The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1914-03-16
LANSF0RD CLUB
DOING BIG WORK
w. f. Holbein. Delegate
from That City, Everlast-
ingly Boosts Home Town
NEW ARE
BEING BROUGHT IN
Movement General, He AS
serts-Thirty Silos will be
Erected in District.

LauSford Commercial club. and also
secretary Of the North Dakota Press
association. has the distinction of be-
ing the first delegate to reach the city
for the meeting of tho North Dakota
Federation of Commercial clubs. And
being an early arrival. Mr.. lIolhein
mas had an opportunity to tell q few
nice things about lLansford. He SAYS:
The campaign for membership in
a,Eurated by the Lansfcrd CONNER
ctai club several weeks ago ia about
craving to a close. The members
started out with the determination to
secure 100 memberships. and with lit
tie effort were able to reach this goal.
Many farmers havc Joined the organ-
i5ation. and they are very e%nthusias-
tic. Elegant club rooms, with all the
appurfenances necessary for a we'll
conducted commercial club. have been
secured. and will he opened in a few
days with appropriate ceremonies.
New mission furniture has heen or
dered. and. an individual lighting sys-
TEN will he installed.
This activity on the par, of tho
commercial club was made necessary
ny the immigration movement OF the
500 line. Already this movement has
begun TO bear fruit. Several farmers
from Minnesota and Illinois have ar
rived at Lansford aud arc getting set
tied IN their @ homes. Others who
other chimes are returning. happy To
get back to the Mouse river loop
country. They report that. tho influx
OF old settlers who left here several
Years lii response tn allurins
propositions from other states. has
Just begun, and that with the months
TO follow many Of them will he com
ing back
Many New SiloS.
over thirty silos will le built in
this locality during the coming spring
and summer. Nearly every farmer in
the district will plant corn and sow
alfalfa. his spring. some IF them for
the first time in their lives. and they
are awake. to the possibilities, of tn"
si'o in connection with these crons,
one farmer. G. H.. knudson. has been
experimenting with alfalfa, for the
past two years, and this spring will
so" IVo acers to his great forage
crop; retter Farming Agent w. r.
WED is daily taking orders for alfalfa
seed among the farmers here. and he
predicts a. greet acreage Of it this
year. Better strains of cattle and
horses are in demand n several
slres have been already received here.
There Will be a. great deal of building
done In our locality this spring, as
neaSF farm are realizing that
IL is easier to secure the better class
Of renters. and better prices for their
land y they sell 1t when there IA :,
good set of buildings OH the farm.
Corn Show Assurcd,
"A corn show is assured I,a,1sford
in the fall through the action Of the
county commissioners Of RottjnealI
county at their recent March meeting,
commissioners have provided for
a, corn contest for the county. and
they will appropriate suitable money
prizes for the hest corn grown during
l91a. Ut has been settled that L.ans-
o Will get II of the two shows
70 90 held in the fall. Already ar
interested tn. make this first corr, show.
mark an important epoch in The his
tory Of this part of the loop