Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-04-10
HAHN Is
live TOWN
Metropolis Of Mercer County Is
Forging Ahead Fast; Has
00Inhabitazts.

Hazen, n. sD,ss April 9.-Hazen, the
metropolis of%Inajestic Mercer county
and the town they all bow their heads
to on the north line has but a short
history but has a future one that most
towns will envy. Though less than
a year and a half of age it has become
recognized as the largest and best bus
mess town ON the north line of the
Northern Pacific out of Mandan. Its
territory reaches for a distance of 20
miles south and north to the Missouri
river, from 81 to 80 miles and east
and west a distance that makes our
competitors jealous. A territory that
commands respect in every sense Of
the word when it comes to forging
ahead in a social, business or equal.
ity way. II.
Population About 500.
'Hazen Already has a population
right around the 500 mark and this
mark has been reached without a
great deal of effort on the part Of an
individual or an organized movement
on the part of anyone. There is a
chance here for a substantial growth
and such has been what has made
the last and for the future the grow
tn is certainly not waning.
Hazen has two banks with a COM
bined capital or $4,000 and they are
infants compared with the average
bank of the state. Their deposits are
around $1,000 showing that the f.
nancial condition here is good and
flourishing. Any man that has good
and a show conservative.
ness can get the credit at Hazen from
our financial institutions that will pull
him through on any deal that looks
to sound banking and for
that a the banks here have as.
sisted wonderfully in making Hazen
what it is today. c. N. Janzen is cash
Ter of the iCtizens State bank, a bank
financed by home capital alone and
R. N. Harmsen is cashier Of the Far.
mers bank Of Mercer county, a bank
recorded for it's conservativeness. in
every way, each have magnificent
bank buildings that are talked about
from every angle by the optimist that
comes up the north line.
Progressive Club,
HAGEN has a progressive commercial
cub that is striving to do things for
the village in many different ways. It
meets regularly and there is no lack
Of enthusiasm among its members.
Though only Of. few short months
Of age it already has about sixty act
i've members. Each is working to up
build Hazen and much is being accom-.
plished. Farmers surrounding here
are eligible to join the cub because
Of the joint benefit to them as well as
the business man and they are enrill-
ing in a spirit that links town and
fast together. The club is
low striving to accomplish many good
,hings for the village that will give
t a state, wide recognition, in the fu-
lure.
What makes .Hazen an ideal built
md laid out town is the fact that the
futile Land Co.. the owners OF the
considered Hazen one of
heir many model towns on the north
|ine and they laid the town out with q
view for beauty and the metropolis
Of the region. The streets are wide
and handsome and the landscape Is
most beautiful, with the Knife river, q
beautiful wooded stream flowing near
break the monotony Of the barren
orairies, elsewhere: The villag is also
to make Hazen the talked OF
town of the western part Of the state
n good regulations as to beauty and
uniformity in all matters. All the
within the village are of
and twelve foot wide. Similar
Jules have been laid down in all other
matters in connection with the vii
age which shows an aspect that will
,oncede comment to all who visit the
The residents of the village jumped
into the fray early and incorporated
and elected a live set of village trus-