Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1903-04-10
BARTLETT.

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+ The ladies of the Catholic church
) held a basket festival recently by
which they netted nearly $50 for the
improvement of their church edifce.
The farmers are beginning to move
now and are doing quite a stroke of
business among the merchants and
machinery dealers preparatory to seed
ing operation.
Miss Maggie Prendergast has been
engaged to teach the spring and sum-
mer terms in school No. 8. Miss
Nellie Norton will teach school No. 2
for the same terms.
The Great Northern railway COM
4 pany have erected a crane on the side
of the track opposite the postofice for
the handling of the mails, and it is
quite an accommodation for the people
in the town.
The voters of Bartlett school district
will vote upon the proposition of a
school site and the erection Of a school
house in the northeastern part of the
+ district and voting $7ou bonds to pay
for the same on the 18th inst.
Rev. Mcnamara, pastor of the NJ.
E. church, was up from Lakota choos-
ing a site for the new church and
helping the ladies aid society gener-
ally. Mr.. McNarama is a hustler.
P. Blankinship has brought the
grain shovel house, situated on the
railroad right-of-way from the st.
Anthony & Dakota Elevator company
and will move it across the track to
the business part of town. MI.
Blankinship will convert the building
into a domicile for whom your CORE
spondent knoweth not, as he is a
bachelor. {
The Ladies Aid Society connected
with the M. E. church are hustling
these times taking subscriptions for a
new church edifce. They are meet
ing with pretty fair success. We
wish them God speed in the business,
as church spires have a beneficial
effect upon the morals of the rising
generations and add to the beauty Of
the town.
Before buying horses. look at the
fine carload at Wilson's barn, Devils
Lake. No cash required when pur-
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Chamberlin. G.. NJ. Fisher.
In company with I. M. Kennedy,
president Of the board of education,
your correspondent visited the city
schools conducted by Miss Nellie
Lammadee, and found everything in
ship shape. We have not he'd the
pleasure of visiting the schools for
some time and we we've much impress
= sed by the marked change found in
the demeanor and general improve
ment of the pupils in both depart
ments. Miss Lammadee's term ex-
pires on the 10th of this month, hav-
ing taught two terms, and then will
go west to Minot, where she will
teach a summer term Of school. Miss
y Thompson will consolidate the prim-
airy and intermediate departments and
teach until her term expires in the
latter part of June.
Your correspondent has lived near
ly 80 years up in this northern lat1-
tude and has been a close observer OF
. the meteorological conditions of the
atmosphere and other things connected
with the prosperity of the country.
For the benefit of those who are alive
to any hint that. may emanate from
the mind of any one no matter how
remote or recluse, I will say that all
indications point to a somewhat dry
season and perhaps frost during the
Amonths of June and July. Wheat
will not be a profitable crop this year.
I would recommend faxas the most FRO
li6c crop and the most profitable for
this season. Now some will question
my authority for making such state
ments and quite proper. My theory
has been based upon practical observa-
i ton and have found it correct every
year since 1887, the first time that I
was led to take notice Of what l am
about to give the readers. I noticed
that a few days before and during the
Lun. Equinox the wind was around
the south, southeast. and southwest,
and that we had a very productive
<-seasen; in 1888 the wind was in the