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AIDS TO HOUSEKEEPING
INVENTIONS WHICH ASSIST THE
HOUSE-WORKER
Among the Latest Is the Machine
Which Draws Out the Dust Without
Scattering It Into the Atmosphere —
Electrical Appliances Save Much
Toil.
With all the modern appliances
which the housekeeper of the present
day has to aid her, the management
of a household would seem to be an
easy matter, but, in spite of invention,
the good housekeeper finds that only by
thoroughly systematizing her duties
does she find time for the manifold out
side demands.Of course we are speaking
of the somewhat imposing home, which
is large and needs a retinue of servants
to keep it in order. We are approach
ing the time of year when the spring
houseeleaning is to be done, the mere
thought of which fills a man's soul with
terror and gives the housekeeper many
anxious hours* For the thorough clean
ing of a home which is lived in by a
large family, w"hose affairs cannot stop
even for the regular cleaning, is not a
simple matter by any means. Usually
several women come in by the day to
assist, and one room is taken at a time,
but even so it takes weeks to wash
paint, dust the entire library and take
down and put back pictures, curtains,
etc. No one blames a man for lunch
ing, dining, nay, living at the club
during the process, as it really is a
most unpleasant upsetting of the fam
ily life, but, of course, it must be done,
and particularly in a country of long
winters and much burning of coal.
Now comes along a man who has
invented an apparatus for cleaning
houses by an automatic air blast.
Blessed man! The husband who will
not prefer this affair, even at a much
mc reased cost, to the old way of a
topsy-turvy house for a month, will be
rare, indeed. It is constructed in a
variety of forms, so that every article
of furniture can be expeditiously
<leaned. They are now putting such
(loaning plants into hotels and other
large buildings, but for the convenience
of private houses, a portable machine
is taken about on a truck and a hose
is used which drives out ever bit of
dust in a jiffy. The work can be done
by the maid or a man sent with the
machine. Several private houses in
St. Paul have tried this experiment,
and it is by way of becoming popular.
Perhaps the old-fashioned housekeeper
will have none of it, but she may be
sure that it is just as effective, and
more so, than a dozen women with
dusters. The motive power of this
machine is electricity, and so rapidly is
the work done that it is said a house of
twelve rooms can be cleaned in a sin
gle 'lay. What a blissful thing to go
out to spend the day and when one re
turns at night to find the entire spring
cleaning accomplished. This is a case
where science comes to the rescue of
the tired housekeeper.
Among other novelties for the house
keeper is an electric stove, which is
portable and can be carried about by
the cook and set down wherever she
desires it. Then there is—these things
are all exploited in a current magazine
—the refrigerator with a compartment
for freezing garbage until it is re
moved. The electrical kitchen—that is,
the kitchen equipped with electrical
devices —is a possibility now, so that
housework is gradually being robbed of
jts terrors, and why not? Have not
invention and discovery made it pos
sible lor men to labor with ease, and
yet do more effective work? Yet for
some reason or other women are sup
posed to go on with the dreary old
grind of cooking, sewing and house
work as if there was some special
glory in not using labor-saving device?.
Now it would be well to stop before
we fall into the Charlotte-Perkins-
Gilman strain! Housework is, of
course, essentially womanly labor, but
there is no reason in the World why a
woman should not take advantage of
all the helps that science has made
possible. So here's to the house-clean
ing-in-one-day machine, which can be
recommended on moral as well as
ci onomic grounds, as it may prevent
separations between husbands and
wives. Many's the man who has stay
ed away from home during house-
v A prominent club woman, 1
Mrs. Danforth, of St. Joseph,
Mich., tells how she was cured
of falling of the womb and its
accompanying pains and misery
by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound.
" Dear Mbs. Pinkham: — Life looks
dark indeed when a woman feels that
her strength is fading away and she has
no hopes of ever being restored. Such
was my feeling a few months ago" when
I was advised that my poor health was
caused by prolapsus or falling of the
Womb. The words sounded like a
knell to me, I felt that my sunfead set;
but Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege
table Compound came to me as an
, elixir of life ; it restored the lost forces
and >^uilt me up until my good health
returned to me. For four months I
took the medicine daily, and each dose
added health and strength. I am so
than, 'ul for the help I obtained through
its use." — Mrs. Florence Daottorth,
1007 Miles Aye., St. Joseph, Mich.—
—96000 forfeit If original of above letter proving
genuineness cannot be produced.
