The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1910-02-24
The City il It's
Relation to the Farms
Important Department Established by This Paper
--lndependent Secures the Services 81 Geo
II. Maxwell, the MelLknown Writer

The Independent has been very for
tunate in securing the services of that
we'll known lecturer and writer,
George H.. Maxwell, executive chair
man OF the American homecroft soci-
ETY., whose writings will appear in
this paper each week. It will be re-
member that Mr.. Maxwell gave an
address before the Hardware Dealers
state convention at Grand Forks re-
Gently, holding the audience with rapt
attention. Mr.. Maxwells writings
will be in the interests OF the small
city in it's relation to the farms
Read them, for they are well worth
while:
Town Forest Plantations.
Condolences are queer things -
oftentimes so queer that it isn't much
wonder that some people get to be-
lieve in the interposition of the SUI
pernatural. @'~ r. 3
Last month, On Saturday, January
oath, in my editorial workshop at
Chicago, wrote the twenty-second
article Of this series in advocacy OF
!. town forest plantations, and told
about Woodland congratulating Fres-
no, many years ago, on the fact that
the Fossils in Fresno were dead. be-
cause in Woodland they were walk
ing the streets. This pleasantly Of
the Woodland editor was prompted
by the unearthing near Fresno of an
alleged fossil man as was explained
in the article above referred to. :
Tuesday morning January 25th, I
arrived in st. Paul on my way to
Grand Forks, North Dakota, and
bought a copy of the St. Paul Pic
neer Press Of that morning. 1t sure
ly was an odd coincidence to find
in that paper the following article:
Mysterious Body:is Old-time Fake,
Fargo Police Discover rPetrife4
Man on Investigating Supposed Muir
der-Shown Over Northwest-Plaster
of Paris corpse Had Lain in Base
ment of Building for FIFTEEN Years.
Special to the Pioneer Press. Fargo,
N. D., Jan. 24th.-A report reached
the police department this evening
that the, dead sbody.ofa asmanawas ly-
ing In q box in the cellar of the Ely
block. under q pool room, and Capt.
Dahlgren made an investigation and
found there Whist appeared toobes the
body OF q man. sS5.- .-.G.g &.s,ss
AAn investigation followed, when It
WAS found that the alleged body was
the celebrated "petrifed" man which
was shown all over North Dakota and
Minnesota and Wisconsin fifteen or
twenty years ago." .s".
sBut the fraudulent fossil man was
not the only coincidence and Fargo
mot the only town where the fos'
sils are dead.
when I got 70 Grand Forks I found
aytoWn where the ozone in the eli
mats has got into the blood Of the
people, and a more thriving, prosper
Gus, up-to.date wholesome and inspir'
ing place to live does not exist on
the earth. The tinkle Of the sleigh
bells on the cutters mingles with the
cheerful honk of the zig automobiles
OF, the prosperous farmers and BUSH
ness men of the town. For nearly a
mile the main street is lined with
light poles with cluster Of electric
lights on every, pole and IN the eve
ming, looking either up or down the
street from the1hotel, you might we'll
imagine yourself INST. Paul 3or Los
Angeles. INK En-.
But best of all, the .peop.e oftGrand
Forks are looking. ahead and plan
ming for the future. They have bought
a beautiful tract of LAND, about, two
hundred acres near the city formerly
belonging to the Country Club, for a
city park. They also bought small
forest plantation" that was Already
planted and growing near the city for
eventual use as a part of the park
system in that Section Of the city,
Now they own a Town Forest Plan
.tation. Whether it is forty or four
hundred acres in extent, the prlnc1-
pie is the same. The handmade,
forests of rows of symmetrical trees,
Just like German forest, has been
acquired by the municipality. After
they learn more of what European
municipalities have done, it will grow
to, four thousand acres, and furnish
wood and timber for many local wood
working industries.
That will all come in time. the
fossils in Grand Forks are dead. Inc g
idea of home advancement hassgot in
to the minds of the people and 1t VIII
work new marves of local progress
every year as time passes.
The Cost Of Living.
did you ever stake a calf out with
a rope in patch of nice succulent
grass and watch him wind his rope
around the stake until he 81. "a tt.S
nose up to less than a foot from the
stake, where he could not reach
blade Of grass, and then watch MN
pull and plunge to try and get loose
SO he could sgt something to eat!
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