Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-12-26

two years ago. Already he g0e.
veioped a splendid trade. and carries
q good line Of stock. He is worth
giving a trial.
]. C. Krein Ia cream buyer At
Wishek, sending 1t to st. Paul. There
are six other cream buyers In town,
all shipping It ont OF town. This -
enough to- prove that Wshek shohld
have a creamery of Its own. Mr..
Krein buys about u thousand dollars
worth Of cream a month. He is also
d dealer in coal and -four.
The buyer for the Ashley creamery
company, n. w. Davis, bought ~.
287.4O worth Of ream in May. His
average for the year Is, Of course.
slightly lower than this. but on the
whole, 1t maintains a high average.
The average test Of the cream bought
by him showed 35 per cent of butter
fat.
Cream Buyer
Joseph Werdlow is the proprietor
OF a general store and cream depot
in Wishek. He buys about seven
hundred dollars worth of cream a
month, and is reputed to be n or
the boosters OF his town. He has .
stock OF general merchandise valued
we'll over $4,000.
The City Meat Market, l. Dorfnan,
proprietor Of one of the %cleanest mar
keting places in the city. 1t was es.
tablished six months ago, and has
done an astonishingly good business.
ir. Dorfman is a good fellow n
worth helping along.
The Doyle & WEIGH Elevator COM
pany Of Wishek, bought about three
hundred and fifty thousand bushels
Of grain last year-all but thirty
Thousand of which was flax n
wheat. Mr.. Doyle and Mr.. Welch
aret two more boosters for the inter.
ests of Wishek and implicitly believe
in the territory of Wishek.
Herr Brothers and company are
| dealers in general merchandise, farm
implements, threshing machinery,
groceries, and the long list of neces-
! stiles. i, Herr Brothers store is one
OF the biggest on the line. 1t was
established four years ago, and does
a yearly business Of close to $72,-
900 They expect to turn their en-
tire stock twice this year. II things
continue as they were when the Over.
landers visited the store. aF
Painter and Decorator. a,
John Bronner, decorator and house
painter, has been in the business In
this town for nine yaers. He dces
all the painting for two building con
tractors in own. A good deal of build.
lng, he states, has been going on
in the city and country, and he has
been kept on the Jump most Of the
time. Mr.. Bronner is assessor, n
is good authority, therefore, when ne
says that taxes are considerably low
er now than they were some time
ago. They are now cut in less than
half. He says that practically all
the residents of Wisheg own their
own homes, except the railroad men.
which is an ususually good sign OF
a good town to live in.
E. H. Cook. who owns the pool ana
billiard hall, has been in the business
for twelve years. He takes a lively
interest in baseball, and emphatically
he is not a prohibitionist. 4s
W. H. B%ettenhausen, a farmer INV.
ing nine and one-half miles south
west of Wishek, is tho man who cir
culated the petition for rural mail
service out his way, to improve the
opportunity for receiving papers
every day. Crops are good, he stated,
and a good yield is certain.
Another Progressive Farmer.
John H.. Hellmuth, who lives four
teen miles northeast of Wishek, is
another of the many progressive far
ners in the vicinity Of that town.
A railroad survey through his land.
which is now under construction,
will be completed next year. MI.
Hellmuth makes a fair pile each year
from the sale of the stock he raises.
The farmers about Wishek, are
learning better than to allow them.
selves to be left penniless by hail.
When the hail Of July 4th swept over
portions of that country, the repre-.
s%entatives Of insurance companies In
Wishek alone received thirty-six let
tiers from the farmers who had been
touched by the hail. This shows tina:
the farmers areataking every precau-
ton to- safeguard themselves from
hail, and the rest of the accidents