"FREE MEDICAL ADVICE
TO WOMEN."
Women would save time and
much sickness if they would
write to Mrs. Pinkham for advice
as soon as any distressing symp
toms appear. It is free, and has
put thousands of women on the
right road to recovery.
FASHIONS FROM VOGUE
Prepared Specially for THE GLO3E.
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The present styles are practically
adapted to the needs of older women,
for by slight modifications they may
be made suitable and becoming to
women of all ages and all manners of
figure.
Such smart details as full lace un
dersleeves and neck and waist ruffles,
and pelerine capes and stoles lend
themselves most charmingly to the
woman of advanced years.
Small hats and stringless toques are
being more and more used for ordinary
wear, but for dress occasions smart
little bonnets witn strings are the cor
rect thing. These should match the
costume with which they are worn, and
are usually made of panne velvet or
spangled nets or chiffon and are
trimmed with feathers, lace or flowers.
Black, gray and lavender are the
colors most used by real old ladies,
who have their gowns made extremely
plain with full skirts and simple bod
ices trimmed with fichus or capes.
Invariably the throat and wrists are
finished with ruffles of finest lace. Very
cleaning time, and among those who
do not blame him is
Mainly About People
The Sacred Thirst Total Abstineee
society will hold an open meeting
Thursday evening in Cretin hall. Fa
ther Byrne, of St. Patrick's church,
will deliver an address, and there will
be a musical programme given by Mrs.
S. V. Harris and Mr. J. F. Gehan, vo
calists; a recitation by Miss Flora Join
er, and mandolin and guitar selections
by Messrs E. and J. Morin.
Mrs. John B. Johnson, of Fairmount
avenue, will give a card party Satur
day afternoon, Feb. 13.
• • •
Mrs. E. W. Durant gave a small lun
cheon yesterday at the Minnesota club.
The Monday circle met last night
with Mr. J. N. Kirby, of Holly avenue.
The class topic was "Education."
Mrs. E. N. Saunders gave a dinner
last night In honor of Mr. and Mrs.
E. W. Durant.
Prof. Fenolloso gave the fourth ot
his series of lectures last night at the
Central High School hall. His sub
ject was "Buddhism and Confucian
ism in Oriental Art."
Mr. C. J. McConville, of Arundel
street, has gene to New York.
Miss Haas, of University avenue,
gave a pit party last night in honor
of Mr. and Mrs. Allen, of Winnipeg.
Miss Hutson and Miss Perfect, of
Goodrich avenue, left last night for
New Orleans.
Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Gruber gave a
sleighing party to a few friends Thurs
day evening. Luncheon was served aft
er the ride by Miss Shannon and Mrs.
Fitzgerald.
Justice Brewer's Daughter a Bride.
WASHINGTON, D. C, Feb. B.—At
noon today the marriage of Miss Eliza
beth Brewer, youngest daughter of
Justice Brewer, of the United States
supreme court, to Wellington Wells, of
Boston, was solemnized at St. John's
church, this city, by the Right Rev.
Dr. Satterlee, bishop of Washington.
President and Mrs. Roosevelt and the
members of the supreme court were
among the guests at the wedding, and
at the breakfast which followed the
church ceremony.
GOSSIP FROM GOTHAM.
The urgent necessity of having some
feature In the evening dress of a gentle
man to distinguish It from that worn
by a waiter was made clear in Del
monlco's last, week when Mr. Pembroke
Jones hurriedly dashed up to a desk In
the office and said: "Why isn't that
man, directing the guests, In livery?"
"He is, Blr," said the clerk, apologetical
ly. "No, he isn't," was the decided re
ply, "and every one is In confusion, for
THE ST. PAUL GLOBE. TUESDAY, FEBRUAEY 9, 1904.
soft velvets, satins and silks are the
most, appropriate materials for such
gowns, and for trimming the capes on
the bodice or flounces at the foot of
the skirt silk and cnenille fringes are
extensively used.
