The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1917-07-05
FULLERTON HAS
Her BIG DAY
CELEBRATION THERE BROUGHT
THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE
Fullerton People Worked Hard to En-.
tertain Hosts-Grove
Nice One
The Dickey County Farm Bureau en-

tertained big crowd at Fullerton
yesterday. The Times is safe in say
ing it was the biggest bunch of people
that ever spent a day in Fullerton. Es-
Inmates of the crowd run from $500 to
5000, but a safe guess would be around
the 5000 mark. We have never before
seen so many automobiles together in
the county. There must have been 700
to 800 there. Every section of the
county was represented.
The fine grove of DR.. Stokes is a
good place for an entertainment of this
kind. There was plenty of room for
the big crowd all to get comfortably in
the shade of the trees. Everything
was we'll looked after. There were
many eating and drinking stands and
those having them in charge didn't
have thing to do but work-and
sweat. A speakers stand with many
seats afforded a comfortable place to
sit and this was brought into use at
meal time-for there were many pic
mic parties-as well as seating many
during the program. While this seemed
large it did not come near accommo-
dating those who listened to the ad-
dresses.
The patriotic speaker of the day was
unable to be present and Rev. Aaron
Wolfe of Oakes was called to take the
place of Senator Wesley Mcdowell.
Mr.. Wolfe acquitted himself very nice
ly. He took up the history of the
United States since it's earliest history,
showed how the Pilgrim Fathers had
turned away from the king ridden
country of Europe to seek freedom on
our shores. How the War of the Re.
bellion was fought for liberty; how
the War of 1872 was fought for the
freedom Of the seas; how the Civil
War brought freedom to the black peo-
pie; how in '98 we took up the cause
of humanity and freed the peoples Of
Cuba and of the Philippines; and now
at the present time we are again called
on to preserve our liberties and en-
gage in the call of humanity. We are
in fight for the preservation of DEM
ocracy, and we are again going to win.
He reminded us of the debt we owe to
France, and was glad that our boys
were being landed in France today to
help preserve the liberties and tradi.
tions of her people. The end of the
war he predicted would come in Sep
tember of next year and then there
would be monument erected to the
memory of German autocracy.
Prof. j. H. Shepperd of the Agricul-
tural College gave an address on what
the A. G. is doing. He told of the be-
ginning of the work and what it had
done for the farmers of the country.
Hog cholera, eradication of scab on the
Irish potato, the conquering of flax
wilt, and other losses that pestered the
farmer, had been solved by these col
1eges, as we'll as the improvement of
the herds and grains. The great work
of these colleges was brought home to
the farmer through the County Agent
system inaugurated few years ago,
and it was to the advantage of the
farmer to cooperate with the agent in
this work.
M. F. Greeley, of the Dakota Farm
er staff, gave an interesting address as
he always does. He also took up some
phases of farm work, making special
plea for the small farm and the proper
handling of it. Mr.. Greeley thinks
Dickey county is about the best of the
state in its get-together meetings and
spoke very highly of the cooperation
and good that will come from it.
The ball game was rather tame af-
fair, Ellendale starting early and not
giving it's opponent, Hecla, a chance
to score once. The game ended 13 to o
in favor of Glendale.
There was a creased pig to be