The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1913-10-30
FULLERTON. THE GEM
LITTLE CITY OF THE 500
Bismarck Tribune OverIanders Pay Following
Tribute to Neiehborng Town

! Fullerton is one OF the llVeSC llttle
towns on the Observation-Disclosures
branch of the 500. 1t lies in fertile
Dickey county, between Clement and
Boynton, and just few miles north
asst Of the exact center of Dickey
county. 1t has population of about
140, but it's Importance lies more in
the productivity of it's soil than in its
population or number of business
places. The elevators are the correct
tag on the town.
They show the real wealth of Fuller
ton Each elevator is jammed to it's
full capacity every rail-, and the rail-
roads can't supply enough cars for the
farmers who ship their grain inde-
pendently.
Good Farm LAND.
Fullerton is in as good farming
territory as there is in the state.
Dickey county is famous for the fer
tility of it's soil-for it's large yields
jand for it's immunity against crop
failures. The farmers of the county
are realizing at last the result of years
of labor. Very few - them are de-
pendent. Most of them are we'll off,
own their farms unencumbered by
debt, have improvements converting
the farm into as convc..ent a place of
residence as any home in the smaller
towns-more so, in fact-and have
money in the bank.
Fullerton, being in Dickey county
and in the heart of the best farming
territory, raises heavy crops every
year with hardly al. exception in a
dozen years. The town is as old as
the railroad, and the road came
through in 1887. Through the. pio-
neer days Of the county and the state
the country has been settling up, and
the land has been farmed better, and
as result Fullerton has s-o-n scead-
lily but unostentatiously little every
year. Now it is small town with
a few business places, elevators
churches, schoolhouses, stores and a
few residences.
Own Their Own Cars.
A large percentage Of the farmers
Of the country own their own automo-
biles, and it is nothing new to see a
farmer after days work miles away
from the home farm, at some larger
city of the county or of some other
county. You will see him come out of
a store, load his family into the ma
chine and start swirt'y out into the
dark for his home, many miles into
the country. It's an everyday sight.
AS to Fullerton's roll of business
men, they are the necessary variety.
The farming territory takes just GER
tain kinds of business men to act as
mediums between the farm and the
outside country. There are the eleva-
tors, the lumber and coal yards, the
livery stable and the blacksmith
shop, the machinery shed and the au-
tomobile garage.
Livery and Feed Stable.
F. Van Middlesworth livery and
feed stable man, is a pioneer. He
came to this section IN '83, and took
over his present business in 1905. He
lis servant of the government in that
he drives one of the mail routes out
of the Fullerton postosice. The Full
erton postoffice has been getting two
mails day since 1908.
F. w. Teichmann is the leading
village blacksmith and has been hon
estly serving the community in
capacities to the satisfaction of ev-
eryone who has ever given him
chance to show his skiil.
F. E. Manning owns the only meat
market in town, but as the farmers
are Independent to the extent of be-
ing able to go anywhere in their cars.
Manning doesn't take advantage of
the lack of competition. He estab-
lished himself here in 1908. The town
is one of the best possible locations
for meat market because of the i'm
mense trade he can do with threshing
crews in threshing and in harvest
time.
Caldwell Elevator.
Mark Johnson, manager of the Cald-
we'll Elevator, company, does ire
mendous business every fall, Last fall
he skipped $4,000 bushels of grain,
even though the crops were somewhat
damaged by hot winds. The Caldwell
company is branch Of the firm own