For younger women all the darker
colors as well as pale gray and white
are appropriate, and their gowns, both
for street and evening wear, are marked
by the richest materials and trimmings.
The gown illustrated is an excellent
model for a cloth or velvet costume.
It is of gray satin faced cloth and is
made with a gored skirt trimmed
around the bottom by rows of velvet
polka dots of graduated sizes and of
darkest tones of gray. The coat is
tight fitting and has a wide girdle belt
of velvet and a deep shoulder cape, cut
with long ends in front, which is or
namented w-ith two sizes of the gray
velvet polka dots. The front and
sleeves ruffles are of cream colored
point de Venice lace and the bonnet is
of gray panne velvet with shaded os
trich tips on the side.
all think he is one of the guests. I took
him for one myself. Have him put on a
cap, or something, to make known his
identity." Of course, the employe put
on his house cap, and order was once
again restored at the carriage entrance.
But the fact remains that there should
be some distinction that could be easily
discerned between the waiter's suit and
the guest's.
Leather bags for shopping that are so
popular this season have proved a boon
to the business woman who takes short
trips out of town. For in a neat bag of
small dimensions one woman carries a
"dream robe," made of cobweb silk,
that took fourteen yards in the making.
Besides this, the regular toilet articles
are carried, and make an out-of-town
trip as comfortable for a woman as for
a man, and without the annoyance of
long preparation.
Not in many months has Sorosis been
addressed by a more brilliant woman
that Mrs. Wheat, of Los Angeles, Cal.,
who is the guest of Mrs. Young, of So
rosis fame. Possessed of great personal
charm, she held the women from the
first word until she finished her artistic
sketch Illustrating how the Celestials
celebrate Eastertide with the "Festival
of the Flowering Plum Tree." She has
spent many years in China, doing social
settlement work, and at the same time
keeping up her contracts for Chinese
literary sketches. She is president of
the Los Angeles Women's Press club,
and is one of the best known women on
the Pacific coast. Her dress and man
ner are as entirely different from the
Sorosis women as her life has been.
To begin with, her hair is worn short
like a man's and parted a little to the
left. She is a large and masculine look
ing, and her plain black walking suit,
made on severe lines, with the skirt
just touching her shoe tops, is in strong
contrast to the gowns of the Sorosis
members.
Probably one of the busiest women
in New York is the indefatigable Mrs.
Seth Barton French, who thrives on
the whirl of this modern life. Mrs.
French has an excellent berth in the
fashionable set, and moreover is not
averse to honoring obscure hostesses
not in the "right set." Mrs. French is
a young woman, yet her visiting list
is one of the most comprehensive there
is. Moreover, Mrs. French is a believ
er in the new theory that talent and
brains are substitutes for money. That
is why many persons without money
claim her as an acquaintance. Mrs.
French's four afternoons in January
were interesting demonstrations. West
Fifty-first street, where the French
home is, was fairly choked with car
riages all afternoon. One wondered
how the house could contain the stream
of men and women who disappeared in
the red tunnel of canvas.
One hears only seldom of Mrs. H.
McK. Twombly's Jewels, but in the
last few years she has added to her
collection. Barring the gems of a few
women, Mrs. Twombly has the finest
lot of any woman in society. Her new
est treasure is a riviere of diamonds
almost as costly as the famous piece
of Mrs. Ogden Mills. Every one of the
thousands of diamonds in Mrs. Twom
bly's necklace is a selected stone, ana
the diamond pendants and strands are
draped in an artistic design. Mrs.
Twombly owns an all-around crown of
diamonds, and her jeweled brooches
are seemingly endless. Mrs. Twonfoly
is a slight and small woman, and when
she wears all her jewels there is a su
perabundance of sparkle. On nearly
every occasion Mrs. Twombly wears
her tiara and necklace.
At afternoon teas one sees as bravt*
a display of wealth as at formal din
ners. Almost all the well dressed wom
en wear a pearl or diamond dog collar
with their high-necked reception gown.
