The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1910-08-11
FROM NORTH DAKOTA.
Bradley Farm. August, 1910.

10 the Register
As time passes | an more and NOR,
constrained TO write and inform yoI
! how your arrival on a certain da,
: each week pleases n little group o
= Brookings people away 'out here OF
the prairie" but not alone. We reat
you from start TO finish-ads and all
This place is the home OF Mr.. anC
Mrs. Bradley, where Mrs. Ehos anC
! are nov visiting. is in Foster coun
Ity, situated in the central eastern par
of North Dakota. To reach us yol
travel by rail as far as McHenry, the
nearest town now on the railroad anC
are then conveyed in various ways out
here OF ten miles, a little north and
then on a section line due west. Any
neighboring town gets the mail and
] assure you you arrived in good com
pany, consisting Of several dailies,
weeklies. letters, etc. Rural delivery
is not yet established so you can read
lily understand hat the day We are
able [ o get the mail is a glad day for
us. This is a magnificent country to
look upon. 1t has been settled about
under cultivation; the son Is fertile
and adapted to diversified farming.
Mr.. Bradley is an extensive land own
er here and has been chiefly instru-
mental in establishing a telephone sys-
tenn through here OF both local and
long distance and the telephone sta
lion so far has been at his home.
The Jim river is three miles from
here. on either bank the surface is
rolling and undulating and affords fine
pasture and grazing lands, while farth-
er back it is comparatively level. A
direct railroads.&c. Great Western
coast line-is being built through here
from Fargo ~diagonally to Surrey or
Minot. A new town, Grace City, to
be on said railroad one and one-half
its buildings during the past summer.
It is pleasantly located, surrounded by
a vast forming country and about
equally distant one and one half miles
from the Jim river on one side and
Lake Juanita on the other, the latter
a pretty body of water and an ideal
place for a summer resort. The rail
road is in construction from each way
and Is considered the best piece OF
anywhere in the state,
with tangents of forty miles not vary
ing more than one inch, ell built above
the snow line and practically no
1t will reach Grace City from
the northwest the coming fall and
during the coming year the parts will
join in completion and then o will
via Minneapolis and Fargo di-
rect to Grace City, and might go right
Oh to the coast if you wish. Grace
City has the honor of being named
Mrs. Bradley, nee Grace Enos, and
It has started out TO he in every way
credit to its nameSake. It's origin
and progress so far is due to a stir
ring and energetic commercial club,
who hold their regular weekly meet
ings strictly for business. The town
Is plated and it's streets named. 1t
has a hotel, bank and hardware store
immediate prospects of parties
who will put in a general merchandise
sore, a drug store and one or more
1t affords a splendid open.
ing for many other kinds of business. I
It is In dire need of a blacksmith and |
fully equipped machine shop. Dry
goods and grocery stores, restaurants I
and laundry also are needed. It is a t
fne opportunity for any of the profess :
'ions, lawyers, doctors, dentists, etc. I
The city has pledged itself to donate S
a lot for a church and one for a q
parsonage to any denomination who |
VIII come and locate here. Two I
have already chosen their '
Methodist and Congrega. s
The street on which they s
are located is Grace street and an |
other important n is Bradley street. |
Both denominations are now holding
services In a school house nearby. al. 7
ternating Sabbaths. Although prim- '
Tive the people have the advantage t
church and school and will soon s
have them with more modern conyen. G
II
In riding about with our host we |
have beer much interested in seeing {
work in process Of being done on q
he new railroad. We see the steam
from the steam shoveler and road
grader every day. Two weeks ago our
Darty was senIarpod nv NJ p