The Ward County independent., 1909-06-17
THRIFT.

Thrift is unknown in some of Minot's families,
much so, that tho the head of the house, as IS
true in many cases, earns from 500 to $3.50 a
month, each months wages are spent before the pay
check is received. "Minot is expensive city in
which to live" is statement heard every hand
This may be true, and yet we know of some men who
get along, and keep fair sized family fifty dol
lars month, and with good luck make both ends
meet, the year round. True they cannot much
out of this They don't live in houses the rent
of which costs $50 month. They have to put up
with the more inexpensive kinds OF houses We
know of a number who getting but fair wages,
who have saved enough to buy lot in the outskirts
of the city. lot that cost perhaps $780, Then they
saved enough money until they had enough to make
a fair payment on some lumber, and erected a small
house of two or three This cut out the rent
proposition and instead of paying rent, they were
enabled TO pay much a month on their little home
few tr&es, nice lawn and good garden, added to
the looks of little home and the garden furnished
a great deal of what needed to eat during the
summer. This is thrift. The who saves for
his own little home is better citizen. He takes
more interest as rule in the affairs of the city and
you may be that he will vote inelligently
on the various propositions that arise. The saving
habit should be cultivated. No one should be a
miser but everyone ought to make it a point to
live within his means, and to portion of that
which he earns Get the little home once paid for,
ana you Will keep up Tue Saving HdUlt OeL d lo"
dollars ahead, and you make slaves of them.
Put them to work for you. Every one of these dol
lar slaves will make from ten to twelve cents for you
during the year. Get enough of them ahead and
you make investments in either Ward county
land Minot city real estate, either one OF which
propositions is safe government gold bond.
You need not be and penurious because you
.are saving On the other hand if you practice
thrift, you will have to give to charity, more
t4o oiv tha he the city have
established savings departments. We know of one
man who saves from his wages, dollar day, and
is adding to his little account started in one or
these savings departments. It counts up for at the
end of the year he will have more than $500 to his
credit. This may look like small business to the
who is fortunate enough to earn several
thousand dollars year, but one must get start,
and there no way of getting that start than
by practcing thrift
Some of the political enemies of T. E. Fox, late Of
the U. S. land Office at Minot, have taken particular
pains and gone out of their way to make trouble
for him. but have failed in the attempt, regardless
of the erroneous report recently published in the
Grand Forks Herald. Mr. Fox says that it looks
as tho that paper had been paid for their trouble,
the combination recently exposed in re-
gard the state printing graft, indicates that that
paper is not above the yellow lne Mr. Fox while
in the land department made an excellent official
and was well 1iked by the general public He
conducts a legitimate hardware business at Bantry
N. D.. and is well spoken of in that locality. We
see no why such an attack should have been
made upon him at this time.
The Canadian government in building an auxiliary
fleet of vessels to ply up and down the great
lakes may be violating the treaty of 1916, and the
United States may put damper on the proceedings.
Canada has control of the canals along the lakes,
and the United States cannot send a vessel thru
Them without the consent Of the Canadian govern
ment. ii case fof war with Great Britain, would
1e in predicament