The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1903-12-02
TIRED or PAYING FREIGHT

TIRED OF PAYING FREIGHT $
live three miles from Renville, II
Uponthe Minot trail. Il
I'm getting tired Of paying freight. 4
On everything but mail.
My mail get in punches.
From two to six days late. 4
II | could get it regular, :
I'd gladly pay the freight. &
I've paid the freight ON paper bags Il
And blotting paper too. :
I've paid the freight on postage stamps, 4
And thrcshbills overdue. II
I figured that the Mohall road, 4
Would make cheaper rate. Ii
But must pull for Canada, y
Or keep on paying freight. Il
I've paid the freight on kerosene.
That wouldn't show no light. 4
I've paid the freight on gasoline, L.
And also on Ignite.
I'm burning home made candles ROW. *
And never sit up late. (
II had grown up daughters sure.
Id 60 broke paying freight. <
Ny wife went up to Renville,
To buy some common thread.
And when they said ten cents spool. x
OF course her face turned red.
Mr.. Freeman heaved sigh, +
While Staub says III you wait. <
| might make some reduction, I,
| When figure up the freight
l went to pay my thresh bill /,
At the Lansford First state bank:
The note was three days overdue j.
So he filled another blank:
And when kicked on fifteen cents,
For being three days late,
Says Englebrecht, "Please don't forget
Those bank checks come by freight"
I've paid sixty cents for pepper,
And five cents pound for salt.
paid express on two shipments, I
| OF good old Dufy's malt,
! called at the Great Northern,
And got one empty crate.
And then I swore I'd ship no more
BY express or by freight
! left my pony three days,
At third class livery barn;
If they had fed him plenty hay.
wouldn't cared a darn.
1t was the rankest holdup,
That ran against of late; I,
! He taxed me just three dollars.
| So it must have been the freight,
If had to fight contests,
Like others that know,
I'd try another remedy
That wouldn't act SO slow:
! You sly old Mack, you've learned the
| knack.
Of gobbling real estate:
! With nerve and bluff. you've made I
enough i
To pay the bloomin' freight. .
! There's another man in Mohall,
His actions don't like. ' K
He'd better go little slow, /
Or he'll go down the pike.
I've heard lot of people say K
If he don't change his gait, /
He'd wake up in new quarters
Where he'd be through paying freight. (
I've paid the freight on threshing rigs X
That couldn't thresh wild hay: i
And I've paid for threshing fax
The wind had blown away: i
Next fall I'll get myself fail,
Although they're out of date,
III have corner on the wind.
And also on the freight.
Some grain men on the Mohall branch,
Have made the farmers sore;
If they had given honest weight
We wouldn't make roar;
They pay starvation prices.
Then soak you on the weight:
Besides they dock you just enough
To pay jim Hill the freight.
have paid the freight on wrapping
Irvine,
And wrappers on cigars. Il
paid the freight on Minot -four
That never saw the cars.
When North Dakota business man,
Raps at the Golden Gate, $685..
St. Peter will say go tother way,
You've tempered with the freight
So now I'm off for Canada,
Where freight is not so high.
I'm very, very sorry,
To bid Jim Hill good bye.
hope that other Moss backs
Will this subject agitate;
Until they get another road,
That will reduce the freight.
j. Somers.