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We meet occasionally business
men in our towns and also farm
eis in the country who entertain
a notion that the interest of
tonntry and town, of farmer and
merchant, is antagonistic This
notiou is founded on the delusion
that our ordinary legitimate
ti ude pai takes always of the na
ture of sharp tiick-bargaiiiing.
It is admitted that there are mer
chants ho trade with the object
of making all they can, foul or
fair, and that there are farmers
who do the same thing: in turn
hene\ er they get a chance Hut
we hold th.it such trading is the
exception and not the rule. We
know that fanners often com
plain of being treated unfairly.
And now we ask such com plain
ing fcirmeis how they expert to
remedy this unfair tradinir,
wheie it reallv exists? The an
swer is, bv getting a chance to
trade with some tairer dealer, by
competition among dealers Bu
to be 8uiv of that healthy com
petition among business men
that keeps prices down to a fair
living profit in all branches of
business there must be a certain
size of the town, and the larger
the better Of course business
men sometimes combine to keep
prices, but if the range
pi ices is too high, and the
town of any size, such arrange
ment cannot last Ions*. We sa\
if the town is of any size, aud the
\olume of business laige, some
enterptising outsider will soon
discover this fact, and come in
and bid for the trade on fair
teims. This then is the advan
tage of a large tow n* that there
is always shaip competition and
goods of all kinds at fair prices
The latter may be true, and very
often is true, of small towns, but
of larger towns it is always
ti ue Exceptinu of course goods
whose prices are set by manu
facture! s, trusts and combina
tions. Hence, looking at this
question fi om a farmers' stand
point pinely, we assert that a
large trading matt within a day's
drive of a tanner guarantees the
latter absolutely against unfair
dealing in trade. If his home
to a himfai.iy, well ^uicl,
good, there is wheie he ought to
trade if not. he can hitch up his
team and go to the larger town
where the numerous business
houses and more intense compe
tition avail es him of a fair deal.
Hence it is directly as a matter
of fair pi ices tor goods and indi
leuth many other ways, of the
greatest importance to the farm
ers of Kandiyohi county to have
a large trading maitwithiu the
couirt, and the laigerthe better.
So when the Tribune urges the
upbuilding and booming of Will
mar it woi ks directly for the ben
efit of the farmeis of Kandiyohi
county as much, and peihaps
moie so, thau for the iuteiest of
the property owneis and busi
ness of Willmar Nor should any
of the smallersurrounding towns
feel jealous, and we are certain
they do not, because every intelli
gent business man knows that
the boom of Willmar would di
rectly benefit them all. Suppose
Willmar should get an iron foun
dry. Would that hurt New Lon
don, or Atwater, or Kerkhoven?
Sui ely not Because it is moral
ly cei tain that neither of these
places ouldever get such a plant
and Willmar is the nearest point
to either of them that such a
plant can be established. Such a
plant at Willmar would be of
great convenience and benefit to
all the surrounding tow ns. Sup
pose Willmar hhould start up a
boom and attract that Chicago
road headed for her, distant ordy
a few miles south-east of the,
county,
bod\ Nay, isn't that just what
would do in somemeasiue justice
to the long suffering patience of
the Lake Lillian fat mer, ami ben
efit this whole section of country?
The Ti ibune beliex es in political
l-efoim, but it also believes in
business reform tight here at
houmamnng ourselves. We have
studied these problems some
what, but still we may be wrong
in some particular. But if we
are, we should like to a some
body correi-t us. We invite criti
(isn'i and discussion of this mat
ter in the Tribune.
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We call esjierially the farmers
attention to our FARMERS WANTS
AND FOR SALK COLUMN beguuin
this issue. This is only one of
the many ways that a wide
awake newspaper like Willmar
Tribune can makeitself generally
useful to the community.
B. R. Rasmusson has started a
cheese factory on his farm, close
to Pennock, and will have full
cream cheese for sale the lust
y% pai of the month.
