Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1901-10-16
A LITTLE WESTERN CORRESPONDENCE
Prof W, C I. Adams Writes Of Conditions in his
New North Dakota Hors.
HUNTER. NoRrH DAKOTA. Oct. 7.

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FRIEND MUNSON: Having got down
to business in earnest win write you
few items from the "Fiickertail" state,
thinking that tho readers of "Old Re-
liable" would be interested therein. We
are having fine weather this fall They
had lot of rain durina the summer;
from the 10th of June till the 10th OF
September. it rained daily. Some wheat
was drowned and later some grew in
the shock. But having had fine weather
Tor the past six weeks, the threshing Is
pretty nearly completed with exception
ot iiax, and this week will complete
that This has been u grand time fer
machine men The straw was very
heavy, causing demand for binders and
hlnder twine. Farmers were somewhat
disappointed IN the yield of grain, how.
ever the grain went from 10 TO % bush
els per acre, and the banker here tells
1s there Is more money than last year
The Red River Valley and the northern
counties of the state had good crops,
potatoes plenty. yet owing to the scar
city elsewhere the price is 65 cents per
bushel. This, of course, is a wheat
growing state, but good many cattle
are raised, especially farther west. In
some places there was good corn grown
and in time the farmers will depend
wholly upon the wheat Gre ID will
farm more like they do in II at then
hard times will not be kno. Around
Hunter and throughout G &. ounty the
farmers 70 well-to-do P s are some-
what higher (than in 3 .eonsin) on
wnaS wnat we Setear have to buy ) wages are
The schools are ur s date in the
eastern counties and : ountry schools
demand normal grad = for teachers.
In our school all the g Jhers are normal
graduates and the s nary teacher re-
ceiyes $40 per mont& We have a four
years state high school, having three
courses German. Latin, English. 1t is
on the accredited list and our graduates
are taken at the state and Minnesota
universities, with our examination
Thestate conducts the final examination
and the university issues certificates to
the pupils whenever branch is COM
pleted, and when the pupil gets forty
certificates he is entitled TO diploma.
This relieves the superintendent Of much
responsibility, We have FIVE depart
ments in the school at Hunter, five
teachers besidess the superintendent.
They pay 81. 500 yearly for the main
NNh4tASN Va bhEAI H1uQplb dHu tkIb IIOllu
Of the fact that they do So
Several people here are from Wiscon-
sin and some from Vernon county, viz:
Three McAuley boyF, Myrtle and Lois
Hubbell. Mrs. Tabbs (nee Miss Hunter)
and her sisters. and some others
This Is lively little town on G. N.
r. R., or Jim Hills as it is called, situ-
ated in the Red River Valley, 30 miles
northwest of Fargo Hunter is on the
through freight line from st. Paul to
the Pacific coast, therefore much traffic
goes this way. Sunday ball playing
and Sunday games are prohibited, There
are four nice churches here Methodist
Episcopal, Presbyterian, Lutheran and
Catholic. We have twelve fraternal
orders. Hunter has had the misfortune
to have two big fires this year. January
2nd one business block was consumed
and on October l another business block
went up in smoke. These burnt blocks
will be rebuilt with brick buildings
next year.
People here were Mortified by the
assassination Of our riuch loved presi-
dent. On the day of his funeral appro-
pirate exercises were held by the school
assisted by the citizens. All business
places were closed.
With kindest greeting to all my ac-
quaintances, | close.
w. c. Il. ADAMS.