Fergus County Democrat., 1913-12-02
GOSSIP OF THE TOWN

just returned from a visit to Illinois,
spending good deal of his time at
GRANVILLE, White county, his old home.
Mr.. Blackford says that the farmers
in Illinois got about half a crop of
corn this year, but had good wheat
crop. In White county the poorer
farms gave an average yield of about
ten bushels of wheat to the acre, while
the black prairie lands and bottoms
gave an excellent yield, running as
high in exceptional cases as fifty
bushels.
Land is so high back there that it
is not paying five per cent on it's value.
There is some hill land, called gray
land that can be bought for SIS an
acre, but the black prairie and bottom
land can hardly be bought, as it is not
on the market at all. In the Frasier
Prairie, for instance, there hasn't been
sale of farm land in ten years. One
farm was sold in another section a
couple Of years ago at 1926 an acre.
The black prairie and bottom land in
that section is very fertile and the
farms are held continuously in one
family for very long periods"
While at Carmi, near GRANVILLE, Mr..
of Edward Tanquary, the young man
who is in the county Jail here charged
with the murder of John Crawford.
He has known the Tanquary family all
his life and says that it has always
been considered as one of the best in
that section. Young Tanquary himself
was we'll thought of and the news of
the killing created sensation in that
part of White county. The young
mans father is now in Florida, Mr.
Blackford also met relatives of Tan
quarys young wife, who also comes
from an excellent family. Mr.. Black
ford was called upon by Benjamin
Brooks, an uncle OF the girl, who is
prominent merchant. He was much
distressed over the unfortunate affair."
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M. F. Sharp, national organizer of
the American Society of Equity, who
has been spending some weeks in this
county, assisting the farmers of diff
ferent localities in organizing, was in
the city last Saturday on his way to
Glengary to aid in perfecting an or
ganization there. He has dates for
meetings at Moore, Benchland and
other towns.
THE farmers of Fergus are begin
ming to wake up," said Mr.. Sharp.
They are the only class of business
men in the country today who are not
organized in their own interests and
yet they are the ones who need or
ganization the most. They are show
ing keen interest in the matter now,
however, and by next spring l expect
to see the farmers of Fergus county
well organized"
One William w. Synder who has Of
t1ces in Chicago, has just issued a
neat and very attractive little booklet
calculated to aid him in selling lands
in "The Great Lake Basin Country of
Montana" This booklet is an aston
ishing sort of steal in one very i'm
portant particular. One of the first
pictures shown in it is a view of the
Tognetti ranch. This was taken for
Mr.. Shoemaker, of the G. E. Shoe
maker Co., and in it the familiar fea-
lures of Father van den Brock are
seen. The next picture is a familiar
one of Deerfield ranch, Mr.. Dusek
and Mrs. E. M. Holmboe being seen in
the foreground, the picture having
been taken by Mr.. Holmboe for Mr.
Shoemaker. The Shaw ranch, between
here and Moore is next depicted.
Then there is another view of the Tog-
netti place on the Judith, Mr.. Shoe
makers smiling countenance being
seen in the grain field. Next comes
the Arthur Stoddard ranch and finally
there is view of the Shoemaker farm
near Sipple. The photos of all these
farm views were taken for Mr.. Shoe
maker and the Cook-Reynolds COM
pany and belong to them. Just how
the dealer in lands in 1.-THE Great Lake
Basin Country" secured them is not