The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1921-04-28

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That the new heading in the In
dependent last week was Christmas
present to US and sure was an agree
able surprise, as we'll as big i'm
provement. / do not know who is
responsible for it but whoever the
enterprising head is, THANK YOU,
come again. The other additions con-
tributed were also to my liking and
if we can get a few more of them
each week It will be more encourage
sng to the would be) editor Of these
colums.
A Town Crier is. said to be a live
wire business man who is always op.
tomistic concerning business and
farming conditions, and they all say
that these beautiful rains that have
Aeen descending so beautifully at
regular intervals are sure to put thee
ground in most excellent condition to
start the spring wheat and that the
farmers of the Mouse River Loop will
he blessed with one Of the biggest
crops this year that have been har-
vested in the state. If there ever
was an opportune time for land nj
vestment it is at this immediate time,
for it is a peculiar thing that when
we get one crop we always get three,
aAd with the crop we had last year,
making a start, nothing can prevent
this year from being one of those
BUMPERS that will be talked of by
hoary headed twenty or thirty years
from now.
We have passed though the same
non-crop period that all the central
western states experienced years ago,
before the corn age, and from now on
the state will begin to improve as did
Iowa, Kansas, Oklahoma and many
others. Land is now selling for $780,
90 per acre that will bring 100000
: in ten years. You are laughing.
Well laugh if you want to. Your ia
theirs laughed too when they were
told that the land they left behind,
when they migrated from Kansas
and Iowa only a few vars ago would
be selling at enormous figures. And
let me tell you and all your relatives
that this is TRUTHFUL advertising.
You might think (from the above
headaches) that l am in the real es-
tate business but / am not, / have
been in the Mouse River Loop for
twenty years and from talking with
Indians who are old enough to be
my great-grandfathr, and who have
been born and raised in our great
state, and who travelled through the
whole western country in the days Of
+ho h,,Ho1o -ouI onknlnnn find that
the change has come, and there is
nothing before US but peace and plen-
ty, which always brings high prices
Of productive soil. No state or coun-
try can show a like amount of rich
black soil, proportionately, as the
great state Of North Dakota, and es-
pecially the Mouse River Loop.
Frank Taylor took his wife and
went down to the Cities to get new
Auto. do not know how he is going
TO get it. He didn't say. know
how some of the boys around here
lose theirs, but expect to see Frank
coming in one Of these days with a
car to avoid embarrassment would
not question him too close for Frank
is a nice fellow.
(, Watkins must heave bought new
broom. They say he tried it out on
the Grams block, and especially Ds-
20 Franks room, when he gathered
up the dirt he had Frank and an as
sortment of bottles, crooks, pipes,
etc., and bud Mash says that it surely
sWeeps clean,
Did you ever have this kind of an
experience? Have wife that always
cooked you three squares day for
wears, then all of sudden made up
her mind that she is going on visit,
and in about fifteen minutes she is
gone, and you find yourself bache-
lor with nothing to do but, cook your
own grub, look after the house, at
tend to the cat, make your bed, wash
the dishes, do your regular days work
at the Office, work on committees for
the Association Of Commerce, Rotary,
and Town Criers Club, 60 to lodge
three Of four times week, do your
duty on the school board, keep posted
on the doings Of the city commission,
recalls, ETC.. and then sleep alone?
Gee, but it is lonesome.
There's lot Of people thinking,
And working hard to-day;
To write a little poem
About the month Of May.
II is the month of flowers
You hear the poet say
As he sits thinking
About The month Of May.
There is the growing grain
To give the farmer pay
For the work that he's been doing
All through the month of May.
The child is full of laughter,
/ His heart is light and gay;
IT'S the time for ball and marbles
This lovely month of May.
There are seasons for labor,
There are seasons for our play,
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