The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1905-02-01
TASkER-ON The 500

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inovated flag wagon" only instead OF
running between Fargo and Moorehead,
this conveyance runs between Tasker
and Des Laos. There is nothing like
being abreast OF tho times.
Lovers of the slight fantastic" will be
pleased to learn that grand terpsich-
orean event will be given at the Dave
Lloyd Mine in the home OF Billy Allen
on February I'd. Bring your best girl
and enjoy the event Of tho seuson.
Mr.. Geo. Mcclure, travelling salesman
for the Vandewarker Coal Co., and
whose headquarters are located at Minot
was up here on Thursday of last week
interviewing Gen. Mgr. Tasker. Mac is
gentleman of pleasing and genial dis
position, and while talking Ignite to
customers and others, never fails to
make and keep friends.
| A small revolution, not on tho South
American plan, where dictatorship of a
republic is the issue, took place here
last week. Twas merely kick for bet
ter sanitary conditions in connection
with the bunk houses of the miners.
Gen. Mgr. Tasker, of the Vandewarker
Co., arrived home last week from an ex-
tended visit to points on the 500 and
Great Northern. While at Fargo he
was taken down with slight illness but
in few days was able to make his ar
rival here. The genial 3. B. has been
informed by tho M. d. at Fargo that his
illness was caused by the first symptoms
Of appendicitis and that will in all
probability have to have an operation
performed.
There will be no lack Of ice in this
neighborhood during the hot, sultery
days of next summer. Messrs. Taskor,
Scribner and others are now making
preparations to put up few thousand
| tons.
Mrs. j. r. Reid left last week for
Ottumwa, Iowa, where she will visit with
her relatives for month or SO.
"Billy" Allen was up from Coal Baron
Bave Lloyd's bailiwick last Friday and
| reports business humming in tho coal
line down there.
Cashier Dan Hutchinson says that
this giddy world OF ours never looks so
light and gladstone to man as when he
is looking at it through the crack of
doom. There are times though when
anarchy wraps it's bright vermillion
cloak around it. Ii you don't believe it
ask the Gar.
A number OF new brick buildings will
be erected in the spring.
Drive nail here. BE it known that
Tasker never stands still and can be be-
fore long, with little push and enter
prise on the part of it's citizens, made
one Of the solidest towns in the state.
Therefore the upbuilding of Tasker
should be made tho paramount issue
during the coming year. There will be
no politics, or "sich" things in the way
during the next two years. and there
seems to be no good reason why progress
cannot be made in the way of inducing
capital to come to Tasker. 1t will not
and is not, necessary to misrepresent
! this new aspirant for municipal honors,
as regards its capabilities of eventually
making a good and substantial town.
The country surrounding Tasker is one
of the best wheat and fax raising sec
tons within the spacious confines Of pro-
gressive Ward county. The fact that
inexhaustible mines Of the best quality
of Ignite coal. lies at its very threshold
and that there is millions in it. should
induce every enterprising Taskerite to
push the movement along. Now is the
accepted time. The object of every live
city is not. and should not be, to keep in
the same position it now holds, but to
improve its condition even more than
other cities improve their own, SO that
the end of the year Of endeavor will find
a marked improvement. While Tasker
has not yet reached the stately and
metropolitan proportions OF Minot, "the
City of Destiny" yet there is no reason
why it should not in the fruitful time to
come. This being the case, I'LL should
take part in the work Of building up the
town, in season or out of seoson, whether
some big enterprise is in sight or not.
Each year that passes will SEQ new build
ings, new enterprises, new institutions
and best of all, new happiness and SUI
preme contentment in the boom burg of
Tasker, That invites all of earths debt
crushed millionaires, and others to bet
ter homes and more acceptable eXistenc-
es. You may believe it. that want will
not stalk abroad in this town, under
whose very feet millions upon millions
Of tons of the best Ignite coal lie rich
and productive beyond belief Misery
will not cross the barriers OF this new
! town, where everyone Is ruSLler, anu
whore tho ozone Of North Dakota makes
the arm stronger and tho brain clearer.
Now is the accepted time for every man
looking for good business location to
plant himself at Taskor. and become
wealthier than he had ever hoped. And
it shall come 70 pass, that he who be-
heves in the future greatness of Tasker,
shall receive an hundred fold, and pos
sess all the good things Of this earth.
Selah! selah!
We are pleased to state that from now
on, Rev. Shoemaker, of Des Laos will
hold devine service here every Sunday
afternoon, instead of every second Sun
day. Among the first things that Tas-
ker requires at this stage ofits incepiency
is a church edifics, and from every in
dication such an edifice will be erected
next spring. A little work on the part
of all will be sufficient to that end. We
are not much of a christian ourself, and
cannot do much in the way Of pointing
out the cause for Eoor weak man to pur-
sue, but we can admonish all our readers
to 60 to Gods tabernacles Of worship
and learn fronl the experienced teachers
the difference between life fraught
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