Devils Lake inter-ocean and Devils Lake free press. (Devils Lake, Ramsey County, N.D.) 1905-1909, 1908-03-13
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This is what a rural editor says
about young oilers: We are raising
too many society tops, parlor soldiers,
cigarette suckers and street loafers.
When we see a little, foppish, short
dressed, silly girl, just jumping into
her teens, gadding up and down the
street, talking slang and flirting with
the boys, entertaining young, jobless
bloods in the parlor at night when she
ought to be in her trundle bed beneath
her mothers eye, tucked snugly in;
when we see knee pants kids and
beardless youths loafing up and down
the streets, who are too tritling to
think and too stuck up to do odd jobs
at home, we exclaim: TITS not statu-
tory that we need but parental law
Ward County Independent.
There is no reasonable excuse for
any man to live in town if he doesn' t
like it. If you have no word of COM
mendation to say for your town or her
people, emigrate. You won't stop the
clock by going away. The dogs will
play just the same and the pure air,
bright sunshine and sparkling water
will have the same health giving prop
critics. Speak a good word for your
neighbors If you can. If you cannot,
don't everlastingly enlarge on their
faults. If they have become thorough
ly disgruntled move away, go where
things will suit you. You won't be
missed very much.-Ex.
Attorney R. Goer of Devils Lake
was in the city Monday on his way
home from New Rockford where he
went to attend to some legal business
Mr.. Goer is a republican candidate for
the Office of states attorney for Ram
sey county. He is one of the leading
attorneys in that county, is a man
who Is we'll equipped for the position
he seeks, and will, no doubt, be able
to make winning at the primaries
and the election next fall. - Leeds
News.
Don't stand off your bills and be-
come impudent to the collector for if
you do, the collector will give you a
bad reputation all over town. The
men who pay their bills promptly are
the subjects of great deal of favor
able notoriety, and the men who put
off the collectors on one pretense or
another, get the other thing. No man
can afford to be known in the COM
munity in which he lives as dead
beat, or as man who gives impossible
and silly excuses to avoid paying his
honest debts. Hundreds of dull men
nave been given responsible positions
because they we're reliable in money
matters, and hundreds of bright men
have been left behind in the race be.
cause they were disposed to be dead
beats. - Ward County Independent.
When wheat fails what is the farm
er in this state going to do? He will
have to do like the farmer in Iowa
and other states had to do, go into
stock raising and dairy farming. The
very best thing he can do is to gel
ready for it now, as the time is no.
far distant when wheat as az excl is
i've crop will not pay. The only va!
the farmer continues to raise wfea
is by taking pains to maintain tx
fertility of the soil and this he canno
do without stock. A few wide awa]S'
farmers are beginning to see tina
dairy farming pays better than whea
raising. No difference how fertile tn
land is, no farmer can expect to cor
tinue year after year raising payin
crops of grain without restoring som
of the elements of food that has bee
taken from the soil by continual croI
ping of grain.-Lawton Leader
A lamp explosion in a Devils LAX
cafe last Monday night created unus
ual excitement. A bunch of Jap por
ers had their toes turned towards tn
Orient.-Warwick Sentinel.
Johnson's name doesn't seem to b
mentioned as a candidate for an
thing by the state press. He has bee
following the farmer institute NEE
ings and when he announces that b
is dabbling in politics, at the inst
sltes. does not set well on farmers
stomachs when they are gathered K
gether to talk over the best way t
" raise crops. 1T acts rather as a boon