The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1912-11-28
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Litchville, situated on the Casselton-
Marion branch of the Northern Pacilc
( is the third largest town in Barnes
county, having 484 inhabitants accord
ing to the 1910 census and at present
has about $40 persons within it's bord-
ers
4 The first person to start business in
Litchville was II. J. Hanson, who ran a
B general store and post Office when the
. town was located on the then build
lire in the fall of 1900. Today there is
a thriving center of trade with one
drug store, three general stores, three
!. hardware stores, three implement deal
ers, two doctors, one veterinary sur
geon, two banks, two barber shops, a
livery stable, a garage, two pool rooms,
q jewelry store, an exclusive shoe
store, a weekly newspaper, third
class post Office, four rural routes,
postal savings bank, two hotels, rest
aurant, two lumber yards, five grain
elevators, two blacksmith shops, five
churches, Congregational, Dutch Re-
formed, Methodist, Norwegian Luther
an and Catholic) one lawyer and one
of the best school systems in Barnes
county. Farmers annually market
100000 bushels of grain at Ltchville.
Litchville has men who have brought
her into especial prominence in the
development of Barnes county. DR.. C.
e. Spicer is serving his second term
as president of the State Medical so.
ciety and Hon. A. p. Hanson, member
of the legislature for the south half of
Barnes county, was one OF the special
counsel in the Cowan impeachment
proceedings of two years ago. -.
The location of the town gives her
one of the largest trade areas in this
section. She practically controls bust
ness in her section and no other large,
towns are in a position to compete
with her. Valley City is twenty-eight
miles, LaMoure twenty-four, Lisbon
thirty-ive, Nome twenty and Dickey
twenty-five miles. Rural mail car
riers operating out of here cover 120
miles each day and their large amount
of outgoing mail has made the post
Office a third class office, Valley City
having the only one of higher class in
Barnes county.
Real estate here is advancing rapid
" in price and there is practically no
land that can be bought now for less
than $35 an acre, while much Of 1t Is
being held as high as $50, depending
upon location and improvements. One
real estate firm, the Wells agency,
sells land and writes insurance. Many
of the farms here are supplied with
artesian wells and close to the town
there are eleven silos in operation.
Litchville has high school course
and employs five teachers to instruct
the village students. She has one
good artesian we'll for water and fire
protection and is bonding for $4,000 to
put down another this fall. She CO.
operates with the Better Farming
movement and has number of ex-
pertinent tracts near town. She has
regular market days and at her an
nual fall day this year will have a
public meeting for cooperation with
the Better Farming association of
Barnes county. She has an indepen-
dent telephone company managed by
local men and has long distance con-
nections with all principal points.
She has one of the best and liveliest
weekly newspapers in the state pub.
lished by J. E. Nelson, who also IS
post master and one Of the influential
men Of his part Of the county. She
has an active commercial club that
is always working for the city's good.