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I-. •. &• V-I. & & f: $? ll ii! If THE WARD COUNTY mOEPERDEHT Published Bvary Thursday '«. F. TMU, hUltlwr I. C. C0LC0FI0, Edit* IftOiOT, NORTH DAK., MARCH 10, 1910 BDITOR1AL COMMENT HOW TO MAKE MINOT GROW- The above question was considered at the Com mercial club, at the bi-weekly smoke talk Wednes day night. The proposition Is a worthy one, and Wteil worth considering. The Independent has glv en. this subject considerable attention already in the varwns phases, with the exception of one, wMch wptfill consider at this time. A well known busi ee$%nan, with patriotic ideas, made a suggestion that Should be kept foremost in the minds of each and every business and professional man every day in .the year, if they would have Minot to grow, and that is regarding the importance of the business men themselves trading at home. How many thou sands of dollars do you suppose that the business men send out of Minot every year, that might Just as well be left here? The Independent will not ven ture to make a guess. The sum is greater than it should be. Naturally, we might be expected to vomt to, the hundreds of dollars worth of printing that is ordered from out of town every year. Occa sionally, a business man will want embossed work, mad in that case, he might be excused for patroniz ing the foreign printer. Our prtnteries can do the work Just as welt ana just as cheap on practically every class of printing, as the St. Paul concerns «an, and suppose you should pay a dollar or two more on twenty-five dollars worth of work, you will more than get this back. On that amount or work, fifteen dollars is paid for labor, and the printers certainly know how to spend their money. Send the money out of Minot, and you help to pay the salaries of St. Paul printers. Every fall the underwear man comes around taking orders, and is usually quite successful. Why not patronize the home dealer. The shirt man has a regular line of customers. His merchandise is good stuff, all right, but can't the local haberdasher do as well by you?' Frequently the particular woman will board the train anu go to Minneapolis to buy her coat suit. The local dealer in women's ready to wear garments would appreciate'her trade. Are yoa building a new house? Who will paint it? Be sure to .hire the painter to do your job, who will buy bis paiiit from the home dealer. Where do you bay your furniture? Do you get your clothes made by the local tailor, of do you wear those with the Hairy Mitchell stamp upon them? Do you buy Hoar made by. the local mills? We have no refer ence to any one in particular, but really, wouldn't it be better If we did all of our buying at home— not a part of it? Try this, and watch Minot gr3w. Have you some extra money that you want to in vest? The publishers of the Independent are not An the real estate business, otherwise, our readers mtgh* think we had an ax to grind in what we are going to say. If you have a few hundred dpllars, why don't you invest it in Ward county dirt? We know that you could not do better, for the price of j| advancing all the time. Men in the east have ibeeoane independently wealthy in the past by baying land and holding it for the advance. Our North Dakota land is yet within the reach of the .m,n investor. A couple of thousand dollars will buy a. fairly-J(»d quarter, that will be worth double in live years. Suppose you have but a thousand dollars. You can buy a quarter-section of land, and give a. mortgage for the balance. We do. not be iiece ia giving mortgages, except where there is a probability that the property will advance in value. Pay wiiat you can on the land, and put your sav ™g» imto the balance. The taxes are not great, and \yon (Mm .usually get a good deal more for your yh»Fj of the crop than -the Interest and taxes will amount to. Don't you know that the time is not far distant -when our land will be selling for fifty /dollars an acre? Why spend your money on land in Ifjexteo, Texas, or some other out'of the way place, trite* there are thousands of opportunities of doub ,irhg-your money right at home? The farmers jure getting anxious to buckle into the harness, tthough if the fields are in condition by "the -middle of April, the work will not be con sidered behind hand at all. In the meantime, the ap-todate farmers are cleaning their seed wheat will other grain, getting "t in ship-shape for seed ving, seeing that their harnesses are in good re pair, aad looking after the odd jobs about the farm .that would have to be done during the busy season, if nwsflecteii jbbw.-- The farmers' busy sea son has begun. Wlih/ftre coming of the spring days, the streets of'iJIinDt/bave again taken on their busy aspect. A stranger gazing at the crowds hnstllng up and down ourbusiness streets remarked: "Where do a-x the .people come from? This looks like the Fourth of July'back home." Business ought to be *ood in Minot the coming season, -and the business *nen are preparing dor a big trade in «n lines. The to*n knocker gets this well deserved rap if from an exchange: "It takes a sharp knock to 'p.break an egg from the, outside, while a weak little JcMck with its soft bill can break out from the in sfde. It's "the same with the town. The knocks .-rfrom the outside have little effect—it's the blows ^at.home of the damphool -knocker that "hurt a town." "Thfe Tact that automobiles'have been run In Minot 4 'm/t vicinity all winter long, ought to have some effect in Wiping out the idea prevalent among east /,. era people, that North Dakota in winter, is an un -fahaiiitabie country. If you want: to.. effJOy. pljy# vbTtttt spring weather, come to North Dakota. We were reading in a miJgailne abort time ago, about an Iowa tarmer and hit wife, stinting themselves for more than twenty years that they might have money with which to build the finest home in the neighborhood. The lumber was all choice stock, well seasoned, and was picked from over a period of several years. The trimmings, hardware, etc., used in the home were all of the most costly varieties and in fact, the new house was a model. Yet, it was not a home. The farmer and bis wife had saved and slaved for so many yeare that when