^Although everything is' very
we predict that New London
goes dry
K^BfeSSgstill,
It is well known but sometimes
forgotten by parties ho ought
to remember it, that Kandiyohi
Co. contains the most wondeiful
summer tesort west of Miuueton
ka. Thestretch of country around
aud between Spicer and New Lon
don will some day in the not dis
tant future rank as the great
summer resort of central Minne
sota. the west and south of
us stretches for hundreds and
hundreds of miles the almost un
broken solitude of monotonous
plains. You may travel for day
and days over the prairies of
Southwestern Minnesota and the
Dakotas, and further south
through Nebraska and Kansas,
and not a lake worthy of the
name, nor a sign of native forest
greet your straining eye, or re
lieve the tiresome monotony.
Few people can stand this prairie
mouotony very long. They soon
develop an irresistable desire to
go to some place here they can
feast their eyes on natural scen
ery, on beautiful lakes and foi est
clad hills. Hence we see the
dwellers of the plains come here
in the sura mer time and enjoy our
beautiful natural scenery. Our
Green Lake summer resort isjust
beginning to be properly appre
ciated. But Willmar Tribune be
lieves that a little effort lightly
expended could bring one bun
dled times the number of visitors
that come here now. An effort
ought to be made to make Gieen
Lake a pic-nie place for some of
our State or National societies.
How would it be for the Spicer
and New London people, and
others interested iti developing
Green Lake as a summer resort,
to organize some society or cor
poration to work for this object.
Willmar Tribune stands ready to
second some such move if taken
in hand by the proper parties.
Why not do something now so a
to boom the lake next season.
FACTS.
In the Argus of 14th of Feb.,
1895, we find that it was howl
ing against the people in school
district No. 63 for doing what
they thought to be right.
The Arjrus sneered at the reso
lutions passed, at meeting held
in the said district, on the date
stated, because they did not in
clude what Birch pieached.
Not only this, but Mr. A
Birch accuses our Co. Supt. and
blames him for being the framer
of these resolutions. Now how
does the Argus know about this?
I hope that the Argus in the fu
ture will stop with its manufac
turing of gotten up nothing
news The truth is that our Co.
Supt. had nothing to do with
the resolutions.
A committee on resolutions
was chosen, and they framed
them at the meeting and they
were adopted.
The Argus wise maxim used to
be "J^t the people see both
sides of things and let them
judge for themselves." but the
Editor instead of following this
noble thing, simply throws the
resolutions sent to him for pub
lishing, into the waste basket
and then begins to howl.
Now if these resolutions were
such an obnoxious matter, why
dont the Argus publish them
and let the people see what is in
them.
That C. A. Birch is against our
County Supt. of schools for put
ting his shoulder and strength
with the common schools is nat
ural, but we demand same rights
for a pupil of our common
schools as those of the high
schools, and when we see that a
pupil of the former school works
_.. _„ haid in order to come up to a
would tnat hurt any- standard, and comes out as
gloriously as the pupil of the lat
ter in the branches taught in our
common schools, why then not
let him have the use of the hit»h
school State examination? We
did not mean to solve the ques
tion in 1 egard to the sail I high
school examinations, but we be
lieve in equal rights to all, spec
ial privileges to none. For this
ue passed the resolutions, wish
ing to have this system of exam
ination eAtended to the whole
State. Now, Birch, let us have
our rights and we'll be silent,
and not before.
Yours,
EVAN E RICKSON.
Willmar, Minn., March 2 1 8 9 5
HILBERT'S STOLEN SWEETS
Will surely please \ou The
perfection of handkerchief ex
tracts. Sold ouly by Carlson
Bros. & Frost.
10,000 bumWW corn
cob or shelled wanted
Bonders Feed Store.
on
at
the
P.
Just received, a car load of
Glidden Barb Wire and Nails.
Our prices are right. Just call
and see.
