The Mankato free press., 1915-07-23

torney here and a brother OF judge
Plymat OF this city. Is In Rolla. Mr.
Owen Is a director OF the First Ma
I tional bank there, also q director o
the Rolla Security Investment com
pany. w. N. Steele, brother of Mrs
~. AZ. Barclay OF Madison Lake, !.
president OF the First National. He
Is also large land holder In Rolletts
| county, and connected with three
large banking institutions In Califor-
mia. Rolla is n good circus town. a'
was evidenced by the four thousand
people attending the Sparks shows
on the day Messrs. Fritz and Owen
arrived there last week.
| North Dakota has the consolidated
school system which, works admir-
ably, each township having a cen
\ tral school, busses taking the chill
dren TO and from the schools daily
This is an Advancement over many
of the other northwestern states, and
works well wherever tried. II will
! be recalled that Ex-Governor Eber-
hart has been advocating this system
I'm Minnesota for several years, a no
= ticeable feature Of every county seat
town I'm North Dakota is the hand
some modern consolidated school
building.
| Reference TO the village OF Rolla
would be incomplete without mention
OF two of its old and most estimable
residents, whose home for several
years was the rendezvous for busi-
1 ness and professional men during the
! time when the hotel there was out OF
commission by fire. This most worthy
and respected couple Is Mr.. and Mrs
/ Harry Williams, who came from Eng
! land about thirty years ago and set
tied I'm Rolla. I'm England Mr.. and
Mrs. Williams were personal aids to
, Queen Victoria and the royal family,
and ever since the death of the queen,
privy purse Of the royal family. this
yearly allowance having been handed
down as time has passed. Such an
affection had the queen for Mrs. VIII
/ liams that she was given many sonve-
Mrs, dresses and wardrobes formerly
worn by this beloved ruler. Mrs. VIII
liams Is interesting and entertaining
and her experiences in the queens
service are retold I'm most charming
and pleasing manner. Mr.. and Mrs.
Williams are now retired but retain
their beautiful half section OF land a
short distance from Rolla. John
Bourke, present United States treas
urer. and former governor. was Rol-
Ia resident.
On The Main Line.
Returning to the main line OF the
Great Northern and going westward
Messrs. owen and Fritz were inter
ested in the millions of dollars spa,
by the government in irrigation
bitches In Montana. especially near
Glasgow, the place where a congress
sional committee from Washington
visited this week while on an inspec-
tion tour of government dams ana
irrigation projects. This year the
water I'm the u.tches has not been
needed. as Montana, like North Da-
kota, has had an abundance of rain
fall to insure big crops. In fact. at
many places water stands I'm fields
from excessive rain. Glasgow is .a
thriving city. c. c. Storing. former
Rochester banker, is located here.
Fort Benton, an historic city east
of Great Falls, was visited. Here is
. fort and stone building used as a
fur trading center, built In 1S47. and
is still standing i'm the city limits
Benton Is I'm a valley, nestled In be-
tween small mountains. From here
trip was taken by auto In company
with ID. A. CREIGHTON, former Park
Rapids, Mimi, banker. to Geraldine,
a distance of twenty eight miles over
mountains and an agricultural section
now developing rapidly. A band of
10000 sheep was one OF the pleasing
sights enroute. Geraldine is a town
less than three years old, but already
has handsome business blocks and is
in a big wheat section, located on the
new Milwaukee line from Lewiston tu
Great Falls.
Great Falls by way of Havre was
reached over the Great Northern aud
many who were on the train stopped
over at Glacier Park. extensively ad
vertised by this road. The park Is
an attractive place and passengers
from all over the country include
Glacier and its grand scenery in their
itinerary. At Great Falls are located
many Minnesota people. The Baar-
/ son family. Lewis Anderegg. former
; ly connected with John Lulsdorff, and
Mr.. Williams. all former Mankato
people. were met there.
| The Boyle Land company ranch OF
! IL 900 acres. eight miles east of Great
Falls. in which several Mankato gen
: tlemen have an interest, Is one OF
the many large tracts now cropped
where as four years ago sheep were
herded here and not a field of grain
could be seen. The Boyle Land com
pany now has 4,200 acres broken uI
and upwards OF $500 acres are sowr
! to winter wheat and other grains
/ Land there has materially advanced
in value and the wheat yield is from
twenty to forty -eight bushels to the
acre. The Great Northern and Mil
waukee pass through this body oI
land, and elevators for storing grain
are numerous. This body of land Is
twelve miles i'm length-a distance
from Mankato to Madison Lakeland
four miles wide. Wheat Is now turn
ling and will be ripe In a few days
Seven tractors were turning over the
/ soil on this ranch at one time or
Monday this week, and one plowinf
engine was pulling twenty -one discs
IA marvellous sight. Fourteen Min.