The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1907-09-12
LOCAL

barley off eleven acres.
Mrs. w. E. Dada and son, Arch, Of
Cayuga were in the city last Friday.
j. H. Young, of Traer, Iowa, has
been here the past week looking after
his land holdings.
C. A. Malander left Tuesday morning
for Omaha and points west on another
land business trip.
The Munich family spent Sunday
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. C. B.
Denison at Guelph.
Miss Eta Locke arrived home last
week from a visit with relatives in
Minnesota and iowa.
D. L. Stevens and o. P. Emmons, of
the johnson Land Co., left Monday on
another trip into Nebraska.
Mrs. M. ]. Mckenzie, and daughters,
Ethel and Lillian, of Bismarck, were
visitors in the city Saturday.
G. w. Middaugh, the land man of
Utica, Neb., was in the city the past
week with number of landseekers.
T. H. Ferber is erecting a residence
on his lot back of the Salzer lumber
yard. The main part is 22x26, two
stories, with a kitchen, one story,
14x18 feet.
John Dewitt was fined five dollars
and costs in Magistrate Wickersham's
court the first of the week for being
drunk. He couldn't pay and is doing
time on the streets.
]. A. Lauth, a soldier of Fort
Lincoln "at or near Bismarck" is
looking after his 200 acre grain crop
this week and enjoying a hunt after
the festive prairie chicken.
Mrs. Robert Clark has been tending
store this week under difficulties. She
stepped on six-penny nail Monday
and it penetrated the foot so badly
that she is hardly able to get around.
Geo. Burrows and Henry Boethling,
of the Oakes Hydraulic Stone Co., are
at Fullerton this week putting in 900 feet
of 9 foot sidewalk and three crossings.
The new walk runs north on Main
street from the bank corner.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Locke, of
Riceville, Iowa, visited here with their
relatives, the Locke and Frank
Fuller families last week. Mr.. Locke
left for home Saturday, but his wife
remained over for longer visit.
Robert Clark is down at his Ludden
farm this week looking after his crop.
Rob. brought up some potatoes from
his farm Sunday and five of them
averaged II. pounds apiece. He has
about two acres of such potatoes.
Mons Nelson!is a regular visitor at
the printing Office every year the first
days Of September. He remembers
the printer about the first thing after
his grain.crop is safe in the bin. This
year his hard wheat went 16 bushels
to the acre, his macaroni Is, oats 46,
barley IS. His potatoes are good but
corn very poor.
Congressman Marshall has little
the neatest lawn and boulevard in the
city. Arthur Robinson, a colored lad
from Washington, is in charge Of things
at the Marshall home while the congress-
man is away and Arthur takes special
pride in keeping the yard trim.
Oakes is one peg behind the capital
city, Arthur thinks. Down in Wash
ington people don't allow their horses
and colts to roam at large in the city
and tramp over boulevards and gardens
-as they do in Oakes.
w. B. Wrangham: I believe have
the best place in the country. The
frost Of Sunday night never touched
me, though I hear it was quite hard all
around. l live just two and a half
miles east Of Oakes and believe the
hills this side Of me protect me from
the frost. l have seven and a half
acres of corn that has matured in nice
shape. The ears are from eight to
twelve inches in length. It is some I
got from Bismarck six years. ago, and
is little the best for this country than
any have ever tried. It will mature
in seventy days from the time it comes
out of the ground. 1t is a mixture Of
four varieties. 1t was bred by raiser
that had experimental with it for
thirteen years. At first it didn't show
the mixed corn much, but now can find
! all four varieties in my field.