finally their fondest aspirations were realized, they had become BO accustomed to the old saving habit, that they could not hear to use the best rooms in their new domicile. So they cooked and ate in the dark basement, while many rooms remained unused. So many of us are in many respects like these peo~. T""" grind, day in and day out, from one year's end to the other, having fond visions of the time when we will be able to take that long anticipated trip, which too'often ends in the last Journey over the "MIT'ln a beautiful glass enclosed vehicle drawn by a*gen tle Bpan of blacks. While we have our trials and tribulations here below, we should manage to get a good deal of pleasure out of life as we go along, but too often we wait for the time that never comes in which to get that enjoyment. When a man lives for twenty-five years In one locality he is likely to become pretty well acquaint* ed, and if he had any traits that would make him unfit to hold an office of public trust, they would certainly have become found out. L.« P. Weather wax, candidate for county treasurer of Ward county, lived for a quarter of a century in the vicinity of Shellsburg, Iowa, and the Call, which is published in that city haB the following to say regarding his candidacy: "The many friends and relatives here of L. P. Weatherwax will be pleased to hear that he is making good in Minot, North Dakota. Mr. Weatherwax is a candidate for the office of county treasurer of Ward county. North Dakota, and is receiving encouragement in his canvas for office. He is in every way worthy of the support of the people of Ward county, and should he be elected, the finances of the county will be in excellent hands. His friends here hope he will be successful." The malls are now being flooded with speeches madp, or recorded as made, by representatives of the people in congress who are seeking a re-elec tion. These franked speeches are most interesting reading and show that the accredited authors are well posted on the vital interests of their constitu ents. The voters should feel proud of the ability shown by their representatives in preparing such elaborate and exhaustive pleadings, and should not hesitate endorsing their efforts by a re-election, provided that these gentlemen voted for what these speeches advocate when the final test came. The senator or representative who admits that his vote if given on an important measure is a subject for barter and trade is no better and no worse than the voter who sells his manhood and vote at a popu lar election. Look up their records. For the first t|*ne in seventy-live years, Halley's comet Is visible. It can now be seen with the use of a small telescope. In May, it will light up the heavens, and the spectacle will be a grand one. The comet is now about 170,000,000 miles from the earth, and 130,000,000 front the sun. It Is going through space at the rate of 2,000,000 miles a day. In May it will be bnt 14,000,000 miles from ths earth. While this distance is inconceivably great, at the rapid rate at which the comet Is traveling* if will come uncomfortably close to the esstlC tor were It to. eonae straight towards ns^.lt would re-: quire but sevea days for it to strike tUtf. old ter» restrial btjgv.. lav that event, wfeat-we«tldtM0pea would naver.be, toldin these cotnnms. The Flaxton.,. Times claims that -tttfc natter oC election in the county division propoaltions, w«» properly publiseb.d The Independent was one of the official papers that year, and although we have searched our flies, we do not find any record of where such notice was ever published. We are of the opinion that J. W. Fabrtck, who was county, auditor, at that time, did not send out any such' no tices of election for publication. Whether this will have any bearing on the re-hearing of those cases, or not, we are not prepared to say. Some of the newspaper boys are sore at a certain candidate for state office, because they published the announcement sent them and are refused pay ment for the same.--' The candidate In question merely sent the announcement to let the boys know that he was in the game, but sent no letter asking that the same be run. The Independent received the announcement, and consigned it to the waste basket. We wilt all have to learn to follow this rule, uness these announcements are accompanied by ten dollar Williams. The non-advertising merchant goeth forth to his lair at the rising of the sun and lo! no man inter fereth. He standeth around all day like unto a bottle of castor oil ana the people with the shekels come not unto his shanty. He advertiseth not his wares and his face is forgotten on the face of the earth. Who hath dried apples? Who hath fly spoiled ginghams? Who hath calicoes made "befo de wah?" Who hath stale baking powder without end? He that knoweth not the way. to the printer. —Ex. John Anderson, publisher of the Chicago Skandi navian, Is dead. He was one of the best known Scandinavian Journalist* In the United States, and for his services to the, Scandinavian rpce, was cre ated a Knight of the Order of St. Olof in 1901, by King Oscar of Sweden and Norway. Gov. Burke is kept fairly busy these days an swering his critics, concerning the legality of his appointing IW». ,H. Purcell to the-Senate* Right or wjonj^ there is no£question but .that the appoint ment wiitjrtick.' V'. v.-.'! 3 not,7 This Ad. Ran Originally A Year Ago Buy Your Drugs of a and pay for them before you see what you get, or before you know whether or not they are what you want. Buy Your Drugs of a ORDER HOUSE and if theyjare old and worthless and you do not get results, what are you going to do^about it It will do no good to Holler," Buy Your Drugs from a ORDER HOUSE and you buy from a firm that sells drugs thajt produce a habit indlscrxm* inately, taking advantage of tfte fact that statr laws caimot cofitrot inter irataace, we on "FROM THE- andyou buy from a firm (that com pile* with the written law and also the unwritten law controlling the sale of habit-producing drugs. We will return your money for aH goods that do not produce the results that the highest quality drugs should produce PROGRESSIVE DRUGGISTS S A I S A I O N O N E Ti North Dakota Mask.