Devils Lake inter-ocean and Devils Lake free press. (Devils Lake, Ramsey County, N.D.) 1905-1909, 1908-02-14
OUR EXCHANGES.

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Ex-Governor Devine spoke words of
wisdom when he told the grain grow
ers assembled at Minot last week to
hang on to the farm. He said: Hold
on to your farm. Keep your boys and
girls on your farm. Treasure 1t as you
would priceless possession. 1t is the
greatest material gift you can have.
Your lasting welfare, your hope, your
Imagination, your joys, your SORROWS,
are there. Whatever you do, hold on
to your farm with the clutch Of death"
harrington Independent.
Devils Lake is fire-stricken city
this winter-Fargo Forum.
People have been freezing to death
down in New York and 1t has become
| so cold down there that the mayor of
the city has ordered the automobiles
to put on mufflers. Why don't the peo-
pie down there move out here. and get
thawed out.-Cooperstown Courier.
Some young ladies in the neighbor-
hood north and east of here are very
busy making quilts. We suspect there
is something in the wind for. we are
reminded that this is leap year and
the boys want to look out for pro-
/ posals from some fair one.-Sheldon
Progress.
The Grand Forks Times has moved
into its new quarters and has install
ed some new up-to-date presses where
| by it can turn out 20 thousand copies
an hour. We bespeak a prosperous
future for the Times.-Lakota Obser-
yer.
Another PENNSYLVANIA woman dead
at the age Of 121. Hard winter, this
for young people,-Ex,
tenacious, Mary" exclaimed a
: Logan Square mother to her little
daughter. why are you shouting
like that? Why can't you be quiet like
your brother? " Hes got to be quiet,
replied Mary. HES playing papa
coming home late" And who are
YOU playing" I'm playing you
Elk.
! A minister one Sunday after the
regular services asked all those who
wanted to go to heaven to please
stand up. Now then he says ;afl those
who want to go to hell stand up. 4
J drunken man who had wandered into
the church and had fallen to sleel
woke up just at the time the ministe
was asking this question, he jumped
up and said: II don't know what 70,
are voting on mister, but it seems 70,
and are in the minority"-Ex.
1t amuses us to see some of our ex
changes squirm in an effort to often,
no one. The newspaper that can BIZ
} published so as not to offend Is jewe
and the editor is entitled to pair O
golden wings. Human nature ia; g.
constituted that some like to se
others ripped up the back" other
don't; some like to have the truth, toll
: about them, others don't; some like t
: take paper six or; eight years. an
. never pay cent and get mad an
stop their paper when they get a:state
ment of account, others don't. It,
.. not in the province of a paper t
!, please everybody and the editor ca
}. extract consolation from the fact tina
r he is not the only one that falls
= Mandan Pioneer. y = 4.
TO refuse paper at the postoflc
. is simply a cowardly way of insultin
: the editor, and to thus refuse it 3whe
;! indebted to it only doubles the insul
q q o o i !::ts
Hunter Herald. ST.
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Although some physicians are /,
! sisting that hydrophobia is an imagil
= airy disease most people will continu
= to prefer dogs bark. to his bite.--E
8 .
e A preacher in North Dakota tow
recently exhorted on Where is Hea
u en-" We haven't noticed any toWr
advertising it as one of their natur;
n MISUNDERSTANDING Herald. s8s,
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While there has been great rus
of people to Alberta and Saskatch
a wan, for farming lands and we has
!: had many reports of the "sunninegs
and "southerness' of that eYcaIInI