The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1910-01-20
Farmers Give Minot
Business Men Pointers
A Number Of Interesting Communications From
our Farmer Readers Regarding What Gould
Be Done In Minot in 1910 to Get Country
and City Folks Closer Together

city a buster appearance than hun
bred farmers rigs along the streets,
a sign of prosperity to be sure"
G. B. Tibbetts: II think that Mi
not could do nothing of more import
ance to the farmers during the pre-
sent year than to give us good mar
Ike tday sales once a month. l mean
GOOD ONES, where we can bring
our produce and surplus stuff and
sell it. We need plenty of space to
display our salable articles and we
will patronize them"
Editor Ward County Independent:
Replying to your request to write
something for the Independent read
ers from an outside view, being an
outsider myself in regard to the in
inside discussion so eloquently and
warmly going on thru the medium of
your excellent paper, which to our
knowledge is more read by the coun-
try folk than any other of the press
in the Northwest, we want to say
that we believe that you struck oil
when you invented or rather when
the scheme was sprung within your
far sightedness of starting the ball
rolling getting the town folks to ex-
press their views Of Minot's needs
in 1910, to the reading public at large.
We have carefully read the sayings
of the one woman and thirty-eight
men interviewed. From the women
we discovered that MinM has already
risen to the tall level CT the capitol
at Washington. We doubt if any
other city in the state can say that
much. We repeat it, we doubt it. The
80 men all told fred at the mark 81
shots That's large number fired
Four of the shots went wide of the
mark I'VE gould NOT tell what one
OF the business men really drove at
He either did not want to commit
himself, or be meant it as cypher
for some one to figure out:
About forty shots hit the mark. AS
many q Is of them were center drives
as the bullets went into the same
aperture. 49,
All considered, it was a splendid
shoot-many of the shots were fred
hard. Indeed, some of the fellows
seemed to be in dead earnest. 9th
ers seemed to be mad. One young
man, Grant Youmans, fired fifteen
times. Surely, he believes in the city's
getting up a hustle. Let US see, fif-
teen big things all crowded into one
year, would be about one new acQui-
sition every Is days. That would be
going some. Wish, Mr.. Editor. that
it wl44 be go. - ''''' -
A large number Of the older men
were not SO much in a hurry and al
tho they asked for about the same
thing that the elaborate Grant wanted,
they were willing to go at it on the
slow easy gait of the strong, sure
draft horse 1t is a pleasure to note
how determined a large number were
to have the law obeyed. This is &C.
cording to the Scripture, and can be
safely said to be Scriptural. It Is so
contained that the Law was for the
lawless and the disobedient." What's,
the use of law anyway, If it isn't to
be obeyed. Get the state normal and
it will be obeyed. We happen to know
something about two normal school
cities, one in Ohio and one in Indiana.
ness not only permeated the whole
We have known them ever since the
normal schools were established. Two
of my sisters were students, at the
Ohio town of Ada, on the Pennsylvan-
ia railway. We lived only rs miles
from there. There was test of what
a normal school could do for a peo-
pie and the surrounding country. Tru.
ly its benign and salutary wholesome.
town, but shed its light and peace
thru the security it brought to the
limit of a diameter of more than rs !
miles, sticking the pin in the map !!
At Ada, where the grounds were sit !
lated. No undesirable element, safely /
called the Meerschaum, for meer-
,chaum derives its meaning from the !
German word meaning ocean scum.
Another perhaps as appropriate name
s. offscouring and another that is just
W good and better understood is seal
Lwag.
The other college town is Valpar-
80, on the Great Pennsylvania rail- !.
Dad, rs miles east of Chicago. We
topped there for a week in 1893, the .
ear Of the worlds fair in Chicago, ,
nd never saw town where one could
ct acquainted 80 quickly. There are =
nore than 5000 students living in :
alpariso, who are quiet, law abiding, i,
hurch going and lecture hearing /;
Dung people, instead Of being nonsen- =
cal, worthless, theatre going folks.
One gentleman gave glowing .
Int, the unpaid bills One butcher :
I'D the writer that he alone had over :
wen thousand dollars in accounts to q
'llect. Whist about all the chops, n
oreA eod md wood yards, &c We