JOHN LUNDQUIST
The editor of Willmar Tribune
made a short visit to Belgrade
last eek. Taking into consider
ation the dull times there was
quite
ning at
full capacity continually, and is
a graphic illustration of how a
wide-awake and eneraetic firm
can build up a flourishing busi
ness even during hard times.
The irrepressible T. J. was so
busy in tending to the Farmeis
Union Cash Store that .our usual
politico-economic discussion with
him when up there, had to be
postponed to anothertime. Our
old friends Hampen Bros.' weie
so busy counting eggs and weigh
ing butter, that we came to the
conclusion that the farmers up
around there must be doing some
diveisified farming The latter
firm has built up an extensive
trade of late \ears. We even
noticed in their stoie customers
from the western part of the
town of Not way Lake We also
met the genial Bro Campbell,
doctor and editor of "The Sun,"
and inspected the sanctum wheie
The Sun uses and sets every
week Bi Campbell inquiied
about that Atgus-eyedsourmash
down in Willmar who was mak
ing faces at doctor-editois. We
informed him that no one paid
any attention to what the Will
mar Aigus said that the fault
finding disposition of the Aigus
editor was undoubtedly due to a
constitutional idiosyncracy for
which he was hardly accountable.
Bro. Campbell is a strong Repub
lican, but he is a gentleman, and
philosopher enough to realize
that radical reform in oui
national affairs is necessary in
the near future
Everybody spoke words of
praise of the Willmar Tribune
and a number of uew subscnbeis
was added to our list
The Argus Menagerie that went
up in the cyclone two weeks ago
came down last week in the form
and similitude of fine mud at the
devoted heads of the Tribune edi
tors, pretty good proof that the
latter are doin» their dutv to hu
manity general, and Kandho
lii county in pellicular. Indeed,
to be assailed by such classical
writers ae Bircb and his Pwmotfk
correspondent, and such legal
ability as Hazelton, proves that
we are no small potatoes Jn
deed are not, brethi en Wh,,
to be attacked by tins trio'is
equivalent to a certificate of re
spectability We doubt not that
St. Peter will admit any petson
who can prove that these thiee
characters opposed him in life
The success of the Ti ibune is now
assured.
The Willmar Tribune is the
name of a new paper, the initial
number of which was issued last
Tuesday, Febuary 19. It is ed
ited by Dr. Johnson of New Lon
don, who ran for the legislatui
ou the People's party ticket last
fall and was beaten only 2 9
votes by Henry Feig. The pa
per will support the People's
party, and as that party cast
over 1,500 votes in Kandiyohi
couuty last fall, it ought" to
start out with a large subscrip
tion list. Dr. Johnson is an iu
cisive and logical writer, and he
will give his competitors a hus
tle in that direction. The fiist
number is well edited, neatly
pi inted and displays a good a
inount of advertising patronage
The paper is being printed tem
poral iiy in Editdr Ciosbv's Re
Eublican Gazette office.—[Moor
ead Daily News.
Those who have not paid in the
dollar for their subscription will
please go to some one of our
agents and dos as soon as con
venient. When we ai sure of
prompt and satisfactory returns
from our subscribe! we can make
arrangement to enlarge and
otherwise improve the Tribune
The editor of the Aigus op
poses a Noimal school for Will
mar, and ridicules Willmar Tri
bune for tiyiug to aid faimeis
to get out of debt. Farmeis,
whatdo.vo think of Mr. Bitch
an\wa
Send your job pi inting to the
Tribune We guarantee work
manship and prices to be satis
factory. Address
WTILLMAR TRIBUNE,
Willmar, Minn.
Do yon notice our Farmers
Wants and For Sale Column?
Three lines for 1 0 *ents. What
do you think about Willmar Tri
bune anyway? Do you wonder
that the other pa pei are making
faces at us?
HILBERT'S STOLEN SWEETS
Will please the most fastidious.
A strictly high-grade handker
chief extract. Sold only by Carl-
& Co. ion Bros. & Frost.
