The Ward County independent., 1910-03-31
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One of the Iowa members Of Congress recently
received unique letter from constituent bearing
on the proposition. Of the government competing
with print ng firms in the printing Of envelopes 1t
reads in part: eff Congress hasn't passed q law
prohibiting the government from printing envelopes
you tell It want one passed right away nave q
Job of printing five hundred envelopes in sight, ana
if the government will keep hands off I will land
it sure fate, and make thirty Genus on IT, II
the butts in and does the Job for nothing
lose the thirty cents and the next duffer that
comes along and gets envelopes will want me to
print batch of soap wrappers for nothing because
Nle could have gotten the envelopes cheaper from
the government and so on, ad inf1ntum to Gehenna
and back See how it works. Tell Congress INA a
lone Democrat in a county that's lousy with Re-
publican editors and need the money. The surplus
in the postal department can be applied on the Fan
anna canal if it doesn't know what else to do with
it. Tell it any thing-ust so you entertain 1t
till get that job Of envelopes. i object to having
this great and glorious government squander its
resources competing with my shop II It should go
broke I would get the blame. Tell the government
If it has stock of trust made envelopes on hand
that are going to be dead loss when 1t stops Its
lob press that will mortgage my plant and take
q couple Of boxes Give my regards to the president
and Uncle Joe and Brothers Payne and Aldrich"
Farmers of North Dakota have been in their
fields for weeks. Those who were able to plow
their land last fall-and most Ct rh2m were-are
now narrowing it, and putting it IN gardenl1ke
condition While considerable number have been
seeding, large majority have waited and instead
hhave narrowed their land once or twice more than
they generally do Farmers are able every year
to do their work little better and find that 1t pays
to spend plenty Of time in preparing the soil for
;o {hof
acrage this year in western North Dakota will be
20 per cent greater than ever and with the advan-
tages of an early spring, if conditions are at all
favorable, we ought to raise bumper crop. The
seeding VIII be finished Unusually early this spring.
and those who have virgin soil to break will have
an opportunity to crop a very large per centage
of it, putting it into fax mainly. Conditions in
North Dakota were better. We will be able
to spell prosperity with capital letters. .tr .
Knute T. Hagen, clerk of the district court, Will
be a candidate for reelection. Knute Is really
entitled to be returned to Office without opposition
and the Independent would be at all surprised if
he had no opposition. Mr.. Hagen does not believe
in one man having life tenure to office and says
that after he has held the office one more term, he
will step down and out and let some other good
man run it, That seems very fair, and Knute has
always has the reputation Of being very fair mind
ed citizen. He gives the work his personal attention
is right on hand when the doors of his office open
lin the morning and stays with the work until his
clerks leave. By the way, he has been saving
the county money, too for he is getting along
with three clerks less than his predecessor had and
last year turned into the Golfers of the county $25
than did his predecessor the year before.
The spelng-Bee has buzzed and flown, after sip
ping honey at many and varied flowers of the Eng
lish tongue. The language of the Anglo-Saxon is
like the old fashioned flower garden, composite OF
bloom and color 1t contains not simply the daisies,
daffods and vioets indigenous to soil of Saxon
speech, but many exotics from distant climes the
world over, some Of recent importation, some that
have become thoroughly naturalized. A Spelling
Bee" sends us all Maying in the meadows of our
English speech 1t is innocent child-like amuse-
nent and helps us all to come eye to eye with the
rich profusion and beauty contained in the language
which is common and glorious heritage.
According to the Times Lansford has reach
ed the debt limit The Journal at Kenmare says
Kenmare has over-reached the limit Minot has
had about the same kind of an experience, but
with careful management is pulling out of the hole
nicely. 1t is easy to spend the money OF city,
North Dakota is new, and everything is needed at
once, but ctys affairs should be conducted along
the same identical lines of any other big business,
pay as you go.
The Independent hopes that the premium List
for the coming Ward county fair will soon be pub
lished, that the farmers may have ample time to
prepare their exhibits We made an excellent show
ing last year short time in which had to do
the work, but thfsayeare are going to do much
better The Ward 'cdunty fait VIII have thousands
of good boosters this year ~ AT
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Former Senator Hansbrough, will return to North
: Dakota after absence Of two years. The willy old
fellow didn't want to lose his residence here en-
tre1y and has it that he is planning to assist
dn lambasting some Of his enemies