At one time these large* jewels in the
afternoon would have been considered
hopelessly bad taste. Now they are
quite permissible. At a recent after
noon wedding one woman wore a black
gown sprinkled with silver. About her
neck she wore a necklace composed
of huge diamonds. This necklace was
probably the "limit" in afternoon jew
els.
The powers that do and don't have
nailed blue enameled signs with white
letters at street corners —"Slow-Mov-
ing Vehicles Keep Near the Curb." One
of those monster trucks used for haul
ing street girders, drawn at a snail's
pace by three pairs of dapple grays,
halted at a crossing, and the driver
laboriously read the order. Then sum
moning the tall policeman, he said:
"Officer, whut air yez thryin' to do wid
us? Rules o' th' road, is it? A hold
up, Oi says. Yez air af-ther punishin'
th' only vayheecle that makes er
Broadway care moind its bizness an'
be dacent, be jabers. As my name ih
Flannigan, take down yer damned
sign or clane away thim piles o" snow
a-heaped along the curb."
"I'll leave it to the dictionary." "You
dare? Which?" "Oh, any one you
name." "Good. If there's one of the
lot that agrees with you I'll retire from
business." It is nearly alAvays a safo
venture—leave it to the dictionary.
Now, as to curb. The first speaker
had spelled the word "kerb," and the
second had presumed to correct him.
The first was an Englishman, and in
England the universal usage is "kerb,"
sustained by the dictionaries. In Amer
ica we have it "curb." The second
speaker was an American, and had
never heard of "kerb."
For a long time Mrs. Walker Fearn,
Mrs. French's mother, was recognized
as a type of "grande dame." Mrs.
Fearn is no longer devoted to Amer
ica, and is abroad a great deal. She,
like Mrs. French, is most active in
society. Mrs. Fearn has snow-white
hair, a fresh Complexion and a youth
ful figure. In recent years Mrs. Fearn
has passed her summers in Greece,
where she enjoys the favor of the royal
family. Few Americans ever drift to
Athens, but Mrs. Farisnees d-- mwm
Athens, but Mrs. Fearn is ever ready to
welcome desirable compatriots. When in
America she lives with the Frenches.
A visitor from the far West arrived
here yesterday, crossing the river in the
early hours of the morning. Fog ob
secured everything, even our saw
toothed sky-line, and his disappoint
ment was grievous. "But those bells!"
he complained. "There must be a hun
dred funerals going on right now. I
didn't know they buried 'em so early
in New York. It ain't yet 9 o'clock."
"Those are not funeral bells," ventured
a boatman. "They are fog signals on
the piers to guide ferryboats." "Fog
bells! Ah! How mournfully oppressive
and suggestive! Why not get some
thing with a more cheerful sound?
They give me the shakes. Funeral
chimes they are, surely. They speak
plainly of danger, destruction, death."
Just then a tug scraped the boat's
side.
"Jack" Livermore, worth several mil
lions, is entitled to hang out his shin
gle and practice law. having been
properly admitted to the bar. There
are some rich young men who adopt
a profession for honor and glory, with
out grinding at it. H. O. Havemeyer
Jr., son of the late Theodore Have
meyer, has "sugar" to the extent of
at least $5,000,000. "Sugar" is slang
for money. Thereby hangs a tale of a
lawsuit in the city court, Counselor
"Jack" appearing for Henry Oh-My
and obtaining a judgment in his favor
for $99 and a few, cents. Did Have
meyer need the money? What was
the suit about? How much was "Jack"
Livermore's fee?
Now comes the antithesis, which
many faddists in New York have
adopted or are about to adopt. They are
going back to the custom of eating
heavily early in the day—say between
8 and 10 o'clock in the morning—just
as the buxom dames and ffirthy gentry
did in the days of Queen Elizabeth. In
stead of a bird bite of crisp toast and
a bowl of tea the indorsers of the new
cult are to load up their stomachs with
chops, steaks and toasted cheese, and,
to be thoroughly English and up to
date, they will wash down the combi
nation with copious draughts of ale or
brown stout —the stout being the pre
ferred beverage, because all the ladies
in-waiting on the virgin queen selected
that form of malt to drink early in the
morning, and were able to consume in
ordinate quantities of it. There is
doubt as to the success of the plan, for
appetites cloyed with heavy midnight
dinners cannot be stimulated into ac
tivity the next morning with such heavy
Inducements. Still, something new is
in constant demand, and It might as
well be a blacksmith's breakfast as
anything else. Specialists in gout and
dyspepsia welcome the innovation with
chortles of glee.