It will remain ek St. Paul.
The senate so decided last Fri
i.y by a vote of 4 1 to 12. The
law now stands substantially as
it did at last session's close.' The
fees to architects \jere left for
decision by the commission. The
bids of Minneapolis for the site
were simply so much bluster, to
compel the' St. Paul delegation
to agree to a large appropria
tion ,to the University. It is re
poi ted that Duluth gets a Normal
school in the same deal. One
thing is certain, -the two big
cities, with a few smaller ones
with State institutions, practi
cally parcel out the revenue of
the State as they please. The
rest of the State is not in it.
HILBERT'S STOLENSWEETS.
Made from the choicest flowers.
Quadruple strength An exqui
site odor Sold only by Carlson
Bros. & Frost.
Several communications
left over for want of space.
are
Words from Philadelphia.
The editor of the American
writes us as follows:
PHILADELPHIA, March 8, 1895.
Di Chmstian Johnson,
New London, Minn
Dr \R SIR:—I am in receipt of your
letter of the 5th instant and have
read hat you say with gieat inter
est. We mubt strive to overthrow
the jiower of the money cliques aud
to effect this throifgh the ballot box
When the Ameiican people under
stand fully the efforts of the gold
mono-inetallibts to enslave them, they
will use in their might and under
the leadership of men of knowledge,
ability and integrity of puipose, tbey
will sweepall beI ore them The Presi
de ntial candidate foi 1896 must come
tiom the people as Lincoln did. No
man now in public life is a fit man
to lead ihisppoplem the crisis now
before them.
Yours very truly,
SAMUEL If, BARKER,
Prest
The Ameiican is a weekly na
tional journal it circulation
ofovei 10,000 a
work for humanity,
Or. ebristiar
Physician and
Office at Willmai, over Lundquist's
II udvvaie Store, coiner of Litchfield
avenue and Thud Street, on Monday,
Tuesday and Wednesday
The rest of the week
home in New London
I shall be at
Calls left at my office at New Lon
don or per telegram to me at Willmai
when there, will be piomptly attended
to in any part of the county as here
tofore
Be sure to inform me in your call
in cases of confinement, so that I may
bring necessary instruments, etc,
also in cases of injnry that needs
immediate attention.
I go out from Willmar on trains
by teams as most convenient
or
I tend to my medical practice now
as ever, all the assertions to the con
trary notwithstanding, and intend to
do so in the futuie
Reading "Farm, Stock and Home."
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1H S 9 WHY* and Home, published
atMinneapoIis,Minn..
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and cared for according to its plain, prac*
tical instructions, are sleek, thrifty and
delighted and his fruits, grains and vege
tables, propagated according to the teach
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New Spring Goods
and Novelties.
We offer Special Bargains for This and Next
WEEK in the following lines, all fresh and
new goods just arrived
MEN AND BOY'S
CLOTHING
for Spring and Summer—An IMMENSE
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FOR
A FLORIST'S FAKE.
thm Story of the "Blanket of Flowers" on
Mrs. Astor't Grave an Invention.
Many women have visited Trinity
oemetery, One Hundred and Fitty-fifth
street and Amsterdam avenne, in tbe
past few days to see the marvelous
"blanket of flowers" which was said to
"cover the casket" of Mrs. William
Waldorf Astor, and which was to be
"renewed every morning for a year" by
Mr. Astor's order. Mra Astor was bur
ied on Jan. 9, not in a vault, but in a
grave, in the northwestern corner of
the Astor plot On the day of the funeral
the mound of earth was covered with
pine boughs. The evergreens have not
been removed, and except at one corner,
which has been uncovered by inquisitive
visitors, the grass is covered with snow.
The laborers in the cemetery have swept
a path through the burial plot, and
about the grave a path has been trodden
by men and women.
