The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1921-11-07
SOUTHWEST COUNTIES SET EXAMPI + gs1saaa'ss' ~
FOR REST OF STATE IN COOPERATION
Answer to Exaggerated and I'm.
true Stories is Display Of
Courage, Optimism and Fore.
sightedness on the Part of
Business Men and Farmers
Big Get.together Meeting
Held in Bowman. '

southwestern NOrtn Dakota is set
ting an example for the rest of the
state in the promotion Of neighbor
liness, optimism and far-sightedness
In spite OF exaggerated and pessimi.s.
tic reports the leading citizens of this
section OF the state already have their
energies bended toward the futuro
and have quietly gone to work on a
broad program of community develop
ment which already has achieved re-
suits. -,
Bismarck men and others who have
travelled through the southwestern
counties have returned to this city
imbued with the spirit Of cooperation
and optimism reflected in Bowman,
tHettinger, Mott and other towns
They bring predictions that the pro
gram now under way will mean a dc
velopment Of that section of the state
much more rapidly than many other
sections, and more rapidly than any
one had expected.
Bowman citizens held a get togeth-
e. meeting last Friday night. G. n.
Remission, of this city, who was pres.
ent, says there were 1000 people in
the town. A big feed" preceded an
evenings entertainment at dances,
held. in two different halls. There
were places for 800 people at the big
table and it was refilled again and
again. Everybody seemed to have a
good time and farmers in overalls had
just as much fun as someone dressed
in the latest style 'of fall clothes. Citi-
zens Of Bowman plan to have monthly
dances and get.to-gether meetings
during the winter, and the same thing
is planned at Hettinger
They Are Sticking s q.
Many people have gone into tho
southwestern part of the state, as in
other sections of this anu other states,
and have moved on after year or so.
J. e. Phelan, president of the First
National Bank OF Bowman, and A. G.,
Newman, of the First National at
i4ettinger, told Mr.. Keniston that
there are fewer people leaving the
country this year than ever. The an
swer of the people of this section to
stories of caravans who are moving
out Is that they are planning good
times during the winter and for the
extension of dairying and farming
next spring and summer.
Obert A. Olson, former state treas
urer, who travelled through Bowman,
Slope. Adams, Hettinger and Stark
counties some days ago declared that
there was more optimism among the
people thote than in Bismarck. Most
of the farmers have cows which they
are milking. some went into the nor.
thern part of the state to aid in
threshing and others have been work
ing on the roads or in Other ways
making money, he said. Merchants
are cooperating to- the best, Of their
ability, he said, and with the oil Fever
catching hold there is much activity
in many towns. He said he knew OF
only one family that had moved out,
this being due to illness of member
of the family. 4
In some counties while the grain
crop failed there is plenty of hay and
there is considerable corn for feed.
One farmer bought carload Uf shell
ed corn to feed to pigs this winter.
Many others have bought good dairy
cows.
Building Good Roads
|, There is a piece of road aonstruc'
ton between Flasher and Carson
which is attracting much attention. 1t
is a federal aid project, well drained
fenced, smooth. Cars can travel at
high rate of speed over it. So much
favorable comment has resulted that
there is much agitation to promote q
great deal of work on roads during
the winter to provide employment.
Many harmful stories have gone out
about southwestern North Dakota
among them that the Red Cross has
sS,nt much aid to the section. Mr.
| Remission was at meeting of the Red
FCross in Hettinger. One widow mad
been helped by the Red Cross. There
had been no applications to the ooun;
| ty poor fund there and but two ap-
plications in Adams county, while in
other, communities of the state, par
| ticularly in cities, scores OF persons
are being aided and many helped even
! in normal times.
7Conditions in the southwestern
counties reflect the lack Of good crops
| In the opinion Of some residents o,
| the, section there will be wonderful
| increase in dairying and cattle raising
in the next few years and southwest
orn North Dakota, with her pnogran
of coonerAtion among business people
and farmers. will "come back" faster
than anv section of the northwest. ,
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