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HUBBARD COUNTY AND THE PARK REGION
p^ARK RAPIDS, the county seat, is
■ situated in the southwest por
tion of the county on the line of the
Park Rapids branch of the Great
Northern railroad, which gives it direct
daily communication with the Twin
Cities on the south, Duluth to the east
and Bemidji and Crookston to the
north and west. It is beautifully lo
cated on the banks of Fishhook river,
with forests of pine to the north and
beautiful second prairie to the south
and west. At present it has a popu
lation of 2,000 people and is steadily
growing. The town is lighted by elec
tricity, has a fine telephone exchange,
a well equipped and trained fire de
partment, a free public library, a cor
net band, a Ladies' Library club, five
churches, Methodist, Baptist, Congre
gational, Catholic and German Luther
an, an opera house 30x130, seating 400
people; two elevators, grist mill sev
enty-five barrels, run by water j)owei
and the same power running the elec
tric light plant of the town, a fine sys
tem of wat-er works owned by the
city, one high school building and a
school system acknowledged to be one
of the best in the state, one creamery,
two saw mills, two planing mills, two
banks, one of them a national bank;
one harness shop, five general stores,
two drug stores, two grocery stores,
one dry goods store, two millinery
stores, one first-class hotel and four
smaller ones, three jewelry stores, two
liveries, two lumber yards, four law
yers, three physicians, nine saloons,
four real estate agents, one furniture
store, cold storage plant, one wagon
manufacturer, two blacksmiths, two
live newspapers, the Hubbard County
Enterprise and Hubbard County Clip
per. Park Rapids is fraternal, as is
evidenced by flourishing lodges of Ma
sons, Odd Fellows, Woodmen of the
World, Maccabees, Knights of Pythias
and Red Men, with the different la
dies' organizations; court house cost
ing $15,000, and -the county is
to commence work in the spring
on a jail to cost $10,000.
In a word, all the appurtenances of
a well organized community, whose
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characteristics are conspicuously push,
pluck and public spirit. The people are
social to strangers and have an in
tense pride in everything which pro
motes public interests. The town is
the natural trade center of a large area
of country and its merchants carry
very large stocks of goods. A brick
yard and starch factory would do well
here and would receive the indorse
ment of the business men.
Park Rapids as a pleasure resort
cannot be equaled. Its lakes are nu
merous, accessible and are full of the
choicest bass, pike, pickerel and mus
callonge. Hundreds of people come
here to spend their summers and in
variably go away delighted, as the or
dinary day's fishing always includes
specimens weighing as high as fifteen
pounds, and when it comes to hunt
ing this country is strictly in it, as
Hubbard county is the "sportsman's
paradise," and the town has some of
the finest drives in the state and Is a
town of beautiful homes.
The only way for some of our East
ern friends to be convinced of the
writer's article and views of this coun
ty, is to come and put in your vacation
and be convinced.
Hubbard County.
Lying in the center of Minnesota's
park region is Hubbard county.
This county was o'fganized in 1883
with sixteen townships. In 1895 twelve
more townships were taken from Cass
county, making twenty-eight town
ships. It is twenty-four miles wide
and forty-two miles from north to
south. Wadena bounds the county on
the south, Cass county on the east,
Beltrami county on the north and
Becker county on the west. In the
southern part of the county it is quite
level, with large areas of prairies, in
terspersed by numerous rivers and
lakes. As you go toward the north the
topography is more broken, generally
undulating.
Throughout the county there are in
numerable lakes which dot the land
scape at intervals of every few miles.
These lakes have dry, sandy beaches
and teem with fish. All kinds of tim
ber are found in Hubbard county and
one finds a heavy forest of noble pine,
and the next moment is introduced to
a prairie opening, with splendid possi
bilities for the farmer or some meadow
on which many tons of hay may be
raised.
