Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1903-10-01

building erected; a neat building for
a newspaper is ready; Koth Gackel
& Co. have built a new ware house
for the receipt Of grain, and there
are three elevators and warehouses to
care for the trade in this line. Olson,
Pressler B Bolinger and Geo. Harp
er Of Minneapolis also buy grain.
Davis Kinsfather and Sons have
built a grocery and confectionery
store, Koth, Gackel & Co., a large
new store; a 80 foot addition has
been added to the big store room OF
Olson, Pressler & B olinger. MIR. W.
p. Kepinger intends to build neat
residence this fall.
The lumber trade shows what is
being done in the building line. Win
nor Il Adams, a new firm, have had
a large business and their hustling
manager. Mr.. Renner, has all he can
attend to. Teams with wagons stand
ready to be loaded, early and late.
The general firm of Schneider e.
Sons occupies the large store room
first built by Mr.. Dwyer and the
firm has large trade Near the
town on the west, T. II. Sweeney,
has built large farm residence with
barn. 1t is a sample Of the farm i'm
propements that are being made
around the town. Jacob Klundt
sold a section farm near the town for
90 &n acre, and it is the steady in
crease in the values of land that war
rant the building Improvements that
are being made ia the surrounding
country.
William Dwyer has about complet-
ed his new house on the homestead a
mile from town. 1T is one of the
best built and most commodious
farm residences i'm the county. A
large barn shelters, stock machinery
etc., for the farm. Mr.. Dwyer has
set out over 2,Ooo young trees that
are thriving in fine shape having
grewn over 8 inches this year. They
are box alders, ash, willows etc He
has lot of young pigs, Red Durocks,
that are being fattened on buttermilk
and shorts, and growing into coed
sized porkers very fast. He is also
feeding car of cattle on rye and
speitz, and trying the experiment OF
fattening them for profit on sucn
feed in addition to grass. A fine
wind mill with a hose attachment
furnishes water for big garden
which has all the vegetables that any
farmer in Iowa can raise. The Dwy-
er homestead is one of the finest
farms in the western part of the
county and place that any man
what ever his business, can be proud
of. 1t is occupied by himself and hos
pitable family and is one of the fine
farm homes of Stutsman county.
Several jamestown men are max
ing Medina headquarters to extend
their business, among them being the
Seller Company which has opened an
office in the post Office building, and
once week some member of the
visits the town to attend to
land and legal matters and collections.
Henry Zacher, the old time James
town painter, has a claim near the
town and is looking after his crops
there and doing painting besides.
The state bank of Medina reports
an increase in business each month
the president is A. &. Whitney of St.
Cloud, c. A. Wheelock of Fargo is
cashier and W. P. Kepplinger assist
ant cashier. The bank is great
help to the business men of the town,
to the farmers in the vicinity and
the officers enjoy the confidence of all.
THE CROPS.
The German farmers in the vicinity
have about finished threshing and,
with their usual carefulness to save
their grain, they stacked good deal
Of it and put the shocks up in good
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