acre of wheat in Our announcement
| ~ Aio SAot' ohio yodl, IL averaging 81
bushels per acre instead of IS. Better
yet, we stand corrected. Mr.. Mills
says he thinks he would have had an
average of 40 bushels per acre if it
had been harvested before it ripsned
and shelled so much which caused
considerable loss. With all this crop
on hand surely the bachelor will not
go battling with life alone very long.
H. S. Nichols shipped a carload
of stock to jamestown, this week, for
exhibition at the state fair. The car
contained thoroughbred varieties of
Chester White hogs, sheep.
Bronze turkeys, Plymouth Rock
chickens, and etc, The Nichols Bros.
are also breeders of thoroughbred
horses, but horses are too cheap to
fexhibit. When scrub stock and
throughbreds are seen together un-
der the same treatment one can then
realize something of the benefit that
all such dealers as the Nichols Bros.
are comforting upon the county and
state.
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