Hubbard county has proved no ex
ception to the rule and general spirit
of progress in school matters, which
is very important in a county. The
people of the county have been alert
to the needs of the children. There
are now fifty-two school houses in
the county, most of them commo
dious and well-built buildings, so
any one bringing a family to this
county from the East can be sure of
having the best of schools for their
children.
Hubbard county is populated by a
people who are thoroughly American
in every fiber of their being and the
per cent of illiteracy to be found here
is probably as small as can be found
among the same number of Inhabitants
within the limits of the United States.
Practically the illiterate person is such
a rare avis that he is scarcely known.
The schools of the county are con
stantly improving in tone and quality.
Teachers' institutes are held yearly,
where the best talent of the state in
spires and trains the younger teachers
to nobler purposes and sane, wise
methods of dealing with the young
idea during the shooting period.
Every child of school age is com
pelled to attend school if in good
health and the taxpayers are very lib
eral in advancing the schools in every
was possible.
Hubbard county's new court house
was erected in 1900 at a cost of $13,
--500. It is a creditable structure and
contains office rooms for the different
officers, vaults for county books and a
fine court room and special rooms
for the grand and petit jurors.
It Is very finely located at the head of
Third street, at Park Rapids, the coun
ty seat, commanding an excellent
view of the town and country round
about.
Hubbard county has several advan
tages which count for a great deal to
the man who wants to make a home for
himself and his family. In addition to
the healthfulness of the climate, the
pure water, productive soil, high grade
of intelligence and morals amongst its
people, good school and church privi
leges, and all those accessions of a civ
ilized communty, it offers, first of all,
Cheap Lands.
This is the most important and con
spicuous factor in the local situation.
The men living in Southern Minnesota.
lowa, Illinois and Wisconsin, as well
as further east, who are accustomed
to farm lands ranging in price from $50
to $200 an acre, are suprpised when
Hubbard County Court House.
I they reach this county—and they are
coming on every train —to find wil<l
lands that can be obtained at prices
ranging from $5 to $10 an acre, while
improved farms adjacent to thriving
villages can be bought at from $15 to
$25 per acre. These wild lands can be
bought on easy payments, and only
need industry and persistence to con
vert them into beautiful country
homes, where, under shelter of his own
grove and as a result of the crops
planted on his own acres and the herds
and flocks raised thereon, any man can
possess with the passing years an in
dependence and solid comfort which
will stamp him as one of the kings of
the earth.
While all Northern Minnesota is
teeming with life and prosperity and
promise, it is in the park region that
the greatest possibilties, both for the
homeseeker and the investor exist—for
it is here that vast stretches of agri
cultural lands still remain undisturbed,
only awaiting the brawn and the brain,
the will and the muscle of the actual
settler, to make them give forth wealth
and comfort. These lands can be
bought at low figures, on easy terms.
Soil.
The soil of Hubbard county varies
from a light productive loam to a heavy
clay. In many places it is deep and
rich. It differs in different localities,
but its productiveness, whether mixed
with much or little of the clay, is sim
ply a marvel to all who are acquainted
with it. Farms on which wheat has
been raised steadily for the past twen
ty years on the Shell prairies, in the
southern part of the county, have yield
ed twenty bushels to the acre and up
wards. Those who have known the
country longest are the ones who have
an abiding faith in Hubbard county
soil. Its peculiar location makes it par
ticularly adapted to this Northern cli
mate. The land in this region, as a
whole, is fertile, quick soil. The sub
soil is of a porous nature and loamy,
and the hard-pan found further south
is missing. Situated at this park re
gion, of which Hubbard county is a
part, is upon a high table land upon
which are innumerable lakes and
streams, the soil is affected by the
moisture and is thus enabled to stand
a surprisingly long period of summer
drought without any serious loss to
growing crops. Parties coming here
from the heavy clay soils in other sec
tions speak of this fact with gladness
and relief.
Abundance of Timber.