Tbe cemetery employees have grown
very tired of having their word doubted
by women who inquire the way to the
Astor vault and the blanket of flowers
on the coffin. No flowers at all have
been placed on the grave, and they can
see for themselves that none can be put
on the casket. So tbe women insist that
the coffin is not in the grave, but in the
vanlt of John JacobAstor, and they ask
to have the vanlt opened, so that they
can see this wonderful covering. Al
though the man explains to them how
Impossible and useless it would be to
comply with their reojietti, tiny
who take pleasuie in buying where the variety is the best will greet
with joy the daily arrivals of new fancies in goods at our store which
we are able to show simultaneously with their advent in the Eastern
Centers
An
Ocean
Ingrain
Not Equalled Anywhere in America.
Priestly Black Clay Pure Worsted Suits,
Indigo Blue ClayPure Worsted Suits.
Thompson All Wool Black Melton Suits
Thompson Indigo Blue Melton Suits,
TenDollars
Samples sent to any address These suits are as well sewed, lined and trimmed
as any suit tailor would charge f25.00 for All Sizes, torn 33 to 46
RODLUN & JOHNSON.
parfhnsaiisnea ana donating nie worn.
The old gatekeeper, who has been
employed about the cemetery 22 years,
has to bear tbe brunt of their inquiries
and disappointments. He said that the
other evening, just as he was closing the
gates, two women begged for admit
tance, saying that they had come all the
way from East New York to see the
flowers and would not go home unsatis
fied. Some come from other states, and
two came from what seemed to him the
antipodes—Staten Island.
All this annoyance and disappoint
ment is due to Joseph Fleischman, a
florist, of Broadway. On the morning
of tbe funeral he told the reporters that
he bad the contract tosupply fresh flow
ers every day for a year for the grave.
For this he was to receive $100 a day,
he said, and in all he would receive
$40,000 from Mr. Astor. On the day
after tbe funeral Mr. Fleischman sent
to the newspaper offices a typewritten
story of the alleged contract given to
him by Mr. Astor. He was, he said, to
furnish 4.000 fresh lilies of the valley
and 4,000 violets each day. He repeat
ed the statement yesterday to a reporter
of The Sun, and then, being confronted
with the facts, admitted that he had in
vented tbe whole story.
Superintendent OttoMeurer of the
oemetery and his brother Albert who is
sextonof Trinitychurch chapel and had
charge of the funeral, say that no snob
order for flowers was given
of Latest novelties In Men's &
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HATS & CAPS.
Brussels Carpets
And Art Squares
Will be sold at enoimous reductions for
we must make them move.
A LARGE ASSORTMENT of Ladies' Spring
CAPES and JACKETS
.IN the very
Latest Styles.
Great Opportunities in the many Bargains we offer in
various lines of goods, as we furnish you with correct
styles aod qualitig&at orach k$£ (iu iBSttecesy-
Colored Floiidlans In Clover.
Nothing will kill a young negro but
a charge of dynamite, and their stom
aohs must be wonderfully and fearfully
made. The freeze was an unmitigated'
blessing to them, and they luxuriated
on frozen oranges for two weeks after
ward. It was fun to see them. They
would gather around the various ship
ping points, and when a lot of fruit was
ordered to tbe cremator they would help
themselves before it was hauled away.
Some of the boys would eat two dozen
frozen oranges at a sitting, or standing,
rather, and the feat did not seem to
harm.them in the slightest Some of
the bootblacks and newsboys made a
point of buying 5 cento' worth of frozen
oranges every day for their dinner.
They could get a dozen large ones for
a nickel, and tbey would eat them way
down to the yellow hid* A white boy
who attempted the same performance
would have bad several different kinds
of cramp oolio in less than 15 minutes.
—Florida Times-Union.
Bjw Shot.
The king of Dahomey evinced de
cided displeasure.
"Why," he thundered, "don't the
•mazons quit shooting? Can't they
see that flag of truce?"
The chief of staff shook his head.'
N
y»» majesty,"he replied
the flag of truce was raised after
the order to, fixe was given them.
Detroit Tribune.
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