The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-10-24
Story Of Heaton, North Dakota

of the Northern Pacific. Sykeston is
seven miles east and Bowden is eight
miles west Of us, on the Turtle Lake
branch of the n. P. railway.
Our parsonage, shown herein with
the congregation attending our first
Thanksgiving service. Thursday. Nov.
%, 1906, was built in 1905, and our
pleasant church, with full sized base
ment and equipped with oak pulpit
furniture and pews and a heating and
gas lighting plant, was dedicated
Aug. 1. 1910, without taking ever q
basket collection, though a temporary
loan of $1,000 was made to pay the
last bills within a month, however,
owing to our church and parsonage
having been wrecked by a cyclone.
The insurance money, with a grant of
$500 from the Congregational Church
Building society, enabled us to pay
the note and make necessary repairs.
property but no one on the toWnsite
was fatally injured, though there
were two fatalities just east of town
in a house that was totally demolish-
ed, and in which three others were
injured. The cyclone gave the town a
temporary setback, but we are forg-
ing ahead again. Fresh paint has
covered up the patches on the build
ings, and our wrecked sch]oolhouse
that was repaired for temporary use
has been removed and it's place Is oc-
cupied by the present beautiful
structure as shown herewith.
The interest of our people In re-
ligious worship and the highest type
of education is not alone indicated by
material structures and equipments.
Our leading citizens recognize the fact
taught by t great teacher" that
human beings are the Temples of
God" and they are interested in max
ing them "holy." This is indicated in
their disposition at attend and sup
port the various institutions Of the
church n school. The musical
spirit of this community may be judg-
ed by the fact that there are twelve
homes in which a piano is possessed
and used. There are also four cabinet
forgans, owned in town, besides a num-
Der Of pianos and organs in the sur
rounding country. These "incidentals'
the mentioned because "Heatonians"
are anxious to secure a whole lot of
the same kind of people to come here
and occupy the many acres of valuable
land ito be possessed" and share out
RACES with us.
This. picture shows the newly paint
ed church and parsonage and principal
residence. street. There are nov sew
eral quarter sections Of improved as
well dS Drohen prairie lanQ, tnaC can
be purchased at a very reasonable
price, because several of our farmers
have yielded to the temptation of &C
quiring more land than they can
prOfitably till. They are therefore
anxious to reduce their holdings. There
are also good opportunities for BUSH
ness of various kinds.
The picture of the threshing outfit is
at, the farm home of j. L. Hambleton,
four miles south, formerly of Marshall
county, iowa, containing 500 acres,
which is now for sale for $50 per acre,
Mr.. .Hambleton now being engaged in
business in town. The farm home of
Prosper st. Jaque, shown herein, il
Illustrates what luXuries many more
North Dakota farmers might enjoy, by
giving attention to the cultivation of
trees, small fruits, vegetables. etc. Mr..
st. JaQue has raised a large quantity
of Strawberries for sale, in addition
TO having plenty for family use. The
Pipestem river running through the
farm, makes it we'll adapted for stock
raising n diversified farming. Many
| Of our farmers reap aa.harvest every
week by ~Selling%cream, realizing hun
dreds of dollars every year without
interfering with their other farming
interests. Others follow the example
Of the Iowa farmers who bought more
land to raise more corn to feed more
hogs to buy more land to produce more
corn to feed more hogs to buy more
land, etc. until the financial men took