Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1920-09-16


have proved that local grain men
were getting too large profit. And
that, too, is matter for discussion.
If the local elevators were paying
too far below the Minneapolis market,
then the local dealers, were profting
thereby. In the markets in Emmons
county, for instance, the various ese>
vators in each town have been paying
the same prices in those towns.
Hence, what is true of one of them is
true of all. In which case, every
farmers elevator in Emmons county
and practically every town has one
has been getting this so-called
"steal" that the Free Press discovered
by reading the Courier-News.
If the local farmers elevators hav.
been getting more than their share.
why see how many very noted league
gentlemen hereabouts are involved.
There's Fay Harding. Didn't the
league paper tell US just before the
primaries that Fay Harding was
looking after" the farmers elevators
at Temvik and Hazelton. Isn't Sam
Wright and Steve Kraft and H. A.
Reamann, C. A. Ward, Roy Yeate,
and ever so many more good leaguers
mixed up in these farmers eleva
tors? Why sure. Really, it's
shame that the local league editor
would try to start something that
would get all these very fine gentlemen
Gin bad"
Fact is, there is nothing to it.
These gentlemen haven't been parties
to any "steal," and the league done
is simply bunk. Probably only
meant for a"joke" to catch Suckers
simply "hoax that a child ought to
be able to recognize as such."
And then, further, let US refer 20
the McGovern dope in the league
article that is being reprinted in the
fifty-three league county papers:
Who is McGovern? He Is now the
manager of the state mill and elevator
association, and one of the right-hanc
bowers of the Townley machine.
Where did he come from? Well, a
few years ago he was manager of a
little farmers elevator at Madison.
S. D., and Was paying beautiful
prices. He was showing up" the old
line grain thieves. And then. one
day, the directors of the elevator
which Mr.. McGovern had charge of
discovered that the elevator was
broke, that Mr.. McGovern had nut
them twenty or twenty-five thousand
dollars in the hole. So McGovern GER
tainly ought to be competent to fix
all the ills Of the grain market
Nit!
Mr.. McGovern pirates about his lit
tie soap-box mill at Drake. He says
the mill was paying $2.46 on the
same day that the market in Mime
apolis ranged from 50. 45 to 81. 55. So
the Drake mill was actually paying
as much or more than grain brought
at the Minneapolis market. So.
And still the article says the mill was
paying the Minneapolis market less.
the freight from Drake to Minneapolis.
The freight would have been at least
twelve cents. Now what do YOU
know about that? It has been said
that figures don't lie. Well if they
don't, then McGovern does.
Another fishy statement: One Mr..
Oscar Backman is made to say that
the buyer at Wilton offered him $500
for his wheat, and that he called up
the Drake mill and found they were
paying $2.46. Mr.. Backman then
says he sold 2.20O bushels of grain to
the LOCAL DEALER AT WILTON.
just think what fool Mr.. Backman
claims to be. He proceeded to sell
his grain at Wilton at So. 09 when. he
could just as well have shipped it TO
Drake and received 81 cents more.
Whew!
There are plenty of troubles to con-
tend with in marketing, etc., and ev-
ery effort should be used to get fair
deal for all. But it is certainly too
bad that it is possible for some, little
two-by-four league county manager to
attempt to strife and ill-feeling among
others by peddling lot of dope that
he doesn't know the first thing about
Miller probably knows as much about
grain-buying as we do about Latin.
The class Of men who have been
really shorn by the Minneapolis Cham.
Der Of Commerce are the men who
wanted to make some easy money
and who have gambled a few thousand
dollars on the market without know
ing anything more about the game
than the league county manager does.
We know that some Emnons county
people have been trimmed that way.
.agurs and some
of them ,vare mt