Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-02-06

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| CATAAY
Cathay is located on the 500 rail.
sroad in Wells county, and Wells
pcounty should be proud to have con-
fined in her county lines a modern
littl city with every facility to for.
ward as inducements to new corners
to settle within a distance that they
could lave for their trading center a
city with unlimited inducements.
Cathay and community have never
known what it was to put up the cry
Of hard times and no crops. The i'm
plement and machine dealers are not
b0asting, but can verify every state
ment as follows: That the town of
Cathay's yearly sales Of machinery
and farm implements exceed any one
town in the state of North Dakota,
one machine company in the little city
carrying "a stock amounting to better
than $4,000. Sears,-R oebuck, Mont
gomery, Ward & Co., and a number Of
other catalog houses have no chance
to lblild up their centralizing plants
as the town is made up Of a numb r
Of large general stores, having in
stock every conceivable article that
the towns people and energetic, mod
ern farmer would want to further the
preparation Of the land for the large
crops that are annually raised in the
district.
Train Service.
The excellent train service render
ed by the 500 railroad makes is pos
sible for the general merchant to re-
tain a complete stock Of all necessi-
ties, and retailing them at a price,
considering the quality, that the cata~
Logging houses could not begin to COM
pete with if they had for sale the
same grades Of merchandise.
The men that now cater to the pub
lies wants. are / en- who have by the
sweat of their brow broken their
share of the broad prairies in Wells
county, and have titled and cultivat-
ed them into the we'll kept and mod
ern homes that are SO numerous in
this locality.
W. A. Denison, cashier Of the First
State bank at Cathay, came here
twenty odd years ago and has seen
the promising village of a few scat.
tered homes develop into a trade and
grain center, equal to any and unsur.
passed by none. This bank is. capital,
lied at $4,000; surplus and undivid-
ed profits close to $4,000; deposits,
$4,000. This bank was established
in 1902 and the continued popularity
Is due to the efforts Of its officers to
please and retain the respect anc
rust that results in the enforcement
Of the most stringent banking rules.
Thereby protecting it's depositsors
and customers. The officers of this
institution are as follows: r.. l..
Breiseker, president; G.. l.. Bishop,
vice president; w. A. Denison. cash
ier.' t. l.. Ereiseker has been a res
ident Of our great state for twenty
years, knowing something Of the
early settlers Of Foster and Well
counties. C. l.. Bishop took up his
residence here twelve years ago, and
says that North Dakota is the grand
est state in the good old u. s. A.
Stop and think, You prospective loc:.
tor, n implement company in
Cathay sold between fifty and seventy
five thousand. dollars worth of mia.
chinery and implements in 1917,
This company was the Cathay Hard
ware and Implement company. A
pretty tidy sales report for a com.
pany in business. only ten years. ln1
connection with the implement .4And
business, the COMPANY can
supply you with the best Sfade of
harness Of all kinds. "A . 'an1 COM
plete stock on hand at ar times. The
officers Of this company are as fol
lows: George Behfer, president; D..
H. Bohrer,,. VIE president; F., A.
Riedessel, secretary and treasurer.
These gcntleheu, through their coure-
eous and fairf tratment, have estab-
lished a yea1y sales record equalled
by few.
Settled in 'S3.
Settling in the community in 1885,
and knowing this section of the state,
participating in the changing OF the
long buffalo grass and range into
crop producing and farm scene of
prosperous localities, such as any
state may be proud to claim as be-
ing part Of her rich domain, broad
fields Of golden grain. Corn has
its tasseled head where these
men in SO found nothing but the
rose and prairie daises. These
men who SO presistently stayed and
advocated the future Of this country
md not only advocated it, but made
heir share into the certain crop lands
# which Wells county is sc well no.-
I'd. Abraham Lincoln was of this
sind. Not satisfied with the mere
possibilities of a livelihood, but pre-.
Jared himself for something better,
md so have the mep that came to this
state, and steadfastly refused to &C.
;ept any other argument except that !
Forth Dakota would some day rank
lmong the first states in the Union. {
Chc Hardy brothers, for the past 1if- {
cen years conducting a general mer- |
;landise business in Cathay, are men '
If this calibre, and today they still
'etain that quality and resOurcefui. t
less that kept them here in the early {