Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1915-09-01
FIRE PROTECTION.

FIRE PROTECTION.
There is a well-equipped fire hall, having chem
ical engine, hose cart and hookand-ladder with vol
unteer fire company that has shown it's efficiency on
the few occasions which have arisen
ALvARADO'S CEMETERY.
The Alvarado cemetery is located one-eighth of
mile South of the business center The site covers an
area of 3O0x500 feet the grounds we'll kept and the
cemetery has many splendid monuments erected in
memory of those that have gone before This proves
that the population Of Alvarado has chosen this as
their permanent abode the choicest spot on earth,
which is after all the best insignia of splendid citizen
ship.
SPLENDID WAGON AND AUTO ROADS,
The best asset to any city, town county, is it's
public highways. These stand foremost in permanent
improvements and make for market center, combined
with the railroad facilities for passenger and freight
service In these Alvarados territory is equal to any
i'll the county. There four main wagon and auto
mobile roads, state road running East and West,
connecting Oslo and Warren; road running North
linking the territory in that direction South road
tapping rich farming district the South while the
Grand Forks road is connected up with the state road
mile to the West, giving the farmers the best Of
road systems covering this whole rich portion of the
Valley.
ALvARADO AS A GRAIN MARKET
The finding Of the cash market for everything
grown produced the farm is what makes for
business activity in the cities and towns and in this
respect Alvarado occupies unique position, having
three elevators the Farmers Elevator Co., $4,000
bushel house, spauldng Elevator Co., 10000 and the
Atlantic Elevator Co., 10000 bushel house, or total
capacity for the three elevators Of $4,000 bushels and
that handled 100000 bushels of grain for the 1914
crop year. These elevators will handle close to
shells OWNS tn The
larger yield per acre. better quality and larger acreage,
emphatically placing Avarado Prosperitys map.
Improved farms are now selling at from $40 to
s75 per acre, according to improvements, and will be
priced and selling at $500 to $3.50 per within the
next few years. which spells bigger and better Al
varado.
ALVARADO'S SCHOOL SYSTEM.
There are adequate facilities for the education Of
the youth covering the primary and grades, which
taught in two-story school house shown elsewhere
this page The school attendance is 125, but owing
to the crowded condition and the increased school pop
ulation, they have formed consolidated school dis
tric No. 81 that has eighteen sections and fraction
of land which will provide building and give
ample educational facilities, covering high
school course, manual training and domestic science
The school board comprices Daniel Nordstrom clerk
Nels G. Backstrom, director and M. Sands treasurer
ALvARADO'S CHURCHES.
In churches there are the Swedish Lutheran ant
the Norwegian Lutheran, both of which have splent
edices, testfying to the splendid religious work
it's citizens. This accounts for Alvarado being ga
loonless town. It made So under local option
did not have to hold to the coatt tails Of count
option to provide safe harborage for the risin
generation besides setting pattern for other cite
and towns of the Valley.
ALvARADOS BEAUTY SPOTS.
In the primitive days when the Indians held full
sway, the Snake river one Of their favorite re
treats during the season, owing to the soul
inspiring scenery of dense forests and foliage tina
lines it's banks throughout it's course and there is n
spots as that which lies in and around Avarado. Beau
tiful also are the wheat fields You do not have
go away from Alvarado to enjoy nature nature i
for it abounds everywhere along the Snake river, al
fording splendid camping grounds and the best Q
hunting in season.
VILLAGE OFFICIALS.
The official business of Alvarado is in the hands 9
men who have the best interests of not only the vag
but of the surrounding territory at heart, who have
shaped It's affairs as make it profitable city to
business in and ideal home community, thereby 81,
ing it lure to those who do their trading and max
this their social center The present officers S.
Tricky, president; C. o. Olson recorder; Carl Sand
treasurer and Dan Dahlstrom, who with I
Lodoen, N. G. Backstrom and w. f. Malm comprii
the board of aldermen.