There is over a large portion of the
country a good deal of timber, and al
though the market price rules high in
these days of good prices and good
wages, yet on many quarter sections of
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the wild land there is enough timber
for barns, sheds and fences for stock,
and oftentimes enough for a substan
tial frame or log house. These mean
a saving of money and time to the
new settler.
Cheap Fuel.
One has only to live in the prairie
districts south to realize the value of
fuel. In such sections the cost of
keeping a family comfortably warm
during the cold season is by no means
small. In fact it taxes many a man's
ingenuity to pay the coal bill. It is
quite a contrast with conditions as
they exist in Hubbard county. Here
any man who is able to handle an ax
and has the time to do it, can get
plenty of wood to burn for the cutting
of it, and every settler has wood enough
on his place—or else has a wood lot —
so that his fuel bill is all summed up
in labor. If he has much wood he can
sell it in the towns at prices that will
pay him for his work.
There is no section of Minnesota that
affords better advantages for diversi
fied farming and stock raising than
Hubbard county. Particularly is it
adapted to sheep raising. There are
many natural meadows to provide hay
for them in winter. The land being
more or less wooded and rolling, will
afford greater protection than van be
had in many grazing districts in the
West and there is sufficient timber on
these lands to provide all the corrals
that will be necessary for the proper
care of sheep. The pasturage here for
sheep is abundant and of the finest
quality. There is no question about
raising sheep or caring for them in
Hubbard county.
Hubbard county is traversed by the
Great Northern railroad coining from
Sauk Center north through Todd and
Wadena counties, entering Hubbard
county on its south boundary line and
passing through Park Rapids—the
county seat and principal trade center
—then veering northeast and passing
through the thriving stations of Dorset
and Nevis, then reaching Akeley—an
important lumbering town—and pass
ing out of its eastern border on it.s
way to Walker and Caas Lake. In
addition to this the Minnesota & In
ternational railroad which starts at
Brainerd, comes north through Walker
and traverses the northeast corner of
the county, on its way to Bemidjl and
other points beyond. This gives us
good connections with the Twin Cities,
Duluth and the North. Daily passen
ger and freight trains go and come
from St. Paul and Minneapolis.
Northern Minnesota is sometime go-
Ing to be the most beautiful, the most
prosperous and is the most healthful
farming country in the United States.
Not only that, but the most happy one
because the surroundings are so pleas
ant, the gifts of nature so much more
bountiful, so much more beautifully
blended than in any other section of
the Union. The Rocky mountain range
has its beautiful scenery, its brooks
and rivers filled with fish, but it had
no farming lands. Arizona has land
that lies beautifully for farming pur
poses, that is rich and would be pro
ductive, but it has no rains to bring
forth the products; and so we might
enumerate many sections of the coun
try that have some splendid advan
tages, but which are absolutely lack-
Ing in many others. Hubbard county
has them all combined, blended as in
no other section of the Union. Farm
lands, timber lands, game, fish, good
markets* good soil, healthful climate.
With all these, wealth, health and hap
piness await the man who takes ad
vantage of what nature offers him.
Following are a few of the most
prominent business firms of Park
Rapids:
Finney Bros. & Batcheller are one of
the leading real estate firms of the
county and have over 50,000 acres of
improved and unimproved land in
•Hubbard, Cass and Becker counties,
ranging from $15 to $35 per acre, and
will answer all letters of Inquiry of
this county.
State Bank of Park Rapids, with a
capital of $20,000, does a general bank
ing, real estate, loan and insurance
business. W. R. B. Smyth, president;
C. H. Smyth, the vice president, and J.
E. Flynn, cashier.
W. E. Hallowell & Co. run one of the
large department stores of the town.
This store is a two-story brick, 71x98
feet, and a credit to the town.
First National bank, with a capital
of $50,000, is one of the solid banks of
the county, and also handles real es
tate and makes farm loans. William M.
Taber, president; J. S. Hedditch, vi< c
president; M. C. Schomberger, cashier.
G. H. Crane Is the practical watch
maker of the town and handles every
thing in the Jewelry line and enjoys a
good trade.
Vanderpoel & Shepard, real estate
agency, have been in business ten
years. Mr. Vanderpoel Is one of the
