The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1915-07-22
THE WANDERER RETURNS

Inc WRnuEnEn nE I0fhS
Backward, turn backward, oh time. In thy
flight;
Make me a boy again, Just for tonight"
After an absence of twenty-five years,
on returning to Hope, I find many
changes and improvements in the town.
I have met a number of old friends
and acquaintances, and they seem to
have aged but little. I see many new
faces, also, and some new business
enterprises, while a number OF the old
business concerns still remain.
In 1890, when I left Hope, the prin-
cipal firms and stores were, Luce &
Merrill, hardware and farm maehin-
cry; Wamberg & jacobson, drugs and
merchandise; 81. h. Wasem, merohan-
disc; Tom Baldwin, merchandise;
l.. N. g. Wilbur Wood, hardware and
farm machinery; Hills livary barn;
Harvey, lumber; Robinson Lumber
Co.; three hotels, the Hope House,
Nelson's hotel and the Van Dusen
Hotel; George Mclean and father,
Blacksmith shop; Jim Ellsbury, black
smith shop; the public school build
ing: P. P. Rice's grossry store and
%postofaoe combined; MsMahon Bros,
attorneys; @. J.. Paul, attorney; a
harness shop; Harry Bakers butcher
shop and two elevators, the st. An
thony and one other, completes the list
of important business soneerns,
Those were happy years that I lived
in Hope land I nm living in hope still)
and it was jolly good times that the
boys had in those days. We YER a
small community and dependent upon
each other for social entertainment,
and we got it. There was Doc Phillip,
beloved by oil who knew him; Ed. and
Jim Mcmahon, always ready for .
lark or to pull you out of a scrape and
relieve you OF some surplus cash;
Arthur Mclaughlin, always on deck
at train time looking for a day load
of goods; Jim McCullom, Wsmberg &
%Jacobson's polite and accommodating
clerk, ready and willing to hand you
out the goods for cash or credit; E. II.
Badger, a good churohman and a good
clerk, held it down at Wasem's; there
was L. A. jacobson who was always
"a kiddin'", but alive to business;
John Wamberg, mild, g%entlemaaly and
sven tempered, a popular and success
full druggist; George Luce and Charlie
Merrill, full OF business and always
at the front for any festivities that
cam up; G. J. Paul, Ben Whitney,
the Warner boys and others who fur
nished music for the dances; Harry
Baker and his fatherf in the butcher
business, Harry being n Of the boys
and ready to help in anything that
made for the public good, a big heart
cd and popular boy; Earl Pepper, the
elevator man, afterwards being elected
sheriff Of Steele county, in which Office
be made good; Joe Pepper, who later
conducted The Hope Pioneer; Ben
Walden-oh you kid, there were none
oetter-and we were the dandy grave
grave .diggers, Ell, Ben? L. c. Day,
farmer, one of the boys and a big
hearted gentleman; the Warner boys,
Arthur, Jim, Jene, Joe, Bort and
Charlie. The Warner boys were al
ways there when the dances came up
and during the baseball season, ex-
cepting Joe, who was the steany farm
or, and his fathers right hand man;
P. P. Rice, the genial postmaster
just plain Pete as he was known to the
boys. Lew and Wilbur Wood, two
good boys and all business; Frank N.
Gilmore, we'll liked by Hope people
and a good business man; Joe Shaw,
the %liveryman, always pleasant and
ever. ready to furnish mean of trans.
portation or take are Of farmers rigs;
r. q. Simpson, who owned The Hope
Pioneer and the Steele County Tribune,
and with whom the writer labored for
i've years on the two papers; Billy
Milligan, who vas "a man for a. that,
and at whose place the boys used to
s%ongregate for billiars, pool and box
Ing bouts; Archie Milligan, who was
one Of us; Wasem, the staid and sober
merchant; Harvey, the lumberman,
who was a good shot and a good
sportsman, but came neal lowering
his colors to the writer when he and
Charlie Merrill and myself went on a
chicken hunt with old o%ne-eyed Sport,
the best chicken dog In the territory,
to aush the chickens. Harvey an6
myself raced neck and neck until We
had bagged eleven birds apiece until
toward dusk, I missed my twelfth birc
and Harvey made his kill; %there.wert
with us Jim Joslyn, John Tomlinson